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Boon or bane of open value creation: The impact of business model design and relational trust on competitive advantage

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102507

Sebastian Brenk , Christian Burmeister , Kathleen Diener , Dirk Lüttgens

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Striving for superiority: A status perspective on the relationship between top management team demographic faultline strength and managerial risk-taking

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102494

Kaili Li , Renjing Liu , Jiamin Dong

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The multifaceted government influence on CSR activities: CSR decoupling in an emerging market

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102497

Yu Wang , Jie Ma , Xiaoying Chang , Tienan Wang

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Environmental sustainability–profitability beliefs among firm decision makers: Measurement and consequences 企业决策者的环境可持续性盈利信念：测量和后果

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102495

David B. Dose , Ronny Reinhardt , Maria Krämer (née Schwabe) , Gianfranco Walsh

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The interactions of multidimensional corporate reputations and disaster donation strategies: How a firm can be known for its sense of social responsibility embodied in disaster donations

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102496

Zhi Li , Jia Xu , Qianwen Shao , Nengzhi Yao , Li Xia

{"title":"The interactions of multidimensional corporate reputations and disaster donation strategies: How a firm can be known for its sense of social responsibility embodied in disaster donations","authors":"Zhi Li , Jia Xu , Qianwen Shao , Nengzhi Yao , Li Xia","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102496","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2024.102496","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We examine how the two dimensions of corporate reputation stock, i.e., <em>generalized favorability (GF)</em> and <em>being known (BK)</em>, and disaster donation strategies, i.e., <em>response time (RT)</em> and <em>donation level (DL)</em>, affect the corporate reputation increment, i.e., <em>being known for the sense of social responsibility (SSR) embodied in corporate disaster donations (CDD)</em>. By analyzing 493 COVID-19 donations made by listed firms in China, we find that <em>GF</em>, <em>BK,</em> and <em>DL</em> can positively affect <em>being known for the SSR embodied in CDD</em>, while the <em>RT</em> has a negative effect. Meanwhile, the negative effect of <em>BK</em> is also revealed when <em>GF</em> is low. Additionally, the <em>RT's</em> positive effect is also revealed when <em>GF</em> and <em>BK</em> are low, while the <em>DL's</em> positive effect is weaker when <em>GF</em> is high. Furthermore, we discuss our contributions to research on corporate reputation and corporate social responsibility management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 1","pages":"Article 102496"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143162464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The nature of underground innovation: Missionary, user, and exploratory orientation 地下创新的本质：传教士导向、用户导向、探索性导向

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102498

Jeroen P.J. de Jong , Max Mulhuijzen , Brita Schemmann

{"title":"The nature of underground innovation: Missionary, user, and exploratory orientation","authors":"Jeroen P.J. de Jong , Max Mulhuijzen , Brita Schemmann","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102498","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102498","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bootlegging and creative deviance studies have described “underground” innovations, which employees develop without managerial consent but with company benefits in mind. This phenomenon is explained by structural strain theory: when organizations have innovative goals but limited resources, some employees may pursue these goals without permission. Anecdotal observations, however, reveal underground employee behaviors that do not fit this pattern; underground innovations may serve different purposes and remain permanently invisible. We therefore conducted an explorative study of why and how employees develop underground innovations. Based on interviews and survey data at a multinational automotive company, underground innovations have three orientations: missionary (aimed to change company practices), user (to solve work problems), and exploratory (to cater to developers' passion for exploration). The three orientations differ in their involvement of others, deployed resources, and dissemination efforts. Without missionary orientation, underground innovations are not proactively diffused, inhibiting organizations from reaping their full benefits. We infer a refined theory based on constraints that prevent employees from being openly proactive. Specifically, underground innovation may be triggered by 1. lacking resources to pursue organizational innovation goals, 2. lacking resources and thresholds to improve work processes, and 3. the organization's inability to match work tasks with innovation workers' preferences. The last two constraints are easily overlooked, and organizations will capture more value from their human capital by stimulating the diffusion of user and exploratory-oriented projects.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 1","pages":"Article 102498"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142990537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Labour-cost retrenchment strategies in times of crisis: Comparing market reactions to flexible and rigid strategies

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509

Daniel Ehnes , Lars Schweizer , Cornelia Storz

{"title":"Labour-cost retrenchment strategies in times of crisis: Comparing market reactions to flexible and rigid strategies","authors":"Daniel Ehnes , Lars Schweizer , Cornelia Storz","doi":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102509","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Guided by an institutionally embedded resource-based view, this paper addresses two under-researched questions. First, what effects do flexible strategies for labor-cost retrenchment (e.g., wage-based and functional flexibility) have on firms' market value as compared with rigid strategies (such as pure downsizing)? Second, what effects do flexible strategies have, compared to rigid strategies, when firms have a high level of knowledge assets? We answer these questions by focusing on firms in the research context of a stakeholder-capitalism environment. The dearth of studies on flexible strategies is surprising when one considers that firms in many advanced economies deploy them widely to reduce labor costs during times of crisis. We address this research gap with a novel data set of 220 retrenchment announcements by Japanese firms. We find that announcing the adoption of flexible strategies is significantly and positively associated with a greater likelihood of the firm’s market value increasing. Further, flexible strategies are evaluated more positively if they protect knowledge assets. We attribute these effects to flexible strategies being perceived not only as a capability but also as a legitimacy signal – that is, as an effort to maintain capabilities in an environment characterized by long-term in-house employment and to align with the norms of the broader institutional landscape.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":18141,"journal":{"name":"Long Range Planning","volume":"58 3","pages":"Article 102509"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143636865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Towards a deeper understanding of performance variance in the context of business groups: A multilevel analysis at the business unit level

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-01-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102508

Sarada Devi Gadepalli , Arindam Mondal , Somnath Lahiri , Sougata Ray

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Opening the black box of transition towards a sustainable business model

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Long Range Planning Pub Date : 2025-01-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.lrp.2025.102499

Irina Atkova , Tamara Galkina , Man Yang , Tiina Leposky , Petri Ahokangas

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Outside vs. inside succession: Environmental and organizational contexts, strategic decision, and firm performance 外部继任与内部继任：环境和组织背景、战略决策和公司业绩