{"title":"Do conflicts in cooperation matter to open innovation? An empirical study of industrial clusters in China","authors":"Rui Xu , Christian Felzensztein","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115427","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115427","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Open innovation relies on inter-firm cooperation, yet conflict—both constructive and destructive—is an inevitable aspect of collaborative dynamics. While the role of cooperation in fostering open innovation is well-established, the influence of conflict remains underexamined. Grounded in theoretical insights, this study investigates the distinct effects of constructive and destructive conflict on the innovation process within cooperative efforts. Analyzing data from 186 firms in industrial clusters in China, our findings reveal that constructive conflict, despite promoting diverse perspectives, can inadvertently weaken the positive effects of cooperation on open innovation by diverting managerial resources and attention. Conversely, destructive conflict—typically perceived as harmful—unexpectedly amplifies the impact of cooperation on innovation by compelling firms to reassess and reinforce their partnerships. These empirical insights underscore the complex and paradoxical role of conflict in open innovation, demonstrating that both constructive and destructive conflict can shape innovation success through their interaction with cooperation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115427"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143907609","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":"Multiple social roles increase risk-taking in consumer decisions","authors":"Dan Liu , Xiaobing Xu , Zheng Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115424","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115424","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Understanding when and why consumers engage in riskier choices is a key concern for marketers and managers. This research examines how the number of distinct social roles consumers hold influences their willingness to take risks. Across a series of studies, we provide converging evidence that possessing many (vs. few) social roles leads to greater risk-taking, and that this effect is mediated by increased self-efficacy. However, this effect weakens when consumers feel restricted in their choices or when decision environments are socially dense (e.g., crowded settings). These findings offer actionable insights for market segmentation, targeting strategies, and the design of consumption environments that encourage or discourage risk-taking depending on managerial goals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115424"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905927","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 faster always mean better? The negative marketing consequences of fast product upgrade frequency","authors":"Wumei Liu , Manxin Wang , Jingjing He","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115425","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115425","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>An increasing body of research investigates what motivates consumers to choose upgraded products. However, little is known about how product upgrade frequency affects consumer perception of the upgraded product and the company behind it. This research examines the effect of product upgrade frequency on consumers’ environmental friendliness perception of the product and the downstream corporate social responsibility (CSR) perception of the company. Through one secondary data study and five experiments, we show that fast (vs. slow) product upgrade frequency reduces consumers’ environmental friendliness perception of the product, which consequently reduces consumers’ CSR perception of the company. Additionally, we find that the negative effect of fast (vs. slow) upgrade frequency on CSR perception is amplified (attenuated) when the attributes being upgraded are the periphery ones (central ones).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115425"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143912306","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}
Jianwen Zheng , Justin Zuopeng Zhang , Muhammad Mustafa Kamal , Xiaoyang Liang , Ebtesam Abdullah Alzeiby
{"title":"Unpacking human-AI interaction: Exploring unintended consequences on employee Well-being in entrepreneurial firms through an in-depth analysis","authors":"Jianwen Zheng , Justin Zuopeng Zhang , Muhammad Mustafa Kamal , Xiaoyang Liang , Ebtesam Abdullah Alzeiby","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115406","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115406","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study explores the influence of AI-based HRM systems on employee well-being in seasoned entrepreneurial firms through a comparative longitudinal case study of six high-technology ventures. The findings reveal four main shadow experiences associated with AI-based HRM systems, including the erosion of interpersonal autonomy, surveillance-induced precarity, algorithmic bias dilemma, and personalized discontentment. These experiences contribute to three distinct categories of well-being shadows: psychological alienation, physical adaptive overload, and social marginalization. This study clarifies the complex mechanisms linking shadow experiences to well-being outcomes and identifies enablers that can mitigate adverse effects, such as agility and personal growth, streamlined efficiency and harmony, and resource empowerment and engagement. It also proposes actionable pathways for employees to address and overcome these shadows, including deepened introspection, empowered inner power, and refined resourcefulness. The findings provide novel insights into the dual-edged nature of human-AI interaction and offer insights for promoting sustainable well-being in the evolving workplace environment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115406"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143904450","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":"Patents, trade secrets and performance aspirations in family firms","authors":"Katrin Hussinger , Wunnam Basit Issah","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115429","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115429","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate whether family ownership is associated with a preference for patents or trade secrets. Using a sample of S&P 500 firms, we show that family ownership is negatively associated with patenting and positively associated with the usage of trade secrets. We further show that both relationships are moderated by firm performance below the aspiration level. These results can be explained with a mixed gambles behavioral agency framework. When family firms perform below their aspiration level, prospective financial gains become relatively more important as compared to current socio-emotional wealth so that patents become more and trade secrets less attractive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115429"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143898395","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}
Nidhi S. Bisht , Mahmood Mohebshahedin , Arun Kumar Tripathy , Ashish Mahajan , Amit Kumar Gupta
{"title":"On the relevance of mandatory executive pay ratio disclosure: Evidence from India","authors":"Nidhi S. Bisht , Mahmood Mohebshahedin , Arun Kumar Tripathy , Ashish Mahajan , Amit Kumar Gupta","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115401","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115401","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Amid growing concerns over excessive executive compensation and income inequality, some countries, including India, have mandated the disclosure of executive pay ratios. Using longitudinal data from the top 500 publicly listed Indian companies (2016–2021), our findings reveal that a high executive pay ratio negatively impacts organizational performance, with the effect being more pronounced in the service industry compared to manufacturing. Temporal analysis reveals a gradual decrease or stabilization in pay ratios over time, suggesting progress toward the regulatory goal of reducing pay inequality. We argue that high executive pay ratios, which deviate from normative expectations, trigger adverse stakeholder reactions. By bridging the broader discourse on pay disparity with the evolving implications of transparency mandates, our findings emphasize the importance of legitimate and socially acceptable pay dispersion practices and demonstrate the effectiveness of transparency regulations in addressing income inequality.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115401"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143895919","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":"Self-proximity in augmented reality enhances consumer’s responses to green products through anticipated warm glow","authors":"Virginie Lavoye , Olivia Petit , Anssi Tarkiainen , Jenni Sipilä","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115403","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115403","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Encouraging online green purchasing requires overcoming the abstract nature of e-commerce and making the environmental benefits of green products more tangible. Augmented reality (AR) is a promising tool that allows consumers to try on green products virtually, fostering self-proximity—the perception that the augmented self-representation is close to oneself. We explore how and under what conditions AR-enabled self-proximity enhances consumer responses to green products. We find that AR-enabled self-proximity enhances the personal relevance of green products, heightens the anticipated warm glow, and improves consumer responses to green products. AR is particularly effective in promoting green purchasing because it heightens anticipated warm glow, which in turn leads to higher purchase intentions for green products than for generic ones. We highlight the need to carefully design AR experiences that emphasize self-relevance and intrinsic rewards to maximize impact, offer practical recommendations, and suggest avenues for future research in this growing area of study.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115403"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143898394","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":"How does work passion affect employees’ radical and incremental creativity? —— A three-way interaction model","authors":"Ye Yang , Ling Yuan , Long Ye , Songlin Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115430","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115430","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Integrating the componential theory of creativity and the dualistic model of passion, this research investigates the differential impacts of harmonious and obsessive passion on both employees’ radical creativity and incremental creativity. We propose that these impacts are moderated by employees’ external search and cognitive styles. An investigation involving 330 leader–subordinate dyads from 75 groups was conducted to test the three-way interaction among the two types of work passion, external search breadth and depth, and cognitive styles. The results indicate that employees who simultaneously possess harmonious passion, intuitive processing, a moderate breadth and a high depth of external search exhibit the highest radical creativity, while employees who simultaneously possess obsessive passion, analytical processing, a moderate breadth and a high depth of external search exhibit the highest incremental creativity. Our research provides a novel integrative framework that clarifies previously inconsistent findings regarding the relationship between work passion and creativity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115430"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143892001","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":"Cultivating relationships between foreign multinationals and barricaded government buyers in emerging markets","authors":"Christiaan Röell , Wilson Ng , Felix Arndt","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115417","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115417","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although the markets-as-networks literature has revealed the embedded nature of buyer–seller relationships, there remains little knowledge of supplier relationships with government buyers who are often the biggest customers in many economies worldwide. Specifically, little is known about how foreign multinationals sell to governments in emerging markets that require products that multinationals produce but where direct access to government buyers remains difficult. Our longitudinal case explains how a foreign-owned healthcare multinational cultivated a buyer–seller relationship with difficult-to-access, “barricaded” government buyers in one of the world’s largest emerging markets. In analyzing this relationship, we offer novel analytical tools to illuminate the respective roles of foreign-owned multinationals and key opinion leaders in coaxing government entities in emerging markets to buy innovative but costly products that are manufactured and supplied by foreign multinationals. We theorize how B2G relationships may work in emerging markets based on the role and contribution of key opinion leaders.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115417"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143892080","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}
Xuan Bai , Kevin Zheng Zhou , Wei Jiang , Yongqiang Li , Xin Chen
{"title":"Smart manufacturing and supply chain resilience: Evidence from an emerging market","authors":"Xuan Bai , Kevin Zheng Zhou , Wei Jiang , Yongqiang Li , Xin Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115421","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2025.115421","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While prior research has recognized the significance of smart manufacturing for supply chain management, recent studies have also raised concerns about its potential downsides. Building on the organizational learning perspective, we examine whether smart manufacturing facilitates or impedes supply chain resilience. Using a two-wave primary survey and a secondary dataset of 234 Chinese manufacturing firms, we find that smart manufacturing has an inverted U-shaped impact on supply chain resilience. The positive linear effect is more pronounced in the presence of high market disruption and for state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Meanwhile, the negative quadratic effect is intensified by high market disruption but weakens in SOEs. By revealing this non-linear relationship, our study helps explain both the benefits and limitations of the role of smart manufacturing, and carries significant implications for enhancing supply chain resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"196 ","pages":"Article 115421"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143886637","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}