{"title":"Tipping privacy: The detrimental impact of observation on non-tip responses","authors":"Nathan B. Warren , Sara Hanson","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Digital point-of-sale platforms disrupted the norm of privacy-while-tipping. Previous research indirectly suggests that firms can increase—or at least not decrease—tips by reducing tipping privacy. The effects of tipping privacy on non-tip responses, defined as customer responses subsequent to the tip selection, including repatronage and word-of-mouth, remain unexamined. Related voluntary payment contexts (e.g., donations) suggest consumers sometimes prefer public observability and other times prefer privacy. We examine how and why tipping privacy affects non-tip responses. A field study and four controlled experiments find that diminished tipping privacy reduces non-tip responses because customers feel less generous and in control. Allowing customers to change initial tip amounts mitigates these detrimental effects. Providing insight into the inconsistent effects of privacy on tips, we find that diminished perceived control increases tip amounts, while diminished perceived generosity reduces tips. Managers adopting privacy-reducing technologies and service scripts should consider the damaging effects on non-tip responses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115008"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142416984","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}
Tianhui Fu , Yan Wang , Jing Jiang , Lu (Lucia) Meng
{"title":"wallet sore, gifts galore: The impact of financial constraints on quantity–quality tradeoffs in gift-giving","authors":"Tianhui Fu , Yan Wang , Jing Jiang , Lu (Lucia) Meng","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114998","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114998","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Consumers often make tradeoffs between quantity and quality in consumption contexts. This study examines how and why consumers make such quantity–quality tradeoffs in the gift-giving domain with the novel antecedent of financial constraints. Across five studies, we find that when purchasing gifts for others, financially constrained consumers exhibit a greater preference for high-quantity options (Studies 1A–2B). This effect is serially mediated by fear of losing face and tangibility focus (Study 3). Our findings contribute to the literature on financial constraints, face management theory, and gift-giving.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114998"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142416982","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 impact of entrepreneurs’ military experience on small business exit: A conservation of resources perspective","authors":"Emma Su , Zonghui Li","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on insights drawn from the conservation of resources (COR) theory, this paper examines the impact of military experience on small business exit decisions among entrepreneurs. We theorize that entrepreneurs with military backgrounds are more conservative regarding the <em>potential</em> resource loss associated with the entrepreneurial process than those without military experience, making them more likely to exit their business as a coping mechanism. We further theorize that these entrepreneurs are more likely to exit the business <em>voluntarily</em> rather than <em>involuntarily</em>, using business exit as a coping mechanism to preemptively manage risks before the actual losses occur. An empirical analysis of data from the 2007 Survey of Business Owners (SBO 2007) provided by the United States Census Bureau supports our hypotheses. This study contributes to our knowledge of how military service affects entrepreneurs’ decisions regarding business exit.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115004"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142416992","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}
Matej Černe , Giles Hirst , Sabina Bogilović , Erik Štrumbelj , Pengcheng Zhang
{"title":"Team of champions or champion team? The roles of knowledge hiding and psychological entitlement","authors":"Matej Černe , Giles Hirst , Sabina Bogilović , Erik Štrumbelj , Pengcheng Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.115001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Drawing on social comparison theory, we propose that when highly creative employees compare themselves to others, they are more likely to develop a sense of entitlement seeking to preserve their superiority by hiding their knowledge. This obstructs the team innovation process, particularly within the context of a competitive climate. We tested our hypotheses in two multimethod studies. The first, a two-wave field study of 286 Chinese employees in 66 teams, included employee, supervisor, and manager data. The second, experimental study comprised 209 undergraduate students placed into 44 teams in a European university. The analyses of both studies were based on an innovative methodological approach with Bayesian estimation that allowed us to split variance between individual and team levels, thereby modeling the bottom-up emergence processes more accurately. We found that individual creativity positively predicts psychological entitlement, which is in turn related to knowledge hiding. In turn, psychological entitlement and knowledge hiding impede team innovation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 115001"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417069","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}
Yudan Pang , Hang Wu , Xuefeng Wang , Mengmeng Shi
{"title":"Impact of organizational structure and in-organization resource allocation on trust and trustworthiness","authors":"Yudan Pang , Hang Wu , Xuefeng Wang , Mengmeng Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114995","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114995","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We experimentally investigated how different organizational structures (horizontal, vertical) and in-organization resource allocation methods (equal, unequal) impact individuals’ trust-related behavior using a two-stage, three-player trust game. As factors influencing trust or trustworthiness, we focused on influential and resource-based power shaped by organizational structures and resource allocation methods, respectively. We expanded the inequity aversion model with power inequities and demonstrated that power inequities can impact individuals’ inequity aversion and therefore their trust-related behavior. In the equal resource allocation treatment, the trustees exhibited a greater probability of being trustworthy, and the trustors were more trusting in the horizontal structure treatment. Those trustees holding both power types significantly encouraged trust and trustworthiness, while influential power was more effective in increasing trustworthiness. This study makes a novel theoretical contribution by exploring the motivation factors of power inequity aversion and explaining how organizational structures and resource allocation methods impact individuals’ trust-related behavior via inequity aversion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114995"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417067","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":"Salesperson intra-career mobility perceptions: Exploring the role of professional versus organizational identities","authors":"Karen Flaherty , Curtis S. Schroeder","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114996","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114996","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Salesperson career paths have evolved from traditional to boundaryless models, as salespeople are moving between sales organizations with greater frequency. In this new landscape, it is crucial to consider how salespeople’s perceptions of their employers and the sales profession impact their mobility. While previous research has focused on salesperson identification with their organization, identification with the profession remains largely unexplored. To address this gap, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews with 57 sales professionals to better understand their work identities. They offer a theoretical model illustrating how professional and organizational identities become more or less salient, influencing intra-career mobility (i.e., job movement within the sales profession). When salespeople experienced a mismatch between their work realities and desired identities, they redefined their sales roles around a core work value. This process shifted their focus towards their professional identity over their organizational identity, affecting their perceptions of mobility within the sales profession.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114996"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417068","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":"Opportunity recognition in the tension field of knowledge and learning: The case of converging industries","authors":"Simon Ohlert , Natalie Laibach , Rainer Harms , Stefanie Bröring","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114993","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114993","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Knowledge-based and learning perspectives alone explain opportunity recognition insufficiently. While knowledge forms the base, learning may help entrepreneurs in novel contexts. Interactions between them add complexity to the analysis of opportunity recognition. Even though many contexts require combinations of knowledge and learning, research on opportunity recognition in these contexts remains scarce. We address this gap with fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) using data from 107 corporate entrepreneurs from converging industries. Converging industries offer a unique context to explore these complexities, requiring entrepreneurs to merge knowledge and learn from new fields. We identify three types with high levels of opportunity recognition: the “broad experienced adapter”, the “specific experienced adapter”, and the “experimenter”. Unlike a simple knowledge-based view suggests, we argue that knowledge is not always necessary. Entrepreneurs compensate for knowledge deficits by combining several learning capabilities. Configurational analysis enriches the theory of how multi-domain knowledge and learning contribute to opportunity recognition.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114993"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142417066","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":"The AI-authorship effect: Understanding authenticity, moral disgust, and consumer responses to AI-generated marketing communications","authors":"Colleen P. Kirk , Julian Givi","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114984","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114984","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Seven preregistered experiments demonstrate that when consumers believe emotional marketing communications are written by an AI (vs. a human), positive word of mouth and customer loyalty are reduced. Drawing from authenticity theory, we show that this “AI-authorship effect” is attenuated for factual (vs. emotional) messages (Study 2); when an AI only edits the communication (Study 3); when a communication is signed directly by an AI (Study 4); and when consumers believe that most marketing communications are written by AI (Study WA1). Importantly, when consumers believe a communication is reused (i.e., not originally written by the sender), the effect is reversed (Study 6). This “AI-authorship effect” is serially mediated by perceived authenticity (Studies 5 and 6) and moral disgust (Studies 1–6 and WA1). These findings are evidenced using both personalized and mass communications, different emotions, businesses and organizational employees, and both hypothetical and behavioral measures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114984"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359663","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}
Ross Brown , Suzanne Mawson , Augusto Rocha , Alex Rowe
{"title":"Looking inside the ‘black box’ of digital firm scaling: An ethnographically informed conceptualisation","authors":"Ross Brown , Suzanne Mawson , Augusto Rocha , Alex Rowe","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114987","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114987","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years there has been an upsurge of interest in firm scaling. Owing to the fact our conceptual and theoretical grasp of this phenomenon remains under-developed, this paper offers a novel conceptualisation of the scaling process based on an in-depth ethnographic study of a London-based digital Fintech. Scaling involves deliberately enacting and surmounting a series of managerial challenges such as human capital re-positioning, business model reconfiguration, customer acquisition and the acquisition of external growth capital. Our theoretical contribution views the micro-foundations of scaling as a distinctive relational process-based phenomenon. Under the conceptual framework posited, entrepreneurial human capital and successful scaling are inextricably interwoven. Entrepreneurial founders and managers are pivotal for orchestrating scaling and our conceptualisation builds upon the trigger point model of firm development, which reinforces the primacy of entrepreneurial agency for optimising growth triggers.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114987"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359661","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":"Price-related consequences of corporate social (ir)responsibility","authors":"Ilona Szőcs , Maria Gabriela Montanari","doi":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114985","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jbusres.2024.114985","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>While corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) have, respectively, positive and negative effects on consumers’ brand responses, their price-related consequences are often overlooked in extant literature. Drawing on attribution theory and negativity bias, we examine the impact of brands’ (ir)responsible behavior on consumers’ multiple price perceptions by applying Van Westendorp’s ‘pricing footprint’. In four experimental studies we show that consumers’ lower price perceptions following CSI are robust and the magnitude of CSI’s impact is greater than that of CSR in the higher price categories (<em>expensive, too expensive</em>). The positive effects of CSR are contingent on the specific CSR domain and the public/private consumption status of the product. Social (versus environmental) CSR generates higher price perceptions, and the magnitude of its impact outperforms that of CSI in the lower price categories (<em>too cheap, cheap</em>). The positive effects of environmental CSR are limited, particularly for privately consumed products.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":15123,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Business Research","volume":"186 ","pages":"Article 114985"},"PeriodicalIF":10.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359662","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}