Emanuele Mele , Raffaele Filieri , Manuela De Carlo
{"title":"Pictures of a crisis. Destination marketing organizations’ Instagram communication before and during a global health crisis","authors":"Emanuele Mele , Raffaele Filieri , Manuela De Carlo","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113931","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113931","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic enhanced social media communications at a time individuals were unable to leave their homes due to the lockdown measures. A lack of research has been identified on how destination marketing organizations use social media during global health crises. Addressing this gap, the present research uses a mixed-method approach to examine the use of Instagram by Milan and Paris’ Destination Marketing Organizations before and during COVID-19 and user engagement with it. Via a quantitative content analysis, Study 1 reveals communication differences between destinations and a change in promotion focus during the pandemic. Both DMOs focus on posts portraying “Culture, History and Art”, which signifies stability and eternity as opposed to uncertain times. Using a thematic analysis, Study 2 reveals that both organizations promoted pro-social behavior also by employing influencers. Overall, research results document tourism organizations' pro-social use of social media during a global health crisis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 113931"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10098544/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9693649","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}
Lea S. Müller , Sebastian Reiners , Jörg Becker , Guido Hertel
{"title":"Long-term effects of COVID-19 on work routines and organizational culture – A case study within higher education’s administration","authors":"Lea S. Müller , Sebastian Reiners , Jörg Becker , Guido Hertel","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113927","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113927","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As a sudden, external event, the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly disrupted the workplace and required organizations to digitalize their working approaches. To understand how such external events affect organizations in the short- and long-term, we investigated the case of a higher education institution’s administration, which combines features of public and private organizations. We applied a longitudinal case study and conducted interviews with 39 German higher education institution (HEI) employees at two time points during the first (2020) and second (2021) lockdown. Content analyses revealed that a general openness toward change and distinct technical infrastructure enabled efficient coping with the pandemic despite struggles with digitalization and rigidity. Advantages in work outcomes were contrasted with losses in social interactions. Flexible models (e.g., working from home or the office) were desirable long-term work concepts. We integrated our findings in a framework on factors that contribute to supporting organizational adaptations and derived practical recommendations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"163 ","pages":"Article 113927"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073594/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9310203","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":"To Zoom or not: Diverging responses to privacy and security risks","authors":"Katharina Sophie Dassel, Stefan Klein","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113772","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113772","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lock-down, digital platforms like Zoom became essential for remote work. Yet at the same time, substantial security and privacy risks made the headlines. Using the lenses of Naturalistic Decision-making and the Theory of Multilevel Information Privacy, we find diverging responses to well-documented security risks of Zoom use in educational environments. We identify-three distinct response patterns, which we name the ‘Agnostic’, the ‘Pragmatic’ and the ‘Sceptic’, and show how the interplay of the salient social identity, personal privacy norms, and the privacy calculus guides the dynamic of privacy decision-making in light of experiential feedback, and the developing public discourse about security risks. We provide empirical evidence for multilevel decision-making and highlight the contextual and social nature of privacy decision-making about platform mode of use for remote work.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 113772"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10018285/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9865334","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}
Mahmud Akhter Shareef , Muhammad Shakaib Akram , F. Tegwen Malik , Vinod Kumar , Yogesh K. Dwivedi , Mihalis Giannakis
{"title":"An attitude-behavioral model to understand people’s behavior towards tourism during COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Mahmud Akhter Shareef , Muhammad Shakaib Akram , F. Tegwen Malik , Vinod Kumar , Yogesh K. Dwivedi , Mihalis Giannakis","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113839","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113839","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The impact of pandemics on the tourism industry should be explored from the perspective of those who will travel, go to the tourist places on vacation, and avail services from tourism and hospitality-related organizations. This study has aimed to identify the reasons for the changed human psychology towards tourism during the COVID-19 Pandemic to develop an attitude-behavioral model. This investigation thus conducted an extensive empirical study among tourists to capture their social, emotional, and financial beliefs. The research then examined the measurement model through confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) before investigating the cause-effect relationship through the structural model. Analysis revealed that the negative effect of attitude on behavioral intention toward this new equilibrium is controlled by the emotional aspect of attitude. Furthermore this paper made several contributions to the literature on human psychology, crisis management, human behavior, marketing, and tourism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"161 ","pages":"Article 113839"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9998294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9493339","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}
Miguel Ortiz-Barrios , Sebastián Arias-Fonseca , Alessio Ishizaka , Maria Barbati , Betty Avendaño-Collante , Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez
{"title":"Artificial intelligence and discrete-event simulation for capacity management of intensive care units during the Covid-19 pandemic: A case study","authors":"Miguel Ortiz-Barrios , Sebastián Arias-Fonseca , Alessio Ishizaka , Maria Barbati , Betty Avendaño-Collante , Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113806","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113806","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The Covid-19 pandemic has pushed the Intensive Care Units (ICUs) into significant operational disruptions. The rapid evolution of this disease, the bed capacity constraints, the wide variety of patient profiles, and the imbalances within health supply chains still represent a challenge for policymakers. This paper aims to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Discrete-Event Simulation (DES) to support ICU bed capacity management during Covid-19. The proposed approach was validated in a Spanish hospital chain where we initially identified the predictors of ICU admission in Covid-19 patients. Second, we applied Random Forest (RF) to predict ICU admission likelihood using patient data collected in the Emergency Department (ED). Finally, we included the RF outcomes in a DES model to assist decision-makers in evaluating new ICU bed configurations responding to the patient transfer expected from downstream services. The results evidenced that the median bed waiting time declined between 32.42 and 48.03 min after intervention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"160 ","pages":"Article 113806"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9981538/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180776","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}
Surajit Bag , Muhammad Sabbir Rahman , Tsan-Ming Choi , Gautam Srivastava , Peter Kilbourn , Noleen Pisa
{"title":"How COVID-19 pandemic has shaped buyer-supplier relationships in engineering companies with ethical perception considerations: A multi-methodological study","authors":"Surajit Bag , Muhammad Sabbir Rahman , Tsan-Ming Choi , Gautam Srivastava , Peter Kilbourn , Noleen Pisa","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113598","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113598","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In business-to-business (B2B) operations, prior studies have mainly explored transaction-based relationships with both buyers and suppliers opportunistic behaviors, driven largely by their intent to maximize their own benefits. These studies have also found that dependency on partners increases when supply materials are scarce. However, research is scant on how this relationship changes in the face of exogenous forces such as the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping in mind the ethical perception considerations. This study aims to bridge this gap in the literature by studying how buyers and sellers leverage collaboration and resource-sharing to tide over pandemic-like situations similar to the current COVID-19 pandemic while considering their ethical perceptions. We conduct a multi-methodological study consisting of an industrial survey and an interview-based thematic analysis. In the first phase, we collect primary data using a structured questionnaire and conduct a covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) analysis. In the second phase, we conduct a post-hoc test. We find that non-regular suppliers will share strategic resources with buyers during uncertain times (e.g. COVID-19 pandemic) if they have a high ethical perception of the buying firm and share a candid relationship despite being their irregular customers. Our findings propose that B2B firms should maintain healthy relationships with alternative suppliers to build trust and avoid supply crises in times of disruptions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 113598"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9790882/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9304752","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}
Muhammad Zahid Nawaz , Shahid Nawaz , Francisco Guzmán , Daria Plotkina
{"title":"The aftermath of Covid-19: The rise of pandemic animosity among consumers and its scale development","authors":"Muhammad Zahid Nawaz , Shahid Nawaz , Francisco Guzmán , Daria Plotkina","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113550","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113550","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Consumer animosity captures negative attitudes to foreign products and impacts willingness to buy them. Existing constructs nevertheless fail to account for an emerging dimension: pandemic animosity. This article heeds recent calls to develop a pandemic animosity measurement scale. Its purpose is to: (i) extend <span>Klein et al.'s (1998)</span> animosity model by adding the pandemic animosity construct, (ii) provide a measurement scale for pandemic animosity, and (iii) explain how pandemic animosity impacts consumers’ willingness to buy. Study 1 analyzes qualitative data from in-depth personal interviews with NVivo to identify themes and codes. An expert panel helped reach consensus of all indicators. Study 2 filters scale items using a pilot sample. Study 3 validates a 12-item scale with a larger representative sample. The results contribute to the consumer animosity literature by confirming the existence of pandemic animosity, providing an actionable measure, and confirming its negative impact on consumers’ willingness to buy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 113550"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9767895/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9180634","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}
Maximilian Klöckner , Christoph G. Schmidt , Stephan M. Wagner , Morgan Swink
{"title":"Firms’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"Maximilian Klöckner , Christoph G. Schmidt , Stephan M. Wagner , Morgan Swink","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113664","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113664","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic requires firms to adequately respond. In this study, we first explore in our empirical data how firms responded to the COVID-19 crisis and identify five tactical response <em>types</em>, operational, digitalization, financial, supportive, and organizational responses. Furthermore, our findings indicate that responses vary in <em>scope</em>; Some firms act on their own, while others engage in collaborations. Finally, we find that the response <em>angle</em> is different across firms, as some firms leverage potential and others primarily mitigate risk. Second, we follow an event study design to measure the financial implications of these responses. We find that responses to the COVID-19 pandemic generally entail a positive stock market reaction. Financial and digitalization responses, as well as risk mitigation responses, are consistently evaluated positively. We discuss our findings in context of different theoretical lenses, substantiating the emerging literature on the COVID-19 crisis, and the established literature on crisis response management.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 113664"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9841242/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10757683","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}
Abhishek Behl , Nirma Jayawardena , Achint Nigam , Vijay Pereira , Amit Shankar , Charles Jebarajakirthy
{"title":"Investigating the revised international marketing strategies during COVID-19 based on resources and capabilities of the firms: A mixed method approach","authors":"Abhishek Behl , Nirma Jayawardena , Achint Nigam , Vijay Pereira , Amit Shankar , Charles Jebarajakirthy","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113662","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2023.113662","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper aims to identify the revised international marketing strategies in communication during the COVID-19 pandemic by utilizing the firm's resources and capabilities. We conducted in-depth interviews and a questionnaire survey with key stakeholders of retail organizations which changed their digital marketing strategies during COVID-19. The data is collected from 587 respondents from different parts of the world through resource orchestration theory. The qualitative findings support a high degree of association among the firm’s resources and capabilities, leveraging processes based on the revised international marketing strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic. We have developed a conceptual model based on these findings with six variables: leveraging process of the firm’s capabilities information technology-related resources; information technology-related capabilities, dynamic capabilities, environmental uncertainty, and leveraging process of the firm’s resources. However, environmental uncertainty and leveraging of the firm’s resources were not influential in forming digital marketing strategies during COVID-19. This study proposes a new process for international marketing managers in business organizations to restructure the resources within their organizations by creating new capabilities and leveraging them.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"158 ","pages":"Article 113662"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9827000/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10756430","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":"Predicting mobility using limited data during early stages of a pandemic","authors":"Michael T. Lash , S. Sajeesh , Ozgur M. Araz","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113413","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The COVID-19 pandemic has changed consumer behavior substantially. In this study, we explore the drivers of consumer mobility in several metropolitan areas in the United States under the perceived risks of COVID-19. We capture multiple dimensions of perceived risk using local and national cases and death counts of COVID-19, along with real-time Google Trends data for personal protective equipment (PPE). While Google Trends data are popular inputs in many studies, the risk of multicollinearity escalates with the addition of more relevant terms. Therefore, multicollinearity-alleviating methods are needed to appropriately leverage information provided by Google Trends data. We develop and utilize a novel optimization scheme to induce linear models containing strictly significant covariates and minimal multicollinearity. We find that there are a variety of unique factors that drive mobility in different geographic locations, as well as several factors that are common to all locations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"157 ","pages":"Article 113413"},"PeriodicalIF":11.3,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9815965/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10609700","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}