Reputation and Trust Within the Fair Trade Movement in Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-452
Author(s):  
Riccardo Da Re ◽  
Sergio Pedini ◽  
Fabio Maria Santucci ◽  
Bianca Maria Torquati
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
The Other ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Fair Trade Movement

This article illustrates the trust relationships among the members of the Brazilian Association of Fairtrade Farmers Organizations (BRFair), which is a second-level network of coffee-producing cooperatives. Representatives of 19 cooperatives were interviewed in 2018 to verify their opinions about the other associations regarding several aspects. Through software specific for social network analysis, the direction and level of trust among the various cooperatives were measured. One cooperative is recognized as the most active and trustworthy, while the other ones are followers and perform peripheric roles. Several improvements are possible, including improvement in the performance of this second-level network and strengthening of its bargaining role with the other actors of the value chain.

scholarly journals Application of social network analysis for determining the suitable social media influencers

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 348-354
Author(s):  
Mochamad Yudha Febrianta ◽  
Yusditira Yusditira ◽  
Sri Widianesty
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social

Virtual Hotel Operator (VHO) trend is growing rapidly, especially in Indonesia. Two of the most popular VHO in Indonesia are OYO and RedDoorz, both have been competing to attain the first position. Both OYO and RedDoorz have their own social media marketing strategies. For example, OYO persuades other conventional hotels to collaborate and use the OYO platform in their businesses. On the other hand, RedDoorz was recorded as the most visited Virtual Hotel Operator Platform in 2019, based on the data of Konsumen Jakpat 2019. OYO and RedDoorz also utilize social media to promote their services such as Instagram and Twitter. For advertising their businesses in social media, OYO and RedDoorz often use some social media influencers or known as influencer social media marketing. Influencers should be able to effectively deliver the messages and influence people’s decisions to use the products or services they advertise. This study aims to further explore the social media marketing strategy employed by OYO and RedDoorz. The results of Social Network Analysis by using “oyoindonesia” and ‘reddoorz’ as keywords in social media Twitter showed that RedDoorz has a bigger social network and more users involved in spreading their information than OYO. On the other hand, OYO's official account on Twitter is more efficient in performing its function as marketing media.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
Traditional Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Realm ◽  
The Impact

The traditional research approaches common in different disciplines of social sciences centered around one half of the social realm: the actors. The other half are the relations established by these actors and forming the basis of “social.” The social structure shaped by these relations, the position of the actor within this structure, and the impact of this position on the actor are mostly excluded by the traditional research methods. In this chapter, the authors introduce social network analysis and how it complements the other methods.

The architecture of the addiction lobby

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Miller ◽  
Claire Harkins ◽  
Matthias Schlögl ◽  
Brendan Montague
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Think Tanks ◽  
The Other ◽  
Food Industries ◽  
The Web

This chapter uses social network analysis to explore the web of influence of the four ‘addictive’ industries examined in the book: alcohol, tobacco, food, and gambling. The data are used to paint an overall picture before taking a closer look in subsequent chapters. The four industries form more or less separated clusters, and whereas the alcohol and food industries are very well interconnected, the gambling and tobacco industries are only loosely tied to the others. The network also shows that advertising and marketing sectors and think tanks often act as connecting hubs between the industries. The closer look at the clusters of the four industries shows some important differences. The food cluster is more heterogeneous than the others are; the alcohol cluster contains product-related subclusters; and gambling, as well as tobacco, is smaller and less dense compared with the other two.

scholarly journals The Effect Of The Relationships Between Affiliated Firms On Direction Of Income Shifting Within Business Groups

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyung Jin Park ◽  
Joohyun Lim ◽  
Ki Young Kim
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Ownership Structure ◽  
Business Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Centrality Measures ◽  
Income Shifting ◽  
Tax Burden

<p>In this study, we examined how income shifting performs among affiliates in a business group to maximize the benefits of the entire business group in terms of minimizing the tax burden, with a particular focus on the direction of income shifting between affiliates within the business group. We find that tax-related decision-making for the entire business group is affected by the relationships between the affiliated firms, that is, the ownership structure of the whole business group. To analyze the ownership structure, we use centrality measures in a social network analysis. The results show that affiliates with the higher outdegree-centrality; that is, firms investing more shareholdings in other affiliates have a tendency to perform more income shifting. On the other hand, the affiliates with high indegree-centrality, that is, firms which are owned by other affiliates, were revealed to be given the income shifting from other affiliated firms to minimize the tax burden of the entire business group.</p>

scholarly journals INVESTIGATING BOTS AND COORDINATED INFLUENCE CAMPAIGNS IN TWITTER DISCUSSIONS OF THE 2019-20 IRAN PROTESTS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ehsan Dehghan ◽  
Brenda Moon ◽  
Tobias Keller ◽  
Timothy Graham ◽  
Axel Bruns ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Research Gap

Twitter has been a vital platform for organizing, coordinating, and amplifying voices during protests, especially in non-democratic countries. Although it is a globally used platform for protest movements, many studies focus on English-speaking and democratic countries. We overcome this research gap by investigating Persian, English, and Arabic tweets during the 2019-2020 protests in Iran. In this work-in-progress paper, we collected approximately 5,500,000 tweets, and apply social network analysis, Botometer and qualitative analysis, to map the Twittersphere revolving around Iran protests (RQ1). We focus on the evidence of the presence of bots, bot networks, coordinated misinformation campaigns and political astroturfing in the discussions (RQ2). Our preliminary results indicate the presence of strong homophilous networks of users formed around various political interests. At least two of the clusters in the network show an unusually high proportion of suspicious accounts. Interestingly, these clusters reflect antagonistic political affiliations—one consists mainly of pro-regime Iranian accounts, the other of anti-regime accounts tweeting in Arabic. The broader findings from this study will be valuable for understanding digital activism, protests, and political communication in authoritarian and semi-authoritarian contexts.

On Analyzing Examples of Structural Holes in the Potential E-Commence Community

2013 ◽  
Vol 321-324 ◽  
pp. 2999-3007
Author(s):  
Ping Gan
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Structural Holes ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Social

With social network analysis to deeply resolve the social network of users and the network of the thematic network, this thesis is aimed to explore the natures of the node and the Internet as well, find out the potential community, and deepen the analysis of the community, in order to obtain information of structural holes in community. Besides, the feasibility and utility of methods exerted in the thesis were illustrated by experiments. The study of the thesis supplies the help to the online shopping platform with figures theoretically and technologically. On the other hand, through investigating people’s interest in goods, the thesis is also based on to study the user’s investment and the optimization of the online shopping platform.

From Rigid to Moderate Salafism

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 196-219
Author(s):  
Amir Sheikhzadegan
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Spiritual Transformation ◽  
Identity Transformation ◽  
The Other ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Defining re-conversion as the re-embracement of one’s (neglected) faith, this article deals with the question of what relations can be identified between conversion/re-conversion to a Salafist reading of Islam, on the one hand, and life course circumstances, identity transformation, and social network features of the individuals concerned, on the other. Combining narrative, autobiographical interviews with qualitative social network analysis, four activists of a Muslim organisation in Switzerland known for its Salafist orientation are portrayed. The comparative analysis shows that, despite sharing the same approach to Islam, the four cases exhibit different modes of the impact of life course and social network on spiritual transformation and vice versa. The paper also discusses the term Salafism and its applicability to the interviewees.

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