TY  - JOUR
A1  - Seewann, Lena
A1  - Verwiebe, Roland
T1  - How do people interpret the value concept?
BT  - development and evaluation of the value conceptualisation scale using a mixed method approach
JF  - Journal of beliefs and values
N2  - Value research has a long and extensive history of theoretical definitions and empirical investigations using large scale quantitative surveys. However, the way the general population understands, defines, and relates to the concept of values, and how these views vary across individuals is seldom addressed. The present study examined subjective interpretations of the term through focus group interviews, and reports on the development of a Value Conceptualisation Scale (VCS) that distinguishes six dimensions of different views on values: normativity, relevance, validity, stability, consistency, and awareness. Focus group interviews (n = 38) as well as several surveys (n = 100, n = 1519, n = 903, n = 94) were used to develop, refine, and test the scale in terms of response variety, temporal stability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity. These systematic results show that views on values do indeed vary significantly between participants. Correlations with dogmatism, preference for consistency, and metacognition were found for corresponding dimensions. The VCS provides an original measure, which enables future research to explore this variation on the conceptualisation of values.
KW  - Human values
KW  - scale development
KW  - mixed methods
KW  - focus group
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13617672.2019.1707748
SN  - 1469-9362
SN  - 1361-7672
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
SP  - 419
EP  - 432
PB  - Routledge
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian
T1  - Struggling over crisis
T1  - Umkämpfte Krise
BT  - Discoursive Positionings and Academic Positions in the Field of German-Speaking Economists
BT  - Diskursive Positionierungen und akademische Positionen im Feld deutschsprachiger Volkswirt*innen
JF  - Historical Social Research
N2  - If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.” Following the premise of this quotation attributed to Winston Churchill, varying perceptions of the European crisis by academic economists and their structural homology to economists’ positions in the field of economics are examined. The dataset analysed using specific multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) and hierarchical agglomerative clustering (HAC) comprises information on the careers of 480 German-speaking economists and on statements they made concerning crisis-related issues. It can be shown that the main structural differences in the composition and amount of scientific and academic capital held by economists as well as their age and degree of transnationalisation are linked to how they see the crisis: as a national sovereign debt crisis, as a European banking crisis, or as a crisis of European integration and institutions.
KW  - Economics
KW  - multiple correspondence analysis
KW  - Bourdieu
KW  - field
KW  - discourse
KW  - mixed methods
KW  - European Union
KW  - crisis
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.43.2018.3.147-188
SN  - 0172-6404
VL  - 43
IS  - 3
SP  - 147
EP  - 188
PB  - GESIS, Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
CY  - Cologne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zoll, Felix
A1  - Diehl, Katharina
A1  - Siebert, Rosemarie
T1  - Integrating sustainability goals in innovation processes
BT  - applying a decision support tool in a dual-purpose chicken case study
JF  - Sustainability
N2  - The innovative dual-purpose chicken approach aims at contributing to the transition towards sustainable poultry production by avoiding the culling of male chickens. To successfully integrate sustainability aspects into innovation, goal congruency among actors and clearly communicating the added value within the actor network and to consumers is needed. The challenge of identifying common sustainability goals calls for decision support tools. The objectives of our research were to investigate whether the tool could assist in improving communication and marketing with respect to sustainability and optimizing the value chain organization. Three actor groups participated in the tool application, in which quantitative and qualitative data were collected. The results showed that there were manifold sustainability goals within the innovation network, but only some goals overlapped, and the perception of their implementation also diverged. While easily marketable goals such as ‘animal welfare’ were perceived as being largely implemented, economic goals were prioritized less often, and the implementation was perceived as being rather low. By visualizing congruencies and differences in the goals, the tool helped identify fields of action, such as improved information flows and prompted thinking processes. We conclude that the tool is useful for managing complex decision processes with several actors involved.
KW  - value-based sustainability assessment
KW  - stakeholder participation
KW  - niche level
KW  - culling of male chickens
KW  - mixed methods
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/su11143761
SN  - 2071-1050
VL  - 11
IS  - 14
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -