scholarly journals Modeling Social Media Effects on Political Distrust in Lebanon

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 89-102
Author(s):  
Mahmoudreza Rahbarqazi ◽  
Raza Mahmoudoghli
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Government Performance ◽  
Political Distrust ◽  
Corruption Perception ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Bootstrapping Method

The present study aims to examine the indirect effects of social media on political distrust among Lebanese citizens using data based on the Arab Barometer Wave V. The Arab Barometer Wave V was obtained in 2018-2019 via which 2,400 Lebanese citizens were surveyed. Using the Preacher and Hayes Bootstrapping method, the results of the test the hypotheses indicate that, firstly, social media has a positive effect on citizens’ political distrust and causes the increase in their level of distrust in political institutions with the mediator variables corruption perception and poor government performance; and secondly, the results show that although the lack of guaranteed freedoms has a positive effect on increasing political distrust in society, this variable cannot mediate the relationship between social media and political distrust among Lebanese citizens.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Debunker’s Identity and Emotional Expression on the Sharing Behavior of Debunking Information

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fan Chao ◽  
Xin Wang ◽  
Guang Yu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Suppression Effect ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sharing Behavior ◽  
Positive Effect

Owing to the proliferation of rumors on social media, it is necessary to disseminate debunking information to minimize the harm caused by them. Using content analysis, sentiment analysis, and regression analysis, this study examined the mediating role of follower count in the relationship between the debunker’s identity and sharing behavior, and it explored the relationship between the text sentiment of debunking information and sharing behavior based on data on the spread of three rumors that circulated extensively on social media. Using an ordinary account as a reference, we found that the mediating or suppression effect (i.e., when direct and indirect effects are significant and opposite) of follower count in the relationship between debunker’s identity (celebrity, media, or government) and sharing behavior was significant. The three test identities (celebrity, media, and government) had more followers than the ordinary account, which resulted in a significant positive effect on the number of reposts. The debunker’s identity did not have a positive effect on the sharing of debunking information when controlling for mediating variables. Debunking information with emotional overtones (positive or negative) was shared more widely compared with information with neutral emotions, and the dominant emotional polarity was different in the three different rumors. These findings can contribute to the generation of debunking information content, which can aid in the development of effective communication strategies and improvement in the efficiency of crisis management.

scholarly journals The Influence of Heuristic judgments in Social Media on Corporate Reputation: A Study in Spanish Leader Companies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 1640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Manuel Cerdá Suárez ◽  
Jesús Perán López ◽  
Belén Cambronero Saiz
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Corporate Reputation ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Managerial Performance ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Business And Management ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
High Uncertainty

From a corporate-side perspective, the communication of reputational actions and news of companies becomes critical for success. However, in communication, business, and management studies, heuristics can be understood as simple cognitive processes that allow assessments, predictions, and decisions to be made quickly and efficiently by consumers and economic agents. This aspect can sometimes lead to cognitive biases, especially when little information is available or in situations of high uncertainty. The aim of this research is to investigate the influence of heuristic judgments in social media on corporate reputation ratings obtained in Spanish leader companies. Using data collected in Spain, this paper analyzes the influence of heuristics concerning news items on corporate reputation, measured by the Monitor Empresarial de Reputación Corporativa (MERCO) Index. The main finding of this paper is that the total number of news items has a positive effect on corporate reputation, particularly in the categories of culture-values, results/image, expansion, and sponsorship/donations. Additionally, this work serves as a repository of knowledge applicable to similar situations considering the specificities of each particular case. The importance to intervene on certain variables at different levels of managerial performance is described and implications for companies are discussed in these pages.

scholarly journals How Does Group Climate Foster or Hinder Employee Voice? A Cross-Level Examination

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoye Qian ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Jue Wang ◽  
Shiyang Gong ◽  
Hao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Capital ◽  
Employee Voice ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Prevention Focus ◽  
Group Climate ◽  
Group Cooperation ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Although empirical evidence has accumulated showing that group climate has a significant impact on employee voice, knowledge about how different types of climates may influence voice is limited. Drawing upon the theory of planned behavior, we develop and test a model that explains whether and how the two group climates, cooperation and sanction, differentially predict employee promotive and prohibitive voice. We test the hypotheses using data collected from a sample of 274 full-time employees nested in 58 workgroups across two time periods. The empirical results show that group climate predicts employee voice in different ways: Group cooperation climate has a positive effect on both types of employee voice, whereas group sanction climate shows a negative effect on promotive voice. Individuals’ psychological capital is a cross-level mediator in the relationship between group climate and employee voice. Employees’ prevention focus negatively moderates the relationship between psychological capital and employee voice. These results highlight the important effect of group climate on employee voice in organization and calls on managers to create a favorable environment to increase employees’ psychological capital and voice behaviors.

scholarly journals How Newcomers’ Work-Related Use of Enterprise Social Media Affects Their Thriving at Work—The Swift Guanxi Perspective

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 2794 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuan Sun ◽  
Mengyi Zhu ◽  
Zuopeng (Justin) Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Mutual Understanding ◽  
Enterprise Social Media ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
New Employee ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Thriving At Work

This study aims to explore the relationship between newcomers’ use of enterprise social media (ESM) and their thriving at work. Adopting the conception of swift guanxi, we propose a model to examine how newcomers’ work-related use of ESM influences their thriving at work through promoting swift guanxi (i.e., mutual understanding, reciprocal favors, and relationship harmony) between newcomers and veterans. A valid sample consisted of 77 new employee-veteran dyads in a large telecom company was used in Smart-PLS to test our research model. The results show that newcomers’ work-related use of ESM positively affects mutual understanding, reciprocal favor, and relationship harmony. Reciprocal favor and relationship harmony exert positive effects on learning and vitality. However, mutual understanding only has a positive effect on learning. Furthermore, swift guanxi mediates the relationships between newcomers’ work-related ESM usage and the two dimensions of thriving. The findings provide new insights for organizations to better manage the use of ESM to improve newcomers’ thriving at work.

scholarly journals Rethinking political distrust

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eri Bertsou
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Democratic Politics ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Unethical Conduct ◽  
Classical Liberal ◽  
Political Distrust ◽  
Established Democracies ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIncreasing political distrust has become a commonplace observational remark across many established democracies, and it is often used to explain current political phenomena. In contrast to most scholarship that focuses solely on the concept of trust and leaves distrust untheorized, this article makes a contribution by analysing political distrust. It argues that citizen distrust of government and political institutions poses a threat for democratic politics and clarifies the relationship between the distrust observed in established democracies and classical ‘liberal distrust’, which is considered beneficial for democracy. Further, it addresses the relationship between trust and distrust, identifying a series of functional asymmetries between the two concepts, with important implications for theoretical and empirical work in political science. The article suggests that a conceptualization of political distrust based on evaluations of incompetence, unethical conduct and incongruent interests can provide a fruitful ground for future research that aims to understand the causes, consequences, and potential remedies for political distrust.

Empirical analysis of integration practices among agribusiness firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1696-1715
Author(s):  
Michael Kwamega ◽  
Dongmei Li ◽  
Eugene Abrokwah
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Internal Customer ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating effect of information sharing (IS) on the link between supply chain integration (SCI) practices (internal, customer and supplier) and internal process performance (IPP) by using selected agribusiness firms from an emerging economy, Ghana. Design/methodology/approach To determine the effect of IS on the nexus between SCI practices and IPP, a research framework was developed and tested using data amassed from 156 agribusiness firms for the study. The data set was assessed and hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling. Findings The outcomes revealed that both INI and CI positively and significantly influenced IS. However, the results disclosed that SI has no significant positive effect on IS among the Ghanaian agribusiness firms. The findings of the study further discovered that IS fully mediates the relationship between INI, CI and IPP, whereas SI has a direct interaction with IPP. Originality/value This study contributes to the existing supply chain management research by empirically authenticating IS as the mediator between SCI practices and IPP. From the viewpoint of a developing economy, this paper identifies the significant connection that exists between SCI practices, IS and IPP. The outcomes recommend that IS is a core driving facilitator to reinforce the correlation between SCI practices and IPP.

scholarly journals The Relationship between LGBT Executives and Firms’ Value and Financial Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 596
Author(s):  
Isabel Costa Lourenço ◽  
Donatella Di Marco ◽  
Manuel Castelo Branco ◽  
Ana Isabel Lopes ◽  
Raquel Wille Sarquis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Firm Value ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Policies And Practices

Drawing on resource-based theory, we analyze the relationship between having LGBT executives in a firm’s leadership positions and its value and financial performance. The existence of LGBT executives is considered to be associated with employee and customer goodwill towards LGBT-friendly policies and practices and to lead to human capital and reputational benefits. Our findings suggest that there is a positive effect of the presence of LBGT executives on a firm’s value, both directly and indirectly, through its effect on the firm’s financial performance. We interpret this as suggesting that besides the direct effect of the existence of LGBT executives on a firm’s value, an indirect effect also exists, mediated through financial performance, presumably through the effect that this has on employee and customer goodwill towards LGBT-friendly policies and practices. As far as we are aware, our study is the first to examine the impacts of the presence of LGBT executives, as well as distinguish between its direct and indirect effects on firm value.

scholarly journals PENGARUH KOMPETENSI PEDAGOGIK GURU TERHADAP MOTIVASI BELAJAR PESERTA DIDIK DI MADRASAH ALIYAH SERBA BAKTI TASIKMALAY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-180
Author(s):  
Nurhayati Nurhayati1 ◽  
Nurhamzah CS ◽  
Wawan Wawan
Keyword(s):  
Rank Correlation ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Mean Value ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Pedagogical Competence ◽  
Spearman Rank Correlation Analysis ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Scale Classification

This study aims to determine the positive effect between the teacher's pedagogical competencies on the learning motivation of students in the Madrasah Aliyah Serba Bakti of the Suryalaya Islamic Boarding School. The method used in this study is a descriptive method through a quantitative approach with a population of 357 people, and a sample of 36 people using data collection techniques namely questionnaires, observation, and documentation. To test variables x and y are done by determining the mean value which is interpreted using the interpretation scale classification, as well as for the relationship between variables x and y used Spearman Rank correlation analysis techniques, and hypothesis testing using t-test. Based on the results of data processing, it is found that the influence of teacher pedagogical competence on student motivation in Madrasah Aliyah Serba Bakti of the Suryalaya Islamic Boarding School has a significant positive effect with a sufficient category, proven rs = 0.522 at intervals 0.41 to 0.60 and t_count (3.57) is greater instead of t_table (1,691). Teacher pedagogical competence determines student learning motivation by 27.25% while the remaining 72.75% is determined by other factors.

scholarly journals SOCIAL MEDIA AND PROTESTS ENGAGEMENT: WHAT’S GENDER GOT TO DO WITH IT?

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 22-31
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Herd Behavior ◽  
Path Modeling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Protests ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Collective Activism ◽  
Positive Effect

Social media allows people to organize themselves and take action against social injustices and policies. Used to spread information, social media has been linked to the dissemination of political protests around the world. Relying on the Theory of Planned Behavior and Herd Behavior, this studied aimed at identifying gender differences in social network protests’ participation. Making use of multivariate data analysis through Partial Least Squares Path Modeling (PLS-SEM), 318 Brazilians responded the study and the results indicate that there are differences between the relationships of the antecedents of the use of the social network between users of different genders. The differences are in the relationship between the attitude and the use of social networks to participate in protests, with a positive effect on men and negative on women. This means that men understand that participating in online protests through social networks can improve awareness of events, giving strength to the movement and helping to ease the tension of protests, while women do not. The results go beyond the studies on which they were based, including the gender multigroup analysis and presenting a new model of technology adoption with new elements, such as the herd behaviour, embracing the imitation, and the uncertainty constructs. There is also a contribution to a greater understanding of the influence of social media on collective activism or movements.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF ECONOMIC STRENGTH, GOVERNMENT DEBT, LEVEL OF DEMOCRACY, PUBLIC TRUST, AND LEVEL OF HAPPINESS ON CORRUPTION PERCEPTION

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 98
Author(s):  
Dedy Susanto
Keyword(s):  
Robust Regression ◽  
Government Debt ◽  
Public Trust ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Debt Level ◽  
Corruption Perception ◽  
Mm Estimation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

This study aims to analyze the effect of economic strength, government debt, level of democracy, public trust in government, and level of happiness on corruption perception. Data consisting of 113 countries are used to determine the causal relationship between variables that have been collected. Robust Regression statistical test with Method of Moment (MM) estimation is used to analyze the relationship between variables. The test results show that economic strength, level of democracy, public trust, and level of happiness have a significant positive effect on corruption perception, while government debt has no significant effect on corruption perception. It can be concluded that the higher the economic strength, the level of democracy, the public trust, and the level of happiness, the higher the corruption perception in the country. High corruption perception indicates the cleanliness of the country from corruption.

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