Juan M. Gómez , Yeny E. Rodríguez , Miguel A. Pérez-Uribe
{"title":"Multi-level determinants of satisfaction in family business succession: The moderating role of cultural contexts","authors":"Juan M. Gómez , Yeny E. Rodríguez , Miguel A. Pérez-Uribe","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115455","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115455","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Succession is a complex, vital family business process and is critical for continuity and legacy preservation. This study addresses the atomised nature of prior research by examining the determinants of succession satisfaction across micro, meso, and macro levels within an integrated multilevel framework. Findings revealed that demographic traits played a minor role, whereas key factors such as formal succession planning and family identification significantly enhanced satisfaction. The study highlights the moderating role of cultural dimensions, such as long-term orientation (LTO) and power distance (PD). High LTO reduces the impact of structured planning by prioritizing long-term objectives over immediate outcomes, whereas high PD restricts inclusivity in decision-making. These results emphasize that succession satisfaction is context-dependent. Practitioners must consider these actionable insights into designing culturally sensitive succession plans. This research advances the theoretical understanding of family business succession satisfaction and underscores the importance of balancing procedural strategies with relational goals for successful transitions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115455"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083824","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":"Impact of digital technology affordance on organizational resilience: An ambidextrous innovation perspective using a mixed-methods approach","authors":"Yuan Sun , Saiya Mou , Mengyi Zhu , Anand Jeyaraj","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115450","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115450","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital technology is crucial for modern organizations. Ambidexterity theory explains the mechanisms by which digital technology affordance influences organizational resilience. We adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine the relationships between affordance and resilience. The quantitative study examined the impact of digital technology affordance on organizational resilience, the mediating role of ambidextrous innovation, and moderating the mediating effects of firm age based on 477 valid questionnaires in Chinese manufacturing companies that used digital technology under COVID-19. The qualitative study, through interviews with top managers of three manufacturing firms that successfully navigated adversity with digital technology affordance during COVID-19, validated and complemented the quantitative findings. The study finds that digital technology affordance positively impacts organizational resilience mediated by ambidextrous innovation. The conditional indirect effect of firm age is not significant. The balance and complementarity between exploratory and exploitative innovation is crucial for manufacturing firms to adapt to environmental variability, which helps leverage digital technologies to enhance organizational resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115450"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083826","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}
Kati Koivunen , Milka Aino Annikki Haanpää , Saila Saraniemi
{"title":"“The emergence of cause-oriented influencers – conceptualizing de-influencing on TikTok”","authors":"Kati Koivunen , Milka Aino Annikki Haanpää , Saila Saraniemi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115463","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115463","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115463"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144083825","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":"I’m “KFC”: How brand-exclusive digital human influences brand intimacy","authors":"Wen Qi Zhang, Dong Hong Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115451","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115451","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The commercial value of digital humans in social media marketing has been widely recognized. As a result, many companies have started to create their own brand-exclusive digital humans. However, existing literature mainly focuses on the impact of third-party virtual influencers. To fill this gap, Study 1a and Study 1b first employs netnography and in-depth interviews, respectively, to gain insights on brand-exclusive digital humans from the consumer perspective. Then, Study 2 develops a conceptual model of the effect of brand-exclusive digital humans on brand intimacy and tests the model using structural equation modeling. The results show that physical attractiveness, image congruence and perceived expertise of brand-exclusive digital humans affect brand-digital human connections. Perceived human-likeness and brand-digital human connections promote brand anthropomorphic perception and ultimately increase consumer-brand intimacy. This study extends research on digital humans, brand anthropomorphism and brand intimacy, and provides guidance for companies to create exclusive brand digital humans.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115451"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144069559","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":"Mapping the Field of Mindfulness Research in Management: Trends and Ways Forward","authors":"Arvind Darshna , Chandan Parsad , Vinita S. Sahay , Priyavrat Sanyal","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115457","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115457","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Mindfulness (MF) has gained increasing acceptance across disciplines, prompting extensive research on its impact on individual and organizational outcomes such as stress reduction, job satisfaction, and performance. While this has enriched the field with new perspectives, it has also posed challenges in achieving a unified understanding of MF, particularly regarding the intersection of individual and organizational MF. To address this, our study employed bibliometric analysis to map the intellectual structure of this emerging field within the management domain, focusing on the confluence of individual and organizational MF. We examined the field’s fundamental empirical components and intellectual structure using citation and co-word analyses of Scopus data. Our analysis included an assessment of highly cited publications, authors and their affiliations, and emerging themes such as mindful consumption, team MF, ethical leadership, green MF, and organizational MF. This study also provides insights into how individual MF interacts with organizational settings, offering a comprehensive understanding of their interrelations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115457"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071908","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":"The value of public information: Media coverage of incumbent firms and entrepreneurial activities","authors":"Zijie Song, Chenyun Guo, Yanying Chen, Hang Zhu","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115445","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115445","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Extant research has examined the impact of private information on entrepreneurial opportunity discovery, but it has largely overlooked the role of public information, especially that on incumbent firms. Addressing this gap is crucial given the significant information deficiencies in weak formal institutions such as emerging market economies. In this study, we draw on insights from the classical view of entrepreneurial opportunity and posit that the media coverage of listed firms can assist potential entrepreneurs in gathering and processing information. By analyzing multi-source data on 290 cities and 78 two-digit industries spanning the period of 2008–2019, we find a positive relationship between the media coverage and industrial entrepreneurship. This relationship weakens when the focal industry is targeted by an industrial policy or receives more negative reports, whereas it is more pronounced in industries with greater investment irreversibility. This study contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial opportunity and public information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115445"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946607","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":"CEO–TMT vertical pay gap and firm productivity: A tournament theory perspective","authors":"Le Xu , Ajay Rama Ponnapalli , Chen Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115453","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115453","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Does the pay gap between the CEO and TMT members influence how firms perform? For long, this question has been of scholarly interest yet prior research exploring it has largely yielded equivocal findings. One possible reason for this is the way firm performance is traditionally operationalized. Addressing past equivocal findings, we instead examine the influence of the CEO–TMT vertical pay gap on <em>firm productivity</em>, which is a more immediate reflection of TMT members’ effort that is motivated by the CEO–TMT vertical pay gap. Drawing on tournament theory, we theorize that a greater CEO–TMT vertical pay gap will lead to higher firm productivity. We also explore boundary conditions around this relationship by examining the influence of external and internal promotional opportunities for TMT members. Specifically, we contend that this positive relationship will be stronger when firms are headquartered in states with high noncompete enforceability (i.e., when TMT members have fewer external opportunities to be promoted to CEO) and weaker when firms have heirs apparent (i.e., TMT members have fewer internal opportunities to being promoted to CEO). Using data from 1,811 US public firms from 1993 to 2012, we find broad support for our hypotheses. Our study advances scholarly understanding of tournament incentives in the form of the CEO–TMT vertical pay gap and provides practical implications on how boards of directors can incorporate tournament incentives into the design of executive compensation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115453"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143946606","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":"Resource endowments as antecedents of high-impact entrepreneurship: Embracing the complexity of entrepreneurial ecosystems","authors":"Anja Tekic, Zeljko Tekic","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115444","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115444","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Entrepreneurial ecosystems, as spatially bounded resource allocation systems, are vital for the growth and scale-up of new ventures by facilitating access to financial, human, and social resources, which are considered to be essential for fostering Schumpeterian entrepreneurship. However, there is significant heterogeneity in resource endowments of high-impact ecosystems, challenging the prevailing thesis in entrepreneurial ecosystem research that posits a balance and completeness among ecosystem elements, including resources, as a prerequisite for outstanding entrepreneurial performance. In this study, we draw on complexity theory to explore how financial, human, and social resources interact and combine to influence high-impact entrepreneurship within ecosystems. Employing fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) on a sample of 139 ecosystems across 47 countries, we identify both effective and ineffective ecosystem resource bundles. Highlighting their polarized nature, we develop a typology of high- and low-impact entrepreneurial ecosystems based on the complex patterns of substitutability and complementarity in their resource endowments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115444"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942143","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":"Does green product certification affect corporate total factor productivity? Evidence from China","authors":"Liming Zhang , Yaxuan Liu , Helin Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115428","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since 2015, China has implemented the Green Product Certification (GPC) program based on green production principles. This study examines the impact of GPC on corporate total factor productivity, with a specific focus on energy conservation, emission reduction, and brand effect. Using the panel data of Chinese listed companies from 2015 to 2022, we assess the effect of GPC on firm-level total factor productivity. The results indicate that participation in GPC significantly enhance total factor productivity, especially for firms with higher R&D investment and government subsidies. Robustness tests confirm these results. This study provides both theoretical and empirical support for the effectiveness of GPC at the firm level, contributing to the literature on the impacts of voluntary environmental regulation. From a policy perspective, we underscore the importance of GPC in environmental governance and recommend that policymakers strengthen GPC standards and procedures, expanding its implementation both nationally and internationally.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115428"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935206","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":"Does ESG rating divergence exacerbate management tone manipulation? − Empirical evidence based on MD&A text","authors":"Wenjiao Wang, Ziyuan Sun, Lan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115449","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115449","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>ESG rating divergence has garnered significant attention, yet research often overlooks the management’s response strategies. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms from 2015 to 2021, this study found that greater environmental, social, and governance (ESG) divergence is associated with more positive tones in the annual report’s Management Discussion and Analysis section. Thus, the management may engage in tone manipulation. Rating discrepancies increase operational risks and information asymmetry, prompting the management to adjust their tone. Applying fraud triangle theory, the study shows that tone manipulation is more likely under high public environmental concern, weak internal controls, and an inadequate legal environment. Additionally, ESG-sensitive firms, those based in Eastern China, those with high ESG ratings, and state-owned enterprises are more likely to adjust their tone in response to rating divergence. These findings underscore the strategic narrative adjustments that firms undertake when faced with inconsistent ESG ratings.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"197 ","pages":"Article 115449"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143935205","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}