Linda Mory's research while affiliated with Deutsche Universität für Verwaltungswissenschaften Speyer and other places

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Playing games is popular in all times and cultures. It comes as no surprise that gamification can help to cure the most severe problems facing citizens’ participation: The non-participation of the citizens. Deliberation seeks the one and only best decision, while gamification strives to pick a decision out of at least two alternatives and is anythi...
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People want to influence politics but do not want to be politically active. People like procedures that do not impose much burden on them but which guarantee an influence on decision making, such as elections and referenda. People want a greater influence on politics. This means in effect that people want to be informed but only want to make a deci...
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Democracy is in fact not a government of, by, and for the people, it is rather a government of, for, and controlled by the people. Practice shows that citizens’ participation in Germany is far away from the theory and its high expectations, particularly concerning deliberation. We deliver some striking but nevertheless typical examples and explain...
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Porto Alegre seems to be the role model for participatory budgeting (PB). However, on second sight, with a turnout rate below 3% of the population and the loss of interest by groups wanting to see their wishes fulfilled, the success of Porto Alegre is not particularly impressive. In contrast, the PB of Potsdam, in Germany, has witnessed a steadily...
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Gamification was named as one of the marketing trends for 2017 (von Schmelling 2016). But it is more than a buzzword, it is a concept inspired strongly by the video game and online game industries. In the private sector, it is very much in line with the democratization and humanization of work movements. Gamification may be used for customer/citize...
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This book examines the use of game elements to encourage citizens to participate in political decision-making and the planning of large-scale public sector projects. It argues that success is based on a personal concern with the project and a belief in the influence on political decision making, but also on fun. Without fun, only a very small group...
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Local e-government portals have become a vital interface between citizens and public administration. Today, they are an integral part of modern public service provision and an important channel for citizen relationship marketing since they represent regularly visited points of contact. Nonetheless, there is a lack of related multivariate empirical...
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Vor dem Hintergrund der Bedeutung der sozialen Verantwortung gegenüber Mitarbeitern und den Potenzialen erfolgreicher Mitarbeiterbeziehungen wird sowohl in der empirischen Forschung als auch der unternehmerischen Praxis auf Probleme in Bezug auf die Erschließung der Potenziale effektiver und gut implementierter interner Corporate Social Responsibil...
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Designing strategies for corporate social responsibility (CSR)-practice nowadays has become essential for organizations. Notwithstanding, how organizations appear internally in a socially responsible context toward their employees has been insufficiently investigated. This study aims at ascertaining how Internal CSR can be conceptualized as well as...
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Mit Zunahme der institutionalisierten und erprobten Möglichkeiten zur Bürgerbeteiligung wuchs auch der Wunsch nach weiteren Partizipationsmöglichkeiten, obwohl die vorhandenen Instrumente wie Direktwahl und Bürgerentscheid regelmäßig nicht genutzt werden. Diese Angebote entsprechen möglicherweise nicht immer dem Bedürfnis des Bürgers. Für seine Akt...
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Internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become an essential part of organizations' social responsibility. Yet, to date, CSR's internal dimension has been widely neglected in the literature. This paper empirically explores the concept of internal CSR and its relationship to employees' affective and normative organizational commitment. For...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how employees perceive corporate social responsibility (CSR) within their organizations, thus employees’ Internally Perceived CSR and how it impacts their organizational commitment. Design/methodology/approach – For conceptualizing, the constituents of Internally Perceived CSR – Individual CS...
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In recent years, the media industry massively changed due to regulation, new technologies as well as a modified market environment. This contribution focusses on a synoptical analysis concerning research in media economics / media management pointing out its current state as well as future areas of research. After describing the development of this...
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Given the importance of eGovernment portals as an integral access interface of modern public service provision, this contribution concentrates on the issue of the dimensions and derived success factors of these information systems. Starting with the DeLone & McLean IS success model and the resource-based view as foundations, this article conceptual...
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The increasing acceptance and prevalence of the Internet as a modern information and communications technology has advanced the commercial use and enabled the development of digital business models. Since 2005, increasing Internet services can be noted in this context, that can be associated with the phenomenon of Web 2.0 and that changed the Inter...
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Die zunehmende Akzeptanz und Verbreitung des Internets als moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie hat die kommerzielle Nutzung gefördert und die Entstehung von digitalen Geschäftsmodellen ermöglicht. Seit 2005 lassen sich in diesem Kontext zunehmend Internet-Angebote verzeichnen, die dem Phänomen Web 2.0 zugeordnet werden können und di...
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Given the increasing importance of eHealth as an integral part of eGovernment, this contribution concentrates on the issue of acceptance regarding the introduction of the German electronic health card (eHC). A brief introduction highlights the relevance of the subject and the differing acceptance rates of patients and service providers, i.e. physic...
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The U.S. as well as the German health care system face challenges on multiple fronts, including rising costs and inconsistent quality. Health information technology, especially electronic health records (eHR), has the potential to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of health care provider and to improve the quality of care while controlling h...
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Zusammenfassung Vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Bedeutung des eHealth fokussiert der Beitrag die Akzeptanzproblematik bei der Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) seitens der leistungserbringenden Gesundheitsinstitutionen. Nach Darstellung der Problemstellung wird die Relevanz des Themenbereichs beschrieben und die eGK definiert...
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Die Probleme im Kontext der Einführung der elektronischen Gesundheitskarte (eGK) haben gezeigt, dass, selbst bei hohem Planungsinput und relevanten Kosten­senkungspotenzialen, Barrieren einzelner Akteure die Implementierung eines Mo­dernisierungsprojektes in der öffentlichen Verwaltung erheblich verzögern und den Umfang der angestrebten Anwendungen...

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... New emerging online media, of course, exert a great influence on cross-media. However, a cross-media concept should integrate traditional media channels as well (Wirtz et al., 2014). The importance of combining both off-and online media in cross-media advertising efforts will become obvious when looking at studies on cross-media advertising effectiveness discussed in Sect. ...
... As a result, companies aim to give the most comfortable working conditions for their employees so that they do not wish to leave for another company [7]. One way to make working processes more enjoyable is through gamification [8]. ...
... 29-30). The vast literature on the gamification of political participation started from a focus on online engagement (Thiel, Reisinger, Röderer, & Fröhlich, 2016) and recently has extended to offline activities (Masser & Mory, 2018). Gamification strives for an "intensification of democracy through playing" (Meloni et al., 2020, p. 568). ...
... Im angloamerikanischen und britischen Sprachraum werden unter CSR eher Aktivitäten zusammengefasst, die in Deutschland unter CC gefasst werden würden (Lopez, 2017). Mory (2017) verweist zudem auf eine an den Stakeholdern orientierte interne und externe Dimension von CSR. Interne CSR wird als sozial verantwortliches Handeln innerhalb der Organisation verstanden. ...
... These data are visually presented in Figure 2. The types of primary study sources are presented in Table 3, showing that most papers (52%) were published as journal articles, the rest are conference papers (37%), and book section (11%). [38], [39], [31], [26], [22], [23], [20], [21], [17], [13], [14], [36], [37], [27] 14 52 ...
... The recent literature shows that an organisation's CSR activities influence relationship quality (Y.-K. Lee et al., 2012), employee commitment (Mory et al., 2016), employee engagement (Farid et al., 2019), PEB (Cheema, Afsar, Al-Ghazali, et al., 2020), employee citizenship behaviour (Youn & Kim, 2022), and organisational performance (Luo & Qu, 2023;Ma et al., 2023). Moreover, the literature also shows the mediation of servant leadership (Murtaza et al., 2021), green practices (Suganthi, 2019), transformational leadership (Deng et al., 2022, EMW (Nazir & Islam, 2020a;Supanti & Butcher, 2019), OID (Brammer et al., 2015;Cheema, Afsar, & Javed, 2020) in the relationship between CSR and PEB. ...
... In popular studies, Generation Y is described as having different expectations of their work life and a different work ethic than more experienced colleagues: A balanced work-life situation, flexible working hours, constant feedback, transparency, and freedom in their work organization are the most important expectations of this generation (Hohaus, 2014). All of the Millennial expectations mentioned are covered by the features of an ICSR approach; thus this approach (e.g., Glavas, 2016;Mory et al., 2015Mory et al., , 2016Mory et al., , 2017 is worth adding to the generational research analysis to adjust current HR systems if generational differences occur in ICSR perceptions (Rank, 2020). ...
... Such programs can boost employee happiness and productivity, reduce absenteeism and turnover rates, and improve the overall sustainability of the RE business. RE companies can demonstrate their commitment to social responsibility and stakeholder engagement by prioritizing employee welfare, enhancing their reputation, and attracting socially responsible investors and customers while contributing to the United Nations SDGs (Mory et al. 2016;Usmani et al. 2022). ...
... The influence of the digitalization disrupts diverse industries in nearly all their facets (Nambisan et al., 2017). Triggered by the diffusion of new digital technologies such as mobile devices and ubiquitous high-speed internet access, consumers adapt their preferences and usage patterns with unprecedented velocity (Wirtz et al., 2013). Consequently, pre-digital organizations that aim to fathom the opportunities of the online world and organizations that already rely on online businesses have to constantly provide digital services within their service systems to answer these changing customer demands (Beverungen et al., 2019a). ...
... Technology aids organizations to facilitate operational proceedings and decline expenses (Ogbari et al., 2018a). Technology is a tactical asset which has facilitated performance of businesses and has form the building block to acquire comparative gains (Kraaijenbring et al., 2010;Wirtz et al., 2014). ...