Perception Of Crisis Research Articles

The Effect of Military Crisis Management Communication on a Social Network Service :Focusing on the effect of message form on the crisis perception of soldiers

The Effect of Military Crisis Management Communication on a Social Network Service :Focusing on the effect of message form on the crisis perception of soldiers

Украинский конфликт и Крым: испытание французской дипломатии

Although France stayed away from American and European projects crucially responsible for generating the Ukrainian conflict, she passively supported EU line on Ukraine and turned out to be hostage to its dramatic implications. The new situation in and around Ukraine has devalued the Fifth Republic’s accomplishments in promoting her vision of European and global architecture. Concerned to face forthcoming marginalization, France engaged in active policy initiating the “Normandy format” for peace settlement. However, the room for maneuver appears to be scarce as Paris continues to stick to the EuroAtlantic paradigm with regard to Ukrainian crisis perception.

The Effects of Corporate Crisis Perception on Comsumer Responses: The Focusing on the Psychological Mechanism

The Effects of Corporate Crisis Perception on Comsumer Responses: The Focusing on the Psychological Mechanism

História, ciência ou romance? O tema das identidades no futebol brasileiro

Já há algum tempo, uma percepção de crise vem se manifestando no campo das ciências humanas e, por consequência, no campo historiográfico acerca do status de ciência para História de uma forma geral. Trata-se de uma questão de cunho epistemológico e que, assim sendo, repercute e desafia historiadores como um todo, independente das especificidades do seu objeto. O objetivo central deste artigo é problematizar o campo de estudos históricos envolvendo identidade e futebol que se desenvolve no Brasil, a luz daquele diagnóstico de crise. Para tal, parte-se de uma breve apresentação da referida crise, destacando a proposta historiográfica de Jörn Rüsen como forma de superá-la. Na sequência, a partir de uma dada escolha bibliográfica, apresenta-se um panorama geral sobre estudos, no Brasil, envolvendo o tema das identidades no futebol. Finalmente, conclui-se o artigo com alguns apontamentos e a possibilidade do uso da teoria elisiana na escrita da história do esporte.

Impact of responsive and proactive market orientation on SME performance: The moderating role of economic crisis perception

AbstractThis study examines the relationship between market orientation (MO) and the performance of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) within the context of economic crisis. It distinguishes between two levels of MO: responsive market orientation (RMO) and proactive market orientation (PMO). Data were collected on a sample of 300 SME. Findings indicate that SMEs, confronted with an economic downturn, use a MO approach that is both proactive and responsive, and reveal the moderator effect of the SME manager's perception of an economic crisis on PMO/RMO–performance. Research and practical implications are discussed. © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Historical framing of the Ukraine Crisis through the Great Patriotic War: Performativity, cultural consciousness and shared remembering

Remembering in Russia is increasingly performative and actualised, as shown by the Russian government and media’s conflation of the Ukraine Crisis with the Great Patriotic War. By presenting the Great Patriotic War as a frame though which to understand events in Ukraine, the media and government guided domestic political perceptions of the contemporary crisis and encouraged participative shared remembering as a bulwark against threats to Russian national identity and historical legacies. Across several media sources, similarities in the frame’s thematic content, sequencing, and presentation demonstrated a concerted and sophisticated effort to exploit the Ukraine Crisis for identity construction. As part of these attempts, the media and government presented patriotic models for emulation, appropriating cultural memory in order to merge respect for the past with allegiance to government policy.

The Problem of Crisis in the Theory of Postmodernism

The article is aimed at studying the theory of postmodernism, asLittLe studied and insufficiently disclosed in modern science, extremely complex and requiring detailed and in-depth analysis. The article sets the task to consider the problems of the crisis perception of the situation in postmodernism architecture period, existing in the regime of a multicultural polylogue. The issue of changing of architectural styles, reflecting global processes, is considered. The peculiarity of architectural thinking in the 1960-1990 period is studied from the point of view of changing of cultural paradigmatic attitudes. The author for the first time explores the causes of the emergence of a sense of crisis, as well as its effects in the form of growing reflection, irony, the formation of criticism and deconstruction, as derivatives of this state. Insufficient study of this problem requires a detailed consideration of the features of eschatological thinking in the cultural processes of the twentieth century and their reflection in the ideology of postmodernism, which is done by the author for the first time. The problem of confrontation between culture and civilization is analyzed, which is one of the little-studied phenomena of thinking in the second half of the twentieth century. The research touches upon the issues of values reassessment, the emergence of distrust to meta-narratives, skepticism to rationality, the defeat of the ideas of humanism, the death of culture, the existence in the process of global polemics, the loss of unambiguous self-identification and landmarks of contemporary human in the world. The author demonstrates the reasons for the emergence of pluralism, antiauthoritarianism, democracy, autoreflexia as ideologemes opposed to modernism. The article contains an examination of the emergence of neoromanticism, deconstruction, escapism as different directions in postmodernism.

Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital

This article draws out the contradictions in the relationship between capitalism as a mode of production and our contemporary efforts to deal with the breaching of planetary boundaries or the ecological crisis. First, it looks at the theoretical developments in understanding the source of our current ecological crisis. The historical establishment of a metabolic rift and the shifts engendered as solutions to this problem within capitalism are discussed. Then, it focuses on the problem of perception of the ecological crisis in the contemporary world. An unequal world cannot be a sustainable world as standpoint influences even the perception of an impending precipice, and consequently any form of collective action. Given this inability to understand the crisis, the solutions that emerge are reductive and tend to spatially, temporally or socially shift the problem rather than resolve it. Finally, it argues that environmentalism—or efforts to ‘save the planet’—needs to be understood based on the understanding of the problem rather than on social location of its members.

Exploring the Phenomenon of Zero Waste and Future Cities

The evolving phenomenon of zero waste encompasses the theory, practice, and learning of individuals, families, businesses, communities, and government organisations, responding to perceptions of crisis and failure around conventional waste management. The diverse and growing body of international zero waste experience, can be portrayed as both, an entirely new and alternative waste management paradigm, and or, interpreted as overlapping, extending, and synergetic with a general evolution towards more sustainable waste/resource management practices. Combining the terms zero and waste provokes creative, intellectual, and pragmatic tensions, which provide a contemporary axis for necessary debate and innovation in this sphere of resource management. This commentary draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and utilises some elements of the critique of zero waste, as a lens to examine and better understand this heterogeneous global community of practice. In particular, how the concept and implementation of a zero waste goal can increase community engagement and be a catalyst for the design and management of a more circular urban metabolism and hence, more adaptive, resilient, and sustainable future (zero waste) cities.

When new media operates within a state-mediated press system: assessing new media’s impact on journalism crisis perceptions in Singapore and Hong Kong

ABSTRACTNew media has been described as both a boon and a bane for journalism in contemporary times, enabling more issues to be tabled while drawing resources away from traditional newsrooms and spreading unverifiable content. How new media has impacted journalism, however, has tended to be couched within the liberal-democratic ideological framework found typically in dominant Anglo-American literature; research has been scant on societies that may be exposed to Western liberal ideals but whose media systems still experience some form of authoritarian influence or control. Of interest are two Asian ‘global cities’ in transition, Singapore and Hong Kong, labeled by scholars as ‘authoritarian’ and ‘semi-authoritarian’ respectively. Through a textual analysis of survey and interview responses from 160 news journalists, this study identifies the need for a three-dimensional approach to examine new media’s impact on journalism crisis perceptions in such hybrid societies – at the material, discursive, and ideological levels. Despite less state control on the media in Hong Kong, both online and offline, this study discovers that it is the Singaporeans that experience less fear of journalism crisis in the digital age, prompting alternative ways to understand state mediation of the press in a digital media landscape.

Authentic Moral Leadership, Attributed Charisma, and Cynicism about Change in the Context of a Presidential Election: Understanding the Moderating Role of Crisis Perceptions

The current study examines authentic moral leadership in the setting of a U.S. presidential election, with the Democratic incumbent and Republican challenger in 2012. Pre and post-election data were collected yielding 432 matched responses. Perceptions of authentic moral leadership were positively related to attributions of charisma, with crisis perceptions having a moderating effect. Pre-election perceptions of the incumbent’s authentic moral leadership had a negative effect on cynicism about change, and a negative indirect effect on post-election cynicism about change, through pre-election attributions of charisma. The implications of the research for understanding authentic moral leadership and attributed charisma are discussed.

Impact of Moral Ethics on Consumers’ Boycott Intentions: A Cross-Cultural Study of Crisis Perceptions and Responses in the United States, South Korea, and Singapore

This study investigates the effects of individuals’ moral foundations on perceptions and responses to a company’s crisis. Drawing on moral foundations theory, it empirically tests a theoretical model of crisis attribution and moral outrage with two antecedents (i.e., individualizing moral and binding moral) on three outcomes (i.e., crisis attribution, anger, and boycott intentions), using more than 3,000 respondents from three culturally diverse countries—the United States, South Korea, and Singapore. The study finds that individualizing and binding moral foundations have significant effects on attribution, emotional reaction (i.e., anger), and behavioral intentions related to corporate irresponsibility, although their effects are distinct and varied across countries. While individualizing moral foundations lead to boycott intentions, the effects of binding moral foundations are multifaceted. Implications for communication professionals practicing in a highly globalized business environment today to recognize variations in morality among different publics in times of crisis are discussed.

La crisis y sus retos para la democracia. ¿Hacia un nuevo contrato político y social?

Ante la percepción generalizada de crisis, y la interrelación entre sus distintos planos, se plantea la hipótesis de una crisis de origen únicamente económica, con una réplica o traslado al ámbito social y político.Por otro lado, están aquellos que señalan que cada plano requiere de soluciones diferentes, y que soluciones económicas no llevan necesariamente a un fortalecimiento de la democracia, como se puede observar en un número creciente de países en los que la libertad de mercado, y sus buenos resultados conviven con regímenes autoritarios.Este trabajo se centrará en el aspecto institucional, y concretamente, en la democracia. Así, se acabará concluyendo sobre los peligros de poner en la reforma constitucional las expectativas de solución de problemas económicos y sociales, y sobre la necesidad de trabajar para que se den condiciones que hagan posible la reforma.Recibido: 17 abril 2018Aceptado: 25 junio 2018Publicación en línea: 03 agosto 2018

Public Perceptions of the Basic Skills Crisis

The “Canadian Math Wars” have been in full force since release of the 2012 PISA results. Using phenomenography, we investigated public perceptions of the (not) new mathematics as expressed in responses to media coverage. Our results highlight the multiplicity of the public’s perception of goals for an ideal school mathematics. We use the category of “Mastering Basic Computational Skills” to illuminate five dimensions informing this idealized goal: learning process, result of learning, order of learning, learning tasks, and the nature of mathematics. Our findings allow us to lay aside the rhetoric of oppositional stances to establish future avenues of communication.

Eco-Catastrophe, Arithmetic Patriotism and the Thatcherite Promise of Nature

This essay describes how the renovated 1970s liberalism that would become a major thread of Thatcherism grew on the back of public perceptions of crisis, and adapted worries about ecology to worries about ‘financial ecology’, or money supply. The natural conditions of money movement have a particular place in the British constitution as the original basis of authority for the 1688 state, when Newtonian ideas of eternal laws of physics were ‘financialised’ by John Locke. In this thinking, the property basis of citizenship itself is nature, and must be underwired by universal terms of exchange following natural rules. Although Thatcherism has often been described as an alien credo, it was largely enabled by this promise of a return to a financial natural law. In the terms borrowed from Luc Boltanski by William Davies, it returns to a ‘political physics’ which now takes on a moral role preventing catastrophe, or an ‘economic patriotism’ seen to protect the constitution from political force. The 1970s return to Locke’s understanding of nature builds on and repurposes visions of the catastrophic in popular culture, fiction, children’s books and TV, which I describe here. It begins with those eco-catastrophes that describe a ‘disaster of nature’, which it sees as also including the disaster of the property-producing role of labour, in the ‘despotic’ role of trade unions, and the perceived threat to money as a universal measure, a disaster that would increasingly be given an arithmetic measure in inflation. For key liberal or neo-Lockean think-tanks of the mid­1970s, the attack on natural law by despotic power, measured in inflation, could be seen as a mass erosion of individual responsibility, as dystopian, and as always calling for a restoration of the balances of nature. The result is a permanent and quotidian vigilance over threats to nature that sees their solution, paradoxically, as the creation of more property. Understanding this binding between nature and property in the constitution that gave rise to Anglophone capitalist modernity also helps give a fix on the way stories of ecological disaster can, as Frederick Buell has described, themselves be given values and repurposed for increased consumption.

Do Business Environmental Prospects Affect the Implementation of CSR in Foreign Markets?: The Moderating Effect

This paper focuses on the perception of business environment crisis on Korean subsidiaries’ CSR performance in Chinese market. According to the empirical analysis, the higher the perception of crisis on the local business environment, the lower the level of CSR activities. These results indicate that overseas subsidiaries determine the CSR level according to the situation of the market environment rather than philanthropic motives. This is because CSR implementation of foreign subsidiaries is more like strategic motivation than moral motivation. In particular, if resources are limited, such as overseas subsidiaries, it will be burdensome to implement CSR, which is difficult to achieve in the short term. Moreover, we examined the moderating effects of primary stakeholders such as local consumers, employees, and suppliers through additional analysis. The higher the reputation of local consumers and the competitiveness of partner companies, the weaker the impact of crisis perception on CSR, but the ratio of local employees did not have a significant effect.

Migration Scholarship in Post-Soviet Russia: Between Western Approaches and Eurasian Geographies

This review explores Russian academic debates around migration, highlighting theoretical, empirical and policy issues which are specific to the Former Soviet Union (FSU). In global terms, FSU migration volumes are high: the Ukraine-Russia migration corridors are second only to those straddling the border between Mexico and the United States. Russia’s wealthiest regions are the primary destinations of both internal and FSU migrants. In line with global trends, the response by host countries’ populations and authorities is one of hostility informed by media-fuelled xenophobia. The chaotic and disruptive nature of post-socialist transformations has buffered the effects and lessened the perception of the multiple crises which have enveloped the European Union in the last decade. Eurasian integration and the rift with the West have produced different economic and political conjunctures, whose defining moments are the Ukrainian conflict, Western sanctions and worsening terms of trade for key exports. In Russia, migration debates have focused on FSU-specific emergencies including demographic unbalances, the repatriation of the Russian diaspora and the prospects of large scale Central Asian migration. Migration processes, their subjective understanding as well as Russian policies directed at them, have been informed by the long history of mobility across the Eurasian space. FSU migrants who make up the vast majority of Russia’s migrant population still view the latter as ‘a common house’, a transnational space open to all FSU citizens irrespective of current nationality.

Migrants in the Mountains: Shifting Borders and Contested Crisis Experiences in Rural Germany

When one million asylum seekers and other migrants entered Germany in 2015–2016, the situation was called a national crisis. This article examines the impact of an emergency reception centre on a small town, investigating how rural Germans debated crisis experiences, migration and borders. In the Harz Mountains, asylum seekers arrived in an area already suffering from decline. Accommodating newcomers became a specific challenge. The assumption of a European-wide emergency induced by the presence of foreigners neglects how contexts shape crisis perceptions. Social fragmentation occurred when some townspeople framed local developments as the Flüchtlingskrise covered by the media, whereas others used personal experience to critique the crisis concept. As new experts in emergency management, reception centre employees changed their political consciousness. The unsteady politico-spatial order, rather than asylum seekers as subjects, produced anxiety over marginalisation, since the reception centre shifted problematic border features – chaos and risk – into central Germany.

Perceptions of the Ukraine Crisis: A Clash Between a Modern Russia and a Postmodern European Union?

This article explores how perceptions of the Ukraine crisis reflect broader ways of thinking about the European Union (EU) and Russia in the shared neighbourhood. A common interpretation of the crisis is that it marks a clash between a ‘postmodern’ EU and a ‘modern’ Russia. This article questions this interpretation, challenging both the broad framework and also its utility in explaining the Ukraine crisis. Furthermore, it suggests that the framework has itself contributed to the crisis. The exceptionalism inherent in the ‘postmodern EU’ concept encourages EU policymakers to believe that their policy is inherently legitimate and hence to disregard the views and interests of other states. Russian policymakers have continuously objected to such an approach and their assertiveness in relation to Ukraine is in part a response to it.

The replication crisis in epidemiology: snowball, snow job, or winter solstice?

Like a snowball rolling down a steep hill, the most recent crisis over the perceived lack of reproducibility of scientific results has outpaced the evidence of crisis. It has led to new actions and new guidelines that have been rushed to market without plans for evaluation, metrics for success, or due consideration of the potential for unintended consequences. The perception of the crisis is at least partly a snow job, heavily influenced by a small number of centers lavishly funded by a single foundation, with undue and unsupported attention to preregistration as a solution to the perceived crisis. At the same time, the perception of crisis provides an opportunity for introspection. Two studies' estimates of association may differ because of undue attention on null hypothesis statistical testing, because of differences in the distribution of effect modifiers, because of differential susceptibility to threats to validity, or for other reasons. Perhaps the expectation of what reproducible epidemiology ought to look like is more misguided than the practice of epidemiology. We advocate for the idea of "replication and advancement." Studies should not only replicate earlier work, but also improve on it in by enhancing the design or analysis. Abandoning blind reliance on null hypothesis significance testing for statistical inference, finding consensus on when pre-registration of non-randomized study protocols has merit, and focusing on replication and advance are the most certain ways to emerge from this solstice for the better.