It’s who you know: intracultural differences in ethnic product consumption

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 482-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ed Chung ◽  
Eileen Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Predictor Variable ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Product Consumption ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Ethnic Homogeneity ◽  
Chinese Canadian

Reports a study of 214 Chinese Canadian consumers across eight product categories. This study shows that intracultural differences in consumer behavior are inadequately explained by the psychological construct of ethnic identification, and that additional explanatory power is achieved when incorporating the ethnic homogeneity of social ties. The results of the study support the proposition that the ethnic homogeneity of strong social ties exerts significant influence over an individual’s consumption of ethnic products, and is a much more robust predictor variable than ethnic identification. Also calls for a more theory‐based measure for the construct ethnic identification.

scholarly journals Book-to-Market Ratio, return on equity and Brazilian Stock Returns

2018 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebeca Cordeiro da Cunha Araújo ◽  
Márcio André Veras Machado
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Predictor Variable ◽  
Liquidity Premium ◽  
Future Expectations ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Return On Equity ◽  
Book To Market Ratio

Purpose This study aims to analyze the influence of future expectations of the book-to-market ratio (B/M) and return on equity (ROE) in explaining the Brazilian capital market returns. Design/methodology/approach The study analyzed the explanatory power of risk-factor approach variables such as beta, size, B/M ratio, momentum and liquidity. Findings The results show that future expectations of the B/M ratio and ROE, when combined with proxies for risk factors, were able to explain part of the variations of Brazilian stock returns. With respect to risk factors approach variables, the authors verified the existence of size and B/M effects and a liquidity premium in the Brazilian capital market, during the period analyzed. Research limitations/implications This research was limited to the non-financial companies with shares traded at Brasil, Bolsa and Balcão, from January 1, 1995 to June 30, 2015. This way, the conclusions reached are limited to the sample used herein. Practical implications The evidences herein presented can also contribute to establishing investment strategies, considering that the B/M ratio may be calculated through accounting information announced by companies. Besides, using historical data enable investors, in a specific year, to calculate the predictor variables for the B/M ratio and ROE in the next year, which enhance the explanatory power of the current B/M, when combined in the form of an aggregate predictor variable for stock returns. Originality/value The main contribution of this study to the literature is to demonstrate how the expected future B/M ratio and ROE may improve the explanatory capacity of the stock return, when compared with the variables traditionally studied in the literature.

Determinants of SME growth

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (9) ◽  
pp. 966-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Habib Kachlami ◽  
Darush Yazdanfar
Keyword(s):  
Random Effects ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the firm-level financial variables affecting the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach The study applies a resource-based view to analyze the firm-level as well as industry-level determinants of SME growth. Empirical evidence has also been provided from a data set of SMEs in Sweden to support the hypotheses. For a robust statistical analysis, three models – ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, random-effects regression and fixed-effects regression – are used to examine the influence of explanatory variables on growth. Findings The findings of this study show a positive and significant influence of profitability, short-term debt and size on a firm’s growth across all three models. Results regarding the influence of long-term debt on growth, however, are mixed. While the results of a fixed-effect model show the negative and significant influence of long-term debt on growth, the results according to OLS and random effects show long-term debt positively related to growth. Research limitations/implications This study has been conducted over a period of four years and in the context of Sweden which may limit the generalizability of its results for longer periods and for different contexts. Moreover, the low explanatory power of the models implies the need to also consider other types of variables, such as managerial or socio-economic variables, to better explain the determinants of SME growth. Practical implications Understanding the determinants of growth can be important for policy makers, SME managers and financial institutions. The findings of this study can be used for designing policies which stimulate SME growth. Realizing the financial resources that influence growth can also help SME managers and financial institutions to understand each other’s need for better cooperation. Originality/value This paper applies different models for analyzing large and cross-sectoral data regarding SME growth in the context of Sweden.

scholarly journals Predicting Mobile Advertising Response Using Consumer Colocation Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 81 (4) ◽  
pp. 109-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Pal Zubcsek ◽  
Zsolt Katona ◽  
Miklos Sarvary
Keyword(s):  
Social Ties ◽  
Dynamic Networks ◽  
Product Category ◽  
Smartphone Application ◽  
Mobile Advertising ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Mobile Coupons ◽  
Practical Implications

Building on results from economics and consumer behavior, the authors theorize that consumers’ movement patterns are informative of their product preferences, and this study proposes that marketers monetize this information using dynamic networks that capture colocation events (when consumers appear at the same place at approximately the same time). To support this theory, the authors study mobile advertising response in a panel of 217 subscribers. The data set spans three months during which participants were sent mobile coupons from retailers in various product categories through a smartphone application. The data contain coupon conversions, demographic and psychographic information, and information on the hourly GPS location of participants and on their social ties in the form of referrals. The authors find a significant positive relationship between colocated consumers’ response to coupons in the same product category. In addition, they show that incorporating consumers’ location information can increase the accuracy of predicting the most likely conversions by 19%. These findings have important practical implications for marketers engaging in the fast-growing location-based mobile advertising industry.

scholarly journals Personality or Value: A Comparative Study of Psychographic Segmentation Based on an Online Review Enhanced Recommender System

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Liu ◽  
Yinghui Huang ◽  
Zichao Wang ◽  
Kai Liu ◽  
Xiangen Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Recommender System ◽  
Consumer Preferences ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
User Preference ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Product Categories

Big consumer data promises to be a game changer in applied and empirical marketing research. However, investigations of how big data helps inform consumers’ psychological aspects have, thus far, only received scant attention. Psychographics has been shown to be a valuable market segmentation path in understanding consumer preferences. Although in the context of e-commerce, as a component of psychographic segmentation, personality has been proven to be effective for prediction of e-commerce user preferences, it still remains unclear whether psychographic segmentation is practically influential in understanding user preferences across different product categories. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first quantitative demonstration of the promising effect and relative importance of psychographic segmentation in predicting users’ online purchasing preferences across different product categories in e-commerce by using a data-driven approach. We first construct two online psychographic lexicons that include the Big Five Factor (BFF) personality traits and Schwartz Value Survey (SVS) using natural language processing (NLP) methods that are based on behavior measurements of users’ word use. We then incorporate the lexicons in a deep neural network (DNN)-based recommender system to predict users’ online purchasing preferences considering the new progress in segmentation-based user preference prediction methods. Overall, segmenting consumers into heterogeneous groups surprisingly does not demonstrate a significant improvement in understanding consumer preferences. Psychographic variables (both BFF and SVS) significantly improve the explanatory power of e-consumer preferences, whereas the improvement in prediction power is not significant. The SVS tends to outperform BFF segmentation, except for some product categories. Additionally, the DNN significantly outperforms previous methods. An e-commerce-oriented SVS measurement and segmentation approach that integrates both BFF and the SVS is recommended. The strong empirical evidence provides both practical guidance for e-commerce product development, marketing and recommendations, and a methodological reference for big data-driven marketing research.

Not with One Voice: An Explanation of Intragroup Variation in Nationalist Sentiment

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dmitry Gorenburg
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Ethnic Identification ◽  
Minority Population ◽  
Ethnic Minority Population ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Bases ◽  
Key Factor

Support for nationalism among minorities in multiethnic countries has received a great deal of scholarly attention in recent years. Few of these studies, however, have delved into the social bases of support for nationalism within a particular ethnic group. Scholars who study nationalism usually assume that support for nationalism among the members of an ethnic group is either randomly distributed or identical for all members of the group. Both assumptions are implausible. This article seeks to show that support for nationalism among members of an ethnic group is neither constant nor random. Furthermore, it argues that the extent to which members of social subgroups within the ethnic group come to support nationalism is predictable and is based on a particular sequence of mobilization. This sequence depends on the extent to which members of each subgroup possess a sense of common collective identity and on the strength of their social ties with those who are at the forefront of the mobilization effort. Both of these factors in turn depend largely on the extent to which state institutions promote ethnic identification among the minority population and create links that increase the density of intragroup social ties. Ethnic institutions are thus the key factor in explaining the sequence by which social groups within an ethnic minority population come to support nationalism.

scholarly journals Acquiring embodied and institutionalized cultural capital

Kinesiology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-235
Author(s):  
Jožef Križaj ◽  
Mojca Doupona
Keyword(s):  
Career Development ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Football Players ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
National Team ◽  
Socialization Processes ◽  
Study Support

The main objective of this study was to determine whether sociocultural factors influence the career development of Slovenian national team football players. In this interview-based research, we consider Bourdieu’s theory of embodied and institutionalized cultural capital to find possible influencing sociocultural factors on the career development. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight Slovenian elite football players. The content of the interviews was organized based on the chronological events in each player’s life using seven open-ended questions. We analysed careers from the very beginning (initiation), across the development and mastery period to the career peak of the Slovenian football players in terms of the migration abroad. The results of this study support previous studies on the career development of football players. The work shows the important role of primary and secondary socialization processes, which exert a significant influence on career development among Slovenian football players.

Achievement in Chemistry Problem-Solving as a Function of the Mobility-Fixity Dimension

2002 ◽  
Vol 95 (3) ◽  
pp. 914-924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Stamovlasis ◽  
Margarita Kousathana ◽  
Vasileios Angelopoulos ◽  
Georgios Tsaparlis ◽  
Mansoor Niaz
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Organic Synthesis ◽  
Equilibrium Problems ◽  
Predictor Variable ◽  
Logical Structure ◽  
Cognitive Variable ◽  
Mental Demand ◽  
Field Independent ◽  
Study Support ◽  
Chemistry Problem

The present studies explored the relation between students' achievement in chemistry problem-solving and the Mobility—Fixity dimension. Fixity characterizes consistency of function of field-independent subjects in a field-independent fashion, while Mobility provides for variation according to circumstances. The effect of this cognitive variable was examined as a function of the type and the complexity of the problem. Two kinds of problems were used, chemical equilibrium problems with varying mental demand and logical structure, and organic synthesis problems with varying mental demand. The subjects had to carry out different mental tasks, such as manipulation of logical schemata, applying algorithmic procedures, solving nonalgorithmic problems. In all cases, Mobile subjects demonstrated higher achievement than Fixed subjects. The results of this study support the hypothesis that the Mobility—Fixity dimension can serve as a predictor variable of students' performance on chemistry problem-solving.

Integrating price promotions into the switch of brands model for approximating variety-seeking behaviour

2015 ◽  
Vol 117 (2) ◽  
pp. 588-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliver Meixner ◽  
Viktoria Knoll
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
Brand Loyalty ◽  
Brand Management ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Variety Seeking ◽  
Price Promotions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Product Categories ◽  
Marketing Variables ◽  
Household Panel Data

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe the further development of the previously introduced switch of brand (SB) model (presented in 2012) which helps to approximate variety-seeking behaviour (VSB) out of household panel data. Design/methodology/approach – Based on existing theoretical variety-seeking models analysing household panel data, the further expansion of the variety-seeking model “Switch of Brands” (SB) is presented. In the last contribution in the British Food Journal the authors presented this simple but powerful tool to approximate VSB. The further developed model “Switch of Brands – Promotions” (SB PR ) integrates relevant variables into one theoretical variety-seeking model (number of purchased brands, number of purchases, price promotions, etc.). In particular, price promotions were integrated into the SB model in order to deliver even more realistic approximations of households’ VSB. Findings – The explanatory power of the model in view of brand loyalty is tested. The empirical analysis is conducted with scanner household panel data from Austria in three different product categories. Research limitations/implications – The data analysis shows that the model has an excellent explanatory power concerning brand loyalty, however, not better than the original SB model. Practical implications – The SB PR model allows interpretations for marketing purposes and brand management including marketing variables (here: price promotions). The model may be applied in any business field where panel data are available. Originality/value – The model delivers a consistent theoretical framework for approximating VSB by means of purchase histories.

Equity Estimation and Assessing Market Response

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert R. Wildt
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Predictor Variable ◽  
Ordinary Least Squares ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
Market Response ◽  
Response Functions ◽  
Coefficient Estimates ◽  
Simulation Experiments ◽  
True Coefficient

Equity estimation has been proposed as a possibly superior technique for estimating market response functions in the presence of high predictor-variable collinearity. The relative performance of equity, ridge, and ordinary least squares (OLS) estimators is examined using simulation experiments. In part, findings are consistent with prior research and indicate that, under certain conditions, equity outperforms OLS and ridge on a number of important criteria, and equity yields coefficient estimates that assign more equal explanatory weight to correlated predictor variables than does OLS or ridge. As collinearity increases, this tendency becomes very pronounced, to the point where equity yields estimated standardized coefficients more equal in magnitude irrespective of other conditions, such as true coefficient values and model explanatory power.

scholarly journals Praktik Kewargaan dalam Arena Institusi Informal Era Demokratisasi

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-127
Author(s):  
Insan Kamil
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Significant Influence ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Informal Institutions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Society ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Electoral Democracy

Most studies on citizenship have only focus on the practice of citizenship in the context of formal state institutions. On the other hand, there are relatively few studies discussing citizenship practices in informal institutions. Therefore, this study examines the practice of citizenship in Islamic boarding schools/pesantren in the form of bonds as jamaah. This article intends to map the operation of pesantren as a binder of social ties between its citizens, as well as the pattern of relations between kiai and santri. This research shows that pesantren acts as lebenschraum habitus which installs the perceptions and expressions of its citizens. Pesantren is also a locus of power that has a significant influence on political and civic practices. As a locus of power, there is symbolic capital which is represented and reproduced continuously so that the symbolic capital produces economic, social, and cultural capital. The surplus of capital owned by the lora enables them to transform from the habitus of pesantren, to the habitus of political society and the state through the mechanism of electoral democracy.  Even though the pesantren  with all their supporting elements have a clientelistic relationship pattern, there is a public morality that can be transformed to strengthen the democratization agenda in the future.

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