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Oksana Kantaruk Pierre, Raluca Mogos Descotes, Jose Pla-Barber
Summary: This research investigates the role of relational norms in facilitating importers' engagement in product innovation co-development with exporters. Through interviews with top managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) involved in exporting activities in France, the study uncovers the significant potential for successful co-development when importers actively contribute and highlights the importance of cooperation, continuity expectations, and equity norms as external factors shaping the co-development process.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2024)
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Yaming Wang, Xingyuan Wang, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Qiang Ouyang
Summary: Negative psychological experiences, such as exposure to a status threat, can significantly influence consumers' behavior. Previous studies have shown that consumers often choose to cope with a status threat by purchasing status-related or hedonic products, but this research suggests that consumers who perceive the threat as controllable are more likely to prefer self-improvement products within their own domain. Furthermore, trade-off beliefs play a moderating role in the relationship between status threat and perceived loss of control, which subsequently predicts consumers' preference for self-improvement products across different domains.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
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Maud Pindard-Lejarraga, Jose Lejarraga
Summary: The information source used by nascent entrepreneurs affects their performance expectations. Experience-based information leads to lower expectations of success, while descriptive information leads to higher expectations. These effects are influenced by industry conditions.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
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George Kuk, Mario Schaarschmidt, Dirk Homscheid
Summary: Much research on open source software development has tended to overlook the behavioral differences between various developer groups. This study expands upon the private-collective innovation model using a networking approach and reveals the influence of network closure and positional embeddedness on technical contribution. The empirical findings show that network closure has a negative impact on technical contribution, while the relationship between positional embeddedness and technical contribution follows an inverted U-shape. Moreover, high positional embeddedness can counteract the negative influence of extensive network closure on technical contribution. These effects are moderated by different developer groups.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
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Naoki Ando
Summary: This study investigates the impact of intraregional geographic expansion on the performance of foreign subsidiaries in the region, finding a non-linear relationship. The study also demonstrates that geographically isolated and small subsidiaries, as well as those co-owned by local partner firms, gain significant benefits from intraregional expansion.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2024)
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Ramzi Fathallah, Michael Carney
Summary: This research examines how business families internationalize from unstable and fragile institutions. The study finds that business families act as institutional arbitrageurs, facilitating international transactions between incompatible institutional contexts while adapting to the unstable and fragile home institutional environment. The findings also highlight the role of individual family members during internationalization.
JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
(2024)
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Eldrede T. Kahiya
Summary: This article problematizes literature on export assistance and provides an overview of the existing knowledge and unresolved questions in the field.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2024)
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Lorena M. D'Agostino, Stefano Schiavo
Summary: This study examines the role of trademarks in response to import competition from China. The findings suggest that trademarks are used by highly innovative multinational enterprises (MNEs) as a way to signal superior quality and differentiate themselves in industries that are more exposed to imports.
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS REVIEW
(2024)
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Ricarda Bouncken, Amit Kumar, Julia Connell, Asit Bhattacharyya, Kai He
Summary: This study explores the relationship between coopetition arrangements including CRS and firm performance. By integrating the literature on coopetition, corporate social responsibility, and sustainability, this study provides a new conceptual framework that combines the effects of coopetition on CRS and performance.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR & RESEARCH
(2024)
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Lin Yang, Zhibin Lin, Rose Quan, James Cunningham, Wei Huang
Summary: This study examines the impact of CEO narcissism on entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and finds that narcissistic CEOs tend to focus on external asset growth rather than internal research and development (R&D). Additionally, the study reveals that factors such as capital intensity and state ownership moderate the relationship between CEO narcissism and EO.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURIAL BEHAVIOR & RESEARCH
(2024)
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Mariia Koval, Viacheslav Iurkov, Gabriel R. G. Benito
Summary: The benefits of having an internationally diverse alliance portfolio are well known, but the challenges and potential limitations are often overlooked. This study investigates how the geographical spread of international alliances affects firms' international expansion through their foreign subsidiaries. The findings reveal a U-shaped relationship and show that it depends on the distance of alliance portfolio and the firms' absorptive capacity for internationalization. Deviations from the optimal international footprint have negative impacts on firms' innovation and financial performance.
JOURNAL OF WORLD BUSINESS
(2024)
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Business
Marta Frasquet, Marco Ieva, Alejandro Molla-Descals
Summary: Inspiring customers can increase purchase intention and customer loyalty, yet the antecedents and consequences of customer inspiration in the omnichannel environment have not been studied. This research found cross-channel effects between customer inspiration states and highlighted the roles of channel perceived novelty and customer loyalty as antecedents and consequences of inspiration.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Business
Robert Mayberry, James S. Boles, Naveen Donthu, James T. Lucke
Summary: The unique impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine on businesses highlight the importance of preparedness for unforeseen risks. This manuscript examines crisis management literature through the lens of Knightian uncertainty and emphasizes the need for flexibility and redundancy in organizations.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
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Faruk Anil Konuk, Tobias Otterbring
Summary: This study found that the dark triad personality traits are indirectly linked to organic food consumption, mediated by consumers' status consumption, praise from others, and virtue signaling. However, virtue signaling only plays a role in individuals with high levels of narcissism and Machiavellianism.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Business
Joanne Yu, Astrid Dickinger, Kevin Kam Fung So, Roman Egger
Summary: This study explores the impact of emotional display on user engagement with computer-generated imagery influencers by using artificial intelligence. It reveals the significance of happiness, sadness, disgust, and surprise in promoting diverse products and emphasizes the importance of balancing muscle movement intensity for technology, human behavior, and digital communication.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Ana Rosado-Cubero, Adolfo Hernandez, Francisco Jose Blanco Jimenez, Teresa Freire-Rubio
Summary: This study compared gender and entrepreneurship in Spanish and Argentinian incubators, revealing no significant differences in success rates or financial models between the two countries, but significant disparities in internationalization rates of businesses, with a predominantly male composition.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
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Misun Jeong, Kiseol Yang, HaeJung Maria Kim, Jihye Min
Summary: This study explores the attributes that customers favor in curation subscription box services related to pets and segments customer groups based on their importance weights of these attributes. The findings reveal that customers value price, product, and personalization the most when choosing curation subscription box services. The study also identifies three customer segments based on their attribute preferences: those who prioritize the product, those who value personalization the most, and those who prioritize price. The study proposes an optimized set of offerings for a pet subscription box using a conjoint market simulator.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Business
Zhendong Cheng, Wenfang Fan, Bingjia Shao, Wenli Jia, Yong Zhang
Summary: This study investigates the impact of intelligent customer service agents' (ICSA) initial response content on consumers' continuous interaction intention. The results show that the initial response content significantly influences consumers' continuous intention, affecting trust and emotions through perceived warmth and competence.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Business
Ibrahim A. Elshaer, Mahmaod Alrawad, Abdalwali Lutfi, Alaa M. S. Azazz
Summary: Social commerce has experienced significant growth in the post-COVID-19 era, with consumer attitude and trust playing crucial roles in purchase decisions. Positive consumer attitude and high trust can increase buying intention, while negative attitude or low trust may deter purchases.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
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Li Li, Xiaoting Chen, Peng Zhu
Summary: This study explores the influence of anchor characteristics on consumers' impulse buying behavior in live streaming e-commerce. The findings show that pleasure emotion is the key driving factor for consumer impulse buying, which is facilitated by anchors' similarity, attractiveness, professionalism, and interactivity. The study also reveals that viewer engagement moderates the impact of anchors' similarity and attractiveness on consumers' pleasure emotions.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2024)
