This textbook introduces systems science as an entry point to present a basic introduction to research models and methods in management science (operation research). This textbook selects the classic quantitative models and methods as well as rich cases and detailed examples, which are suitable for students with a certain management and economics knowledge for further study, and helps to develop the abilities of using the basic models in real life.
Abstract The emergence of digital platforms has been viewed in scholarly narratives as a "technological fix" of global capital, to use Beverly Silver's classic term. That is, capital continues to devise innovative strategies to restructure the labour process and avoid employer legal liabilities. This study reveals an important but somewhat overlooked "financial fix" aspect of the platform economy. Through a case study of a Chinese food delivery platform, the author shows that global speculative capital and its cash-burning games have generated a form of market-value fetishism in this sector. In response, platform companies have devised innovative labour acquisition strategies to expand their market share that have profoundly shaped the work and employment dynamics within the sector. In particular, the platform companies engaged in a subsidy rivalry with their competitors in order to attract crowdsourcing/gig workers for their regular services and at the same time established a highly structured subcontracting system to secure a more reliable and committed workforce to target the relatively high-end consumer market. The author argues that the interaction between global financialization and local capital's strategic choices accounts for the peculiar structure and employment dynamics in the Chinese platform economy.
China's approach to multilateral climate negotiation has shifted greatly over the past decades. From being an obstacle to a follower, and now a potential leader, China has attracted academic attention. This article surveys the literature on China's role in climate multilateralism as examined by scholars through different lenses. The article asks whether analyses at different policymaking levels can explain China's changing position. I review studies addressing the international level and the nexus between the complementary international and domestic levels to offer a comprehensive understanding of China's strategic moves and choices in multilateral discussions on climate change. The review finds that factors at the international level are influencing China's climate ambitions and goals, and even to some extent are determining its strategies toward climate multilateralism; however, for China to deliver its international climate commitments, its enhanced ability will need domestic support. While these insights are valuable to understand China's international behavior, an emerging framework needs to be included in this discussion, as transnational governance scholarship might be able to explain how new actors may unlock China's position on climate change in the future.
The Chinese government has placed workforce upskilling at the core of its reform agenda to sustain the Chinese "economic miracle." As such, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS) and Ministry of Education (MOE) have each launched separate apprenticeship reforms geared towards enhancing China's oft-criticized vocational education and training system. Using a self-constructed theoretical framework, this article examines the two reforms and ascribes their divergent outcomes to the two ministries' distinct approaches to institutionalizing their central initiatives (i.e. the top-down model followed by the MOHRSS versus the collaborative model of the MOE). However, given the absence of industry-level civil society governance in China, neither of these models has delivered ideal training outcomes, although the collaborative model has satisfied more employers and apprentices. China's skills-development reforms have thus become trapped in an institutional dilemma which is likely to impede the long-term economic restructuring efforts of the central state. (China Q/GIGA)
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The current new circumstance of our country's political and economic social development brings both new problems and challenges to college students' ideological and political education work. As the main front of the growth of college students, the university should change its mode of education from the traditional to the totally new one -- Taking students based ideological and political education mode, which requires that the educational workers in this filed must rely on a variety of ways to implement it, so as to enhance the appeal and effectiveness of ideological and political work.
Mestrado em Desenvolvimento e Cooperação Internacional ; As primeiras Zonas Económicas Especiais (ZEEs) bem estabelecidas são indispensáveis no rápido crescimento económico da China. Graças ao crescimento impulsionado pelas ZEEs e outros factores no âmbito de desenvolvimento internacional, a China está a ganhar mais capital. A política de "Going out" do governo chinês incentiva mais empresas chinesas a investir mais em mercados emergentes, como a América Latina, especialmente em África. Nos últimos 10 anos, a economia de Moçambique tem crescido firmemente a um ritmo impressionante de mais de 7 por cento ao ano, impulsionado pelo sector dos serviços, agricultura e sector da indústria recém-desenvolvida, especialmente da indústria extractiva. Este ritmo deveria continuar. O Investimento Directo Estrangeiro (IDE) chinês em Moçambique está a aumentar e o comércio e a cooperação bilateral estão cada vez mais estreitos e diversificados. Depois de analisar a experiência e as lições das ZEEs da China, e outros modelos de desenvolvimento, vou analisar algumas dimensões com base no acima exposto. Vou investigar, no contexto da África, se Moçambique tem os mesmos factores de sucesso que as Zonas Económicas Especiais da China e outros modelos de desenvolvimento económico. ; The first well-developed Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are indispensable in the rapid economic growth of China. Thanks to the growth driven by the SEZs and other factors by the development of international context, China is gaining more physical capital. The Chinese Government's policy of "oing out" encourages more Chinese companies to invest more in the emerging markets, like Latin America, especially Africa. In the last 10 years, Mozambique's economy has grown steadily at an impressive rate of above 7 percent per year, driven by the service sector, agriculture and newly developed industry sector, especially extractive industry. This pace is expected to continue. The Chinese Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Mozambique is increasing and the bilateral trade and cooperation are more and more close and diversified. After analyzing the Chinese SEZs experience and lessons, and other development models, I will analyze some dimensions based on the above. I am going to research, in the context of Africa, if Mozambique has the same factors of success as the Chinese Special Economic Zones and other economic development models.