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The effect of covid policy restrictions on donations during the sustainable and entrepreneurial context Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Giuliana Borello, Roberta Muri
Using real platform data, this paper assesses donors’ reactions to a rare event; specifically, we demonstrate how donors were able to compensate for (or stabilize) healthcare deficits and policy restrictions used to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Based on a sample of 20,784 covid-related donation campaigns promoted on GoFundMe platform from January 30, 2020 to November 23, 2021, the paper shows that
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How reaching numerical roundness on subgoals affects the completion of superordinate goals Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Timucin Ozcan, Michael Hair, Kunter Gunasti
This research shows that consumers who achieve numerically round subgoals perceive a higher chance of accomplishing their superordinate goals compared to those who achieve numerically non-round subgoals. This effect is mediated by the shifts in motivation to accomplish superordinate goals. First, a pilot test presents preliminary evidence from a large secondary dataset of runners’ timings in a 10 k
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Unveiling the dimensions of digital transformation: A comprehensive taxonomy and assessment model for business Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ling-Jing Kao, Chih-Chou Chiu, Hung-Tse Lin, Yun-Wei Hung, Cheng-Chin Lu
Digital transformation (DT) is an adaptive strategy in the evolving tech and business landscape. It helps organizations enhance operations and customer experiences to remain competitive. However, defining digital transformation, creating a universal taxonomy, and developing a practical assessment model remain challenges. This study aims to establish a comprehensive DT taxonomy by deconstructing DT
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Virtual influencer marketing: Evaluating the influence of virtual influencers’ form realism and behavioral realism on consumer ambivalence and marketing performance Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Inhwa Kim, Chung-Wha Ki, Hyunhwan Lee, Youn-Kyung Kim
The existing literature examines VIs’ utilitarian, personal, and relational traits, but a gap exists in interface design understanding. This study employs avatar marketing and ambivalence theories to explore how VIs’ design elements (VI’s varying form realism and behavioral realism design) induce ambivalent emotions (eeriness and coolness) and impact VI marketing performance (follow and purchase intentions)
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Social mood and M&A performance: An empirical investigation enhanced by multimodal analytics Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Qiping Wang, Raymond Yiu Keung Lau
This study, grounded in the emotions as social information theory, investigates the relationship between social mood, extracted from multimodal social media posts, and the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance of acquirer firms. Integrating a deep learning-based multimodal analytics methodology into econometric models, our empirical analysis reveals that the social moods of surprise and fear,
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How consumers evaluate movies on online platforms? Investigating the role of consumer engagement and external engagement Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Samrat Gupta, Swanand J. Deodhar, Amit Anand Tiwari, Manjul Gupta, Marcello Mariani
This study examines how the causal patterns of consumers’ engagement and experts’ external engagement are associated with their online evaluation of movies. To this end, this study identifies the interplay of two dimensions (personal and interactive engagement) of consumers’ engagement and external engagement in their evaluation of movies and offers four propositions. This study utilizes fuzzy-set
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Can salespersons help firms overcome brand image crisis? Role of facial appearance Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Arpita Agnihotri, Saurabh Bhattacharya, Demetris Vrontis
Facial appearances bias human decisions. This study’s objective, leveraging facial impression bias, is to explore the underlying mechanisms and boundary conditions under which baby-faced salespersons, in comparison to mature-faced salespersons, influence consumers’ decisions to reconcile with the brand after an organizational crisis. We test mediation and moderated mediation models in the UK context
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Beyond social enterprise: Bringing the territory at the core Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Romain Slitine, Didier Chabaud, Nadine Richez-Battesti
Over the last two decades, research on social enterprises has expanded significantly, with special focus on the creation and scaling up of these organizations. Yet, the question of how social enterprises mutates over time has been scarcely analyzed. Based on a single case study of the Archer Group located in Romans-sur-Isère (France), we wish to understand why and how a well-identified organizational
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How consumers respond to service failures caused by algorithmic mistakes: The role of algorithmic interpretability Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Changdong Chen
Despite the advancement of algorithm-based AI transforming business and society, there is growing evidence of service failures caused by algorithmic mistakes. Due to the “black box” nature of algorithmic decisions, consumers are frustrated not only by the mistakes themselves but also by the lack of interpretability of algorithmic decisions. Thus, the current research focuses on the impact of enhanced
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Pride in family businesses: Authenticity, hubris, and cultural insights Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Fabian Bernhard
Research on family businesses praises the benefits of feeling proud of the family firm. However, pride displayed by next generation family members, who may have (yet) contributed little to the success, can create negative impressions. Building on emotions-as-social-information theory (E-A-S-I), we examine the perceptions of expressed pride in two experiments. Results from Western (Study1; N = 342)
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Conceptualizing institutional voids in terms of severity and how the home country affects this understanding Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Luke R.J. Andrews, John M. Luiz
Internationalizing into African markets is often portrayed as difficult due the presence of “institutional voids”. However, the lack of familiarity that MNEs may have of African markets may result in (Western-centric) biases of African institutions. To mitigate this, we examine a case study of how institutional voids were experienced by a South African MNE that internationalized into Nigeria. We ask
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When mass meets prestige: The impact of symbolic motivations, inspirations, and purchase intentions for Masstige products Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Mahnaz Mansoor, Justin Paul, Abid Saeed, Jun-Hwa Cheah
Luxury brands are increasingly targeting the middle class through ‘masstige marketing’ as the trendy business opportunity,' which combines luxury and mass appeal. This strategy aims to make high-end brands more accessible to a wider audience, catering to the desires and preferences of the middle class. Grounded in the Mass Prestige (Masstige) theory, this study examines the direct and indirect impact
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Examining the effect of a firm’s product recall on financial values of its competitors Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Xiang Fang, Xiaoyu Wang, Yingying Shao, Pramit Banerjee
This study investigates the impact of product recalls on the financial performance of competitors of recalling firms. By applying the event study methodology to a broad range of consumer product recalls across various industries, we assess how recalls influence competitors’ short-term abnormal returns in the stock market. We find that product recalls have a negative spillover effect on competitors’
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My colleague is not “human”: Will working with robots make you act more indifferently? Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Xingyang Lv, Kewei Shi, Yueying He, Yingchao Ji, Tian Lan
Service warmth, defined as kindness, sincerity and helpfulness experienced by customers, is a critical component of service delivery. Using a combination of questionnaire surveys and roleplay experiments involving customers, employees, and their supervisors, this study investigated how employee service warmth changes when they work with service robots. The findings suggest that there is a decrease
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Technological and non-technological innovation synergies under the lens of absorptive capacity efficiency Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 A.G. Dimakopoulou, A. Gkypali, K. Tsekouras
While extensive research has focused on the role of absorptive capacity on innovation performance, no attention has been paid to the investigation of the relationship between absorptive capacity efficiency -the returns of resources devoted to absorptive capacity development- and innovation synergies. Marketing or organizational innovations, although significant for firm performance, are not considered
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How learning-goal-oriented newcomers develop leader-member exchange (LMX): From agentic and communal behavior perspectives Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Shanshan Gao, Xiaowan Lin, Long W. Lam
Adopting the dual perspective model of agency and communion and role-making theory of leader–member exchange (LMX) development, this study explored whether and how newcomers with a high learning goal orientation (LGO) develop high-quality social exchange relationships with their leaders. Through a three-wave field survey of 199 organizational newcomers who were graduates entering the workplace, we
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A meta-model of customer brand loyalty and its antecedents Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Kathleen Desveaud, Timo Mandler, Martin Eisend
This research consolidates existing knowledge about customer brand loyalty and its antecedents by developing and empirically validating an integrative meta-model. First, with a grounded theory literature review of 199 prior studies, the authors identify 275 antecedents of loyalty that they aggregate into four meta-concepts: (1) brand offer, (2) consumer–brand alignment, (3) brand experience, and (4)
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Risk-taking to restore negative self-view: The effect of autonomy and subjective business on financial risk-taking Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mingyue Zhang, Haipeng (Allan) Chen
This study examines the influence of autonomy on consumers’ financial risk-taking. Building on various streams of marketing and social psychology literature, we propose that low (vs. high) autonomy increases financial risk-taking, whereas busyness reverses this effect. We further demonstrate that an increased desire for power and status mediates the effect of low autonomy on financial risk-taking.
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Electronic word of mouth 2.0 (eWOM 2.0) – The evolution of eWOM research in the new age Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-25 Hongfei Liu, Chanaka Jayawardhena, Paurav Shukla, Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Vignesh Yoganathan
Electronic word of mouth (eWOM) has evolved dramatically in the past 20 years, and is substantially shaping modern consumer behaviors and altering marketing management dynamics across both consumer and industry markets. We call this evolution “eWOM 2.0”, as captured in this Special Issue. Ten research articles advance our understanding in how eWOM drives the continued development of digital communication
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Intrapreneurs, high performers, or hybrid stars? How individual entrepreneurial orientation affects employee performance Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Coen Rigtering, Thomas Niemand, Vinh Phan, Jason Gawke
Recently, scholars have extended the concept of entrepreneurial orientation to the individual level. Yet, how individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) contributes to employee performance is not well understood. Building on role theory, we develop a novel typology of employee performance that distinguishes between employee behavior aimed at achieving in-role performance and employee engagement in
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Virtual influencers and data privacy: Introducing the multi-privacy paradox Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Gajendra Liyanaarachchi, Matthieu Mifsud, Giampaolo Viglia
Virtual influencers have a growing presence in social media, reshaping the traditional interactions between influencers and followers. Through an interdisciplinary orientation, we assess the implications of this phenomenon for data privacy. Specifically, we argue that, given that the virtual influencer is not a human being, an unbalanced privacy risk arises from possible data vulnerability, cybercrime
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Motivated to be socially responsible? CEO regulatory focus, firm performance, and corporate social responsibility Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jian Liang, Ameeta Jain, Alexander Newman, Matthew P. Mount, Jooyoung Kim
This study examines the interactive effect of CEOs’ regulatory focus and corporate financial performance (CFP) on the firm’s corporate social responsibility (CSR). While prior research has examined the influence of CEOs’ psychological attributes on CSR, less attention has been devoted to understanding how the firms’ CFP impacts this relationship. Drawing on regulatory focus theory and the behavioral
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From vineyard to table: Uncovering wine quality for sales management through machine learning Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Rui Ma, Di Mao, Dongmei Cao, Shuai Luo, Suraksha Gupta, Yichuan Wang
The literature currently offers limited guidance for retailers on how to use analytics to decipher the relationship between product attributes and quality ratings. Addressing this gap, our study introduces an advanced ensemble learning approach to develop a nuanced framework for assessing product quality. We validated the effectiveness of our framework with a dataset comprising 1,599 red wine samples
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Past, present, and future of international joint ventures Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dong Liu, Ning Fu, Guocai Wang, Lixun Su
International Joint Ventures (IJVs) are a popular mode for a company to enter a foreign market. Research on IJVs has significantly grown in the past two decades. In this study, we applied several bibliometric analyses (i.e., performance analysis, co-citation analysis, and co-word analysis) to systematically examine 379 IJV studies from 1982 to 2021. Our performance analysis identifies influential articles
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‘One bad apple won’t spoil the bunch’ – Representations of the “sharing economy” Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Barbara Hartl, Sarah Marth, Eva Hofmann, Elfriede Penz
This research examines the public’s common understanding of the sharing economy, specifically its dark sides. If the sharing economy is represented as problematic, managers should reconsider if they want to promote their businesses as part of it or set actions in case it is associated with it. Thus, we examine (i) the public’s representations of the sharing economy, (ii) which industries are associated
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Psychological mechanisms behind access-based luxury brand consumption: Empirical investigation from the lens of new ownership paradigm Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jitender Kumar
This research attempts to explore what prompts consumers to use luxury brands through access-based means of consumption. It is theorized that this disposition is a function of developing a sense of psychological ownership towards luxury brands (POLB) and antecedents explaining this state are proposed. Data collected from users engaged in borrowing and renting luxury is used to test the theoretical
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Claiming market ownership: Territorial activism in stigmatized markets Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Ozlem Sandikci, Aliakbar Jafari, Eileen Fischer
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Antecedents and consequences of fake reviews in a marketing approach: An overview and synthesis Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Jean Michel Sahut, Michel Laroche, Eric Braune
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Social Executives’ emotions and firm value: An empirical study enhanced by cognitive analytics Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Qiping Wang, Raymond Yiu Keung Lau, Haoran Xie, Hongyan Liu, Xunhua Guo
Investors are increasingly relying on social media to seek insights into corporate prospects. However, it remains unclear whether social executives—those engaging with stakeholders through social media—provide valuable information that shapes investors’ investment decisions, thereby influencing firm value. Drawing on emotions as social information theory, this study explores the impact of social executives’
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The mind in the machine: Estimating mind perception's effect on user satisfaction with voice-based conversational agents Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Vignesh Yoganathan, Victoria-Sophie Osburg
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Let’s drink to that! How wider glass rim leads to more pleasurable purchases Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Nathalie Spielmann, Patricia Rossi
All beverages are consumed with the help of a vessel (i.e., glass, mug, or cup), yet research focusing on glassware is scarce despite this cue being ubiquitous in the consumption experience. Through four studies, including a field study, we examine the associative semantic schema deduced from wider (versus narrower) glassware rim and how the “bigger is better” bias influences consumer purchase behavior
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An internalization perspective on subsidiaries’ reputation and its impact on subsidiaries’ marketing advantage: The moderating roles of resources and autonomy Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Peter Buckley, Destan Kandemir, Steven Y.H. Liu, Esra F. Gençtürk
Internalization theory of Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) provides a paradigm in the international business field. Contemporary discussions consider MNEs as differentiated network with self-initiated subsidiaries. However, while moving away from pure hierarchy, internalization theory has not fully particularized the coordinating mechanism across MNEs’ networked subsidiaries. Accordingly, we propose
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Why do people interact and buy in the Metaverse? Self-Expansion perspectives and the impact of hedonic adaptation Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Suhyoung Ahn, Byoungho Ellie Jin, Hyesim Seo
The metaverse, a virtual space where people can interact with each other, is garnering global attention. This study attempts to answer three questions: what attracts someone to the metaverse, why do consumers buy intangible virtual goods in it, and do participants purchase more virtual items as they visit it frequently? Drawing from self-expansion theory and the notion of hedonic adaptation, this study
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Generative artificial intelligence in innovation management: A preview of future research developments Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Marcello Mariani, Yogesh K. Dwivedi
This study outlines the future research opportunities related to Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in innovation management. To this end, it combines a review of the academic literature with the results of a Delphi study involving leading innovation management scholars. Ten major research themes emerged that can guide future research developments at the intersection of GenAI and innovation
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Empathic voice assistants: Enhancing consumer responses in voice commerce Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Alex Mari, Andreina Mandelli, René Algesheimer
Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled voice assistants (VAs) are transforming firm-customer interactions but often come across as lacking empathy. This challenge may cause business managers to question the overall effectiveness of VAs in shopping contexts. Recognizing empathy as a core design element in the next generation of VAs and the limits of scenario-based studies in voice commerce, this article
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Latin America and the Caribbean Economy: A Growth Agenda Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Paul A. Phillips, Constanza Bianchi, Esteban R. Brenes, Luiz Moutinho, Said Salhi
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The role of institutions in early-stage entrepreneurship: An explainable artificial intelligence approach Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Byron Graham, Karen Bonner
Although the importance of institutional conditions in fostering entrepreneurship is well established, less is known about the dominance of institutional dimensions, their predictive ability, and more complex non-linear relationships. To overcome the limitations of traditional regression approaches in addressing these gaps we apply techniques from explainable artificial intelligence to study the dominance
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Failure Escape: The role of advice seeking in CEOs’ awareness of financial difficulties and corporate restructuring Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Rachid Achbah, Ivana Vitanova, Marc Fréchet
This study investigates CEOs’ advice-seeking behavior in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and its influence on managing the financial difficulties these firms face. Grounded in the attention-based view of firms, our framework posits that CEOs’ advice seeking plays a sequential role in shaping a firm’s response to financial distress, by influencing CEOs’ awareness of financial difficulties
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From chalkboard to boardroom: Unveiling the role of entrepreneurship in bolstering academic achievement among professors Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Andreas Kuckertz, Maximilian Scheu
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Australian indigenous female entrepreneurs: The role of adversity quotient Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Jane Menzies, Meena Chavan, Robert Jack, Simona Scarparo, Francesco Chirico
Drawing on the experiences of 18 Australian Indigenous female entrepreneurs (AIFE), we use a grounded theory approach to understand their entrepreneurial development in the face of adversity. Informed by the concept of adversity quotient (AQ), our findings reveal that Indigenous female entrepreneurs do experience a range of adversities stemmingfrom their gender and ethnic background. We examine the
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Value co-creation: Balancing B2B platform value and potential reverse-value effects Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Zoran Latinovic, Sharmila C. Chatterjee
B2B digital platforms represent a fast-growing sector of the expanding platform economy. In this paper, we propose a framework for B2B platforms that integrates four essential value components of a platform ecosystem – standalone value, network-effect value, data-network-effect value, and marketplace-control value within the value process stages. The model is based on the classic conceptualization
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The implications of multi-sided platforms in managing digital business ecosystems Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Sami Suuronen, Juhani Ukko, Minna Saunila, Tero Rantala, Hannu Rantanen
Industrial organizations are increasingly engaging in multi-sided platforms (MSPs) to facilitate the formation of digital business ecosystems. These platforms enable networked business, where multiple partners interact to create value throughout the ecosystem. This study examines the implications of MSPs in managing digital business ecosystems by obtaining feedback from industry actors through a case
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Virtual reality-based product displays to inspire consumers’ purchase intentions: An experimental study Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ali Raza, Manahil Wasim, Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq
The rapid growth of technology and its perfect utilization by marketers in their product displays transform consumers’ purchasing patterns across the globe. Previous literature suggests that in-store product displays are critical in boosting customers' shopping experiences and purchasing decisions. However, they fail to provide enough evidence for using virtual reality-based visual product displays
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Follow your heart or your mind: The effect of consumption frequency on consumers’ reliance on feelings Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Yimin Cheng, Kuangjie Zhang, Xuhong Zhuang
All consumers have experiences that are rare or infrequent, be it a birthday or a trip to a new destination, but consumer decision making on such rare consumption occasions is poorly understood. Across five studies, we show that consumers are more likely to rely on feelings over reasons on rare (vs. frequent) consumption occasions, leading to a greater preference for affectively-superior (vs. cognitively-superior)
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Developing resilience: Multinational enterprise business model transformation to mitigate major disruptions Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Giovanna Magnani, Francesca Sanguineti, S. Tamer Cavusgil, Matt Matevz Raskovic, Ruey-Jer “Bryan” Jean
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Playing with emotions: Text analysis of emotional tones in gender-casted Children’s media Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Eric Setten, Steven Chen
This research examines the differences in emotional tones and drives in gender-casted ( boy-directed vs. girl-directed) children’s media and how this has changed over time. This topic is important given that children spend copious amounts of time watching media. Two studies utilizing Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis on a diverse body of over 1000 h of media transcripts from 78
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Sustainability, brand authenticity and Instagram messaging Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Sandy Bulmer, Nitha Palakshappa, Sarah Dodds, Sarah Harper
The role of Instagram brand messaging as a force for good is examined when a brand’s mission is creating societal change and where being authentic can also lead to controversy and negative responses. A depth study of an exemplary brand is used to explore brand authenticity in the context of sustainability, brand activism messaging and consumer responses to brand posts on Instagram. We offer a unique
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Virtual influencers and pro-environmental causes: The roles of message warmth and trust in experts Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Maximilian H.E.E. Gerrath, Hossein Olya, Zahra Shah, Huaiyu Li
Virtual influencers (VIs) are an increasingly popular form of endorsers used in marketing campaigns. With their human influencer counterparts sometimes involved in scandals and controversy, VIs can be a more reliable source to promote pro-environmental and sustainable behavior. Taking a multi-methods approach, we examine how individuals react to VIs promoting pro-environmental campaigns. Our findings
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Onto the light side of sharing: Using the force of blockchain Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Christopher Großmann, Katrin Merfeld, Jan F. Klein, Franziska Föller, Sven Henkel
While the sharing economy has promised to solve a range of problems associated with traditional consumption, the reality is more akin to its inability or even exacerbation of economic and societal issues. We propose that blockchain technology could address these issues. To this end, we explain its potential by elaborating on how blockchain-based sharing services can help solve exploitation, data abuse
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Industry 4.0 involvement and knowledge management across industries: A qualitative investigation from an emerging economy Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Abel Duarte Alonso, Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Trung Q. Nguyen, Robert McClelland, Ngan M. Nguyen, Hoa Thi Ngoc Huynh, Thanh Duc Tran
By embracing the notions of the knowledge-based view of the firm framework, the study investigates a) how involvement in the Industry 4.0 phenomenon is perceived, b) how organisations’ knowledge is used to respond to its requirements, and c) how this knowledge helps maximise its promise. Through semi-structured, in-depth interviews, the experiences and observations of 112 company leaders representing
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The effect of foreign competition on firm risk-taking: Evidence from tariff reduction Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Yohan Choi, Sam Yul Cho
Drawing on threat rigidity theory, this study hypothesizes that foreign competition driven by tariff reduction may negatively impact domestic firms’ risk-taking. Despite the inherent threats posed by intense foreign competition, domestic firms’ responses may vary. Thus, this study also hypothesizes that performance relative to aspiration and strategic conformity may mitigate the negative impact of
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Dynamic strategic marketing planning: The paradox of concurrently reconfiguring and implementing strategic marketing planning Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Vasilis Theoharakis, Yuyan Zheng, Long Zhang
Traditional marketing planning may not be as effective in today’s challenging environments for achieving the dual imperative of meeting objectives and continuously improving market fit. Therefore, we introduce the concept of dynamic strategic marketing planning (DSMP) as a higher-order capability that requires the concurrent orchestration of marketing planning, senior management-led strategic implementation
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Rejuvenating business models via startup collaborations: Evidence from the Turkish context Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Pinar Buyukbalci, Francesca Sanguineti, Federica Sacco
Are Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) equipped to thrive in an environment where agility and resilience are paramount? We examine the impact of MNE-startup collaborations on MNE business models, with a specific focus on Turkey’s emerging market. We analyzed data from in-depth interviews with executives from three MNEs in varied industries, supplemented by secondary sources. Findings show that collaborations
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Automated social presence in AI: Avoiding consumer psychological tensions to improve service value Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Carlos Flavián, Russell W. Belk, Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló
Consumers are increasingly embracing robots and AI. This has led them to suffer psychological tensions in their AI experiences (e.g., data capture, classification, delegation and social experiences). This exploratory research proposes that AI with higher perceived automated presence (sense of being with another being) alleviates psychological tensions. This in turn leads to consumer perceptions of
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Information systems capabilities value creation through circular economy practices in uncertain environments: A conditional mediation model Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Randy Riggs, Carmen M. Felipe, José L. Roldán, Juan C. Real
The link between the field of information technology business value and sustainable activities is a widely discussed topic in academia and management. However, the mechanisms that lead to the impact on business performance are still elusive. The circular economy is one of the most recent approaches to address sustainability challenges. Drawing on the perspective of information technology-enabled organizational
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Getting to know someone in ten seconds: Social role theory and perceived personality in entrepreneurial pitch videos Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Joshua D. Maurer, Steven A. Creek, Thomas H. Allison, Joshua S. Bendickson, Arvin Sahaym
This manuscript investigates first impressions of the Big Five personality traits in entrepreneurial pitch videos through the lens of social role theory. We develop hypotheses which frame perceived entrepreneurial personality as a configuration of perceived big five traits. We suggest that first impressions of personality influence funding both directly and indirectly via funders' perceptions of success
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Returnee directors and green innovation Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Vincent Tawiah, Ernest Gyapong, Muhammad Usman
This study examines the effect of returnee directors, defined as local directors who have studied or worked in foreign countries, on a firm’s green innovation. Utilising robust econometric modelling, we examine a large sample of A-share nonfinancial firms listed on the Shenzhen and Shanghai stock exchanges. Our findings reveal a positive and significant relationship between returnee directors and green
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Understanding consumer behavior during and after a Pandemic: Implications for customer lifetime value prediction models Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Ana Alina Tudoran, Charlotte Hjerrild Thomsen, Sophie Thomasen
Our study uses a cohort analysis to investigate Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) for customer cohorts acquired before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. The research estimates CLV in a continuous-time setting of customer transactions within the online grocery sector. Stochastic models are combined with the Gamma-Gamma spending model to predict CLV at individual and aggregate levels. The findings reveal
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Perceived Corruption, entrepreneurial exposure and entrepreneurial career Intention: Evidence from five emerging countries Journal of Business Research (IF 11.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Mohamed Yacine Haddoud, Witold Nowinski, Adah-Kole Emmanuel Onjewu, Samah Souleh, Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz
In an attempt to extend the remit of the Theory of Planned Behaviour, this study investigates the moderating influence of corruption on the association between entrepreneurial exposure and individuals’ entrepreneurial career intention. Also, to account for the influence of distinct sociocultural backgrounds, data were analysed from a sample of 1,065 students residing in five emerging countries namely