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The Impact of Food Delivery Riders’ Perception of Fairness on Organizational Identification in the Digital Economy: Based on the Intermediary Perspective of Organizational Trust in the Context of Digital Technology
With the rapid rise in the gig economy driven by advancements in digital technology and financial technology, this study focuses on the work experiences and psychological perceptions of food delivery riders in platform-based employment. This study used a sample of food delivery riders from 19 cities in China (such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, etc.) and multiple delivery platforms (such as Meituan, Ele.me) to collect data through a combination of online and offline questionnaires. The impact relationship between perceived fairness, organizational trust, and organizational identity of food delivery riders was examined through factor analysis, structural equation modeling, and mediation effect modeling. The results of the survey and statistical analysis indicate that fairness perception and its dimensions (distributive fairness, procedural fairness, and interactional fairness) significantly influence riders’ organizational identification, with organizational trust serving as a critical mediating factor. The integration of digital technology has substantially enhanced the operational efficiency of platform-based employment by enabling real-time tracking, transparent communication, and data-driven decision-making. Innovations in financial technology, such as digital payment systems and financial management tools, offer riders safer and more convenient compensation methods, thereby contributing to their financial stability and fostering trust in the platform. The establishment of trust alleviates the riders’ concerns regarding compensation stability and bolsters their optimistic attitudes toward accessing platform resources and meeting their needs. This study provides significant insights and recommendations for leveraging digital technology and financial technology to improve the relationship and operational efficiency between riders and platform enterprises.
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Racially diverse leadership and sustainable alliance portfolios
In my research, the effects that the racial diversity of firms' leadership has in deciding the sustainable composition of firms' alliance portfolios is investigated, defined as the distribution of exploratory, exploitative, and mixed alliances. Grounded in social categorization, information elaboration, and social contact mechanisms, racially homogeneous leadership has a J-shaped relationship with sustainable alliance portfolio composition. Very racially homogeneous or heterogeneous leadership leads firms towards maintaining more exploratory alliances in their portfolio as opposed to moderately diverse leadership, which prefers the safety of exploitative alliances. Further, I explore how racially homogeneous leadership differs from racially heterogeneous leadership in that the former has a higher propensity to maintain more exploratory alliance portfolios compared to the latter. A two-stage analysis on a panel of 128 pharmaceutical and software firms, accompanied by response surface analysis, yields support for our theorizing. This study encourages scholars to further investigate the different weights that social categorization, information elaboration, and social contact exercise on leadership diversity and how they are elemental in firms' sustainable alliance decision-making.
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Welfare Conditionality and Social Identity Effect Mechanisms and the Case of Immigrant Support
The present paper discusses the effects of social identity and self-determination theory and highlights their relevance for welfare conditionality with respect to individual behaviour and well-being. While welfare conditionality may provide economic incentives for certain desired behaviours, e.g., active job search, it is argued that their impact on the claimants’ social self-construal and identity may offset potentially positive effects and increase, for example, social segregation. Taking the integration of immigrants, one of the biggest contemporary challenges for many societies, as a leading example, possible negative effects of welfare conditionality are highlighted and contrasted with the imposed economic incentives. Weighing benefits and potential risks, it is argued that the excessive use of welfare conditionality is likely to backfire in the long run and that this should be taken into account by policy makers. Moreover, it is argued how similar effects can be expected to arise also in different contexts such as the support of child parenting by singles.
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Henri Tajfel's 'Cognitive aspects of prejudice' and the psychology of bigotry
This paper pays tribute to Tajfel's classic article ‘Cognitive aspects of prejudice’ and re‐examines its central arguments. Tajfel's paper is important for outlining a social cognitive approach to the study of prejudice and also for refuting of what Tajfel called the ‘blood‐and‐guts’ approach. Taking Tajfel's proposition that social psychology is not value‐free, the current paper examines the moral and political view of ‘Cognitive aspects’ and also the gaps in its approach to the study of prejudice. It is suggested that this cognitive approach has difficulty in accounting for extreme bigotry, at least without recourse to the motivational themes that the approach seeks to exclude. In particular, there would be limitations in applying this approach in order to understand the Holocaust. Indeed, Tajfel did not attempt to do so, for reasons that are discussed. Tajfel's Social Identity Theory (SIT) has similar limitations. The paper also examines Tajfel's use of the term ‘depersonalization’, which he described as a ‘milder’ form of dehumanization of out‐groups. Later social identity theorists have tended to use ‘depersonalization’ differently, shifting their attention to in‐groups. Their perspective moves away from understanding the topic of prejudice in the way that can be found in Tajfel's ‘Cognitive aspects of prejudice’. Finally, the present paper suggests how extreme prejudice might be studied without returning to the motivational ‘blood‐and‐guts’ approach that Tajfel so cogently criticized.
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A genealogy of the social identity tradition: Deleuze and Guattari and social psychology
This paper explores how social psychology has theorized the relationship between the individual and society. This is done through a genealogical analysis of the Social Identity Tradition (SIT). It is argued that the current state of SIT is profoundly shaped by a range of intellectual and moral strategies derived from the work of Henri Tajfel. This ‘Tajfel effect’ manifests itself as a way of settling theoretical, practical and moral disputes through the invocation of Tajfel as a founding figure. However, this strategy also ties SIT into a model of the subject and an understanding of society that is increasingly seen as problematic. The paper then goes on to show how a range of core concepts at the heart of SIT may be usefully reformulated by drawing on the work of Deleuze and Guattari. Their work offers SIT a way of thinking about individuals and groups as sites for connection and differentiation. This is illustrated using the example of Nazi social relations that was originally deployed by Tajfel. Potential issues and direction for SIT as reinvigorated by the encounter with Deleuze and Guattari are then sketched out.
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The integrated school that could teach a divided town to live together
Radiyah and Olivia live in Oldham and are best friends. They are 12 years old and met on transition day, when primary school students are introduced for the first time to their secondary school. They have been inseparable ever since. Olivia says one thing that binds them together is that they both love the colour purple. She thinks Radiyah is crazy and Radiyah thinks Olivia is crazy. \"When she sees my brother at school she always says, 'Hi brother,'\" Radiyah says. \"She never says, 'Hi Radiya's brother'. It's crazy.\" Olivia accepts that it is a bit crazy. The riots in Oldham sparked similar scenes in the nearby towns of Bradford and Burnley. The government and local authorities immediately commissioned reports on what lay behind this unrest. The reports, which were delivered before the end of the year, highlighted the role that segregation had played in fostering animosity between white and Asian citizens. The Cantle report, commissioned by the home secretary, found that white and Asian communities were living \"parallel\" and \"polarised\" lives. (Ted Cantle, the sociologist and local government official who led the inquiry, had said that he was very familiar with the contact hypothesis from his undergraduate studies.) The Ritchie report, which focused on Oldham specifically, concluded that \"the major issue in Oldham town is the segregated nature of society\". Amongst the report's recommendations was that \"wherever possible, the rebuild of schools should create the opportunity for further integration of pupils\". There is a fly in the ointment, however. None of the more extravagant fears of racial conflict at Waterhead has come to pass. But, ultimately, for the school to succeed it has to improve academically. The latest Ofsted report, following an inspection in November 2014, makes demoralising reading: \"Leadership and management -- Inadequate\"; \"Behaviour and safety of pupils -- Inadequate\"; \"Quality of teaching -- Inadequate\"; \"Achievement of pupils -- Inadequate\". In December 2014, the school was placed under special measures. That means Ofsted will make regular inspections and if the poor performance continues the school may even be closed.
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The integrated school that could teach a divided town to live together
Radiyah and Olivia live in Oldham and are best friends. They are 12 years old and met on transition day, when primary school students are introduced for the first time to their secondary school. They have been inseparable ever since. Olivia says one thing that binds them together is that they both love the colour purple. She thinks Radiyah is crazy and Radiyah thinks Olivia is crazy. \"When she sees my brother at school she always says, 'Hi brother,'\" Radiyah says. \"She never says, 'Hi Radiya's brother'. It's crazy.\" Olivia accepts that it is a bit crazy. The riots in Oldham sparked similar scenes in the nearby towns of Bradford and Burnley. The government and local authorities immediately commissioned reports on what lay behind this unrest. The reports, which were delivered before the end of the year, highlighted the role that segregation had played in fostering animosity between white and Asian citizens. The Cantle report, commissioned by the home secretary, found that white and Asian communities were living \"parallel\" and \"polarised\" lives. (Ted Cantle, the sociologist and local government official who led the inquiry, had said that he was very familiar with the contact hypothesis from his undergraduate studies.) The Ritchie report, which focused on Oldham specifically, concluded that \"the major issue in Oldham town is the segregated nature of society\". Amongst the report's recommendations was that \"wherever possible, the rebuild of schools should create the opportunity for further integration of pupils\". There is a fly in the ointment, however. None of the more extravagant fears of racial conflict at Waterhead has come to pass. But, ultimately, for the school to succeed it has to improve academically. The latest Ofsted report, following an inspection in November 2014, makes demoralising reading: \"Leadership and management -- Inadequate\"; \"Behaviour and safety of pupils -- Inadequate\"; \"Quality of teaching -- Inadequate\"; \"Achievement of pupils -- Inadequate\". In December 2014, the school was placed under special measures. That means Ofsted will make regular inspections and if the poor performance continues the school may even be closed.
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