Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science)

Awe Is Distance: Revisiting Engels' Theory of Natural Revenge

WAN Changsong

2021, 23 (6): 1-7. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.001

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Just entering the 2020s， human beings encountered a sudden COVID-19 pandemic， which has not yet completely ended. “The theory of natural revenge” is the core of Engels' ecological thought， and the COVID-19 pandemic is the nature's revenge on humanity in essence.“Revenge I” is the direct revenge of nature， namely the pandemic itself;“Revenge Ⅱ” is the indirect revenge of nature， namely the social amplification effect of the pandemic. We should not only take advantage of science and technology to actively respond to “Revenge I”， but also make use of the institutional advantage to actively prevent “Revenge Ⅱ”. Revisiting Engels' important thoughts in the dialectics of nature that nature may revenge human beings while human beings can understand and apply the natural laws correctly， which eventually cause the historical outcomes to accord with the intended purposes not only provides the philosophical basis for establishing the long-term effective mechanism of pandemic prevention， but also provides the theoretical guidance for the harmonious coexistence of human beings and nature.

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Is There Normativity in Scientific Understanding?

ZHAO Congmei， GU Yi

2021, 23 (6): 8-13. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.002

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The traditional philosophy of science believes that descriptive research methods cannot lead to normativity. Given that the theory of scientific understanding adopts descriptive research methods， it is questioned whether or not to provide normativity for scientific understanding. The theory of scientific understanding is divided into two paths. The first path provides normativity for scientific understanding on the basis of knowledge and scientific explanation， but this normativity is based on logical inevitability and transcendental inevitability. Thus， the first path has to face the problem of how to integrate this normativity into the pragmatics of scientific understanding. The second path is collectively called the contextual theory. Faye's “organization view” rejects all norms， but it implies coherence which reflects the need for normativity. Regt's contextual theory abandons the normativity recognized by the traditional philosophy of science and pursues the normativity of contexts. Regt's contextual theory provides evaluative normativity for scientific understanding， which can accommodate the pragmatism of scientific understanding. It is then concluded that there is normativity in scientific understanding.

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Research on the Relationship Between Subsidiary's Autonomy， Technology Innovation Performance and Technology Transfer Performance

CHEN Zhijun， LIU Xilu

2021, 23 (6): 14-21. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.003

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The subsidiary's innovation ability has an important impact on the survival and development of a business group， but there are still insufficiencies in the discussion of its predecessors in the current research. Based on the existing literature， subsidiary's autonomy is divided into strategic autonomy and operational autonomy， and the relationship between the two types of autonomy， technological innovation performance and technology transfer performance is explored. The empirical findings show that the subsidiary's strategic autonomy has an inverted U-shaped relationship with technological innovation performance， which is significantly negatively correlated with technology transfer performance， while its operational autonomy is significantly positively correlated with technological innovation performance and technology transfer performance. Therefore， it suggests that the business group should maintain a moderate degree of strategic centralization and give the subsidiary full autonomy in its operations to promote the long-term development of the subsidiary.

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The Peer Effect of Serial Mergers and Acquisitions and the Internal Control of Enterprises

ZHANG Xiaoxu， YAO Haixin，DU Xinyu

2021, 23 (6): 22-31. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.004

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This paper takes the serial M&A transactions completed by Chinese companies listed on A-share market in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2010 to 2019 as a sample to investigate the peer effect of serial M&A， and examines the mechanism of internal control quality on the peer effect of serial M&A. It is found in the study that the greater the average transaction number of serial M&A in peer companies， the greater the probability of serial M&A of listed companies， and the higher the frequency of serial M&A. That is， serial M&A of listed companies are affected by the peer effect. The quality of internal control can not only promote serial M&A of listed companies， but also reduce the irrational behaviors that may exist in serial M&A. It plays a part of the mediating role in the relationship of serial M&A affected by the peer effect. That is， the quality of internal control has a certain degree of restraint on the peer effect of serial M&A. This paper uses Sobel-Goodman test and propensity score matching method (PSM) to conduct robustness tests， and finds that the above conclusions are still valid.

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Can Targeted Poverty Alleviation Policies Ease the Financing Constraints of Chinese Enterprises? Based on a Policy-oriented Corporate Social Responsibility Perspective

YIN Zhong， SUN Mengchen， WU Yibo

2021, 23 (6): 32-39. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.005

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Taking Chinese listed companies that carried out targeted poverty alleviation in 2016—2019 as the sample， and using ACW model， Heckman two-step method and two-stage least square method for reference， this paper studies the relationship between the intensity of corporate targeted poverty alleviation and corporate financing constraints， and further examines the impact of the nature of property right， the scale of debt， and the degree of marketization on it. The results show that enterprises carrying out targeted poverty alleviation policy can alleviate financing constraints， and the more the intensity of poverty alleviation， the stronger the degree of alleviation. Targeted poverty alleviation has a more obvious effect on alleviating financing constraints for non-state-owned enterprises with high asset liability ratio in developed regions. Listed companies should actively respond to the call of our country to participate in poverty alleviation and rural revitalization， and fulfill their social responsibilities， establish a reward and punishment mechanism for targeted poverty alleviation and a disclosure mechanism for corporate poverty alleviation.

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Influence of the Matching Effect Between Social Crowding and Advertising-oriented on Consumer Attitudes Towards Products

JIN Xiaotong， HUANG Ershuai， XU Wei

2021, 23 (6): 40-46. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.006

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Social crowding is a common social phenomenon in daily life， which has an important impact on consumers' behaviors. However， few studies have focused on how social crowding affects the persuasive effect of advertising on the marketing variable of consumers. Through two experiments， the paper explores the effect of social crowding and advertising-oriented matching on consumers' attitudes towards products. The results show that the interaction between social crowding and advertising orientation (abstract orientation vs. concrete orientation) affects consumers' attitudes towards products. Specifically， in the context of social crowding， concretely-oriented advertising makes consumers have more positive attitudes towards products. In the non-crowded context， abstractly-oriented advertising makes consumers have more positive attitudes towards products. Perceived fluency plays a mediating role in the influence of the matching effect of the two on consumers' attitudes towards products.

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The Influence of Different Types of Democratic Conception on the Trust Level of Political Institutions: An Analysis Based on the State of National(Regional) Development

ZHENG Jianjun， ZHAO Dongdong

2021, 23 (6): 47-55. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.007

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The difference of democratic conception and the complexity of the actual political system have caused uncertainty in the relationship between democratic conception and political legitimacy. Based on the person-context interaction theories， the influence of democratic conception on trust in political institutions may vary depending on the development patterns and processes in different countries around the world. By using the hierarchical linear model(HLM) to study the data of the sixth wave of the world values survey (WVS) from 2010 to 2014， it is found that trust in political institutions is not only affected by individual democratic conception， but also related to such macro factors as the state of national(regional) development. More importantly， the influence of individual democratic conception on the trust in political institutions is moderated by the national(regional) development status.

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Influence Mechanism and Action Mode of Corruption: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) Based on 36 Asian Countries and Regions

XU Guochong， GUO Xuanyu

2021, 23 (6): 56-64. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.008

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Corruption has become a governance problem that cannot be ignored in contemporary countries. By constructing a comprehensive analysis framework of corruption influencing factors based on economic， political and social factors， and using fsQCA (fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis) method to explore the influencing mechanism and combination of various factors， the research finds that economic development has different effects on corruption in different stages. The influence of marketization degree and government size on corruption has two sides， and they are closely related. Increasing the degree of democracy and the use of media at the same time can help curb corruption. The study also summarizes four types of corruption influencing mechanisms， i.e. market self-discipline， government-led， backward development and unbalanced development， which correspond to relatively clean and relatively corrupt countries respectively， and reflect the action modes of different influencing factor combinations.

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The Construction of Social Governance Community from the Perspective of Cultural Embedding: Origin， Mode and Path

HE Mang， CHEN Biao

2021, 23 (6): 65-72. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.009

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The construction of social governance community is an important direction for advancing the modernization of the governance system and governance capabilities. The construction of social governance community from the perspective of cultural embedding has ideological continuity， practical urgency， and technical feasibility. It is an inherent requirement for integrating traditional Chinese community ideas， people-based governance concepts， and flexible social governance technologies. Through the organic embedding of culture into the community， an overall theoretical logic should be constructed that realizes the value recognition of the social governance community with value embedding， the orderly participation of the social governance community through action embedding， and the clear rights and responsibilities of the social governance community through tool embedding. Finally， a practical path is put forward from the aspects of carrying forward the core values of socialism， taping the time connotation of regional culture，establishing and improving the micro-cultural system， and promoting the orderly connection of the social governance community and the community of destiny.

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How to Prevent and Control Governance Risks in Developmental Tasks:The Adjustment of Local Governments' Developmental Logic

LIN Xuefei

2021, 23 (6): 73-81. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.010

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A single theoretical perspective， such as developmentalism or stability maintenance and control， cannot completely picture the whole action profile of local governments， including their considerations and choices between the incentives and risks or between multiple risks. By observing enabled development process of “the northern five villages” in Yungang Street， the study finds that in the face of development tasks involving multiple risks， the development logic of local governments has been adjusted from “development first and then stability maintenance” to “controllable development”. They minimize uncertainty and approach the goals by using such tactics as prior transformation， process control， circumvention and technical governance. The constructive characteristics of social risks provide an initiative space and a strategy generative mechanism for the controllable development of local governments. Local governments conduct rational research and judgement， divide attention and choose prevention and control strategies according to the plasticity of risk issues and the urgency of risk response.

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The Micro-logic for Institutional Environment to Motivate Grassroots-level Public Servants' Entrepreneurship in the New Era

TAN Xinyu， WU Weixu

2021, 23 (6): 82-90. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.011

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The central government and various provinces or municipalities have continuously introduced institutional arrangement to motivate grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship. How does institutional environment in the new era motivate grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship? It is essential to investigate the incentive logic and boundary effects of the new era institutional environment on grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship. Based on a survey of 635 grassroots-level public servants from 173 government organizations in 4 provinces， it is found that institutional environment in the new era motivates grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship in the forms of regulatory pressure， normative pressure， and cognitive pressure. Meanwhile， PSM moderates the incentive effects of institutional environment on grassroots-level public servants in the new era. As a result， self-determination theory is extended to provide a valid interpretation for the joint incentive effect of institutional environment and public service motivation on grassroots-level public servants' entrepreneurship.

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Reflections on the Coopetition Relationship Between the Crime of Financial Fraud and the Crime of Fraud

LI Zhiheng

2021, 23 (6): 91-99. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.012

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The general statement defines the relationship between the crime of financial fraud and the crime of ordinary fraud as a legally coopetition relationship. The theory of legal coopetition is based on the premise that the crime of financial fraud uses property rights as legal interest. However， the ideal position of property rights in the crime of financial fraud should be the accompanying legal interest. The theory of legal coopetition should not be insisted. The theory of imagined coopetition uses the crime of ordinary fraud to evaluate property losses caused by financial fraud. In fact， it strengthens the protection of property rights that should have been degraded， which leads to doubts about the judgment of the relationship between the two crimes. The theory of mutual exclusion is the proper choice of the relationship between the two crimes. Mutual exclusion theory has a stronger theoretical advantage compared with the theory of coopetition， and there is no problem of punishment loopholes in the theory of imagined coopetition.

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The Conflict and Coordination of Form Regulations of the Mixed Contract Between Companies and Senior Executives

ZHOU Yuan

2021, 23 (6): 100-107. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.013

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There are divergences in the application of written labor contract rules to senior executives in the regulation interpretation and evidence rules， which reflects the long-term confusions in practice regarding the state of the legal relationship and the nature of the contract between the company and the senior executive. Lifting the veil. It find that senior executives have the dual identity attributes of employer representatives and employees， and they have an appointment relationship and labor relationship with the company to operate as one， forming a type-integrated mixed contract of appointment and labor contracts. However， the hidden legal loopholes in the application of written labor contract rules to senior executives have resulted in the mixed contract conflict between the mandatory rules of labor contract and the non-standard rules of the appointment contract. The coordination path is based on the principle of interest measurement. Through the demonstration of the substantive rules of labor law value judgment， the identity characteristics of executives as “strong employer representatives and weak workers” are obtained. And the legal loopholes applicable to senior executives are filled with the purpose of narrowing labor contract form regulations to explore the mode of laws for the adjustment of the labor type.

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The Value Trend of Digital Labor in Capitalist Production Relations in Digital Age: Based on Marx's Critique of Political Economy

JIANG Yaodong

2021, 23 (6): 108-113. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.014

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The rapid development of digital economy uses digital knowledge and information as production factors to promote the development of the world into the digital age. The theoretical essence of digital labor in the capitalist production relations in the digital age is in deep agreement with Marx's labor theory of value， which lays a theoretical foundation for understanding the value trend of digital labor. The mirror image of the development of digital capital in the capitalist production relations in the digital age reflects the new form of transformation from data commodities to digital capital and the new characteristics of alienation of digital capital to digital labor， confirming the presence of Marx's critique of political economy and giving insight into the new boundaries of digital capital development. Digital labor still follows the theoretical approach of Marx's critique of political economy， indicating that its value trend is the collaboration and sharing of the decentralization of capital.

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From Life Consciousness to Aesthetic Concept: On the Evolution and Accommodation of “Intuition” in the Cross-cultural Context

JIANG Zhihui

2021, 23 (6): 114-122. DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.06.015

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“Zhijue” is a Chinese version of the English word “intuition”， but it is not an equivalence translation in view of the two intuitive concepts in Chinese and western cultures. It is a cultural fusion of traditional Chinese intuitive thinking and the western intuitional perception. Zhu Qianzhi and Zhu Guangqian penetrate Chinese emotionalism into the meaning structure of the concept of “intuition”， making “zhijue” a fixed concept in Chinese aesthetics and literary criticism. The intercultural interpretation of “intuition” in Chinese modern philosophy and aesthetics is a process of blending ancient and modern， Chinese and western thoughts in a special historical context. It not only promotes the modern transformation of Chinese philosophy， aesthetics and literature， but also confirms the possibility of mutual invention between Chinese traditional academics and western thoughts.

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