scholarly journals Global Social Preferences and the Demand for Socially Responsible Products: Empirical Evidence from a Pilot Study on Fair Trade Consumers

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonardo Becchetti ◽  
Furio C. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Socially Responsible

scholarly journals The effect of preregistration on trust in empirical research findings: results of a registered report

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 181351 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarahanne M. Field ◽  
E.-J. Wagenmakers ◽  
Henk A. L. Kiers ◽  
Rink Hoekstra ◽  
Anja F. Ernst ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Bayes Factors ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Questionable Research Practices ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Research Initiatives

The crisis of confidence has undermined the trust that researchers place in the findings of their peers. In order to increase trust in research, initiatives such as preregistration have been suggested, which aim to prevent various questionable research practices. As it stands, however, no empirical evidence exists that preregistration does increase perceptions of trust. The picture may be complicated by a researcher's familiarity with the author of the study, regardless of the preregistration status of the research. This registered report presents an empirical assessment of the extent to which preregistration increases the trust of 209 active academics in the reported outcomes, and how familiarity with another researcher influences that trust. Contrary to our expectations, we report ambiguous Bayes factors and conclude that we do not have strong evidence towards answering our research questions. Our findings are presented along with evidence that our manipulations were ineffective for many participants, leading to the exclusion of 68% of complete datasets, and an underpowered design as a consequence. We discuss other limitations and confounds which may explain why the findings of the study deviate from a previously conducted pilot study. We reflect on the benefits of using the registered report submission format in light of our results. The OSF page for this registered report and its pilot can be found here: http://dx.doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/B3K75 .

Whence Paradox? Framing Away the Potential Challenges of Doing Well by Doing Good in Social Enterprise Organizations

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (8) ◽  
pp. 1147-1167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis Child
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Social Enterprise ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Socially Responsible Investing ◽  
Refined Model ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Apparent Paradox ◽  
Responsible Investing ◽  
Big Picture

Scholars and critics tend to regard social enterprise as a paradoxical organizational form. And yet those who are closest to the apparent paradox in at least two prominent social enterprise industries—fair trade and socially responsible investing—are not inclined to regard their work as paradoxical. How is this so? Drawing upon, and then extending, the sensemaking literature, I argue that practitioners of social enterprise do not experience their working conditions as paradoxical because they frame away the potentially paradoxical elements of their work. Specifically, they employ three frames: looking at the big picture, engaging with potentially paradoxical conditions rather than turning from them, and making favorable comparisons that ease the paradoxical strain. These insights form the basis of a refined model of sensemaking in organizations, which accounts not only for how members of organizations deal with paradox but also how they come to recognize (or frame away) paradox in the first place.

A Pilot Study of Enhancing Subject Discovery of Textual Web Resources

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwan Yi
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
External Resources ◽  
Web Resources

The aim of this study is to explore to what degree hyperlinked external resources contribute to the automated subject-related term indexing. Empirical evidence shows no additional enhancement of performance with the additional resources. It also implies that target Web pages are closer in subject to siting pages than sited pages.L’objectif de cette étude est d’explorer à quel degré les ressources hypertextes externes contribuent à l’indexation automatique par sujet. L’observation empirique ne montre aucune amélioration additionnelle de la performance avec les ressources supplémentaires. Ceci implique également que le sujet des pages web ciblées se rapproche davantage du sujet des pages web sélectionnant que des pages web sélectionnées. 

scholarly journals The CSR and greenwashing concepts knowledge and perceptions among employees of Polish organizations – a pilot study

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (154) ◽  
pp. 202-2015
Author(s):  
Bartosz ORZEŁ ◽  
◽  
Radosław WOLNIAK ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Csr Reporting ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Survey Interviews ◽  
Corporate Social

Purpose: The involvement of enterprises in corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is one of the most important aspects of contemporary business ethics. The purpose of the study is to examine the perception and knowledge of employees who work in enterprises declaring and to record their observations in case of CSR, its reporting and greenwashing phenomenon. Design/methodology/approach: The article presents a pilot study. A partially categorized interview method was used. The interview was divided into three parts: Part I – Employee satisfaction with work in an organization that declares to act socially responsible. Part II is connected to an employee's view of the corporate social responsibility of the organization in which he works. Part III – the concept of corporate social responsibility and greenwashing. Additionally the survey was conducted. All data was collected and conclusions were drawn. The research sample consisted of 10 people who were interviewed and among whom a survey was conducted. All respondents work in enterprises that declare and report corporate social responsibility. Findings: The vast majority of employees of enterprises are aware of issues related to CSR reporting. They also know the concept of greenwashing. However, the soft aspects related to informing employees about CSR and reporting are problematic. Research limitations/implications: The main limitation of this paper is research sample, which was 10 respondents/participants of survey/interviews. However, it should be remembered that this is a pilot study that is to initiate research on a larger scale. Practical implications: The results of the study proposed in the article, which would be conducted on a larger scale, may provide a picture of the insights of employees directly involved in the business process declared as socially responsible. This may allow determining the most important factors for the organization, which determine the satisfaction and commitment to work of people employed in socially responsible enterprises. Also their work efficiency, commitment to building organizational culture and conviction to the values well-established in the company can be improved Originality/value: On the basis of the literature analysis, it can be noticed that research on the perception of CSR mainly relates to building the non-financial value of enterprises or consumer perceptions/attitudes. On this basis, a research gap was identified in the field of knowledge and CSR perception and job satisfaction of employees actively participating in socially responsible business processes or CSR reporting

The differential effects of integral pride and gratitude on divergent moral judgment for the self versus others

2021 ◽  
pp. 031289622110626
Author(s):  
Felix Septianto ◽  
Fandy Tjiptono ◽  
Denni Arli ◽  
Jian-Min (James) Sun
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Moral Judgment ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
The Self ◽  
Organizational Setting ◽  
Discrete Emotions ◽  
Moral Hypocrisy ◽  
Team Setting ◽  
Practical Implications

Individuals tend to have divergent moral judgment when judging oneself versus others, which is termed moral hypocrisy. While prior research has examined different factors that might influence moral hypocrisy, there are limited insights on the influences of different, discrete emotions. The present research seeks to address this gap and examines the differential influences of pride and gratitude on moral hypocrisy. Results of a pilot study and three main studies demonstrate that pride (but not gratitude) leads to moral hypocrisy. These effects are replicated across different cases of questionable behaviors and prosocial behaviors in a team setting. More importantly, this research identifies one mechanism that potentially explains this effect—the appraisal of self-other similarity. The findings of this research thus provide empirical evidence that distinct emotions arising from an organizational setting can differentially influence moral hypocrisy and offer practical implications. JEL Classification: C91, D23, D91

Lay Evaluation of Medicine and Medical Practice: Report of a Pilot Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 311-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Calnan
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Practitioner ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Way

Sociologists appear to differ in the way they portray the public's ideas about modern medicine. Some argue that the public accepts that modern medicine is effective, and others say that as a whole the public is skeptical about its value. There is a dearth of empirical evidence about what the public thinks of modern medicine; this pilot study attempts to fill this gap. Tape-recorded interviews were carried out with small samples of women from Social Classes I and II and Classes IV and V to find out what they felt about the value of modern medicine and to identify the criteria that they used to assess a “good” and “bad” medical practitioner. The results showed that there is some degree of skepticism about the value of modern medicine, particularly amongst working-class people. However, the criteria for assessing the performance of a medical practitioner were only rarely seen to be tied up with the criteria used to assess the value of modern medicine.

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