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{"title":"Are you adopting artificial intelligence products? Social-demographic factors to explain customer acceptance","authors":"Mariano Méndez-Suárez ,&nbsp;Abel Monfort ,&nbsp;Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100223","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Are consumers accepting AI-based products? What are the socio-demographics influencing the adoption of these products? This study tests the potential users’ social-demographic characteristics that influence the relationship between innovation and AI-based products. The latter are robots (e.g. <em>chatbots</em>) and AI (e.g. recommendation systems, amongst others). A mixed methods approach is adopted using both qualitative and quantitative analysis with non-metrical multidimensional scaling (NMDS) to map opinions about digitally-intensive products, such as robots and AI, and the attitude towards innovation. The research uses data on the general population from the Spanish innovation barometer survey (<em>N</em> = 3,005). Findings show that individuals who have a negative attitude towards innovation have a negative opinion about robots and AI. As regards social-demographic dimensions, age and economic conditions moderate this effect, causing a more positive opinion towards digitally-intensive products amongst young people and individuals with a higher socio-economic level. These effects are increased by the moderating role of sex.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100223"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50204817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Board leadership structure and human capital disclosure: Role of independent directors","authors":"Francisca Tejedo-Romero ,&nbsp;Ángel Tejada Ponce ,&nbsp;Yolanda Ramírez Corcoles ,&nbsp;María Del Mar López Pérez","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100224","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates board characteristics, including board leadership structure, which explain the human capital disclosure (HCD) provided by companies. It uses a self-constructed disclosure index to quantify the level of human capital information using content analysis. Generalized method of moment is employed to estimate a dynamic model of the relationship between HCD and the characteristics of boards of directors. The results show that companies are adapting to the new European Union (EU) Regulation Directive 2014/95/EU by increasing their HCD. There has been a change in the topics disclosed by companies that signal a commitment to social responsibility toward their employees and stakeholders. The level of HCD is significantly associated with board leadership structure, and independent directors play a moderating role when a chief executive officer (CEO) duality exists. Additionally, factors such as gender diversity, board size, board activity, company size and age, and the EU Directive approved in 2014 are all associated with HCD. This study enriches the debate on the role of independent directors in HCD because they can exercise a moderating role when CEO duality is present.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100224"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50204816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Determinants of entrepreneurial intentions in European sports science students: Towards the development of future sports entrepreneurs","authors":"María Huertas González-Serrano ,&nbsp;Irena Valantine ,&nbsp;Radenko Matić ,&nbsp;Ivana Milovanović ,&nbsp;Ruslana Sushko ,&nbsp;Ferran Calabuig","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100229","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aims to analyse the determinants of sport science students’ entrepreneurial intentions considering the cultural effect on these relationships. The sample comprises 764 final-year sport science students from five European countries: Lithuania, Spain, Ukraine, Serbia, and Croatia. A validated structured questionnaire was used to collect the data. The results showed significant direct effects between attitude towards behaviour and perceived behavioural control in sport science students’ entrepreneurial intentions in all countries. Entrepreneurial skills presented an indirect impact (through attitude and perceived behavioural control) on all countries’ entrepreneurial intentions. However, the importance of each of these variables in explaining entrepreneurial intentions varied according to the students’ national culture. This study presents a series of educational policy implications to improve sports science students’ employability by developing their entrepreneurial spirit.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100229"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883423000165/pdfft?md5=473a931eb47ac395f41c6256ad7109e7&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883423000165-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92026371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"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 competition between legal and illegal firms in the market: Theoretical models and empirical evidence","authors":"Domenico Marino ,&nbsp;Francesco Timpano ,&nbsp;Jaime Gil Lafuente","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100228","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The main aim of this paper is to study the phenomenon of the coexistence of firms with illegal characteristics and firms showing legal behaviour in developed economies by using an evolutionary competition model known as the Lotka-Volterra equations. Enterprises in a ‘legal system’ obey the extant laws, particularly market rules, while enterprises in an ‘illegal system’ disregard them. Illegal enterprises have a competitive advantage over legal enterprises, yet they cannot survive if legal enterprises disappear completely. The numerical solution of the Lotka-Volterra equations are used to show how there can be a situation of coexistence between legal and illegal enterprises and how state intervention can help reduce illegality in an economic system. This paper outlines a new approach to address the problem of coexistence because it uses non-linear and evolutionary tools to define the competition between legal and illegal firms. The research gap presented in this paper is addressed using the predator-prey scheme to model the competition between legal and illegal firms, which is perceived as the competition between two populations with different fitness levels (survival probabilities). This competition gives rise to three different types of possible equilibrium outcomes: survival of only legal firms, survival of only illegal firms and coexistence of these two types of firms. An empirical analysis of an Italian case study confirms the results of this paper's theoretical model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100228"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883423000153/pdfft?md5=e97237737e690afc1a18e96e7a7a0f59&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883423000153-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91964118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Board of directors and firm debt in Spanish SMEs: A power perspective","authors":"Juan Francisco Martín-Ugedo,&nbsp;Antonio Mínguez-Vera","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100231","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This manuscript examines the influence of some variables relating to boards of directors that we consider to be proxies for power (gender diversity, duality, board size and insider ownership). Their influence on firm debt is explored. The sample examined, Spanish non-financial SMEs, has some particular characteristics. Share ownership, which is usually highly concentrated in the Civil Law context, is even more concentrated when we focus on SMEs. As a consequence, there is little separation between ownership and control. We have employed a power perspective as the main theoretical framework. Data were obtained from the SABI database, and the methodology employed is a panel data, applying the System GMM technique. This methodology makes it possible to control for endogeneity and individual heterogeneity. The results show that a larger proportion of female directors, larger boards, the separation of the roles of CEO and Chairman, and more shares owned by directors and by the CEO stimulate a decrease in firm debt. This evidence supports the hypotheses tested.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100231"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883423000189/pdfft?md5=c813614673a3440dc67d7feab635dbe5&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883423000189-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92026368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Revolutionizing the road: How sustainable, autonomous, and connected vehicles are changing digital mobility business models","authors":"Hugo Pérez-Moure ,&nbsp;Jesús F. Lampón ,&nbsp;Maria-Elena Velando-Rodriguez ,&nbsp;Lorenzo Rodríguez-Comesaña","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100230","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100230","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Major trends in the automotive industry are reconfiguring digital mobility business models. From a comprehensive, combined Dynamic Capabilities and Ecosystems approach, this study characterizes the digital mobility business models linked to sustainability, connectivity, and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) adopted by four carmakers (Volkswagen, Stellantis, Toyota, and Honda). Results show that carmakers differ in their focal digital mobility value propositions, based mainly on the carmakers’ own mobility strategies. Volkswagen exhibits an integral proposition with personalized services, while Stellantis is focusing on electric mobility and its solutions, Toyota on autonomous and connectivity services, and Honda on a user-centric perspective via connected and shared mobility. The main sources of income are multiple personalized services linked to connectivity that specifically provide driver assistance, along with remote and digital platform services. Those carmakers pursuing sustainable, autonomous, or shared mobility strategies find their primary income sources in services like remote electric driving, autonomous door-to-door deliveries, and car-sharing. Such services are deployed not only due to technical resources, such as digital skills and data exchange systems, but primarily through organizational capabilities like a “team-player mentality” and a customer-focused vision. Finally, differences in sustainability have been highlighted, but in general terms, all manufacturers are striving to address the battery and charging-point issue through various business models to promote electric mobility. Carmakers are governing a digital mobility ecosystem configured by multiple service and technology providers that are developing transportation solutions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100230"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883423000177/pdfft?md5=88f5562ab50de09782f36de07d58516b&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883423000177-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92026369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Euro adoption and intra-European Union exporters’ productivity: Differences between family and non-family firms","authors":"Basco Rodrigo ,&nbsp;Bassetti Thomas ,&nbsp;Muñoz-Bullón Fernando ,&nbsp;Sanchez-Bueno Maria J．","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How do exporters react to changes in formal institutional contexts? We hypothesise that when the formal institutional context reduces uncertainty, family-firm exporters increase their productivity more than those of non-family firms. To examine our general conjecture empirically, we leveraged the shift from a flexible to a fixed exchange rate regime that occurred with the adoption of the euro. Our findings showed that, after adopting the euro, intra-European Union (EU) family-firm exporters achieved higher productivity than non-family-firm exporters. Owing to the elimination of exchange rate volatility, intra-EU family-firm exporters, who were particularly sensitive to uncertainty because of their specificities related to wealth concentration, family-oriented goals, and corporate transparency, became more willing to adopt investment decisions than intra-EU non-family-firm exporters. Consequently, these investments yielded significant improvements in the productivity levels of the former group. We also found that the gains in productivity were not evenly distributed among intra-EU family-firm exporters. The introduction of the euro facilitated the transition of intra-EU family-firm exporters from low to intermediate productivity levels. Moreover, it allowed those with initially intermediate productivity levels to remain in the same group, while reducing the likelihood of falling behind high-productivity intra-EU family-firm exporters.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100226"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S244488342300013X/pdfft?md5=119a1e348a823a5e02321365e37e62c9&pid=1-s2.0-S244488342300013X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92026370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Can patriarchal attitudes moderate the relation between women on boards and firm economic performance?","authors":"Paula Castro,&nbsp;María T. Tascón,&nbsp;Sara Corral","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100222","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100222","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper investigates the moderating effect of patriarchal attitudes by country and year on the relationship between gender diversity on boards and firm performance. The international sample analyzed is composed of 1,103 listed firms from 18 European countries for the period of 2005–2019. Using a two-step system GMM approach, the analysis shows how the generally positive relationship between gender diversity and economic performance (proxied by return on assets and Tobin's Q) is offset and even surpassed by the negative moderating effect of patriarchal attitudes. Furthermore, our work tests critical mass theory and finds confirmation in line with the results obtained for gender diversity. The main contributions of this work include its use of new specific proxies for gender culture by country, namely, patriarchal attitudes and the finding of how they affect the relationship between women's board participation and firm performance in a negative and consistent way.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100222"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44234137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Collaborative B2B sales partnerships in supply chains: An integrative framework of social and action alignment","authors":"Göran Svensson ,&nbsp;Carlos Ferro-Soto ,&nbsp;Carmen Padin ,&nbsp;Carmen Otero-Neira","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100227","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In business-to-business (B2B) contexts, sales organizations require both long-term and stable partnerships to accomplish their tasks effectively and enhance mutual value and satisfaction for the parties involved. Collaboration and satisfaction are two connected and central issues in the relational marketing (RM) literature. Considering the association viewpoint and membership domain (MD) theory, collaboration in B2B sales partnerships implies that parties should cooperate and align their interests and goals (social association), as well as coordinate their tasks and align their actions (action association). Nevertheless, this duality has been severely misunderstood in the literature, and it is therefore necessary to clarify and integrate this dichotomy within the same research framework. Accordingly, this research examines how to connect collaboration and satisfaction by decomposing and disaggregating them within the same alignment model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100227"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883423000141/pdfft?md5=a5e32b2c3a588eeb40f6608af562aa81&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883423000141-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91964119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Family firms types based on beliefs","authors":"Manzano-García Guadalupe ,&nbsp;Neveu Jean-Pierre ,&nbsp;Bañuelos Campo Arkaitz ,&nbsp;Ayala-Calvo Juan Carlos","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100225","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iedeen.2023.100225","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this study was to find an effective way of identifying homogeneous family firm groups, based on the prevailing beliefs of the owning family on ownership, management and intergenerational transmission. We conducted a two-stage cluster analysis, using data from a representative sample of 240 Spanish family firms. The results showed three types of clearly differentiated family firms, each of them with a profile of different beliefs. Our work contributes to the previous literature by integrating the components of involvement and essence approaches and beliefs about these to distinguish homogeneous groups of family firms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"29 3","pages":"Article 100225"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50204399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}