{"title":"Belief triggers to action in artificial intelligence arenas: Exploring the role of AI intention and top management support in multi-level investigation","authors":"Ali Nawaz Khan , Naseer Abbas Khan","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2025.100285","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2025.100285","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigates the impact of belief about artificial intelligence (AI) on AI continuous usage in Business-to-Business (B2B) contexts through the lens of socio-technical system theory (STST). Using multilevel structural equation modeling of data from 460 employees across 78 software firms in Southern China, this study examines how beliefs about AI influence AI continuous usage, mediated by intention to use AI and moderated by top management support. Results demonstrate that positive belief about AI significantly enhance intention to use AI and AI continuous usage, and also indicate a significant mediating effect of intention to use AI. Top management support emerged as a significant organizational-level moderator of these relationships. The findings of this study contribute to understanding AI adoption in B2B service sectors by integrating human and technical factors within an STST framework.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"31 3","pages":"Article 100285"},"PeriodicalIF":7.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522763","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}
Rui Cui , Haitao Zhai , Ruonan Wang , Shan Hua , Jun Zhang , Shuaishuai Li
{"title":"Travel as adjunct therapy in major depressive disorder: Analyzing cases with positive outcomes by ZMET","authors":"Rui Cui , Haitao Zhai , Ruonan Wang , Shan Hua , Jun Zhang , Shuaishuai Li","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.annals.2025.103995","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":"114 ","pages":"Article 103995"},"PeriodicalIF":10.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144522948","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}
Sören Köcher , Linda Alkire , Sarah Köcher , Susan Myrden , Genevieve E. O’Connor
{"title":"Consumers’ climate change engagement: Conceptualization, scale development, and assessment","authors":"Sören Köcher , Linda Alkire , Sarah Köcher , Susan Myrden , Genevieve E. O’Connor","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115568","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115568","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid growing climate-related challenges and widespread global calls for urgent action, understanding and fostering consumers’ engagement with climate change through consumption is paramount. In a series of five studies, the authors develop and validate the Consumers’ Climate Change Engagement scale (CCCE scale), a parsimonious nine-item scale designed to measure the extent to which consumers invest cognitive, emotional, and behavioral resources in response to climate change in consumption situations. Integrating the multifaceted nature of engagement, the CCCE scale is a practical tool that may stimulate and advance research on how deeply and in what ways individuals are committing their resources to climate-positive consumption patterns. The CCCE scale also seeks to inform the work of marketers, managers, and public policy actors to better leverage consumer engagement toward achieving key environmental objectives, directly aligned with global initiatives such as the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115568"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523539","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":"Reputational risk taking and category non-conformity in new product launches: Insights from the Scotch whisky industry","authors":"Joseph Lampel , Daniel Ronen , Aneesh Banerjee","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115570","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115570","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper proposes a stock and flow model of reputational risk-taking to show that producers with higher reputation are more likely to take the risk of launching non-conforming products into their product line compared to producers with lower reputation. We also argue that product line differentiation relative to that of competitors will moderate potential reputational losses. We test these dynamics using unique panel data of the launch of single malt Scotch whiskies – With-Age-Statement (WAS) and No-Age-Statement (NAS) in the entire Scotch whisky industry from 2007 to 2015, a period that saw a rapid rise in the launch of NAS whiskies. Our study contributes to research that examines links between firm reputation and the launching of non-conforming products at the market category level. Our study also contributes to recent research that argues that category research should shift from emphasis on category stability, to the dynamics of category change.<ul><li><span></span><span><div>“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”</div></span></li><li><span></span><span><div>Mark Twain</div></span></li></ul></div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115570"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523540","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 : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105293
Thomas Magnusson , Ksenia Onufrey , Viktor Werner , Henrik Gillström
{"title":"Inter-system linkage formation in multi-system transitions: Incumbents, asymmetries and learning cycles","authors":"Thomas Magnusson , Ksenia Onufrey , Viktor Werner , Henrik Gillström","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105293","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper analyses how incumbent actors with established positions in various sectors and systems engage in the formation of inter-system linkages to combine different systems in new ways. We refer to such recombination of systems as a multi-system transition. Grounded in evolutionary economics, the paper introduces a recursive model with interrelated learning cycles that account for both transitions in individual systems and interactions to establish new linkages between systems. A case analysis of the ongoing electrification of goods transportation in Sweden – a multi-system transition that combines electricity and goods transportation in new ways – illustrates how interactions across systems often are asymmetric, with some systems undergoing more substantial changes than others. This asymmetry helps explain why incumbent actors from different systems and sectors favor different kinds of inter-system linkages. Asymmetries across systems reveal a more complex sequentiality of a multi-system transition compared to a single-system transition, with different systems situated in different transition phases. This necessitates mixes of supporting policies tailored to stimulate a variety of transition phases. By introducing a model that highlights actor-system coevolution, the paper provides insights into the possibilities to engage incumbent actors from different systems and sectors to drive multi-system transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 8","pages":"Article 105293"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144523973","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}
Human RelationsPub Date : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1177/00187267251344775
William Milton Foster, Diego M Coraiola, Francois Bastien
{"title":"Repairing ontological security: The collective sensemaking of affective stakeholders in online communities","authors":"William Milton Foster, Diego M Coraiola, Francois Bastien","doi":"10.1177/00187267251344775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00187267251344775","url":null,"abstract":"Our study investigates how affective stakeholders – emotionally invested but organizationally powerless individuals – collectively make sense of unexpected organizational events in online environments. Drawing on a netnographic analysis of a National Hockey League fan forum, we examine how Edmonton Oilers supporters responded to the unexpected trade request of star player Chris Pronger. We find that the disruption of fans’ ideal, expected future triggered intense ontological insecurity, which they attempted to repair through collective temporal sensemaking. Fans cycled through three phases – rumour, confirmation and trade – each marked by distinctive uses of past, present and future narratives to reconstruct meaning and regain a sense of control. Our findings contribute to stakeholder theory by theorizing affective stakeholders as unique actors in organizational life. We also expand temporal sensemaking theory by showing how multitemporal narratives function as coping mechanisms in virtual communities. Finally, we emphasize the empirical value of studying collective sensemaking in digital spaces, where discursive interactions unfold in real time.","PeriodicalId":48433,"journal":{"name":"Human Relations","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534066","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":"See something, say something: A meta‐analytic review of safety voice","authors":"Archana Manapragada Tedone, Jessica Mesmer‐Magnus, Chockalingam Viswesvaran, Erin Newkirk","doi":"10.1111/ijmr.12401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ijmr.12401","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:italic>Safety voice</jats:italic> – the cornerstone of safe workplaces – is a form of safety communication in which an employee speaks up about workplace safety‐related issues with constructive intentions to help prevent incidents, reduce hazards and improve overall safety of the work environment. When workers feel comfortable speaking up about safety concerns, organizations are gifted with opportunities to take proactive measures to protect their workforce. Through the lens of social exchange theory, this review presents the results of a meta‐analytic compilation of 49 independent studies with a total of 50856 participants. Utilizing meta‐analyses, meta‐regressions and meta‐analytic path analyses, we explore a series of research questions investigating safety‐related and general work‐related factors associated with safety voice, and examine how safety voice relates to workplace safety behaviours and outcomes. Findings suggest that safety voice (1) is significantly more prevalent when work environments, organizational leaders and workers at all levels are safety‐supportive, (2) is positively associated with safety compliance behaviour and (3) can help to explain employees’ safety compliance behaviour, beyond safety knowledge and safety motivation alone. We discuss the implications of these findings for research and practice.","PeriodicalId":48326,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Reviews","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":8.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534088","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":"Factors impeding buy now, pay later (BNPL) adoption in India: A mixed-method approach","authors":"Shreya Mukherjee","doi":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2025.104402","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jretconser.2025.104402","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services are reshaping digital credit access in India, yet their adoption remains limited due to complex and interrelated consumer barriers. While previous research has explored general fintech or digital payment adoption, there is a significant gap in understanding BNPL-specific barriers, particularly how these barriers influence one another within India’s distinct socio-economic and regulatory landscape. India’s rapid fintech growth, large unbanked population, evolving regulatory environment, and uneven levels of digital and financial literacy make it a unique and urgent case for such inquiry. Thus, this study aims to identify and rank the key barriers to BNPL adoption in the Indian context and analyze their causal interrelationships, and adopts a sequential mixed-methods design for the same. In the qualitative phase, a netnographic analysis of BNPL app reviews—supported by existing literature (specifically Innovation Resistance Theory) and expert insights—was used to identify barriers. In the quantitative phase, the ‘Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory’ (DEMATEL) method was employed to analyze seven identified barriers, categorize them into causal and effect groups, and assess their interdependencies. The findings reveal digital illiteracy as the most influential causal barrier, affecting others such as inertia, privacy concerns, hidden fees and high penalty fees, and negative credit profiles. Impulse buying and regulatory concerns also emerged as key causal factors. The study offers practical recommendations, such as financial education, responsible lending, and regulatory reform, and contributes to BNPL literature by applying a novel methodological lens to an underexplored market. These insights can guide stakeholders seeking to responsibly scale BNPL adoption in India.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48399,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services","volume":"87 ","pages":"Article 104402"},"PeriodicalIF":11.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517618","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":"Effects of doctors’ participation in internet live streaming free medical consultations on their benefits: empirical evidence from a quasi-natural experiment","authors":"Yingjie Lu, Ke Quan","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The integration of live streaming into online medical consultation services has introduced an innovative service known as Live Streaming Free Medical Consultations (LSFMC). However, the question about whether the adoption of LSFMC services contributes to an increase in doctors’ benefits or, conversely, potentially diminishes their benefits, remains an unresolved issue. Drawing upon signaling theory, this study constructed a Difference-in-Differences model based on Propensity Score Matching to investigate the impact of LSFMC services on doctors’ online and offline benefits. The findings revealed that doctors’ adoption of LSFMC services significantly increases their benefits from online consultations and offline appointments. Furthermore, doctors’ online activity enhances the effect of LSFMC services on their offline benefits, while their professional titles significantly diminish the positive impact of LSFMC services on online benefits. Additionally, the positive impact of LSFMC services on both doctors’ online and offline benefits is achieved through the mechanism of enhancing doctors’ online influence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"199 ","pages":"Article 115560"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144517720","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}
Wei Wang , Zhuoying Fu , Chongxu Liu , Jinghan Ding , Jiaxi Zheng , Chongmei Zhang , Haiyu Li
{"title":"A study of the impact of technological innovation in food production on the resilience of the food industry","authors":"Wei Wang , Zhuoying Fu , Chongxu Liu , Jinghan Ding , Jiaxi Zheng , Chongmei Zhang , Haiyu Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100756","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jik.2025.100756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on the provincial panel data of 31 provinces in China from 2003 to 2022, this study constructed an evaluation system for the resilience of the food industry. We used the ordinary least squares model to empirically analyse the impact of technological innovation in food production on the resilience of the food industry. Furthermore, we applied the spatial Durbin model with spatiotemporal double fixed effects to investigate the potential spatial spillover effects of technological innovation in food production on industry resilience. The results indicate the following key points: (1) Technological innovation in food production has a positive influence on the resilience of the food industry, as well as on its risk resistance, adjustment and recovery and sustainability. However, this long-term impact exhibits a distinctly diminishing marginal character. (2) Technological innovations in food production increase the resilience of the food industry by optimising the employment structure. (3) Digital inclusive finance and its associated credit and payment services can enhance the positive impact of technological innovation in food production on the resilience of the food industry. Notably, digital inclusive finance is characterised by significant gradient differences and diminishing margins. (4) Technological innovation has a significant <em>siphoning effect</em> on the resilience of the food industry in neighbouring provinces. (5) Analyses of heterogeneity indicate that technological innovation has a significant <em>siphoning effect</em> on the resilience of the food industry in neighbouring provinces in the eastern, central and western regions. Meanwhile, a significant <em>spillover effect</em> is evident in the north-eastern region. This study’s main contribution is providing empirical evidence to inform regionally differentiated policies aimed at improving the level of agrotechnological innovation and the resilience of the food industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":46792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Innovation & Knowledge","volume":"10 4","pages":"Article 100756"},"PeriodicalIF":15.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513842","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}