Sustainable supply chain management in Indian organisations: an empirical investigation

The present work is an attempt to investigate the adoption of sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) practices amongst manufacturing and process based organisations in India and its impact on organisational performance encompassing all three dimensions of sustainability. SSCM practices conceived in the present study include environmental management practices (EMP), socially inclusive practices for employees (SPE), socially inclusive practices for community (SPC), operations practices (OP) and supply chain integration (SCI) which were treated as exogenous variables. Organisational performance considered in this study includes five dimensions, namely environmental performance (EPR), employee-centred social performance (ESP), community-centred social performance (CSP), operations performance (OPR) and competitiveness, which were regarded as endogenous variables. The analysis was carried out with the help of structural equation modelling considering natural logarithm of manpower as a control variable. Few major findings are mentioned. EMP does not have any significant association with OPR, nor does it result in competitiveness. However, when jointly mediated through both EPR and OPR, EMP leads to competitiveness. SPC has significant negative association with competitiveness, when only direct relationship is considered. However, indirect relationship between SPC and competitiveness shows significant positive association when mediated through CSP. The resultant total effect between SPC and competitiveness turns out to be insignificant. Further, OPR fully mediates the relationship between OP and competitiveness. Managerial implications of the findings are discussed.     

图书馆促进社会包容性发展的思考

促进社会包容性发展是图书馆从诞生伊始就坚守的价值观,通过保障信息自由与信息公平、促进多元文化理解、提高公民媒介信息素养等途径,图书馆致力于支持和促进社会包容性发展。图书馆需要进一步强化服务意识、加强跨组织协同、切实发挥信息素养培养及社区教育的服务职能、促进社区参与,为社会包容性发展提供更大支持。     

在“城乡一体化”发展中引入“包容性”

城乡关系问题一直是中国社会发展的焦点和热点。城乡一体化作为一个渐进的动态发展过程,随着城乡经济关系日趋紧密,城乡功能转型加速进行,需要不断完善我国城乡一体化发展制度体系。倡导以"城市包容乡村发展"为新导向,不断完善城乡一体化发展的制度体系,促进城乡资源共享、共同繁荣,让城市居民和农村居民享有基本相同的发展成果和权益。     

Co-creation,prevailing streams and a future design trajectory

Co-creation as a concept has won terrain over the past 10 years. In practice as well as in literature, co-creation is climbing the agenda in relation to contemporary opportunities and challenges within management, organisation design and change initiatives. This paper aims to build an overview of the literature on co-creation to explore what the existing literature relates to and indeed to pinpoint if any patterns or streams can be identified. The paper illustrates how the use of the concept of co-creation suggests a necessity for focusing further on specific co-creation-related issues and challenges of significance to business and society. The paper highlights new co-creation-related issues and challenges. Further, the paper crystallises an emerging design trajectory in theory and practice.     

中国国家公园利益相关者价值共创DART模型构建

中国自2015年建立首个三江源国家公园试点区以来,迄今已建立了10个国家公园体制试点并逐步完善了相应的管理体制和运营机制,有效解决了原有保护地体系存在的多头碎片化管理和过度开发利用等问题。由于各国家公园试点区覆盖面积广、涵盖多种传统保护地类型,所涉及的利益相关者数量众多且关系复杂,因而在利益协调上存在较大难度,而协调好各利益方的利益关系将是国家公园发展成功与否的关键。基于此,在介绍有关利益相关者和价值共创理论背景的基础上,分析了我国国家公园各利益相关者进行价值共创的必要性和可行性,总结了其在利益相关者价值共创探索与实践中的经验和不足,据此提出了构建价值共创DART模型的具体建议。     

包容性视角下文物展陈支架设计应用研究——以“金石筼筜·金西厓竹刻艺术展”为例

文物支架是博物馆陈列的重要技术要素,也是博物馆文化创新精神的体现。2019年末,在上海博物馆“金石筼筜——金西厓竹刻艺术”特展中,为折扇等文物特别设计研发了针对性的爪件支架,这种支架结合了博物馆、设计者、制作者几方视角,是一次整合多种功能的文物精细展陈关键性技术尝试。从研究过程看,将包容视角叠加在双钻模型上,于项目不同阶段搭建出清晰的设计目标,以提升文物支架应对不同尺寸折扇的包容性适配能力。通过繁简关系的比较研究,结合材料与制作工艺的自适应特点,使一种支架匹配多种尺寸的同类别文物成为可能,为文物支架的定制生产提供了新的探索路径。     

包容共创视角下创意城市家具设计研究

目的 基于包容共创理念,探索创意城市家具设计介入城市空间的设计策略,提升城市空间的包容性和多样性,解决居民在公共空间休息娱乐时“没地方坐”“坐不下来”“不愿意坐”或“坐不出情趣”等现实问题。方法 阐释微创新、包容共创与城市家具的内涵及关系,结合社区更新原则和包容共创设计提出创意城市家具共创设计策略。通过上海市奉浦街道家具设计案例研究及相关设计实践案例来印证其效用,并探讨创意城市家具在社区更新过程中的作用与研究路径。结果 城市家具创新设计优化城市空间,提升居民生活品质,可以从情感疗愈、协同共创、模块组合、商业赋能、地域适应和智慧交互等设计方向,对创意城市家具设计路径进行探索实践。结论 城市家具设计只有坚持“以人为本”、因地制宜、因需设计的包容共创发展模式,才能引导城市家具的人性化设计及城市空间治理,真正地从人民共建走向人民共享,提高城市家具的包容性、交互性、娱乐性和可持续性,达成具有关怀温度的参与型城市发展范式。     

From market fixing to market-creating: a new framework for innovation policy

Many countries are pursuing innovation-led “smart” growth, which requires long-run strategic investments and public policies that aim to create and shape markets, rather than just “fixing” markets or systems. Market creation has characterized the kind of mission-oriented investments that led to putting a man on the moon and are currently galvanizing green innovation. Mission-oriented innovation has required public agencies to not only “de-risk” the private sector, but also to lead the direct creation of new technological opportunities and market landscapes. This paper considers four key issues that arise from a market-creating framework for policy: (1) decision-making on the direction of change; (2) the nature of (public and private) organizations that can welcome the underlying uncertainty and discovery process; (3) the evaluation of mission-oriented and market-creation policies; and (4) the ways in which both risks and rewards can be shared so that smart growth can also result in inclusive growth.     

Review of Discovering connections: A guide to the fun of bridging disability differences and Connecting kids: Exploring diversity together.

Reviews the books, Discovering connections: A guide to the fun bridging disability differences (1998) and Connecting kids: Exploring diversity together by Linda D. Hill (2001). These two books share a common theme: both provide practical solutions for bridging diversity gaps. The books are meant for anyone who wants to build inclusive groups of adults or children - professionals, volunteers, parents, people with disabilities, and family members and friends of people with disabilities. Discovering Connections provides a template to facilitate a group of adults from diverse backgrounds in the formation of an inclusive, cohesive group. There are 20 sessions organized around 10 themes, each with an armchair activity and a community connection idea. Each theme, in turn, is linked to two connecting skills. Connecting Kids is a "travel guide" for increasing diversity in children's groups. A set of 20 skills is presented, along with activity suggestions for cooperative games, creative activities, and nature experiences. These activities are designed to build social skills within a safe, inclusive environment and to help children respect and value individual differences. Those who are searching for practical suggestions and activities for creating inclusive groups of adults or children will likely find these books a useful addition to their resource library. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

空间与社会包容性导向的景观更新协作模式研究：从废弃铁路到生命之链

在世界范围兴起的废弃铁路景观更新热潮中,部分国家政府已认识到空间改造背后还需要协调不同群体的利益,以增进更新过程与结果的包容性。实现该目标的有效途径之一是协作式规划。据第三方组织属性,将协作模式划分为专家引导型、机构引导型和政府引导型3种,结合案例研究,剖析其协作机制及如何在协作中促进包容性。研究发现：1）专家引导型协作模式适用于用地类型多样的市中心地区,易产生空间的多样性;2）机构引导型适用于闲置用地较多的近郊地区,能够为沿线未来发展预留空间;3）政府引导型适用于规划较成熟且建设已成体系的片区,有利于政府管控,使政府能够进行跨片区协作。期望研究结果能为中国废弃铁路更新提供参考。