Francisco José Torres‐Peña, Manuel Parras‐Rosa, Carla Marano‐Marcolini, Francisco José Torres‐Ruiz
{"title":"Ecolabels as Heuristic Cues: Exploring the Role of Ecolabels in Food Attribute Inferences","authors":"Francisco José Torres‐Peña, Manuel Parras‐Rosa, Carla Marano‐Marcolini, Francisco José Torres‐Ruiz","doi":"10.1002/bse.70175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70175","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents a novel approach by examining the role of environmental labels (e.g., ecolabels) as heuristic cues in consumer inferences, beyond their traditional informational function. The research evaluated the influence of the presence, number, and type (real or fake) of ecolabels on consumer inferences of an extra virgin olive oil product through a between‐subjects experiment involving 720 participants in Spain. The methodology was designed to minimize common biases by exposing each participant to only one stimulus and employing real product labels and packaging with controlled modifications (including both the quantity and type of seal, real and fake). Using various multivariate analyses of covariance (MANCOVA), the study sequentially explored a set of research questions regarding the impact of the number of ecolabels and their potential interchangeability across seven distinct product dimensions. The findings reveal that ecolabels do not significantly enhance overall product evaluations, except in two dimensions associated with human‐related attributes—commitment to quality and producer honesty—which are more closely linked to the generic certification process than to the specific meaning of each label. No linear relationship or optimal number of labels was identified, and no significant differences were found between real and fake ecolabels. The results suggest that ecolabels function primarily as generic heuristic cues with limited influence, particularly when the product's presentation is visually appealing.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003151","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}
Gabriel de la Fuente , Margarita Ortiz , Pilar Velasco
{"title":"Business diversification and ESG engagement: Riding tandem to risk reduction and value creation?","authors":"Gabriel de la Fuente , Margarita Ortiz , Pilar Velasco","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115676","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115676","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine the overlap between business diversification and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) engagement as two corporate risk management strategies, and theorise the underlying mechanisms of their interaction effect on firm value. Drawing on agency and stakeholder theories, we test our hypotheses using a sample of U.S. firms (2009–2019). Our findings indicate that ESG engagement mitigates the diversification discount. Further, ESG engagement reduces systematic risk, while diversification reduces idiosyncratic risk. However, we find no evidence supporting for the mediating role of total risk in the relationship between these strategies’ interaction and firm value. This suggests the need to explore alternative channels that may produce complementarities between these strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"200 ","pages":"Article 115676"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996680","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":"Capturing causal configurations of tourism destination competitiveness conditions for tourism performance: Asymmetric and symmetric application","authors":"Kanghwa Choi","doi":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101042","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jdmm.2025.101042","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this study was to unravel the intertwined causal configuration of destination competitiveness conditions underlying inbound tourist arrivals and expenditures. This study employed a two necessary condition analysis (NCA) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) methods to explore the necessary and sufficient configurations of destination competitiveness conditions across 133 country cases. Specifically, the country-specific destination competitiveness antecedents were taken from the World Economic Forum's ‘<em>Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index</em>’. In addition, this study conducted the multiple regression analysis to confirm the robustness of the results from the fsQCA by comparing symmetric and asymmetric models.</div><div>The findings from the fsQCA highlighted that countries have different causal configurations for boosting destination competitiveness. Thus, each country should consider its specificities when determining the optimal configurations of causal conditions to respond better to low or high levels of tourism outcomes. Notably, enabling capacity such as cultural and natural heritage is a critical for the destination competitiveness in both symmetric and asymmetric approaches. This is the first attempt to explore the complex causal configurations between tourism destination competitiveness conditions and inbound tourist arrivals and expenditures using symmetric and asymmetric approaches. The insights can guide country-level tourism marketing strategies to boost inbound tourist arrivals and tourism revenue.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48021,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Destination Marketing & Management","volume":"39 ","pages":"Article 101042"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997382","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}
DisastersPub Date : 2025-09-05DOI: 10.1111/disa.70007
Juliano Fiori
{"title":"A post-social question","authors":"Juliano Fiori","doi":"10.1111/disa.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/disa.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Debates about ‘the trouble with aid’ are nothing new. But while these have usually focused on technical, financial or political concerns, the central challenge to the aid industry today is social. If the modern enterprise of aid was a systemic response to ‘the social question’ (the fallout of capitalist property relations in a class society), it is now faced with ‘the post-social question’ (the fallout of the social fragmentation brought about by the persistence of these property relations). As the withdrawal of aid from dependent recipients intensifies their hardship, a different politics of human life, grounded in radical needs, is now the necessary basis for a substantive contestation of the social transformations casting today's catastrophic horizon.</p>","PeriodicalId":48088,"journal":{"name":"Disasters","volume":"49 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144998953","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}
Suh Yeon Kim, Rebecca W. Hamilton, TI Tongil Kim, Michael V. Lewis
{"title":"EXPRESS: Customization and the Customer Journey","authors":"Suh Yeon Kim, Rebecca W. Hamilton, TI Tongil Kim, Michael V. Lewis","doi":"10.1177/00222429251379772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429251379772","url":null,"abstract":"Retailers frequently offer customers the opportunity to customize in addition to buying ready-made products. Although prior research shows that customization can increase product evaluations, purchase intent, and willingness to pay, customers often do not opt into customization. Using a multi-method approach, we resolve this discrepancy by demonstrating that the Customization Journey is dynamic rather than static: an initial customization experience has a lasting impact on the customer journey. Nine years of transaction data from a retailer shows that customers who customize at least one product are more likely to customize again with the retailer; they also spend more, visit more often, and buy more items. Next, we conduct a series of longitudinal experimental studies. By randomly assigning some participants to customize and others to choose among a matched set of products, we disentangle the effects of the customer’s inherent preference for customizing from their experience with customization. We find that an initial experience with customization significantly increases the subsequent likelihood of customization, leading to more favorable outcomes for both the customer and the retailer. Our findings suggest that customizers need not be “born”—they can be “created” via interventions designed to increase experience with customization, shaping the trajectories of customer journeys.","PeriodicalId":16152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marketing","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145002856","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}
Lucas Miguel Alencar de Morais Correia , Paulo Renato de Sousa , Alejandro G. Frank
{"title":"Aligning digital strategy and resources to create Healthcare 4.0 organizations: Implications for smart operations and smart working","authors":"Lucas Miguel Alencar de Morais Correia , Paulo Renato de Sousa , Alejandro G. Frank","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the organizational foundations required to implement Healthcare 4.0 (H4.0) by examining how digital strategy, internal and external digital resources, and network embeddedness support the development of smart operations and smart working in healthcare organizations. While prior research has predominantly focused on technology-driven improvements in healthcare processes, less attention has been given to the sociotechnical integration of people, processes, and technologies, particularly from a strategic and managerial perspective. Drawing on a survey of 303 hospitals, we assessed the role of digital strategy and digital resources in advancing H4.0, conceptualized through the dual lenses of smart operations (technology for process automation) and smart working (technology to support workers). Using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping techniques, we find that digital strategy positively influences both smart operations and smart working. However, internal and external digital resources mediate this relationship only in the context of smart working. This indicates that while process automation relies primarily on strategic clarity, supporting workers requires stronger resource structures. Additionally, we find that healthcare network embeddedness positively moderates the relationship between digital strategy and external digital resources, but not internal resources. This suggests that external collaborations enhance a hospital's ability to translate strategic intent into actionable use of external resources, particularly in support of smart working. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how strategic alignment and network embeddedness shape sociotechnical systems in healthcare. They offer guidance for managers seeking to design holistic digital transformation strategies to build H4.0 organizations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"221 ","pages":"Article 124339"},"PeriodicalIF":13.3,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997142","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":"Martyred but proud: Understanding the consequences of leader self-sacrifice from the emotional motivating perspective","authors":"Feifan Yang, Bin Wang, Mengxi Yang, Wansi Chen","doi":"10.1111/joop.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Departing from the predominant depletion-based perspective in the leader self-sacrifice (LSS) literature, this study emphasizes the motivational effects of LSS. Drawing on the theory of self-conscious emotion, we contend that LSS activates feelings of pride, thereby motivating leaders to engage in their work. Given that job demands limit the available resources for activities outside of job descriptions, any additional resources devoted to self-sacrifice are likely to be appraised as particularly costly and meaningful for leaders with higher job demands. We therefore posit that the strength of the motivating effects of LSS will be strengthened by job demands. Two experience-sampling studies were conducted and yielded consistent results that support our hypotheses. Specifically, daily LSS was positively associated with daily work engagement through increased pride, with the positive effects being stronger for leaders with higher job demands. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings accordingly.</p>","PeriodicalId":48330,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology","volume":"98 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997899","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":"Is the Devil in the Details? The Impact of ESG Controversy Materiality on Firm Performance","authors":"Angela Karr, Jangwoon Kim, Taewoo Roh","doi":"10.1002/bse.70179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70179","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the consequences of material and immaterial environmental, social, and governance (ESG) controversies on a firm's financial performance and examines whether a country's regulatory quality contextually moderates this relationship. Using a sample of 7136 internationally listed firms from 2014 to 2022, we find that while the market imposes penalties on firms for material ESG controversies, it does not appear to do so for immaterial ones. Our study also finds that the regulatory quality in a firm's home country intensifies the adverse effects of material ESG controversies on firm performance. We present findings and interpret them within existing theoretical frameworks, particularly through the lenses of signaling theory and institutional theory. While prior literature has presented mixed findings regarding the impact of ESG controversies on firm performance, our study outlines potentially important drivers behind these conflicting outcomes and provides new insights to the nonmarket strategy field through our consideration of the nature of ESG controversies and key country‐level influences.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"111 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003085","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":"Bank Responses to Physical and Transition Risks in Lending: A Diagnostic Framework From a Systematic Literature Review","authors":"Tabea Brüggemann, Rainer Lueg","doi":"10.1002/bse.70176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.70176","url":null,"abstract":"Banks face mounting pressure to integrate climate risks into lending, yet responses remain incoherent. This systematic literature review of 9034 studies synthesizes 68 peer‐reviewed articles and develops a behavioral typology of five bank responses: recovery, containment, repricing, reallocation, and relational transformation. Responses vary by risk type, visibility, and salience. Acute, unexpected physical risks (nine studies) trigger recovery lending, while expected (five) or chronic risks (12) lead to containment or repricing. Transition risks (42) are more consistently priced when indicators are quantifiable and policy‐aligned; softer ESG signals elicit conditional responses. Asymmetries arise: recovery and containment occur only for physical risks, while strategic reallocation remains rare. Carbon‐intensive firms are penalized, while green firms benefit only when performance is credible and verifiable. We propose a diagnostic framework to evaluate climate risk management in lending, providing a novel tool to assess climate risk integration in bank lending and inform regulatory design and sustainability‐oriented strategy.","PeriodicalId":9518,"journal":{"name":"Business Strategy and The Environment","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":13.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145003145","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":"None of my business: The impact of anthropomorphism on helping behavior in access-based consumption","authors":"Jiuqi Chen , Peixuan Wu , Wenjin Feng , Yushi Jiang , Youqing Fan","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115686","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115686","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Access-based services benefit the environment by reducing energy consumption and improving resource efficiency, and thus have achieved worldwide popularity in recent years. Although anthropomorphism is common in access-based services and has considerable benefits, it may also have negative effects on these services. However, previous studies have not explored consumer proactive helping behavior after problems occur in access-based services. Therefore, the present study aimed to address this gap through four studies. Our findings demonstrated that when a shared product is in a negative state, anthropomorphism inhibits consumer helping behavior (Study 1). This effect is driven by responsibility attribution, wherein anthropomorphism (vs. non-anthropomorphism) encourages consumers to attribute the negative state to the shared product (Study 2). Notably, the negative effect of anthropomorphism on helping behavior is reversed when anthropomorphic features align with a baby schema (Studies 3a and 3b) or when consumers exhibit an interdependent self-construal (Study 4).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"201 ","pages":"Article 115686"},"PeriodicalIF":9.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144997676","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}