Social Elements Research Articles

Research on the Impact of Digital Transformation on Corporate ESG - A Case Study of Jingdong Logistics

The purpose of this research is to analyze the impact that digital transformation has on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) elements of businesses by using Jingdong Logistics as a case study. Jingdong Logistics' environmental, social, and governance (ESG) indicators have been impacted both directly and indirectly by the digital transformation that the company has undergone, as indicated by the study of data changes and measures taken both before and after the transition. This digital transition has led to huge reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, which is good news for the environment; but, it also creates challenges in terms of energy consumption requirements. Although there has been an increase in the number of training hours and a drop in the number of workplace injuries, there has been an increase in the number of full-time employees, while there has been an increase in employee turnover. Even though there was an increase in the number of vendors, anti-corruption incidents decreased. Regarding the governance side of things, improvements were made to data security and transparency. According to the findings of the inquiry, digital transformation had a positive impact on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) of Jingdong Logistics; nevertheless, it also brought up new challenges that call for continued attention and growth.

Balancing Act: Maximizing Organizational Performance through Socio Technical Integration

Abstract: In today's dynamic business environment, organizations strive to optimize performance by integrating socio-technical aspects effectively. This study employs quantitative analysis to investigate the relationship between socio-technical integration and organizational performance. With a sample of 240 respondents chosen via convenience sampling, hypotheses testing was conducted to explore this relationship. The findings reveal significant positive associations between socio-integration and organizational performance metrics, as well as between technical integration and organizational performance metrics. These results underscore the importance of striking a balance between social and technical elements to enhance organizational performance. This study contributes to understanding how socio-technical integration can be leveraged to maximize organizational effectiveness in contemporary workplaces

Assessing Sustainability Performance of Community-based Fish Farming Cooperatives: A Comprehensive Checklist

Cooperative fisheries are increasingly recognized as a promising approach for small-scale fisheries management. However, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the key elements that drive sustainability within these cooperatives. This survey study aims to develop a sustainability performance checklist tailored for fisheries cooperatives throughout their lifecycle. Initially, a preliminary list of five-point Likert scale sustainability factors was created and reviewed through interviews with experts from both fisheries academic and executive sectors. Their feedback contributed to refining the checklist, ensuring its relevance, clarity, and simplicity. Experts from both the academic and executive sectors of fisheries cooperatives have confirmed the content validity of the economic, social, and environmental criteria included in the checklist. The data collected across 61 cooperatives. To identify the key factors influencing the sustainability performance of fisheries cooperatives throughout their lifecycle, a factor analysis was performed, employing the Varimax rotation method. The findings indicate that economic considerations are the primary focus during the initial establishment of fisheries cooperatives. As these cooperatives evolve through the growth and consolidation phases, social factors become increasingly significant. Additionally, the study highlights the essential role of environmental aspects in maintaining the stability and balance of these cooperatives. The research underscores the interdependence of economic, social, and environmental elements in fostering the sustainability of fisheries cooperatives. These insights are particularly relevant for policymakers, managers, and stakeholders in fisheries management. Furthermore, the developed sustainability performance checklist and weighting system can effectively assist in assessing and enhancing the sustainability of fisheries cooperatives.

Implications of public policies performance on social inequality worldwide

This study probes the linkage between public policy (represented by GDP growth, inflation, CO2 emissions, and unemployment factors) and social inequality indicators, paying attention to economic, environmental, and social elements. The study questions the impact of these policies on overall social inequality as one measure and its separate dimensions, which are gender, income, education, and life expectancy, whereas data was gathered between 2010 and 2021 from the World Bank and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for 139 countries. The linear regression revealed a significant relationship that explained 51% of the variance in overall social inequality, except for unemployment. Regarding separate dimensions of social inequality, the findings point out that GDP growth and inflation both affect life and gender inequality, whereas unemployment only affects income inequality; on the other hand, the CO2 emissions factor has an inverse effect on all dimensions of inequality (income, life expectancy, education, and gender inequalities). Considering the implications, increased CO2 emissions would reduce income inequality by boosting job creation, but they also pose environmental and health hazards, necessitating sustainable development strategies. Rising unemployment exacerbates income distribution, demonstrating the need for policies that enhance job stability and reduce inequality. Additionally, it necessitates investing in healthcare and education, eradicating gender inequality, and implementing sustainable strategies to foster economic growth while considering the consequences of inflation on life and gender justice. Thus, realizing these principles would build a sustainable and equitable society that balances economic enhancement with environmental protection and achieves equal opportunity.

EXPLORING INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS’ DETERMINANTS OF INVESTMENT IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUND

This study attempts to explore factors that may attract institutional investors to invest in affordable housing funds in Malaysia. Six traits of investments were tested, namely fund structure and mandate, market return, social return, risk mitigation, governance and transparency, and government support for the investment. Based on the six determinants, the study uses a partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique using data gathered from a survey involving employees of institutional investment firms in Malaysia. The study found three significant factors motivating institutional investors to invest in affordable housing fund, namely social return, government support, and governance and transparency. Overall, it was found that institutional investors do greatly consider social elements in their investment decisions. This will potentially open new avenues in fundraising efforts to build more affordable housing, hence providing an adequate supply of these homes for those in need.

Examining the Determinants of Millennials' Repurchase Intention for Electronic Products on Tokopedia Using UTAUT2

In Indonesia, internet usage has created substantial growth potential for e-commerce, particularly among millennials, who dominate as the primary users of e-commerce platforms. However, consumer behavior in purchasing electronic products online remains complex and challenging. This study aimed to examines the factors influencing millennials' intention to repurchase electronic products on Tokopedia. Involving 398 respondents’ millennial consumers. Data were collected through an online questionnaire. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2) was applied to examines the effects of performance expectancy, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, facilitating conditions, price value, social influence, and with additional variable trust on variable independent, intervening (satisfaction), and dependent (repurchase intention) variables. Data analysis was conducted using PLS-SEM. The findings show that performance expectancy, effort expectancy, hedonic motivation, habit, facilitating conditions, and social influence positively and significantly influence customer satisfaction, while price value and trust do not show significant influence. Customer satisfaction also mediates the relationship between several of these variables and repurchase intention. This study provides practical implications for e-commerce platform managers, such as enhancing platform performance, developing features that trigger positive emotional experiences, utilizing customer behavior data, and strengthening technical support and social elements in marketing strategies.

Social Capital in the Patron-Client Dimension towards the Sustainability of Seaweed Cultivation Businesses in Rural Areas, South Sulawesi, Indonesia

The system of livelihoods in seaweed cultivation becomes the subject of study because of the factor of production, and the distribution of the output of production requires a strategy of merging between something material and non-material that involves interaction with various actors in society. The social capital awakened by the actors in the seaweed cultivation business through the patron-client dimension is an effort to ensure the sustainability of the business. The study aims to characterize the components of social capital that bind, bridge, and connect in the context of the relationship between actors in seaweed cultivation, including the important role of the combination of these three types of social capital in the sustainability of the seaweed cultivation business. The Research methods use qualitative descriptive approaches. Data is collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed with open, axial, and selective encoding. The results show that actors in seaweed cultivation enterprises combine the social capital components of bonding, bridging, and linking selectively, depending on the interests behind each interaction with different actors. Social bonding capital is owned by seaweed farmers in their interactions to gain access to financial capital (in the form of cash and loans). The patron-client relationship pattern is the most prominent of the reciprocity relationships, where the patron is the provider of corporate capital and the guarantor of subsistence is the cultivator. The social bridging and linking capital is owned in its interaction to gain access to social assistance and political support as well as networking. Mechanisms of sale of seaweed production are dominated by marketing networks using intermediary services (middlemen) through the concept of personalized exchange. In such market trading, the symptoms of “boro” (guarantees) are detected through subscription relationships between sellers and buyers characterized by regular personality contacts and through credit mechanisms known as “take now, pay later”. Therefore, social capital plays an important role in the sustainability of seaweed farming in the countryside. In a situation of economic or environmental change, social capital can help the farmer adapt and survive in his business and household life. We found that social capital plays an important role in the rural habitat system, where access to livelihoods depends on social relationships. Thus, support is needed to strengthen the capacity of social capital in societies because the configuration of the social capital elements can inherit the cognitive social capital, the social structural capital and the social relational capital necessary for the improved social, economic and cultural development of societies.

Birth of the Academy of Sciences in Russia

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the historical factors that led to the emergence of modern science in the Russian Empire, with a particular focus on the establishment and development of the Academy of Sciences during the 18th and 19th centuries. Adopting an externalist approach to the History of Science, the study explores the interplay between religious, political, social, and intellectual elements and their impact on the evolution of science as a social institution, culminating in the establishment of the Academy of Sciences. The paper highlights the critical relationship between the State and scientific endeavours and sheds light on the transformative efforts of Peter the Great in modernising Russia. It also examines the Empire's cultural exchange with the West and the influential role played by foreign scientists in the nascent years of the Academy of Sciences. By delving into the complex interactions between the Russian cultural framework and scientific developments, this paper seeks to provide a general overview of the cultural context surrounding the institutionalization of scientific work in Russia. It serves as a guideline for future specialised research, offering insights into the multifaceted influences that shaped the growth and establishment of modern science in the Russian Empire.

Unraveling the Influence of Social Functions on the Success of Recent Graduates in Malaysian Job Interviews

The study aimed to explore how social functions impact the success of recent graduates in job interviews. It employed a qualitative research approach, conducting interviews with 10 recent graduates to gather primary data. Interviews provided a detailed examination of graduates’ experiences and interactions during job interviews. The analytical framework utilized was Halliday’s theory of social functions, which offers insights into how language operates in various social contexts, such as conveying information and establishing interpersonal relationships. Findings indicated that candidates demonstrated proficiency in experiential, interpersonal, textual, and ideational aspects. However, shortcomings were observed in phatic and esthetic functions, suggesting a prioritization of conveying information and facilitating interaction over social and esthetic elements in communication. Findings also underscore the importance of prioritizing informative and interactive communication strategies to enhance recent graduates’ success in Malaysian job interviews. By recognizing and adapting to prevailing communication norms in job interview contexts, recent graduates may navigate challenges more effectively and seize opportunities, thereby improving their employment prospects. This research illuminates the intricate dynamics of job interviews, offering valuable insights for both recent graduates and employers in Malaysia.

Effects of Sales Campaign Strategies on Customer Patronage of Nigeria Breweries Products in Jos South LGA of Plateau State

Customer patronage is borne out of a longing to be focused on a specialist co-op either founded on its administration quality or seen administration esteem. Albeit a few scientists have proposed that what decides a client's decision of choosing or disparaging items varies from one country to another as well as from one district to another because of contrasts in social, ecological and financial elements. The review analyzed the impacts of deals advancement methodologies on client support of Nigeria distilleries items in Jos South LGA of Level State. The review utilized a semi-organized survey planned with a 5-point Likert scaling. 143 duplicates of the survey were circulated among the respondents, who were sub merchants of Amstel Malt in Jos South LGA of Level State. The information gathered was dissected utilizing various straight relapse. The discoveries delighted that there is a huge connection between deals advancement procedures aspects (premium item, gift, extra-item and scaled down cost) on client support, implying that deals advancement techniques significantly affect client support. The review presumes that Nigeria bottling works ought to build their concentration and keep up with the level of the deals advancement methodologies (premium item, gift, extra-item and scaled down cost), since it impacts client's support. The review suggests that Nigeria distilleries ought to direct investigations to assess various degrees of allure of the markdown base advancement. Furthermore, that administration ought to execute extra-item methodologies that will empower clients see them as particularly unique and drive most extreme support.

Gaya Komunikasi Gibran Rakabuming Raka dalam Debat Cawapres 2024 Putaran Keempat pada Channel Youtube Kompas TV

The 2024 presidential and vice-presidential election also be an opportunity for the public to actively participate in the democratic process. One issue concerns the communication style of vice-presidential candidate Gibran Rakabuming Raka in the fourth round of the vice-presidential debate. The aim of this study is to identify the communication style demonstrated by Gibran Rakabuming Raka during the discussion. The data used for this research was taken from Kompas TV programs on the YouTube channel. The theoretical approaches used include Gibran’s Communication Style Theory and Carl Gustav Jung’s Communication Style Approach to better understand the characteristics and dynamics of communication. The research method employed is descriptive qualitative with content analysis, analyzing data from the discussion videos which serve as the main source of information. The results show that Gibran Rakabuming Raka's communication style in the fourth round of the vice-presidential debate reflects a unique blend of control style theory and social style theory elements.

Mobility practices in a changing climate: Understanding shifts in car ownership and use across the life course

Mobility practices in everyday life are often highly routinised and resistant to change. But they can also change significantly over the life course, reflecting sudden ruptures linked to incisive life events and more gradual shifts related to changing societal and environmental conditions. Combining insights from practice-theoretical mobility studies and mobility biographies research, this paper critically examines the role of material, social and cultural elements in transforming routine mobility practices, focusing on car ownership and use across the life course. Drawing on mobility-biographical interviews with people who live in Munich (Germany) and who do not own a car, it reveals the complexity of both one-off and daily decisions that help to establish and routinise carless mobility practices, linking them to social and material conditions past and present. The paper also documents the role of environmental and climate-related arguments in the transition towards carlessness, alongside shifts in infrastructure, social and economic circumstances and mobility-related skills and meanings. It concludes with some recommendations for sustainable mobility policy that works with the dynamics of car ownership and use across the life course and that incorporates both social and material aspects underpinning people’s decision to give up their private car.

The power of mineral: Shock of the global supply chain from resource nationalism

State intervention has long affected the stability of the global mineral and raw material markets. Global energy transition has continued to boost demand for copper, lithium, cobalt, and nickel. It has exacerbated the global prevalence of resource nationalism. Research on resource nationalism has focused on the interaction of economic, political, cultural, and social elements within countries. The lack of understanding of the global economic effects of resource nationalism limits our flexibility in responding to upheavals in the global resource order. We combine time series counterfactual analysis and input–output modeling to advance our understanding of the worldwide supply chain effects of resource nationalism. We analyze the impacts of resource political behavior on global supply chains based on several representative episodes of resource nationalism. While major industrialized countries suffer more absolute welfare losses, formerly developed countries in the Global South face higher price effects. Moreover, nationalist resource shocks are not the only cause of welfare losses in the metals supply chain sector. Still, they are also harming various industries and groups, from food and energy to services. Such differences in price and welfare effects depend on the type of mineral and the resource power of the event-initiating country, on the one hand, and are influenced by the global industrial division of labor, on the other. More losses in developing countries come from the agricultural sector and primary manufacturing than from the severity of the losses suffered by the manufacturing and service sectors in industrial and rich countries. This is a reminder to pay more attention to the unequal distribution of economic pressures across countries and sectors in the global energy transition.

Enhancing doctoral training with reflexive practices: Insights from a collaborative autoethnography

ABSTRACT As calls increase to give public affairs doctoral students more agency in their learning, we report on the effects of implementing professional development, self-reflection, and original research into a first-year, first-semester introductory doctoral seminar. Using Scott et al’s framework, we purposively integrated elements of socialization and self-reflection into the course materials and assignments. Via collaborative autoethnography, we argue that reflexivity and deliberation in real-time yields: personal connection to the materials and each other; kinetic energy and information retention; the blending of academic rigor with an ethic of care. The conclusion offers a framework based on our findings to assist other professors in developing courses with built-in reflection and professional development to work toward equity in the classroom.

Representing and assessing distributed situation awareness in multi-agency disaster response: A hypergraph-based methodology

This paper introduces a novel hypergraph-based methodology for representing and assessing distributed situation awareness (DSA) in multi-agency disaster response. The fundamental ideas and motivations of our methodology stem from the following widely acknowledged understandings and phenomenons: (a) DSA’s representation should be approached from social, information and task dimensions; (b) DSA is one of the collective behaviors that emerge from the interactions; (c) the interactions in the real world are not pairwise. Our methodology delineates the collaboration, co-activation, and co-existence interactions among social, information, and task elements as higher-order interactions. We then construct these interaction systems using hypergraph-structured data derived from disaster response scenarios. Subsequently, these systems are encoded into hypergraphs, which are validated against our dataset and proven to be practical tools for depicting higher-order interaction patterns. Analytical techniques tailored to hypergraphs are applied, yielding insights intrinsic to hypergraphs regarding DSA in emergency response. Moreover, we integrate these interaction systems into a comprehensive framework that allows for the visualization and quantitative analyses of DSA evolution dynamics. We propose several indicators of evolution, discussing their trends and implications throughout the development of the emergency response. We locate the system deficiencies by revealing a mismatch between the positions of specific elements in the network and their functions. We also identify the saturation phase in the DSA evolution process.

How to undertake a holistic nutritional assessment with older people.

Nutrition is a fundamental aspect of nursing care, however older people cared for in hospital, in a care home or in their own home do not always receive adequate support with their nutritional needs, which can leave them at risk of malnutrition. Using a holistic, biopsychosocial framework to support a comprehensive nutritional assessment that includes malnutrition screening can support the nurse to identify the older person's nutritional status and nutrition needs. Nurses undertaking this procedure must ensure they have the knowledge and skills to do so and work within the limits of their competence. • Malnutrition in older people can lead to a decline in functional ability, reduced muscle strength, fatigue, impaired immunity, suboptimal wound healing, increased risk of infection and increased risk of falls. • Screening for, and assessing the risk of, malnutrition is an important part of nursing assessments in any healthcare setting. • A holistic nutritional assessment should incorporate physiological, psychological, emotional, spiritual, social and cultural elements. REFLECTIVE ACTIVITY: ' How to' articles can help to update your practice and ensure it remains evidence based. Apply this article to your practice. Reflect on and write a short account of: • How this article might improve your practice when undertaking a holistic nutritional assessment with an older person. • How you could use this information to educate nursing students or your colleagues on the appropriate techniques and evidence base for undertaking a holistic nutritional assessment with an older person.

Undi 18 di Malaysia: Pasca Pelaksanaan dan Cabaran Berterusan

Most countries in the world have already allowed their 18-year-old citizens to vote in the country’s general elections; however, there are also countries that allow citizens as young as 16 to vote. The readiness of young voters is an issue highlighted by many researchers through post-implementation analysis of UNDI18 in Malaysia. This is due to the involvement of young voters which affects the legitimacy of the newly formed government. Additionally, existing research narratives focus on context from a specific demographic point of view or the analysis of topical issues in general. The objective of writing this article is to analyze the implementation of ‘UNDI18’ as well as the challenges and post-challenges faced by young voters in this country presented by previous researchers and provide new findings in the aspects discussed by the Parliament of Malaysia. This qualitative study highlights the ‘desktop research’ strategy with thematic, narrative and descriptive analysis. This article presents three main syntheses on ‘UNDI18’ and the legitimacy of the government formed through the themes generated from the content analysis. The article also discovered that social elements shape the difficulties faced by young voters in this nation, with external factors taking the lead. The article concluded that we need to develop a strategic policy that educates young voters on political and democratic issues, empowering them to make more persuasive decisions. This also entails the government’s obligation to address the issue of political education or elections for young people, and to identify specific departments or agencies that are responsible for this task.

Perbedaan Sosial dalam Dongeng the Country Mouse and The City Mouse Karya Predeaux

Human nature, social life, requires humans to socialize with and interact with other humans for survival. There are the five important elements of socialization: social, cultural, social institutions, social stratification or the final grouping of society: power and authority. The study was done to identify social differences and factors that contributed to social differences. The study used qualitative descriptive methods with an objective approach to literature. Well-illustrated social differences in the background of both mice (country mouse) and (city mouse), they had conflicting backgrounds. The cause of these differences is that they live in different neighborhoods.

CI-STR: A capabilities-based interface to model socio-technical systems in disaster resilience assessment

This paper presents a Capabilities-based Interface for Socio-Technical Resilience (CI-STR) framework to model community disaster resilience, a process shaped by the complex interplay between social and technical factors. Central to this framework is the concept of human capabilities, defined as the opportunities for individuals to achieve valuable functionings. These capabilities serve as the interface that integrates individuals' social characteristics with community resources provided by infrastructure systems and businesses, both of which can undergo dramatic and rapid changes after a disaster, influencing the fulfillment of capabilities. The CI-STR framework highlights the feedback relationships among individual capabilities, where one capability can affect others through its impact on social and/or technical contexts throughout the post-disaster recovery process. In the social context, changes in capabilities directly reflect on individual's physical, financial, and social conditions, while technical feedback effects can alter the demand, supply, and operation of technical systems. The framework conceptualizes the recovery process as a series of activities driven by human capabilities and introduces three key features to model this dynamic process: capabilities-induced coping strategies, time-dependent and hierarchical capabilities, and capabilities in groups. These features capture the motivations and abilities for recovery activities, prioritize actions based on urgent needs, and assess group-level capabilities, providing unique insights into the temporal evolution of individuals' capabilities during recovery. The CI-STR framework enables comprehensive modeling of the human components and their interactions with technical and social elements, facilitating the assessment of community resilience and the development of recovery strategies across a wide range of community dimensions.

Symposium 5: Design for networked learning: A case study in health science

Higher education (HE) institutions have been transforming dramatically since the pandemic started late 2019 and early 2020. After an initial period of emergency online teaching and learning, HE educators have focused our energy on supporting students' learning in a complex dynamic learning environment, where digital/online - material/physical - social elements are interwoven and interrelated. Networked learning can be a useful medium for us in this complex context. This paper explores a case study of design for networked learning in a health science postgraduate course. The course was designed in the context of a New Zealand university. The paper will examine how the course design reflects the eight principles of design for networked learning, and proposes some recommendations on design for networked learning at a course level. It links practice and theories, and illustrates how networked learning is unpacked in the context of the course design. While the current paper focuses on the design of the course, it is suggested that future research should conduct an evaluation of the design and develop empirical studies on students' and teacher's experience.