ABSTRACT This research investigates how corporate reputation influences consumers’ purchase intention in a new energy vehicle product-harm crisis, taking Tesla as an example of a high-visibility brand. Drawing on signaling theory, this paper compares corporate social responsibility (CSR) reputation and corporate capability reputation and extends the concept of product knowledge as a selective boundary condition for signal interpretation. An integrated signaling-based framework was developed in which corporate reputation serves as the independent variable, consumer satisfaction and consumer brand identification operate as internal evaluative mechanisms, consumer purchase intention is the dependent variable, and product knowledge is introduced as a boundary condition. Questionnaire data were collected from new energy vehicle users or prospective consumers. The results show that both CSR reputation and corporate capability reputation positively influence consumer satisfaction and consumer brand identification, and that both attitudinal variables positively influence purchase intention. Product knowledge significantly strengthens the effects of corporate capability reputation on consumer satisfaction and consumer brand identification, whereas its moderating role in the CSR reputation pathways is not significant. These findings suggest that product knowledge functions as a selective boundary condition of competence-based rather than value-based reputation signals in new energy vehicle product-harm crises.

Bioeconomy Serious Play: An experiential learning approach to teaching bioeconomy in higher education and doctoral training.

Purpose Researchers have mostly studied corporate social responsibility (CSR), from a business perspective, coping with CSR decisions as a corporate dilemma. This being the case, this study aims to focus on the emerging practice of CSR by exploring consumers’ perceptions of attributes, benefits and motivational values. Design/methodology/approach With a qualitative means-end chain (MEC) analysis, the authors explore participants’ CSR perceptions and purchase motivations through laddering interviews with 80 consumers from Western European countries. In contrast to traditional research in this area, which focuses separately on the moderating roles of a variety of brand specific attributes and initiatives, they adopt a holistic approach illustrating the pathways to CSR purchases. Findings The MEC analysis revealed five key values that captured the motivational patterns of participants: (1) personal social responsibility, (2) self-worth, (3) accomplishment, (4) social bonding and (5) safety. Originality/value This research provides an integrative understanding of CSR, bringing together drivers that so far have been examined in isolation. Hence, this research represents a more nuanced conceptualization of CSR and one of the first comprehensive attempts to simultaneously analyse multiple components. In addition to the extension of theories of CSR, the findings are equally valuable for practice as it informs CSR strategies that seek to maintain consumer support.

Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes' role in promoting inclusivity and sustainability in management education - A survey-based evaluation

The experience of war is associated with heightened distress symptoms that differentiate the members of various social groups from each other. The Israeli society is characterized by extreme social polarizations. Social polarization divides the population into opposing groups, with opposed beliefs and identities that undermine the pursuit of common goals. It can lead to extreme hostility, conflict, and even violence. Polarization signifies a significant decline in social solidarity across sectors of society and poses a grave threat to democracy. The present study examines the impact of being a part of each of three main polarizations (ethnic origin, supporting the government, and religiosity) on individual distress levels of Israeli Jewry, in response to the trauma of war that followed the Hamas invasion of October 7, 2023. A sample of 2002 individuals representing the diverse sections of the Jewish Israeli society, responded to an online questionnaire. The results indicated that, as hypothesized, the distress responses to the trauma of the war were consistently associated with one’s position on each of the three polarizations investigated. It was suggested that the high distress responses of members of the Mizrahi and the ethnically mixed groups represent their collective ethnic trauma. • Mizrahi versus Ashkenazi Jews showed higher distress after the Hamas attack. • Findings suggest that collective trauma can be rooted in historical discrimination. • Ethnicity predicted distress more strongly than income, religiosity, or politics. • Social polarization may shape psychological responses to national crises. • Results stress the need for culturally informed resilience interventions.

Understanding how early mother-child interactions are linked to children's social-cognitive processes requires methods capable of capturing the temporal structure of naturalistic behavior. This study introduces a computational framework based on Bayesian Network modeling to identify sequential dependencies among nonverbal behaviors (smiles, gaze, and social touch) exchanged during free play in mother-child dyads (n = 38; age 3 years). From each network, we derived the Order of Sequential Interaction (OSI), a compact index of interaction complexity. We then examined its associations with behavioral, physiological, and neural measures relevant to cognitive development. Although OSI was not associated with language or executive-function scores, analyses revealed links between OSI and prosocial behavior, facial EMG, and neural responses (rTPJ, lIFG) during prosocial-scene viewing. These findings suggest that OSI may capture aspects of interaction structure specifically connected to children's social and affective responsiveness. Building on this, the present framework demonstrates how probabilistic graphical models can structure complex interaction data and support future investigations into multimodal processes in early socialcognition. SUMMARY: A Bayesian-network framework is proposed to model multivariate sequential dependencies in naturalistic mother-child interaction. The order of sequential interaction (OSI) quantifies interaction complexity from behavioral time-series data. Higher OSI is associated with greater prosocial behavior and with neural (rTPJ, lIFG) and physiological (facial EMG) responses during social processing. Interaction complexity is not associated with general cognitive or language measures, suggesting that it reflects a distinct dimension of social behavior. The proposed framework provides a basis for studying social-cognitive development from naturalistic interaction data.

From Screening to Support: Crafting Social Needs Response Systems That Work for Families.

The OET Autism Framework represents a social justice response to the diagnostic disparities of misdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, and late diagnosis experienced by adolescent and adult autistic females. The theoretical intersection of optimal distinctiveness and empowerment theories and trauma-informed care incorporates lived experience narratives to produce an intersectional, antioppressive, and strengths-based approach to holistic therapeutic assessment to inform treatment choice. The author proposes core principles that are aligned with the theoretical underpinnings of the OET Autism Framework to guide practitioners in its clinical application to foster collaborative goal setting, treatment planning, and treatment choice with this population. Seminal and present-day autism scholarship is revisited to expose the impact of gender assumptions and biases that have perpetuated harm and informed treatment choice for adolescent and adult autistic females. Accentuating the ethical responsibilities of the social work profession, the author proposes future recommendations to invite critical analysis from autism scholars to explore the efficacy of the framework and clinical assessment tool identification.

The advancement of information and communication technology during the Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 eras has brought significant changes to community media practices, especially in rural areas. This study examines the roles and social responsibilities of community radios CDR FM in Bantul, Yogyakarta, and RASI FM in Garut, West Java, amid the dynamics of digital media convergence. Employing a qualitative approach with a constructivist paradigm, data were collected through interviews, observations, focus group discussions, and documentation. The findings reveal that both community radios maintain their existence through active community participation, adaptation to digital technology, and management grounded in local values. Digital media convergence enables the expansion of broadcast reach from local to global levels, enhancing interaction and social mobilization. The social responsibility of community media is reflected in delivering factual information, shaping public opinion, preserving culture, and ensuring accountability to the audience. Key challenges include the regeneration of media activists and funding, which can be addressed by strengthening partnership networks and human resource capacity. This study confirms that community media play a strategic role as agents of social development in rural areas by leveraging evolving communication technologies.

From greenwashing to green trust: Understanding the consumer behavior in the fashion industry.

How do behavioral biases affect backfiring of intensified auditing on corporate social responsibility?

Does perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) relate to green behaviors among hotel customers? A conservation of resources perspective.

An understanding of how evacuees travel during bushfires remains limited, with existing research offering little consensus on the key influential factors. Additionally, bushfire studies often overlook key psychological and social (i.e., unobservable or latent) factors that may serve as mediators in evacuation travel decisions. Drawing on seminal theories commonly used in non-emergency transportation research, this study proposes a novel theoretical framework explaining destination and mode choices in bushfire evacuation, highlighting the role of observable and latent factors in the choices made. Qualitative data from 52 semi-structured interviews with fire survivors from three Australian locations, conducted between May and August 2024, have been analysed. Findings reveal new insights for bushfire evacuation literature, including the impact of attitudes (e.g., affordability, emotional support), familiarity, social connections (e.g., strength of ties), and perceived behavioural control on destination choices; as well as links between mode choices and perceived social responsibility, social connections, affect, and attitudinal factors of comfort, safety, and flexibility in travel. By addressing the omission of latent factors in current bushfire studies, this study enables the development of more comprehensive empirical models predicting bushfire evacuation travel behaviour, and in turn, improved evacuation simulation tools, community-wide evacuation plans, and real-time evacuation decision-making during fires. • Latent factors influence destination and mode choices in bushfire evacuation. • Evacuee attitudes and social connections were key factors influencing both choices. • Findings also linked choices with responsibility, affect, and perceived control.

The unintended effects of tax de-localization reform: How tax enforcement independence shapes corporate social responsibility

From sustainable marketing to sustainable travel intention: Moral, experiential and cognitive pathways.

Post-internship career choice under organizational understanding, corporate social responsibility: The moderating role of resort image

Seeing beyond the COVID-19 pandemic as an extraordinary spectacle situated in the past, we draw on qualitative research with young people to trace experiences of Long Covid as 'looping effects' of entangling physical and social impacts which intersect with, and extend, those of pandemic. Navigating the capacity to do ordinary things becomes highly contingent, and exhausting work, in the face of Long Covid. The physical impacts of illness, including fatigue, are materialised in altering biographical and social relationships, and managing the 'social life' of Long Covid is a key concern. The lifetimes of Long Covid and pandemic also feed into one another. Configurations of the COVID-19 pandemic as a thing of the past, and social responses felt discounting of the Long Covid experience, enact ongoing illness as 'out of sync', and contribute as elements of exhausted agency and extended precarity. The social impacts of the pandemic looping with Long Covid become iterations without clear end; events ongoing in the living present. Understanding how Long Covid extends the 'ongoing after' of pandemic highlights the need for lasting social support for affected young people.

Anorexia nervosa (AN) and autism are distinct conditions, yet individuals with AN often exhibit elevated autistic traits. These traits are linked to complex clinical presentations, but their impact on AN remains unclear. This longitudinal study investigates associations between autistic traits, AN symptoms, and weight recovery in adolescents with first-onset AN. The study compared 66 females with first-onset AN and 64 typically developing (TD) controls. Autistic traits, AN symptoms, and weight recovery were assessed using the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS), Eating Disorder Examination (EDE),and standardized deviation score for weight-for-height (SDS weight-for-height). Measurements at baseline and 1year later were analyzed using linear regression models. Adolescents with AN exhibited higher baseline autistic traits than TD controls. Over 1year, AN symptoms and SDS weight-for-height improved significantly in the AN group, while autistic traits remained stable. No significant associations were found between baseline autistic traits and clinical outcomes or between changes in autistic traits, AN symptoms, and SDS weight-for-height. The stability of autistic traits despite improvements in AN symptoms and weight suggests these traits may not influence the initial trajectory of first-onset AN in adolescence. Further longitudinal research is needed to explore their long-term impact on AN progression.

Social Responsibility Indicators in Rural Communities of Matrouh Governorate

In the context of global digital transformation, open science, and the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), cyberspace has emerged as both a catalyst for knowledge innovation and a breeding ground for digital social threats, including misinformation, cyberbullying, online fraud, data privacy violations, and other forms of online social deviance. These challenges have imposed increasing responsibilities on higher education institutions, particularly private universities, to reposition their roles in fostering safe, ethical, and sustainable digital academic ecosystems. This study examines the strategic role of private universities in combating cyber-social deviance through interdisciplinary approaches encompassing digital university governance, open science, digital citizenship education, and knowledge security. The research employs a qualitative methodology integrating policy analysis, international literature review, and comparative approaches to explore governance models, educational mechanisms, and adaptive capacities of private higher education institutions in the era of global digital transformation. The findings indicate that private universities possess significant potential to act as pioneering institutions in promoting digital ethics, strengthening cyber-risk awareness, advancing safe academic cultures, and cultivating responsible digital learning environments. Furthermore, the study proposes an integrated governance framework that combines AI, open science, and digital citizenship education to enhance the effectiveness of cyber-social threat prevention in higher education. The study contributes theoretically and practically by extending scholarly discourse on digital universities, digital social security, and the social responsibility of higher education institutions within the global knowledge society.