scholarly journals Operationalization of Interorganizational Fairness in Food Systems: From a Social Construct to Quantitative Indicators

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Ingunn Y. Gudbrandsdottir ◽  
Gudrun Olafsdottir ◽  
Gudmundur Valur Oddsson ◽  
Hlynur Stefansson ◽  
Sigurdur G. Bogason
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Simulation Modelling ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Environmental Stability ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Distributive Fairness ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

Fairness issues within food systems are of increasing concern for policy makers and other stakeholders. Given the topicality and policy relevance of fairness within food systems, there is value in exploring the subject further. Simulation modelling has been successfully used to develop and test policy interventions. However, the subjectivity and intangibleness of fairness perceptions make them difficult to operationalize in a quantitative model. The objective of this study is to facilitate research on fairness in food systems using simulation modelling by defining the social construct of fairness in model operational terms. The operationalization is conducted in two steps. First, the construct of fairness is conceptually defined in terms of its dimensions, antecedents, and consequences using the literature on interorganizational fairness. Then, by focusing specifically on fairness issues within food systems, the conceptual definition is used as a basis for the identification of proxy indicators of fairness. Seven groups of factors related to fairness perceptions were identified during the conceptualization phase: financial outcomes, operational outcomes, power, environmental stability, information sharing, relationship quality, and controls. From these factor groups, five indicators of fairness that are operational in a quantitative model were identified: profit margin as an indicator of distributive fairness and four indicators of procedural fairness related to market power and bargaining power.

Antecedents and Consequences of Using Social Media for Personal Finance

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-176
Author(s):  
Yingxia Cao ◽  
Fengmei Gong ◽  
Tong Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Personal Finance ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Financial Industry ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Social Media Tools ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

This study was intended to find out whether social media could be a solution to improve personal financial literacy and ability. The authors examined the antecedents and consequences of using social media for personal finance with survey data from 359 individuals who used social media tools to view, learn, post, or ask for financial information or advice. They found that usefulness and compatibility were two reasons why people use social media for personal finance, while ease of use and concerns/risks were not. The study also revealed that social media use for personal finance were associated with positive financial outcomes and user satisfaction, which in turn prompted users' intentions to continue using social media for personal finance in the future. These findings suggested that social media could be a legitimate and fruitful source for individuals and financial industry to improve personal financial well-being.

Distributive Fairness Perceptions Measure

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland E. Kidwell ◽  
Franz W. Kellermanns ◽  
Kimberly A. Eddleston
Keyword(s):  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Distributive Fairness

scholarly journals Contribution of traditional fermented foods to food systems transformation: value addition and inclusive entrepreneurship

Food Security ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valentina C Materia ◽  
Anita R Linnemann ◽  
Eddy J Smid ◽  
Sijmen E Schoustra
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Processing Technique ◽  
Fermented Food ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Fermented Foods ◽  
Household Level ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
Systems Transformation ◽  
Traditional Fermented Foods

AbstractTo date, many efforts to eradicate hunger include increasing agricultural production, processing of raw materials and supplementation, and fortification of foods. Locally produced foods represent a significant part of Food Systems as they contribute to tackling hunger and malnutrition. However, few studies have investigated the processing of traditional fermented foods at household level as a means to improve nutrition and triggering inclusive entrepreneurship, two crucial dimensions Food Systems build on. Fermentation is an ancient processing technique that relies on transformation of raw materials by microbial activity and is mainly undertaken by women. This paper posits that upscaling small scale fermented food processing activities while enhancing functional food properties and fostering women entrepreneurship contributes to prevention of food losses, promotion of nutrition and health, and entrepreneurial opportunities for current processors. This is key for effective policy interventions to foster food security in challenging contexts.⨪.

Antecedents and Consequences of Fairness Perceptions in Personnel Selection

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Udo Konradt ◽  
Yvonne Garbers ◽  
Martina Böge ◽  
Berrin Erdogan ◽  
Talya N. Bauer
Keyword(s):  
Job Performance ◽  
Personnel Selection ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Selection Procedure ◽  
Procedural Fairness ◽  
Test Fairness ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
The Impact

Drawing on Gilliland’s selection fairness framework, we examined antecedents and behavioral effects of applicant procedural fairness perceptions before, during, and after a personnel selection procedure using a six-wave longitudinal research design. Results showed that both perceived post-test fairness and pre-feedback fairness perceptions are related to job offer acceptance and job performance after 18 months, but not to job performance after 36 months. Pre-test and post-test procedural fairness perceptions were mainly related to formal characteristics and interpersonal treatment, whereas pre-feedback fairness perceptions were related to formal characteristics and explanations. The impact of fairness attributes of formal characteristics and interpersonal treatment diminished over time, whereas attributes of explanation were only associated with pre-feedback fairness. Results are discussed in terms of theoretical implications for fairness research and for hiring organizations.

The Antecedents and Consequences of Strategic HRM in Malaysian and Philippine SMEs

2016 ◽  
pp. 1499-1526
Author(s):  
Maria Carmen Galang ◽  
Intan Osman
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Strategic Hrm ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

From a survey of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia and the Philippines, the authors find that the adoption of strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) is at best at a moderate level. The adoption of strategic HRM by SMEs in both Malaysia and the Philippines is predicted from the positive effect of legal and regulatory requirements, the importance of business environment challenges, and the strategic role of the HR professional. Furthermore, regression analysis shows that in both countries, SMEs with strategic human resource management have better organizational performance in terms of human resource outcomes, operational outcomes, and financial outcomes, but the impact is larger in the Philippine SMEs. This study adds empirical evidence currently available from a small set of countries, mostly in North America and Europe. The authors end this chapter with implications for policy makers and HR practitioners and provide recommendations for future research.

scholarly journals Personality Speech Diagnostics in Author Identification Based on Gender Parameter: Quantitative Approach

2020 ◽  
pp. 115-127
Author(s):  
Svetlana Ionova ◽  
Igor Ogorelkov
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Social Characteristics ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Social Construct ◽  
Linguistic Model ◽  
Author Identification ◽  
Quantitative Characteristics ◽  
Quantitative Analysis Method ◽  
Gender Groups

The article discusses the issues of conducting authorship diagnostic studies in order to identify the gender of the anonymous text author. The concept of gender is considered as a conventional social construct, comprising the ideas about culturally conditioned model of masculinity or femininity, which are currently accepted by Russian society. The corpus of more than 1 000 written texts of mainly political discourse, written by people with different gender affiliations, serves as the material that enables to justify the possibility of application quantitative analysis method, based on frequency characteristics of semantically independent words, belonging to lexical-and-grammatical classes of words: pronouns, particles, prepositions, conjunctions and parenthesis. The method under consideration is aimed at identification and analyzing unevident implied signs, which can't be revealed whilst superficial analysis. Frequent, persistent occurrence of these signs in the texts of political discourse enables to regard them as highly informative quantitative characteristics of written speech of the authors belonging to different gender groups. It is stated, the results of application the quantitative model of author's gender identification, represented in the paper, are more reliable if they are used in combination with traditional linguistic model, which presupposes the analysis of linguistic, speech, textual, semantic, psycholinguistic and social characteristics of texts. The article outlines the prospects of speech diagnostics of a person on the basis of gender for the development of author's forensic examination.

Applicant Reactions to Rejection

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 146-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Schinkel ◽  
Dirk van Dierendonck ◽  
Annelies van Vianen ◽  
Ann Marie Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Attributional Style ◽  
Performance Feedback ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Applicant Reactions ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Fairness Perceptions ◽  
Distributive Fairness ◽  
Specific Performance ◽  
Organizational Perceptions

While applicant reactions to selection (un)fairness have often been investigated, less is known about applicants’ attributions and reactions to specific performance feedback. This paper discusses two studies into the influence of fairness perceptions and attributional processing on well-being and organizational perceptions after rejection. In both studies, distributive fairness and attributional style interactively influenced post-rejection well-being, with optimistically attributing individuals showing higher well-being when fairness perceptions were low. In Study 2, performance feedback negatively influenced rejected individuals’ well-being, and influenced the interaction effect of fairness and attributional style. Distributive fairness positively affected post-rejection organizational perceptions. Finally, performance feedback and attributional style interactively influenced post-rejection organizational perceptions. Implications for future research and practice concerning this issue are considered.

Assessment of Long-Term Effects of Marketing Mix Policies

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastaran Hajiheydari ◽  
Seyed Behnam Khakbaz
Keyword(s):  
System Dynamics ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
Marketing Mix ◽  
Financial Indicators ◽  
Qualitative Model ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Complicated Process ◽  
Effective Policy

Understanding of the long term effects of marketing mix policies on firm's financial outcomes is counted as an essential issue in marketing studies. Managers really need to know the efficiency of their decisions in marketing efforts. A large number of researches have been already conducted so as to disclose these consequences, although all of them have got some limitations. In the present paper, the authors have made use of system dynamics to develop a dynamic marketing system and analyze the effect of different marketing mix policies on firm's financial indicators. For this purpose, they have introduced two dynamic marketing models based on the related literature review. The first one, that is a qualitative model, represents the logic of marketing efforts based on system dynamic rules and the second one is a quantitative model which is based on five important loops of the qualitative model. The quantitative model has been manipulated in order to analyze several marketing mix policies (scenarios). The results indicate that decision making for selecting appropriate marketing mix is a complicated process usually leading to nonlinear and complex results. Considering this point, the authors' study suggests the utilization of dynamic simulation in order to predict and analyze the effects of marketing policies on firm's financial indicators. Finally, the findings clearly show the ability of system dynamics in measuring and anticipating firm's marketing initiatives and adapting the most effective policy for its success.

The Antecedents and Consequences of Strategic HRM in Malaysian and Philippine SMEs

2014 ◽  
pp. 1-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Carmen Galang ◽  
Intan Osman
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Human Resource Management ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Human Resource ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Strategic Human Resource Management ◽  
Financial Outcomes ◽  
Strategic Hrm ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences

From a survey of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia and the Philippines, the authors find that the adoption of strategic Human Resource Management (HRM) is at best at a moderate level. The adoption of strategic HRM by SMEs in both Malaysia and the Philippines is predicted from the positive effect of legal and regulatory requirements, the importance of business environment challenges, and the strategic role of the HR professional. Furthermore, regression analysis shows that in both countries, SMEs with strategic human resource management have better organizational performance in terms of human resource outcomes, operational outcomes, and financial outcomes, but the impact is larger in the Philippine SMEs. This study adds empirical evidence currently available from a small set of countries, mostly in North America and Europe. The authors end this chapter with implications for policy makers and HR practitioners and provide recommendations for future research.

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