All Outputs (16)

Exploring active and passive interactions in social networking services: a psychological needs perspective (2023)
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Purpose-People's socializing behavior in social networking services (SNS) presents dramatically different features, forming differentiated online social interaction patterns (DOSIP) in SNS. This study aims to explore the relationships between users'... Read More about Exploring active and passive interactions in social networking services: a psychological needs perspective.

Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains (2023)
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More than 50 million people in the world are estimated to be in a situation of modern slavery, the most extreme form of labour exploitation. Many of them are working in sectors such as mining and agriculture, which produce price-sensitive commodity p... Read More about Adoption and transferability of joint interventions to fight modern slavery in food supply chains.

Examining the influential factors of consumer purchase intentions for blockchain traceable coffee using the theory of planned behaviour (2022)
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Purpose: Given the increasing industry interest in blockchain technologies for supply chain management and product traceability, this paper aims to investigate consumer purchasing intentions for blockchain traceable coffee and their psychosocial ante... Read More about Examining the influential factors of consumer purchase intentions for blockchain traceable coffee using the theory of planned behaviour.

Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model (2020)
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Subcontracting represents a popular business model in supply chains across industries. In the case of hidden subcontracting, subcontractors are beyond the visible horizon of the (focal) buying firm. Hence, buyers cannot intervene in the management of... Read More about Diffusion of labor standards through supplier–subcontractor networks: An agent‐based model.

Using data science to understand the film industry’s gender gap (2020)
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Data science can offer answers to a wide range of social science questions. Here we turn attention to the portrayal of women in movies, an industry that has a significant influence on society, impacting such aspects of life as self-esteem and career... Read More about Using data science to understand the film industry’s gender gap.

Understanding the effects of physical experience and information integration on consumer use of online to offline commerce (2019)
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Online to Offline (O2O) commerce commands intense attention from both academic and practical fields, but the unique features of O2O commerce and how these features affect consumer use of O2O commerce remain unclear. Based on an analysis of the featur... Read More about Understanding the effects of physical experience and information integration on consumer use of online to offline commerce.

Demonstrability, difficulty and persuasion: An experimental study of advice taking (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Self-interested paid advisors should try to sell their solutions no matter how they came about. However, we present evidence that advisor persuasiveness depends on two dimensions of their prior problem solving: solution difficult... Read More about Demonstrability, difficulty and persuasion: An experimental study of advice taking.

The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection (2019)
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© 2019 Elsevier B.V. Civil society increasingly holds focal companies accountable for ensuring socially and environmentally sustainable production standards among their supply base. These standards entail increased levels of complexity to be addresse... Read More about The Voting Analytic Hierarchy Process revisited: A revised method with application to sustainable supplier selection.

Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach (2018)
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Using an agent-based model we explore the model of slavery in modern business developed by Crane (2013). Taking the Spanish agricultural sector—specifically the area of Campo de Dalías in Almería where much of Europe's vegetables are grown—as a case,... Read More about Understanding labour exploitation in the Spanish agricultural sector using an agent based approach.

Information richness and trust in V-commerce: implications for services marketing (2017)
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Purpose: The potential for e-commerce is limited by a trust deficit when traders do not interact in a physical, bricks-and-mortar context. The theory of information richness posits that equivocal interactions, such as ones requiring trust, can be fac... Read More about Information richness and trust in V-commerce: implications for services marketing.

Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting (2017)
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We propose the use of agent based modelling to create a shadow account, that is, a secondary account of a business which is used to audit or verify the primary ac¬count. Such a model could be used to test the claims of industries and businesses. For... Read More about Agent based modelling as a decision support system for shadow accounting.

How user personality and social value orientation influence avatar mediated friendship (2016)
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of user personality and vlaues on the number of connections users make, the number of requests for connections that users give out, and the number of connections invitations users receive.... Read More about How user personality and social value orientation influence avatar mediated friendship.

The Influence of influence: the effect of task repetition on persuaders and persuades (2016)
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We investigate how the experience of influencing and of being influenced impacts on a subsequent, immediate attempt to influence and be influenced. We conduct an experiment using participant dyads matched in a round-robin design which systematically... Read More about The Influence of influence: the effect of task repetition on persuaders and persuades.

Prior knowledge: the role of virtual worlds in venture creation (2014)
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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.em... Read More about Prior knowledge: the role of virtual worlds in venture creation.

Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds (2014)
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This paper examines the determinants of friendship between two users in a virtual world who are unaware of each other's real identities. Drawing on theories of homophily, heterophily and propinquity, three virtual world behaviours are analysed: avata... Read More about Determinants of Friendship in Social Networking Virtual Worlds.

Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information (2013)
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The term ‘viral’ is used to describe a phenomenon that tends to be shared by those who encounter it. This paper considers the act of responding positively to a phenomenon by sharing it with others, something exemplified by the online social media act... Read More about Networked individuals predict a community wide outcome from their local information.