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1. Exploring Quantitatively Corporate Financial Performance and Social Performance Relationship with Net Impact Method

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Turunen, J. T., Mäkinen, S. J., Kuperstein-Blasco, D., Tampere University, and Industrial Engineering and Management

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512 Business and management
Abstract

Measuring impact of corporate actions on corporate social performance (CSP) is traditionally recognized to be notoriously difficult. This manuscript reports results of a study using Net Impact Method to quantify CSP and approximates corporate financial performance (CFP). We report findings on the CFP-CSP relationship and consider temporal lags between CFP measures and CSP impacts. Our findings are mostly supporting existing research but contrary to earlier research we find non-linear dynamics between CFP and CSP measures on some accounts. Although we used a limited dataset, our findings shed additional light to the CFP-CSP relationship. acceptedVersion

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2022
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2. Exploring factors influencing the acceptance of social robots among early adopters and mass market representatives

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Saari, Ulla A., Tossavainen, A., Kaipainen, K., Mäkinen, S. J., Saari, Ulla A., Tossavainen, A., Kaipainen, K., and Mäkinen, S. J.

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When designing social robots, it is crucial to understand the diverse expectations of different kinds of innovation adopters. Different factors influence early adopters of innovations and mass market representatives’ perceptions of the usefulness of social robots. The first aim of the study was to test how applicable the technology acceptance model 3 (TAM3) is in the context of social robots. Participants’ acceptance of social robotics in a workplace environment in the fuzzy front-end (FFE) innovation phase of a robot development project was examined. Based on the findings for the model, we developed a reduced version of the TAM3 that is more applicable for social robots. The second objective was to analyze how early adopters’ and mass market representatives’ acceptance of social robots differs. Quantitative research methods were used. For early adopters, result demonstrability has a significant influence on perceived usefulness of social robots, while for mass market representatives, perceived enjoyment has a more significant influence on perceived usefulness. The findings indicate that users’ innovation adoption style influences the factors that users consider important in the usefulness of social robots. Robot developers should take these into account during the FFE innovation phase.

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2022
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