73 research outputs found
Perspectives on corporate volunteering programs: why they matter and new directions
No full textResearch on the volunteering experiences of employees and their relationships with personal and organizational outcomes has blossomed in recent years. However, much of this research has not distinguished between employees’ engagement in personal and corporate-sponsored volunteering programs. Personal volunteering (i.e., employees volunteering their own time to causes that support the community) is distinct from corporate volunteering – employees’ participation in corporate-sponsored activities, with support from their employer in terms of paid time or other supporting resources. Given our shortage of knowledge regarding the impacts of corporate-sponsored volunteering programs in particular, this symposium brings together five presentations that seek to advance our understanding of the impacts of corporate volunteering programs from a variety of perspectives. Collectively, the papers use a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide novel insights into why corporate volunteering matters, the processes through which organizations design and implement these programs, the impacts such programs can have on employees, the expectations various stakeholders in these programs hold of each other, and how these programs can be designed to be sustainable over time. The symposium will close with an audience discussion led by our discussant on the implications of the five papers for the study of corporate volunteering programs. Employee volunteering as a change catalyst Author: Katerina Gonzalez; Suffolk University Author: Florencio F. Portocarrero; London School of Economics and Political Science Broadening the Social Impact: How Volunteering Enables Servant Leadership Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Sandy J. Wayne; Author: Siyi Tao; Employee volunteering programs: a marginal and essentially performative CSR tool Author: Bethania Antunes; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Cecile Guillaume; University of Surrey Author: Lisa Jean Cafora; University of Surrey The (Mis)Alignment of Expectations across Corporate Volunteering Program Stakeholders Author: Jonathan Edward Booth; Author: John Lynch; University of Illinois at Chicago Author: Aaron Aujla; London School of Economics and Political Science Author: Haoying Xu; Stevens Institute of Technology When in Rome? Selling centralized HR policies across subsidiaries: A qualitative investigation Author: Kiera Dempsey-Brench; Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Author: Mihwa Seong; King's College London Author: Amanda Shantz; Not Associate
National Land Use Management in China: An Analytical Framework
No full textABSTRACT: Rapid urban land growth has been a major characteristic of urbanization in China since reform and open-door policies began in the late 1970s. Due to its unique political system, historical experience, and geographic conditions, urban land growth in China is still characterized by short periods of land acquisition, large-scale land development, and large-scale industrial use. Although urban land use is basically a local issue for cities, many important policies are also framed by the Chinese central government to ensure that national interests are protected.Following a review of urban land growth in China, this study found that the role of the central government in urban land growth has been changing in recent years. The once exclusive objective of ensuring urban economic development has been replaced by multi-objective considerations of economic, social, and environmental issues, addressing both urban and rural interests in the process of urban land growth. This transition has also greatly influenced the policies of city governments, which has in turn influenced local land use patterns. However, attaining these multiple objectives is becoming increasingly difficult. This paper examines the underlying causes of this shift and discusses various approaches to adjusting the future role of the central government. KEYWORDS: National land policy, garbage can, game theory, Chi
A Self-Adjusting Approach to Identify Hotspots
No full textHotspot identification or detection has been widely used in many fields; however the traditional grid-based approaches may incur some problems when dealing with point database. This article expands on three types of mismatch problems in grid-based approach and suggests a point-based approach may be more suitable. Inspired by the DBSCAN algorithm, a self-adjusting approach is then proposed for hotspot detection which overcomes the weakness of parameter sensitivity shared by most clustering approaches. Finally, the data of commercial points of interest of a city is used for demonstration.journal articl
Spatiotemporal dynamics and driving forces of cultivated land in China
No full textAbstract It is important to study the temporal and spatial change characteristics and the decreasing trend in cultivated land in China in the past decades, analyze the core influencing factors of the cultivated land decrease, and understand the regularity and trend in the cultivated land change. This study has important guiding significance for ensuring food security in China and optimizing and adjusting the pattern of land spatial development and utilization. Based on the data of China’s urban cultivated land change from 1990 to 2022, this study analyzes the pattern of cultivated land protection and destruction in China from the perspective of the total cultivated land change, the increase and decrease evolution characteristics, and future trends and determines the main driving factors of cultivated land destruction in the process of urbanization. The results show the following: (1) The goal of the dynamic balance policy of cultivated land in China from 1990 to 2022 has been basically achieved, but regional differences still exist, which show a spatial pattern of planar contraction and belt growth. There is a new feature of a “southwest, northwest, and northeast” increase, while there is a “central” decrease. (2) Cultivated land has gradually shown a trend of growth rather than contraction, the cultivated land contraction shows a trend of crossing the “Hu–Huanyong Line” and moving westward, and the center of gravity of the cultivated land contraction has shifted to the periphery of the Chengdu–Chongqing area. The cultivated land growth shows a trend of moving southeast across the “Hu–Huanyong Line”, and developed provinces such as Guangdong, Fujian, and Zhejiang have gradually become the new centers of cultivated land growth. This coincides with the strict implementation of basic cultivated land protection policies in developed areas of China in recent years. (3) Factors such as the urban population size, economic level, agricultural scale, industrial structure, and other types of land scale have different degrees of impact on the destruction and restoration of cultivated land
Of "qualia" and "what it is like"
No full textIn "Experience as a Way of Knowing" (this journal), the author tries to create some troubles for philosophers who believe in "qualia" or "what it is like". I think the author has underestimated the complexity of the issues, and I will voice my concerns in five sections. Besides presenting my interpretation of the author's position and challenging it, I will (1) challenge the author's treatment of the knowledge argument, especially the author's treatment of "this is what it is like to see red", (2) challenge the author's interpretation of "what-it-is-like" talk and the author's view that phenomenal properties are theoretical postulates, (3) challenge the author's rejection of "apparent properties", and (4) point out some issues with the author's interpretation of several authors who write about the knowledge argument
The Impact of High-Speed Rail on Economic Development: A County-Level Analysis
No full textHigh-speed rail has an important impact on the location choices of enterprises and the labor force, which is reflected in a complex space–time process. Previous studies have been unable to show the change characteristics between enterprises and the labor force at the county level. Therefore, based on the new economic geography theory, we first constructed a theoretical analysis framework to explore high-speed railway’s impact on county economy development and then obtained the two economic subdivision factors’ impacts: industrial enterprises and secondary labor force. Then, based on the panel data of 1791 county units in China from 2003 to 2019, the study constructed a multi-period PSM-DID model to empirically explore high-speed rail’s impact on the county’s agglomeration of industrial enterprises and secondary labor force. The results show that high-speed rail has a long-term negative effect on the county area’s agglomeration of industrial enterprises. From the perspective of the labor force, high-speed rail has a long-term and continuous positive effect on the agglomeration of the secondary labor force in county units
Spatiotemporal Dynamic Characteristics and Causes of China’s Population Aging from 2000 to 2020
No full textAging involves the transformation of the population reproduction mode under the rapid development of the social economy. We studied population survey data based on the WorldPop population statistics website and used ArcGIS to construct a spatial database and implement spatial analysis methods. In this study, we analyzed the spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of population aging and its main influencing factors in counties of China, in order to provide a reference for the formulation of a national population development policy and the construction of a pension system. The results are as follows: ① The situation of population aging in China is becoming more serious, showing a point-line-area spatial pattern and two core–periphery aging patterns of high core–low periphery and low core–high periphery. ② The speed of population aging in China is characterized by rapid growth, large scale, and a high degree. Large areas of growing old before getting rich have emerged in the central and western regions. ③ The aging of the population has gradually spread to the northeast, southwest, northwest, and other regions. Influenced by factors such as population migration, population structure change, transportation facility construction, and geographic environment changes, a trend of aging that has spread across the Hu Huan-Yong line has appeared
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