https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214107 Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:26 GMT 2026-10-09T07:00:26Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333471 Title: Enabling added value: Benefits and drawbacks of transparency in global supply chains Authors: Bornand, Taja; von Schnurbein, Georg Abstract: Supply chain transparency (SCT) aims to enhance supply chains, but research often reflects only the perspectives of lead firms, mostly from Western countries. This study examines a coffee supply chain from Peru to Switzerland, assessing the benefits and drawbacks of SCT for various stakeholders across developed, emerging, and developing economies. To address the research question, "What are the conditions for SCT to create added value for all stakeholders?" we conducted interviews, field observations, and text analysis. We provide a framework outlining SCT's advantages and limitations, highlighting diverse transparency needs along the supply chain. Our findings show how individual actors contribute to SCT and propose strategies for its improvement. This study advances SCT research by emphasizing that the added value of transparency depends on its effective implementation across all supply chain levels. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/333471 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283363 Title: Compassion for all: Real-world online donations contradict compassion fade Authors: Meier, Dominik S. Abstract: Research has shown that people are more likely to donate money to help a single victim rather than a group of victims. However, recent studies have been able to reverse this compassion fade effect by presenting people with multiple donation appeals with different victim group sizes (joint evaluation) instead of just one donation appeal (separate evaluation). The reversal of this effect when people evaluate multiple donation requests at once has important implications for fundraising. This study tests whether this effect can be replicated in the field by using data from GoFundMe, the world's largest crowdfunding platform. When browsing projects on GoFundMe, people see multiple projects displayed at once, placing them in a joint evaluation context. Using the project campaign category and description to control for confounding, I find that there is indeed a positive effect of the perceived victim group size on the amount of funds raised by a project. Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283363 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283362 Title: Reconceptualizing the accountability of INGOs: From neo-institutional economic theory to an institutional logics approach Authors: Hengevoss, Alice Abstract: International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) face greater accountability demands from various stakeholders, and from their beneficiaries in particular. This has initiated an academic discourse on a more comprehensive approach to INGO accountability. However, the theoretical foundation to adequately conceptualize a comprehensive approach remains weak. This article takes the first step in establishing a theoretical foundation for researchers interested in further developing comprehensive INGO accountability. It does so by offering a systematic overview of the current academic discourse on INGO accountability. It then advances nine propositions on the implications of different theoretical approaches for the conceptualization of INGO accountability. In particular, it suggests that neo-institutional economic theories lead to a donor-focused and efficiency-oriented, and therefore narrow, conceptualization of INGO accountability. An institutional logics approach, on the other hand, allows conceptualizing INGO accountability relationships to a wider set of stakeholders, including to beneficiaries. It further allows developing an effectiveness-oriented conceptualization. Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/283362 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243235 Title: Of small steps and big leaps: Collaborators impact on confronters' ability to influence corporate responsibility Authors: Arnold, Nicholas Abstract: In their efforts to influence corporate responsibility, nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are increasingly focusing directly on companies - either by entering into collaborative relationships with, or by exerting public pressure on them. While both approaches can be instrumental for NPOs with respect to influencing corporate responsibility, the way in which these two approaches interact has not been extensively researched. Drawing on institutional change and social movement theory as well as nonprofit-business collaboration literature, this qualitative study sheds further light on how more confrontational NPOs experience the value and disvalue of collaborative approaches by more collaborative NPOs with respect to their own ability to influence corporate responsibility - i.e. how they experience "collaborator effects". The results indicate that collaborative approaches can support confrontational ones in re-institutionalization efforts surrounding corporate responsibility, but have a negative bearing on their efforts at de-institutionalization. The type of NPO involved in collaborative efforts with companies exerts an important influence on perceived collaborator effects. Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT https://hdl.handle.net/10419/243235 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z