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Framing novelty in crowdfunding: Which words win support, where, and at what stakes

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We examine how promotional language (“hype”) in reward‐based crowdfunding is associated with campaign success, and whether those associations vary across sector contexts and with campaign execution burden. Using dictionary‐based text measures from 635 U.S. Kickstarter campaigns across five sectors, we distinguish three novelty‐
Agnieszka Kwapisz
wiley   +1 more source

Information‐seeking lobbying and strategic stockpiling under trade policy uncertainty

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary This study investigates how firms engage in information‐seeking lobbying to address trade policy uncertainty. I argue that lobbying enables firms to gain early insights into forthcoming tariff actions, allowing them to strategically stockpile products likely to be targeted. Using shipping records of US firms during the 2018 US–
Bo Yang
wiley   +1 more source

Front-Page Jews: Doris Wittner\u27s (1880-1937) Berlin Feuilletons

, 2014
In ‘Die jüdische Frau und das jüdische Buch’ (The Jewish woman and the Jewish book), an article published 18 March 1931 on the front page of the Jüdisch-liberale Zeitung, Doris Wittner included the following lines that concisely sum up her pioneering ...
Wallach, Kerry
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Who Is the System? On the Externalisation and Depersonalisation of Responsibility for Abuse

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the externalisation and depersonalisation of responsibility in the institutional communication of the Roman Catholic Church in the context of sexualised violence. Niklas Luhmann's theory of social systems is used to show how semantic constructions such as ‘systemic causes’ rhetorically blur responsibility and contribute ...
Thomas Kron
wiley   +1 more source

Los Medios Y La Guerra.

Revista de Estudios Sociales, 2003
The article interprets the role played by the media in the recent war against Iraq. It analyzes the cover, the sources and the content of the information of the American media.
José María Tortosa
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Generative AI—the Transgression of Technology

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a systems‐theoretical analysis of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) grounded in Niklas Luhmann's sociology of technology. It addresses a central conceptual problem: How GenAI can be understood within a theoretical framework that has traditionally defined technology as a means of stabilising action through causal ...
Jesper Tække
wiley   +1 more source

The Obama/Pentagon War Narrative, the Real War and Where Afghan Civilian Deaths Do Matter [PDF]

, 2012
This article investigates two related issues: (1) the on-the-ground experience of the fierce US war. in Afghanistan, in contrast to the Pentagon story and the mainstream media; (2) The relentless efforts of Obama and the Pentagon to control the public ...
Herold, Marc W.
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(Dis)information Systems: a Systemic View of Disinformation

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disinformation is an ancient social phenomenon that has found a favourable environment for dissemination in internet‐based social networks. While the scientific community seeks to address the problem by creating specific tools to detect and classify the various types of false information, we argue that systems thinking is necessary to ...
Herbert Laroca, Vitor Rocio, Antonio Cunha   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
In this article, I analyze my interviews with Mark (pseudonym), a social scientist who committed major academic fraud in over 50 top‐tier journal articles in the first decade of this century. I explain how stigma played a central role in how Mark and I shaped our interaction. I focus on how Mark, a former Professor and Dean with a distinguished career,
Thaddeus Müller
wiley   +1 more source

“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson

Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
How situations are defined is a social process. This paper examines how users on YouTube make sense of the alleged sexual assault perpetrated by shock rocker Marilyn Manson in the 2007 “Heart Shaped‐Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)” music video.
Stacey Hannem, Christopher J. Schneider
wiley   +1 more source