{"title":"Environmental Governance in Malta: A Trajectory and Reflections on Shaping Institutions for Policy Learning","authors":"Marguerite Camilleri","doi":"10.1111/gove.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper begins by charting the trajectory of Malta's political, policy and institutional innovation in relation to environmental issues since the Islands gained independence in 1964. It examines the growth of the Maltese environmental movement post-independence and the creation of governing institutions in response to public concern and international momentum. It then provides an analysis of the current situation in terms of issues, attitudes and narratives, particularly in relation to the construction and transport sectors. The paper reviews international practices and challenges in terms of environmental policy integration and democratic innovations, as well as positive experiences from the Maltese context. It concludes with some reflections, drawing on the roles of knowledge, public reason and social trust in environmental governance. This paper may be especially relevant to the study of governing institutions operating under conditions of intense pressure and the clientelist politics typical of small, densely-populated jurisdictions.</p>","PeriodicalId":48056,"journal":{"name":"Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions","volume":"38 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gove.70015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801439","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":"Is it real or not? construction of meaning and identity in virtual influencer marketing","authors":"Jamie Thompson , Reika Igarashi , Agata Krowinska , Ashleigh Logan-McFarlane","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115362","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115362","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Virtual influencers (VIs) are an emerging type of social media influencer. Through a sequential mixed-method research design, this research employs the theoretical lens of symbolic interactionism to explain how social media users construct meaning for the identity of VIs and how this guides their interactions and engagement with VIs. Study 1 explores the construction of meaning by analysis of 573 posts and 57,086 social media comments. Based on the symbolic interactionism and shared reality theories, Study 2 tests the relationship between key concepts (i.e., anthropomorphism, shared reality, digital escapism, and positive affect) using an online survey collected from 209 VI followers. This study shows that consumers negotiate the reality of VIs in the comments section with an emphasis on anthropomorphizing. Furthermore, the results of structural equation modelling suggest that followers’ perceptions of VIs’ moral and cognitive anthropomorphism influence perceived shared reality, which ultimately results in positive affect and VI engagement.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 115362"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799261","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":"Navigating remote host management and strategic information disclosure in Airbnb: A dual-theory perspective","authors":"Long Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102906","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102906","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Airbnb, a prominent sharing economy platform, has experienced significant global expansion, offering lucrative investment opportunities irrespective of investors' geographical locations. Despite the rising trend of using Airbnb for remote investments, this phenomenon has received limited research attention. This study employs a dual-theory lens, integrating social exchange and social penetration theories, to propose a unified theoretical framework for examining the dynamics of remote host management and information disclosure. Using a mixed-method approach—combining deep learning-based text classification to extract nuanced information aspects from host self-disclosures and econometric modeling on an extensive panel dataset—we reveal that while remote management exhibits lower performance than locally managed counterparts, strategic information disclosure can effectively mitigate such impacts. As a groundbreaking exploration of remote host management, this study contributes theoretically to the sharing economy, social exchange and social penetration theories, and information disclosure literature, while providing practical implications to support remote management and strategic information disclosure decision-making.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"83 ","pages":"Article 102906"},"PeriodicalIF":20.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800698","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 : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105237
Paul-Emmanuel Anckaert
{"title":"When the drugs (don’t) work: The role of science in product commercialization","authors":"Paul-Emmanuel Anckaert","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105237","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105237","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While the relationship between science and firms’ innovation performance has been extensively studied, little is known about how the nature of scientific input affects successful product commercialization. This paper aims to address this gap by analyzing data linking scientific publications to the eventual product market outcomes of early-stage drug candidates in the pharmaceutical industry. Examining the basic and applied nature of the scientific knowledge base underlying 5,613 early-stage drug candidates from 1995 to 2008, I find that despite the importance of advances made in basic science, its predictive and abstract outcomes on their own are unlikely to foster the development of drug candidates that achieve market approval. The substantial gap between the predictive rules from basic research and the unpredictable outcomes that emerge in variable states of human physiology, seems to limit the extent to which fundamental insights from basic science reduce the uncertainty related to the complexity of the human body in the real-world environment. In contrast, I show that early-stage drug candidates that combine fundamental insights from basic research and contextualized insights from applied science are significantly more likely to achieve market approval. This effect is particularly pronounced when these drugs have a more novel character and when firms leverage their own contextualized insights in the development of these drugs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799330","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}
David M. Brown , Steven Pattinson , Caroline Sutherland , Mark A.P. Davies
{"title":"Internal marketing and organizational performance: A systematic review and future research agenda","authors":"David M. Brown , Steven Pattinson , Caroline Sutherland , Mark A.P. Davies","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115384","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115384","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Internal marketing uses organizational integration and collaboration to facilitate strategic alignment of the organization with external market demands. In this systematic literature review, we explore how the exchanges instigated by internal marketing help to orient employees’ service relationships towards customer needs, thereby creating competitive advantage. We discuss how internal marketing, often broadly conceptualized as located in an employer-employee dyad, may stimulate complementary interactions amongst employees which contribute to the fulfilment of business objectives. We also consider how theories of internal marketing, whilst proposing an inherently inclusive strategic mindset, leave questions unanswered about the nature of stakeholder primacy. Specifically, we analyze the extent to which employees, customers or organizations should be prioritized as the principal beneficiaries of internal marketing, and the effects of theorists adopting ‘top-down’ and ‘outside-in’ perspectives focused on commercial, rather than relational, outcomes. We conclude by considering the implications of emerging working practices and suggest future research avenues.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 115384"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799259","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":"Examining the complementary roles of market-driven and market-driving orientations in the geographical diversification strategies of e-commerce SMEs","authors":"Uyen Vu , Daniel Tolstoy","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115375","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115375","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines how e-commerce SMEs can succeed with geographical diversification strategies. We argue that market orientation is crucial in this process. By combining the PLS-SEM with a necessary condition analysis, we explore the independent roles that market-driven and market-driving orientations play in deriving benefits from geographical diversity. We find that only market-driving e-commerce companies can leverage geographical diversification strategies for improved international performance. We also find that a market-driven orientation is a necessary condition for the effective deployment of market-driving behaviors across multiple markets. This study shows that explorations of the complementary relationship between the two market-oriented capabilities in the pursuit of geographical diversification strategies can provide a detailed theoretical account of how international e-commerce can be advanced. In practice, e-commerce SMEs need to be mindful of market conditions as they combine firm-specific assets with digital resources in attempts to achieve desired outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"194 ","pages":"Article 115375"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799260","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 Impact of Digital Transformation on the Sustainable Performance of Organizations: A Configurational Approach","authors":"Manting Luo, Jiabao Lin, Xin (Robert) Luo","doi":"10.1002/bse.4279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4279","url":null,"abstract":"Sustainable development has emerged as a critical concern globally, and digital transformation holds enormous potential for advancing the sustainable development of organizations. However, the relationship between digital transformation and sustainable performance remains largely unclear. To gain an in‐depth understanding of this relationship, we explore the effects of digital transformation dimensions on sustainable performance across diverse environmental and organizational conditions from a configuration perspective. The findings show that efficiency transformation and value transformation have different combinatory effects (facilitating or inhibiting) in achieving economic and environmental performance configurations in agribusinesses, considering organizational and environmental factors, such as firm size, industry type, and market turbulence. This study offers new perspectives on this relationship and provides managerial insights into how agribusinesses can achieve sustainable performance in different organizations and environments.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813507","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 : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105240
Victoria Slepykh
{"title":"Academic inbreeding and productivity of STEM early career researchers in different environments","authors":"Victoria Slepykh","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105240","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105240","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Academic inbreeding at the individual level is a characteristic of a scholar's career, when they work in the same organisations where they studied. The phenomenon is usually associated with reduced quality of human capital, low circulation of knowledge and ineffective human capital allocation. However, there are a number of countries where academic inbreeding is widespread, but how it affects the research productivity of early career researchers has not been sufficiently explored. This article aims to specify the correlation between academic inbreeding and the individual productivity of early-career researchers within the system characterised by the high level of inbreeding. The study uses environments with different infrastructural and organisational conditions as moderators to clarify the peculiarities of the relationship. Based on data about 1132 early-career researchers in four fields of study it was found that the publication activity of inbred-researchers does not differ from that of their mobile counterparts at prestigious organisations or in regions having middle and small number of academic organisations. However, academic inbreeding negatively correlates with research productivity at universities without special status and in metropolitan regions. Thus, when the organisational environment provides a high quality of human capital for its graduates, the effect of academic inbreeding is mitigated. The same effect of inbreeding is observed in environments with poor choice of employers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 6","pages":"Article 105240"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143800042","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":"Unveiling the hidden costs of AI in hospitality industry: The adverse effect of algorithmic human resources management (AHRM) on stress, wellbeing, and commitment","authors":"Sunanda Nayak , Pawan Budhwar , Ashish Malik","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104206","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104206","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Emerging evidence of the impact of algorithmic HRM (AHRM) indicates the positive implications of immersive technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic management on an organization’s socio-technical systems, stimulating the need to explore its adverse effects on the workforce and organizations in particular in hospitality industries. One such under-researched topic is stress well-being and the commitment of HR practitioners when organizations implement AI interventions, such as AHRM, a channel to augment HR-related decisions and automate HRM activities in organizations. This research investigates how implementing AI interventions such as AHRM, affects HR employees adversely. Analysing insights from 55 in-depth interviews of HR practitioners from eight hospitality industries in India, we present qualitative evidenceof the key research findings. The findings point to an adverse impact of AI-based AHRM interventions on stress (acts as a direct response), well-being (as an outcome of prolonged exposure), and commitment (as a long-term effect) of employees in organizations. This research primarily advances scholarship on the dark side of technological interpolations, such as AI interventions in the HRM function. Implications for theory and practice are also discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"129 ","pages":"Article 104206"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143799198","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}
Jagan Krishnan, Meng Li, Mihir N. Mehta, Hyun Jong Park
{"title":"Consequences for Culpable Auditors","authors":"Jagan Krishnan, Meng Li, Mihir N. Mehta, Hyun Jong Park","doi":"10.1111/1475-679x.12608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-679x.12608","url":null,"abstract":"We present the first comprehensive descriptive evidence on the labor market and personal consequences for audit professionals in the United States who are named in SEC or PCAOB enforcement actions. Three key findings emerge. First, between 38% and 73% of culpable auditors depart from their firms within one year after the enforcement event. These departure rates are three to four times higher compared with a sample of non-culpable auditors. Second, 83% of culpable auditors departing from Big 4 accounting firms exit the profession, compared with 58% of a departing non-culpable comparison group. In contrast, about 77% of the culpable auditors leaving non–Big 4 accounting firms remain in public accounting, compared with 51% of a departing non-culpable comparison group. Third, using novel data on personal real estate holdings, we find that culpable auditors do not appear to engage in markedly different transactions around enforcement compared with a comparison sample of non-culpable individuals.","PeriodicalId":48414,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Accounting Research","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143806081","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}