scholarly journals Luottamusta ja harkintaa. Kuluttajien näkökulmia ruoan turvallisuuteen ja elintarvikeketjuun

2006 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Sanna Piiroinen ◽  
Mari Niva ◽  
Johanna Mäkelä
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Trust ◽  
European Study ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Social

Luottamuksesta ruokaan ja etenkin sen puutteesta on keskusteltu vilkkaasti viime vuosina, kun erilaiset ruokakriisit ovat ravistelleet Eurooppaa. Myös funktionaaliset elintarvikkeet, geenimuunneltu ruoka ja ruoan terveellisyys sekä niihin liittyvä moninainen informaatio kiinnostavat ja toisaalta huolestuttavat kuluttajia. Kuluttajien luottamus ruokaan ja koko elintarvikeketjun toimintaan on ajankohtainen teema niin meillä kuin muualla Euroopassakin. Tämä esitys perustuu tutkimukseen, jossa tarkasteltiin kuluttajien luottamusta eri elintarvikkeiden turvallisuuteen sekä elintarvikeketjun toimijoihin. Tutkimuksen taustalla on vuosina 2002–2004 toteutettu EU:n rahoittama hanke ’Consumer trust in food. A European study of the social and institutional conditions for the production of trust’. Eurooppalainen tutkimus tarkasteli ruokaan liittyvää luottamusta kuudessa maassa; Isossa-Britanniassa, Italiassa, Norjassa, Portugalissa, Saksassa ja Tanskassa. Suomessa kerättiin vastaava kvantitatiivinen aineisto kuin tutkimukseen osallistuneissa maissa. Suomea vertailtiin soveltuvin osin EU-tutkimuksessa mukana olleisiin maihin. Tutkimukseen osallistui 1 207 iältään 18–79-vuotiasta kuluttajaa eri puolilta Suomea. Aineisto kerättiin kesällä 2003 puhelinhaastatteluilla. Tutkimuksessa tarkasteltiin luottamuksen erilaisia osatekijöitä. Kohteina olivat luottamus ruokaan yleensä, luottamus eri tavoin tuotettuja, käsiteltyjä ja erilaisista raaka-aineista peräisin olevia ruokia ja elintarvikkeita kohtaan sekä luottamus institutionaalisiin toimijoihin. Lisäksi analysoitiin vastaajien näkemyksiä elintarvikeketjun eri osapuolten vastuusta ja vastuullisuudesta ruokaan liittyvissä kysymyksissä. Tulosten perusteella suomalaiset kuluttajat luottavat suhteellisen voimakkaasti ruoan turvallisuuteen ja elintarvikeketjun toimintaan verrattuna muihin eurooppalaisiin. Eri elintarvikkeisiin ja toimijoihin kuitenkin luotetaan eri tavoin ja niiden luotettavuus punnitaan jatkuvasti arkipäivän tilanteissa. Miehet luottavat ruoan turvallisuuteen naisia enemmän, mutta muutoin sosiodemografiset taustamuuttujat erottelevat kuluttajia heikosti. Luottamuksen eri osatekijät ovat yhteydessä toisiinsa. Ne, jotka luottavat vahvasti ruokaan yleensä, luottavat muita enemmän myös erilaisten yksittäisten elintarvikkeiden turvallisuuteen, elintarvikeketjuun ja muihin ihmisiin.

How social presence influences impulse buying behavior in live streaming commerce? The role of S-O-R theory

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junlan Ming ◽  
Zeng Jianqiu ◽  
Muhammad Bilal ◽  
Umair Akram ◽  
Mingyue Fan
Keyword(s):  
Social Presence ◽  
Consumer Trust ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Flow State ◽  
Buying Behavior ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
Impulsive Buying ◽  
Sense Of Power

Purpose This paper aims to examine how presence (the social presence of live streaming platforms, of viewers, of live streamers and telepresence) affects consumer trust and flow state, thus inducing impulsive buying behaviors, personal sense of power as moderator. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the Stimulus-Organism-Response (S-O-R) framework, the conceptual model covers social presence, telepresence, consumer trust, flow state, personal sense of power and impulsive buying behavior. An online survey was conducted from 405 consumers with the experience of live streaming shopping in China; structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. Findings Results find that three dimensions of social presence (the social presence of live streaming platforms, of viewers, of live streamers) and telepresence have a positive and significant influence on consumer trust and flow state, thus triggering consumers’ impulsive buying behavior. Furthermore, consumers’ sense of power moderates the process from consumer trust, flow state to impulsive buying behavior. Practical implications This study will help live streamers and e-retailers to have a further understand on how to stimulate consumers’ buying behavior. Furthermore, it also provides reference for the development of live streaming commerce in other countries. Originality/value This research examines the effect of social presence and telepresence on impulsive buying behavior in live streaming commerce, which is inadequately examined in extant literature.

scholarly journals Multilingual publishing in the social sciences and humanities: A seven‐country European study

2020 ◽  
Vol 71 (11) ◽  
pp. 1371-1385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuel Kulczycki ◽  
Raf Guns ◽  
Janne Pölönen ◽  
Tim C. E. Engels ◽  
Ewa A. Rozkosz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
European Study ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social

Construction Industry’s Regulatory Institutions

2018 ◽  
Vol 931 ◽  
pp. 1214-1219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meri V. Gogitidze ◽  
Olesya I. Guzenko ◽  
Anna G. Sapozhnikova
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Industry Regulation ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
The Social ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
End Products ◽  
Capital Construction

The key element of the construction industry is the capital construction, which is finishing and combining efforts of all investment industries and turning material resources into fixed assets, creating conditions for commissioning and use in the social production of means and objects of the labor. At the same time the construction industry is connected with other economy sectors and their end products consumption. Such close interconditionality predetermines need for increase the construction complex efficiency, which is promoting to the increase in rates of economic growth at any particular region and country. The industry’s effective functioning requires creating institutional conditions for the growth and stability. The article is aimed at the questions construction industry regulation and enhances the effectiveness of the institutes, which are participating in this process.

Hegel’s Moral Concept of Evil

Dialogue ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-108
Author(s):  
TIMOTHY BROWNLEE
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
Moral Concept ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Ethical Action ◽  
The Social

The central aim of this article is to set out the essential elements of Hegel’s conception of evil. I demonstrate that Hegel understands evil primarily as a moral phenomenon. In particular, he identifies evil as a pernicious subjectivism and hypocrisy that undermines the social and institutional conditions for ethical action. An appropriate understanding of his conception of evil points to the centrality of trust to ethicality (die Sittlichkeit).

Providing for the Public Good: Corporate–Community Relations in the Era of the Receding Welfare State

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Doug Guthrie ◽  
Michael McQuarrie
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Community Relations ◽  
Tax Rates ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Corporate Giving ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Ties ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Corporate Community

In his pioneering research on corporate–community ties in Minneapolis–St. Paul, Galaskiewicz (1985a) examined the social conditions that guided corporate philanthropy in a given metropolitan area. Two conditions, however, suggest the need for revisiting the type of research taken on in that original study. First, Galaskiewicz's study lacked a comparative dimension for examining the institutional environments that drive variation across localities. Second, a great deal has changed in the institutional conditions that drive corporate ties to their communities since the 1980s and early 1990s, the most important institutional change coming from the Tax Reform Act of 1986 . We identify two significant factors that contribute to variation in local philanthropic commitments of corporations to the metropolitan communities in which they are headquartered. First, local corporate tax rates increase corporate giving overall, but they drive down corporate commitments to their localities. Second, the local state's involvement in the Low–Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program of 1986 also drives down local corporate giving. Thus, activist states that are successful in capturing the fiscal resources of corporations through a variety of institutional mechanisms end up driving down the philanthropic commitments of the corporations that are headquartered in those localities. We illuminate these relationships through in–depth qualitative research in three case cities and data on a nationally representative sample of 2,776 corporations.

scholarly journals Music and the materialization of identities

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Born
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Mutual Interference ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Musical Practice ◽  
Social Mediation ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Musical Genres ◽  
Identity Formations

How does music materialize identities? This article argues that music is instructive in conceptualizing the materialization of identity because it opens up new perspectives on issues of materiality, mediation and affect. These perspectives are intimately related in turn to music’s plural socialities, which necessitate a novel approach to theorizing the social. Music, it is proposed, demands an analytics that encompasses four planes of social mediation; while these socialities, with other forms of music’s mediation, together produce a constellation of mediations – an assemblage. All four planes of social mediation enter into the musical assemblage: the first two amount to socialities engendered by musical practice and experience; the last two amount to social and institutional conditions that afford certain kinds of musical practice. The four are irreducible to one another and are articulated in contingent ways through relations of synergy, affordance, conditioning or causality. By adopting the topological metaphor of the plane to stand for distinctive socialities mediated by music, the intention is to highlight both their autonomy and their mutual interference. The second half turns to genre theory to suggest that analysing genre in terms of the mutual mediation between two self-organizing historical entities illuminates both how social identity formations may be refracted in music, and how musical genres can entangle themselves in evolving social formations. Finally, with reference to music’s capacity to create aggregations of the affected, the article considers the efflorescence of theories of affect, association and entrainment. While such theories illuminate the generative nature of the mutual mediation between musical formations and social formations, they are limited by lack of awareness of the four distinctive planes of music’s social mediation, as well as the significance of their autonomy and their contingent interrelations for understanding how music materializes identities.

Context and Inequality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell J. Dalton
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Party System ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
National Elections ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Voting Turnout ◽  
The Social ◽  
System Characteristics

Societal and institutional conditions create incentive (or disincentive) structures that can influence levels of participation (direct effects) and who participates (contingent effects). This chapter examines how constitutional structures, party system characteristics, and income inequality shape participation patterns. Consensual political institutions and multiparty systems increase voting turnout, but lower levels of non-electoral participation. Federal systems decrease turnout in national elections, but increase other forms of action. Income inequality discourages political participation overall. These various contextual factors have only a modest impact on the size of the social-status participation gap in a nation.

scholarly journals Matching Local and Global Dimensions: A Knowledge Based Approach to Classify European Life Sciences Clusters

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Adele Parmentola
Keyword(s):  
Life Sciences ◽  
Innovation System ◽  
Innovation Systems ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

It is now widely accepted that innovation is a territorially embedded process, which cannot be fully understood independent of the social and institutional conditions of individual places. On the basis of these considerations, some authors identified criteria to define the geographic confines for the innovative process, introducing the concept of the local systems of innovation (LIS), defined as networks of technologically specialized and locally situated firms, institutions and research agencies. Nevertheless empirical evidences show that especially in high tech industry like life sciences, relatively few clusters are completely self-sufficient in terms of the knowledge base from which they draw suggesting that the knowledge flows that feed innovation in a cluster are often both local and global.According to these considerations and starting from the knowledge based theory of innovations systems the paper proposes a theoretical framework that classifies the innovation systems considering the place of knowledge sourcing and the place of knowledge development. The framework has then been used to classify the European life sciences clusters. The empirical analysis shows that Local Innovation System is only a possible configuration of technology clusters that can be assumes also the configurations of Imported Innovation Systems, Exported Innovation Systems and Global Innovation Systems.

scholarly journals La botanique dans un contexte local: les jardins de Florence à l’époque des grands-ducs (1569–1859)

Gesnerus ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-52
Author(s):  
René Sigrist ◽  
Sonia Zanier
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ministry Of Education ◽  
Materia Medica ◽  
Institutional Conditions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Medical Plants ◽  
Century Science

This article describes the social and institutional conditions of the practice of botany in early modern Florence. This practice started with the study of medical plants in hospital and university contexts, with the passion of the Medicis for gardens, and the interest of the Vallombrosian monks for cryptogams. During the XVIIIth century, science of plants focused on classification (morphology), pharmacology (materia medica) and vegetable physiology, but included also the inventory of Tuscan flora and agronomy. These diverging aims created tensions within the nascent community of botanists, crystallizing around the management of gardens and the choice of classification systems. After 1770, a more scientific approach of botany was made possible by the rise of experimental practices and the development of chemistry. Yet, a true professionalization of research did not occur before the political unification of Italy, when the management of institutions and the recruitment of botanists were assumed by a central Ministry of education, instead of being dependent on princely favors and patrician connections.

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