Featured Publications of Lingnan Researchers
Sporting events in China as economic development, national image, and political ambition
Author : Marcus P. CHU
Type : Book
Published Year : 2021
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN : 9783030700157
This book analyzes the motivations of the Chinese authorities to pursue the international sporting events. It investigates the 21 oft-underappreciated sporting events governed by FIFA, FINA, FIBA, IAAF, and other international organizations, and linking them with the calculus of the Chinese authorities to push forwards economic development, polish national image, and realize the supreme leaders’ political ambitions. The author therefore sheds important light on the intertwined nature of sport and politics in the Chinese state and reveals how pervasive the sporting events’ roles have been in China’s domestic politics and international relations. This book’s broad scope is expected to attract the subscriptions of the academics, think tanks, diplomats, government officials, and international sporting organizations.
善道同行 : 東華三院一百五十周年史略
Author : 劉智鵬
Type : Book
Published Year : 2021
Publisher : 香港城市大學出版社
ISBN : 9789629376024
東華三院成立已超過150年，從廣福義祠開始，到創立東華醫院，後來三院合併， 並逐漸成為一個規模龐大且多元化的慈善機構，至今仍然屹立不倒，並且推陳出新， 提供多種切合市民需要的服務，可說是華人機構的一個傳奇。
本書以詳近略遠的方式、按時序記述東華由成立至今一個半世紀的歷史。全書共分為三個部分，分別析述1870至1950年代、1960至1990年代，以及2000年至現在，東華如何在不同時期回應時代的變化，提供醫療、賑濟、教育、社會等服務，在香港的歷史發展中扮演重要的角色。隨着香港的政治、經濟、社會等變化，東華積極檢視並革新自身的管治模式與架構，又在服務上有所拓展， 以應市民所需。唯一不變的是，東華一直保持為市民服務的初心– 為善行道，與人同行。
本書不但記錄了東華三院的歷史，同時涉及香港史、中國近代史、海外華人史、醫療史、社會史、教育史等課題，內容豐富廣泛，適合對歷史有興趣的人士閱讀。更難能可貴的是，作者突破了前人有關東華的著述， 記述了回歸後至2020年的東華歷史，闡釋了「東華模式」的成功歷程， 可以作為「東華學」的其中一本重要著作。
Prof. LAU Chi Pang
Associate Vice-President (Academic Affairs and External Relations), Office of the President
Director, Jockey Club Hong Kong History Learning Programme
Co-ordinator, Hong Kong and South China Historical Research Programme
Professor, Department of Political Science
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Community impact feedback questionnaire (CIFQ) : the user manual
Authors : Ka Hing LAU; Robin Stanley SNELL
Type : Book
Published Year : 2021
Publisher : Office of Service-Learning, Lingnan University
ISBN : 9789887522218
Service-learning is an experiential pedagogy designed to benefit all stakeholders, comprising students, educational institutions, instructors, and perhaps more importantly, community partner organizations (CPOs) and the community as a whole. Through serving the community via the CPO, students consolidate their knowledge and skills while applying these in real-life situations. Effective service-learning, therefore, should demonstrate community impact as a result.
However, the community impacts arising from service-learning have not been well demonstrated in past research. One reason for this has been the lack of an effective, standardized tool for measuring the impacts. To address this problem, Lingnan University, in collaboration with The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University, and The Education University of Hong Kong, consolidated relevant research findings into a conceptual framework about the community impact of service-learning, from which the Community Impact Feedback Questionnaire (CIFQ) has been developed.
The primary objective of the CIFQ is to serve as a standardized and reliable assessment tool for measuring the extent to which a service-learning project is perceived to have various kinds of community impact. The CIFQ is also designed to capture community impacts from the service recipients’ perspective, via the CPO as the service recipients' proxy.
This manual explains the process of how the CIFQ was developed and validated. It also explains how the CIFQ should be administered and scored, and how its results can be interpreted. We envisage that if the CIFQ can be widely adopted, a more complete and reliable data set regarding community impacts arising from service-learning can be obtained. A fuller picture of the community impacts arising from service-learning can help inform how to further advance this experiential learning methodology, and how to derive further benefits for CPOs and the wider community.
Survival tactics within Cold War ideologies : Post-Mao artists on the tides of globalization
Author : LI Yu-Chieh
Type : Book Chapter
Published Year : 2021
Source : Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles : Art in East and Southeast Asia
Publisher : Taylor and Francis
ISBN : 9780367615291
Postsocialism in Central and Eastern Europe, as Uros Cvoro points out, did not end with 1989 - it is still in a state of transition with the continuation of socialist ideology despite its incongruencies with the current market economy. Due to its hybrid and often contradictory nature, the system is sometimes referred to as “neoliberal postsocialism,” for which postsocialist China is another notable example. Since Deng Xiaoping’s economic reform in 1978, the Chinese Communist Party similarly maintained the socialist ideology in their governance but adopted neoliberalism as the economic policy to create a hybrid system. Deng’s economic policy allows some private ownership in business and property. The completion of various property laws since the reform era has also encouraged the purchase of real estate (although legally one can “rent” the land from the government for up to 70 years), whereby the government was able to boost the economy by selling, or temporarily “renting out,” properties and encouraging foreign investment. In the new economy that depends on surplus value, capitalism exploited cheap labor, which proved effective for China’s rising GDP. The result was the removal of lifelong positions for unit workers at national enterprises, and their replacement by migrant workers that receive fewer benefits. There is no longer a guarantee of jobs and economic equality comparable to that before the reform era. In this hybrid system and with rising social inequality, the government embraced privatization of businesses but never stopped meddling in the market. David Harvey describes this worldwide phenomenon since the late 1970s as "accumulation by dispossession," meaning a peculiar freedom that exploits others for inordinate gains. Such accelerated capitalism was then globalized, and the artists in this chapter benefited from the booming art market that arose with China’s turn to neoliberal postsocialism.
Building inclusive workplaces for lesbians and bisexual women in Hong Kong’s financial services industry
Authors : Tse Shang Denise TANG; Stefanie TENG; Celine TAN; Bonnie LAM; Christina YUAN
Type : Research Report
Published Year : 2021
Publisher : Lingnan University, Hong Kong
DOI : 10.14793/ccrd2021001
Workplace inclusion is a core component of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Hong Kong. Workplace inclusion points to the need for employers to recognize diversity among employees, to acknowledge their contributions to the work environment and to raise professional standards for the work force. Diversity within a workplace indicates inclusion of persons with different backgrounds as in racial, ethnic, sex, health status, sexual orientation and gender identity. Women are already less represented at senior levels across various business sectors in Hong Kong. Lesbians and bisexual women face a double glass ceiling in the workplace as a result of both their gender and sexual orientation.
Funded by Lingnan University’s Innovation and Impact Fund, and in partnership with Interbank Forum and Lesbians in Finance, Prof. Denise Tse-Shang Tang conducted an online survey and two focus groups targeting lesbians and bisexual women working in Hong Kong’s financial and banking industry. The aim of the study is to examine the specific challenges and barriers faced by lesbians and bisexual women in Hong Kong’s financial services industry.
We found that only 37% of survey respondents were out at work, with 23% partially out to close colleagues. In other words, there are still key concerns with being out at work. On the issue of a glass ceiling for LGBT+ corporate employees, 18% of the survey respondents agreed and 47% somewhat agreed that such a ceiling exists. When asked whether it is harder for lesbians and bisexual women to come out in the workplace than it is for gay men, 32% agreed and 46% somewhat agreed. 27% agreed and 39% somewhat agreed with the statement that it is difficult for lesbians and bisexual women to climb up the corporate ladder. Other findings pointed to the low visibility of lesbians and bisexual women in corporate settings, lack of mentorship, increased levels of stress and anxiety, and the fear of being judged as both a woman and a lesbian. Masculine-presenting employees face significantly more scrutiny than cisgender female employees. Therefore, even though discussion on diversity and inclusion has been on the agenda for better corporate work environment in Hong Kong, there still remain gaps in raising awareness of lesbian and bisexual women’s issues.
Prof. TANG Tse Shang Denise
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies
Associate Director, Centre for Cultural Research and Development
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Assessing the connection between overeducation and migration intention in Hong Kong’s young working adults
Authors : Ka Ho MOK; Yue Feng Alex ZHU
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Journal of Education and Work
DOI : 10.1080/13639080.2021.1922623
This study addresses the link between overeducation and intention to migrate to the Greater Bay Area (GBA) cities in mainland China in a sample of Hong Kong’s young adults employed in lower occupational classes (elementary occupations, plant and machine operators and assemblers, craft and related workers, and service and sales workers). The results indicate that overeducation has a unique negative effect on attitudes towards migration to GBA. The findings suggest that social capital theory rather than human capital theory is better able to explain the motivation of Hong Kong’s young people to invest in higher education. This research may help policy makers review the expansion of higher education in Hong Kong and provide valuable policy implications for regional integration between Hong Kong and mainland China.
Prof. MOK Ka Ho Joshua
Vice-President, Office of the President
Co-Director, Institute of Policy Studies
Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Lam Man Tsan Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Department of Sociology and Social Policy
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Dealing with social acceptance : the strategies of offshore petroleum extraction companies and stakeholder attitudes in Ghana
Author : Moses ADJEI
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Extractive Industries and Society
DOI : 10.1016/j.exis.2021.100922
Since the commencement of petroleum extraction in Ghana in 2010, there has been growing concern about the relevance of the industry, especially to host-communities living in the country's coastal areas. In their quest for social acceptance, petroleum extraction companies in Ghana undertake various projects through their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programmes. Based on fieldwork in Ghana's south-western coastal region and an analysis of in-depth interviews conducted amongst a variety of interested stakeholders in the area, this paper shows that these projects are mainly selective and geared towards winning the support of powerful stakeholders, instead of addressing the concerns of vulnerable groups (e.g. fisherfolk), who may be affected. This approach towards the selection of CSR projects has implications for the way in which these companies are sanctioned by the regulatory bodies and perceived by local stakeholder groups, especially the fisherfolk. This paper proposes a rethink of CSR to move beyond philanthropism and voluntarism towards tackling the actual impact of the companies’ activities on vulnerable communities whose livelihood and well-being may depend on such natural resources. A reassessment is also needed to engender a greater level of trust and cooperation between petroleum companies and local stakeholders, particularly, local communities.
Incentivizing the adoption of electric vehicles under subsidy schemes : a duopoly analysis
Authors : Yongling GAO; Mingming LENG
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Operations Research Letters
DOI : 10.1016/j.orl.2021.04.010
We analyze the competition between an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer and an internal combustion vehicle manufacturer, under a government's subsidy scheme that provides a per-unit subsidy to the EV manufacturer or a price discount subsidy to EV consumers. The government should adopt the per-unit subsidy scheme, because, compared to the price-discount scheme, the government under the per-unit scheme can achieve the same EV sales and social welfare but pay for a smaller total subsidy.
Prof. LENG Mingming
Dean, Faculty of Business
Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Business Studies
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Labour market experience, educational attainment and self-reported happiness : crowding-out amongst young people in Hong Kong
Authors : Stefan KÜHNER; Jin JIANG; Zhuoyi Vincent WEN; Ka Wai Maggie LAU
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Journal of Education and Work
DOI : 10.1080/13639080.2021.1922622
Recent literature on education and work well recognises the ‘crowding-out perspective’ of how the higher education expansion impacts the labour market experience of young people with different educational levels. However, the relationship between the labour market experience and self-reported happiness of young people remains less well understood. This paper determines whether a ‘crowding out’ effect occurs amongst post-secondary degree-holders on the self-reported happiness of young people (aged 16-34) amidst increasing difficulties during their school-to-work transition. Drawing on a recent city-wide online survey in one of the leading global cities, Hong Kong, statistical analysis shows that contrary to the mainstream ‘crowding out perspective’, self-reported happiness is lower amongst young people with high rather than low educational attainment. However, in the absence of a ‘happiness premium’ of educational attainment, young people in Hong Kong with secondary degrees or below are much more sensitive to adverse labour market experiences, such as unemployment, high job pressure and long working hours. No similar moderating effect of educational attainment is found on the relationship between the self-reported happiness of young people and regular work shifts. The implications of these findings on the ‘crowding out perspective’ for youth development policy within East Asia and Hong Kong productivist welfare paradigm are discussed.
Prof. WEN Zhuoyi Vincent
Research Assistant Professor, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
Core Centre Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
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Traditional knowledge, science and China's pride : how a TCM social media account legitimizes TCM treatment of Covid-19
Author : Feifei ZHOU
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Social Semiotics
DOI : 10.1080/10350330.2021.1926964
The legitimation of Chinese medicine has long been a politically and morally charged subject in China since the early twentieth century. In recent years, there is an apparent surge of enthusiasm in developing and promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), as evidenced by the state's frequent lauding of its advantages and the implementation of a series of supportive policies and regulations. During the Covid-19 pandemic in China, TCM has again gained ample attention in major state-owned media outlets due to its proclaimed effects in treating Covid-19. In this article, I will conduct an interdisciplinary study of the semiotic work dedicated to legitimating TCM treatment of Covid-19 in the social media account of an official TCM institution. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and textual analysis supported by reference to history and anthropology of medicine, I will examine closely how the above-mentioned semiotic work is achieved through reference to a range of theoretical and moral arguments. Moreover, the paradoxes and inconsistencies in this process of semiotic construction will be discussed to shed light on the deeper issues concerning the entangled relationship of health science and politics in China, as well as the epistemological difficulties in promoting TCM inside and outside China.
Striving to avoid inferiority and procrastination among university students : the mediating roles of stress and self-control
Authors : Peter-Yee-Lap TO; Barbara-Chuen-Yee LO; Ting-Kin NG; Anna-Wai-Man CHOI; Bernard-Pak-Ho WONG
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
DOI : 10.3390/ijerph18115570
The current study intended to examine whether the relationship between university students’ striving to avoid inferiority (SAI) and procrastination was serially mediated by stress and self-control. The sample consisted of 154 Hong Kong university students. Their levels of striving to avoid inferiority, stress, self-control, and procrastination were measured by the Striving to Avoid Inferiority Scale (SAIS), the stress subscale of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS-21), the Short Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SSRQ), and the General Procrastination Scale (GPS), respectively. The results of structural equation modeling revealed that SAI positively predicted stress, stress negatively predicted self-control, and self-control negatively predicted procrastination. SAI did not directly predict procrastination. The results of bootstrapping analyses supported the hypotheses that the effect of stress on procrastination was mediated by self-control, the effect of SAI on self-control was mediated by stress, and more importantly, the effect of SAI on procrastination was serially mediated by stress and self-control. Further research is suggested to investigate the thoughts and feelings pertinent to procrastination and the actual duration of procrastination among university students.
Prof. LO Chuen Yee
Head and Associate Professor, Department of Applied Psychology
Associate Director, Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre
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Dr. NG Ting Kin
Research Assistant Professor, Wofoo Joseph Lee Consulting and Counselling Psychology Research Centre
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International socioeconomic inequality drives trade patterns in the global wildlife market
Authors : Jia Huan LIEW; Zi Yi KHO; Rayson Bock Hing LIM; Caroline DINGLE; Timothy Carlton BONEBRAKE; Yik Hei SUNG; David DUDGEON
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Science advances
DOI : 10.1126/sciadv.abf7679
The wildlife trade is a major cause of species loss and a pathway for disease transmission. Socioeconomic drivers of the wildlife trade are influential at the local scale yet rarely accounted for in multinational agreements aimed at curtailing international trade in threatened species. In recent decades (1998-2018), approximately 421,000,000 threatened (i.e., CITES-listed) wild animals were traded between 226 nations/territories. The global trade network was more highly connected under conditions of greater international wealth inequality, when rich importers may have a larger economic advantage over poorer exporting nations/territories. Bilateral trade was driven primarily by socioeconomic factors at the supply end, with wealthier exporters likely to supply more animals to the global market. Our findings suggest that international policies for reducing the global wildlife trade should address inequalities between signatory states, possibly using incentive/compensation-driven programs modeled after other transnational environmental initiatives (e.g., REDD+).
Lives versus livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk
Authors : Claudia F. NISA; Jocelyn J. BÉLANGER; ... Victoria Wai-lan YEUNG ... etc.
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Scientific Reports
DOI : 10.1038/s41598-021-88314-4
This paper examines whether compliance with COVID-19 mitigation measures is motivated by wanting to save lives or save the economy (or both), and which implications this carries to fight the pandemic. National representative samples were collected from 24 countries (N = 25,435). The main predictors were (1) perceived risk to contract coronavirus, (2) perceived risk to suffer economic losses due to coronavirus, and (3) their interaction effect. Individual and country-level variables were added as covariates in multilevel regression models. We examined compliance with various preventive health behaviors and support for strict containment policies. Results show that perceived economic risk consistently predicted mitigation behavior and policy support - and its effects were positive. Perceived health risk had mixed effects. Only two significant interactions between health and economic risk were identified - both positive.
移民文学与字面性：论哈金的“翻译书写”
Author : 龚浩敏
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : May 2021
Source : 南方文坛
DOI : 10.14065/j.cnki.nfwt.2021.03.019
若干年前，我在美国一所博雅大学开设的“亚洲研究”课上做了一次有关中国文学的客座演讲。同事为我演讲指定的文本是哈金的一部“中国”小说《池塘》(In the Pond)。选择《池塘》的确让人意外：虽然哈金的大部分作品的主题都与中国相关，但给哈金贴上“中国作家”的标签却略显轻率，因为他多年前入籍美国，长期用英文写作，且作品都在美国出版。
演讲结束后，一位英语系教授补充了他对《池塘》的理解。他认为，小说最终展现了儒家伦理中坚韧不拔与能屈能伸的美德，主人公最后成功获得其应得的地位，正体现了这种传统美德的力量。这一独特的解读对理解哈金写作提出一个严肃的问题。是否因为这部小说模棱两可的文化认同，导致该教授偏执地强调小说的“中国性”？哈金的语言给人一种从中文翻译成英文的表象，从而增加了一种看似“地道的”中国风味，这是否促发了此类误读？
Comparison between uniform tariff and progressive consumption tax in the Chinese automobile industry
Authors : Caixia SHEN; Yanfei WANG; Junji XIAO; Xiaolan ZHOU
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Mar 2021
Source : Journal of Industrial Economics
DOI : 10.1111/joie.12255
This paper studies the protectionist effect of a non-trade policy — a consumption tax — compared to that of a tariff on the Chinese automobile market. Our empirical findings suggest that both the consumption tax and the tariff can protect domestic automakers’ market shares, but they can only shift a small portion of demand from imported cars to domestic cars. This demand exclusion is caused by the weak substitution between imported cars and domestic cars, and it is the underlying reason for the welfare loss caused by both the tariff and the consumption tax. A change in the consumption tax favorable to domestic manufacturers is equivalent to an additional 28% tariff, beyond the explicit 25% tariff, in terms of its protective effect on domestic manufacturers’ market shares.
From training to improving classroom practices : learning from school improvement program intervention in a mountainous public secondary school in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Author : Abdul Wali KHAN
Type : Working Paper
Published Date : May 2021
Source : Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) Working Paper Series
DOI : 10.14793/ipswp2021002
This study reports learning from a professional development (PD) session and classroom action research from an English class conducted in the mountainous northern part of Pakistan. The researcher got training from Professional Development Centre North (PDCN) as a member of the Quality Assurance Team and then conducted a five-day workshop for teachers on various general teaching techniques, lesson planning, writing reflections/portfolios and classroom management. After the sessions, the teachers applied these knowledge and skills in their respective classes, and English teachers did action research with the researcher to improve the language skills of grade 7 students for three cycles. Pre- and post-intervention tests, teachers’ reflective diaries, lesson plans, portfolio books and discussions with teachers were sources of data collection. The present study shows that there is a thirst amongst teachers for professional grooming. Also, students gradually benefit from new teaching techniques. This study suggests including various PD models in the school development plan to improve teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge, which will result in improved learning outcomes for students. The sustainability of these initiatives is a challenge due to the lack of proper mechanisms and policies in the government schools of Gilgit-Baltistan. Therefore, there is a need for a school policy for English teachers’ PD at the classroom level to improve teaching practices and students’ learning.
Mr. Abdul Wali KHAN
Doctoral Degree Student, School of Graduate Studies
Part-time Research Assistant, School of Graduate Studies
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Can mandatory dual audit reduce the cost of equity? Evidence from China
Authors : Rui ZHANG; Raymond M. K. WONG; Agnes W. Y. LO; Gaoliang TIAN
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Apr 2021
Source : Accounting and Business Research
DOI : 10.1080/00014788.2020.1870432
In China, a mandatory dual audit system for domestic A-share firms cross-listed on the Hong Kong stock market (i.e. AH companies) was abolished in 2010. Since then, AH companies have been allowed to choose to have a dual audit or a single audit. We find that the mandatory dual audit regime before the deregulation is associated with a lower cost of equity than voluntary dual audit after the deregulation. Furthermore, the lower cost of equity under the mandatory dual audit regime is greater in companies exposed to stronger financial constraints and with higher agency costs, and is not attenuated by alternative voluntary audits. Our results are not affected by accounting standards convergence and audit quality, and are robust to various model specifications. Our results suggest that the role of mandatory dual audit in mitigating agency costs and information asymmetry is not replaceable by voluntary dual audit.
How proactive personality affects psychological strain and job performance : the moderating role of leader–member exchange
Authors : Zesheng WEI; Chang-Jun LI; Fuli LI; Tingting CHEN
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Apr 2021
Source : Personality and Individual Differences
DOI : 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110910
This paper investigates when proactive personality exerts a positive or negative effect on psychological strain, which, in turn, is conducive or destructive to job performance. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we examine leader-member exchange (LMX, the quality of emotional support, trust and exchange of valuable resources between the leader and follower) as a crucial moderator, such that proactive personality is negatively related to psychological strain under high LMX, but is positively related to psychological strain under low LMX. Moreover, we hypothesize a moderated mediation effect such that the indirect effect of proactive personality on job performance through psychological strain is positive when LMX is high but negative when LMX is low. Results based on a two-wave, multi-source survey study with a sample of 266 employees and their direct supervisors in a sales company in China lent support to our moderation and moderated mediation hypotheses.
Exploring embeddedness, centrality, and social influence on backer behavior : the role of backer networks in crowdfunding
Authors : Yuho CHUNG; Yiwei LI; Jianmin JIA
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Apr 2021
Source : Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science
DOI : 10.1007/s11747-021-00779-x
This research examines the influence of backers’ social networks on their backing behavior using data from a large social networking site and a reward-based crowdfunding platform. We distinguish the roles of nodes and ties in a backer’s social network and assess the combined and differential effects of these two types of social relationship on the backer’s pledge decisions. As backers have different motives for engaging in different crowdfunding campaigns, which range from commercially oriented technological innovation to community-based social development, we further examine how these effects differ between technology-oriented campaigns and social-oriented campaigns. We find that node-level factors (e.g., centrality) have a greater influence on technology-oriented campaigns than on social-oriented campaigns, while tie-level factors (e.g., embeddedness) have a stronger impact on social-oriented campaigns. Considering the two forms of embeddedness in tandem, we find that the effects of relational embeddedness on backers’ pledge decisions are not only moderated by structural embeddedness but also contingent on campaign type. These results offer important theoretical insights into the drivers of contribution, which should be considered by crowdfunding operators and campaign proponents seeking to stimulate contribution.
Prof. LI Yiwei
Assistant Professor, Department of Marketing and International Business
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Peer review may not be such a bad idea : response to Heesen and Bright
Author : Darrell P. ROWBOTTOM
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Mar 2021
Source : British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
DOI : 10.1086/714787
In a recent paper in BJPS, Hessen and Bright argue that prepublication peer review should be abolished and replaced with postpublication peer review (provided the matter is judged purely on epistemic grounds). In this paper, I show that there are three problems with their argument. First, it fails to consider the epistemic cost of implementing the change to postpublication peer review. Second, it fails to consider some potential epistemic benefits of prepublication peer review, which involve avoiding bias. Third, it fails to consider some potential epistemic disadvantages of postpublication peer review, which stem from the greater number of papers that would be published under the system.
Kiss goodbye to the ‘kissing knees’ : no association between frontal plane inward knee motion and risk of future non-contact ACL injury in elite female athletes
Authors : Agnethe NILSTAD; Erich PETUSHEK; Kam-Ming MOK; Roald BAHR; Tron KROSSHAUG
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Mar 2021
Source : Sports Biomechanics
DOI : 10.1080/14763141.2021.1903541
The aim of this study was to investigate if frontal plane knee and hip control in single-leg squats or vertical drop jumps with an overhead target were associated with future non-contact anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury in elite female athletes. Of the 429 handball and 451 football athletes (age 21.5 ± 4.0 years, height 169.6 ± 6.4 cm, body weight 67.1 ± 8.0 kg), 722 non-injured and 56 non-contact ACL injured participants were eligible for analysis. We calculated lateral pelvic tilt, frontal plane knee projection angle, medial knee position, and side-to-side asymmetry in these from 2D videos recorded at baseline, and recorded any new ACL injuries prospectively. None of the aforementioned variables in either screening task were different or could discriminate between injured and non-injured athletes (all p values >.05 and Cohen’s d values < .27). Two-dimensional video assessment of frontal plane knee and hip control during both a single-leg squat and vertical drop jump was unable to identify individuals at increased risk of non-contact ACL injury, thus should not be used for screening.
Dr. MOK Kam Ming
Assistant Manager (Physical Education) I, Office of Student Affairs
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The effectiveness of an online grammar study scheme for Chinese undergraduate students
Author : Ryan John WINDSOR
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Mar 2021
Source : Smart Learning Environments
DOI : 10.1186/s40561-021-00147-w
This paper outlines and describes the effectiveness of a virtual learning environment (VLE) as a grammar learning resource for first year students at a university in southern China over two academic years. The resource, named the Independent Grammar Study Scheme (IGSS), offered short grammar exercises that were completed over a 14-week period by two cohorts of year one students. The results of this study suggest that IGSS was successful in raising the grammar test scores of participants in both 2018 and 2019; that IGSS was more beneficial to students with lower English proficiency in 2018 but not in 2019; and that the VLE has been of great benefit to the university and to around one thousand students thus far.
Extension of social insurance coverage to informal economy workers in China : an administrative and institutional perspective
Authors : Jiwei QIAN; Zhuoyi WEN
Type : Journal Article
Published Date : Mar 2021
Source : International Social Security Review
DOI : 10.1111/issr.12258
This article reviews administrative issues in the context of decentralized social protection in China. In particular, what are the main obstacles to expanding social insurance coverage for workers in the informal economy? Over the last two decades, China has achieved remarkable progress toward universal social protection when this target was set as a national policy priority. However, the social insurance enrolment of informal economy workers still lags significantly behind. This article reviews the application of the International Labour Organization’s definition of informality in the Chinese context and overviews existing pension and health insurances in China. This article discusses the impact of China’s inter‐governmental fiscal relations and decentralized social protection in the multilevel government system. The article highlights that under a system of decentralized managed social insurance many informal economy workers choose to opt out of the system because of low benefits and high compliance costs. This result in deficits in social insurance coverage amongst informal economy workers.
Prof. WEN Zhuoyi Vincent
Research Assistant Professor, Asia-Pacific Institute of Ageing Studies
Core Centre Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies
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