Management

Article Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism

Metaverse as a driver for customer experience and value co-creation: implications for hospitality and tourism management and marketing

Dimitrios Buhalis, Michael S. Lin, Daniel Leung

Summary: This paper explores the opportunities and challenges that Metaverse presents to hospitality and tourism management and marketing, and discusses its potential impact on customer experience and value co-creation. Metaverse offers exciting opportunities for the hospitality and tourism industry, but also poses significant challenges. Hospitality and tourism organizations need to strategically leverage Metaverse to customize and co-create experiences, while also providing opportunities for research and application of Metaverse.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT (2023)

Article Business

Does environmental, social, and governance performance move together with corporate green innovation in China?

Mingbo Zheng, Gen-Fu Feng, Ren-Ai Jiang, Chun-Ping Chang

Summary: This research reveals a bidirectional long-term relationship between ESG performance and corporate green innovation among Chinese listed firms. It also demonstrates a causal link from ESG performance to green innovation output in both short and long terms.

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2023)

Article Business

The metaverse in the hospitality and tourism industry: An overview of current trends and future research directions

Dogan Gursoy, Suresh Malodia, Amandeep Dhir

Summary: This article first explains the concept of the metaverse, particularly in the context of the hospitality and tourism industry. Next, it proposes a conceptual framework for creating metaverse experiences and identifies research gaps and agenda items. Finally, it classifies future research agendas into three categories: staging experiences, understanding consumer behavior changes, and marketing and operations strategies in the metaverse.

JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY MARKETING & MANAGEMENT (2022)

Review Business

Is blockchain able to enhance environmental sustainability? A systematic review and research agenda from the perspective of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Adele Parmentola, Antonella Petrillo, Ilaria Tutore, Fabio De Felice

Summary: Blockchain technology is being widely used in various industries, helping to achieve sustainable development goals and positively impacting environmental sustainability. However, potential negative environmental effects of blockchain technology should be considered before adoption.

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2022)

Article Psychology, Applied

Virtual Work Meetings During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Katherine A. Karl, Joy V. Peluchette, Navid Aghakhani

Summary: This study identifies issues and challenges of using videoconferencing for work-related meetings, focusing on camera and microphone problems, eating habits, meeting management, and work-from-home issues. The findings provide guidance for workplace policies and suggest directions for future research in the field of videoconferencing.

SMALL GROUP RESEARCH (2022)

Article Business

Circular economy practices and industry 4.0 technologies: A strategic move of automobile industry

Zhang Yu, Syed Abdul Rehman Khan, Muhammad Umar

Summary: This study examines the impact of Industry 4.0 on circular economy practices and supply chain capability on firm performance. The results show that circular economy practices have a positive impact on economic and operational performance, and Industry 4.0 can improve business operations. Additionally, supply chain capability is positively related to operational performance, which, in turn, can enhance economic health.

BUSINESS STRATEGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT (2022)

Article Economics

Retail forecasting: Research and practice

Robert Fildes, Shaohui Ma, Stephan Kolassa

Summary: This paper reviews the research literature on forecasting retail demand, covering different levels of forecasting problems and factors influencing demand. It evaluates the accuracy of different forecasting methods, with limited evidence on the effectiveness of machine learning methods and forecasting for new products.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FORECASTING (2022)

Article Management

Consensus reaching process in large-scale group decision making based on bounded confidence and social network

Yanhong Li, Gang Kou, Guangxu Li, Yi Peng

Summary: This paper proposes a CRP approach based on bounded confidence and social network for large-scale group decision-making. The approach manages experts' opinions by reducing problem dimension and using experts' weights obtained from social network analysis. The CRP is built based on the Manhattan distance, and a feedback mechanism is developed to adjust experts' opinions. The numerical example and comparisons demonstrate the feasibility and advantages of the proposed approach.

EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF OPERATIONAL RESEARCH (2022)

Article Business, Finance

Religion vs ethics: hedge and safe haven properties of Sukuk and green bonds for stock markets pre- and during COVID-19

Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Mustafa Rasa Rabbani, Sitara Karim, Syed Mabruk Billah

Summary: This study examines the hedge and safe-haven properties of Sukuk and green bonds for stock markets during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings show that green bonds have strong safe-haven features, providing diversification opportunities for investors in times of economic stress and turbulence. The study also demonstrates the hedge effectiveness of green bonds for various international stocks.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC AND MIDDLE EASTERN FINANCE AND MANAGEMENT (2023)

Article Management

Leveraging knowledge sharing and innovation culture into SMEs sustainable competitive advantage

I. Wayan Edi Arsawan, Viktor Koval, Ismi Rajiani, Ni Wayan Rustiarini, Wayan Gede Supartha, Ni Putu Santi Suryantini

Summary: This study examines the role of knowledge sharing in shaping innovation culture and improving business performance in Indonesian SMEs. The findings show that knowledge sharing significantly influences innovation culture, business performance, and competitive advantage.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTIVITY AND PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT (2022)

Article Business

Enterprise Social Media in Workplace: Innovative Use Cases in China

Yuan Sun, Zhebin Ding, Zuopeng Zhang

Summary: In recent years, China has made great progress in the adoption and use of emerging information technologies. The popularity of enterprise social media (ESM) in Chinese enterprises and the resulting innovation practices provide an opportunity to explore relevant theories and assumptions. This article applies the organizational information processing theory (OIPT) to study the innovative use cases of ESM in China and identify contributing factors through a multicase-analysis approach. The research contributes to the literature by studying the innovative use cases in the ESM context and provides valuable insights for practitioners in designing and implementing ESM effectively.

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT (2023)

Article Management

The Time Variation in Risk Appetite and Uncertainty

Geert Bekaert, Eric C. Engstrom, Nancy R. Xu

Summary: The study develops a dynamic no-arbitrage asset pricing model for equities and corporate bonds considering time variation in risk aversion and economic uncertainty, providing daily frequency measures of these factors. It finds that equity variance risk premiums are informative about risk aversion, while credit spreads and corporate bond volatility are correlated with economic uncertainty. The model-implied risk premiums outperform standard tools in predicting asset excess returns, with risk aversion being significantly linked to consumer confidence.

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE (2022)

Article Business

The early impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on business sales

Robert Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen

Summary: COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a widespread decline in business sales by 17% in the second quarter of 2020 in California, with a significant growth in online sales. Businesses affected by lockdowns experienced the largest sales losses, while there were interesting correlations between sales and COVID-19 cases per capita in counties across California.

SMALL BUSINESS ECONOMICS (2022)

Review Information Science & Library Science

Knowledge management and digital transformation for Industry 4.0: a structured literature review

Andreia de Bem Machado, Silvana Secinaro, Davide Calandra, Federico Lanzalonga

Summary: This paper provides a structured literature review on the interactions between knowledge management, digital transformation, and Industry 4.0. The authors analyzed 761 peer-reviewed English articles using the Scopus database and Bibliometrix R package. The study identifies several research clusters and uncovers an exciting link between knowledge management, digital transformation, and the public sector. The article emphasizes the crucial role of digital transformation in knowledge management development and suggests future research perspectives.

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH & PRACTICE (2022)

Article Psychology, Applied

Revisiting Meta-Analytic Estimates of Validity in Personnel Selection: Addressing Systematic Overcorrection for Restriction of Range

Paul R. Sackett, Charlene Zhang, Christopher M. Berry, Filip Lievens

Summary: This study revisits prior meta-analytic conclusions on the validity of personnel selection procedures, finding that many selection procedures have been overestimated and revised validity estimates are lower by 0.10-0.20 points. Structured interviews emerged as the top-ranked selection procedure, with a trade-off between validity and diversity.

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY (2022)

Article Psychology, Applied

Theorizing Through Literature Reviews: The Miner-Prospector Continuum

Dermot Breslin, Caroline Gatrell

Summary: This article examines the role of literature reviews in theory development and introduces the metaphor of a miner-prospector continuum to explain different approaches. By identifying different strategies, the article explores the pathways and roles between miners and prospectors, emphasizing the importance of encouraging prospector reviews.

ORGANIZATIONAL RESEARCH METHODS (2023)

Article Business

The Influence of Corporate Social Responsibility on Incumbent Employees: A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Mediating and Moderating Mechanisms

Xiaoping Zhao, Chuang Wu, Chao C. Chen, Zucheng Zhou

Summary: This article reviews 86 studies and uses meta-analytical methods to investigate the impact of perceived corporate social responsibility (CSR) on employee attitudes and behaviors, as well as the mediating mechanisms and boundary conditions. The findings suggest that organizational justice, organizational trust, and organizational identification are important mediators, with organizational identification being particularly significant in mediating the effect of CSR on organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention. The article also highlights the differences between internal and external CSR perceptions and among different stakeholder CSR types.

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT (2022)

Article Management

Consensus-trust Driven Bidirectional Feedback Mechanism for Improving Consensus in Social Network Large-group Decision Making

Tiantian Gai, Mingshuo Cao, Francisco Chiclana, Zhen Zhang, Yucheng Dong, Enrique Herrera-Viedma, Jian Wu

Summary: This paper proposes a consensus-trust driven framework for bidirectional interaction in social network large-group decision making. The framework includes defining interaction consensus threshold and interaction trust threshold, designing hybrid feedback strategies, and developing a minimum adjustment bidirectional feedback model considering cohesion. The effectiveness and applicability of the model are demonstrated through its application to a blockchain platform selection problem in supply chain.

GROUP DECISION AND NEGOTIATION (2023)

Article Environmental Studies

Green HRM, environmental awareness and green behaviors: The moderating role of servant leadership

Mahlagha Darvishmotevali, Levent Altinay

Summary: The study found that environmental awareness plays a mediating role in the relationship between green HRM and employees' proactive P-EP, but does not support task-related P-EP. In addition, servant leadership does not moderate the relationship between green HRM and task-related performance.

TOURISM MANAGEMENT (2022)

Review Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism

A systematic and critical review of leadership styles in contemporary hospitality: a roadmap and a call for future research

Zakaria Elkhwesky, Islam Elbayoumi Salem, Haywantee Ramkissoon, Jose-Alberto Castaneda-Garcia

Summary: This paper provides an overview of leadership styles in the hospitality industry, discussing theories and outcomes of research in this area while identifying gaps for future studies. The review shows progress in leadership styles research in the hospitality industry over the past 13 years, but also highlights conceptual and empirical overlaps among different styles. The lack of research on antecedents and integrating theories is also noted.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT (2022)