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Abstract: Previous research has studied the influence of different types of organizational information on stakeholders’ reactions toward a company. However, it did not explicitly identify whether organizational information (as opposed to only product information, recruitment information or financial information) matters to stakeholders in the first place.
To fill this void, this study examines whether the addition of organizational information to recruitment or financial information enhances potential applicants’ or investors’ evaluation of a company and their intentions toward the company.
An experiment was conducted in which respondents were exposed to one of four types of corporate brochures of a fictitious company. The four types of brochures consisted of two variants of recruitment brochures (both variants including recruitment-related information such as the description of a management trainee program, salary, working conditions etc.) and two variants of financial brochures (both variants including information on financial results, share performance, dividend policy etc.). For both type of brochures, one variant included additional organizational information (such as the firm’s history, mission, market opportunities, social responsibility etc.) and one did not include additional organizational information.
The results demonstrate that 1) additional organizational information in a recruitment brochure positively influences potential applicants’ overall evaluation of a firm and, 2) this positive evaluation in turn influences their intention to apply for a job at the firm. Moreover, 3) additional organizational information in a financial brochure positively influences potential investors’ overall evaluation of a firm; and 4) this positive evaluation in turn influences their intention to buy shares from the firm.

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Abstract: This study's central question is to what extent television genres in the Netherlands make use of additional channels and in what way these channels are incorporated into programs in terms of interactivity and genre objectives. In addition, we examine whether the availability of additional channels in genres corresponds to audience age. Expert interviews with representatives of Dutch broadcasting organizations and secondary analyses of Audience Research data were conducted. It was found that compared to other genres a) SMS is most frequently added to reality programs, b) email and websites to the information genre, c) teletext to sports programs, and d) merchandizing to childrens' programs. We found additional channels with hardly any influence on genre objectives, but also reinforcement of those objectives and additional channels contributing to the emergence of new genres. In addition, SMS is more often added to programs attracting a younger audience, whereas other additional channels are more often implemented in programs attracting an older than average audience. It was recommended that while implementing additional channels broadcasters should think beyond what is technically possible and feasible to offer to viewers, and pay attention to what typical viewers of genres may wish and in what way they make use of various channels (if at all).

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Abstract: Studies of the hostile media effect (HME) have found that partisans, those who are highly involved with controversial issues or groups in the news, tend to perceive news stories about those issue or groups as biased, even though other uninvolved individuals would label such stories as balanced or neutral. A previous study found that the quotes used to exemplify public opinion in a news story predicted partisans’ perceptions of story bias and its influence on others. The current study examined the extent to which anecdotes that exemplified misdeeds committed by members of a partisan group affected group and non-group members’ perceptions of story bias, thus further testing the ability of exemplification theory to explain the HME. The study also added a new variable to the study of the HME: intent to continue to consume news produced by the offending source. Anecdotal exemplification did not predict hostile media judgments. However, hostile media judgments were associated with less intent to read the given paper and stories by the given reporter in the future.

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Abstract: Using data from 3,428 smokers the authors demonstrate that perceived control moderates attitudinal and normative effects on quit intention. These results lend support for the perceived control as a precondition hypothesis. This hypothesis follows the idea that in contrast to the theory of planned behavior’s assumptions of additive attitude, normative and perceived control effects on intention, an interaction interpretation of the role of perceived control seems to make more sense: Even when smokers have a favorable attitude towards quitting, why would they intend to quit if at the same time they are sure that they will not be able to successfully do so? The results are discussed both from methodological and conceptual perspectives. First, the lack of statistical power for interaction tests in observational data is addressed. Second, this research begins to explore when perceived control is most likely to moderate attitudinal and normative effects on quit intention.

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Abstract: This paper elaborates on power-control theory’s explanation of the gender gap in delinquency. In doing so, the paper addresses recent critiques of the theory, while also preserving the theory’s main core to capitalize on its many strengths. Specifically, the paper elaborates on both the structural and social-psychological (social process) components of the theory. At the structural level, we provide a more thorough discussion of female-headed households and of matriarchal families, which have been ignored theoretically and empirically in power-control theory. Our elaboration at the social-psychological level considers the role of delinquent peer associations, delinquent definitions, and gendered identities (masculine and feminine identities). We develop an explanation for how these variables coalesce to influence the gender gap in delinquency across family types and in doing so consider the possibility that adolescents are active agents in their own socialization, particularly in the gendered socialization that is central to understanding the gender gap in delinquency from the perspective of power-control theory. We assess our arguments using data from a sample of southeastern middle school students and find general support for our elaborated version of power-control theory.