Confidence In Companies Research Articles

Effects of Corporate Greenwashing on Society

The deceptive promotion of goods, practices, or activities as ecologically friendly—a practice known as corporate greenwashing—has a significant impact on society. This abstract explores the many effects of greenwashing, including how it affects consumer behaviour, trust, resource allocation, environmental progress, and competition. It looks at how greenwashing damages consumer confidence in companies, gets in the way of real sustainability initiatives, wastes money on marketing instead of real change, misleads customers into making unsustainable decisions, and skews the dynamics of the market by providing dishonest companies with unfair advantages. It also covers the possibility of regulatory scrutiny and reaction against businesses that engage in greenwashing. The comprehension of these consequences emphasises how crucial it is to cultivate openness and sincerity in corporate environmental endeavours to advance true sustainability and rebuild confidence incommercial operations.

COVID-19 and Entrepreneurial Confidence: Evidence from Listed Companies

This paper examines the impact of epidemic severity on entrepreneurial confidence. In this paper, we select the data of China's Shanghai-Shenzhen A-shares from 2017-2021, and explore their causality by constructing a multiple regression model. The study found that: (1) the more severe the epidemic, the lower the entrepreneur confidence index.(2) Compared with companies with CEO disintegration, the epidemic has a more significant negative effect on entrepreneur confidence in companies with CEO integration.(3) Compared with other industries, the epidemic has a less negative effect on entrepreneurial confidence.(4) Among companies with higher r & d personnel investment and higher capital investment, the negative impact of the epidemic on entrepreneurs' confidence is even less. This paper also verifies the stability of the results by replacing the model from the measures of the epidemic and increasing the number of control variables.

Why does the confidence in companies, but not the confidence in the government, affect the demand for regulation differently across countries?

In an attempt to contribute to the literature on how and why confidence in market participants and in the government shape the demand for market regulation, this paper contrasts two interpretations. The interpretation implicit in the empirical literature supposes that people trade off market failures for government failures. The paper argues that implicit in the broader public choice literature there is an alternative that emphasizes the nirvana fallacy and leads to the conclusion that people’s views on markets and government in general is a determinant of the effect of trust on the demand for regulation. The paper applies a meta-regression analysis to examine the results of country-level regressions with different survey waves of the Integrated Values Surveys. It shows that the effect of the two kinds of trust are asymmetric and that the negative effect of the confidence in companies on the demand for government regulation is larger in countries that score higher on individualism.

Liquidity, Managerial Ownership and Price to Book Value on Stock Prices in Transportation Sub Sector Companies

Stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies are still fluctuating and tend to decline. This indicates that investors' confidence in companies in transportation sub-sector companies is decreasing due to declining stock prices which are assumed to decrease the company's performance, so this causes the market response and investors are not optimistic in investing their capital in companies in transportation sub-sector companies. This study aims to empirically examine the effect of liquidity, managerial ownership and price to book value (PBV) on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020. The research method used purposive sampling. This type of data uses quantitative data and secondary data sources. Methods of data collection using the study of documentation. The data analysis technique used multiple linear regression test. The results show that liquidity has no significant effect on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020. Managerial ownership and price to book value (PBV) have a positive and significant effect on stock prices in transportation sub-sector companies in 2018-2020.

Performance Analysis of Overcurrent Protection in a Digital Substation with Process Bus

The digitization of electrical substations brings great challenges for the commissioning of electrical protections, and interoperability tests must be performed with different equipment. Therefore, this work evaluates the response time of an electrical protection relay operating with sampled values in a digital substation with a process bus. A test scheme is proposed to emulate the process bus based on analyzing the main components in a digital substation with multi-vendor device interoperability. In addition, the delay times of the protection relay with the process bus are measured, considering interoperable infrastructure as a fundamental factor in the system performance. The results are compared with the response times of a conventional relay that operates with analog signals to identify the impact of the digitalization of signals in electrical substations with a process bus. Each relay has an instantaneous overcurrent function adjusted to operate with the same pickup currents at different fault current levels. The results show that tripping times are admissible for the operation of the protection relays, considering three-time measuring points in the test scheme. The time delays found are related to high data traffic in the communication network and the traffic saturation according to the time measuring point. Other delays related to processing SVs in an MU do not represent a risk for the protection scheme. For the industry, the methods presented in the research are useful for configuring and testing electrical substations with different equipment and topologies. In addition, the results presented here seek to generate confidence in companies and engineering teams when migrating to systems with digital substations.

The paradoxical role of relationship quality on consumer privacy: Its effects on relinquishing and safeguarding information

AbstractConsumer privacy has received substantial attention recently due to increased cases of data breaches and other violations that have reduced consumers' confidence in companies. When consumers adopt protective actions to safeguard their privacy, they limit marketers' access to essential consumer information needed for relationship marketing. Strategies to encourage information disclosure have not been explored widely in the literature, nor have consumers' responses to privacy violations. This paper fills this gap by exploring the role of customer‐firm relationship quality (RQ) in consumer privacy. Specifically, the potentially positive role of RQ is examined, as it is proposed to enhance consumers' intentions to disclose information, and, relatedly, to mitigate their propensity to safeguard information. Furthermore, the potentially negative role of RQ is also explored in the context of a privacy violation. Two scenario‐based online experiments were conducted, where RQ and privacy violation were manipulated, and data were analyzed via SEM. The findings demonstrate that a deep consumer‐firm relationship increases intentions to relinquish information and decreases intentions to safeguard information, moderated by the consumer's disposition to value privacy (DVP). However, after a privacy violation, a deep relationship can backfire. Not only do our findings demonstrate that a violation leads to perceptions of betrayal, but the positive effect of betrayal on safeguarding is stronger for those in a deep relationship. Thus, relationship quality has a paradoxical effect: On the one hand, high‐relationship quality promotes relinquishing behaviors, but on the other hand, in case of a privacy violation, high‐relationship quality increases safeguarding behaviors.

Is confidence in major companies rooted in generalized social trust, or regulatory quality, or both?

AbstractWhile confidence in the business sector is crucial for well-functioning markets, there is surprisingly little empirical work on its sources. Available research recognizes generalized social trust and macroeconomic performance (especially unemployment and economic growth) as major forces explaining confidence in institutions and organizations in general. By assuming that confidence in companies hinges on rules, formal procedures, and practices that shape how organizations function, economic regulation is frequently advocated to foster confidence in companies, not least as it is supposed to reduce the scope for opportunistic behavior. Based on individual-level data from World Values Survey/European Values studies and economic regulation data from the Economic Freedom of the World project we investigate statistical associations of confidence in major companies with generalized social trust and macroeconomic performance as well as the intensity and quality of business regulation. From an economic policy perspective our findings suggest that confidence in the business sector can be facilitated by an implicit guarantee from governments of fair and impartial treatment.

Foreword

The global economy of mid-2019 is a fragile one and needs urgent cooperation, OECD analysts said in OECD Economic Outlook issued in May 2019. Trade and policy uncertainties could significantly harm the world economy during this year and would further contribute to the growing division of people.Trade and investment have slowed drastically, especially in Europe and Asia. The confidence of companies and consumers has slowed down. In response, financial conditions have relaxed as the central banks have moved towards a more coherent monetary situation. Tax policy has provided incentives only in a few countries.

Level of trust and confidence of companies in contractors and business partners vs. the level of innovation

Modern development economy and regional policy more and more often refer to the significance of institutional factors. Not only geographical vicinity may be a variable which affects the speed of growth, but also social vicinity starts to play an increasingly important role. The concept of social vicinity is based on the thesis of Granovetter about the embedding of all economic relations in certain social contexts (spatially varying social contexts). Social vicinity reflects the embeddedness of companies and their employees in informal relationships and social networks, which are based on trust between people. This encourages the spread of knowledge and efficient learning by providing more communicative context than that associated with impersonal transactions, eliminating frictions and difficulties related to pure trade, allowing for the achievement of goals which would not have been realised without the existence of social relations and trust.

모기업 신뢰가 쇼핑몰 만족에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 -온라인 쇼핑몰신뢰의 매개효과를 중심으로-

최근 온라인 쇼핑몰의 증가로 인해 소비자들의 생활방식에도 많은 변화가 일어났으며, 현재 백화점들의 온라인 쇼핑몰에서는 명품들과 외국 화장품까지도 판매되고 있다. 아직까지는 모든 제품이 아닌 몇몇의 제품들만을 온라인 쇼핑몰에서 판매하고 있지만 소비자들이 브랜드 상품을 더욱 저렴한 가격에 구매하려는 경향을 보임으로써 백화점의 브랜드 상품을 온라인 쇼핑몰에서 판매하려는 경향이 늘어나고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서 연구한 결과 첫째, 모기업의 신뢰는 쇼핑몰의 신뢰에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 쇼핑몰의 신뢰는 쇼핑몰 만족에 긍정적인 영향을 미쳤으나 모기업 신뢰가 매개변수를 거치지 않고 쇼핑몰 만족에 미치는 영향에 대해 연구한 결과 모기업의 신뢰는 쇼핑몰 만족에 영향을 미치지 않았다.

Niobrara Ramps Up To Hot Play For Liquids

The Niobrara Shale in the United States has ramped up into a hot play that could soon bring an explosion of horizontal drilling in Colorado and Wyoming. The combination of horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing is transforming the Niobrara from a target that has been drilled vertically and primarily for gas for nearly 100 years into a liquids-rich play that is capturing considerable attention. Speaking at the 2011 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Denver, John Ford, general manager of Colorado’s Wattenberg field at Anadarko, described the growing Niobrara activity as “really the next big thing.” That optimism was understandable. In November, Anadarko announced that its leases at Wattenberg may hold more than a billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas. The statement noted company drilling success in 11 recent wells at the field, including the Dolph 27-1HZ horizontal well that showed initial production of more than 1,100 B/D of oil and 2.4 MMcf/D of natural gas. These latest wells have given the company confidence that it can drill between 1,200 and 2,700 wells in northeast Colorado, with approximately 160 wells planned for this year. Based on results so far, the company expects ultimate recovery of between 500 million and 1.5 billion bbl of oil, natural gas liquids, and natural gas on an equivalent basis. Anadarko is not alone. Chesapeake Energy, Noble, Encana, and EOG Resources are among the largest acreage holders and the most active drillers of many companies—including numerous small independents—probing the Niobrara. Majors such as Shell and Marathon Oil have significant acreage. There are more than 50 operators in or near the Wattenberg field alone. Situated north/northeast of the Denver area, Wattenberg is the largest producing field in the Denver-Julesburg (D-J) Basin and one of the largest onshore oil and gas fields in the US. Reservoir Rock and Producing Regions Although the Niobrara is usually referred to as a shale, its reservoir rock consists primarily of limestone or chalk intervals, said Steve Sonnenberg, professor of petroleum geology at Colorado School of Mines in a recent edition of the AAPG Explorer (published by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists). “The formation demonstrates facies changes that range from limestone and chalk in the eastern end to calcareous shale in the middle and eventually transitioning to sandstone farther west,” said Sonnenberg, a past president of AAPG. “Depth and thickness are highly variable.”

Views from the regulated: financial analysts and insider information

The abuse of insider information has the potential to destroy confidence in companies, which may erode company market values and, ultimately, destabilise societies. This article presents original information, acquired through 25 semi-structured interviews, about financial analysts’ attitudes towards the use of insider information. Although much of the literature asserts that the role of professional associations in the regulatory function has decreased, the article proposes reinforcing the role of such associations as a way of addressing the problem of regulating the abuse of insider information. The article poses the question: How can the role of associations in financial regulation be reinforced? The main conclusion, supported by the theoretical framework, is that the problems of insider information abuse are best solved in a public debate initiated by the relevant associations. Such a public debate could lead to greater awareness of the problems, to possible solutions and to improved professional conduct. Ultimately, social order may be better enforced and maintained. Thus, in this way, the role of associations themselves may be strengthened.

In stories we trust: How narrative apologies provide cover for competitive vulnerability after integrity-violating blog posts

Consumers' confidence in companies has fallen due to recent and widespread violations of integrity and consumers' voicing of discontent in weblog (blog) posts. Current research on integrity restoration offers little guidance regarding appropriate responses. We posit that not only what (with which content) but also how (in which format) the company responds, contributes to an effective restoration of integrity and a reduction of consumers' intentions to switch. The results of Study 1 show that the combination of denial content and analytical format as well as apologetic content and narrative format works better than combinations of opposing response content and format. Comparing narrative apologies and denials in two consecutive studies, we demonstrate that the concept of “transportation”—the engrossing effect of a narrative—is the mechanism underlying narrative-based integrity restoration. We further assess in Study 2 how the use of empathy accounts for higher levels of transportation and perceived integrity. In Study 3, we establish that a personal response by the involved employee is more effective than a response issued by the company's spokesperson. Consumers trust in stories from the involved employee.

Quality of bottled waters in Turkey

In Turkey, 103 bottled waters (from natural springs and mineral waters) were sampled for testing their quality. The test revealed that in them some ions exceed the limits permitted by the World Health Organisation, European Community, and Turkish Standards. The appearance of Fe, Zn, As, and Al in the natural spring and mineral waters indicates their inorganic contamination. Such bottled waters can cause adverse effects on human health. If the information reported on the bottled water consumed in Turkey and other countries of the world is updated with current results of water chemistry analysis, consumer’s confidence in companies that produce them will increase.

The hiatus of re‐engineering

Looks at change and its various guises (TWM, BPR) and how it subsequently became an excuse for job losses, which led to cynicism and antipathy. States re‐engineering has had a particularly bad press and is a heavily tainted word bringing comments such as ‘the fad that forgot people!’ Concludes that re‐engineering has become synonymous with downsizing but needs time to win back confidence in companies.

ASCI Pathforward: to 30 Tflops and beyond

Future computer historians may speak of the technology advances developed for the US Department of Energy's Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative the way today's historians speak about technology that came out of DARPA in the 1970s and 80s, with awe. DARPA projects produced innovation that led to the Internet and Unix, among other things. ASCI has already produced the first teraflops computer. If the confidence of companies who recently signed contracts for ASCI's Pathforward project is any indication, we will see a computer capable of 30 Tflops in 2001. However, because of ASCI's business model, which requires commercial off-the-shelf components, it is unlikely that ASCI will get credit for much of the technology. The author discusses two plans for ASCI to leverage existing research and development. He also considers mass storage and software issues.