TAIWAN CITIZENS' VIEWS OF CHINA: WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF CROSS-STRAIT CONTACTS?

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.Y. Wang ◽  
Su-feng Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Positive Group ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Political Views ◽  
Personal Level ◽  
Beijing Government ◽  
Negative Feelings

AbstractSegregation has long been recognized as a source of ignorance which breeds negative feelings and hostility. This view maintains that interactions between members of different groups can foster social bonds and promote positive group relationship. Employing recently collected survey data, this study examines the effect of cross-Strait contacts on Taiwan citizens’ negative views toward Chinese citizens and the Beijing government. The empirical results show that casual encounters have no effect on the island residents’ general perception of China. Serious interactions in the form of friendship moderate their unfavorable feelings of Chinese citizens but have no effects on the perception of a hostile Beijing. Unless contacts can invoke true social bonds, frequent interactions do not have transformative effects on individuals’ political views. The moderating effect of contacts at the personal level is not transferable to a political entity when the latter is perceived as a suppressing agent.

scholarly journals Email versus In-Person Audit Inquiry: Recent Research and Additional Survey Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. A36-A44
Author(s):  
Aaron Saiewitz
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Aggressive Response ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Email Communication ◽  
Audit Firms ◽  
Client Relationship ◽  
Client Behavior ◽  
Negative Feelings ◽  
Over Time

SUMMARY Recent research suggests that an auditor's choice to conduct audit inquiry via email versus in person can adversely impact both auditor and client behavior. In this study, I review recent research on this important topic, and I present additional survey-based evidence that describes how clients perceive auditor email versus in-person inquiries. I find that clients generally view auditors' in-person requests as more important and urgent than email requests, and clients feel they can more carefully craft their responses to support their company's preferred reporting position via email compared to in person. Further, clients expect that auditors will question an aggressive response more quickly in person than over email. Although audit partners have expressed concerns that email communication could impede auditor-client relationship building, I find no differences in how much clients like the auditor or in clients' willingness to work again with the auditor after receiving an email or in-person request. However, recent research suggests that email requests can lead to more negative feelings toward the auditor, which could affect the auditor-client relationship over time. I discuss implications for audit firms and provide suggestions for future research.

scholarly journals The effect of soft skills, ethics, and value on the willingness of employers to continue recruiting UMT graduates

2021 ◽  
pp. 1689-1698
Author(s):  
Abdul Hafaz Ngah ◽  
Nurul Izni Kamalrulzaman ◽  
Fauzayani Ibrahim ◽  
Noor Azuan Abu Osman ◽  
Nur Asma Ariffin
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Structural Equation Modelling ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Equation Modelling ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the effect of soft skills and ethics and value on the employers’ willingness to continue recruiting Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) graduates, together with the moderating effect of knowledge on the relationship between soft skills and the employers’ willingness to continue recruiting UMT graduates. The study’s respondents comprised of 208 employers in Malaysia who responded through an online survey using Google Forms. The survey data was then analyzed using the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM), indicating that soft skills positively affected the employers’ willingness to continue recruiting UMT graduates. Nevertheless, ethics and value were found to be insignificant factors on the employers’ willingness to continue recruiting UMT graduates. It was also revealed that knowledge had the moderating effect on the relationship between soft skills and the employers’ willingness to continue recruiting UMT graduates. Therefore, universities were recommended to invest in soft skills and knowledge education to ensure that graduates met the employers’ professional recruitment standards in areas of expertise.

Neighborhood Associations, Political Repertoires and Neighborhood Exits

1989 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
R.S. Oropesa
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Neighborhood Associations ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Empirical Relationships ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Neighborhood Problems

The ways in which residents can respond to neighborhood problems are well understood. Residents can act politically, move or stay put and remain inactive. Less understood are the temporal and empirical relationships between these different strategies. Social scientists and policy makers currently believe, with little empirical evidence, that the decision to move from the community is a function of one's political experiences and involvement in institutions that resolve conflicts. Using survey data collected in Seattle, Washington during the late 1970s, the empirical results are initially more consistent with this view for residential mobility than thoughts about moving. Subsequent analysis reveals that the results for residential mobility are questionable as well. Mobility is also related to perceptions about specific sets of issues in the community, including neighborhood decline and service delivery.

The Research on the Relationship between Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Integration: The Moderating Effect of Organizational Climate

2014 ◽  
Vol 687-691 ◽  
pp. 4785-4789
Author(s):  
Guo Zheng Zhang ◽  
Song Zheng Zhao ◽  
Juan Ru Wang
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Organizational Climate ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Multiple Linear Regressions ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Linear Regressions

This paper analyzes the moderating effect of organizational climate on the relationship between absorptive capacity and knowledge integration. 183 survey data from 5 regions including Beijing is collected for empirical study using multiple linear regressions. The results show that absorptive capacity has a significantly positive impact on knowledge integration;organizational climate positively moderates the relationship between absorptive capacity and knowledge integration.

An Analysis of Private School Closings

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lakshmi Pandey ◽  
David L. Sjoquist ◽  
Mary Beth Walker
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Private School ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
School Closings ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Education Statistics ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Infrequent Event

We add to the small literature on private school supply by exploring exits of K–12 private schools. We find that the closure of private schools is not an infrequent event and use national survey data from the National Center for Education Statistics to study closures of private schools. We assume that the probability of an exit is a function of excess supply of private schools over demand as well as of the school's characteristics, such as age, size, and religious affiliation. Our empirical results generally support the implications of the model.

scholarly journals Green entrepreneurship and SME performance: the moderating effect of firm age

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chenli Yin ◽  
Maria Paz Salmador ◽  
Dan Li ◽  
M. Begoña Lloria
Keyword(s):  
Firm Performance ◽  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Utility Model ◽  
Firm Age ◽  
Green Innovation ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Green Entrepreneurship ◽  
Scholarly Attention

AbstractGreen entrepreneurship has been increasing with growing attention to environment protection by a variety of stakeholders. Green innovation, as the essence of green entrepreneurship, has attracted a broad range of scholarly attention with yet inconclusive findings regarding its effect on firm performance. According to our analyses of 1667 firms listed on SME board and GEM in China during the period from 2010 to 2019, we find interesting results regarding the type of green innovation involved and the moderating effect of firm age on the link between green innovation and SME performance. More precisely, we find green utility-model innovation positively influences firm performance for SMEs, whereas green invention innovation does not contribute to firm performance overall. More interesting, our empirical results suggest that older firms benefit more from both green invention innovation and green utility-model innovation than younger firms. This research contributes to the literature on green entrepreneurship as well as green innovation.

scholarly journals Managing Complexity For Creating Breakthrough Inventions: Focusing On Collaboration Teams And Prior Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-246
Author(s):  
Hee Jin Mun ◽  
Yerim Chung
Keyword(s):  
Moderating Effect ◽  
Optical Disc ◽  
Research Attention ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Prior Art ◽  
Moderating Factors ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Managing Complexity ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship

Inventing processes are often greatly complex, resulting in the difficulty of creating breakthrough inventions. But the relationship between the complexity of inventing and the creation of breakthrough inventions and ways of dealing with the complexity of inventing have received little research attention. This study focuses on the effect of coupling, one of the causes of complex inventing, on the likelihood of creating breakthrough inventions and suggests two moderating factors: the size of collaboration teams and the oldness of prior art. Based on U.S. granted patents in optical disc technology domains applied during 1997–2001, the empirical results showed the negative effect of coupling on the likelihood of creating breakthrough patents and the weakening moderating effect of the number of inventors involved in generating patents.

Immigration Attitudes and White Americans’ Responsiveness to Rising Income Inequality

2020 ◽  
pp. 1532673X2097210
Author(s):  
David Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Public Support ◽  
State Level ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Combine Data ◽  
Public Ignorance ◽  
Immigration Attitudes ◽  
Negative Feelings

Despite decades of rising inequality, there has been little observed increase in American public support for redistribution. This is puzzling because majorities of Americans profess to be aware of and opposed to high inequality. I argue that this lack of responsiveness is not due to public ignorance of, nor apathy toward, inequality but rather, in part, to negative feelings toward immigrants, a growing, politically salient, and negatively stereotyped “out-group” that is widely viewed as a target of redistributive spending. To test this, I combine data on state-level income inequality with survey data from the 1992 to 2016 Cumulative ANES. I find that growing inequality can prompt support for redistribution but that this depends, in part, on peoples’ immigration attitudes. Overall, these results suggest that immigration has important implications for economic redistribution in an era of high, and rising inequality.

Drivers of Performance of Franchisees: A Multi-level Analysis

2017 ◽  
pp. 107-122
Author(s):  
Dut Vo Van ◽  
Huong Tran Thu ◽  
Dang Nguyen Huu
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Agency Theory ◽  
Linear Model ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Model ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Empirical Results ◽  
Multi Level ◽  
Distribution Of Power ◽  
Level Analysis

The aim of this study is to examine the drivers of performance of franchisee organizations. Adopting agency theory, we hypothesize that age, size and obligatory assortment decided by central franchisors, distribution of power from franchisors to franchisees and frequency of franchisor’s visits to franchisee are positively associated with the performance of franchisees. The survey data of 186 franchisees in four European countries are used to test the proposed hypotheses. Principal component analysis and a hierarchical linear model are applied in this study. Empirical results reveal that whether the proposed hypotheses are statistically supported depend correspondingly on how franchisees’ performance is measured. The paper provides some implications for franchisee literature.

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