Teodóra Szép, Sander van Cranenburgh, Caspar Chorus
{"title":"Moral rhetoric in discrete choice models: a Natural Language Processing approach.","authors":"Teodóra Szép, Sander van Cranenburgh, Caspar Chorus","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01625-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11135-023-01625-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This paper proposes a new method to combine choice- and text data to infer moral motivations from people's actions. To do this, we rely on moral rhetoric, in other words, extracting moral values from verbal expressions with Natural Language Processing techniques. We use moral rhetoric based on a well-established moral, psychological theory called Moral Foundations Theory. We use moral rhetoric as input in Discrete Choice Models to gain insights into moral behaviour based on people's words and actions. We test our method in a case study of voting and party defection in the European Parliament. Our results indicate that moral rhetoric have significant explanatory power in modelling voting behaviour. We interpret the results in the light of political science literature and propose ways for future investigations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9996575/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10091848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Should I stay or should I go: A dynamical model of musicians’ agglomeration and migration","authors":"Irene Alfarone, Ugo Merlone","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01643-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01643-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135080721","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}
Anh Thi Van Nguyen, Alrence S Halibas, Robert McClelland, Nguyen Hoang Thuan
{"title":"Configurational analysis of conditions influencing customers' channel switching intention in omnichannel retailing: a fuzzy-set analysis.","authors":"Anh Thi Van Nguyen, Alrence S Halibas, Robert McClelland, Nguyen Hoang Thuan","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01633-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11135-023-01633-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research examined the interplay among personal factors, namely channel lock-in, cross-channel synergy, attribute-based decision making (ADM); environmental factors, namely others' past switching behaviour (OPB), pressure to switch from others (PSO); and behavioural factors, namely perceived self-efficacy and perception on facilitating conditions as antecedents to customers' channel switching intention in an omnichannel context. Drawing on the complexity theory and set theory, we applied configurational analysis using the fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The result of the analysis indicated two (2) sufficient configurations that led to an intention to switch channels. Both configurations contained ADM, OPB, and PSO conditions that highlight the importance of personal factors and environmental factors needed for the presence of an intention to switch channels. However, no sufficient configurations were obtained that indicate an absence of intention to switch channels. This study challenges theoretical underpinnings by demonstrating that omnichannel channel-switching behaviours can be explained from a configurational perspective. The configurations produced by this study can serve as a basis for researchers who plan to conduct asymmetric modelling of customers' channel-switching behaviour in an omnichannel context. Finally, this paper suggests omnichannel retail strategies and management as informed by these configurations.</p>","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":" ","pages":"1-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9978287/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9769346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sudeshna Ghosh, Buhari Doğan, Muhlis Can, M. I. Shah, N. Apergis
{"title":"Correction to: does economic structure matter for income inequality?","authors":"Sudeshna Ghosh, Buhari Doğan, Muhlis Can, M. I. Shah, N. Apergis","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01636-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01636-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":"116 1","pages":"5739 - 5739"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72766440","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}
Antonio Di Bari, Domenico Santoro, Maria Antonia Tarrazon-Rodon, Giovanni Villani
{"title":"The impact of polarity score on real option valuation for multistage projects.","authors":"Antonio Di Bari, Domenico Santoro, Maria Antonia Tarrazon-Rodon, Giovanni Villani","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01635-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11135-023-01635-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In most cases, the valuation of the investments characterized by various stages with a high level of uncertainty is done through the compound real option valuation (ROV). This decision making support can consider various types of uncertainty that can affects these investment phases, such as that linked to technology. Specifically, within the category of uncertain investments there are the broadband opportunities that can be valued as real options in order to quantify the risks associated with the investment. However, since ROV theory has no definitive way to determine model parameters based on market information, we propose one that can adjust them dynamically. In this paper, to include this aspect in the project valuation, we have unified the ROV with the sentiment analysis, a natural language processing technique that allows us to quantify the polarity of expressions in natural language numerically. In particular, the inherent risks related to the different phases of the project can be extracted from the information present in the surrounding environment and published in newspapers. From there, we obtain a sentiment score which, through appropriate manipulations, manages to modify the evaluation of the success probabilities of each stage. Then, we embed these success probabilities in the ROV in order to provide a valuation methodology that includes the impact of information on the investment decision.</p>","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947453/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10862489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefania Capecchi, Carmela Cappelli, Maurizio Curtarelli, Francesca Di Iorio
{"title":"Synthetic indicators to analyze work-related physical and psychosocial risk factors: evidence from the European Working Conditions Survey.","authors":"Stefania Capecchi, Carmela Cappelli, Maurizio Curtarelli, Francesca Di Iorio","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01617-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11135-023-01617-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In modern workplaces, alongside physical, chemical, and biological hazards, other risks are linked to the organisation of work and to the nature of the work itself. This paper investigates the association between workers' well-being and both psychosocial and physical risk factors at work proposing a synthetic measure suitable to generate insights on well-being at work and on individual risk factors. Exploiting data from the European Working Conditions Survey, we select as response variable the \"self-assessed health\". As this proxy of well-being is measured on a Likert scale, Ordered Probit analyses are run, and respondents' profiles are illustrated. Then, a Principal Component Analysis is carried out to build two synthetic measures summarising the selected risk determinants. The resulting first principal components are subsequently used as synthetic indicators in further, simplified, Ordered Probit models to explain the impact of different sets of risks on perceived health. Such a methodology allows for a straightforward interpretation of the results since many different risk drivers are replaced by two continuous synthetic indicators. Our findings, in line with existing research, confirm that both types of risk factors do exert a substantial impact on workers' health, although the psychosocial determinants seem to be more prominent.</p>","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":" ","pages":"1-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9942656/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10798900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seasonality and the female happiness paradox.","authors":"David G Blanchflower, Alex Bryson","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01628-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s11135-023-01628-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Most studies tracking wellbeing do not collect data across all the months in a year. This leads to error in estimating gender differences in wellbeing for three reasons. First, there are seasonal patterns in wellbeing (particularly life satisfaction and happiness) which are gendered, so failure to account for those confounds estimates of gender differences over time. Second, studies fielded in discrete parts of the year cannot extrapolate to gender differences in other parts of the year. Making inferences about trends over time is particularly problematic when a survey changes its field survey dates across years. Third, without monthly data, surveys miss big shifts in wellbeing that occur for short periods. This is a problem because women's wellbeing is more variable over short periods of time than men's wellbeing. It also bounces back faster. We show that simply splitting the data by months in a happiness equation generates a positive male coefficient in one subset of months from September to January and a negative coefficient in months February to August. Such a split has no impact on the male coefficients in an anxiety equation. Months matter.</p>","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":" ","pages":"1-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9942082/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10798901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Reményi, H. Gekıć, A. Bidžan-Gekić, Dávid Sümeghy
{"title":"Contextual factors influencing election results in Bosnia and Herzegovina","authors":"P. Reményi, H. Gekıć, A. Bidžan-Gekić, Dávid Sümeghy","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01622-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01622-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":"4 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85600279","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}
Chyoug-Hwa Chen, I-Fei Chen, Ruey-Chyn Tsaur, Li Chui
{"title":"User behaviors analysis on OTT platform with an integration of technology acceptance model","authors":"Chyoug-Hwa Chen, I-Fei Chen, Ruey-Chyn Tsaur, Li Chui","doi":"10.1007/s11135-023-01623-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-023-01623-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49649,"journal":{"name":"Quality & Quantity","volume":"56 1","pages":"5673 - 5691"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76910188","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}