然而我最近听说英语角的参加者不太多，没有我以前主持的时候那么多.但是我也明白这是正常的，因为换一个主持就等于英语角转了一次型，要完成过渡期不容易.另外做一个主持就好比演一个电视剧.只有主持"演"好了，观众们才会再来.新上任的主持"演技"自然不够纯熟，暂时失掉一部分观众也是必然的.我深信经过这个学期的磨练，华康一定会变得越来越有经验，英语角也会发展得越来越好!他保留了英语角的BEC指导，给很多考生提供了意见与方法，为大家解决了很多困难.他所做的一切都是大家有目共睹的.在此我代表大家向他致谢，同时祝他身体健康，学业进步，也祝经济学院英语角越办越好!

　　都柏林大学 赖小琪

　　Journal Article Review

　　----On “Ahoy There! Toward Greater Congruence and Synergy between International Business and Business Ethics Theory and Research”.

　　Introduction:

　　With the trend of globalization, more and more multinational enterprises emerge, which has brought about many issues of international ethics that goes beyond traditional domestic corporate ethics. This journal article review will firstly give a brief summary of the article “Ahoy There! Toward Greater Congruence and Synergy between International Business and Business Ethics Theory and Research”, and then further analyze its positive and negative sides and brief the reasons why I choose to write a review on this article based on the issues discussed in it. Finally, the review will end with a conclusion.

　　Summary of the Article:

　　The past literatures of business ethics (BE) and international business (IB) have generally had little influences on each other. However, in the author’s point of view, with the trend of globalization deepening, a lot of newly-emerging factors such as the decline of nation states power, the emergence of non-governmental organizations, etc, have demonstrated that BE and IB, instead of being two totally different disciplines, are indeed correlated.

　　The author first of all points out a “cruel fact” that although a great many business ethics issues deal with international business and multinational enterprises, the two disciplines, BE and IB, seldom study the issues in each other’s field. Also a great number of published articles were related to IB, while only a tiny proportion of them dealt with ethics. After pointing out this phenomenon, the author claims that IB and BE are actually engaging each other: while IB research can help to inform how BE scholars approach some international business issues, BE research can also contribute to IB research.

　　To justify his point, the author firstly elaborates on the changing institutional context of global business and points out several key specific institutional trends: the decline in political power of the nation states, the transformation of the responsibilities, roles and the structure of MNCs, the rise of the no-governmental organization and the proliferation of self-regulatory organizations. Then the author moves on to elaborate on the implications of the changing institutional context for global business on BE and IB scholarship by discussing such relevant issues as MNC legitimacy and accountability, cross-culture values and norms, theory development related to nature of the multinational enterprise and dialectics of globalization. Finally, the author concludes the article by further emphasizing there are a number of aspects in which IB and BE can mutually inform each other and suggesting a field of inquiry where IB and BE scholars could jointly benefit from cooperatively venturing into new fields of empirical analysis and conceptual advancement.

　　Critiques on the Article:

　　Positive Sides:

　　(1)The author constructively and successfully points out that there is a close relationship between IB and BE. In the past, scholars in each field merely focused on their own field, either IB or BE, without combining them together to see a certain issue, which may result in limited vision and insight.

　　(2)The author can view the problem from a time-changing perspective. He explains how BE and IB are engaging each other by reviewing the changing institutional context of global business and its implications. Moreover, he manages to identify common concerns for BE and IB from the changing institutional landscape and suggest ways in which IB and BE could better inform each other.

　　(3)In the course of his discussion and analysis of some theory and points, the author knows to use some typical examples that can not only throw light upon his points, but can also tell the readers some facts and realities that deserve our contemplation, such as the issues of “sweatshop” labor and internet censorship.