ILR ReviewPub Date : 2025-03-01Epub Date: 2024-12-07DOI: 10.1177/00197939241301704
Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Mark Wooden
{"title":"Working from Home, COVID-19, and Job Satisfaction.","authors":"Inga Laß, Esperanza Vera-Toscano, Mark Wooden","doi":"10.1177/00197939241301704","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00197939241301704","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines the impact of the growth in the incidence of working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic on workers' job satisfaction. Using longitudinal data collected in 2019 and 2021 as part of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, fixed-effects models of job satisfaction are estimated. Changes in the share of total weekly work hours usually worked from home are not found to have any significant association with changes in job satisfaction for men. By contrast, a strong significant positive (but nonlinear) association is found for women, and this relationship is concentrated on women with children. These findings suggest the main benefit of working from home for workers arises from the improved ability to combine work and family responsibilities, something that matters more to women given they continue to shoulder most of the responsibility for house and care work.</p>","PeriodicalId":13504,"journal":{"name":"ILR Review","volume":"78 2","pages":"330-354"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11785509/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143079688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do urban park spatial features influence public emotional responses during jogging? Evidence from social media data","authors":"Ming Gao , Congying Fang","doi":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100864","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jort.2025.100864","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The emotional responses elicited by urban green spaces are vital to understanding their role in public health. However, evidence remains scarce on how the characteristics of these spaces affect people's emotional reactions during activities. Our study aims to investigate the mechanisms linking the spatial organization and morphological features of green spaces with emotional preferences during jogging activities. Utilizing photographs collected from the Flickr social media site, we quantified emotional responses during jogging through an online cognitive service and explored the relationship between emotions' probability, intensity, and evenness with green space characteristics. Our results highlight significant patterns and individual variations in emotional responses, indicating that females more frequently exhibit happiness, while males tend to maintain a neutral emotional state. Additionally, we identified significant correlations between the characteristics of urban green spaces and emotional responses during jogging. Notably, connectivity and integration within these spaces are positively linked with both the probability and uniformity of emotional responses. Proximity to water bodies not only increases the likelihood of emotional responses but also intensifies them. This research provides empirically validated insights into emotional reactions during physical activities and underscores the design quality considerations that urban planners and policymakers should account for when updating or planning green spaces. Our study offers guidance for evidence-based design of restorative environments, thereby enhancing the potential emotional health benefits of urban green spaces.</div></div><div><h3>Management implications</h3><div><ul><li><span>●</span><span><div>Improving the arrangement of blue spaces (water features) in parks can enhance outdoor joggers' positive emotional experiences.</div></span></li><li><span>●</span><span><div>Examining how park visitors' emotions during outdoor jogging correlate with park spatial characteristics can guide the redevelopment and redesign of parks to enrich visitors' recreational experiences.</div></span></li><li><span>●</span><span><div>The emotional differences observed among park visitors of different genders provide insights into how park environmental design and management can cater to diverse visitor preferences and needs.</div></span></li></ul></div></div>","PeriodicalId":46931,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism-Research Planning and Management","volume":"50 ","pages":"Article 100864"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unite and conquer – End-to-end value creation through intra-organizational purchasing-sales integration","authors":"Jürgen Scherer , Wim G. Biemans","doi":"10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.02.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.indmarman.2025.02.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An effective value chain depends on the seamless flow of goods, services, and information between chain partners. A rich literature describes how a firm's purchasing function may develop effective co-creation relationships with upstream suppliers, while its sales function co-creates value with downstream customers. However, effective end-to-end (E2E) value creation is often hampered by the missing relationship between a firm's purchasing and sales functions. Especially in industrial manufacturing firms, purchasing and sales often operate independently from each other resulting in lost opportunities and inefficient supply chains. Although buying and selling are often treated as separate disciplines, academics increasingly emphasize the need for effective purchasing-sales integration (PSI).</div><div>Inspired by two Special Issues of <em>Industrial Marketing Management</em> on the purchasing-sales interface, we contribute to this emerging literature with an integrated academic-practitioner perspective. Based on extensive practical and academic experience, we develop a conceptual framework that integrates the scope and intensity of PSI, illustrate it with numerous practical examples, and formulate guidelines for management to strengthen their organizations' PSI. In addition, we present several theoretical propositions and suggestions for both future research and for business schools to connect purchasing and sales in terms of their curriculum, degrees, course materials, research projects, and collaboration with practitioners.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51345,"journal":{"name":"Industrial Marketing Management","volume":"126 ","pages":"Pages 236-250"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"E-commerce enterprise flexibility leading to better customer perception","authors":"Wieslaw Urban , Barbara Buraczyńska","doi":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2025.104267","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2025.104267","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to assess the level of organizational flexibility in e-commerce enterprises and to develop a structural model that identifies the key factors contributing to flexibility and their impact on customer service perception. The importance of customer perception in e-commerce is undeniable; however, the intra-organizational factors that contribute to it remain unclear. One such factor is flexibility, which has not yet been thoroughly researched. The survey was conducted on a random sample of 213 e-commerce companies of different sizes. The structural equation modelling (SEM) revealed that two factors significantly influence customer perception: assortment flexibility along with price and margin flexibility. Additionally, it was found that management's openness to change and the type of software utilized affect the degree of these flexibilities. This indicates that e-commerce companies should implement strategies to enhance flexibility in shaping their offerings to improve customers' perception of the services provided. It is recommended to foster management's openness to change in order to respond swiftly to evolving customer expectations. Furthermore, software functionalities that facilitate greater organizational flexibility are highly valued.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48399,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 104267"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143488970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sustainability science in management education: Cognitive and affective sustainability learning in an MBA course","authors":"Christopher A. Craig, Ismail Karabas","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101153","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101153","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Sustainability science is the interdisciplinary study of sustainability that embodies natural sciences, social sciences, and that is actionable in practice. We crafted and deployed an MBA course that integrated natural and social sciences based on two systems of instructional design: the ADDIE conceptual model and Bloom's revised taxonomy. The progression to higher levels of the taxonomy targets higher-level critical thinking skill acquisition. Sequencing of instructional design was informed by construal level theory (CLT), which posits localized sustainability stimuli are more concretely understood and actionable than distant stimuli. Using a quasi-experimental design, evaluation results indicate that treatment students significantly improved on the cognitive and affective measures of sustainability learning from pre-to post-tests. To assist with curricular adaptation, course-/module-level learning objectives, assignment descriptions, and discussion questions are provided. The study is pedagogically innovative, as the first known to integrate sustainability science to target student cognitive and affective learning about sustainability. Findings suggest the CLT can be utilized to sequence sustainability content from abstract and distant to concrete and local. Research has linked this localized understanding to managerial agency to responsibly respond. The study also provides a robust and replicable research design, including measures for assessing cognitive and affective sustainability learning.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":"23 2","pages":"Article 101153"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143488063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew Bone , Eugenia González Ehlinger , Fabian Stephany
{"title":"Skills or degree? The rise of skill-based hiring for AI and green jobs","authors":"Matthew Bone , Eugenia González Ehlinger , Fabian Stephany","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging professions in fields like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and sustainability (green jobs) are experiencing labour shortages as industry demand outpaces labour supply. In this context, our study aims to understand whether employers have begun focusing more on individual skills rather than formal qualifications in their recruitment processes. We analysed a large time-series dataset of approximately eleven million online job vacancies in the UK from 2018 to mid-2024, drawing on diverse literature on technological change and labour market signalling. Our findings provide evidence that employers have initiated “skill-based hiring” for AI roles, adopting more flexible hiring practices to expand the available talent pool. From 2018 to 2023, demand for AI roles grew by 21 % as a proportion of all postings (and accelerated into 2024). Simultaneously, mentions of university education requirements for AI roles declined by 15 %. Our regression analysis shows that university degrees have a significantly lower wage premium for both AI and green roles. In contrast, AI skills command a wage premium of 23 %, exceeding the value of degrees up until the PhD-level (33 %). In occupations with high demand for AI skills, the premium for skills is high, and the reward for degrees is relatively low. We recommend leveraging alternative skill-building formats such as apprenticeships, on-the-job training, MOOCs, vocational education and training, micro-certificates, and online bootcamps to fully utilise human capital and address talent shortages.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"214 ","pages":"Article 124042"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Paving the way to environmental sustainability: A systematic review to integrate big data analytics into high-stake decision forecasting","authors":"Rohit Agrawal , Nazrul Islam , Ashutosh Samadhiya , Vinaya Shukla , Anil Kumar , Arvind Upadhyay","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124060","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124060","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Big Data Analytics (BDA) is increasingly gaining interest in supply chain management due to the incorporation of digital technology in a range of operations. It facilitates the movement of commodities and data efficiently. However, despite the numerous benefits associated with BDA, there has been limited research on the extent to which BDA can improve environmental sustainability in supply chains. In an attempt to assess the depth of our knowledge, this study undertakes a bibliometric analysis in which 155 relevant articles are retrieved. The assessment discloses the various factors driving, limiting, and stimulating the adoption of BDA in the digital supply chain through analysis and discussion. Additionally, it suggests a framework linking the factors to achieve environmental sustainability. The outcomes of the evaluation indicate that the adoption of BDA could help in realizing an eco-friendly supply chain by reducing the carbon footprint, increasing product life cycles, minimizing the cost of transportation, and reducing transport-related emissions. This research suggests that policymakers should support BDA technology adoption for the reasons identified - it assists in boosting innovation and resilience in the increasingly competitive, ever changing market and the chaotic economic conditions of some industries. Many decisions made regarding environmental sustainability call for policies that will encourage BDA use to address climate, resources, energy management and sustainability factors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"214 ","pages":"Article 124060"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487587","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the effect of state support on innovation pathways by tracking the legacy performance of firms involved in academic co-operations","authors":"Charles Mondal, Robert B. Mellor","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100679","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100679","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The performance of firms involved in projects from 2 UK research councils was investigated; firms in Innovate UK projects receive co-funding while firms in Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) projects do not. Firms in 266 projects 2009–2012 were tracked for Standard Industrial Code (SIC), location and year-on-year financial performance 2012–22. The results show that firms (un- and co-funded) were mainly not local to universities. The growth performance of non-funded firms was steady in the majority of SIC codes, but some SIC codes performed very well, while for co-funded firms, many SICs performed under control but losses were made up for on average by exceptionally high performance in other SIC codes. Overall, non-funded firms achieved average growth of ∼29 % above control while co-funded firms only achieved an average growth of ∼18 % above control. Firms (both co- and un-funded) associated with 21 universities perform consistently well, while other firms (co- and un-funded) associated with 24 other universities perform consistently poorly. This difference in performance was better correlated to degree of business ambidexterity in the tech transfer function, rather than with university reputation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100679"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143488642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unveiling the impact of ICTs as a catalyst of technological innovation on well-being under gender inequality's moderating role","authors":"Cristina Boța-Avram , Viorela Ligia Văidean , Monica Violeta Achim , Nawazish Mirza","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100680","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100680","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) represent a significant technological advancement that enhances communication, access to information, and socio-economic interactions. By analysing the impact of ICTs on well-being across nations, this study explores an essential aspect of technology innovation's role in improving individuals' overall quality of life—covering both subjective and objective well-being. This study aims to analyse the influence of ICTs on well-being while considering the moderating effect of gender inequality. The research uses panel data from 185 countries covering the years 2005 to 2021 to explore the relationship between ICTs and well-being concerning gender inequality, using both subjective (e.g., life satisfaction) and objective (e.g., prosperity) well-being indicators. The objective was to gain a deeper understanding of the complex relationship between ICTs and well-being, focusing on the moderating role of gender inequality. The findings suggest that there is a positive correlation between ICT impact and well-being, which is amplified as gender inequality decreases. These findings held consistent when using different measures of objective well-being and introducing new variables for comparison. The study offers valuable insights into the role of gender equality – an essential component of social innovation - in upholding the positive effects of ICTs on well-being, assessed from both subjective and objective perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 2","pages":"Article 100680"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143488643","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wait for authenticity: The role of consumer innovativeness in shaping food truck perceptions","authors":"Wei Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104137","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104137","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food trucks are crucial to food tourism for their authentic and innovative offerings. Based on the Diffusion of Innovation Theory, this study examines the predictors and mediators influencing consumer behavior in food truck consumption, with a particular focus on how waiting time acts as a moderator. Data were collected via an online sampling company. Symmetric analysis revealed that food quality and food authenticity mediate the relationships between consumer innovativeness (novelty seeking, vigilance, hedonic seeking) and behavioral intention. Waiting time was found to amplify the relationship between food authenticity and behavioral intention. Asymmetric results identified distinct configurations that predict high and low customer intentions to revisit food trucks. These findings offer significant theoretical contributions and practical implications, guiding strategies to optimize food quality, manage waiting times effectively, and encourage customer revisits. Ultimately, this research advances management practices within the food truck industry and enriches food tourism experiences.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"127 ","pages":"Article 104137"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143487403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}