Strategic Mode Research Articles

On the Influence of Platform Economy on Transformation and Upgrading of Chinese Traditional Manufacturing Industry - A Case Study of Red Collar Group

The profitability of the traditional manufacturing industry is sluggish and fails to well adapt to the current trend of economic globalization. In the context of industry 4.0, it is imperative for the traditional manufacturing industry to transform and upgrade in an all-round way in the market-oriented and government-led environment. At this time, platform economy furnishes a good impetus for the transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry. Traditional manufacturing industry adapts to the needs of the external market environment through platform structure, adjusts factor input premised on dynamic changes in factor endowment, integrates scientific and technological revolution, and gradually cultivates competitiveness through continuous technological innovation, thereby achieving the transformation and upgrading of industry. In the background of conversion of era, this paper explores the innovation of traditional enterprises in the current historical background from the angle of evolution, attempting to reveal that platform economy helps traditional manufacturing enterprises to update their production methods, restructure their management structures and set up supply chain thinking, thereby pushing forward their transformation and upgrading. Taking the transformation and upgrading of Red Collar Group as an example, this paper analyzes the process of rapid learning, resource integration, innovation iteration, self-fission, and continuous evolution of the enterprise premised on platform economy, thereby proving the positive impetus of platform economy to the transformation of traditional manufacturing industry and testing its logical rationality. The research concludes that platform economy will become one of the significant strategic modes of transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing industry in China.

SEPARATE RESULTS OF LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FACTORS OF FAMILY DETERMINANTS IN PERSONAL CRISES

The article presents a typological model of the psychological and pedagogical factors of family determination of personal crises. The main groups of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants of personality life construction and crisis experience formation have been determined, and namely: factors of constructive mode, strategic mode, and functional mode; whereas psychological and pedagogical factors of the constructive mode are ensured by the action of humanistic value factors, accumulative value factors; constructive balance factors; goal-setting value factors; problem-oriented factors; subjective and vital factors; creative and constructive factors. Factors of strategic mode include reflexive and existential factors (determining an ability of an individual or a community to track phenomena, to understand their essence, to learn existential values); experience and historical factors (determining standardized behavioural patterns of an individual, family, nation, those patterns having fostered their survival in a certain historical period); cultural and traditional factors (determining local and global heritage, the achievements of a society in the material and spiritual segments of existence and their manifestation in the life of an individual, family, nation, and humanity); spiritual and religious factors (characterizing basic spiritual values of an individual and family regarding the role and place of a human in the world, as individuals, as men and women inter-connected and inter-related with the Absolute. Functional psychological and pedagogical factors are primarily ensuring the consistency of marital values (in the parental and own family), the consistency of values (family values and those individually acquired) with the traditional values of a particular nation (or nations), which ethos the specific individual is representing; the consistency of values (family values and those individually acquired) with the situational values of a particular community and society in a particular time and space. The results of an empirical study of the effects of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determination on the nature of overcoming personal crises of different etiology in target samples are presented. Correlation relationships between groups of strategic factors are determined. Based on the research data, peculiarities of influence of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants on a personal life design along three research vectors are identified: transgenerational, intergenerational, and individual. The specific features of sensitivity in selected supportive and crisis families to the types of psychological and pedagogical factors of family determinants in crises periods are revealed.

Hashtag hijacking and crowdsourcing transparency: social media affordances and the governance of farm animal protection

The post-war Western world has seen a gradual shift from government to governance, a process that also concerned the issues related to agro-food sustainability, such as food quality, environmental impact, social justice, and farm animal welfare. Scholars believe that social media are a new site that reconfigures relations between various actors involved in the governance of these problems. However, empirical research on this matter remains scarce. This paper fills this gap by examining the case of Februdairy, a Twitter hashtag campaign to promote the British dairy industry, hijacked by animal protection activists. For this case, I employ the relational perspective on technology affordances—as operationalised by Faraj and Azad (in: Leonard et al. (eds), Materiality and organizing. Social interaction in a technological world, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012)—to highlight two distinct strategic modes of embracement of social media functionalities by the opposing groups: hashtag hijacking and crowdsourcing transparency. The analysis reveals also that a pre-existing social structure of the agro-food system conditions reconfiguration of social relations by technology in a way that actually strengthens the tendency to govern the issue of farm animal protection with market mechanisms.

Communicating off the record

This article pursues three major goals. The first is a critical one. It confronts the widespread bias that off-the-record communication briefings are inferior – including professionally and ethically – to other techniques of communication, especially to its counterpart of on-the-record communication. The second goal is a practical one. Discussed are cases of both failed and successful off-the-record strategies, from which basic rules – prerequisites for such interaction – are extracted. And the third goal is a theoretical one. Off-the-record is conceptualised as more indirect and, in this sense, more strategic mode of communication than its counterpart. Affinity rather than trust is the core quality of the source-media relations here. A new distinction is made between advertising and public relations. On the record, one controls the message but due to the obvious self-interest of the source – attributable or unattributable – its credibility is low. Off the record, one cannot control the message, but other and more credible influencers take ownership of it and increase its impact. On the record is advertising; off the record is public relations.

Regionalism, Well-Being, and Domestic Violence in Tony Birch’s “The Red House”

It is generally accepted that the creative arts make a positive contribution to regional well-being and a diverse range of actors (government bodies, commercial entities, artists, researchers) are active in this space. Given this, it is concerning that the voices of creative artists themselves are sometimes not heard in the conversation. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s work on “resistant speech” is important here for the strategic recourse it offers to a range of subalternate populations, including regional artists, women and children, and for its solidarity with modes of being reliant on qualitative research engagements. Admittedly, examples of creative work that dramatize and interrogate the problem of well-being across the divide between urban and regional areas are comparatively rare. One standout is Tony Birch’s short story “The Red House” (2006), in which a storyline of well-being under threat from domestic violence is interwoven with a peripatetic narrative of the characters’ movements within the city of Melbourne and between the regional community of Clunes and Melbourne. As the lead piece in Birch’s collection of linked stories, Shadowboxing, “The Red House” is a significant literary exploration of how a variety of human relationships and responses to place (regional and urban) might bring about, but also help to alleviate, the circumstances of domestic violence as a threat to the well-being of women and children. Even as it posits a link between regional life and well-being, “The Red House” eschews a simple binary opposition between bucolic Clunes and the inner-city grime and unease of Fitzroy. Some of the violence and threats to well-being sourced from Melbourne re-appear in Clunes, while certain props of well-being first experienced in Clunes are subtly reincorporated back into the red house in Fitzroy. The relationship between medical well-being (health) and well-being as a more general index of happiness, comfort and security is also explored. Birch’s story is a valuable, fine-grained creative analysis of well-being (extending from happiness, comfort and security to the negative well-being that is domestic violence), which is matched to an equally fine-grained engagement with multiple modalities of place. It contests certain more reductive definitions of the regional and challenges the reader to creatively re-think how regionalism and well-being might align.

Assembling performance measurement through engagement

Taking inspiration from studies of performance measurement systems and an understanding of the materiality of inscription devices, we examine how a loose network of funding agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) assemble a performance and management system out of accountability requirements. As part of the funding process, international development agencies provide NGOs with a series of planning and project reporting requirements such as budgets, operational plans, and strategic plans. Our study focusses on how these requirements' visual features enable users to perform the calculative properties of the performance system, as a whole. Specifically, we learn how a planning and performance measurement device such as the logical framework accumulates financial, chronological, and strategic modes of ordering through a patchwork of interventions to address perceived and unexpected shortcomings. We find that it is not just a matter of adding patches to improve, but also about fostering engagement with the changing assemblage of devices and development concerns. Our study is based on field research in Guatemala and El Salvador and contributes to our understanding of how governing bodies intervene in the constitution of a calculative workspace. By analysing an accounting system's relation with other devices and their modes of ordering and calculating, we learn how a workspace for providing accounts is assembled and engaged with for actors to perform a mode of governing.

Learning to Fail: Adolescent Resistance in Extreme Sports

Employing dysfunctional or arrested development, extreme sports tricksters cultivate diverse strategies of sporting identity. Through parody, satire, and mockery, adolescent performances and representations resist hegemonic ideologies of mainstream sports masculinity. This work interrogates the representational and performative texts, events, and bodies of extreme sports using queer theories and psychoanalytic approaches. To assess failure as a potentially strategic and radical mode of counter-hegemonic resistance, I trace the origins of extreme sports cultures through icons such as Evel Knievel and the Dangerous Sports Club. I also look at a modern heir apparent—action sporting collective Nitro Circus. In failing at mainstream sporting masculinities, these athletes create different ways of being and doing sport through commoditization, adolescence, gender, Whiteness, corporeality, and death.

Supramolecular nanoassembly of lysozyme and α-lactalbumin (apo α-LA) exhibits selective cytotoxicity and enhanced bioavailability of curcumin to cancer cells.

Hybrid supramolecular spherical nanoassembly of hen egg white lysozyme and bovine apo α lactalbumin (SNLYZ-BLA) was prepared with a mean size of ˜55.2 nm using an optimized desolvation method via chemical crosslinking. The nanoassembly, SNLYZ-BLA demonstrated dose-dependent reactive oxygen species (ROS) mediated cytotoxicity in multiple cancer cells such as MCF-7, MDA-MB231, HeLa and MG 63. It also demonstrated high loading capacity of a phytochemical based anticancer agent, curcumin (248.8 mg/g) and target-based pH-responsive in vitro drug release with around 85.8% curcumin release observed under acidic condition. Moreover, curcumin loaded SNLYZ-BLA (SNLYZ-BLA-CUR) induced cell viability reduction in all cancer cells including mouse melanoma (B16F10) by more than 90% within 24 h. Further, SNLYZ-BLA and SNLYZ-BLA-CUR when conjugated with folic acid enhanced the cytotoxicity via folate receptor-based targeting. Both drug loading and release induced conformational change and folding reconstitution of the protein nano-assembly, respectively, which made the whole system an efficient therapeutic agent that works via a dual mode of action. We demonstrated that SNLYZ-BLA and SNLYZ-BLA-CUR were highly biocompatible in vitro. Therefore, our supramolecular protein nanoassembly loaded with curcumin could emerge as a comprehensive cancer therapeutics that acts via a strategic mode of dual therapeutic mechanisms.

Juggling Legitimacies: Informal Places for Burials and Worship in Hong Kong

AbstractThe Hong Kong government's neoliberal approach regarding land development and urbanization affects not only the housing market but also burial places, increasing inequality for both the living and the dead. The urgency of tackling the issue of places for burial is all the more pressing given current demographic changes and an existing backlog of public burial places in inner‐city locations. Against this backdrop, this paper focuses on the cultural practices around burial and worship among the inhabitants of Hong Kong, and on their struggle to maintain these practices. It illustrates various forms and means of legitimacy (e.g. pragmatic, normative and cognitive) being applied by all actors, and shows how the continuing practices around worship and burial lead to the production of informality. The main argument is that socially constructed legitimacy can be gained and lost by various actors in a dynamic negotiation process based on belief systems, rules and norms (following Suchman, 1995). Thus, it should be understood as a strategic mode both within and outside the state. This perspective of legitimacy provides a better understanding of how and by what means resources and power are being negotiated in order to draw lessons from informal dynamics.

Critical Pedagogy as a Response to Datafication

Critical pedagogy is a vital part of building data literacy. It moves beyond the level of data critique to social action in response to datafication. This article contends that academics can do more to teach those in the public sphere as well as classroom to become critical interpretive researchers of their own lived experience, an action/participatory research framework that identifies critical thinking as the purpose of research and improved digital or data literacy as the outcome of research. This article suggests three strategic modes through which the strengths of critical approaches and qualitative epistemologies can be blended to serve as pedagogical tools for understanding and critically analyzing data, datafication, and other aspects of the digital era.

Oceanic methane hydrate utilization system design and reservoir scale numerical modeling

In recent years, the exploration and utilization of methane hydrate from permafrost and off-coast regions has become a very hot topic. Aiming at its potential as a vast energy resources in future use, the current study is focused on the low emission extraction and utilization system for oceanic methane hydrate and its economic and technological feasibility. In this study, recent real extraction tests in both China and Japan in 2017 are firstly discussed and compared, where the challenges in production period and production rate are explained. In those tests, depressurization method is used to dissociate the methane hydrate for gas production form the unconsolidated reservoir layers below the seabed. Based on the conditions of Japan, a systematic utilization system is proposed for oceanic methane hydratewhich is consisted of extraction system, power generation system, Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) system and hot fluid injection system. Vertical well systems are adopted in this design and the strategic warming up process is used before depressurization extraction, so as to obtain optimal production rate of methane gas. The inclusion of CCS makes it possible to utilize methane hydrate with very low carbon emission. It is estimated that the electricity price obtained by this system can be comparable with the current civil electric price in Japan if the production rate is around 1.0×105 m3/d. Also in this study, the real extraction scenarios and possible strategies of Nankai Trough in Japan and Shenhu Area in China are re-visited and discussed by numerical models. It is found that the only depressurization or thermal stimulation method have the problems of wellbore deformation, pressure problem and energy efficiency problems, while combined strategic modes show the possibility of long-term continuous production. For the basic dissociation parameter analysis, the conditions near the equilibrium curve show higher production rate, which is due to higher initial reservoir temperature. Such results indicate the importance of heat supply inside the reservoir layer as the methane hydrate dissociation is endothermic. It is shown that with the increase of reservoir pressure, such temperature effects become more critical as the optimal initial temperature increases according to equilibrium curve. This results support the system design with strategic warming-up process in a sister well during methane hydrate extraction. In addition, the effects of reservoir layer thermal management, hot reservoir fluid flow effects on the dissociation behaviors are analyzed in this study. For vertical well analysis, the production rates under different permeability parameters show the same trend with real production, which in turn help confirm the in-lab permeability tests. Horizontal well simulation show the importance of overburden and under burden. If the confining layers are less permeable, the production rate becomes higher due to the limited intrusive water flow from the confining layers. In sum, this study summarized the advantages and disadvantages of oceanic methane hydrate extraction/utilization methods and put forward a low-carbon emission system. It is hoped that this study will contribute to the future development of both production prediction and real extraction tests.

Integracija Srbije u međunarodne tokove sprečavanja pranja novca

Money laundering is a global phenomenon that seriously undermines international and national economies. This paper deals with the integration of the Republic of Serbia into international trends of money laundering by analyzing the money laundering process, global and national regulations applied in the fight against money laundering. The fight against money laundering must have a systemic character and therefore we are also studying the system of combating money laundering in the Republic of Serbia. The objective of the paper is to examine the objective basis for proposing relevant strategic and operational modes that would improve the legal and institutional capacity of state authorities and taxpayers in the application of the Law on Prevention of Money Laundering in order to achieve a higher level of protection and prevention of the flows of illegal money. Identifying the key risks of money laundering in the Republic of Serbia is a precondition for harmonizing the priorities of the Republic of Serbia with the priorities of the European Union in the field of combating money laundering.

Review Essay

The field of Middle Eastern Studies has seen a recent spate of publications that offer a timely and nuanced look at the intersection of language, ideology, and visual representation in Israel-Palestine. Scholars of cultural studies, comparative literature, history, film studies, and the visual arts will appreciate the breadth of perspective offered by a combined reading of Lital Levy's Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine, Gil Z. Hochberg's Visual Occupations: Violence and Visibility in a Conflict Zone, and Yaron Shemer's Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel. This cluster of studies, taken as a whole, offers a coherent critical intervention into the politics of a literary and visual field marked by silences, lacunas, blind spots, and elisions. Poetic Trespass sketches the contours of a Hebrew literary landscape inhabited by a tacit Arabic presence. With a purview that extends to literature, cinema, and the plastic arts, Visual Occupations probes the tension between systemic practices of concealment and strategic modes of lending visibility. Identity, Place, and Subversion, a powerfully articulated analysis of Mizrahi cinema, interrogates the notion that ethnic difference has become irrelevant in the context of a contemporary Israeli melting pot.

Study on the Theory of the Smart City

Along with the development of city, problems and challenges of city environment, city resources and city management and other aspects are increasingly prominent and severe. Low carbon transformation of wisdom city has become a strategic mode of city development in china. In some places there are still the concepts of speculation and blindly push phenomenon in management and economy are faced with uncertainty and risk. At present our country city in the running process has exist "system failure" phenomenon. The reason is that the interactive relationship between the complexity of the operational mechanism of urban system, internal evolution and functioning mechanism as well as the groups lack of scientific analysis and certification. Therefore, it is particularly important on a thorough study of city system complexity, impact factor and interaction and symbiosis mechanism, constructing a theoretical framework.

Lady Anna Riggs Miller: The “modest” self-exposure of the female grand tourist

This essay examines one of the first and foremost works written by British women travel writers to eighteenth-century Italy, Lady Anna Riggs Miller's Letters from Italy (1776). It analyses Miller's travel account from both literary and linguistic perspectives, focusing on the strategic modes the traveller deployed to fashion an identity and to display her cultural capital. By adopting specific narrative, stylistic and rhetorical techniques, and simultaneously professing spontaneity and modesty, Miller flaunted connoisseurship and authority. In this way, she managed to achieve her professional and social objectives. Linguistically speaking, she intended to self-fashion through the adoption of foreign words and expressions, particularly Italian ones, but these are frequently undermined by spelling mistakes. Detailed study of foreign-language misappropriation and reception enables an understanding of Miller's double status not only as subject, but also as object of humour, a factor that distinguishes her text from others in the corpus of female-authored Grand Tour narratives.

Revisiting Sun Tzu in the Information Overload Age for Applied Intelligence Education: Stop Answering, Find Good Questions

Sun Tzu's 'Art of War' is an illustration of the Chinese Strategic Mode of thinking. Today, faced with Information Overload it is unclear if the model of ''Foreknowledge'' is as relevant as it once was. The method we used in this paper is Action Research to compare an Occidental approach and an Asian approach. The results obtained are applied suggestions to Intelligence Education. The contribution is to show how to step away from the epistemic of the information-centric approach to shift to a more multi-centric approach. We identified anchors such as strategic and critical questioning, identifying source people we do not yet know, and uncertainty-acceptance and bounded rationality. The implications are numerous. We are not so much dependent on the information available as associated with Big Data and software. Our suggestions can be used in Small and Medium-Sized Organizations and do not necessitate resources associated with Large Organizations.

Realism, Idealism, and American Public Opinion on Nuclear Disarmament

To what extent does U.S. public opinion on foreign policy reflect realist principles? Scholars traditionally assumed the American public to be unsympathetic to realist thinking, but an increasing consensus has emerged opposing this view. We investigate the limits of this consensus with the first experimental study of the determinants of public support for nuclear disarmament. Using survey experiments and recently developed text analysis techniques, we examine the existence of realist thought within U.S. public opinion on nuclear disarmament, an issue area in which Americans consistently appear to hold decidedly non-realist views. We find strong currents of realist and more idealistic thinking combine in a particular form: idealistic principles play an important role in sustaining robust majority support for disarmament across a range of scenarios, but realist concerns remain salient, and public support is sensitive to many of the same factors that realists have identified as strategic barriers to disarmament. Our results highlight how strategic and normative modes of thinking interact in shaping public opinion on disarmament, and have direct implications for politicians and practitioners seeking nuclear disarmament in the future.

Path-Breaking: Changes in Path Dependence of the Acquiring Firms after Mergers and Acquisitions

This paper attempted to answer the following question: How do firm-specific resources work through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a strategic mode for path breaking? Previous studies on M&A have paid little attention to the attributes of acquired firms. Thus, this paper suggests that distinctive knowledge of acquired firms has a huge impact on acquiring firms, breaking their paths. Furthermore, we associate environmental munificence as antecedent of path dependence through positive feedback. This contingency perspective provides a sophisticated explanation of the path breaking phenomenon beyond the internal perspective of the knowledge-based view. This research tested 181 M&A cases in 121 firms in the U.S. manufacturing industry from 1993 to 2002. We found that the acquired firms' knowledge impact and concentration affects the acquiring firms' change of path dependence after M&A. Additionally, environmental munificence negatively moderates the effect of the knowledge impact of the target firms on the path breaking of the parent firms.

Research on the Human Resources Performance Management Based on the Strategic Direction Data Mode Analysis

Strategic human resource management theory, strategic choice on the basis of the enterprise, to take appropriate human resource management practices, to better achieve Organizational performance. By analyzing real human resource management Different modes of practice, combined with the specific activities of the US-Japan Human Resource Management companies, proposed supportive human resource management practices can help companies achieve strategic goals of innovation.

Evaluating Carbon Emissions Trading Strategy for Sustainable Energy

To solve the problems of global warming and climate change, a lot of developed and developing countries regulate actively some strategies of clean energy compositions to reduce gas emissions by encouraging investment of technologies and equipments. Some problems will be resulted from executing energy compositions, they are redundant or not enough for clean energy. In this paper, the issues of composition regulations and trading strategies of clean energy are discussed. The paper proposes an evaluative method of real options to optimize carbon emissions trading strategic mode for these problems. The results indicate that the proposed method is more flexible to significantly make decisions than traditional methods for considering uncertainty of trading market.