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Lone Bredahl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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communicating about the risks and benefits of genetically modified foods the mediating role of trust
Risk Analysis, 2003Co-Authors: L J Frewer, Joachim Scholderer, Lone BredahlAbstract:Recent research suggests that public attitudes toward emerging technologies are mainly driven by trust in the institutions promoting and regulating these technologies. Alternative views maintain that trust should be seen as a consequence rather than a cause of such attitudes. To test its actual role, direct as well as mediating effects of trust were tested in an attitude change experiment involving 1,405 Consumers from Denmark, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. After prior attitudes to genetic modification in food production had been assessed, participants received different information materials (either product-specific information or balanced/general information about genetic modification in food production) and were asked to evaluate different types of genetically modified foods (either beer or yoghurt). The information materials were attributed to different information sources (either an industry association, a Consumer Organization, or a government source). After completion, perceived risk and perceived benefit were assessed, and participants indicated their trust in the information sources to which the materials had been attributed. Direct and trust-mediated attitude change effects were estimated in a multi-sample structural equation model. The results showed that information provision had little effect on people's attitudes toward genetically modified foods, and that perceptions of information source characteristics contributed very little to attitude change. Furthermore, the type of information strategy adopted had almost no impact on postexperimental attitudes. The extent to which people trusted the information sources appeared to be driven by people's attitudes to genetically modified foods, rather than trust influencing the way that people reacted to the information. Trust was not driving risk perception—rather, attitudes were informing perceptions of the motivation of the source providing the information.
Joseph Karlton Gallogly - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Marketing Firm and the Consumer Organization: A Comparative Analysis With Special Reference to Charitable Organizations.
Frontiers in psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Gordon R. Foxall, Valdimar Sigurdsson, Joseph Karlton GalloglyAbstract:The accurate delineation of various forms of business Organization requires a comparative analysis of their objectives, functions, and Organizational structures. In particular, this paper highlights differences in managerial work between business firms and non-profits exemplified by the charitable Organization. It adopts as its template the theory of the marketing firm, a depiction of the modern corporation as it responds to the imperatives of customer-oriented management, namely Consumer discretion and Consumer sophistication. It describes in §2 the essentials of the theory and its basis in Consumer behavior analysis, and outlines its unique position as the Organization responsible for marketing transactions, based on objective exchange, competitive markets and prices, and the deployment of the entire marketing mix. §3 deals in greater depth with the objective, strategic functions, and Organization of the marketing firm in terms of the concepts of metacontingency and bilateral contingency. §4 discusses how the marketing firm differs from charities in terms of goal separation, market-based pricing and competition, the entrepreneurial (strategic) process, the pursuit of customer-oriented management, and Organizational structure. Particular attention is accorded the Organizational differences between marketing firms and charities, which arise as a direct consequence of the distinct patterns of contingency they entail. §5 discusses the implications of the foregoing analysis and draws appropriate conclusions.
L J Frewer - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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communicating about the risks and benefits of genetically modified foods the mediating role of trust
Risk Analysis, 2003Co-Authors: L J Frewer, Joachim Scholderer, Lone BredahlAbstract:Recent research suggests that public attitudes toward emerging technologies are mainly driven by trust in the institutions promoting and regulating these technologies. Alternative views maintain that trust should be seen as a consequence rather than a cause of such attitudes. To test its actual role, direct as well as mediating effects of trust were tested in an attitude change experiment involving 1,405 Consumers from Denmark, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. After prior attitudes to genetic modification in food production had been assessed, participants received different information materials (either product-specific information or balanced/general information about genetic modification in food production) and were asked to evaluate different types of genetically modified foods (either beer or yoghurt). The information materials were attributed to different information sources (either an industry association, a Consumer Organization, or a government source). After completion, perceived risk and perceived benefit were assessed, and participants indicated their trust in the information sources to which the materials had been attributed. Direct and trust-mediated attitude change effects were estimated in a multi-sample structural equation model. The results showed that information provision had little effect on people's attitudes toward genetically modified foods, and that perceptions of information source characteristics contributed very little to attitude change. Furthermore, the type of information strategy adopted had almost no impact on postexperimental attitudes. The extent to which people trusted the information sources appeared to be driven by people's attitudes to genetically modified foods, rather than trust influencing the way that people reacted to the information. Trust was not driving risk perception—rather, attitudes were informing perceptions of the motivation of the source providing the information.
Gordon R. Foxall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Marketing Firm and the Consumer Organization: A Comparative Analysis With Special Reference to Charitable Organizations.
Frontiers in psychology, 2020Co-Authors: Gordon R. Foxall, Valdimar Sigurdsson, Joseph Karlton GalloglyAbstract:The accurate delineation of various forms of business Organization requires a comparative analysis of their objectives, functions, and Organizational structures. In particular, this paper highlights differences in managerial work between business firms and non-profits exemplified by the charitable Organization. It adopts as its template the theory of the marketing firm, a depiction of the modern corporation as it responds to the imperatives of customer-oriented management, namely Consumer discretion and Consumer sophistication. It describes in §2 the essentials of the theory and its basis in Consumer behavior analysis, and outlines its unique position as the Organization responsible for marketing transactions, based on objective exchange, competitive markets and prices, and the deployment of the entire marketing mix. §3 deals in greater depth with the objective, strategic functions, and Organization of the marketing firm in terms of the concepts of metacontingency and bilateral contingency. §4 discusses how the marketing firm differs from charities in terms of goal separation, market-based pricing and competition, the entrepreneurial (strategic) process, the pursuit of customer-oriented management, and Organizational structure. Particular attention is accorded the Organizational differences between marketing firms and charities, which arise as a direct consequence of the distinct patterns of contingency they entail. §5 discusses the implications of the foregoing analysis and draws appropriate conclusions.
Wendy A. Wiedenhoft - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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An Analytical Framework for Studying the Politics of Consumption: The Case of the National Consumers' League
Social Movement Studies, 2008Co-Authors: Wendy A. WiedenhoftAbstract:Consumption is not often addressed in the literature on social movements even though Consumer Organizations and Consumer tactics have been successful in achieving social change. This paper offers an analytical framework for studying the politics of consumption, which suggests that Consumers can be conceived of collectively as active agents rather than passive individuals. I capture this active agency through four concepts: mobilization, problematization, identification, and contention. I focus on one Consumer Organization, the National Consumers' League, and its three Consumer tactics, white lists, white labels, and legislation, in order to demonstrate how the analytical framework I construct can be applied.