{"title":"What happens after the arrival of service robots? Investigating how robotic usage experience facilitates employees’ exploitative and exploratory learning behaviors","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103936","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103936","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Service robots have been widely introduced into the hospitality industry and are being extensively utilized. Most existing research has focused on the customer perspective and explored the antecedents of robotic usage experience, leaving the mechanisms of its work-related consequences unclear. This research provides a causal framework for understanding the relationship between robotic usage experience and employee learning behaviors. Through an online scenario-based experiment and a field survey, the results indicated that the robotic usage experience significantly increases employees’ exploitative and exploratory learning behaviors. Workplace inspiration plays a partial mediating role between them. Moreover, employees’ learning goal orientation positively moderates the relationship between robotic usage experience and workplace inspiration. When employees have a higher learning goal orientation, the impact of robotic usage experience on workplace inspiration becomes stronger. The findings can effectively guide employees to utilize robotic usage experience to promote their learning behaviors, thereby enhancing organizational innovation and competitiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327144","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}
Research PolicyPub Date : 2024-09-27DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2024.105127
{"title":"Patent litigation and narrative R&D disclosures: Evidence from the adoption of anti-troll legislation","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105127","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2024.105127","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The last two decades have witnessed a sharp increase in patent litigation in the United States (U.S.), mainly driven by patent trolls. By exploiting the staggered adoption of Anti-Troll laws across 34 states as a plausible exogenous shock that reduces the risk of patent litigation by these trolls, we show that firms significantly increase their narrative R&D disclosures following the enactment of Anti-Troll laws. This effect is less pronounced in firms facing higher competitive pressure, and more pronounced in firms that are more exposed to threats from patent trolls. Further analyses alleviate the concern that the impact of Anti-Troll laws on disclosures is attributable to state-level economic or policy changes. Our results highlight the significant role of patent troll litigation in influencing the dissemination of narrative R&D information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142323448","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}
Greg Nyilasy, Shangwen Yi, Dennis Herhausen, Stephan Ludwig, Darren W. Dahl
{"title":"EXPRESS: Business-to-Investor (B2I) Marketing: The Interplay of Costly and Costless Signals","authors":"Greg Nyilasy, Shangwen Yi, Dennis Herhausen, Stephan Ludwig, Darren W. Dahl","doi":"10.1177/00222429241288464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429241288464","url":null,"abstract":"Marketing to investors – especially when seeking funding for start-ups – is unique, with investors facing extreme uncertainty. This study uses foundational work in marketing, economics, management, finance, and psychology, as well as theories-in-use development with angel and VC investors to build a Business-to-Investor (B2I) Marketing theory. The theory proposes that investors rely on marketing signals from start-ups’ whether they are costly (financial, social, human, and intellectual resource endowments) or costless (verbal passion and concreteness). Results of a large quantitative field study of 5,334 written proposals from start-ups show that costly and costless signals have interactive effects on investor acceptance. The natural entrepreneurial tendency to compensate for a lack of costly signals with the use of passionate language backfires, reducing investor acceptance. Only when there is a number of costly signals communicated does a greater use of passion increase investor acceptance. Further, written proposals should be moderately concrete when they lack costly signals and should be formulated abstractly when plenty of costly signals can be offered. These contingencies provide insights into costly-costless signal interdependence in B2I marketing and suggest how start-ups can optimize their written proposals for investor acceptance.","PeriodicalId":16152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marketing","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328997","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}
Olivier Boiral, Marie‐Christine Brotherton, David Gilbert‐Parisée, David Talbot, Isabelle Martinez
{"title":"Decontesting an essentially contested concept: The standardization of sustainable finance","authors":"Olivier Boiral, Marie‐Christine Brotherton, David Gilbert‐Parisée, David Talbot, Isabelle Martinez","doi":"10.1002/bse.3972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3972","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to investigate how the standardization process and the public consultations carried out in the development of new sustainable finance standards and laws tend to shape the decontestation of practices in this field. The analysis of 255 comment letters submitted by various stakeholders in the context of these public consultations shows the dual role of standardization as a mechanism for both the decontestation and the (re)contestation of sustainable finance. This article makes important contributions to the emerging literature on the governance of sustainable finance through initiatives that are meant to improve the transparency of disclosures in this field and prevent investor misconduct. In light of Gallie's theory of essentially contested concepts, this article also contributes to the literature on the challenges of developing sustainability standards and the implications of adopting practices centered on concepts whose meanings and applications are the subject of endless disputes.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142325607","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":"Exploring resistance barriers in travelers' word of mouth for mobile payment systems: Mediating effects of trust and usage intention","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123771","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123771","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging technologies, such as mobile payment systems (MPS), continue to affect people from all walks of life, including travelers' behaviors. Following the innovation resistance theory (IRT) framework, the current study examined the link between innovation resistance barriers (i.e., usage, value, risk, tradition, and image) and word of mouth (WOM) for MPS usage in the travel industry. Specifically, we integrated trust theory and examined how these innovation resistance barriers affect trust, which then affects MPS usage intention and subsequently affects WOM for MPS. Following the two-study research design, multi-wave data were collected from 403 participants in Study 1 and 378 participants in Study 2. The results supported the serial mediation of trust and MPS usage intention for the relationships between usage, value, and tradition barriers and WOM for MPS. Our findings contribute to travel and consumer behavior theory and practice by explaining how and why specific innovation barriers negatively influence WOM for MPS usage in the travel industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327331","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":"Book Review: Renyi Hong, Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life","authors":"Samia Rahman","doi":"10.1177/09500170241278309","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09500170241278309","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48187,"journal":{"name":"Work Employment and Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328994","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":"Making sense of social enterprises' crisis preparedness and development of composite index for its assessment","authors":"Ondřej Kročil, Michal Müller, Martin Schlossarek","doi":"10.1111/1468-5973.12622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12622","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Social enterprises are organizations that make society more resilient, but at the same time they have their own vulnerabilities and are threatened by a number of factors that can throw them into a crisis. Nevertheless, a crisis in social enterprises and their crisis preparedness are not topics that the literature adequately deals with. The aim of this mixed method research is to identify how social entrepreneurs make sense of crisis preparedness, and how to measure it. The qualitative part of the research shows that there are five key themes that are perceived by social entrepreneurs when it comes to crisis preparedness in the context of social enterprises' specifics: Crisis preparedness as a prevention against mission drift, as a necessity when working with disadvantaged employees, as a path toward greater financial stability, as a “helper” in a changing legislative environment, and as a response to a fragile organizational structure. Combining these findings with the literature review, composite Perceived Threats Index (PTI) and Crisis Preparedness Index (CPI) are constructed. Using correlation and regression analysis and hypothesis testing, we validate them and confirm relationship between geographical scope of social enteprises and crisis preparedness as well as between latter and perceived threats.</p>","PeriodicalId":47674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-5973.12622","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142324537","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":"Environmental, social, and governance reporting in family firms: The critical role of CEO attributes","authors":"Richard Yeaw Chong Seow","doi":"10.1002/bse.3984","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.3984","url":null,"abstract":"Amid the global surge in emphasis on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting, the response of family firms to these demands has been underexplored. Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) play an essential role in materializing and adhering to ESG‐related expectations from stakeholders. Anchored in upper echelons and socio‐emotional wealth theoretical frameworks, this study embarks on a novel investigation into the complex attributes of CEOs, aiming to deepen the understanding of their role in advocating for ESG principles. Employing a random effects model with robust standard errors, this research scrutinizes data from Malaysian family firms between 2018 and 2022. Findings reveal that CEO tenure, experience, and board interlocking positively correlate with ESG reporting, enhancing these family firms' sustainability profiles. In contrast, CEO ownership displays a negative correlation with ESG reporting, suggesting a potential conflict between personal ownership interests and broader ESG commitments. This study significantly contributes to the evolving discourse on ESG practices within family firms, highlighting the pivotal influence of distinct CEO attributes on the ESG reporting landscape.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328996","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":"Therapeutic governance: The art of mediating shame and blame and quasi-judicial pragmatic technologies in Indonesian government auditor-auditee engagements","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102765","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cpa.2024.102765","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Government audit services provided by state auditors are frequently beset by complex and often emotional engagements with the auditees. Both auditors and auditees are subjected to multiple yet conflicting socio-political rationalities, administrative demands, and complex performance measurements. Auditees often perceive these interactions as a source of burden, fear, frustration, anxiety, and, at times, resistance or even revulsion regarding the audit process. Our ethnographic case study shows that the Indonesian government auditors and auditees employ the arts of the emotional self, as they feel burdened with the potential shame and blame that might result from an unsuccessful audit. Our study provides insights into how the quasi-judicial rationalities and bureaucratic demands manifested in various indices of performance imposed upon auditors and auditees lead to the critical need to achieve unqualified audit opinions. The pressures of ensuring a successful audit and reputation maintenance stimulate the enfolding of emotionalities in different stages of the audit process. Our study reveals auditor-auditee engagement in therapeutic governance as a mediation strategy to avoid the enfolding of shame or blame around a failure to achieve the targeted audit performance. In such a complex audit setting, both parties engage in pragmatic technological actions by administering shifts in roles and fostering familiarity to co-produce audit evidence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48078,"journal":{"name":"Critical Perspectives on Accounting","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":8.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142326991","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}
{"title":"Influence of robot anthropomorphism on consumer attitudes toward restaurants and service providers","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103939","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2024.103939","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We conducted this study to investigate the influence of robot anthropomorphism on consumers’ attitudes toward restaurants and service providers, focusing on the moderating effects of robot social roles and consumer autonomy. The results of Study 1 revealed that anthropomorphic robots fostered more positive attitudes toward restaurants and service robots than non-anthropomorphic robots when consumers viewed restaurant advertisements. The results of Study 2 revealed that consumers also exhibited more positive attitudes toward anthropomorphic robots compared to non-anthropomorphic robots when picturing restaurant dining experiences. Furthermore, when non-anthropomorphic robots were assigned partner roles and consumers were given the option to choose their servers, attitudes toward these robots improved. Collectively, these findings suggest that anthropomorphism in robots can lead to more positive attitudes, and the acceptance of non-anthropomorphic robots can be enhanced through greater consumer autonomy and the assignment of partner roles. These results provide insight into AI service marketing strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142327145","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}