Stakeholder motivation as a means toward a proactive shared approach to caring for biodiversity: Application on Plateau de Millevaches

Yan

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

2022

With the rapid development of information technology, online knowledge monetization has emerged as a potential business model for several social Q&A platforms, which brings more complex benefits and cost tradeoffs for users. However, most of the previous studies were based on free Q&A platforms, which made it difficult to explain the influencing factors of various stakeholders in the decision-making process of knowledge sharing and failed to comprehensively analyze the behavior of knowledge sharing subjects using dynamic system theory. This study establishes a tripartite evolutionary game model of knowledge consumers, knowledge providers, and knowledge payment platforms and discusses evolutionary stability strategies, evolutionary trends, and factors affecting the evolutionary path of tripartite behavior. The extensive experimental results show that knowledge payment is an important way to promote knowledge sharing. Meanwhile, the implementation of a rewards and punishment system on payment platforms will encourage knowledge providers to provide high-quality knowledge content and increase the willingness of knowledge consumers to pay, thereby facilitating the knowledge-sharing process. This paper provides the decision-making basis for the operation of the online knowledge community and proposes a new proposition to solve the conflict of interest in the process of knowledge sharing from the perspective of evolutionary theory.

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…According to ( 9) and (10), the average expected benefit Ẽp of knowledge providers can be obtained as follows:…”

Section: The Replication Dynamic Equation Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

A Tripartite Evolutionary Game Analysis of Online Knowledge Sharing Community

Yan

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

2022

“…Motivation in the psychological literature is defined as “the psychological process that initiates, guides, and maintains human behavior” [ 50 ] (p. 1204). Although many authors describe farmer behavior as relying on a general description of motivation, knowing the structure of motivations can facilitate deciphering farmers’ interwoven decisions regarding decisions related to farming [ 51 , 52 , 53 , 54 ]. Self-determination theory (SDT), a well-regarded theory of motivation, distinguishes motivations based on reasons and goals of action: intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation [ 55 ].…”

Section: Theoretical Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Motivations and Challenges for Adoption of Organic Grain Production: A Qualitative Study of Iowa Organic Farmers

Han

Grudens-Schuck

2022

Foods

Organic grains are essential for the organic food industry. In the U.S., low adoption of organic grain farming has constrained further development of the organic food sector. Organic food industry stakeholders have appealed to producers to increase domestic organic grain production. The U.S. federal government supports research and extension education regarding organic farming. In this context, there is a need for both agricultural researchers and extension professionals to further (1) examine the factors that motivate farmers to adopt organic grain farming and (2) identify the challenges that hinder farmers’ adoption of organic grain farming. We conducted 17 in-depth interviews with organic grain farmers in Iowa, USA. By applying multiple social-behavioral theories as part of the analysis and comparing interview results with the literature, we gained insight into the ways in which farmers formed adoption motivations, and we captured the dynamics of the motivations. We specifically identified challenges to adoption that were associated with organic farming operation and management, organic market accessibility, information and inputs availability, social tension, and level of support from the government. These findings shed light on the ways in which farmers’ adoption challenges have evolved with institutional, ecological, and technological changes over time and how contemporary research and extension may encourage adoption.

“…Identifying both the common ground between stakeholder types as well as potentially conflicting perspectives within a single stakeholder type is useful for structuring participatory processes and assisting stakeholders in clearly articulating their organization or group's policy preferences and positions, which can advance decision-making efforts (Raadgever et al, 2008). Identifying points of agreement can aid in connecting apparently irreconcilable stakeholder types and positions (Bredif et al, 2017).…”

Section: Policy Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying diverging sustainability meanings for water policy: a Q-method study in Phoenix, Arizona

et al. 2021

We identify and describe social perspectives on the sustainability of the water sector in the metropolitan area of Phoenix, Arizona. Using Q methodology, we find evidence for different meanings of sustainability when stakeholders are presented with concrete policy options and applications in spite of an apparently widespread agreement on the concept of sustainability itself. We put the social perspectives articulated by local stakeholders in perspective by analyzing whether they adhere to a commonly used set of sustainability principles when applied to water management and governance. The analysis indicates that although there is some level of acceptance of sustainability principles among the social perspectives identified, there are important discrepancies in the salience of different principles. Results suggest that when people are interacting in policy-making processes they tend to support their previously held own vision of the problems and that their normative considerations may be opposed to broadly accepted sustainability discourses. The different visions of water sustainability may have a direct impact on the water policy-making process depending on the position and influence of the actors involved in the governance scheme.