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Environmental Effects of Fast Fashion: A Study On How Increased Knowledge May Affect Buying Behavior of Bryant Students
Get PDFThe goal of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between an increase in knowledge about the environmental effects of fast fashion and the potential impact on the future purchasing behavior of Bryant students. To this end, I conducted a survey analysis of students\u27 purchasing behavior, including the frequency of purchasing clothes, the major brands from which they purchase clothes, and their awareness of the environmental impact of purchasing clothes. I analyzed the overall findings for both male and female students, as well as the relationship between the most frequently shopped-at brands and the frequency of purchasing clothes, the brands and willingness to change purchasing behavior, and the brands purchased by those who consider price an important factor when buying clothes. My data shows that many people, unless directly educated on the issue—meaning 68% of women and 62% of men—are not aware of the detrimental effects that major brands have on the environment. The results of the study indicate that for both men and women, there is a negative correlation between the amount of education Bryant students have on these issues and the negative environmental impact of their consumption of clothes from popular brands such as H&M, Shein, Zara, and Lululemon
The Personalization-Privacy Paradox: Examining the Impact of Targeting Disclosures on Consumer Behvior in Online Privacy
No full textThis research intends to examine whether these types of data – behavioral versus social networking data – affect consumer response to personalized ads. With the advancement in technology, markets have access to various types of personal data, including their online/offline behaviors and social networking activities, and use those data to retarget consumers. Moreover, this research examines the moderating role of SNS privacy concerns on consumer response to different types of retargeted ads. The findings of this research may offer theoretical and practical implications to understand consumers\u27 responses to retargeted ads that use social networking information
Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as a Ward Against the Effects of Poor Sleep on Behaviors
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Entrepreneurial behavior requires energy, and so entrepreneurs need to sleep. However, combining a scarcity perspective of energy with an abundance perspective of energy, we show that entrepreneurs high in entrepreneurial self-efficacy are less dependent on good sleep than are entrepreneurs low in self-efficacy. Conducting an experience sampling study of 93 entrepreneurs over one workweek, we studied how sleep quality and entrepreneurial self-efficacy affect entrepreneurs’ day-to-day energy and their subsequent entrepreneurial behavior. The results showed that sleep quality has a positive indirect effect on daily creativity and daily monitoring (but not daily scanning/search) through morning vigor and that this relationship is contingent on entrepreneurial self-efficacy, with sleep quality unrelated to morning vigor and subsequent behavior for entrepreneurs high in self-efficacy
No Worker is an Island: The Importance of Community Support in Mitigating the Effects of COVID-19
No full textIn this study (n = 194), we sought to (a) extend previous work on healthcare workers on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic to explore how critical incidents might be linked to negative work outcomes through affective identification and (b) investigate the potential moderating effects of empathic concern and perceived community support on these relationships. Using data collected from doctors and nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic and drawing from both trait empathy theory and social identity theory, we examine the relationship between intensity of involvement in the COVID-19 pandemic response, affective identification, and job outcomes such as psychological withdrawal and job engagement, as well as the moderating effects of empathic concern and perceived community support. Data was collected at two time points, with independent variables and moderators collected at T1 and the mediator and dependent variables collected at T2. We find that intensity of involvement is negatively associated with affective identification but only for those high in empathic concern. This reduced affective identification is then related to both increased psychological withdrawal and reduced job engagement. We also find support for the mitigating effect of community support indicating that while there is a cost to caring, support from others can reduce this negative effect
Meeting Load Paradox: Balancing the Benefits and Burdens of Work Meetings
No full textWork meetings are a significant part of individuals’ professional lives and have increasingly become a vehicle for organizations to get work accomplished. Recently virtual meetings have become a more prominent feature of employees’ work lives, and scholarly attention to the changing nature of work meeting dynamics has increased in parallel. Not surprisingly, these circumstances have increased the number of meetings individuals participate in each day and the number of mediums through which these meetings occur. In this paper, we introduce the meeting load paradox: increasing the number of meetings employees participate in provides an important avenue for them to contribute more to their organizations while at the same time, consuming more of their personal resources. In this way, an increased meeting load is only effective up to a certain threshold. To demonstrate this empirically, we conducted a field study with 199 full time employees, providing initial evidence of one manifestation of the meeting load paradox—meeting participation, engagement, and creative performance increase as meeting load increases curvilinearly, creating an inverted-U-shaped effect. Furthermore, we find that a virtual medium increases the curvilinear effect while employee conscientiousness flattens the curvilinear effect. We discuss the important implications of these findings and ways employees and managers can navigate the meeting load paradox to ensure they can thrive amid the proliferation of workplace meetings
March his HERstory Month
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Award Presentation
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Introduced by Bank of America: Kevin Tracy
Businesswoman of the Year Award: Kati C. Machtle
