The article presents the results of the content analysis of selected copies from four opinion weekly publications, namely "Polityka", "Wprost", "Newsweek Polska", and "Do Rzeczy", published during ...the Polish parliamentary campaign in 2015. The aim of the analysis was to show how the editors build the conflict frame by describing the relationship between mass media and politics and what elements are utilized to construct the analytical frame.
Die Geschichte der Inhaltsanalyse ist größtenteils die Geschichte ihrer quantitativen Variante. Obwohl die qualitative Inhaltsanalyse (QIA) in wissenschaftlichen Schriften behandelt wurde, blieb sie ...weitgehend auf eine explorative, impressionistische und weniger pragmatische Rolle beschränkt. Der in den 1940er Jahren verbreitete logische Positivismus und die Dominanz quantitativer Analyseformen prägten die Methode insbesondere in angelsächsischen Regionen in einem quantitativen Sinne. Diese und andere Trends überschatteten die methodologischen Entwicklungen innerhalb der QIA, obwohl kritische Stimmen Einwände gegen die übermäßige Fokussierung auf Quantifizierung und die Analyse des manifesten Inhalts auf Kosten der tieferen Bedeutungen im Text erhoben. Im Beitrag wird ein kurzer Rückblick auf die Geschichte und die Bedeutung der QIA gegeben, um anschließend auf die Hauptgründe ihrer Marginalisierung im angelsächsischen im Vergleich zum kontinentalen Kontext einzugehen. Während die stärkere Präsenz der qualitativen Forschung einschließlich der QIA in Deutschland und anderen nicht englischsprachigen Ländern durch die Dominanz der hermeneutischen intellektuellen Traditionen erklärt werden kann, ist ihre generelle Bedeutungslosigkeit im angelsächsischen Raum mit methodologischer Unklarheit, der positivistischen quantitativen Orthodoxie bei der Bewertung qualitativer Methoden und der erkenntnistheoretischen und ontologischen Ambiguität des Ansatzes verbunden. Basierend auf der Diskussion werden einige Überlegungen zu den zukünftigen Entwicklungen der QIA angestellt.
In October 2014, the European Union adopted Directive 2014/95/EU (hereafter, EU Directive), mandating companies of a certain size to draft and publish corporate nonfinancial information (NFI) ...regarding society and the environment. In this study, we examine the mandatory disclosure of nonfinancial (NF) risks by listed Italian companies, as required by the EU Directive, focusing on both the state‐of‐the‐art of such disclosure and its usefulness for investors. For this purpose, the study adopts a two‐staged research approach; in the first stage, we employed a manual meaning‐oriented content analysis to investigate the NF declarations (NFDs) of the listed Italian companies that were obliged to disclose NFI, returning a quality NF risks disclosure index. In the second stage, we used the value relevance methodology to investigate whether the disclosed NF risk information affects the levels of equity prices, through a modified Ohlson model. Our research is one of the first to investigate the value relevance of mandatory disclosures of NF risks following the implementation of the EU Directive, in the Italian context. The research was carried out in 2017, the first year of the directive's application for listed Italian companies. The main findings support a positive association between NF risk information disclosure levels and companies' market value. Moreover, they provide evidence of a significant mediating effect of NF risk on the relationship between financial risks and market value.
Different disciplines have studied the content of online user comments in various contexts, using manual qualitative/quantitative or (semi-)automated approaches. The broad spectrum and disciplinary ...divides make it difficult to grasp an overview of those aspects which have already been examined, e.g. to identify findings related to one's own research, recommendable methodological approaches, and under-researched topics. We introduce a systematic literature review concerning content analyses of user comments in a journalistic context. Our review covers 192 papers identified through a systematic search focussing on communication studies and computer science. We find that research predominantly concentrates on the comment sections of Anglo-American newspaper brands and on aspects like hate speech, general incivility, or users' opinions on specific issues, while disregarding media from other parts of the world, comments in social media, propaganda, and constructive comments. From our results we derive a research agenda that addresses research gaps and also highlights potentials for automating analyses as well as for cooperation across disciplines.
Thematic analysis methods, including the reflexive approach we have developed, are widely used in counselling and psychotherapy research, as are other approaches that seek to develop ‘patterns’ ...(themes, categories) across cases. Without a thorough grounding in the conceptual foundations of a wide variety of across‐case analytic approaches, and qualitative research more broadly—something rarely offered in counselling training—it can be difficult to understand how these differ, where they overlap, and which might be appropriate for a particular research project. Our aim in this paper is to support researchers in counselling and psychotherapy to select an appropriate across‐case approach for their research, and to justify their choice, by discussing conceptual and procedural differences and similarities between reflexive thematic analysis (TA) and four other across‐case approaches. Three of these are also widely used in counselling and psychotherapy research—qualitative content analysis, interpretative phenomenological analysis and grounded theory. The fourth—discourse analysis—is less widely used but importantly exemplifies the critical qualitative research tradition. We contextualise our comparative approach by highlighting the diversity within TA. TA is best thought of as a spectrum of methods—from types that prioritise coding accuracy and reliability to reflexive approaches like ours that emphasise the inescapable subjectivity of data interpretation. Although reflexive TA provides the point of comparison for our discussion of other across‐case approaches, our aim is not to promote reflexive TA as ‘best’. Rather, we encourage the knowing selection and use of analytic methods and methodologies in counselling and psychotherapy research.
The literature on international human resource management indicates a growing array of different forms of international work experiences such as assigned and self-initiated expatriation. However, the ...criteria for demarcation of these different forms and the term 'migrant' are often unclear which leads to an unfortunate lack of comparability of research and a potential confusion for readers. Based on the sociological, psychological and economics literature, this article reviews and synthesizes the existing definitions of the three terms in the current research. A qualitative content analysis and the Rubicon model Heckhausen, H., and Gollwitzer, P.M. (1987), 'Thought Contents and Cognitive Functioning in Motivational Versus Volitional States of Mind', Motivation and Emotion, 1, 101-120. are used as a theoretical base to structure the findings. The paper creates a criteria-based definition and differentiation of terms and then develops a typology of four different types of expatriates: assigned expatriates, inter-self-initiated expatriates, intra-self-initiated expatriates and drawn expatriates. Implications for management as well as for future research are outlined.
An equity crowdfunding research agenda Cummings, Michael E.; Rawhouser, Hans; Vismara, Silvio ...
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Equity crowdfunding is a unique form of entrepreneurial finance that combines elements of private and public equity. We articulate its distinctive features, then review and qualitatively analyze a ...large corpus of 540 public comments submitted by stakeholders in response to new US equity crowdfunding regulations. Through a qualitative content analytic approach, we combine actor (issuer, investor, and intermediary) and perspective (relational, behavioral, and technical) dimensions to develop a taxonomy of 18 categories, from which we derive and present unanswered questions and fruitful research directions in this emerging domain.
This research aims to gain a deeper appreciation of where the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) conversation has gained momentum based upon an analysis of its key conversational landmarks and the ...studies which have thus far provided its principal theoretical scaffolding. Drawing upon a bibliometric analysis of 62,499 citations from all 822 publications on EO existing so far, thereby building the most comprehensive overview of EO studies collected to date, we are able to identify which studies, journals, and disciplines have offered critical landmarks within the conversation. Moreover, we categorize these influential landmark studies into four primary areas, namely “Defining pieces”, “Methods and measurement”, “Contingencies”, and “Impact”, and discuss how prominent landmarks within the EO conversation have created the current theoretical scaffolding upon which EO research is now building. Notably, our study observes Schumpeter (1934) theory of entrepreneurship and innovation as ‘creative destruction’ as well as Barney (1991) resource-based view (RBV) as landmarks within EO’s present theoretical scaffolding.
Assume one has open-ended questions in a survey and seriously wants to analyze the answers to these questions. This text discusses a number of choices when a thematic text analysis is to be applied. ...It starts with requirements to be posed of the open-ended questions themselves and sketches choices in the development of a code system. Coding can be performed from an instrumental or a representational perspective. First, the coding is performed from the investigator’s point of view, and can be performed by a computer program. Secondly, the point of view of the respondent is acknowledged. Here, the computer can be used as a management tool, but the coding must be performed by a human coder. The choice of one of these methods depends on what the investigator is looking for and has consequences for how to proceed. When the representational coding is applied, there are questions of intercoder reliability. The codes to be used should be decided upon before or during the coding process.
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