Shan Wang , Shubhashis Karmakar , Fang Wang , Yanli Pei
{"title":"Content dissimilarity and online review helpfulness: Contextual insights","authors":"Shan Wang , Shubhashis Karmakar , Fang Wang , Yanli Pei","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115068","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115068","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As consumers navigate through online product reviews, they read and assess individual reviews within a broader context of product information, including product descriptions and preceding reviews. This research incorporates this information context to better understand online review helpfulness. Specifically, it studies the influence of content dissimilarity in online reviews, including topic and lexical dissimilarities compared to product descriptions and preceding reviews, respectively, on their perceived helpfulness to potential customers. An empirical analysis of approximately 1.6 million Amazon reviews reveals that readers prefer online product reviews that align with topics but differ in lexicon from product descriptions and preceding reviews. Moreover, the topic and lexical dissimilarities interact in affecting review helpfulness, and the impact of content dissimilarity varies across reviews for products of differing price levels. This research underscores the significance of assessing information utility within its contextual framework and highlights the importance of evaluating content at both the topical and lexical levels. It offers fresh insights for both scholars and practitioners in understanding and curating beneficial online information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115068"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652579","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}
Alvaro Chacon , Edgar E. Kausel , Tomas Reyes , Stefan Trautmann
{"title":"Preventing algorithm aversion: People are willing to use algorithms with a learning label","authors":"Alvaro Chacon , Edgar E. Kausel , Tomas Reyes , Stefan Trautmann","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115032","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115032","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As algorithms often outperform humans in prediction, algorithm aversion is economically harmful. To enhance algorithm utilization, we suggest emphasizing their learning capabilities, i.e., their increasing predictive precision over time, through the explicit addition of a “learning” label. We conducted five incentivized studies in which 1,167 participants may prefer algorithms or take up algorithmic advice in a financial or healthcare related task. Our results suggest that people use algorithms with a learning label to a greater extent than algorithms without such a label. As the accuracy of advice improves beyond a threshold, the use of algorithms with a learning label increases more than algorithms without a label. Thus, we show that a salient learning attribute can positively affect algorithm use in both the financial and health domain.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115032"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652577","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":"Agility in marketing teams: An analysis of factors influencing the entry decision into a trendy social network","authors":"Itziar Oltra, Carmen Camarero, Rebeca San José","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115054","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the rise of new social networks, companies must decide whether to incorporate each new network into their social media marketing strategy. This research analyses the factors that influence a brand’s entry into a trendy social network, integrating two traditional paradigms of innovation adoption –the TOE and the UTAUT– with the concept of marketing agility, to incorporate the strategic perspective of marketing departments. We conduct a mixed methods approach, through a focus group with managers and a quantitative analysis based on a questionnaire with a sample of 161 managers, complemented with a fsQCA to identify specific configurations of factors that determine that entry. The study validates marketing agility’s relevance, emphasising the importance of market monitoring beyond speed. Three company characterizations are proposed, including differences in expectations, effort perceptions, and competitors influence. We offer an explanatory model of the adoption conditions of technological innovations undertaken by marketing departments, applicable to future innovations in communication tools.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115054"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking firm performance with innovation culture: An algorithmic approach towards theory building","authors":"Wanqing Li , Jiang Yu , Feng Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>To address the growing demand for theory development in computational social science research, this study employs an algorithm-driven approach to formulate a comprehensive six-step theory generation process. By applying this original research method, a new theoretical model—the “Dynamic Resource-Culture Synergy Theory” is proposed which enhances the explanatory power regarding how firms maintain competitiveness in rapidly changing environments by emphasizing the pivotal role of culture in resource integration and innovation processes. Drawing on empirical data from 887 Chinese high-tech manufacturing firms, our analysis identifies key drivers of organizational performance, with a particular focus on the role of organizational culture, especially innovation culture, as a mediating force. Utilizing the GWO-SVM technique, we gain a nuanced understanding of how different cultural traits interact with innovation and leverage, uncovering how the initial enhancement of innovation culture positively impacts performance metrics such as ROA. The findings confirm that innovation, facilitated by organizational culture, significantly enhances performance outcomes. Furthermore, this study considers factors such as leverage and the proportion of technical personnel, investigating their moderating effects on the relationship between innovation culture and firm performance. This study not only deepens the understanding of how innovation and culture interact to influence firm performance but also provides significant theoretical and practical contributions to the study of the dynamics of high-tech manufacturing enterprises.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115048"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652646","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}
Aaminah Zaman Malik , Fayez Ahmad , Francisco Guzmán
{"title":"Socio-politically silent brands: A double edged sword","authors":"Aaminah Zaman Malik , Fayez Ahmad , Francisco Guzmán","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115046","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115046","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The impact of brand activism is gaining interest in consumer research and managerial practice. However, literature on brands that remain silent and stay out of polarized sociopolitical issues is limited. This research addresses this gap by proposing and confirming consumers’ attributions toward socio-politically silent brands (SSB) as self-serving and socially justified motives through an exploratory text analysis. The study shows that brands’ silence does not always have a negative influence on consumer attitudes, and subsequently on consumer-based brand equity and their purchase intentions but may have a positive influence depending upon the attributions consumers make. Using structural equation modeling and an experiment-based study, the findings also show that brands’ silence predominantly influence liberal consumers’ attitudes whose self-focus motivations varyingly shape their attitudes based on the attributions they make of the motives behind brands’ silence.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"187 ","pages":"Article 115046"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142652576","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 blessing and a curse: The influence of showing servant leadership behaviors on leader work engagement","authors":"Jing Quan , Dirk van Dierendonck","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Servant leadership is known to benefit recipients such as employees, teams, and organizations. However, its impact on leaders themselves is largely understudied. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we adopt an actor-centric perspective to explore the double-edged sword effect of daily servant leadership behaviors on leader work engagement. Regarding the resource gain pathway, we argue that leaders who engage in daily servant leadership behaviors experience elevated work meaningfulness, resulting in increased work engagement. For the resource loss pathway, we suggest that daily servant leadership behaviors are positively associated with role overload, which undermines work engagement. Additionally, we propose that leaders’ proactive personality moderates these indirect effects by strengthening the resource gain indirect effect and attenuating the resource loss indirect effect. The results of a two-week diary study provide support for all hypotheses. Finally, we establish the study’s theoretical and practical implications and the directions for future research.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115051"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653873","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}
Emmanuel Kusi Appiah , Peter Gabrielsson , Alex Rialp Criado
{"title":"The role of digitalization in early internationalization Research: A systematic literature review and future research directions","authors":"Emmanuel Kusi Appiah , Peter Gabrielsson , Alex Rialp Criado","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115043","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115043","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The purpose of this research is to systematically collate and synthesize the literature on how digitalization-related antecedents influence the processes and outcomes of early internationalizing firms. To do so, the present study systematically reviews a total of 120 related articles published in a broad range of academic journals from 1994 to 2024. The review enables us to outline the development of major research areas in terms of themes, theoretical approaches, and methodological issues at the intersection of the early internationalization and digitalization research. We contribute by offering a model that delineates a more subsumed, multilevel explanation of the interface of early internationalization and digitalization. Further, we propose a number of future research directions based on the integration of the reviewed articles and inputs purposefully collected from surveyed scholars in the field.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115043"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt , Sarah-Alena Rössig , Martin Ruth , Tessa Christina Flatten
{"title":"The bright side of a dark personality – How dark triad traits influence entrepreneurial passion","authors":"Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt , Sarah-Alena Rössig , Martin Ruth , Tessa Christina Flatten","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115044","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115044","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While earlier research has identified beneficial outcomes of entrepreneurial passion, our study extends the scarce literature on its antecedents. Conceptualizing entrepreneurial passion as an identity-based construct influenced by personality traits, we draw on identity theory to investigate how the dark triad traits—narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy—relate to entrepreneurial passion. Our findings provide an invaluable extension of earlier works that have mainly focused on the role bright personality traits play for passion. We adopt a fuzzy set methodology to examine which configurations of the dark triad traits lead to the domains of entrepreneurial passion for inventing, founding, and developing. Our results provide evidence that entrepreneurs with high levels of Machiavellianism have passion for all three domains, while high levels of narcissism lead to passion for inventing and developing. In contrast, high levels of psychopathy lead to passion for inventing and founding. This study contributes to the passion and dark triad literature.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115044"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142653996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classification of reviews of e-healthcare services to improve patient satisfaction: Insights from an emerging economy","authors":"Nikhil Dhakate , Rohit Joshi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has brought in many unique challenges and opportunities for patient care, and one is online healthcare practices. Patient satisfaction with online consultation is primary importance as online healthcare practices are evolving with time. Although previous research has examined how patient satisfaction with online doctor services can be further improved, there has been scant research on the satisfaction with online doctor services concerning Indian patients. Within the framework of service science theories, this study examines satisfaction and sentiments of Indian patients with online doctor services from multiple perspectives. A total of 38019 patient online feedback for 343 doctors was used for understanding patient sentiments. The sentiment analysis classified the reviews of the patients on online doctor consultation services. The finding suggests that healthcare service providers consider a systemic approach that includes core health services along with technical and marketing factors to proactively improve online patient satisfaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 114015"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10168675/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9487749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jamal El Baz , Salomée Ruel , Zahra Fozouni Ardekani
{"title":"Predicting the effects of supply chain resilience and robustness on COVID-19 impacts and performance: Empirical investigation through resources orchestration perspective","authors":"Jamal El Baz , Salomée Ruel , Zahra Fozouni Ardekani","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.114025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates the effects of supply chain (SCRE) and robustness (SCRO) on COVID-19 super disruption impacts and firm’s financial performance by mobilizing the resources orchestration theory (ROT) as the main theoretical framework. We adopt structural equation modeling analysis of data collected from 289 French companies.</p><p>The findings reveal the significantly positive influence of resources orchestration on SCRE and SCRO and the role of the latter in mitigating the pandemic disruption impacts. Notwithstanding, depending on whether the measures are objective or subjective, the effects of SCRE and SCRO on financial performance vary. Overall, this paper presents empirical evidence of the influence of both of SCRE and SCRO on pandemic disruption impacts and financial performance. Furthermore, this research provides insights to guide practitioners and decision makers regarding resources orchestration and the deployment of SCRE and SCRO.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"164 ","pages":"Article 114025"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10186979/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9497464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}