{"title":"Exploring the Connections Between Age, Advertising Effectiveness and Purchase Intention in a Traditional Media Setting (Magazines) Versus a Digital Media Setting (Digital Magazines) (in México)","authors":"Jorge Vera Martínez, Marco Espinosa Mascarua","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3437106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3437106","url":null,"abstract":"This work aims to explore in a Mexican context how for two different market segments of age, the digital media (digital magazines) could be a more effective communication channel than the traditional media (printed magazines). With a qualitative approach, it is intended to understand the effects that aspects of consumer profile and consumer habits have on advertising effectiveness, as well as the effects of advertising effectiveness on brand positioning contrasting a digital media with a traditional media. Furthermore, it is envisioned to identify and understand the key factors, attitudes and perceptions that influence the preference and effectiveness of advertising efforts for a traditional vs a digital media. Advertising seems to be having different effects in both segments. Advertising effectiveness may be linked to each person’s aspirations. In the older segment, the products that were remembered had to do a bit more with settling in life, for example, many people remembered cars. Maybe this had to do with the stage of the family life cycle they are going through. On the other hand, the younger segment seems to be more attracted to luxury advertising. Once again the family life cycle appears to have here a lot of influence.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"11 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113932739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualizing Humor in Advertising: The Moderating Role of Self-Monitoring","authors":"Dr. Irfan Hameed","doi":"10.22555/pbr.v18i3.939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22555/pbr.v18i3.939","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper explores the mediating role of attitude towards the advertisement and attitude towards the brand, and moderating role of self-monitoring in the relationships between perceived humor in the advertisement and purchase intention of the customer. Survey data was collected from 209 individuals after showing advertisements. Confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and macro developed by Preacher and Hays have been used to test moderation and mediation effect in the hypothesized model. A good fit between the data and tested model was observed. As predicted, purchase intention was positively related to perceived humor and full mediation effect has been found. The moderating role of self-monitoring has also been supported by the data. The findings are particularly salient for national and multinational media agencies in Pakistan as well in the other parts of the world.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rokeach’s Instrumental and Terminal Values As Descriptors of Modern Organisation Values","authors":"K. Tuulik, T. Õunapuu, Karin Kuimet, E. Titov","doi":"10.33844/IJOL.2016.60252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33844/IJOL.2016.60252","url":null,"abstract":"Many authors have created different tools to measure or estimate organisational culture. Among the possibilities, they emphasize the use of organisational values. One of the most well-known values classifications is Rokeach’s (1973) terminal and instrumental values. Although this classification has been developed more than 40 years ago, the theory is still a basis for many modern studies. The aim of our study is to find out whether Rokeach’s values are still valid and relevant in modern organisational cultures or not. Almost 150 representatives of Estonian organisations were questioned in order to find out which Rokeach’s values they perceive to be in use in their organisations. According to the results, general ethical values as instrumental values were named least frequently and just one of the terminal values was not named at all – salvation. Rokeach’s values lists are not sufficiently relevant enough today to measure and describe the wide and colorful variety of values.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129033808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Управление Социальным Капиталом Профессионального Сообщества (Management of the Social Capital of the Professional Community)","authors":"Mariia V. Rubtcova, Natalia Martianova","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2705773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2705773","url":null,"abstract":"Russian Abstract: Профессиональные сообщества представляют собой одни из тех промежуточных организаций, которые объединяют членов общества. Они обеспечивают единство действия и социальной сплоченности без непосредственного контакта с его членами. Они помещены в социальной структуре между отдельным специалистом и профессией, с одной стороны, и между специалистом и социальным окружением, с другой. Таким образом, они являются субъектами управления как отдельными профессионалами, так и профессиями в целом. Важной функцией сообществ как субъектов управления с различными интересами является обеспечение двустороннего канала для коммуникации. Конец XX века ознаменовал собой новую революцию в коммуникации, что должно было сказаться и на функциональных аспектах профессиональных сообществ. Впрочем, расхождения между классическими социологическими теориями началось до роста влияния информационных сетей.English Abstract: Professional communities are one of those intermediate organizations that unite members of society. They provide unity of action and social cohesion without direct contact with its members. They are placed in the social structure between individual professionals and the profession, on the one hand, and between professional and social environment on the other. Thus, they are subject to control by individual professionals and profession as a whole. An important function of communities as subjects of management with different interests is to provide two-way channel for communication. The end of the XX century marked a new revolution in communications, which should have an effect on the functional aspects of communities. However, the differences between classical sociological theories began to influence the growth of information networks.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134505481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analyzing Visual Rhetoric in Organizational Research","authors":"L. Lefsrud, Heather Graves, N. Phillips","doi":"10.4324/9781315849072.CH22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315849072.CH22","url":null,"abstract":"In this chapter, we argue for the importance of including images in organizational research and discuss visual rhetoric as one approach to the analysis of images combined with words. We argue that this approach is especially useful to understand how emotion is generated through the strategic construction of complex texts combining images and words. We use rhetoric and social semiotics to develop a framework for researching how actors manage meanings in ways that are advantageous to their goals and interests and that undermine and disadvantage opponents through processes of communication that are dialogical, embedded within symbolic systems that operate on several levels of cultural meaning-making simultaneously. When successful, we argue, these actors’ attempts to manage meaning go on to subsequently shape organizational action. We provide an example of this form of analysis using an image from a larger study of the complex symbolic struggle that is currently occurring around heavy oil produced from the Canadian oil sands in northern Alberta.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128785479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Team Building: A Shared Vision Among M.Com Students","authors":"N. Raghavendra, H. S. Kokila","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2600599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2600599","url":null,"abstract":"Teams are increasingly being employed to discuss and manage complex problems. Organizations rely on these teams to deal with a fast-changing and highly competitive environment. Also educational institutions also realized the benefits in the implementation of learning environments that have a crucial team learning component. Here is an attempt made to know experience of students who have worked in the team and analyze the benefits received by the team members. Moreover to know the vision of students as a team member. A structured questionnaire prepared on Team building which was distributed among the students to collect the data. The statements were asked on a 5-Point Likert’s scale ranging from completely disagree to completely agree. . The results indicate that a team learning perspective provides insight in how people share knowledge. Particularly the team learning we found that Team gives better results than individual approach, Team-members get a lot of encouragement for new ideas and they are free to express their real views and team-members respect each other.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"186 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121284995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaginaries of Ownership: The Logic of Participation in the Moral Economy of 3D Software Design","authors":"Shenja van der Graaf","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.2559646","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2559646","url":null,"abstract":"This article is designed to learn more about the increasing importance attributed to the logic of user participation and sharing (associated with the neoliberal Web 2.0) within and across institutional and platform boundaries. It aims to yield insight into the boundaries of a digital ethics in this context. For this purpose, the study draws on a prominent instance of 3D/games software culture where interdependencies can be seen to develop between institutions, users, and ICTs directing our attention to the exploration of ‘ownership’, thereby highlighting the boundaries of participation and competition. Drawing out the dynamics of ownership is an useful stratagem to yield insight into the mechanisms of production and cooperation. By interrogating the (organization of) social imaginaries involved as a means to draw out how different actors understand and make sense of these cross-border dynamics, it yields a perspective of ownership vis-à-vis the logic of participation, emphasizing – rather than legal conceptions per se – the make-up of negotiations and renegotiations guided by a distributed morality in software development between and across various institutional and platform boundaries.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"101 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117270468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Demingism of 21st Century Quality World","authors":"P. Thareja","doi":"10.2139/SSRN.2539994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/SSRN.2539994","url":null,"abstract":"The contribution of quality guru - Dr William Edwards Deming is worthy of supporting the 21st century processes to unprecedented heights, but only if these are understood and applied properly. This work attempts a treatise on individual and organisational transformation, applying the principles of Demingism. But Transformation can’t be done to singular people. Further it may occur between individuals and within an individual, which makes it complex. It thus requires that it can be understood and monitored by only using a higher level thinking. We need to use the principles of Convergent Integration to enable us to get prepared to take Deming's ideas to the next level, a level he already intuited but did not have time to elaborate. For enabling the use of Enneagram is suggested. Being a powerful tool for personal and collective transformation, the system of Holistic understanding of yourself, and organisations is an imperative.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116461969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of Consumer Attitudes Towards the Ice Tea Category in Greece","authors":"Samson Ajayi, Korfoxilioti Xara, Puig Gemma, Qweider Ammar, Sakellaris Stavros","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3510387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3510387","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this project is to understand consumer attitudes towards the Ice Tea category, as well as the interrelations between Ice Tea and other Liquid Refreshment Beverages (LRBs), and discover new ideas along with new occasions that will grow the consumption of Ice Tea in accordance to seasonality. Given the assumption from client having the company maintaining at least current market share levels, the expected benefit deriving would be the growth of Lipton Ice Tea sales by growing Ice Tea category. Referring to the above statement, the competitive landscape scheme within Ice Tea category shall not be examined, but only against other LRBs. Since Ice Tea sales increased during 2013, an upward trend in consumption seems to be a fact. The client (PepsiCo-IVI), is the leader but has been recently exposed to some competition by newly entrants, Greek companies that keep earning their market share due to economical prices and the origin of final product. All respective members of team have researched several models of consumer behavior and ended up using the Hawkins’ model since it gives a holistic view of the consumer behavior and the way purchase decision process could be affected by internal and external factors. For the purpose of data collection both qualitative and quantitative methods were applied which resulted in interesting findings that guided members to alternations that needed to occur. One of the aforementioned was the segmentation and positioning of the category resulting from the analysis of various factors and attributes that derived from the usage of Marketing Engineering for Excel (MEXL). Having the results of all aforementioned as foundations the team proceeded to the formation of recommendations, promotions and occasions that if followed should result in desired goal.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"184 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116634470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dr. Rana Zamin Abbas, M. Junaid, M. Athar, Zulfqar Ahmad
{"title":"Effect of Corporate Alienation on Managerial Decision Making: An Analytical Perspective","authors":"Dr. Rana Zamin Abbas, M. Junaid, M. Athar, Zulfqar Ahmad","doi":"10.5897/AJBM11.2590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5897/AJBM11.2590","url":null,"abstract":"This study revolves around the core process of decision making in an organization keeping on board the middle management tier which is involved mostly in decision making. In every passing day more and more mangers are coming across different personal problems; and even with strong academic qualifications and flair towards offering their best they are finding no place for themselves in this busy and dynamic corporate world. Organizational structure and design are the main causes that make their options miserable and leave no place to run and room to hide. They lose happiness, completeness and confidence and they hit back the society as an alien soul without any defined objective and definite purpose. The causes are studied here in the perspective of a continuous process of decision making which is the most important of all tasks a manager performs.","PeriodicalId":202820,"journal":{"name":"Organizational Communication eJournal","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132563744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}