Pengaruh intensitas informasi teman sebaya, literasi ekonomi, dan kontrol diri terhadap pembelian impulsif pada genbi Universitas Negeri Malang periode 2020-2021

This study aims to measure and analyze the effect of peer information intensity, economic literacy, and self-control on impulsive buying at GenBI State University of Malang for the period 2020-2021. This research uses descriptive research with quantitative methods. The data is obtained by distributing the instruments located on the Google Form link by calling the respondent's Whatsapp number. Based on the research results, it was decided that the three independent variables have an effect on impulsive buying. Peer information intensity is the most dominant in influencing impulsive buying. The third variation of the independent variables can explain impulsive buying by 59.3 percent. Abstrak Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur dan menganalisis pengaruh intensitas informasi teman sebaya, literasi ekonomi, dan kontrol diri terhadap pembelian impulsif pada GenBI Universitas Negeri Malang periode 2020-2021. Penelitian ini menggunakan jenis penelitian deskriptif dengan metode kuantitatif. Data diperoleh dengan menyebarkan instrumen yang terletak pada link Google Form dengan menghubungi nomor Whatsapp responden. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, diputuskan bahwa ketiga variabel independen berpengaruh terhadap pembelian impulsif. Intensitas informasi teman sebaya paling dominan dalam mempengaruhi pembelian impulsif. Variasi ketiga variabel bebas dapat menjelaskan pembelian impulsif sebesar 59,3 persen.

Sustainable Team Design: A Challenge to Traditional Beliefs in Information-Intensive Service Industries

Sustainable management activities focus on creating value for organizations. This is particularly relevant in service organizations as they are under increasing pressure to capture and process information efficiently. We advocate that the amount of information and the way teams process this information have a substantial impact on an organization’s ability to sustain a competitive advantage. This study addresses a gap in the literature by examining the impact of the level of information intensity on performance in the service industry. It also contributes to the debate about whether team structure facilitates performance in a service-based organization. A longitudinal design was employed to determine whether information-intensive processes influence performance, and if so, whether the impact differs between team designs. To do this, data were collected from 24,925 motor insurance claims over two distinct time periods. While our findings confirm that information intensity has a direct impact on the performance of claims processing, they also challenge traditional beliefs about self-managed work teams’ dominance. By adopting a more nuanced and context-specific perspective, we discovered that in certain situations the production line approach to team design was more productive than self-directed work teams in respect to critical operational tasks. This research sheds light on a relatively unexplored aspect of the service industry, has implications for sustainable management practices relating to team design, and provides a rich vein for future research studies.

An empirical assessment of the relationship between Information Intensity and IT Leaders’ Role and Structural Power

Using the theoretical lens of the contingency approach to leadership, this study explores the relationship between the information intensity of the organization’s value chains and IT leaders’ role and structural power. Based on data obtained from a sample of 174 Australian IT senior executives, a multiple analysis of variance (MANOVA) is used to empirically test for differences between the IT leader’s role and structural power in high and low information intensive organizations. Findings suggest that value chain information intensity significantly influences the importance of individual CIO roles as well as the combined operational (supply) and strategic (demand) groups of roles. However, the IT leaders’ structural power was found to be unrelated to the level of information intensity of the organization. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health (literature review)

The coronavirus disease (COVID- 19) caused by the novel Coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2 was firstly identified in December 2019 in China. Later on, in 3 months it got the status of a global pandemic. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) posed a number of new challenges and questions for the population, medicine, and particularly for psychiatry. In many cases, it triggered a psychogenic beginning of mental, psychosomatic and somatic diseases. The initial pathogenesis of the mental diseases existing among the population has been complicated and sufficiently distorted due to COVID-19. In addition, it acts as the primary reason for the onset of many still unexplored and unknown illness processes, including mental diseases. Nowadays, the relevance of mental health plays an important role in personal, family, working, or social relationships. The rhythm of life and work in modern world demands stable mental health. It should be active, flexible, with sufficient reserve and rapid recovery. Some mental health disorders with the combination of increased information intensity and amount of communication links often lead even employable young people towards a deep lifelong disability. This pushes their active relatives, medical and social staff to their service. As consequence, these challenges pose a plenty of questions to society about the formation of family, parent and social relationships. As a result, COVID-19 and consequences caused by global pandemic require fast, adequate and in-time reaction from local and global societies. Retarded and unequal response can pose the humanity against diverse outcomes of this tragedy. To resume, it can sufficiently decrease the average level of human health all over the world.

Formation Specifics of Language Personality in a Multicultural Environment

The article considers the specificity of modern linguistic personality formation in KabardinoBalkaria, a social space of which develops as a multidimensional and multifaceted multicultural environment characterized by the expansion of the boundaries of cultural communication; updating the cultural significance of belonging to the Russian world; the intensification of tendencies towards the assertion of national identity; the proliferation of ideas and views faith communities; expansion of the modern media discourse, activation of the processes of information intensity and mass digital accessibility, which generally forms the media culture of society, etc. It is noted that in the multicultural space of the Republic, the culture of Russian society with the basic culture of the Russian people, the national cultures of the titular peoples (Kabardins and Balkars), and religious (mainly Islamic) culture occupy dominant positions that determine the cultural preferences of the modern language personality, the formation and development of which is significantly influenced by social, ethnic and psychological factors.

LENDING RELATIONSHIP DAN DAMPAKNYA TERHADAP AKSES KREDIT BAGI USAHA KECIL DAN MIKRO: (STUDI PADA USAHA SIMPAN PINJAM OLEH BADAN USAHA MILIK DESA/BUMDES DI PULAU LOMBOK)

The informal sector in developing countries like Indonesia is able to grow rapidly and is able to absorb labor. However, the ability to access credit is one of the main obstacles for the development and growth of Small and Micro Enterprises (SMEs). Microcredit is characterized with the existence of information asymmetry, for that we need a different approach in distributing financing for SMEs, one of which is to apply the approach lending relationship. The research was conducted at 12 Lembaga Keuangan Mikro (LKM) BUMDes in Lombok. The results indicate that the variable lending relationship positively affects credit approval and the period for credit approval submitted by customers. It means that loan approval and approval timeframes increase with the increase in the intensity of the relationship between LKM BUMDes and micro customers. The interest rate and the application of collateral do not have a positive effect on lending relationships. The implication of these results is to illustrate the intensity of interactions between borrowers and lenders can provide credit access for micro customers. Another implication shows that the microcredit distribution strategy must be carried out by building continuous relationships with customers to reduce the occurrence of information asymmetry in micro-credit distributionKeywords :Asymmetric information, intensity of relationship, interest rate, collateral, micro credit, LKM BUMDes

OPTION PRICING IN MARKETS WITH INFORMED TRADERS

The objective of this paper is to introduce the theory of option pricing for markets with informed traders within the framework of dynamic asset pricing theory. We introduce new models for option pricing for informed traders in complete markets, where we consider traders with information on the stock price direction and stock return mean. The Black–Scholes–Merton option pricing theory is extended for markets with informed traders, where price processes are following continuous-diffusions. By doing so, the discontinuity puzzle in option pricing is resolved. Using market option data, we estimate the implied surface of the probability for a stock upturn, the implied mean stock return surface, and implied trader information intensity surface.

Modeling Public Opinion Reversal Process with the Considerations of External Intervention Information and Individual Internal Characteristics

With the rapid development of “we media” technology, external information about the same sudden hot social event is often involved repetitiously, leading to frequent public opinion reversal. However, the phenomenon of public opinion reversal process usually has a long-lasting duration and spreads wide, making the event itself attract the widespread attention of ordinary people. Focusing on the public opinion reversal process of sudden social hot topic (a popular and widely discussed issue), this paper firstly identifies the internal and external factors that affect the reversal, namely individual internal characteristics and external intervention information. Secondly, information intensity and the amount of information perceived by individuals are introduced to describe the impact of external intervention information on the public opinion reversal. Thirdly, the parameters of individual attention and conservation are used to describe the process of individual’s selection of external information, so as to reveal the influence of the internal characteristics on public opinion reversal, and then build a public opinion reversal model. Fourthly, the effects of information intensity and individual attention, as well as individual conservation on the process of public opinion reversal are analyzed by simulation experiment. Simulation results show that: (1) the intensity of external intervention information affects the direction and degree of public opinion reversal; (2) when individual conservation is strong or individual attention is weak, even if external intervention information is strong, there will still be no obvious reversal of public opinion. Subsequently, the rationality and effectiveness of the proposed model are verified by a real case. Finally, some recommendations and policy implications are also given.

Information technology competency and organizational agility: roles of absorptive capacity and information intensity

PurposeScholars have examined the possible relationship between information technology (IT) and organizational agility. Although the general-level effect of IT is undisputed, empirical research on how different types of IT contribute to various aspects of organizational agility remains scarce. Therefore, this study aims to propose an integrated framework of internal capability and external environment to address this research gap.Design/methodology/approachThis study investigates the potential mediating effects of absorptive capacity and the moderating effects of information intensity in the IT‒agility relationship. With a dataset comprising 165 organizations in China, this work provides empirical evidence that the effects of absorptive capacity and information intensity are multifaceted and nuanced, thereby revealing the latent mechanisms of IT competency and organizational agility.FindingsAbsorptive capacity partially mediates the effects of IT knowledge and IT operations on market capitalizing agility and fully mediates their effects on operational adjustment agility. However, no direct or indirect effects of IT objects are found on both types of organizational agility. Information intensity also positively moderates the effects of IT operations and IT objects on absorptive capacity. However, no significant moderation is found with regard to IT operations.Originality/valueThis study provides novel insights by demonstrating clearly the different mediating roles of absorptive capacity in the relationship among various types of IT competency and diverse aspects of organizational agility. This work also underscores the moderating role of information intensity in shaping absorptive capacity through IT competency.