This study integrates the literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determ... more This study integrates the literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determine their joint impact upon individual attitudes toward using and use of computer mediated communication (CMC). We introduce the application-specific CMC anxiety, defined as an individual's level of fear or apprehension associated with actual or anticipated use of information technology to communicate with others. Furthermore, we advance a new nomological structure that positions CMC anxiety as a proximal mediating construct between the more general constructs of computer anxiety, communication apprehension, and CMC familiarity, and the dependent constructs of CMC attitudes and use. We develop and empirically test this nomological structure, finding that computer anxiety, oral communication apprehension, and CMC familiarity contribute to CMC anxiety, while written communication apprehension does not. CMC anxiety fully mediates the relationship between the general constructs and attitude toward using CMC. CMC anxiety explains 34% of the variance in attitudes, while attitudes, coupled with familiarity, explain 14% of the variance in CMC use.
In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global enviro... more In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global environmental and social problems, "private" alternatives have proliferated including self-regulation, corporate social responsibility, and publicprivate partnerships. Among them, "non-state market driven" (NSMD) governance systems deserve elevated attention because they offer the strongest regulation and potential to socially embed global markets. NSMD systems encourage compliance by recognizing and tracking, along the market's supply chain, responsibly produced goods and services. They aim to establish "political legitimacy," whereby firms, social actors, and stakeholders are united into a community that accepts "shared rule as appropriate and justified." Drawing inductively on evidence from a range of NSMD systems, and deductively on theories of institutions and learning, we develop a theoretical framework to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved. The framework corrects existing literature's inattention to the conditioning effects of global social structure and its tendency to treat actor evaluations of NSMD systems as static and strategic. It identifies a three-phase process through which NSMD systems might gain political legitimacy. It posits that a "logic of consequences" alone cannot explain actor evaluations: the explanation requires greater reference to a "logic of appropriateness" as systems progress through the stages. The framework aims to guide future empirical work to assess the potential of NSMD systems to socially embed global markets.
In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global enviro... more In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global environmental and social problems, "private" alternatives have proliferated including self-regulation, corporate social responsibility, and publicprivate partnerships. Among them, "non-state market driven" (NSMD) governance systems deserve elevated attention because they offer the strongest regulation and potential to socially embed global markets. NSMD systems encourage compliance by recognizing and tracking, along the market's supply chain, responsibly produced goods and services. They aim to establish "political legitimacy," whereby firms, social actors, and stakeholders are united into a community that accepts "shared rule as appropriate and justified." Drawing inductively on evidence from a range of NSMD systems, and deductively on theories of institutions and learning, we develop a theoretical framework to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved. The framework corrects existing literature's inattention to the conditioning effects of global social structure and its tendency to treat actor evaluations of NSMD systems as static and strategic. It identifies a three-phase process through which NSMD systems might gain political legitimacy. It posits that a "logic of consequences" alone cannot explain actor evaluations: the explanation requires greater reference to a "logic of appropriateness" as systems progress through the stages. The framework aims to guide future empirical work to assess the potential of NSMD systems to socially embed global markets.
This study integrates the literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determ... more This study integrates the literature on computer anxiety and communication apprehension to determine their joint impact upon individual attitudes toward using and use of computer mediated communication (CMC). We introduce the application-specific CMC anxiety, defined as an individual's level of fear or apprehension associated with actual or anticipated use of information technology to communicate with others. Furthermore, we advance a new nomological structure that positions CMC anxiety as a proximal mediating construct between the more general constructs of computer anxiety, communication apprehension, and CMC familiarity, and the dependent constructs of CMC attitudes and use. We develop and empirically test this nomological structure, finding that computer anxiety, oral communication apprehension, and CMC familiarity contribute to CMC anxiety, while written communication apprehension does not. CMC anxiety fully mediates the relationship between the general constructs and attitude toward using CMC. CMC anxiety explains 34% of the variance in attitudes, while attitudes, coupled with familiarity, explain 14% of the variance in CMC use.
In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global enviro... more In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global environmental and social problems, "private" alternatives have proliferated including self-regulation, corporate social responsibility, and publicprivate partnerships. Among them, "non-state market driven" (NSMD) governance systems deserve elevated attention because they offer the strongest regulation and potential to socially embed global markets. NSMD systems encourage compliance by recognizing and tracking, along the market's supply chain, responsibly produced goods and services. They aim to establish "political legitimacy," whereby firms, social actors, and stakeholders are united into a community that accepts "shared rule as appropriate and justified." Drawing inductively on evidence from a range of NSMD systems, and deductively on theories of institutions and learning, we develop a theoretical framework to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved. The framework corrects existing literature's inattention to the conditioning effects of global social structure and its tendency to treat actor evaluations of NSMD systems as static and strategic. It identifies a three-phase process through which NSMD systems might gain political legitimacy. It posits that a "logic of consequences" alone cannot explain actor evaluations: the explanation requires greater reference to a "logic of appropriateness" as systems progress through the stages. The framework aims to guide future empirical work to assess the potential of NSMD systems to socially embed global markets.
In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global enviro... more In the absence of effective national and intergovernmental regulation to ameliorate global environmental and social problems, "private" alternatives have proliferated including self-regulation, corporate social responsibility, and publicprivate partnerships. Among them, "non-state market driven" (NSMD) governance systems deserve elevated attention because they offer the strongest regulation and potential to socially embed global markets. NSMD systems encourage compliance by recognizing and tracking, along the market's supply chain, responsibly produced goods and services. They aim to establish "political legitimacy," whereby firms, social actors, and stakeholders are united into a community that accepts "shared rule as appropriate and justified." Drawing inductively on evidence from a range of NSMD systems, and deductively on theories of institutions and learning, we develop a theoretical framework to explicate whether and how political legitimacy might be achieved. The framework corrects existing literature's inattention to the conditioning effects of global social structure and its tendency to treat actor evaluations of NSMD systems as static and strategic. It identifies a three-phase process through which NSMD systems might gain political legitimacy. It posits that a "logic of consequences" alone cannot explain actor evaluations: the explanation requires greater reference to a "logic of appropriateness" as systems progress through the stages. The framework aims to guide future empirical work to assess the potential of NSMD systems to socially embed global markets.
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