Determining the types of internet plus government platform usage behaviour in selected cities of China

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ge Wang ◽  
Qiang Chen ◽  
Shenghua Xie
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Service Use ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Dimension Theory ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Channel

Purpose Although internet plus government platforms (IPGPs) are being increasingly used by citizens around the world, questions emerge regarding the public adoption, utilization and use of IPGPs. This study aims to explore the determinants of citizens’ differentiated IPGPs usage behaviors. Design/methodology/approach An analytical framework has been built upon the rational choice theory and the cultural dimension theory. The present study draws on a survey of 866 citizens from Guangzhou, Wuhan and Chengdu. Findings The empirical findings suggest that the perceived functional benefits and personalization features both significantly affect citizens’ informational, service and participatory uses of IPGPs, to varying degrees. Furthermore, long-term orientation plays a moderating role in the relationship between perceived functional benefits and the service use of IPGPs. Originality/value The findings demonstrate that the public’s rational choice of a new digitalized service channel depends on to what extent and to what degree the absolute and relative benefits they consider important compare to other possible channels. Users also consider how the new service channel satisfies their personalized demands of digitalized services. Also, users’ long-term orientation can affect their rational choices by adjusting the perceived functional benefits of the channel when that channel is used for service transactions.

scholarly journals Worker Commitment and Organizational Citizenship Behaviour in the Age of Wisdom: Critical Evaluations

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 13-21
Author(s):  
Remi Chukwudi Okeke ◽  
Desmond Okechukwu Nnamani
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Organizational Citizenship ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Knowledge Worker ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
New Order ◽  
Homo Economicus ◽  
Contentious Issue ◽  
The Individual

This study interrogates the notion of an envisaged age of wisdom whereby, the current information / knowledge worker era will be succeeded by a new order, in which information and knowledge will be impregnated with purpose and principles. The study thus examines the issue of worker commitment and organizational citizenship behaviour in the assumed age of wisdom. The analytical framework of the study is the rational choice theory. Precedent to the envisioned age of wisdom is the condition of putting service before self. We argued in the study that the age of wisdom-position contextually discountenances with a fundamentally contentious issue in human affairs, which has to do with whether the individual in the society is an inherently self-interested or an innately altruistic being. In the study’s re-imaginations, worker commitment and organizational citizenship behaviours will (contrary to the assumptions of the age of wisdom) continue to be influenced by the intrinsic tendencies (of the homo economicus), in the regards of subjective rationality. In contrast to the assumed precedent-condition of putting service before self in the imminent age of wisdom, this study sees general continuity in subjective rationalities but with massive increases in universal productivity, arising from enduring human inventiveness and sundry efforts.

Urban crime prevention – broadening of perspectives

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Schubert
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Urban Crime ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The contribution is focussed on the question of which logic and which distinctive lines of development have shaped the discourse on urban crime prevention and will probably shape it in the future. Design/methodology/approach Comparing the line of development in thinking about urban crime prevention: starting with the approaches of the rational choice theory and of architectural determinism that were integrated in the practical approach of crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED). Looking on the continuation in the recent past: aspects of social cohesion and disorganization in the neighbourhood – represented by the collective efficacy – were integrated with the traditional lines of argumentation. Continuing to the present, the actor network theory opens up advanced perspectives of the integration and development of urban crime prevention. Findings Comparison of the approaches of the rational choice theory and of architectural determinism. Their combination in the practical approach of CPTED. Integration of these lines of argumentation with aspects of social cohesion and disorganization in the neighbourhood represented by the collective efficacy and the absorption in the concept of second-generation CPTED in the recent past. Opening up for advanced perspectives of the integration and development of urban crime prevention by the actor network theory. Originality/value The process analysis by linking the rational choice theory, the architectural determinism, the collective efficacy theory and the actor network theory to a continuous development represents an innovative perspective on the discourse on urban crime prevention.

Information Processing: Rational and Irrational Transcended

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. N. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Environmental Literature ◽  
Social And Emotional ◽  
Emotional Factors ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Cost Effective Method

A large and probably increasing proportion of literature on the environment is based on the assumptions of rational choice theory. People are held to be almost errorless maximizers of individual utility. They are seen as being quite clear about their goals, having perfect information about the means to achieve those goals, and being able to calculate rapidly and precisely the exact trade-offs and Bayesian optima that allow them to reach their goals by the most cost-effective method. A further assumption, often unspoken (occasionally even denied) but in practice almost always accepted, is that people’s goals are narrowly individualistic—short-term and narrow, not long-term and wide. This assumption is not really entailed by rational choice theory, but rational choice theorists often make it. Rational choice theory has its uses, but these assumptions are questionable (at the very least). Perhaps the commonest counterview in the environmental literature is based on the assumption that rational individualism is a product of the modern capitalist world, and that other peoples have based their lives on more communitarian and ecologically sensitive intuitions. Carolyn Merchant, chronicler of Radical Ecology, provides a particularly powerfully argued summary of the variants of this view. Unfortunately, anthropological evidence shows fairly conclusively that many premodern cultures ruined their environments through shortsighted and wasteful practices (see chapter 8). This chapter argues for a different way of understanding human successes and mistakes. A number of lines of evidence suggest that humans do indeed practice something like the rational calculus but that they are not perfect at it and that they are greatly influenced by social and emotional factors. The result is that their decision making often closely approximates rational choice but often deviates from rational choice models in dramatic but often predictable ways. This fact goes a long way to explain many of the mistakes we see in environmental management. It also helps explain the question posed earlier in this book : Why do people often use religious and mythic institutions to motivate rational behavior? If rational choice theory were adequate, people would not need the panoply of religion and myth to get them to act sensibly.

Determinants of multi-destination travel in Vietnam: a rational choice perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Thi Kim Do ◽  
Dung Phuong Hoang ◽  
Thuy Thu Pham
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Group Size ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Perceived Benefits ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose This paper aims to examine the factors affecting travelers’ decision to select more than one destination in their trips. Drawn from the rational choice theory, this study posits that the selection of multi-destination tours, as a rational choice, is determined by the travelers’ perception of costs and benefits associated with that choice. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model was developed from both an exploratory research with in-depth interview and the literature. A logistic regression model linking four explanatory variables representing perceived benefits and costs of multi-destination option with travelers’ choice of multi-destination trips. The conceptual model is controlled for diversity of travel purposes; tour group size; type of travel arrangement and travelers’ demographic characteristics while the research context of multi-destination travel within Phu Yen – Dak Lak – Gia Lai – Binh Dinh helps control for the characteristics of the destination set (spatial proximity and traffic convenience). The conceptual model was tested based on data collected from 1,361 Vietnamese travelers who have ever visited at least one of the four provinces. Findings This study finds that perceived benefits in terms of diversifying tourism experiences and perceived costs of traveling in multiple places compared to taking single trips represent the most significant drivers for tourists’ selection of multi-destination tours. In addition, the diversity of travel purposes and tour group size have a positive and significant impact on the demand for traveling more than one destination in a trip. Moreover, the richer, older and married travelers have a significantly higher tendency to select multi-destination packages. Practical implications The research findings provide important strategic implications for promoting multi-destination trips, thereby, maximizing economic benefits from tourism. Originality/value While multi-destination travel patterns have been examined empirically in individual studies sporadically without a common theoretical background, this research makes some progress on this front by using the rational choice theory to connect the relative contributions of those factors to the travelers’ choice of multi-destination trips. Specifically, this study provides a new perspective in explaining the selection of multi-destination trips – from tourists’ perceptions about costs and benefits associated with that choice.

Rational Choice Theory and the 1990 Party Merger in South Korea

OUGHTOPIA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-282
Author(s):  
In-Kyun Kim ◽  
Myeong-Geon Koh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory

POLITICS-LAW CONVERGENCE OR DIVERGENCE? 'SMALL' POLITICAL PARTIES, REALPOLITIKAND SOUTH AFRICA'S 20 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kealeboga J Maphunye
Keyword(s):  
Game Theory ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
Secondary Research ◽  
Extant Literature ◽  
African Charter

This article examines South Africa's 20-year democracy by contextualising the roles of the 'small' political parties that contested South Africa's 2014 elections. Through the  prism  of South  Africa's  Constitution,  electoral legislation  and the African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance, it examines these parties' roles in South Africa's democratisation; their influence,  if any, in parliament, and whether they play any role in South Africa's continental or international engagements. Based on a review of the extant literature, official documents,  legislation, media, secondary research, reports and the results of South Africa's elections, the article relies on game theory, rational choice theory and theories of democracy and democratic consolidation to examine 'small' political parties' roles in the country's political and legal systems. It concludes that the roles of 'small' parties in governance and democracy deserve greater recognition than is currently the case, but acknowledges the extreme difficulty experienced by the 'small'  parties in playing a significant role in democratic consolidation, given their formidable opponent in a one-party dominant system.

Rational Choice Contractualism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Moehler
Keyword(s):  
Rational Choice ◽  
Rational Choice Theory ◽  
Choice Theory ◽  
Correct Choice ◽  
Original Position ◽  
Decision Situation ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Traditional Understanding

This chapter discusses contractualist theories of justice that, although they rely explicitly on moral assumptions in the traditional understanding of morality, employ rational choice theory for the justification of principles of justice. In particular, the chapter focuses on the dispute between Rawls and Harsanyi about the correct choice of principles of justice in the original position. The chapter shows that there is no winner in the Rawls–Harsanyi dispute and, ultimately, formal methods alone cannot justify moral principles. This finding is significant for the development of the rational decision situation that serves for the derivation of the weak principle of universalization for the domain of pure instrumental morality.

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