Research PolicyPub Date : 2025-07-23DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2025.105266
Klaus Ackermann , Wendy A. Bradley , Jack Francis Cameron
{"title":"Avengers assemble! When digital piracy increases box office demand","authors":"Klaus Ackermann , Wendy A. Bradley , Jack Francis Cameron","doi":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105266","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.respol.2025.105266","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We show how the content of information goods changes the substitutability or complementarity effects of copyright infringement. Leveraging the quasi-random timing of the appearance of a high-quality pirated movie after its release in-theaters, alongside an instrumental-variables approach, we find that digital piracy complements box-office revenue for “spectacle”-oriented films, where the value of the good is linked to in-theater viewing. For “story”-oriented films, where the value is inherent—unenhanced by in-theater viewing—piracy displaces sales. Our findings suggest the value of creative content is linked to its distribution context, with relevance for commercialization and value capture strategies in creative industries with experience-goods properties.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48466,"journal":{"name":"Research Policy","volume":"54 8","pages":"Article 105266"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687291","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":"Forming Habits in Emergency Organisations—Training for Extreme Situations","authors":"Ola Lindberg, Oscar Rantatalo, Markus Hällgren","doi":"10.1111/1468-5973.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.70067","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines learning processes in crisis management organizations, focusing on Incident management and command in the military, police, and county administrative board in Sweden. Using a participation lens, we explore human interactions during high-pressure crises. Our research question is formulated as follows: How does the practice of training for crisis shape practitioners' habits regarding crisis management in organizations? To examine this, we conducted 19 days of fieldwork, including observations and 18 semi-structured interviews, enabled a comparative analysis of organising in incident management situations. We found that training groups influence organizational routines, suggesting that learning routines involve habit formation through repeated actions. This challenges traditional incident command training assumptions and highlights the need for training programs that prioritize relevance over realism.</p>","PeriodicalId":47674,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management","volume":"33 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-5973.70067","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687892","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":"Human-in-the-loop: A faculty-led model for integrating GenAI in executive economics instruction","authors":"Muniza Askari","doi":"10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101247","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijme.2025.101247","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article presents a classroom-tested, faculty-led model for integrating Generative AI (GenAI) into executive management education, grounded in adult learning theory and constructivist pedagogy. Implemented in a postgraduate Business Economics course at a business school in Singapore, the intervention embedded ChatGPT across four Executive MBA cohorts (n = 87) using scenario-based prompting, Socratic inquiry, and transcript-annotated reflection. Comparative analysis with four demographically matched traditional cohorts (n = 93) revealed that GenAI-supported instruction significantly improved assignment performance. Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression confirmed that AI integration was a robust and statistically significant predictor of higher scores, even after controlling for demographic and professional background variables. Simultaneous quantile regression further showed that lower-performing students experienced the greatest gains, highlighting the intervention's equalizing potential. Beyond these quantitative results, students demonstrated more structured economic reasoning and deeper conceptual application. By emphasizing faculty agency, ethical AI use, and inquiry-based design, this model offers a scalable and replicable approach for integrating GenAI in executive education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47191,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Management Education","volume":"23 3","pages":"Article 101247"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685966","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":"Does the tax deductibility of interest affect financial reporting?","authors":"Shawn X. Huang , Kenneth J. Klassen , Kaishu Wu","doi":"10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2025.107339","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jaccpubpol.2025.107339","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many countries have imposed tax policies that limit interest deductions to specified leverage ratios to fight aggressive income shifting and to achieve other public policy goals. Implementing these thin capitalization tax rules reduces the incentives to use debt unrelated to the relation between the firm and its debtholders. We posit that, as a result of the effect of the rules on debt levels, firms subject to these rules reduce their conservative financial reporting as compared to other firms in these countries. Tests employ a large sample of firms in OECD countries who introduced thin capitalization rules from 1985 to 2014, and a second sample of U.S. firms around the implementation of earnings-based interest limits under the <em>Tax Cuts and Jobs Act</em>. Exploiting these two settings and difference-in-differences research designs, we provide evidence that the adoption of tax deductibility limits reduces conditional conservatism of firms’ financial reporting. Our findings suggest that the tax rules affecting the deductibility of interest have important impacts on corporate financial reporting and may also have unintended consequences for other decisions of interest to policy makers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48070,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Accounting and Public Policy","volume":"53 ","pages":"Article 107339"},"PeriodicalIF":3.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144686618","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":"Exploring the role of digital governance: The effect of audit digitalization on firms’ internal control weaknesses in China","authors":"Wen Shi, Zenglian Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100756","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.accinf.2025.100756","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digitalization empowers government audits to develop the role of digital governance in the internal control audit. This study measures the digitalization progress of government audits from 2012 to 2022 through textual analysis and examines its role in corporate internal control as evidenced by the decreased occurrence and number of ICWs, especially in state-owned enterprises. Then, digital governance benefits from the joint efforts of government and social audits in the internal control audits. Further, the moderating tests expound on the complement effect of firm digitalization, R&D personnel investments, and analyst coverage. Our findings enrich the government audit literature and provide practical guidance on digital governance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":47170,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Accounting Information Systems","volume":"56 ","pages":"Article 100756"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144695131","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":"Social capital, resource bricolage and micro-innovation strategies for rural tourism small enterprises: A longitudinal case study","authors":"Yu Li , Xinrui Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101395","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.tmp.2025.101395","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Micro-innovation strategies are crucial for rural tourism small enterprises, particularly in emerging economies, but their complexity and effectiveness remain underexplored in the tourism literature. This study integrates the resource bricolage and social capital frameworks to explore how tourism small enterprises implement micro-innovation strategies by conducting a longitudinal case study of Mengdong Company in rural China. The findings reveal a three-stage evolutionary process: first, micro-innovation is differentiated through bridging capital, network bricolage, and spatial bricolage to access external resources; second, micro-innovation is integrated by bonding capital, organizational bricolage, and market bricolage to enhance internal capabilities; finally, collaborative micro-innovation using linking capital, social bricolage, and market bricolage to promote multi stakeholder collaboration. There are two key drivers of this evolution: the temporal sequencing of diverse forms of social capital that enable strategic adaptation and the combinatorial logic of bricolage that transforms resource constraints into opportunities. Theoretically, the framework reconceptualizes micro-innovation as a stakeholder-driven dynamic process, emphasizing the roles of social capital and resource bricolage. Practically, this study provides valuable insights and managerial recommendations for fostering the innovative development of these enterprises in rural areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48141,"journal":{"name":"Tourism Management Perspectives","volume":"58 ","pages":"Article 101395"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144687440","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":"Balancing Between Extremes: Goal Ambiguity‐Based Strategies to Contain Goal Displacement in Regulatory Enforcement Agencies","authors":"Kees Huizinga, Martin de Bree","doi":"10.1111/rego.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/rego.70062","url":null,"abstract":"There is growing evidence of the occurrence of several types of goal displacement in regulatory enforcement agencies. A major underlying determinant of these phenomena is the neglect of ambiguities characterizing the goals of these agencies. This paper proposes three strategies that carefully consider these goal ambiguities to contain goal displacement. Each of them relates to an important underlying process in enforcement regimes. The first, multifocal scope selection, seeks to establish a balanced process of selecting regulated organizations to inspect. The second, multitier compliance perception, aims to increase the robustness of the translation of regulatory requirements to the specific settings of regulated organizations. Finally, multi‐indicator means specification strives to solidify the subordinate position of means to goals in the process of means specification. These ambiguity management strategies may shed new light on how to optimally manage enforcement agencies to increase their effectiveness.","PeriodicalId":21026,"journal":{"name":"Regulation & Governance","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144684579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From what (motives) to what (outcomes) of relationships with artificially intelligent voice assistants","authors":"Richali Jain, Dr. Ajay Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102953","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2025.102953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study holistically examined the interaction between humans and voice assistants (VAs), addressing a wide range of factors that elucidate the motives for their use and the potential relational, behavioral, and functional outcomes. This study conceptualizes parasocial relationship (PSR) as a relational outcome of motives for VA usage. The outcomes of PSR, including continuous usage intention, conversational commerce intention, and word of mouth, were analyzed. Furthermore, this study investigated the moderating effects of the VA voice type and users’ social anxiety. A mixed-method approach was employed across four studies. Study 1 explored VA usage motives through in-depth interviews. In Studies 2 and 3, Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the conceptual model and the moderating role of social anxiety. Study 4 used an experimental approach to examine the moderating influence of VA voice type (synthetic vs. human). Study 1 identified six motives for using VAs: entertainment, information seeking, life efficiency, social interaction, personal identity, and virtual interaction for escaping from reality (VIER). Study 2 revealed that social interaction, VIER, and life efficiency motives promote PSR with VAs, leading to conversational commerce intention, continuance usage intention, and positive word-of-mouth. Study 3 demonstrated that social anxiety amplifies the impact of the social interaction motive on PSR with VAs. Study 4 found that individuals with social interaction and VIER motives are more likely to develop parasocial connections with VAs featuring human voices rather than synthetic ones. This study offers industry practitioners and marketers significant insights to enhance users’ PSR by addressing their motives to achieve desired behavioral outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48422,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Information Management","volume":"85 ","pages":"Article 102953"},"PeriodicalIF":20.1,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144696589","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":"Automated decision-making in public administration: Changing the decision space between public officials and citizens","authors":"Aya Rizk , Ida Lindgren","doi":"10.1016/j.giq.2025.102061","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.giq.2025.102061","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Implementing Automated Decision-Making (ADM) systems in public administrations raises several tensions: between efficiency and ensuring fair decisions, between public transparency and individual privacy, and between standardization and discretion. To develop legitimate ADM systems that balance these tensions, we need to better understand the phenomenon on the societal, organizational and individual levels. To this end, we conduct a multidisciplinary literature review with the analysis utilizing Coleman's macro-micro model of social action, in which individual attitudes and actions relevant to ADM are related to ADM social structures and outcomes. We develop an ADM framework that captures and conceptualizes these macro-micro relationships and use this framework to identify gaps in research and motivate a research agenda. Our results also reveal a changing decision space between public officials and citizens that, if well investigated, may facilitate the development of citizen-centric ADM solutions and effective human-machine hybrids. We illustrate how the framework and ADM decision space can contribute to research, practice and policy.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48258,"journal":{"name":"Government Information Quarterly","volume":"42 3","pages":"Article 102061"},"PeriodicalIF":7.8,"publicationDate":"2025-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144685463","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}