scholarly journals The Effects of Pro-Social and Pro-Environmental Orientation on Crowdfunding Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 6064
Author(s):  
Constantin von Selasinsky ◽  
Eva Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Project Financing ◽  
Environmental Orientation ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
Alternative Type ◽  
Environmental Considerations ◽  
The Right

Reward-based crowdfunding is an alternative type of project financing in which a large and dispersed online crowd contributes relatively small financial amounts in exchange for innovative products or services. The crowd is driven by a broad set of motivations that also comprises sustainability awareness. However, empirical research on crowdfunding projects that feature social or environmental considerations provides inconclusive results. In our study, we enhance the understanding of whether a pro-social and pro-environmental orientation affects the performance of reward-based crowdfunding. We draw on the literature stream of social movements to explain how linguistic framing mobilizes individuals and relate this to how selection is enabled and action is guided in a crowdfunding setting. Based on a sample of 1049 projects from Kickstarter, we employ computer-aided text analysis (CATA) to capture the pro-social and pro-environmental orientation of the project descriptions and transcribed video pitches as linguistic constructs. We found that the level of pro-social or pro-environmental orientation has an inverted U-shaped effect on crowdfunding performance. Moreover, this relationship differs when crowdfunding projects feature a creative product or service idea. Our results suggest that entrepreneurs need to delicately balance a pro-social or pro-environmental orientation and find the “right” level of emphasis to create a competitive advantage.

The Effect of Dynamic Capability for the Formation of Competitive Advantage to Achieve Firm’s Performance (Empirical Study on Indonesian Credit Co-operatives)

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 809-813 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Astrid Susanti ◽  
Muhtosim Arief
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Empirical Study ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Dynamic Capability ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
The Right

The co-operative plays an important role in Indonesia’s economic development since it can improve people’s welfare and support SMEs through its unique character, which is a combination of the economic and social character. As an enterprise, co-operative is not immune to environmental changes. Therefore co-operative must be able to compete with other industries to reach the best performance in globalization era. The capability to cope with environmental pressure is known as dynamic capability. Research on the implementation of dynamic capabilities, however, only focus on conceptual discussions and empirical studies are still limited, especially in co-operatives. This research is proposed to fill the gap by conducting the empirical research, in order to examine the effect of dynamic capabilities for the formation of competitive advantage to achieve co-operatives’ performance in terms of economic and social performances. The result shows that dynamic capability could be implemented in Indonesian credit co-operatives to establish a competitive advantage and ultimately be used to achieve a better firm’s performances. However, dynamic capability cannot be used directly to achieve a better performance. The firms must choose the right and superior capability to compete with their competitors.

Beyond Self-Interest

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua May
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Evolutionary Theory ◽  
Helping Behavior ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Concern For Others ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Christian Love ◽  
The Right ◽  
Conceptual Difficulties

This chapter introduces the long-standing idea that inappropriate motives, such as self-interest, can militate against virtuous motivation (acting for the right reasons). Some theorists have tried to show that we are universally egoistic by appeal to empirical research, particularly evolutionary theory, moral development, and the neuroscience of learning. However, these efforts fail and instead decades of experiments on helping behavior provide powerful evidence that we are capable of genuine altruism. We can be motivated ultimately by a concern for others for their own sake, especially when empathizing with them. The evidence does not show that empathy blurs the distinction between self and other in a way that makes helping behavior truly egoistic or non-altruistic. Whether grounded in Christian love (agape) or the Buddhist notion of no-self (anātman), such self-other merging proposals run into empirical and conceptual difficulties.

scholarly journals Unpacking the Quantifying and Qualifying Potential of Semi-Open Job Satisfaction Questions through Computer-Aided Sentiment Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Indy Wijngaards ◽  
Martijn Burger ◽  
Job van Exel
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Sentiment Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Information Richness ◽  
Convergent And Discriminant Validity ◽  
Computer Aided ◽  
Satisfaction Question ◽  
Open Question

AbstractDespite their suitability for mitigating survey biases and their potential for enhancing information richness, open and semi-open job satisfaction questions are rarely used in surveys. This is mostly due to the high costs associated with manual coding and difficulties that arise when validating text measures. Recently, advances in computer-aided text analysis have enabled researchers to rely less on manual coding to construct text measures. Yet, little is known about the validity of text measures generated by computer-aided text analysis software and only a handful of studies have attempted to demonstrate their added value. In light of this gap, drawing on a sample of 395 employees, we showed that the responses to a semi-open job satisfaction question can reliably and conveniently be converted into a text measure using two types of computer-aided sentiment analysis: SentimentR, and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) 2015. Furthermore, the substantial convergence between the LIWC2015 and, in particular, SentimentR measure with a closed question measure of job satisfaction and logical associations with closed question measures of constructs that fall within and outside job satisfaction’s nomological network, suggest that a semi-open question has adequate convergent and discriminant validity. Finally, we illustrated that the responses to our semi-open question can be used to fine-tune the computer-aided sentiment analysis dictionaries and unravel antecedents of job satisfaction.

Choosing music: exploratory studies into the low uptake of music GCSE

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 267-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Lamont ◽  
Karl Maton
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Research ◽  
National Curriculum ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Music Curriculum ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
School Music ◽  
Musical Knowledge ◽  
Specialist Knowledge ◽  
The Right

School music has a comparatively low take-up rate as a qualification among English secondary school pupils. Existing research on the issue has proffered possible reasons for this phenomenon but has generally been piecemeal and undertheorised. This paper sets out a fresh theoretical perspective capable of providing a basis for systematic empirical research, and discusses the results of two exploratory studies. Drawing on legitimation code theory, a new approach in the sociology of education that focuses on the basis of achievement within educational contexts, the paper analyses National Curriculum, GCSE syllabi and pupils' attitudes towards a range of school subjects, including music. The documentary analysis highlights that earlier stages of the music curriculum emphasise either musical knowledge or musical dispositions of knowers, but music at GCSE level represents an ‘elite code’ where achievement depends upon both possessing specialist knowledge and being the right kind of knower. The study of pupils' attitudes suggests this code shift is recognised by pupils and may play a role in the low uptake of music for GCSE study. This new framework offers a firmer foundation for future empirical research into attitudes towards school subjects and subject choices.

Indexing dynamic collective constructs using computer-aided text analysis: Construct validity evidence and illustrations featuring team processes.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Mathieu ◽  
Mikhail A. Wolfson ◽  
Semin Park ◽  
Margaret M. Luciano ◽  
Wendy L. Bedwell-Torres ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Team Processes ◽  
Computer Aided

scholarly journals PERKEMBANGAN INOVASI PRODUK TERHADAP KEGIATAN PEMASARAN DALAM RUANG LINGKUP MASA PANDEMI COVID 19

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Yayan Andriani
Keyword(s):  
Product Innovation ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Marketing Process ◽  
Product Innovations ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Right ◽  
Selling Process ◽  
Marketing Methods ◽  
Marketing Position

In Indonesia, there is a wide variety of product innovations related to activities carried out by the community by promoting the marketing process. This development is also related to the matters of companies that compete with various innovations in developing their business to be more advanced. In a business, a lot of considerations are needed so that the profit or profit obtained is more than the capital spent but the quality is still prioritized. One of them is in marketing research which is a place for providers of products or goods to be traded. Market and Marketing Aspects are needed so that the buying and selling process can run smoothly and for transactions. It can be seen how vital the Market and Marketing Aspects are in a business. Where in a business this aspect is the most essential aspect. Market and Marketing Aspects are used in marketing methods in which you can find out how much demand there is so that the business runs properly. Many competitors that occur in the market make a study of the marketing aspects necessary to reduce things that can harm the company. The right marketing position will make the company get the desired profit. In marketing research, also states that there are various methods that can be used in society to support the economy by prioritizing innovative products, but problems in product innovation must be constraints with business capital and advantages or disadvantages, with the COVID-19 pandemic problem with the industrial sector experiencing a decline. Which is very drastic, thereby reducing the innovation that will be carried out.

scholarly journals INCREASING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ENTERPRISE

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetiana Dzhukh ◽  
Olha Mykhailenko ◽  
Maria Alipatova
Keyword(s):  
Legal Protection ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
International Markets ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Industrial Firms ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
World Markets ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
The Right

Any business entity in a competitive environment must assess the degree of its own competitiveness in order to function effectively and assess its prospects for the future. Having information about personal competitive positions, industrial firms have the opportunity to reveal their advantages, choose the right tactics of behavior and strategy, true to the realities of the latest market processes. The basis of competitive advantages of enterprises is the socio-economic and progressive technological and organizational base, the ability to analyze and take timely measures to strengthen competitive advantages. The article analyzes ways to increase the competitiveness of Ukrainian enterprises. At the current stage of development of the national economy, the main issue to be addressed is the development of effective facilitators and mechanisms that will increase the competitiveness of domestic producers in the market and will guarantee the overall strengthening of Ukraine’s economic situation. The purpose of the article is to identify ways to increase the competitiveness of the enterprise. Compare the tools that allow you to find your weaknesses, the elimination of which can increase the competitiveness of the organization. The strategic goal is to increase the competitiveness of the domestic economy through innovation, which will create advantages for domestic producers to compete with opponents in domestic and international markets, and help Ukraine to take one of the first places among developed countries. Competitiveness is a key concept that is actively used in theory and practice of management, is a multifaceted concept, which translated from Latin means rivalry, the struggle to achieve the best results. This opens for Ukraine the possibility of transition to world standards of rational and reasonable energy consumption, development of natural resources, raising the level of technology, legal protection of intellectual property. The ultimate goal of these shifts is to create progressive and competitive innovative products on world markets. It should be noted that in the context of globalization and ever-increasing competition, the basis of competitiveness is innovation, which allows countries with innovative competitive advantages to take their rightful place in the world community.

scholarly journals The Circular Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 298-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
José G. Vargas-Hernández ◽  
Marlene De Jesús Morales Medrano
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economy Model ◽  
Operational Level ◽  
Resources And Capabilities ◽  
The Right

The purpose of this document is to analyze the Circular Economy (CE) model from the point of view of the resources and capacities of the organization. How is the application of the Circular Economy model related to Strategic Management? At first glance, it seems that the CE is operating within an operational level with a social impact, but it also has implications that allow us to think that it can be used as an internal resource of the company that, if applied in the right way, can become a competitive advantage, in other words, the application of the CE is related to Strategic Management through the point of view based on resources and capabilities. Therefore, the present investigation has a descriptive-correlational nature, which was analyzed through Peng's VRIO framework.

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