Antonio Pedro Cruz Costa Alves, Vivian Iara Strehlau
{"title":"It’s no skin off your nose: why do consumers tattoo brands?","authors":"Antonio Pedro Cruz Costa Alves, Vivian Iara Strehlau","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115508","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115508","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this article is to explore the meanings that brand tattoos have for consumers. Drawing on interviews with consumers who tattooed corporate logos, this paper discusses the interrelations between body, tattoos, self, and brands. The main contributions are related to understanding why people tattoo brands, discussing how brands help consumers create their sense of self, and identifying unique consumer-brand relationships: best friends forever, family ties, childhood buddies, teammates, dealers/addicts, therapists/patients, gurus/disciples, soulmates, partisans, and vintage mates. Consumers develop multiple dynamic relationships with the same brand across realistic, idealistic, personal (inner), and social (outer) dimensions, shaping their identity projects. These relationships can be positively and negatively valenced, influencing how consumers behave and interact with their beloved brands.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115508"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222274","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":"Optimal bank credit financing and cost-reducing knowledge for a supplier under different channel structures","authors":"Jing Xia , Yujie Xiao , Ling Yao , Chuanxin Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100741","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100741","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines a supply chain consisting of a capital-constrained supplier and a retailer. The supplier sells wholesale products to consumers through the retailer and may also sell directly to consumers via an online channel. Given that the supplier’s initial working capital may be insufficient to cover production, investment, or online channel expenses, they have the option to borrow funds from a bank—a practice referred to as bank credit financing (BCF). We develop models with and without direct selling and BCF to analyze the supplier’s optimal decisions regarding cost-reducing investments and the BCF policy. Our findings indicate that, in the absence of direct selling, the supplier’s optimal BCF decision depends on its initial working capital and the investment cost factor. Notably, BCF can enable the supplier to shift from forgoing cost-reducing investments to actively engaging in them when the initial working capital falls within a certain range. Furthermore, under the direct selling model, the supplier’s optimal decision is influenced by a combination of factors, including its initial working capital, investment cost factor, and direct selling cost.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 4","pages":"Article 100741"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223623","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":"When Green Turns Gray: The Double-Edged Spillover Effects From Green Behavior to Time Theft via Dual Feedback Loops of Moral Self-Regulation","authors":"Rongrong Zhang, Yuxin Liu, Xuefei Wang, Yang Luo","doi":"10.1111/1744-7941.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1744-7941.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Extant research has uniformly highlighted the positive role of extra-role employee green behavior (EEGB) in promoting organizational sustainability. Consequently, prior studies have predominantly focused on EEGB's antecedents, while its implications for the actors themselves have been largely underexplored. Drawing on the dual feedback loops of moral self-regulation, we challenge the prevailing assumption that engaging in EEGB is solely beneficial by identifying its potential dark side. Specifically, we propose that EEGB exerts double-edged effects on employee time theft, contingent on green behavior authenticity. An experimental study with 208 full-time employees and a two-phase field study with 412 full-time employees consistently revealed that EEGB aggravated employee time theft through accumulated moral credits, while conversely reducing time theft through strengthened moral identity. Moreover, we identified green behavior authenticity as a pivotal boundary condition moderating these opposing effects, attenuating the negative pathway while amplifying the positive pathway. Our findings offer significant implications for organizational behavioral ethics research and provide guidance for organizations in fostering EEGB while mitigating its potential ethical risks.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":51582,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources","volume":"63 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144219970","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":"EXPRESS: The Impact of Ad Length on Ad Effectiveness: Do Micro Ads Work?","authors":"Beth L. Fossen, Philip Kim, Inyoung Chae","doi":"10.1177/00222429251350657","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429251350657","url":null,"abstract":"As media viewers shift expectations toward content and ads, advertisers are increasingly exploring micro ads. Yet, limited research has examined micro ads, especially on TV. This research uses a multimethod approach to investigate micro ad effectiveness on behavioral outcomes and, more broadly, provide insights into the relationship between ad length and ad effectiveness in the current media landscape. Analyzing observational data on retailers’ TV advertising, web traffic, and online sales, the authors find that micro ads spur more immediate web traffic than longer ads. Micro and non-micro ads exhibit similar direct impacts on online sales, but micro ads can indirectly increase online sales more by driving increased traffic. Results from a field experiment using social media ads corroborate these findings, showing that micro ads outperform non-micro ads in driving web traffic and social media engagement. The analyses suggest that viewer impatience for longer ads may be a plausible mechanism that explains why micro ads see increased effectiveness. The findings offer timely insights for advertisers and ad platforms seeking economical, attractive ad inventory.","PeriodicalId":16152,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Marketing","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144218664","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":"Are food delivery workers a food safety risk? An evaluation using the Integrated Food Safety Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices model","authors":"Karen Byrd, Lucheng Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104305","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijhm.2025.104305","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restaurant food delivery is increasing, bringing more food handlers into the supply chain as food delivery workers (FDWs). These new actors may potentially perpetuate the transmission of foodborne illness. This study evaluated FDWs' food safety knowledge, attitude, and practices (FS-KAPs) and analyzed how perceived self-efficacy and job involvement influenced FS-KAP relationships. The study included three phases: (1) FS-KAP scale development; (2) exploratory factor analysis to determine and validate parsimonious FS-KAP scales; and (3) hypotheses testing CB-SEM to understand relationships among variables. Findings revealed that FDWs sometimes engage in risky food safety practices during deliveries. Moreover, FDWs’ food safety knowledge and perceived self-efficacy positively impact proper food safety practices, with the strength of these relationships varying by job involvement. This study introduced a new theoretical model for evaluating FDWs’ food safety KAPs and provided insights to help industry and public health officials mitigate foodborne illness risks associated with restaurant food delivery.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48444,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Hospitality Management","volume":"131 ","pages":"Article 104305"},"PeriodicalIF":9.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144212650","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}
Neva Bojovic , Annabelle Gawer , Vincent Mangematin
{"title":"User practices in shaping complementarities for creating diverse systems of use: Insights from users in situations of hearing loss","authors":"Neva Bojovic , Annabelle Gawer , Vincent Mangematin","doi":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124228","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.techfore.2025.124228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While technology is often designed for specific purposes, users frequently adapt, repurpose, and combine various technological and non-technological resources to create systems of use that meet their unique requirements. This paper investigates this phenomenon through a qualitative study of individuals with hearing loss, using a practice-based approach and complementarity lens to uncover how users create and sustain effective systems of use in different environments. Our research identifies three key user practices to shape complementarity, i.e., bricolaging, engineering, and integrating. Our findings contribute to the understanding of systems of use and advance the concept of complementarity beyond fixed, product-centered configurations toward dynamic, user-driven assemblages. These insights offer implications for product design, emphasizing the need for flexibility, sensitivity to context, and policy innovations that support adaptable technologies that can create value for users and society.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48454,"journal":{"name":"Technological Forecasting and Social Change","volume":"219 ","pages":"Article 124228"},"PeriodicalIF":12.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144221032","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":"Consumer response to corporate political advocacy: the role of policy attitudes, policy change, and perceived controversy","authors":"T.J. Weber , Jeff Joireman , David E. Sprott","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115522","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115522","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As firms have become more engaged in political issues, researchers have been keen to understand the consumer response to such corporate political advocacy (CPA). Drawing on an event study (S1) and an experiment (S2), the present work examines three novel questions relevant to the theoretical and managerial implications of CPA: 1) whether issue-specific policy attitudes are better predictors of consumer responses to CPA than political orientation; 2) how consumer responses toward CPA are influenced by a change to the advocated policy; and, 3) how consumer responses are amplified as perceived controversy increases. Results reveal several key findings. First, policy attitudes predict consumer responses to CPA better than political orientation (across six policy contexts). Second, when CPA-related policy changes occur, consumers on the ’losing’ side of the change punish firms on the winning side. Lastly, polarized responses to CPA are amplified when CPA is viewed as more controversial.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115522"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222276","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":"Tourism and new rurality: gentrified space versus co-created place","authors":"Yi Wang , Zhuowei Huang , Aihan Fan","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103979","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103979","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study develops a conceptual framework of rural tourism placemaking based on gentrified space in China's desakota villages. It indicates three types of rural tourism placemaking and uncover the underlying power relationships between tourists, local villagers and owners of gentrified premises that shape the varied placemaking. In particular, the present study pinpoints the importance of co-creation in rural tourism placemaking with three stages: <em>physical reconstructing</em>, <em>local participation in tourism</em>, and <em>relational integration between multiple parties.</em> This study indicates that the rural tourism placemaking through co-creation involves a balanced power relationship between multiple parties and transforms the space to a meaningful place that each party can claim and benefit from.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"113 ","pages":"Article 103979"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222427","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}
Vanessa Diaz-Moriana, Eric Clinton, Catherine Faherty, Colm O’Gorman
{"title":"Resilience Behaviors and Temporal Orientation in Family Firms","authors":"Vanessa Diaz-Moriana, Eric Clinton, Catherine Faherty, Colm O’Gorman","doi":"10.1177/08944865251341696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/08944865251341696","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores how the past, present, and future interact in family firms in the context of responses to an external adverse event. Our study reveals that family firms exhibit ambitemporality, the simultaneous accommodation of seemingly contradictory temporal orientations, when invoking three relational-based resilience behaviors: drawing on predecessor’s prior actions, trusting sibling bonds, and leveraging inter-firm and community relationships. Family firms engage in temporal reflexivity in that they recognize the value of specific resilience behaviors and commit to investing in them, building resilience capabilities for the future. Our study highlights the importance of temporal orientations to understanding resilience in family firms and suggests practical implications for family business practitioners.","PeriodicalId":51365,"journal":{"name":"Family Business Review","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144218602","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":"A life cycle framework of social media influencers and the influencer’ dilemma","authors":"Katja Spörl-Wang, Franziska Krause, Sven Henkel","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115459","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115459","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>More than 64 million individuals currently identify as social media influencers (SMIs), yet research in this domain is still embryonic. Specifically, the conceptualization of SMI as a profession characterized by a dynamic evolution through various career phases remains largely unexplored. This study employs qualitative methodologies, including 31 semi-structured interviews with European lifestyle SMIs, to construct an SMI life cycle framework. This framework delineates four phases, three transition points, and four future trajectories. Additionally, this paper identifies the phenomenon of “influencers’ dilemma,” which encapsulates SMIs’ tension and subsequent hesitance to progress through the life cycle phases. This hesitation is attributed to five paradoxical motivational drivers and barriers: (1) <em>sense of belonging</em>: affiliation and non-affiliation; (2) <em>pursuit of prestige and fame</em>: enjoyment of disclosure and fear of privacy; (3) <em>self-realization</em>: proactive and forced self-realization; (4) <em>freedom</em>: full autonomy and restrained expectations; and (5) <em>financial success</em>: high payoffs today and uncertain payoffs tomorrow.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115459"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222275","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}