scholarly journals Vanishing Boycott Impetus: Why and How Consumer Participation in a Boycott Decreases Over Time

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wassili Lasarov ◽  
Stefan Hoffmann ◽  
Ulrich Orth
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Consumer Participation ◽  
Time Study ◽  
Food Services ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Streaming Services ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
A Company ◽  
Individual Participation ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMedia reports that a company behaves in a socially nonresponsible manner frequently result in consumer participation in a boycott. As time goes by, however, the number of consumers participating in the boycott starts dwindling. Yet, little is known on why individual participation in a boycott declines and what type of consumer is more likely to stop boycotting earlier rather than later. Integrating research on drivers of individual boycott participation with multi-stage models and the hot/cool cognition system, suggests a “heat-up” phase in which boycott participation is fueled by expressive drivers, and a “cool-down” phase in which instrumental drivers become more influential. Using a diverse set of real contexts, four empirical studies provide evidence supporting a set of hypotheses on promotors and inhibitors of boycott participation over time. Study 1 provides initial evidence for the influence of expressive and instrumental drivers in a food services context. Extending the context to video streaming services, e-tailing, and peer-to-peer ridesharing, Study 2, Study 3, and Study 4 show that the reasons consumers stop/continue boycotting vary systematically across four distinct groups. Taken together, the findings help activists sustain boycott momentum and assist firms in dealing more effectively with boycotts.

Eternal Today

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenni Myllykoski ◽  
Anniina Rantakari
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Constitutive Relation ◽  
Human Agency ◽  
Fundamental Characteristic ◽  
Time Study ◽  
Software Company ◽  
Present Experience ◽  
Managerial Strategy ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Strategy Making

This chapter focuses on temporality in managerial strategy making. It adopts an ‘in-time’ view to examine strategy making as the fluidity of the present experience and draws on a longitudinal, real-time study in a small Finnish software company. It shows five manifestations of ‘in-time’ processuality in strategy making, and identifies a temporality paradox that arises from the engagement of managers with two contradictory times: constructed linear ‘over time’ and experienced, becoming ‘in time’. These findings lead to the re-evaluation of the nature of intention in strategy making, and the authors elaborate the constitutive relation between time as ‘the passage of nature’ and human agency. Consequently, they argue that temporality should not be treated merely as an objective background or a subjective managerial orientation, but as a fundamental characteristic of processuality that defines the dynamics of strategy making.

Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Systems ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Organizational Life ◽  
Organizational Processes ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Process Studies ◽  
Convergence And Divergence ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Over Time

Organizational contradictions and process studies offer interwoven and complementary insights. Studies of dialectics, paradox, and dualities depict organizational contradictions that are oppositional as well as interrelated such that they persistently morph and shift over time. Studies of process often examine how contradictions fuel emergent, dynamic systems and stimulate novelty, adaptation, and transformation. Drawing from rich conversations at the Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, the contributors to this volume unpack these relationships in more depth. The chapters explore three main, connected themes through both conceptual and empirical studies, including (1) offering insight into how process theorizing advances understandings of organizational contradictions; (2) shedding light on how dialectics, paradoxes, and dualities fuel organizational processes that affect persistence and transformation; and (3) exploring the convergence and divergence of dialectics, paradox, and dualities lenses. Taken together, this book offers key insights in order to inform persistent, contradictory dynamics in organizations and organizational studies.

scholarly journals Friendship paradox in growth networks: analytical and empirical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergei P. Sidorov ◽  
Sergei V. Mironov ◽  
Alexey A. Grigoriev
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Preferential Attachment ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mean Field ◽  
Network Models ◽  
Average Degree ◽  
Closure Model ◽  
Triadic Closure ◽  
Attachment Mechanism ◽  
Over Time

AbstractMany empirical studies have shown that in social, citation, collaboration, and other types of networks in real world, the degree of almost every node is less than the average degree of its neighbors. This imbalance is well known in sociology as the friendship paradox and states that your friends are more popular than you on average. If we introduce a value equal to the ratio of the average degree of the neighbors for a certain node to the degree of this node (which is called the ‘friendship index’, FI), then the FI value of more than 1 for most nodes indicates the presence of the friendship paradox in the network. In this paper, we study the behavior of the FI over time for networks generated by growth network models. We will focus our analysis on two models based on the use of the preferential attachment mechanism: the Barabási–Albert model and the triadic closure model. Using the mean-field approach, we obtain differential equations describing the dynamics of changes in the FI over time, and accordingly, after obtaining their solutions, we find the expected values of this index over iterations. The results show that the values of FI are decreasing over time for all nodes in both models. However, for networks constructed in accordance with the triadic closure model, this decrease occurs at a much slower rate than for the Barabási–Albert graphs. In addition, we analyze several real-world networks and show that their FI distributions follow a power law. We show that both the Barabási–Albert and the triadic closure networks exhibit the same behavior. However, for networks based on the triadic closure model, the distributions of FI are more heavy-tailed and, in this sense, are closer to the distributions for real networks.

scholarly journals Persisting inequality: A case of probabilistic drive towards divergence

2017 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Maialeh
Keyword(s):  
Economic Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Over Time

The aim of the study is to prove that agents organised by market forces tend to create and even more so deepen economic disparities over time. Empirical studies do not reliably describe the trend and causes of interpersonal global inequality in recent decades. Hence, the attention is turned to general economic theory with inspiration from Schumpeterian and neoclassical theories. The results indicate that pure market economy logic will tend to lead to multi-level divergence.

scholarly journals Creating relationship continuity across projects in the construction industry

IMP Journal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malena Ingemansson Havenvid ◽  
Elsebeth Holmen ◽  
Åse Linné ◽  
Ann-Charlott Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Mutual Orientation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Construction Firms ◽  
Relationship Continuity ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Strategy Types ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship continuity across projects among actors in the construction industry, and to discuss why and how such continuity takes place. Design/methodology/approach The authors draw on the results from four in-depth case studies illustrating different strategies for pursuing relationship continuity. The results are analysed and discussed in light of the oft-mentioned strategies suggested by Mintzberg (1987): emergent, deliberate and deliberately emergent strategies. Furthermore, the ARA-model is used to discuss why the relationship continuity strategies are pursued, and which factors might enable and constrain the relationship continuity. Findings The main findings are twofold. First, the authors found that the strategy applied for pursuing relationship continuity may, in one-time period, contain one type of strategy or a mix of strategy types. Second, the type of strategy may evolve over time, from one type of strategy being more pronounced in one period, to other strategies being more pronounced in later periods. The strategies applied by construction firms and their counterparts can thus contain elements of emergent, deliberate and deliberately emergent strategies, in varying degrees over time. It is also shown that the strategies of the involved actors co-evolve as a result of interaction. Also, the main reasons for pursuing continuity appear to lie in the re-use and development of important resources and activities across projects to create efficiency and the possibility to develop mutual orientation, commitment and trust over time, and thus reduce uncertainty. Research limitations/implications Further empirical studies are needed to support the findings. For managers, the main implication is that relationship continuity can arise as part of an emerging interaction pattern between firms or as part of a planned strategy, but that elements of both might be needed to sustain it. Originality/value The authors combine Mintzberg’s strategy concepts with the ARA-model to bring new light to the widely debated issue of discontinuity and fragmentation in the construction industry.

Business Cycles and Apprenticeships

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Muehlemann ◽  
Stefan Wolter
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Skilled Labor ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Task Forces ◽  
Apprenticeship Training ◽  
The Business Cycle ◽  
Over Time

The economic reasons why firms engage in apprenticeship training are twofold. First, apprenticeship training is a potentially cost-effective strategy for filling a firm’s future vacancies, particularly if skilled labor on the external labor market is scarce. Second, apprentices can be cost-effective substitutes for other types of labor in the current production process. As current and expected business and labor market conditions determine a firm’s expected work volume and thus its future demand for skilled labor, they are potentially important drivers of a firm’s training decisions. Empirical studies have found that the business cycle affects apprenticeship markets. However, while the economic magnitude of these effects is moderate on average, there is substantial heterogeneity across countries, even among those that at first sight seem very similar in terms of their apprenticeship systems. Moreover, identification of business cycle effects is a difficult task. First, statistics on apprenticeship markets are often less developed than labor market statistics, making empirical analyses of demand and supply impossible in many cases. In particular, data about unfilled apprenticeship vacancies and unsuccessful applicants are paramount for assessing potential market failures and analyzing the extent to which business cycle fluctuations may amplify imbalances in apprenticeship markets. Second, the intensity of business cycle effects on apprenticeship markets is not completely exogenous, as governments typically undertake a variety of measures, which differ across countries and may change over time, to reduce the adverse effects of economic downturns on apprenticeship markets. During the economic crisis related to the COVID-19 global pandemic, many countries took unprecedented actions to support their economies in general and reacted swiftly to introduce measures such as the provision of financial subsidies for training firms or the establishment of apprenticeship task forces. As statistics on apprenticeship markets improve over time, such heterogeneity in policy measures should be exploited to improve our understanding of the business cycle and its relationship with apprenticeships.

scholarly journals The influence of quality management systems for improvement of logistics supply in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 643-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Zimon
Keyword(s):  
Quality Management ◽  
Quality Management System ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Iso 9001 ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Quality Management Systems ◽  
Supply Logistics ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Company

Research background: ISO 9001 with its requirements gives a company a guidance on the definition of the quality management system architecture, based on the process approach and the indications for its continuous improvement. Despite the general emphasis to the benefits of implementation of ISO 9001 in the literature, there is a still lack of research concerning the actual impact of quality management systems for improving specific logistics processes. The research is focused on the Polish market because there is no research in the subject literature which concerns the impact of the implementation of quality management systems on the improvement of logistic processes in Polish enterprises. Purpose of the article: The focus of this publication was to examine the impact of the implementation of the requirements of ISO 9001 for process improvement supply logistics. Methods: Empirical studies were carried out in September and October 2014 on a group of 17 companies with implemented and certified quality management systems according to ISO 9001. The research tool was a questionnaire survey sent to management representatives (25 respondents) and workers (140 respondents). The surveys were supplemented with direct interviews with employees of the companies. Findings: Based on the survey it can be stated that the quality management systems, accord-ing to ISO 9001, had a fairly large impact on improving procurement processes. This is particularly evident in areas including relationships with suppliers, quality control, workflow and communication, both internal and external. The positive aspects achieved through the implementation of quality management systems due to the fact that the ISO 9001 standard in its commitments puts great emphasis on the organization of the procurement process.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Jenis Kelamin, Usia, dan Religiusitas terhadap Kesehatan Mental Remaja

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Afriani Afriani ◽  
Nuzul Mela Lestari
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Religious Involvement ◽  
School Students ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Health Promotions ◽  
Muslim Religiosity ◽  
Banda Aceh

<p>Mental health becomes an major issue and has been of growing concern recently, but only few empirical studies focused on adolescence’s mental health especially in Aceh.  The current study aimed to determine the effect of sex, age, and religiosity on mental health among adolescents in Banda Aceh. A total of 342 students from four high school students in Banda Aceh was selected using Multi-Stage Cluster and Non-Proportionate Stratified Random Sampling. Mental health and religiosity were measured using Mental Health Inventory adapted from Veit and Ware, and Religiosity Scale developed by researchers from Muslim religiosity theory by Hamzah et al., respectively.  Data was analyzed using multiple regression analysis. Result of the study found that religiosity was significantly contributed to adolescents’ mental health (β=0,29, p&lt;0.01), indicated that higher score on religiosity scale was followed by higher score on mental health. Meanwhile, sex (β=-0,04, p&gt;0,05) and age (β=0,04, p&gt;0,05)  did not predict mental health in the present study. It showed that a sense of connectedness to God and higher level of religious involvement play an important role on adolescents’ mental health. Findings of the study give a valuable information  for the development of mental health promotions for adolescents, particularly in Banda Aceh.</p>

Myelodysplastic syndromes – current diagnostics

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Beata Celuch ◽  
Iwona Urbanowicz ◽  
Jadwiga Nowicka ◽  
Wiesława Nahaczewska ◽  
Iwona Bil-Lula
Keyword(s):  
Myelodysplastic Syndromes ◽  
Myeloid Leukemia ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Laboratory Diagnostics ◽  
Multi Stage ◽  
Increased Risk ◽  
Cytogenetic Changes ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Clinical Problems ◽  
Over Time

Myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are a heterogeneous group of hematopoietic neoplastic diseases characterized by inefficient hematopoiesis, resistant peripheral cytopenias and an increased risk of transformation to acute myeloid leukemia. They may exist as primary forms, which most often are accompanied by molecular and cytogenetic changes or secondary forms, among others after chemotherapy or other cancers. MDS diagnostics are multi-stage and time-consuming. Includes multidirectional examination of peripheral blood and bone marrow for cytomorphology, cytogenetics, molecular disorders, immunohistopatology and immunophenotyping. The evolution of molecular changes in the course of MDS makes the clinical picture and laboratory parameters change over time, which requires constant updating of medical knowledge and high competences from cytomorphologists and histopathologists. The development of hematooncological diagnostics resulted in updating the MDS classification in 2016. The aging population will undoubtedly increase the incidence of myelodysplastic syndromes, which will be one of the most demanding diagnostic and clinical problems for haematologists and laboratory diagnostics in the near future.

Supplier management by distributing orders among new and existing suppliers: the methodology and its application to a fast fashion company

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Betul Acar Alagoz ◽  
Murat Caner Testik ◽  
Derya Dinler
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Moving Average ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Supplier Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
A Company ◽  
Over Time

PurposeThis study aims to create a reliable, collaborative and sustainable business environment with suppliers of a company for providing high-quality and low-cost products on time. A supplier management system that sustains existing suppliers by sharing work based on systematic performance evaluation while developing the supplier base with potential suppliers is proposed.Design/methodology/approachBuilt on quantitative approaches, supplier management functions are integrated in the designed system. A quantitative strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis is adapted for evaluating potential suppliers. A multi-objective integer linear programming (ILP) model is developed for the distribution of orders among selected potential and existing suppliers. A performance evaluation scheme based on an exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) is proposed to evaluate and monitor suppliers' performance over time.FindingsProposed system develops a supplier base by methodically selecting and approving new suppliers, and a sustainable relationship with both new and existing suppliers is established based on performance over time. Decisions on retaining or removing suppliers from the base are objectively made by quantitative evaluations. Orders are fairly distributed among suppliers under the constraints imposed by the management. Dependence on a certain set of suppliers and its associated risks are reduced while agility in offering goods is enabled.Originality/valueBusiness processes for selecting new suppliers, distributing orders among all suppliers, evaluating and monitoring performance over time are quantitatively integrated to add value in operational decision-making. The proposed system is original in the holistic approach for managing and sustaining multiple suppliers of a company based on performance.

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