scholarly journals The Mediating Role of Social Competition Identity Management Strategy in the Predictive Relationship between Susceptibility to Social Influence, Internet Privacy Concern, and Online Political Efficacy

2014 ◽  
pp. 492-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juneman Abraham ◽  
Murty Magda Pane
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
Internet Privacy ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Predictive Relationship

scholarly journals Antecedents and Mediating Role of Green Buying Behavior

Market Forces ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Muhammad Khalique ◽  
Samra Iftikhar ◽  
Mohd Rafi bin Yaacob ◽  
Ahsan Tahir
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Structural Models ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Favorable Attitude ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Snowball Sampling Technique

Sustainability of the environment is one of the major issues both in developed and developing countries. There is an abundance of studies on green buying behavior. However, a few have studied the mediating role of green buying behavior. Thus, we have developed a new model that has five direct and three mediating relationships. This empirical research has used a snowball sampling technique for collecting the data. We distributed 400 questionnaires and received 377 valid responses. The study has used Smart PLS software for data analysis, including reliability, validity, and generating measurement and structural models. We found that green brands, green identification, and social influence are significant predictors of green buying behavior. Further, we find that the green brand image and green buying behavior promote green satisfaction. The results also suggest that green buying behavior mediates (1) green image and green satisfaction, (2) social influence and green buying behavior, (3) self-identification, and green satisfaction. We also found that consumers have a favorable attitude towards green buying behavior. However, there is a huge gap in consumers’ attitudes and actual buying behavior. Thus, marketers and practitioners need to develop strategies that would translate a favorable attitude toward actual buying behavior.

Social Identity Theory: Status and Identity in International Relations

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Welch Larson
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Social Competition ◽  
The Status ◽  
Social Creativity ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Selection Of

Social identity theory (SIT) from social psychology provides a means to explore the influence of identity and status concerns on foreign policy. The theory argues that groups are motivated to achieve a positively distinctive identity. Groups compare themselves to a similar but slightly higher reference group. Inferiority on important dimensions may lead to the adoption of an identity management strategy: social mobility (emulating the higher-status group to gain admission), social competition (striving to equal or surpass the dominant group), or social creativity (revaluing an ostensibly negative characteristic as positive or identifying an alternative dimension on which the group is superior). Applied to international relations, states may pursue social mobility by emulating the values and practices of higher-status states in order to be admitted to a higher standing, much as Eastern Europe did in seeking admission into the European Union after the end of the Cold War. If elite groups are impermeable to new members, and the status hierarchy is perceived to be unstable or illegitimate, aspiring powers may engage in social competition, which usually entails territorial conquest and military displays. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union sought to catch up with and surpass the capitalist states. If elite clubs are not permeable, but the status hierarchy is stable, states may seek status through social creativity—either reframing a negative trait as positive or seeking preeminence in a domain apart from geopolitical competition. Social creativity may entail creating new international institutions, promoting new norms, or engaging in major diplomatic initiatives in order to increase the state’s prestige. Research applying SIT to international relations has addressed the question of whether anarchy necessarily leads to conflict between states, the diffusion of values, the selection of an identity discourse on the domestic level, and state efforts at moral leadership. Critics have charged that SIT does not clearly predict which identity management strategy will be chosen in a given situation. From a realist perspective, the selection of a strategy for enhancing a state’s status is constrained by geographic position, size, and natural endowments. But this argument does not take into consideration the availability of social mobility and social creativity as ways to achieve status that do not depend on relative military power.

scholarly journals Does Identification Influence Continuous E-Commerce Consumption? The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivations

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1944 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xi Chen ◽  
Shaofen Fang ◽  
Yujie Li ◽  
Haibin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Identity Management ◽  
Self Determination Theory ◽  
Perceived Competence ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Perceived Relatedness ◽  
The Impact

The motivation behind online consumption behavior is different from that of online social behavior, and research is lacking regarding the impact of identification on e-commerce consumption. The current research examines the influence of identification, which is perceived anonymity, and intrinsic motivation on the continuous purchasing behaviors on retailing e-commerce websites based on self-determination theory. The mediating role of intrinsic motivation was also empirically tested from a sample of 661 frequent consumers using the partial least squares approach. The findings were: (1) Identification negatively influences perceived anonymity, and its low, but significantly positive, influence on continuous e-commerce consumption were totally mediated by perceived competence, perceived autonomy, and perceived relatedness. (2) Perceived anonymity positively influences self-determination factors, which has partly mediating impact between perceived anonymity and continuous consumption. (3) The authenticity and concealment of identity are based on different mechanisms, but both of them are conducive to promoting continuous purchases. On retailing e-commerce websites, customers’ identity management should consider both identification in the background and anonymity perception in the service, and the contributions of the service to promote consumers’ perceived competence and perceived autonomy are important in continuous consumption.

scholarly journals Accessing the Influence of Perceived Value on Social Attachment: Developing Country Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qingqing Wang ◽  
Maosheng Yang ◽  
Wensong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Information Value ◽  
Privacy Concern ◽  
Social Attachment ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Perceived value has a positive impact on users’ social attachment in social media usage contexts and is a topic at the forefront of current research in consumer behavior. Although studies have begun to investigate the factors influencing social attachment, there is a lack of research on how perceived value affects social attachment. Therefore, this study uses privacy concern theory, to build a theoretical model with moderated and mediation roles, using Chinese Tik Tok users as data and survey sample, and applying Mplus7.0 to analyze the mediation mechanism and boundary conditions of the relationship between perceived value and social attachment through the structural equation model. In Study 1, data were collected from 600 Tik Tok users to verify the mediating role of the sense of belonging in perceived value and social attachment relationship. The users participating in the questionnaire survey were mainly from mainland China. In Study 2, two waves of data were collected from 500 Tik Tok users to verify the mediating role of the sense of belonging, and support part of the moderating role of privacy concern. However, except that the relationship between information value and social attachment is inhibited by privacy concern, the relationship between entertainment and social value and social attachment is not regulated by privacy concern. This research examines the practical effects of perceived value in the context of social media use, reveals the internal mechanism of the impact of perceived value on social attachment, and provides a reference for the innovative management and commercial practice of social media.

scholarly journals Social Influence and Individual Financial Behavior for Digital Banking: A Causal Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 242
Author(s):  
Tarika Singh Sikarwar
Keyword(s):  
Social Influence ◽  
Financial Behavior ◽  
Causal Association ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Financial Behaviour ◽  
The Individual

Digital banking is a buzz word these days. There are many factors responsible for the adoption and usage of digital banking. The study is being done to known the factors of social influence, financial behaviour. The study had been done to check the causal association between these study variables in context of digital banking. The results showed presence of association between “social influence” and individual “financial behaviour” for digital banking where in “values” and belief are having mediating role. The “Values” and belief of the individual are influenced by the society in which individual lives and in turn they affect the “financial behaviour” of an individual. The outcomes of the study will aid the to know the role of “Social Influence” via “values” and belief on individual financial behavior specifically related to digital banking platforms or transactions.

scholarly journals “If they don’t listen to us, they deserve it”: The effect of external efficacy and anger on the perceived legitimacy of hacking

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 863-881
Author(s):  
Maria S. Heering ◽  
Giovanni A. Travaglino ◽  
Dominic Abrams ◽  
Emily Goldsack
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Political Efficacy ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Grading Practices ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
The Social

We conducted two studies examining the factors underlying individuals’ legitimization of hackers (digital actors operating on the internet). Drawing on the social banditry framework, and research on political action, we focused on the mediating role of anger in the association between external political efficacy and perceived legitimization of hackers’ actions. Specifically, we manipulated whether the system was responsive to participants’ demands following unfair treatment in a university (Study 1) and in an online work platform (Study 2) context. In Study 1 ( N = 259) British undergraduate students read about unfair “grading” practices. They were then informed that the management was either willing (high external political efficacy) or unwilling (low external political efficacy) to investigate the matter. In Study 2 ( N = 222), British participants were recruited via Prolific Academic and were presented with a scenario describing an unfair rejection of their work. They were then informed that the platform admin was either willing or not willing to investigate their case. Across studies, participants were informed that hackers had attacked the website. Supporting the social banditry framework, results indicated that individuals who perceive the system as unresponsive to their demands tended to legitimize hackers’ actions via stronger perceived anger against the system. Implications of the results, and future directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Predictive Relationship between Sustainable Organisational Practices and Organisational Effectiveness: The Mediating role of Organisational Identification and Organisation-Based Self-Esteem

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 3440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiyem Lucky Nwanzu ◽  
Sunday Samson Babalola
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Organisational Effectiveness ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Predictive Relationship ◽  
Privately Owned

This study ascertains the predictive relationship that sustainable organisational practices have with organisational effectiveness and the mediating role of organisational identification and organisation-based self-esteem in this relationship. One-hundred and forty-five participants (62 males and 83 females) were sampled from 31 privately-owned organisations in Delta State, Nigeria. Regression analysis revealed that sustainable organisational practices positively and significantly predict organisational effectiveness, β = 0.42, p < 0.001, and that organisational identification and organisation-based self-esteem mediate the relationship. It was recommended that privately-owned organisations intensively implement sustainable organisational practices for organisational effectiveness, organisational identification and organisation-based self-esteem.

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