Essays about: "rational empirical"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 105 essays containing the words rational empirical.

  1. 16. Influencing consumer behavioural intentions: Reducing household water consumption

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Daria Granina; [2022]
    Keywords : Emotional and Rational Communication; Advertising Appeals; Intention to Behave Sustainably; Message Tailoring; Persuasive Sustainability Communication; Strategic Communication; Elaboration Likelihood Model; ELM; Theory of Planned Behaviour; TPB; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Although the topic of sustainability communication has been extensively studied since the 1970s, there remain gaps and contradictions, e.g. the effectiveness of communication strategies for influencing individual pro-environmental behaviour change. READ MORE

  3. 17. Context Sensitive Civic Duty : An Experimental Study of how Corruption Affects both a Duty to Vote and a Duty to Abstain

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Simon Engström; [2021]
    Keywords : electoral turnout; voting; abstention; civic duty; civic duty to vote; civic duty to abstain; expressive voting; expressive non-voting; expressive abstention; rational choice; public choice; calculus of voting; utility maximization; rationality; Kant; kantianism;

    Abstract : In this thesis I explore a novel context sensitive conceptualisation of civic duty according to which the conduct (or misconduct) of elected officials affects whether eligible voters feel either a duty to vote (DTV) or a duty to abstain (DTA). Specifically, I argue that under conditions of corruption the norm of electoral accountability may override peoples’ sense of DTV in which case they instead feel a DTA. READ MORE

  4. 18. A Risk Worth Taking? : A Qualitative Study Regarding Risk and the Refurbishment of the Swedish Civil Defense Shelter System and its Effect on Urban Planning

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Filip Johnsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Urban planning; Risk; Shelters; Civil defense;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how risk can be seen within urban planning, with a particular focus on the Swedish civil defense shelter system. The research is conducted as a case study, with methods based on interviews with affected actors together with documents and reports regarding the Swedish shelter system. READ MORE

  5. 19. Cooking Peace? : Authoritative mediators' formulation in the Aceh conflict 2004-2005 and the Kosovo conflict 2005-2007

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för freds- och konfliktforskning

    Author : Jan von Schmettow; [2021]
    Keywords : Mediation; Authority; Expertise; Strategy; Aceh; Kosovo;

    Abstract : Many mediators exercise power across borders, facilitating talks, formulating agendas and manipulating interests of hostile parties. However, the problem of how mediators justify their use of power and how the terms of this justification legitimate mediators’ strategic conduct has not been systematically theorized and tested in the leverage literature yet. READ MORE

  6. 20. Organizational AI Readiness : Evaluating Employee Attitudes and Management Responses

    University essay from Jönköping University/Internationella Handelshögskolan

    Author : Lina Ek; Sanna Ström; [2021]
    Keywords : AI; AI readiness; change attitudes; change management; emotional attitudes; employee attitudes; Industry 4.0; rational attitudes;

    Abstract : Background - As a result of the latest advances in artificial intelligence (AI), the world ofbusiness is facing a major transformation where basic organizational principlesare redefined initiating a new era. It is predicted that AI in the coming decadeswill make a significant imprint and organizations aiming to stay at the forefrontcannot afford not to change. READ MORE