Circles, Rays, Channels

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaina Lemon
Keyword(s):  
Political Connections ◽  
Sensory Contact ◽  
The Social

A credential is only as good as the social and political connections that bind and embed moments of its verification. Communicative contact alone cannot make a credential real and effective—or can it? When and how do people try to harness the forces of sensory contact (or allied forms of seemingly immaterial contact) to override official ways of reading people and their papers? When, instead, do some work to override the overrides and return to panoptic security? The divisions of communicative and sensory labor that go into producing working credentials are also at work in the production of phatic expertise—a form of expertise that itself has been repeatedly drawn into performances of and discourses for verification—and technologies for intuition—that produced the credential and the ID document in the first place.

Do CEO Political Connections and Firm Social Responsibility Affect Debt Level?

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-34
Author(s):  
Mohamed Ali Azouzi
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Political Connection ◽  
External Funding ◽  
Debt Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Selection Of

The objective of this study was to describe the effect of CEO political connection and firm social responsibility on debt access. These constructions have been evaluated in Tunisian firms. The results showed the presence of a positive relationship between political connection, corporate social responsibility, and the debt level. The authors also verified the presence of a negative relationship between political connection and the social responsibility of Tunisian companies. This research has shown how political connection and social responsibility improve the image of the company and facilitate their access to external funding methods. Tunisian companies are advised to know the importance of political connection and social responsibility in the selection of their leaders.

scholarly journals Drivers of social responsibility disclosure: the moderation of the president director's busyness and political connections

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ceicilia Bintang Hari Yudhanti ◽  
Bambang Tjahjadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Sufficient Information ◽  
Company Size ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
Positive Effect

PurposeThis study aims to examine the effect of company size on social responsibility disclosure. In addition, this study examines the president director's busyness and political connections in moderating the association between company size and disclosure of corporate social responsibility.Design/methodology/approachThe data used in this study were secondary data which included 1,165 observations (company-year). The analysis technique used was multiple regression method and the analysis was carried out by employing STATA software.FindingsResearchers found that company size has a positive effect on social responsibility disclosure. The busyness of the president directors and companies connected to politics significantly weakens the association between company size and disclosure of social responsibility.Research limitations/implicationsThis study uses only one measure of the driving force of social responsibility disclosurePractical implicationsThis study contributes to the social responsibility literature by examining the effect of company size on social responsibility. Information on social responsibility disclosure has been carried out by companies in Indonesia; however, it is indicated that only large companies provide sufficient information on social responsibility.Social implicationsStakeholders can find out information on social responsibility carried out by the company.Originality/valueCompanies with busy CEOs and politically connected firms weaken the association between company size and disclosure of social responsibility.

scholarly journals What does the literature say about business groups and pyramidal ownership in the period of 1960-2018?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Amélia Mendonça Flores ◽  
Wesley Vieira da Silva ◽  
Igor Bernardi Sonza
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pyramidal Ownership ◽  
And Control

This paper aims to analyze the results of the research in pyramidal structures within the scope of the business groups, based on a systematic literature review. The research was conducted on two large-scale journals databases (Web of Science and Scopus), using VOSviewer, HistCite™, and Iramuteq software. The textual corpus is consisting of 65 articles and 137 authors and co-authors. Bae et al. (2002) and Almeida and Wolfenzon (2006) are the most influential for the research fields. We infer as a conceptual framework that searches in pyramidal structures are contained in the field of business groups since they represent a form of organization and representation of ownership and control. We identify as a theoretical gap the analysis of the political connections and the social role. Thus, the contributions are in the sense of presenting a panorama on the themes, supporting future researches.

scholarly journals Effect of social environment on plasma hormones and availability of milt in spawning male rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum)

1993 ◽  
Vol 71 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Rouger ◽  
N. R. Liley
Keyword(s):  
Rainbow Trout ◽  
Visual Cues ◽  
Chemical Cues ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Social Stimuli ◽  
Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus Mykiss ◽  
Sensory Contact ◽  
The Social ◽  
Plasma Hormones ◽  
Different Levels

In this study we investigate the social stimuli responsible for the increases in plasma hormones and in the availability of milt in male rainbow trout allowed to interact with sexually active females. Males were placed in five experimental groups receiving different levels of sensory contact with females: no sensory cues, chemical cues, chemical and visual cues, full sensory and behavioural interaction with a nesting ovulated female, full sensory and behavioural interaction with an inactive postspawning female. Plasma levels of 11-ketotestosterone, 17α,20β-dihydroxy-4-pregnen-3-one and gonadotrophin increased only in males allowed full sensory contact with nesting females. Levels of 11-ketotestosterone did not change in males receiving visual and chemical cues, and decreased in the three other groups of males. The amount of milt that could be stripped from males increased only in those males placed with active females. Spermatocrit did not differ among the groups.

scholarly journals What does the literature say about business groups and pyramidal ownership in the period of 1960-2018?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Amélia Mendonça Flores ◽  
Wesley Vieira da Silva ◽  
Igor Bernardi Sonza
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Web Of Science ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Fields ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pyramidal Ownership ◽  
And Control

This paper aims to analyze the results of the research in pyramidal structures within the scope of the business groups, based on a systematic literature review. The research was conducted on two large-scale journals databases (Web of Science and Scopus), using VOSviewer, HistCite™, and Iramuteq software. The textual corpus is consisting of 65 articles and 137 authors and co-authors. Bae et al. (2002) and Almeida and Wolfenzon (2006) are the most influential for the research fields. We infer as a conceptual framework that searches in pyramidal structures are contained in the field of business groups since they represent a form of organization and representation of ownership and control. We identify as a theoretical gap the analysis of the political connections and the social role. Thus, the contributions are in the sense of presenting a panorama on the themes, supporting future researches.

scholarly journals Discretionary Effort on Green Technology Innovation: How Chinese Enterprises Act when Facing Financing Constraints

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261589
Author(s):  
Kexian Zhang ◽  
Xiaoying Liu ◽  
Min Hong
Keyword(s):  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Social Benefits ◽  
Financing Constraints ◽  
Policy Uncertainty ◽  
Chinese Enterprises ◽  
Discretionary Effort ◽  
Shadow Banks ◽  
The Social

Firm’s effort on Green technology innovation (hereafter, called G-innovation) is affected by financing constraints, and firm will make a discretionary choice according to its own situation, to achieve the maximization of self-interests. Based on the data of Chinese micro enterprises, firstly, we empirically analyze firms’ decision-making towards G-innovation when faced with financing constraints. It supports the view that financing constraints can hinder enterprise technological innovation. And we also make an explanation that the social benefits of green technology innovation are greater than personal benefits, which makes enterprises tend to reduce green technology innovation when facing financing constraints. Then we examine firms’ heterogonous behaviors under different internal attributes and external environments. The results reveal that: First, firms are reluctant to pay more efforts to G-innovation when faced with increased financing constraints. Second, firms with different attributes exhibit heterogeneous G-innovation. Political connections will change firms’ willingness to innovate, while the structure of property rights and the pollution degree will not. Third, firms under different external environment also exhibit heterogeneous G-innovation. When economic policy uncertainty increases, firms’ willingness to innovate weakens. The development of shadow banks fail to improve firm’s willingness to innovate.

The Social Origins and Provenance of the English Bishops during the Reign of Edward II

1959 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 51-79
Author(s):  
K. Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Origins ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Edward Ii ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complete Study ◽  
History Of

During the last twenty or twenty-five years medieval historians have been much interested in the composition of the English episcopate. A number of studies of it have been published on periods ranging from the eleventh to the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. A further paper might well seem superfluous. My reason for offering one is that most previous writers have concentrated on analysing the professional circles from which the bishops were drawn, and suggesting the influences which their early careers as royal clerks, university masters and students, secular or regular clergy, may have had on their later work as bishops. They have shown comparatively little interest in their social background and provenance, except for those bishops who belonged to magnate families. Some years ago, when working on the political activities of Edward II's bishops, it seemed to me that social origins, family connexions and provenance might in a number of cases have had at least as much influence on a bishop's attitude to politics as his early career. I there fore collected information about the origins and provenance of these bishops. I now think that a rather more careful and complete study of this subject might throw further light not only on the political history of the reign, but on other problems connected with the character and work of the English episcopate. There is a general impression that in England in the later middle ages the bishops' ties with their dioceses were becoming less close, and that they were normally spending less time in diocesan work than their predecessors in the thirteenth century.

Social transmission bias and the cultural evolution of folk-economic beliefs

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hirshleifer ◽  
Siew Hong Teoh
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Evolution ◽  
Social Transmission ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
Economic Attitudes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Economic Beliefs ◽  
Over Time

AbstractEvolved dispositions influence, but do not determine, how people think about economic problems. The evolutionary cognitive approach offers important insights but underweights the social transmission of ideas as a level of explanation. The need for asocialexplanation for the evolution of economic attitudes is evidenced, for example, by immense variations in folk-economic beliefs over time and across individuals.

Individual differences, social attention, and the history of the social motivation hypotheses of autism

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mundy
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Early Development ◽  
Emotional Development ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
Social Emotional Development ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Precise Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Abstract The stereotype of people with autism as unresponsive or uninterested in other people was prominent in the 1980s. However, this view of autism has steadily given way to recognition of important individual differences in the social-emotional development of affected people and a more precise understanding of the possible role social motivation has in their early development.

Challenges to the social motivation theory of autism: The dangers of counteracting an imprecise theory with even more imprecision

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirko Uljarević ◽  
Giacomo Vivanti ◽  
Susan R. Leekam ◽  
Antonio Y. Hardan
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Motivation ◽  
Motivation Theory ◽  
The Social

Abstract The arguments offered by Jaswal & Akhtar to counter the social motivation theory (SMT) do not appear to be directly related to the SMT tenets and predictions, seem to not be empirically testable, and are inconsistent with empirical evidence. To evaluate the merits and shortcomings of the SMT and identify scientifically testable alternatives, advances are needed on the conceptualization and operationalization of social motivation across diagnostic boundaries.

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