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Sanchez, Blandine, and Nathan Fanise. "Impact of managerial innovation on corporate social responsability : Ikea case study analysis." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-28661.
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The purpose of this master thesis is to provide a deeper understandingof managerial innovation impact on companies through Corporate SocialResponsibility (CSR). For this objective, IKEA Karlstad was chosen for theempirical part in order to apply the theoretical framework to practicalrelevance. The method used for this thesis was a case study design includingdata collection from literature in different databases: Emerald, BusinessSource Premier, Scopus as well as Google Scholar. Regarding data collection forthe case study, three qualitative questionnaires were also distributed to IKEA:two designed for the local IT and sustainability coordinator Magnus Engstrandand one targeting employees. A quantitative questionnaire was distributed toIKEA employees too. An interview was set up with Magnus Engstrand according tothe unstructured interview guidelines. The theoretical framework focuses notonly on understanding the links between managerial innovation and CSR,managerial and technological innovations but also on the companies’ motivationto implement these actions and their impact on employees, organizations andcommunity. From our analysis of the literature it can be stated that managerialinnovation is stimulated by an internal element of the company. Managerialinnovation helps partly or entirely to develop CSR actions resulting in thecreation of positive value: tangible or intangible; or negative value accordingto value resonance or value dissonance. The case study analysis broughtexamples of how managerial innovation brings value without involvement of anytechnological innovation contradicting certain theories exposed in thetheoretical framework. At IKEA, the three different types of managerialinnovations are management, administrative and organizational innovations whichare used to develop CSR actions and constitute a minor or major part of theirimplementation. The impact of managerial innovation on CSR is translated atIKEA Karlstad as an intangible value for the company and its stakeholders. Thisthesis contributes to a better comprehension of managerial innovation conceptsin general as well as its application in a CSR strategy through concreteexamples. It can also be used as a demonstration of how managerial innovationcan be used to improve the internal and external images as well as employees’welfare and perceptions. Further qualitative research is needed to measure themanner of managerial innovations as well as quantitative studies to generalizeits impact on a larger scale.
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Fitzhugh, Helen. "The role of organisational values in value creation : comparing social enterprises." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2017. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/66835/.
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Social enterprises (SEs) are businesses that aim to create positive change for individuals and society. They are part of a society-wide discussion over how to create ‘social’ value, where the focus is often on finding efficient and effective means of ‘doing good’, but without consistent recognition that ‘good’ is a subjective term. Critical scholarship directs us to pay more attention to this subjectivity. This study explored how beliefs about what is ‘good’ - i.e. values - influence the experiences SEs provide for the people they aim to benefit. The mixed methods exploratory study drew on data from an online survey of SE organisational values and case-situated interviews across 14 English SEs. Quantitative and qualitative data were gathered on organisational values, decision-making and perceptions of value. The multi-faceted analysis approach reflected the influence of applied critical realism on the research design. The study found that certain ‘process’ values - i.e. beliefs about how SEs should operate - were surprisingly common across diverse cases. Coalescing around these values appeared to allow SE practitioners to downplay variation in ‘outcomes’ values - i.e. end-state preferences. While many SE practitioners described their preferences as common sense, clear differences in outcomes values belied claims of neutrality. These findings were used to posit a five point conceptual model of how values influence value creation. This academic contribution underpins two propositions with implications for policy and practice. Where values are instrumental in influencing the design and emphasis of activities carried out by SEs, the political implications of adopting different outcomes values should be more commonly recognised. Secondly, SEs should be aware that for the full translation of their intentions into perceptions of value creation, their activities must align with stakeholder expectations. Both participative and persuasive approaches to bringing about this alignment also carry with them politically significant choices.
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Goitom, Meron. "Shared Value Creation in Social Business Models : Shared value in social businesses: A business model approach." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Business Model Innovation (BMI), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-27909.
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Zauner, Alexander, Monika Koller, and Matthias Fink. "Sponsoring, brand value and social media." Fundação Getulio Vargas, 2012. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5009/1/Zauner_etal_2012_RAE_Sponsoring%2Dbrand%2Dvalue.pdf.
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The increasing involvement of individuals in social media over the past decade has enabled firms to pursue new avenues in communication and sponsoring activities. Besides general research on either social media or sponsoring, questions regarding the consequences of a joint activity (sponsoring activities in social media) remain unexplored. Hence, the present study analyses whether the perceived image of the brand and the celebrity endorser credibility of a top sports team influence the perceived brand value of the sponsoring firm in a social media setting. Moreover, these effects are compared between existing customers and non-customers of the sponsoring firm. Interestingly, perceived celebrity endorser credibility plays no role in forming brand value perceptions in the case of the existing customers. Implications for marketing theory and practice are derived. (authors' abstract)
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Li, Qian. "Corporate social irresponsibility and shareholder value." Thesis, University of Reading, 2017. http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/78138/.
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This thesis attempts to make original contributions by addressing the empirical relationship between corporate social irresponsibility (CSiR) and shareholder value grounded on separate research purposes and paradigms. The first essay directly links CSiR activities to reputation risk. Using a large sample of 7,442 companies spread over 44 countries, this study investigates the differences between portfolios of stocks exposed to high and low reputation risk across developed and developing countries. The main results indicate that stocks with low reputation risk earn higher abnormal returns than stocks with high reputation risk after controlling for well-known risk factors. This research also finds that differences in terms of abnormal returns between high and low reputation risk portfolios are more significant in developing countries than in developed countries, and the differences are more significant in non-financial sectors than in financial sectors. The second essay examines the impact of CSiR behaviour on long-run abnormal returns in China. This study builds calendar-time portfolios consisting of Chinese stocks engaged in a wide range of CSiR issues and compares the financial performance between news coverage periods and no-news coverage periods. The main findings suggest that the companies involved in corporate governance and product-related controversies suffer the most in shareholder value destruction. The results also show that the effects of CSiR behaviour on shareholder value are contingent on and moderated by factors, such as firm characteristics, investor types, news characteristics, and market environments. The third essay extends the research topic to the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) disclosure which measures the transparency levels of companies’ reporting on ESG-related information. Using a large US sample, this essay investigates whether higher transparency on ESG disclosure provides insurance-like protection for firms involved in CSiR activities. Although there is no explicit protection for high ESG disclosure companies, the results show that the market more likely penalises low ESG disclosure companies. In addition, the results indicate that the moderating effect is more pronounced in corporate governance dimensions, large firms, consumer sectors, and periods after the financial crisis.
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Fallis, Don. "Epistemic Value Theory and Social Epistemology." University of Edinburgh, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105269.
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In order to guide the decisions of real people who want to bring about good epistemic outcomes for themselves and others, we need to understand our epistemic values. In Knowledge in a Social World, Alvin Goldman has proposed an epistemic value theory that allows us to say whether one outcome is epistemically better than another. However, it has been suggested that Goldmanâ s theory is not really an epistemic value theory at all because whether one outcome is epistemically better than another partly depends on our non-epistemic interests. In this paper, I argue that an epistemic value theory that serves the purposes of social epistemology must incorporate non-epistemic interests in much the way that Goldmanâ s theory does. In fact, I argue that Goldmanâ s theory does not go far enough in this direction. In particular, the epistemic value of having a particular true belief should actually be weighted by how interested we are in the topic.
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Daniels, Keynasia Kami. "Do educators value school social workers?" CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2834.
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The purpose of this study is to examine educators' (teachers and school administrators) level of knowledge about the professional role of school social workers and the value that educators place on the functions carried out by social workers as pupil support personnel.
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Hueppauff, Anna. "The social value of contemplating poetry." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2022. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2522.
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Justifications for defunding the Arts and Humanities are well rehearsed: public funds should be reallocated toward developing skills directly leading toward sustainable employment, that is, toward labour streams demanded by industry. President John F. Kennedy took a different view, envisioning the role of the artist (and poet in particular) as an essential moral function. For Kennedy, the poet is both philosopher and prophet, providing a moral compass that leads the nation back to its better self when excesses of power have corrupted it from within. The role Kennedy assigned to poets echoes the civic/cultural practice of theoria (contemplation), a pilgrimage for the pursuit of knowledge enacted by ancient Greek intellectuals. Notably, for Plato and earlier Greek intellectuals, the insight gained from this contemplative endeavour was expected to have practical value and advance the city state, which indicates that outcomes mattered. Like Plato, Hannah Arendt also links the progress of civilisation with the quality of our thinking. As is well known now, Arendt attributes banal acts of evil to thoughtlessness, thus heightening the imperative ‘to think what we are doing’. There is evidence to suggest that contemplative compassion training can work as a potential mode to bridge the motivational gap between empathetic awareness and moral action. Western pedagogic and psychotherapeutic strategies incorporate contemplative principles for their capacity to support transformation. These interventions draw on Buddhist conceptions of wisdom, distress tolerance, and non-judgmental awareness to develop a structure for training compassion, thereby enabling the agent to move from intention to productive action. This thesis therefore explores the potential for poetry to participate in this work.
The first part of this thesis considers how poets have long modelled the capacity of poetry to do political work, as demonstrated by fifth century BCE poet-legislator Solon, who recorded justifications of his laws in poetry. The second part examines how the Romantic poets foreshadowed Kennedy’s idealised philosopher poet by 200 years, including the 18th century poet Anna Letitia Barbauld, who enacted the political work elevated by Arendt through poetry and prose that outlines the obligations of the citizen and critiques the actions of the state. The third part explores how poets in the early 20th century participated (or not) in this kind of work. The contribution of ‘High Modernist’ T. S. Eliot is assessed as well as the Modernist anarchist poet, Lola Ridge, who advocated for marginalised, incarcerated, and deceased identities in both the public and private realm. By reinserting poetry into the public sphere, Ridge models how poetry can be repurposed toward political/moral ends and provide a unique platform for social critique and the emergence of new identities. The thesis concludes by considering how, in addition to public advocacy, poetry may also participate in compassion training. Following psychotherapeutic interest in Buddhist principles to facilitate transformation, this thesis explores the capacity of poetry to participate in cultivating compassion by reading T. S. Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ and Four Quartets and Lola Ridge’s ‘The Ghetto’ (and other poems) through the Buddhist lens of the Four Noble Truths. These readings demonstrate that poetry can do more than provide aesthetic pleasure. As an effect of and a medium for contemplation, poetry can facilitate critical thinking; further, it can stimulate creative possibilities toward realising moral ends. Crucially, it can cultivate moral agency by enlarging our capacity for compassion. In short, the contemplation of poetry can enable us to follow Arendt’s council to ‘think what we are doing’.
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Lee, Kam-ming, and 李錦明. "A study of values and value teaching in personal and social education among boys' social development schools." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961071.
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Lee, Kam-ming. "A study of values and value teaching in personal and social education among boys' social development schools." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21305158.
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Amm, Kathryn Leigh. "Social enterprises, social value and job creation in Cape Town." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1260.
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Social enterprises are organisations which seek to meet social needs whilst generating their own financial returns. They are becoming increasingly important in South Africa as their approach is not dependent on philanthropy and is therefore largely self-sustainable. Meeting social needs can happen in many ways, but bottom up approaches, which are driven by the poor through providing access to satisifers for fundamental needs are becoming increasingly important. The impact which social enterprises have is not clearly understood and is seldom measured. There is a need to develop tools which are able to portray the social value of these impacts. This study seeks to explore the impact of three social enterprises in Cape Town. The study focuses on the social value of job creation, a pressing need across South Africa, and a social return common to all three enterprises. The study found that a primary concern for staff was job security and earning a decent wage, and without this as a starting point other social returns are minimised. Camaraderie and a sense pride are two important social returns which are also produced. The study also showed that producing social returns must be an intentional activity, and involves a process of negotiation and understanding the needs and values of different stakeholders.
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Wong, Desmond. "Social Money : Finding social value in transaction through design research." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-91351.
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This is a question-driven project where it seeks to find social connections in monetary transactions. Disruptive experiments have been conducted to understand the complex relationship between money and social connections. A design concept, developed through a service blueprint, has been used to investigate a hypothesis. Screen-based mobile app prototypes have been used to engage users to dialogue into the issue of social connections in transactions. By basing purchasing decisions on economic value, consumers are neglecting to take social values into consideration. As a result, it has led to social disconnection between the consumers and the producers. By research through design, this project aims to identify the attributes in monetary transaction that led to this disconnection. It also aims to image a new transaction system highlighting social connections. The result is a payment platform concept as a case study of for the restaurant industry. By tracing and visualizing the flow of money in a purchase, the payment platform allows the consumers to see the connections they have with the producers. By making the social connections visible, consumers can begin to balance their purchasing decision based on social and monetary values. Through the dialogues generated in the user tests, the project encounters the social issue in the increasing dependence on imported food and its effect on the local economy. The dialogues also shed light on the fact that the dependence on money as a medium of exchange deepens the interdependency between individuals as today’s food production requires global collaboration. By making social connections visible in transaction, instead of social disconnection, money is in fact social.
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Easy, Omarsha. "Strategic CSR- A way to create societal value for Social Enterprises." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21516.
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This is a conceptual paper that study through literature review how strategic CSR could create societal value in social enterprise. The study reviews literature on CSR Pyramid, Triple Bottom and show the intricacy of both models in the development of the concept strategic CSR. The paper further goes on to discuss several researches conduct on the concept strategic CSR. The strategic CSR model adopts from Werther and Chandler (2011) is explain thru the CSR filter - ―assessing management’s planned actions by considering the impact of day-day- tactical decisions and longer-term strategies on the organizations constituents”. It also studies the emergence of social enterprise, forms of social enterprise, role of social entrepreneur, social mission, and strategy and stakeholders involvement. The literature review ends with the concept societal which is contextualized in the concept social and economic value.The model use to help explain the framework is the CSR filter. This model is appropriate because it allows the reader to understand how strategic CSR create value in profit business. A number of books and databases in the field of Strategic Management and Social Entrepreneurship were used to acquire literature on the topic. The findings of the paper include innovation, leadership, mission, strategy and organizational structure as well as stakeholder‘s participation and these are ways how strategic CSR could use by Social Enterprise to create social and economic value.Conclusions from the literature are drawn and states that by identifying, incorporating and managing stakeholder‘s relationships does play a key role in how strategic CSR create societal value as well as the balancing of social and economic value should be taken into consideration. The paper ends with recommendations on further research on how can social enterprise measure stakeholders return? And to analyze if the balance that exist between for profit business and not for profit business should be equal.
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Anner, John. "Blended Value Accounting and Social Enterprise Success." Thesis, Walden University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3746906.
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Social enterprises (SEs) are businesses managed by entrepreneurs who seek to improve society, and they represent an important trend in social change work. However, there is little empirical knowledge about which blended value accounting (BVA) methods are used by SE managers, and whether the use of BVA is perceived by SE managers as a critical success factor. Blended value accounting is a conceptual framework for measuring combined social and financial outcomes in SEs, and some believe that the use of BVA may be a critical success factor for SEs. This research was based on Covin and Slevin’s conceptualization of entrepreneurial orientation. The main research question was whether the use of BVA methods was correlated with SE success from the perception of the SE managers. Surveys were sent to 3,682 SE managers in North America, the United Kingdom, Asia, and Africa (n = 280). Data were analyzed using multiple regression, with the dependent variable SE success, and the independent variables: the use of BVA method, number of employees, length of time in business, economic sector, and country of registration. Findings indicated no statistically significant correlation between the use of BVA method and SE success, though most SE managers, 73% of 280 respondents, were using BVA methods for other reasons, including complying with state laws. The BVA method B-Impact Rating System was used by 59% of survey respondents who used any method of BVA. These findings suggest that SE managers should select a BVA method that is inexpensive to implement, aligns with industry standards, and provides them with management information. Supporting agencies should create a global registry of SEs, report on the social change impact they create through their businesses, and encourage all businesses to adopt the social-change orientation of SEs.
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Sizikova, Evelina. "Social Media- A New Instrument to Influence Brand Value." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125069.
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With the rising power of Internet and especially social media which includes different communities, blogs, portals(1) , etc., nowadays brand value, - its creation and control, is not in the hands of the companies anymore, but is shifted to the consumers. One aim of this paper is to investigate and try to prove the existence of social media influence on brand value. Another goal is to introduce a different vision of brand value in connection with Internet and the rise of social media's influence on consumer's minds. For the purpose of this research the terms brand value and brand equity would bear equal meanings. My theory, which I would like to introduce, was borrowed from biology and physics, namely from I.P. Pavlov's studies and his conditioned reflex theory(2) and the physics part is based on the dispersion of light theory which was first introduced, as we know, by Isaak Newton(3). I dare to say, that nowadays creation of brand value in consumer minds works the same way. When someone, man or woman, hears a brand name, a picture and a feeling, either positive or negative is immediately formed in the person's mind from personal experience with this brand. If not, then the brand is an unfamiliar one, thus we have to rely on a provided opinion, which was previously usually conveyed to us by family, relatives and close friends while recently, also by our growing virtual community. At the beginning of the thesis, I will present the theoretical background and data on World Wide Web and social media, followed by a concise description of some of the existing brand equity models, afterwards introducing my own vision on significant brand value components, elaborating on this theory with the help of relevant case studies and researches. Brand equity has generally been defined as "a brand's power derived from the goodwill and name recognition that it has earned over time, which translates into higher sales volume and higher profit margins against competing brands"(4). Further on in the second chapter I will bring together more definitions on brand equity/value to be able to propose a modified one, components of which will be discussed thoroughly in the same chapter. The main goal of my Master Thesis is to analyze the existence of a dependency between social media and brand value. A second goal is to assess whether the impact is a positive or a negative one or is a mixture of both.
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Sorensen, Anne. "Social media for social good: Value creation in social media based cause brand communities." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2015. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/91391/4/Anne%20Sorensen%20Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis presents a case study of value creation in the social media based brand communities of two Australian cause organisations. It improves understanding of how value is created in this increasingly important environment by examining participants' posts and practices, organisational strategies and supporters' perceptions of value creation. The thesis shows that while value creation is complex, value is generated for supporters and organisations alike, and positively influences the outcomes for recipients of the vital services provided by the cause organisations. Value creation in this context thus manifests social good for supporters, service recipients and society at large.
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Fea, Courtney J. "Value source, value priming, and social norms as predictors of engaging in minor moral/legal violations." Diss., Kansas State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/38156.
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Doctor of PhilosophyDepartment of Psychological Sciences
Laura A. Brannon
The current dissertation examined the role value sources and social norms play in people’s likelihood to commit minor moral and/or legal violations. First, using the process of value acquisition as a general guideline, five value sources were hypothesized to influence an individual’s tendency for minor moral/legal crimes. Second, based on social norms theory and social norm interventions, it was hypothesized strategically manipulating social norms may alter a person’s willingness to partake in various immoral and/or illegal activities. Two studies were conducted to test these suppositions. Participants randomly assigned to between-subjects design experiments completed questionnaires via the web. In Experiment 1, participants mindset primed with values from multiple value sources (parental, peer, media, religion, personal) indicated how they “personally would act” if provided the opportunity to commit minor moral/legal violations. Participants primed with personal, parental, and religious values were willing to act as the value source suggested in minor moral/legal violation situations. Participants primed with media values did not necessarily follow the value source’s recommendations regarding minor moral/legal violations. In Experiment 2, participants exposed to low, actual, or high social norm (and severity perception) ratings reported how likely they were to commit the same minor moral/legal violations. Participants shown high norm ratings expressed a greater willingness to engage in minor moral/legal violations than those shown low norm ratings. Results suggested value sources and norm ratings differentially impacted participants’ willingness to be involved in minor immoral and/or unlawful behavior.
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Buemi, Samuel J. "The predictive value of committed relationships and confidence on self-perceived mate value." Thesis, Capella University, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10036358.
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The field of evolutionary psychology focuses on many human behaviors; mate selection and value being some of the issues under examination. Mate value is an important concept for explaining mating strategies. Self-perceived mate value is a component of mate value that explains how one views himself or herself as a potential mating partner. The utilization of theories including the triangular theory of love and social exchange aid in explaining the variables under review. The three variables under review include level of confidence in maintaining a relationship, level of commitment to the relationship, and length of time in the relationship, which impact one’s level of self-perceived mate value. This study used one demographic measurement and three questionnaires: Relationship Contingent Self-Esteem Scale, Commitment to Relationship Scale, and the Mate Value Inventory. Further, this research distributed surveys to 114 students at a 2-year technical college in central Wisconsin to test a model through multiple regression. Using multiple regression, this study found that two of the variables (level of confidence in maintaining a relationship, the level of commitment to the relationship) aided in explaining self-perceived mate value, while time spent in a commitment relationship was not statistically significant in relation to self-perceived mate value.
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Zainuddin, Nadia. "Value co-creation in social marketing wellness services." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2011. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/47995/1/Nadia_Zainuddin_Thesis.pdf.
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Customer perceived value is concerned with the experiences of consumers when using a service and is often referred to in the context of service provision or on the basis of service quality (Auh, et al., 2007; Chang, 2008; Jackson, 2007; Laukkanen, 2007; Padgett & Mulvey, 2007; Shamdasani, Mukherjee & Malhotra, 2008). Understanding customer perceived value has benefits for social marketing and allows scholars and practitioners alike to identify why consumers engage in positive social behaviours through the use of services. Understanding consumers’ use of wellness services in particular is important, because the use of wellness services demonstrates the fulfilment of social marketing aims; performing pro-active, positive social behaviours that are of benefit to the individual and to society (Andreasen, 1994). As consumers typically act out of self-interest (Rothschild, 1999), this research posits that a value proposition must be made to consumers in order to encourage behavioural change. Thus, this research seeks to identify how value is created for consumers of wellness services in social marketing. This results in the overall research question of this research:
How is value created in social marketing wellness services?
A traditional method towards understanding value has been the adoption of an economic approach, which considers the utility gained and where value is a direct outcome of a cost-benefit analysis (Payne & Holt, 1999). However, there has since been a shift towards the adoption of an experiential approach in understanding value. This experiential approach considers the consumption experience of the consumer which extends beyond the service exchange and includes pre- and post-consumption stages (Russell-Bennett, Previte & Zainuddin, 2009). As such, this research uses an experiential approach to identify the value that exists in social marketing wellness services. Four dimensions of value have been commonly conceptualised and identified in the commercial marketing literature; functional, emotional, social, and altruistic value (Holbrook, 1994; Sheth, Newman & Gross, 1991; Sweeney & Soutar, 2001). It is not known if these value dimensions also exist in social marketing.
In addition, sources of value said to influence value dimensions have been conceptualised in the literature. Sources of value such as information, interaction, environment, service, customer co-creation, and social mandate have been conceptually identified both in the commercial and social marketing literature (Russell-Bennet, Previte & Zainuddin, 2009; Smith & Colgate, 2007). However, it is not clear which sources of value contribute to the creation of value for users of wellness services. Thus, this research seeks to explore these relationships.
This research was conducted using a wellness service context, specifically breast cancer screening services. The primary target consumer of these services is women aged 50 to 69 years old (inclusive) who have never been diagnosed with breast cancer. It is recommended that women in this target group have a breast screen every 2 years in order to achieve the most effective medical outcomes from screening.
A two-study mixed method approach was utilised. Study 1 was a qualitative exploratory study that analysed individual-depth interviews with 25 information-rich respondents. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using NVivo 8 software. The qualitative results provided evidence of the existence of the four value dimensions in social marketing. The results also allowed for the development of a typology of experiential value by synthesising current understanding of the value dimensions, with the activity aspects of experiential value identified by Holbrook (1994) and Mathwick, Malhotra and Rigdon (2001). The qualitative results also provided evidence for the existence of sources of value in social marketing, namely information, interaction, environment and consumer participation. In particular, a categorisation of sources of value was developed as a result of the findings from Study 1, which identify organisational, consumer, and third party sources of value. A proposed model of value co-creation and a set of hypotheses were developed based on the results of Study 1 for further testing in Study 2.
Study 2 was a large-scale quantitative confirmatory study that sought to test the proposed model of value co-creation and the hypotheses developed. An online-survey was administered Australia-wide to women in the target audience. A response rate of 20.1% was achieved, resulting in a final sample of 797 useable responses after removing ineligible respondents. Reliability and validity analyses were conducted on the data, followed by Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in PASW18, followed by Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in AMOS18. Following the preliminary analyses, the data was subject to Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) in AMOS18 to test the path relationships hypothesised in the proposed model of value creation.
The SEM output revealed that all hypotheses were supported, with the exception of one relationship which was non-significant. In addition, post hoc tests revealed seven further significant non-hypothesised relationships in the model. The quantitative results show that organisational sources of value as well as consumer participation sources of value influence both functional and emotional dimensions of value. The experience of both functional and emotional value in wellness services leads to satisfaction with the experience, followed by behavioural intentions to perform the behaviour and use the service again. One of the significant non-hypothesised relationships revealed that emotional value leads to functional value in wellness services, providing further empirical evidence that emotional value features more prominently than functional value for users of wellness services.
This research offers several contributions to theory and practice. Theoretically, this research addresses a gap in the literature by using social marketing theory to provide an alternative method of understanding individual behaviour in a domain that has been predominantly investigated in public health. This research also clarifies the concept of value and offers empirical evidence to show that value is a multi-dimensional construct with separate and distinct dimensions. Empirical evidence for a typology of experiential value, as well as a categorisation of sources of value is also provided. In its practical contributions, this research identifies a framework that is the value creation process and offers health services organisations a diagnostic tool to identify aspects of the service process that facilitate the value creation process.
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Smith, Murray E. G. "The value controversy and social theory : an inquiry into Marx's 'labor theory of value'." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29292.
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The aim of this study is to establish the key importance of preserving and developing Marx's 'labor theory of value' to the project of reconstructing social theory on an 'historical-materialist' basis. The seminal significance of the conceptualization of 'economic value' to wide bodies of social theory is indicated by the profound impact of the 'marginalist' theory of value/price on twentieth-century social science — not just economic theory, but such sociological paradigms as structural functionalism and social exchange theory as well. Curiously, however, the controversy surrounding Marx's theory of value has seldom been addressed by sociologists seeking to elaborate a Marxist alternative to these paradigms. The present study seeks to redress this situation by a) 'demystifying' the value controversy by disclosing its methodological, theoretical and programmatic roots, b) establishing in Marx's 'value' a category which is useful not only to the explication of capitalist reality but also in the understanding of the 'forces-relations' dialectic which is at the heart of Marx's theory of historical development, and c) demonstrating how Marx's value theory transcends the conventional academic bifurcation of the 'economic' and the 'sociological’.
In contrast to the marginalist doctrine, which analyzes the relation between 'things' and 'persons', Marx's theory of value focuses on the relation of people to people within the total process of production/reproduction: the social relations of production. Accordingly, Marx's theory is not essentially a theory of individual price formation, but rather of the articulation, division and distribution of social labor within commodity-producing economies, and of the laws of motion of societies characterized by 'generalized' commodity production. Key to this interpretation of Marx's project is the historical materialist thesis that the most significant theoretical distinction of use in the interrogation of the human world is the distinction between the material (or 'natural') and the social, not the distinction between a material 'object world' and an ideal 'subject world' which is basic to theories influencing and influenced by neo-classical marginalism. To bring the methodological and substantive-theoretical implications of Marx's theory of value into full view, a comparative critical analysis of the principal 'schools' that have participated in the value controversy is undertaken. These implications are then explored in relation to such problems as economic crisis, imperialism/underdevelopment, class structuration, the social determination of knowledge/ideology, bureaucracy, and the current 'crisis' of social theory as expressed in the division between a poitivistic scientism and a 'life-philosophical' humanism.Arts, Faculty of
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Spadafora, Andrew Jeffrey. "Freedom from Value Judgments: Value-Free Social Science and Objectivity in Germany, 1880-1914." Thesis, Harvard University, 2013. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11055.
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This dissertation addresses a central issue in the methodological debates that raged in the German academy around the turn of the twentieth century. The idea of "value-free" social science, or "value-freedom," was passed down to subsequent decades as a way of thinking about the objectivity of knowledge, but because of its name it has been widely misunderstood. Moreover, it has been seen either as a clever invention of the polymath scholar Max Weber, or as some form of ideology masquerading as neutrality (or both). Instead, a contextually sensitive historical analysis of the work of five German and Austrian scholars—Carl Menger, Ferdinand Tönnies, Georg Jellinek, Hermann Kantorowicz, and Gustav Radbruch—demonstrates that value-freedom was a complex doctrine with widely ramified sources in the intellectual history of economics, sociology, and law. It was accepted on a variety of grounds and by individuals of differing personalities, politics, philosophical training, and academic disciplines. "Value-free" social science in the work of these men meant anything but the removal of values from scholarly consideration. Instead, its advocates promoted a focus on the subjectivity and the will of the individual, goal-directed agent. Value-freedom took the form of several interrelated distinctions, between theory and practice, fact and value, "is" and "ought," means and ends; but each of these scholars coupled his preferred formulation with the shared view that human values are incapable of rational justification. They insisted on the importance of the analytical separation of the positive and normative but recognized a legitimate role for the social sciences in the positive discussion of values. However, the attempt to bridge the subjective world of human values and the objective world of social scientific fact foundered for most of them on the inherently subjective choices made by the individual scholar, leading them to face the possibility that value-freedom could not provide a successful theory of objectivity without reformulation. The dissertation spans three decades and several disciplines, including the work of important jurists whose social scientific credentials have been neglected owing to their disciplinary backgrounds.History
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Guter-Sandu, Andrei. "Leveraging social value : multiple valuation logics in the field of social finance." Thesis, City, University of London, 2018. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/20214/.
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What are the mechanisms behind the advance of financial actors, instruments, and models into the field of social policy design and delivery? Over the past couple of decades, the state’s function as provider of welfare and safety nets against various forms of socio-economic risk has been transformed not just by privatisation or downsizing, but also by the advent of alternative forms of social policy delivery. One example of the latter is social impact investment, a form of investing in social programmes with the intent of pursuing social (and environmental) impact alongside financial return, and yielding innovative financial instruments such as social impact bonds, social stocks, or community bonds. The emergence of this field is generally seen as an outcome of the broader process of financialisation. From this perspective, both financial return and social policy objectives can be achieved via the straightforward implementation of existing financial instruments and methodologies. However, the very process of implicating existing financial technologies in the sphere of the pursuit of social outcomes generates its own set of dynamics. This study focuses on these dynamics from the perspective of the valuation processes underpinning the emergence of social impact investment. It argues that as finance engulfs this field, it engages in a valuation process of fashioning and delineating a hybridised form of value – blended value – supporting its advance, which is distinctly separate, though not independent, from financial value creation. The result of this process is the concomitant proliferation of non-financial spaces of valuation, which come not to replace, but to accompany and support financialisation. In order to make this argument, it looks at the case of the valuation processes undergirding the launch of the world’s first social impact bond in 2010 in the UK. Besides providing an empirical account of the latter, it also makes a theoretical contribution to the literature on financialisation by deepening the understanding of the manner in which financial actors, instruments, and markets advance in non-financial realms.
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Murphy, Brian Matthew. "Cross-sector social partnerships: value creation and capabilities." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Ramon Llull, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/81986.
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Aquesta tesi s’organitza en un compendi de tres articles individuals, tot i que estan interrelacionats, que se centren en diversos aspectes de les relacions interorganitzatives (RIO) entre sectors, en les quals es formen aliances entre empreses i organitzacions de la societat civil per tractar problemàtiques socials complexes. L’objectiu principal d’aquest treball és contribuir a les obres de referència sobre aliances intersectorials a partir de l’anàlisi d’especificitats de les habilitats que es requereixen per involucrar-se, de manera eficaç, en RIO en què els objectius dels partners i els de l’aliança difereixen enormement de les aliances entre empreses. El primer article, “Through Indigenous Lenses: Cross-sector collaborations with fringe stakeholders” (Murphy i Arenas, 2010), il•lustrat a partir de tres casos d’estudi, proposa un marc per a la construcció d’un pont intercultural i un model per a la creació de valor en les col•laboracions intersectorials entre empreses i parts interessades de la perifèria. El segon article, “Value Creation in Cross-Sector Collaborations: Increasing influence for competitive advantage” (Murphy, Arenas i Batista), que es basa en una enquesta duta a terme entre 362 directius espanyols de múltiples sectors, analitza els efectes i la interacció de les experiències de gestió anteriors a l’aliança i l’alineació de les missions, les estratègies i els valors dels partners en l’èxit de les col•laboracions intersectorials. Finalment, l’article “A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation in Cross-Sector Collaborations” (Murphy, Perrot i Rivera-Santos, 2012), recolzat per dos casos d’estudi, presenta el concepte de capacitat relacional per a la innovació social, un model relacionat amb la capacitat d’absorció, però més adequat al context de l’aprenentatge i la innovació en les col•laboracions entre sectors en mercats de subsistència.Esta tesis se organiza en un compendio de tres artículos individuales, aunque interrelacionados, que se centran en distintos aspectos de las relaciones interorganizacionales (RIO) entre sectores, en las que se forman alianzas entre empresas y organizaciones de la sociedad civil para tratar problemáticas sociales complejas. El principal objetivo de este trabajo es contribuir a las obras de referencia sobre alianzas intersectoriales a partir del análisis de especificidades de las habilidades que se requieren para involucrarse, de forma eficaz, en RIO en las que los objetivos de los partners y los de la alianza difieren enormemente de las alianzas entre empresas. El primer artículo, “Through Indigenous Lenses: Cross-sector collaborations with fringe stakeholders” (Murphy y Arenas, 2010), ilustrado a partir de tres casos de estudio, propone un marco para la construcción de un puente intercultural y un modelo para la creación de valor en las colaboraciones intersectoriales entre empresas y partes interesadas de la periferia. El segundo artículo, “Value Creation in Cross-Sector Collaborations: Increasing influence for competitive advantage” (Murphy, Arenas y Batista), basado en una encuesta llevada a cabo entre 362 directivos españoles de múltiples sectores, analiza los efectos y la interacción de las experiencias de gestión anteriores a la alianza y la alineación de las misiones, las estrategias y los valores de los partners en el éxito de las colaboraciones intersectoriales. Finalmente, el artículo “A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation in Cross-Sector Collaborations” (Murphy, Perrot y Rivera-Santos, 2012), respaldado por dos casos de estudio, presenta el concepto de capacidad relacional para la innovación social, un modelo relacionado con la capacidad de absorción, pero más adecuado al contexto del aprendizaje y la innovación en las colaboraciones entre sectores en mercados de subsistencia.
This thesis is organized in a compendium of three individual, though interrelated, articles that focus on various aspects of cross-sector inter-organizational relationships (IORs), where alliances between firms and civil-society organizations are formed to address complex societal dilemmas. The overall goal of this work is to contribute to the literature on cross-sector alliances by exploring the specificities of capabilities required to engage effectively in IORs where partners and alliance goals differ greatly from business-to-business alliances. The first article, “Through Indigenous Lenses: Cross-sector collaborations with fringe stakeholders” (Murphy and Arenas, 2010), illustrated through three case studies, proposes a framework for cross-cultural bridge building and a model for value creation in cross-sector collaborations between businesses and fringe stakeholders. The second article, “Value Creation in Cross-Sector Collaborations: Increasing Influence for Competitive Advantage” (Murphy, Arenas and Batista), based on a survey conducted among 362 Spanish managers across multiple sectors, analyzes the effects and interaction of prior alliance management experience and the alignment of partners’ missions, strategies and values on the success of cross-sector collaborations. Finally, the article “A New Perspective on Learning and Innovation in Cross-Sector Collaborations” (Murphy, Perrot and Rivera-Santos, 2012), supported by two case studies, introduces the concept of Relational Capacity for Social Innovation, a model related to Absorptive Capacity, but better suited to the context of learning and innovation in cross-sector collaborations in subsistence marketplaces.
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Zarvell, Ray K. McCarthy John R. "Student value congruency and Greek social organization cultures." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1993. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9416873.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Illinois State University, 1993.Title from title page screen, viewed March 14, 2006. Dissertation Committee: John R. McCarthy (chair), James Palmer, Sally B. Pancrazio, David L. Tucker. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 74-80) and abstract. Also available in print.
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Leung, Lai-yung, and 梁麗容. "Value orientations in junior secondary social studies curriculum." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1999. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31961095.
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Williams, Elin. "Examining the social reward value of biological motion." Thesis, Bangor University, 2018. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/examining-the-social-reward-value-of-biological-motion(8a8e65c0-e9bf-4626-b465-74b31e9641b6).html.
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As humans, we share a strong desire to interact with other people. This strong motivation to engage socially directs our attention to social signals, guides us to participate in behaviours that help us to establish, maintain, and enhance our relationships with others, and allows us to enjoy social interactions and to find them rewarding. However, the Social Motivation Theory posits that individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder may have deficits in social motivation, which may lead to difficulties in social interactions and communication. This thesis employs several methods (including behavioural, psychophysiological and neurological) to investigate social motivation in the typical population, and examines how autistic traits influence the reward value assigned to social stimuli. Specifically, this thesis investigates social motivation in relation to an important type of social stimulus, namely biological motion, which has not been the topic of research investigating social motivation. The first empirical chapter (Chapter 3) presents a behavioural experiment that investigates the reward value of biological motion, and how this value changes as a function of autistic traits among the participant sample. The following chapter (Chapter 4) comprises two eye-tracking experiments aiming to address how viewing biological motion affects attention and arousal. The final empirical chapter (Chapter 5) employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain regions involved in the anticipation of social reward or social punishment in a task where participants work to either receive positive feedback or avoid negative feedback. As a whole, this thesis sheds valuable new light on questions surrounding social motivation, such as whether individuals find a broad conceptualisation of social stimuli rewarding and whether the perceived reward value of social stimuli is influenced by autistic traits. The findings from this work have important implications for developing a greater understanding of social motivation and human social behaviour more broadly.
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Bravo, Gonzalez Ramon. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Brand Value in Luxury." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/78038.
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One of the most important assets that luxury firms have is brand value, an intangible asset influenced by consumer and company-led actions. CSR is a company-led action, which depending on how it is managed, can either increase or decrease brand value. This research explores the role of CSR within luxury and how it, together with other factors, contributes to brand value in luxury. To conduct this work, a mixed methods approach was selected. A theoretical framework was built with input from the literature and interviews with key interviewees from the luxury industry. Then, the theoretical framework was tested quantitatively. The quantitative analysis was conducted with a dataset based on consumer panels, and additional secondary data including Bloomberg, CSRHub, Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), Interbrand, and company reports. The results were subject to ‘credibility checks’ with interviewees from the industry. The results from this research suggest that despite the importance of brand value within luxury; brand value is not widely understood by the industry and it is not measured, managed or leveraged. This research also suggests that CSR, company size, having controlled distribution, country of origin, marketing and research and development (R&D)/design, energized differentiation, esteem, and relevance; are critical factors to brand value. Consequently, luxury brands need to manage all these determinants to be able to create and preserve brand value. Nevertheless, while all these determinants are important, their importance can vary by brand; depending on brand size, brand category, target market, and whether the brand is heritage or non-heritage.PhD in Management
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Sharma, Garima. "Corporate Social Initiatives: Signification Work for Value Creation." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1370521564.
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Cooper, Jeffrey C. "Learning to like : neural representations of social value /." May be available electronically:, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
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Leung, Lai-yung. "Value orientations in junior secondary social studies curriculum." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1999. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B21304178.
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Bravo, González Ramón. "Corporate social responsibility and brand value in luxury." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2017. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/8159/.
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With a combined annual revenue of approximately $250 billion dollars, the luxury industry is highly significant, from a financial and commercial point of view. Within luxury, an area that is becoming increasingly important due to the visibility of this industry is Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). While consumers are still not actively demanding CSR in luxury products and services, and there is evidence that CSR is not a key area of interest for the luxury industry; the luxury industry is becoming the target of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other stakeholders interested in environmental and ethical practices. Thus, it is essential that luxury companies explore CSR implementation, as neglecting to do so, is likely to affect their brands and their brand value. One of the most important assets that luxury firms have is brand value, an intangible asset influenced by consumer and company-led actions. CSR is a company-led action, which depending on how it is managed, can either increase or decrease brand value. It is important to note that to understand the role of CSR within luxury and how it can influence brand value, it is not possible to study CSR in isolation, as this would not fully reveal its importance in the wider context of brand value overall. Thus, CSR needs to be studied alongside other factors affecting brand value. Despite the fact that CSR can influence brand value in luxury, CSR is still overlooked by the industry. Due to the increasing relevance of CSR within luxury, this research explores the role of CSR within luxury and how it, together with other factors, contributes to brand value in luxury. An additional consideration is that despite the importance of brand value in luxury, the industry does not normally measure, manage and leverage brand value. As a result, it is also necessary to examine how brand value is perceived within luxury. To meet these research goals, a mixed methods approach was selected. More specifically, a theoretical framework was built with input from the literature and interviews with key interviewees from the luxury industry. Then, the theoretical framework was tested quantitatively. The quantitative analysis was conducted with a dataset based on consumer panels, and additional secondary data including Bloomberg, CSRHub, Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI), Interbrand, and company reports. The results were subject to ‘credibility checks’ with interviewees from the industry. It is noteworthy to highlight that for the statistical analysis, one of the largest datasets with US consumer data was used. Similarly, for the qualitative interviews, representatives from some of the largest luxury companies in the world in terms of brand value, and luxury stakeholders were recruited. The results from this research suggest that despite the importance of brand value within luxury; brand value is not widely understood by the industry and it is not measured, managed or leveraged. This research also suggests that CSR, company size, having controlled distribution, country of origin, marketing and research and development (R&D)/design, energized differentiation, esteem, and relevance; are critical factors to brand value. Consequently, luxury brands need to manage all these determinants to be able to create and preserve brand value. Nevertheless, while all these determinants are important, their importance can vary by brand; depending on brand size, brand category, target market, and whether the brand is heritage or non-heritage. With regard to CSR, an outcome from this research is that CSR is becoming an increasingly important contributor to brand value in luxury. Still, the luxury industry is not fully aware that CSR implementation is consistent with key luxury values such as high-quality and service and luxury’s long-term vision; and that stringent CSR policies and practices constitute a potential strategy to anticipate future regulatory and social constraints. Furthermore, CSR implementation within luxury is generally limited to discrete actions, such as collaboration with the arts, compliance, local production, philanthropy/voluntarism, and use of environmentally friendlier materials. It is crucial that luxury companies incorporate CSR into the DNA of their brands and choose a CSR strategy aligned with their brand vision. Luxury brands may be able to positively change consumer perceptions of CSR and, thus, drive consumer demand. Also, engagement with CSR may result in a competitive advantage to them and in a potential increase in their brand value. Moreover, the results suggest that brand knowledge is overemphasized by the luxury industry, although it does not appear to be essential for brand value in luxury. Additionally, with respect to brand relevance, this research makes a case to consider brand desirability as a potentially more appropriate determinant of brand value within a luxury context.
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Wing, Kathryn Elizabeth. "Nonprofit-business partnership : the social construction of value." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51001/.
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The recent burgeoning of academic and practitioner interest in nonprofit-business partnership and other forms of cross-sector social partnership (CSSP) reflects their perceived importance as mechanisms for creating value, by addressing intractable social, economic and environmental problems (Austin & Seitanidi, 2012a; Le Ber & Branzei, 2010a; Porter & Kramer, 2011; Selsky & Parker, 2005). The literature identifies an emerging trend over the past few decades towards strategic nonprofit-business dyadic partnerships, whose stated aim is, at least in part, the creation of social value, alongside organizational value for the participating organizations (Seitanidi & Crane, 2009; Vock, Van Dolen & Kolk, 2013; Waddock, 1988). This research reconceptualizes value as a socially constructed, discursively constituted concept. It tracks the evolution of a time-limited dyadic nonprofit-business partnership between a credit card company and a young people’s charity in the United Kingdom, in real time. The empirical work commenced at the very outset of the PhD, progressing in tandem with the exploration of relevant literatures. The initial research question was intentionally broad, with sub-questions emerging inductively from the data analysis. The overarching research question is: “How do partners involved in nonprofit-business partnership construct value through their discourse?”. This positions the thesis to investigate how partnership talk functions, which is identified as an under-researched aspect of nonprofit-business partnership and other forms of CSSP. The particular perspective on discourse theory adopted for this thesis draws on the work of discursive psychologists, such as Potter and Wetherall (1987), but is also sensitized by post-structuralist ideas. It therefore recognizes the multiplicity of possible interpretations and questions conceptions of value which treat it as an objective concept, existing outside of discourse. It combines ethnographic techniques with discourse analysis, taking full advantage of the high level of pre-negotiated access to this case. This enables the detailed analysis of partnership talk to be integrated with an ethnographic sensitivity to context. This research opens up the ‘black box’ of partnership talk to reveal the micro-level discursive practices through which the partners deploy their communicative skills to construct the value of the partnership. In this thesis, partnership talk is found to be characteristically both collaborative (as opposed to competitive) and asymmetrical (in terms of its structure). However, where the partners engage in joint planning activity and the funding relationship is not salient, the talk becomes more symmetrical, with both partners contributing to the dialogue on a more equal basis, thus more conducive to the co-creation of value. The findings capture discursive practices involved in aligning for value, building value and affirming value in collaborative partnership talk. Where the partnership talk becomes misaligned, for example, where tensions or sensitivities arise, the partners employ various discursive practices to defend and repair the value of the partnership and to avoid overt conflict. A key contribution of this research is a multi-level Value Construction Model, which is grounded in the close analysis of partnership talk. This is not a positivistic or prescriptive model, but rather a descriptive and explanatory model, based on patterns discovered inductively in partnership talk data and recognising the diversity of cases and research settings and the complexity of multi-party partnership talk.
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Abedin, Behnam. "Social entrepreneurs value co-creation in online communities." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/231390/1/Behnam_Abedin_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examined how and why social entrepreneurs in Australia use online communities for value co-creation. It specifically investigated social entrepreneurs' motivations to participate in online communities, the barriers that might inhibit them from participating in online communities, and the particular abilities that they need to have in order to participate in online communities. Moreover, this study explored value co-creation activities that social entrepreneurs perform in online communities to create value together for all parties involved and the positive outcomes for them as the result of their participation in online communities.
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Gao, Qian. "World Heritage, Archaeological Tourism and Social Value in China." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401428.
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This doctoral thesis explores the relationship between archaeological tourism, World Heritage and social value in contemporary China. It intends to provide an innovative insight into such connections by scrutinizing the impact of archaeological tourism on the social values that local communities attribute to archaeological sites that are either inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites or in the process of becoming one. Archaeological tourism refers to people’s activity of consuming the past through visiting places of archaeological significance. In this doctoral thesis, the discussion concerning archaeological tourism focuses on specific types of archaeological sites; those that are either inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List or are in the process of achieving World Heritage Status. The growing commercialization of archaeological sites for tourism, compounded by the rising influence of the World Heritage List, has greatly affected the lives of communities in the immediate vicinity of archaeological sites. One way to comprehend such an effect is to analyze the changes in the social values assigned to those sites by their local residents. This is because archaeological tourism has an ability to (re)create and modify those social values attributed to archaeological sites by their local population, by changing their function, capacity, quality and meaning. In this process, the UNESCO World Heritage List also plays an important role in providing advice on the touristic transformation of these sites in preparation for World Heritage inscription, especially during the pre-nomination period.Set against this background, this doctoral thesis aims to analyze the impact of tourism on the social values that local communities attribute to archaeological sites that are either on the UNESCO World Heritage List or in the process of being assigned World Heritage status. The Daming Palace archaeological site and the Huashan rock art area are taken as its case studies. Both sites are excellent examples when it comes to representing Chinese archaeological sites in the two main phases of attaining World Heritage status; nomination and full designation. In order to achieve the general aim of this doctoral research, four objectives are proposed. The first is the identification ofthe main issues that have emerged from the current development of archaeological tourism in China. Secondly, this thesis critically examines the development of archaeological tourism at the two case study sites. Thirdly, an in-depth analysis is made of the perceptions and attitudes of local communities towards such development in the two cases studied. The final objective is the discussion of the impact of archaeological tourism on social values attributed to the two sites by their local communities with reference to the influence of the World Heritage List. To attain these objectives, the investigation undertaken in this doctoral thesis employs qualitative approaches under the theoretical framework of archaeological ethnography. The ultimate goal of the research is to encourage further reflection on the existing management mechanisms of archaeological heritage in China and worldwide.Esta tesis doctoral analiza la relación entre turismo arqueológico, Patrimonio Mundial y valor social en China, proporcionando una visión innovadora en las conexiones establecidas entre cada uno de estos tres parámetros. Se pretende examinar el efecto que el turismo arqueológico está teniendo en los valores sociales que las comunidades locales atribuyen a los sitios arqueológicos que, o están inscritos ya como Patrimonio Mundial de la UNESCO, o que están en proceso de convertirse en tales. El primero de los elementos centrales en este trabajo es el “turismo arqueológico”, concepto con el que nos referimos a la actividad de consumir el pasado a través de la visita a lugares que contienen monumentos y otro tipo de cultural material del pasado. En muchas partes del mundo, los sitios arqueológicos se utilizan cada vez más para fines comerciales sobre todo mediante la promoción del turismo cultural, a la vez que, dada su capacidad para hacer propaganda narrativas nacionales y siguiendo una tradición establecida durante los dos últimos siglos, siguen siendo explotados como medio de promoción del nacionalismo. Con esto quiero dar a entender que estas dos funciones que acabo de exponer más arriba, por una parte la promoción de la identidad nacional y la educación del público sobre la narrativa nacional y por la otra el turismo arqueológico-cultural no son incompatibles, siendo este último el de más reciente aparición pero habiéndose convertido hoy en día en un componente cada vez más importante de la economía local e incluso nacional, puesto que fomenta la generación de ingresos y la creación de puestos de trabajo. El segundo de los elementos centrales a esta tesis doctoral es el Patrimonio Mundial. El análisis de la forma en la que el turismo está afectando a la arqueología se centrará no en todos los sitios arqueológicos sin distinción, sino en aquellos que ya han inscritos en la Lista del Patrimonio Mundial o están en proceso avanzado de conseguirlo. Con “Lista del Patrimonio Mundial”. El valor social, el tercer elemento crucial en esta tesis doctoral, está relacionado con la reflexión sobre las comunidades locales en áreas de Patrimonio Mundial.
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Knight, Helena. "Collaborative value creation : how arts and business organisations create value for society." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/83021/.
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Since its instigation by patrons supporting struggling artists centuries ago, the relationship between arts and business has been marked by dilemmas of who benefits from the value created. The perceived self-interested regard that blighted the magnanimous acts of the pioneers of arts philanthropy has transformed into outright scepticism with the move towards "selfish capitalism" in the 1970s. Despite the financial assistance, ubiquitous in society is the perception that business exploits the arts for window dressing purposes. The thesis studies value creation through transactional collaboration, focusing on the arts context. The contradictions in the phenomenon are examined to construct an understanding of how the organisations working together can lead to societal betterment . Utilising a multi method interpretive strategy, the thesis presents a conceptual framework of the principles, manifestations and functions of the business partner in societal value creation through transactional arts and business collaboration. The thesis argues that transactional collaboration can and does generate value that can contribute to societal betterment. The stipulations relate to transactional hybrids and collaboration portfolios at the organisational level, and a co-creative response to the process of value creation of beneficiaries. Transient value and cumulative value are two distinct value modes. Cumulative value can induce sustainable societal betterment when business assumes the role of a benefits provider. Human factor and organisational learning condition cumulative societal value creation in transactional collaboration. The Thesis contributes to the literature on cross-sector collaboration. The thesis contributes to the literature on cross-sector collaboration by highlighting the importance hybrid relationships and relationship portfolios in creating societal value in transactional collaboration. It also demonstrates the beneficiary-centric standpoint is a salient factor when developing a holistic understanding of how collaboration contributes to societal betterment. As such, contributions are made to the value creation literature by showing the salience of the co-creative response of the beneficiary to the process of value creation in relational contexts. Managerial and policy implications, and future research avenues are also proposed.
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Christensson, Johan. "The Search for Shared Value : The Factors Affecting the Creation and Balance of Economic and Social Value for Swedish Social Entrepreneurs." Thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för ekonomi, geografi, juridik och turism, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-39476.
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Behrad, Babak. "Adding Value: The relationship between Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), brand value and consumer brand loyalty." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1430.
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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Technology: Public Relations Management
in the Faculty of Informatics and design
at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology
2014This study examined KAPPAHL and IKEA’s Corporate Social Responsibility activities and the effect it has on building consumer brand loyalty. The conceptual framework of the study is built on two theories, stakeholder theory and triple bottom line theory, which are relevant to the objectives of this study. The methodology of the present study is qualitative approach, undertaken for the study through analysis of the CSR activities practiced in the two selected organisations. The CSR objectives, plan, implementation strategies and role of various stakeholders have been analysed. The research concludes that there are several factors that help create brand value and consumer brand loyalty and CSR can be one of those factors. The main role of CSR in the process of branding is to assist the brand to “keep its promise” to the consumers. One way to achieve this is through clear and consistent CSR communication. The research suggests that a key point in an organisation’s CSR communication strategy is to always take action before communicating. By offering total transparency with the organisation’s CSR work and efficiently conveying its possible impact, CSR can serve as an effective tool in educating and engaging the consumer about the brand. In a more emotional and personal economy, CSR helps to create a more genuine and deeper relationship with consumers wherein bold and unrealistic advertising campaigns without any social commitment may fail to attract consumers. While advertising mostly seeks to assert what a brand wishes to be, this study implies that CSR takes the proposition of what the brand actually has done and what it has achieved. In a period when organisations seek to build relationships between the consumer and the brand, a value based and honest approach towards CSR helps in creating a more genuine and loyal relationship which certainly enhances the value of the brand
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Gillin, Loris Olwyn, and n/a. "Social value creation as a core determinant from the impact of social entrepreneurship." Swinburne University of Technology, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au./public/adt-VSWT20060905.101857.
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The purpose of this research was to find out what Social Value is, how it
is created and in what way it is related to Social Entrepreneurship. The
study has been done at a time when the concept of Social
Entrepreneurship has come to the forefront at the outset of the 21st
Century; in an advent of rapid change and worldwide turmoil; yet an
academic understanding of Social Entrepreneurship has been lacking.
A Western-style capitalist economy has a highly functioning 'for-profit'
and government regulatory system, with civil society which carries an
obligation to have regard for those who 'have not.' The goodness-of-fit
between all three sectors determines the harmony, order and satisfaction
of a given population.
We now know that social Value is created when communities are
impacted with outcomes from the inspiration and perspiration of Social
Entrepreneurs and Support teams who are committed to alleviating
human need.
Social Entrepreneurs and their teams have a different outlook on life.
They live with a lack of financial security, are time-poor, persevering,
and resourceful; and they manage risk even as need is being resourced.
Based upon a robust literature of Entrepreneurship and Values theories
for meaning, data collection allowed for ten social ventures to be casestudied.
These lead to further enquiry into seven peak bodies designed to
be resourcing agencies. This research is important because a model has
been developed which effectively enables social ventures to service their
mission, and to stay viable. As a result of this, a way forward has been
identified where the impact from social entrepreneuring becomes a core
determinant of created Social Value.
The contribution of this research has been to lay a foundation in grassroots
social entrepreneurship which is supported by a Literature which
others following can add to or further define. There is now something
comprehensive drawn from the experiences of many in the field uipon
which to base further enquiry and future investigation.
Suggestions have also been made which need reinforcing at the Public
Policy level; others in the Social Policy sector will want to know the way
to reengineer a way out of the 'gap' which exists in the Capitalist System.
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Gillin, Loris O. "Social value creation as a core determinant from the impact of social entrepreneurship." Australasian Digital Theses Program, 2006. http://adt.lib.swin.edu.au/public/adt-VSWT20060905.101857.
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Thesis (PhD) - Swinburne University of Technology, 2006.Submitted in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Swinburne University of Technology - 2006. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-327).
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Jeffrey, Joshua Anthony Phillip Jr. "Exploring the personal and social value of tagging systems through social capital theory." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14717.
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The purpose of this study was to explore social media usage and to investigate the
personal and collective value of social media. Using a case study methodology and a
social capital theoretical framework, I examined the personal and social strategies that emerged from three students using del.icio.us and CiteULike over a five-month period. I used a questionnaire, in-depth semi-structured interviews, and digital archival data logs to gather a holistic perspective of how these newcomers used tagging systems as tools that facilitate the creation and maintenance of relationships. This project represented the first
time a social capital theoretical framework was used to understand tagging systems
behaviour. My findings suggest that people develop personal and social strategies as
tagging systems members in order to maintain and build relationships with their real
world social ties. According to social capital theory, these actions represent social strategies that are designed to build bridging social capital, which brings people together through social networks that were not similar to each other (e.g. school), or bonding social capital, which reinforce close ties of people with similarities in key aspects (e.g. close friends). As social media continues to emerge as a space for building connections between other members, it is recommended that designers of social media develop future systems that support the creation and maintenance of online and offline relationships.
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Wellén, Klara. "‘The quest for social value’ - The narrative of IKEAs partnership with social entrepreneurs." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23917.
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Narratives in corporate storytelling is a powerful and persuasive tool for validation of Corporate Social Responsibility. To further their social mission, IKEA partner with social entrepreneurs, a collaboration which produce products or services for IKEA while creating incomes for the social entrepreneurs, claimed by IKEA as a win-win. In this thesis, the win-win narrative is analysed with a management theory applied in a critical perspective in conjunction with a narrative method. The aim is to investigate the validity of the win-win narrative produced by IKEA in this partnership to identify to what extent this narrative meets the reality of IKEAs CSR and human rights commitments. Issues investigated are to what end this narrative is produced, what is the dominant narrative, what is not presented and how are the social entrepreneurs represented in the IKEA narrative.
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Koroleva, Ksenia. "The role of social network sites in creating information value and social capital." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16607.
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Wenn die Nutzer Erfahrungen mit Sozialen Netzwerken sammeln: i) tauschen sie Informationen mit einander aus; ii) verbinden sich mit einander und bilden Netzwerke; und iii) können auf soziales Kapital zugreifen, das durch die Pflege von diesen Kontakten entsteht. Die Struktur dieser Dissertation spiegelt diese drei Besonderheiten wider. In dem ersten Kapitel untersuchen wir den Einfluss von Informationseigenschaften – den Umfang, die Tiefe, den Kontext als auch dem Feedback – auf den Informationsnutzen. Im zweiten Kapitel untersuchen wir die Netzwerk-Gestaltungsstrategien und die Beziehung von den resultierenden Netzwerkeigenschaften – die Beziehungsstärke als auch Netzwerküberschneidung – mit dem Informationsnutzen. Im dritten Kapitel erforschen wir den Einfluß von den gewonnenen Informationen und der Struktur des Netzwerkes – auf das Soziale Kapital. Zusätzlich beziehen wir in jedes Kapitel die Erfahrung der Nutzer mit dem Medium ein. Aufgrund von fehlenden Forschungserkenntnissen, setzen wir Grounded Theory ein, um konzeptionelle Verhaltensmodelle zu entwickeln. Diese Modelle werden im Anschluß empirisch getestet. Obwohl die Forschung in dieser Dissertation meist verhaltenswissenschaftlich ist, kann man auch Ansätze aus der Design Science erkennen. Zum Beispiel, spezielle Facebook-Anwendungen sind implementiert um reale Nutzerdaten zeitnah zu sammeln. Diese Dissertation weisst drei Hauptergebnisse auf. Erstens, die Beziehungsstärke ist der wichtigster Faktor, der das Verhalten von den Nuztern bestimmt. Zweitens, obwohl die Nutzer die Informationen von Ihren engen Freunden bevorzugen, andere Netzwerkeigenschaften sollten in Betracht gezogen werden, denn zum Beispiel Netzwerküberschneidung einen negativen Einfluss auf Informationsnutzen hat. Drittens, Erfahrungsfaktoren beinflussen das Nutzerverhalten auf diesen Netzwerken.As SNS users gain experience with using SNS they: i) exchange the information with each other; ii) connect with each other and form certain network structures as a result; iii) obtain the social capital benefits due to the maintenance of relationships with others. The dissertation structure clearly reflects these peculiarities of SNS. Thus, in the first part of the dissertation we explore the impact of information characteristics – depth, breadth, context, social information – on the value of information users derive from their networks. In the second part of the dissertation we explore how users construct their networks and how properties of network structure – tie strength and network overlap – relate to information value. In the third part, we explore the impact of network structure and shared information in the process of social capital formation. We additionally control for the user experience, as we believe that this factor might impact the perception of value. Due to the scarcity of research findings we use explorative methodologies, such as Grounded Theory to study these new phenomena and generate conceptual models. These models are then verified empirically. Although most of the research presented in this dissertation is behavioral, we can also recognize design science elements. For example, we design and implement Facebook applications that allow to collect user data in real time. The main results of the dissertation can be summarized around three major contributions. First and foremost, the underlying tie strength emerges as the most important factor that drivers user behavior on SNS. Second, although people prefer information from their stronger ties, researchers should differentiate between different forms of network structure in their impact on information value, as, for example, network overlap has a negative relationship with information value. Third, experience factors mediate many of the behaviors of users on SNS.
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Jung, Sang Uk. "Identifying high value customers in a social network: individual characteristics vs. social influence." Diss., University of Iowa, 2012. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/3322.
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Firms are interested in identifying customers who generate the highest revenues. Typically, customers are regarded as isolated individuals whose buying behavior depends solely on their own characteristics (e.g., previous purchase behavior, demographics etc.). In a social network setting, however, customer interactions can play an important role in purchase behavior.
This thesis develops a generalizable methodology to identify high-value customers in a network. Previous work on social networks has focused most attention on modeling the interaction between individuals and understanding the positions of individuals in a network (e.g., measuring the influence of an individual based on his/her degree of network centrality). Little is known about how network influence directly translates into the benefits to the firm. In this study, the importance of taking into account both an individual characteristics and network effects when measuring customer value is argued. Drawing upon the spatial statistics literature, a spatial autocorrelation model is constructed that explicitly shows how these effects interact in generating firm revenue.
This model is applied to a unique user-level dataset from a popular online gaming company in Korea. The data contain information about demographics of individual gamer, interaction between gamers, behavior within the game environment, and revenues generated by each individual. First, we propose a static model studying gamers' revenue in one period. We quantify the relative impact of an individual characteristics and network effects on revenue. The proposed static model shows better forecasts of an individual's value within a network for the firm than the benchmark models. The empirical analysis shows that individuals who are most influential in a network sense are not necessarily individuals who have the highest customer value.
Next, we incorporate the spatio-temporal aspects of social influence in a network into the static model. This model is extended to construct the spatial dynamic model to forecast revenue in a social network. Second, we account for the homophily effects by separating the contemporaneous network effects out into the contemporaneous, temporal, and spatio-temporal effects. The proposed spatial dynamic model allows us to quantify an individual value in a network in a long-term perspective. The dynamic model is shown to outperform the static, and the other benchmark models in quantifying an individual value in revenue generation to the firm. Lastly, a dynamic coevolution model to account for homophily is suggested and discussed for future research.
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Miller, Lewis. "The social and economic value of Earth Observation data." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2008. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1443990/.
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Throughout the development of the remote sensing industry, social and economic value of Earth Observation data has been measured using contributions to scientific understanding and market prices. Neither approach is satisfactory because Earth Observation data adds value to a broad range of activities, within and outside markets. A repeatable strategy for effectively capturing value is proposed to support full and comprehensive assessment of so-far missing markets in Earth Observation. Complete value-capture serves two purposes to permit fair competition with more commercial market alternatives and to allow informed management in the absence of traditional market forces. Disciplines such as environmental accounting and law provide guidance for complex valuation. Rigorous examination of value characteristics had not been undertaken in Earth Observation before this research. An innovative map of value components is constructed using coordinates of rivalry and excludability. Pre-existing valuation schemes are simplistic and do not capture value with sufficient precision or in enough depth to support informed management and decision making. The broad range of value characteristics found within Earth Observation suggest that 'one size fits all' data policies are inappropriate. Case studies in Forestry and Humanitarian Aid are used to explore components of Earth Observation value and to develop a model for capturing value. Both case studies suggest that Earth Observation benefits often reside outside markets in the form of improved decision-making, more effective and efficient staff deployment and more focused management and mitigation activities. The new model of value presented in this thesis consistently captures components of value which have in the past been incompletely or poorly represented. This is both important and timely non-market socio-cultural impacts, such as improved strategic decision-making and information-collection have recently been recognised as key outputs of Earth Observation through GMES and the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
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Grange, Camille. "Three essays on the value of online social commerce." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/48386.
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Online social commerce is a new phenomenon at the intersection of social media and e- Commerce. While it triggers rising interest from practitioners, the progress of its understanding in academic research is delayed by conceptual and empirical challenges (e.g., multifaceted nature, interdependent users). This thesis aims to tackle these challenges to further the understanding of whether, under which conditions, and how socially infused settings enhance the quality of consumers’ experience.
In Paper #1, I develop a view of social commerce that accounts for two key aspects of social media (i.e., they are supported by technological platforms, and they rely on social networks) as well as for the nature of the context (i.e., exchanges between consumers and business actors). This paper serves as a conceptual background for two studies that focus on consumers’ product search via social network (SN)-enabled shopping platforms.
These two studies are conducted within a similar experimental environment that uses a custom-developed restaurant review site integrated with Facebook. In Paper #2, I analyze whether and under which conditions SN-enabled shopping settings are effective in facilitating experiences that are diagnostic (i.e., informative) and serendipitous (i.e., prone to unexpected but useful findings). I find that serendipity is a prominent benefit of SN-enabled platforms versus traditional ones, and that diagnostic and serendipity are both more contingent upon the size of shoppers’ friendship network when the platform is designed with private versus open boundaries.
While Paper #2 focuses on design effects, Paper #3 concentrates on the effects of social ties. I explain how two properties of consumers’ social capital (i.e., quantity and quality) influence two important outcomes of consumers’ experiences: their perceptions of usefulness and enjoyment. I find that the three proposed intervening factors (mobilizing friends’ informational resources, effort reduction, and curiosity arousal) do not equally facilitate usefulness and enjoyment, which creates interesting future research avenue.
In summary, this research contributes by: (1) offering a rich account of the social commerce phenomenon, (2) explaining why and how online social relationships matter, and (3) offering some methodological lessons for future investigations.Business, Sauder School of
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Archie-Acheampong, Jason. "How social value is created in different development contexts." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2018. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/how-social-value-is-created-in-different-development-contexts(0ceaf82f-87b3-424a-95b1-5d418eebc945).html.
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Kettunen, T. M. (Titta-Maria). "Social value creation abroad:social enterprises’ adaptation to foreign environments." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2015. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201503121144.
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The research focuses on internationalizing social value creation of social enterprises taking the point of view of social enterprises’ adaptation to foreign environments. The paper aims to clarify what kinds of methods social enterprises use in order to adapt to the foreign environments in which they are creating social value. The research has been conducted as a qualitative study combining information from previous researches with new empirical data collected by interviewing four international social enterprises. The interviewed enterprises operate and are originally from different countries. The results of this study show that internationalization of social enterprises is partly different from the internationalization of commercial ones. Due to the differences in mission and operating context, social enterprises often face bigger challenges when internationalizing their mission than commercial enterprises do. Based on this research, it is obvious that social networks and partnerships are crucial for social enterprises when adapting to foreign markets. The partners can help, among other things, in learning the culture, applying for funding and in general recognizing the social value creation possibilities abroad. In addition, changing the legislation and rules in the host country, organizational flexibility and product adaptation play an important role when adapting to creating social value abroad. The earlier researches have quite rarely focused on the internationalization aspects or taken the international perspective on social entrepreneurship. Therefore, adaptation to foreign environments is a new topic in social entrepreneurship research. Hence, the results of this study help to understand the field of international social entrepreneurship better and contribute to theory building on the field. Furthermore, the results can be used as a tool to facilitate internationalization of social impactTutkimus paneutuu yhteiskunnallisten yritysten yhteiskunnallisen vaikutuksen kansainvälistämiseen ja erityisesti ulkomaiseen toimintaympäristöön sopeutumiseen yhteiskunnallisen vaikutuksen näkökulmasta. Työn tavoitteena on selvittää, millä tavoin yhteiskunnalliset yritykset pyrkivät sopeutumaan ulkomaisille markkinoille laajentaessaan luomansa yhteiskunnallisen vaikutuksen ulottuvaksi kotimaansa ulkopuolelle. Tutkimus on laadullinen ja se on toteutettu analysoimalla aikaisempia tutkimuksia ja yhdistämällä näiden tutkimusten löydöksiä haastatteluilla kerättyyn empiiriseen aineistoon. Tutkimusta varten on haastateltu neljää yritystä neljästä eri maasta. Yritysten toimialueet ovat erilaiset. Yhteiskunnalliset yritykset kansainvälistyvät hieman eri tavalla kuin perinteiset yritykset ja ne myös kohtaavat monet kansainvälistymisen haasteet suurempina tavoitteen ja toimintaympäristön erojen vuoksi. Tutkimus osoittaa erittäin selkeästi, että yhteiskunnallisille yrityksille sopivat yhteistyökumppanit ovat avainasemassa kansainvälistymisen ongelmia ratkottaessa. Yhteistyökumppanit voivat auttaa muun muassa kohdemaan kulttuurin ymmärtämisessä, rahoituksen hakemisessa tai ylipäätään ulkomaisten liiketoimintamahdollisuuksien tunnistamisessa. Tärkeässä roolissa sopeutumisprosessissa ovat myös kohdemaan sääntöjen ja lakien muuttaminen, organisaation joustavuus sekä tuotteen muokkaaminen kulttuurillisesti kohdemarkkinoille sopivaksi. Yhteiskunnallisista yrityksistä on aikaisemmin tehty hyvin vähän tutkimusta kansainvälisestä näkökulmasta tai kansainvälistymiseen liittyen. Tästä syystä ulkomaisille markkinoille sopeutuminen on yhteiskunnallisen yrittäjyyden tutkimuksessa uusi aihe, minkä vuoksi tämän tutkimuksen tulokset auttavat ymmärtämään kansainvälisen yhteiskunnallisen yrittäjyyden ilmiötä paremmin sekä tarjoavat työkalun yhteiskunnallisen vaikutuksen kansainvälistämisen avuksi
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Chartier, Christopher R. "MEASURING SOCIAL VALUE ORIENTATION: EQUALITY VERSUS COLLECTIVE OUTCOME MAXIMIZATION." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1284576070.
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McShane, Ian. "Bringing in the public community facilities and social value /." Swinburne Research Bank, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.3/39673.
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Thesis (PhD) - Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008.Thesis submitted in total fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, 2008. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 384-415).
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Moritz, Albert, and Mohammed Abdelgawad. "Enabling Social Value with Blockchain Technology : Within Crowdfunding Platforms." Thesis, Högskolan i Jönköping, Internationella Handelshögskolan, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43930.
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