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Dual Pathways of Loneliness in the Marketplace: Emotional Attachment, Empowerment, and Evaluations of Brand Warmth and Brand Competence

Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loneliness shapes consumer behavior, yet whether it increases preference for warm or competent brands remains unresolved. We argue that this question cannot be answered without distinguishing who is perceived to be lonely. Individual loneliness, which is a person's subjective experience of social disconnection, activates agency‐restoration ...
Aulona Ulqinaku, Gülen Sarial‐Abi, Selma Kadic‐Maglajlic   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Games and gamification projects in the Australian public sector

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract This article surveys the arrival of gameful government into Australian public sector practice. Gameful government is a shorthand, descriptive term denoting the interpenetration of (video)games, and design elements and thinking from them, into public sector work.
David Threlfall, Catherine Althaus
wiley   +1 more source

‘Vitamins’, shortcuts, and athletic citizenship in Ethiopia and Cameroon: considering sporting ethics beyond biomedicine « Vitamines », courts‐circuits et citoyenneté sportive en Éthiopie et au Cameroun : l’éthique du sport, au‐delà de la biomédecine

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article argues that the current way of thinking about ethics in sport in primarily biomedical terms, and in particular in terms of the presence of particular pharmaceutical substances, fails to account for broader notions of sporting ethics and fairness in the Global South.
Michael Crawley, Uroš Kovač
wiley   +1 more source

The “Digital Turn” of Value Chain Due Diligence Regulation: How Technology Reconfigures Stakeholder Engagement

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the “digital turn” in value chain due diligence, focusing on how emerging digital tools and technologies are reshaping the practice and politics of stakeholder engagement in transnational labor governance. As value chain legislation—most notably the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)—extends ...
Klaas Hendrik Eller, Antoine Duval
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate targeting: Nike on the Russian market [PDF]

Marketing (Beograd. 1991), 2006
Nike Corporation is one of leading global players in sports apparel and footwear market. Strategic development of Nike Co has always been based on superior marketing and engagement of world-class sportspersons in its advertising campaigns.
Sekulović Ana
doaj  

Central limit theorem for biased random walk on multi-type Galton-Watson trees [PDF]

, 2012
Let T be a rooted supercritical multi-type Galton-Watson (MGW) tree with types coming from a finite alphabet, conditioned to non-extinction. The lambda-biased random walk (X_t, t>=0) on T is the nearest-neighbor random walk which, when at a vertex v with
Dembo, Amir, Sun, Nike
core  

Commerce, coalitions, and global value chains: Coordinated and collective lobbying on trade

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Global value chains (GVCs) have connected firms in complex networks within and across national borders. However, political economy models often assume away production linkages and thus fail to explain pervasive and diverse trade coalitions cutting across industries and firms. I develop a GVC‐centered framework where production linkages through
Hao Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of the Main Financial and Stock Market Indicators of a Sports Equipment Manufacturing Company

CECCAR Business Review
Companies with international visibility, listed on the stock exchange and with a long history on the market have gradually evolved and enjoy prestige, acquired as a consequence of the quality, innovative character, and diversity of the products and ...
Bogdan Cosmin GOMOI
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Are CSR incidents truly bad news?

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We revisit whether disclosures of negative Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) incidents adversely affect firms' stock prices. While univariate tests reveal significant negative abnormal returns around incident announcements, the effect disappears once firm characteristics, industry, and time‐fixed effects are controlled for.
Chen Chen, John A. Doukas, Rongyao Gloria Zhang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate social (ir)responsibility and firm risk: The role of corporate governance

Journal of Financial Research, EarlyView.
Abstract We study how corporate governance moderates the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporate social irresponsibility (CSI), and firm risk. We find that CSR reduces risk for firms with strong governance. In contrast, CSI increases firm risk more significantly for firms with stronger governance, suggesting that backlash ...
Craig Dunbar, Zhichuan Frank Li, Yaqi Shi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source