On the Relationship Between Firms and Their Legal Environment: The Role of Cultural Consonance

Giorgi, Simona; Maoret, Massimo; Zajac, Edward J.

doi:10.1287/orsc.2018.1250

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“…Directors will adjust their preferred action for their firm, given their personal values, such that it is more likely to be consistent with societal values because their culture may amplify (or weaken) the motivational influence of their values and/or because they strategically seek to gain societal support and avoid opprobrium for their firm. Two equally entrepreneurial directors could thus assess the same dilemma differently, depending on what their culture indirectly channels them to perceive as acceptable and expected conduct (compare Giorgi, Maoret, and Zajac 2019).…”

Section: The Cultural Levelmentioning

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Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

Licht

Adams

2019

SSRN Journal

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We present evidence on the way personal and institutional factors could together guide public company directors in decision-making concerning shareholders and stakeholders. In a sample comprising more than nine hundred directors originating from over fifty countries and serving in firms from twenty three countries, we confirm that directors around the world hold a principled, quasi-ideological stance towards shareholders and stakeholders, called shareholderism, on which they vary in line with their personal values. We theorize and find that in addition to personal values, directors' shareholderism level associates with cultural norms that are conducive to entrepreneurship. Among legal factors, only creditor protection exhibits a negative correlation with shareholderism, while general legal origin and proxies for shareholder and employee protection are unrelated to it.

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Section: The Cultural Levelmentioning

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Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

Licht

Adams

2019

SSRN Journal

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“…Our research highlights that whereas arguments used during the two periods were fairly similar in terms of content and number, the AI's lobbying failed in period 1 (warnings were adopted) and won in period 2 (the expansion project was aborted). It is difficult to interpret this finding, but part of the explanation may be different political and social contexts (36,56). Period 1 was marked by high media coverage of a lawsuit brought by three mothers (the "Lille affair") whose children were victims of FAS (7,42).…”

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How the alcohol industry fought against pregnancy warning labels in France. A press coverage analysis spanning 20 years

Millot

Serra

Gallopel-Morvan

2022

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundDrinking alcohol while pregnant is dangerous for health. To inform on this issue, various countries have adopted pregnancy warning labels on alcoholic beverages, including France since 2007, where wine holds deep cultural consonance. The aim of this research was to analyze the arguments put forward by the alcohol industry (producers, distributors, wholesalers, allied industries, trade associations, social aspects and public relations organizations, councilors who publicly defend wine-sector interests) via the press in France: (1) in 2007 when pregnancy warnings were first implemented, and (2) in 2018 when larger pregnancy warnings to increase visibility were proposed but not adopted.MethodsWe used documentary method to analyze the arguments advanced by the alcohol industry in mainstream (national, regional and specialized) press in France from 2000 to 2020, using the Europresse documentary database. Quantitative analysis (number and trend curve of articles, mapping alcohol-industry actors who spoke in the press) and inductive thematic content analysis (analytical framework of the arguments identified) using NVivo software were carried out.ResultsWe found a total of 559 relevant press articles in the database, of which 85 were included in the analysis. Peaks in number of publications were found to coincide with the warning label implementation and with the expansion-project schedule. A large majority of the arguments promoted by the alcohol industry contested the pregnancy warnings measure (very few were in favor). They argued that (1) pregnancy warnings were a questionable measure (e.g., ineffective, or the pictogram clearly links alcohol to mortality), (2) pregnancy warnings would have counterproductive effects (on women and the wider economy), (3) better alternatives exist (e.g., targeted prevention programs, prevention by health professionals). A large majority of the actors who spoke in the press came from the winegrowing sector.ConclusionThis study fills a gap in the Anglosphere research on lobbying against alcohol warnings by analyzing lobbyists' arguments over a 20-year period covering both failed and successful industry lobbying. New findings have emerged that are likely related to the wine-oriented culture of France. In order to counter the alcohol lobbying practices we conclude with a number of public health recommendations.

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“…Moving beyond topic modeling alone, the literature has begun to analyze textual data sets by conducting qualitative coding and comparing these results to topic models [ 54 ]. Considering the conflicting literature, it is interesting to note that very few studies in psychology have used a combination of these techniques [ 48 , 56 , 58 , 73 , 75 ]. Overall, there are various ways of determining the number of topics, and although several different authors have proposed recommended approaches [ 29 , 140 , 141 ], this is an area of ongoing research, as recommended approaches do not necessarily converge on the same value for k selected.…”

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Examining Analytic Practices in Latent Dirichlet Allocation Within Psychological Science: Scoping Review

Hagg¹,

Merkouris²,

O’Dea³

et al. 2022

J Med Internet Res

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Background Topic modeling approaches allow researchers to analyze and represent written texts. One of the commonly used approaches in psychology is latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), which is used for rapidly synthesizing patterns of text within “big data,” but outputs can be sensitive to decisions made during the analytic pipeline and may not be suitable for certain scenarios such as short texts, and we highlight resources for alternative approaches. This review focuses on the complex analytical practices specific to LDA, which existing practical guides for training LDA models have not addressed. Objective This scoping review used key analytical steps (data selection, data preprocessing, and data analysis) as a framework to understand the methodological approaches being used in psychology research using LDA. Methods A total of 4 psychology and health databases were searched. Studies were included if they used LDA to analyze written words and focused on a psychological construct or issue. The data charting processes were constructed and employed based on common data selection, preprocessing, and data analysis steps. Results A total of 68 studies were included. These studies explored a range of research areas and mostly sourced their data from social media platforms. Although some studies reported on preprocessing and data analysis steps taken, most studies did not provide sufficient detail for reproducibility. Furthermore, the debate surrounding the necessity of certain preprocessing and data analysis steps is revealed. Conclusions Our findings highlight the growing use of LDA in psychological science. However, there is a need to improve analytical reporting standards and identify comprehensive and evidence-based best practice recommendations. To work toward this, we developed an LDA Preferred Reporting Checklist that will allow for consistent documentation of LDA analytic decisions and reproducible research outcomes.

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On the Relationship Between Firms and Their Legal Environment: The Role of Cultural Consonance

Cited by 23 publications

References 157 publications

Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

Shareholders and Stakeholders around the World: The Role of Values, Culture, and Law in Directors’ Decisions

How the alcohol industry fought against pregnancy warning labels in France. A press coverage analysis spanning 20 years

Examining Analytic Practices in Latent Dirichlet Allocation Within Psychological Science: Scoping Review

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