The Importance of Advocacy on Reputation and Loyalty

2018 ◽  
pp. 114-125
Author(s):  
Donald L. Amoroso
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Factors Influencing

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the CSR factors influencing consumers' loyalty and see if there are cultural differences and similarities. A research model was developed based upon existing research theory and tested the model by collecting data using an online survey instrument. The survey yielded usable response: 320 consumers in Japan, 1049 consumers in China and 528 consumers in the Philippines comparing the results among the three East Asian countries. Significant differences were found in some of the CSR factors, specifically where CSR advocacy was an important factor across all countries strongly influencing loyalty. Differences included hypocrisy to trust in China is not significant, whereas awareness to hypocrisy was not strong in Japan. Advocacy has a strong impact on reputation in China.

The Importance of Advocacy on Reputation and Loyalty

2019 ◽  
pp. 1173-1185
Author(s):  
Donald L. Amoroso
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Survey Instrument ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Factors Influencing

The purpose of this study is to ascertain the CSR factors influencing consumers' loyalty and see if there are cultural differences and similarities. A research model was developed based upon existing research theory and tested the model by collecting data using an online survey instrument. The survey yielded usable response: 320 consumers in Japan, 1049 consumers in China and 528 consumers in the Philippines comparing the results among the three East Asian countries. Significant differences were found in some of the CSR factors, specifically where CSR advocacy was an important factor across all countries strongly influencing loyalty. Differences included hypocrisy to trust in China is not significant, whereas awareness to hypocrisy was not strong in Japan. Advocacy has a strong impact on reputation in China.

South-east Asia coastguard growth could see friction

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Territorial Claims

Subject Development of South-east Asian coastguards and their geopolitical implications. Significance Senior coastguard officers from Australia, Japan, the Philippines and the United States will meet later this year to discuss cooperation and capacity-building -- and the assertive actions of China's coastguard in littoral waters. With external partners' support, South-east Asian states are developing their coastguards to fight crime and assert maritime territorial claims. Impacts Fishing activities will probably trigger spats between South-east Asian and China's coastguards. Gradually, inter-operability between South-east Asian coastguards will expand. Tokyo and Washington will use coastguards to deepen ties with South-east Asian countries. There could be frictions between Indonesia's and Malaysia's coastguards over waters around Ambalat.

scholarly journals Consensus of the Present and Prospects on Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment in East Asian Countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Takeshi Kamiya ◽  
Takashi Joh ◽  
Jose D. Sollano ◽  
Qi Zhu ◽  
Udom Kachintorn ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Endoscopic Diagnosis ◽  
Diagnosis And Treatment ◽  
Gastric Adenoma ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
First Choice ◽  
New Instruments ◽  
Representative Member ◽  
Upper Gastrointestinal

Background and Aim. New diagnostic or therapeutic methods in endoscopy have been used. Current clinical application of these procedures is not well known. The aim of this study is to investigate the present situation on endoscopic diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal disorders in East Asian countries. Method. A representative member from the International Gastrointestinal Consensus Symposium Committee provided a questionnaire to physicians in China, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, and Thailand. Results. In total, 514 physicians including gastroenterologists, surgeons, and general practitioners enrolled. The most frequently occurring disorder as the origin of upper gastrointestinal bleeding is gastric ulcer. Capsule endoscopy is selected as the first choice for the diagnosis of small intestine bleeding. The second choice was double-balloon endoscopy or angiography. For patients with gastric adenoma, the number of physicians who choose endoscopic mucosal resection is larger than those selecting endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Thailand. ESD is chosen first in Japan and Korea. Conclusion. New instruments or techniques on endoscopy have not come into wide use yet, and there is diversity in the situation on it in Asian countries. We should unify the endoscopic diagnostic criteria or treated strategy in patients with GI disease.

Emissions and trade in Southeast and East Asian countries: a panel co-integration analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 460-475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mansor H. Ibrahim ◽  
Syed Aun R. Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
South Korea ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Estimation Method ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Trade Policies ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Long Run

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the implication of trade on carbon emissions in a panel of eight highly trading Southeast and East Asian countries, namely, China, Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia, Hong Kong, The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis relies on the standard quadratic environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) extended to include energy consumption and international trade. A battery of panel unit root and co-integration tests is applied to establish the variables’ stochastic properties and their long-run relations. Then, the specified EKC is estimated using the panel dynamic ordinary least square (OLS) estimation technique. Findings – The panel co-integration statistics verifies the validity of the extended EKC for the countries under study. Estimation of the long-run EKC via the dynamic OLS estimation method reveals the environmentally degrading effects of trade in these countries, especially in ASEAN and plus South Korea and Hong Kong. Practical implications – These countries are heavily dependent on trade for their development processes, and as such, their impacts on CO2 emissions would be highly relevant for assessing their trade policies, along the line of the gain-from-trade hypothesis, the race-to-the-bottom hypothesis and the pollution-safe-haven hypothesis. Originality/value – The analysis adds to existing literature by focusing on the highly trading nations of Southeast and East Asian countries. The results suggest that reassessment of trade policies in these countries is much needed and it must go beyond the sole pursuit of economic development via trade.

scholarly journals Dance Across Cultures: Joint Action Aesthetics in Japan and the UK

2021 ◽  
pp. 027623742110018
Author(s):  
Ernesto Monroy ◽  
Toshie Imada ◽  
Noam Sagiv ◽  
Guido Orgs
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Aesthetic Perception ◽  
Social Signals ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
Semantic Associations ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Movement Synchrony ◽  
The Uk

Western European and East Asian cultures show marked differences in aesthetic appreciation of the visual arts. East Asian aesthetics are often associated with a holistic focus on balance and harmony, in contrast to Western aesthetics, which often focus on the expression of the individual. In this study, we examined whether cultural differences also exist in relation to the aesthetics of dance. Japanese and British participants completed an online survey in which they evaluated synchronous and asynchronous dance video clips on eight semantic differential scales. We observed that the aesthetics of group dance depend on cultural background. Specifically, British participants preferred asynchronous over synchronous dance whereas Japanese participants equally liked synchronous and asynchronous dance movement. For both cultures, preferences were based on distinct semantic associations with movement synchrony. We argue that cultural differences in aesthetic perception of group dance relate to the culturally specific social signals conveyed by unison movement.

scholarly journals Exchange Rate Adjustment And Output In SouthEast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 1223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal P. Upadhyaya ◽  
Robert Rainish ◽  
Neetu Kaushik ◽  
Rabindra N. Bhandari
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Nominal Exchange Rate ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Output Level ◽  
Rate Adjustment ◽  
Short Run

This paper studies the effect of currencydevaluation on aggregate output level in South- East Asian countries usingpanel data from Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines for a periodfrom 1980 to 2010. An empirical modelthat includes monetary, fiscal and exchange rate variables is developed. Two versions of the model, one with realexchange rate and another with nominal exchange rate and foreign-to-domesticprice ratio are estimated. An errorcorrection model is developed and the time series properties of the panel dataare diagnosed before estimating the model.The estimated results suggest that currency devaluations are contractionaryin the short run and the intermediate run and this contractionary effect comesfrom the change in nominal exchange rate and not from the change in foreign-to-domesticprice ratio.

scholarly journals Impact of Natural Disasters on Foreign Direct Investment in South and South-East Asian Countries

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 300-307
Author(s):  
S. M. Moin Uddin Ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Standard Error ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Fixed Effects ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Fixed Effects Model ◽  
Asian Countries

Abstract: This paper examines the empirical relationship between natural disasters and FDI in 14 South and South-East Asian countries, 7 from South Asia, are Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and the rest 7 from South East Asian countries, these are Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam taking panel data from 2000-2011. The two key variables are used in the analysis, foreign direct investment is the dependent variable; the total net inflows of FDI as a percentage of GDP is taken. The second key variable indicates natural disasters, the independent variable. Fixed effects model and Heteroskedasticity-Autocorrelation-Consistent (HAC) standard error are employed to estimate lagged and immediate impact of natural disaster on FDI. The empirical results show that natural disasters have a negative and statistically significant impact on FDI with two years of lag. The results indicate that post disasters management matters for attracting FDI inflow. Post disasters recovery systems and relevant policies should be able to improve the confidence of foreign investors and attractiveness of affected areas by establishing reliable and strong infrastructures and institutions. This would guide the policymakers for better fiscal decisions, mainstreaming the economic impacts of natural disasters in long-term economic planning for attracting FDI inflows and preparedness aftermath of natural disasters. Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Natural disasters; Panel data; Fixed effects model; HAC standard error

scholarly journals Purchasing Power Parity and Productivity-Bias Hypothesis

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Tri Widodo
Keyword(s):  
Purchasing Power Parity ◽  
Significant Contribution ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Purchasing Power ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Power Parity ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Traded Goods ◽  
Univariate Time Series

AbstractThis paper examines the purchasing power parity (PPP) theorem adjusted the “productivity-bias hypothesis” or the Balassa-Samuelson effect (Balassa, 1964; Samuelson, 1964) for eight East Asian countries including Japan, New Industrializing Economies (NIE-3: Singapore; Hong Kong, China; and Korea), the ASEAN-3 (Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines) and the People’s Republic of China (PRC). This paper applies three methods of analysis i.e. univariate time series, multivariate regression and Johansen multivariate cointegration. The three methods give the same conclusions. First, the PPP hypothesis does not hold in the case of the eight East Asian countries. Second, non-traded goods give significant contribution on the PPP deviation. It is confirmed by the existence of Balassa-Samuelson effect.

Policy gaps to test South-east Asia-US security ties

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South China Sea ◽  
East Asia ◽  
National Security ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Military Officers ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Policy Problems

Significance Both documents will reflect Trump’s emphasis on military solutions to foreign policy problems, which has also been evident from his appointment of several former high-ranking military officers to top national security posts. This trend will likely strengthen traditional US security partnerships in South-east Asia: with Thailand and the Philippines, the two US allies, and with Singapore. However, it could complicate US counterterrorism cooperation with South-east Asian governments, which relies more on partnerships with police and intelligence agencies. Impacts Trump needs to manage Duterte’s suspicion of Washington to build a stronger Philippines-US relationship. This would support a greater US naval presence in the South China Sea. It will also be crucial to tackling IS in South-east Asia given the southern Philippines’ vulnerability to terrorists. Washington will need further to warm ties with other IS-vulnerable South-east Asian countries such as Myanmar.

End to Philippine-US security pact will benefit China

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Military Personnel ◽  
East Asian ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Us Military ◽  
Defence Cooperation

Subject Philippine-US security ties. Significance President Rodrigo Duterte’s government earlier this month notified Washington that Manila was withdrawing from the 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA), which provides a legal framework for US military personnel to deploy to the Philippines on a temporary basis. The withdrawal will come into effect 180 days from notification. Impacts Fallout from abrogating the VFA could include increased tensions between the United States and China. Washington will count on certain South-east Asian countries such as Singapore to increase defence cooperation with the United States. US military ties with Japan, South Korea and Australia will remain strong.

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