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{"title":"Relationship CSR and employee commitment: Mediating effects of internal motivation and trust","authors":"Halder Yandry Loor-Zambrano Dr. ,&nbsp;Luna Santos-Roldán Dra. ,&nbsp;Beatriz Palacios-Florencio Dra.","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100185","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100185","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>the main objective of this article is to check whether the relationship between corporate social responsibility activities and employee commitment is mediated by the existence of two other attitudinal variables of workers: intrinsic motivation and trust towards the organisation.</p></div><div><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>a survey of 318 Ecuadorian workers provides data that allows the application of structural equation modelling to verify the existence of such relationships.</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>the work shows a positive and significant relationship between CSR actions and the two attitudes of the employees considered: trust and intrinsic motivation. Furthermore, the mediating character that both variables play in the relationship between CSR and organisational commitment is confirmed. Ecuadorian managers can infer from this study the positive effects that CSR practices have on various attitudes and behaviors of employees, such as their motivation at work, their confidence in the company and their commitment to it.</p></div><div><h3>Research limitations/implications</h3><p>the scant generalisation of its results to the Ecuadorian reality given that the firms are located in a single zone of the country and belong to a specific activity.</p></div><div><h3>Practical implications</h3><p>new determinant factors of the relations between the endogenous and exogenous variables could be included.</p></div><div><h3>Social implications</h3><p>the consideration of other variables which could condition the relations studies: sex, age, etc.</p></div><div><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>the work increases the already existing knowledge about the relationship between CSR and different attitudes and behaviours of employees within formal work organisations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100185"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000449/pdfft?md5=536f6989c4d9d88e03694556ee628506&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000449-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54352614","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":"Virtual teams are here to stay: How personality traits, virtuality and leader gender impact trust in the leader and team commitment","authors":"Carlos Flavián ,&nbsp;Miguel Guinalíu ,&nbsp;Pau Jordán","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100193","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100193","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Teleworking has, today, become a necessity for many organizations, so effective virtual team management is critical. This study analyzes the influence of the personality traits of virtual team workers on team efficiency. To do so we examine the effects of subordinates’ personalities on the trust they give the virtual team leader and the impact of this trust on commitment to the team. We also discuss how the team's degree of virtuality and the leader's gender influence the relationship between personality and trust. The findings showed that extroversion has a positive effect on trust felt in the leader, and that this trust has a positive effect on commitment felt toward the team. On the other hand, it was observed that neuroticism had a more negative effect on trust in more virtual environments. The leader's gender had no significant effect. The study offers advice for virtual team management and discusses its limitations and future research directions.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100193"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000528/pdfft?md5=5cf57bb26a4e4a481a1d16a986dfb9a0&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000528-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48179292","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":"Does good local governance improve subjective well-being?","authors":"Ana Cárcaba ,&nbsp;Rubén Arrondo ,&nbsp;Eduardo González","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100192","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100192","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The goal of this research is to examine the effects of good management of local governments on individual subjective well-being (SWB). We define three dimensions of good governance at the municipal level: accountability, government efficiency and control of corruption. We use a large survey of individual welfare carried out in Spain in 2013 and 2018 and distinguish four potential drivers of SWB: socio-demographic factors, material conditions, quality of life and municipal governance. Individual QoL variables, such as social connections or health status are major drivers of SWB. To a lesser extent, the material conditions also have a significant impact. With respect to good governance, our results point to an immediate positive effect of government efficiency on individual SWB levels. In contrast, accountability, understood as transparency, does not seem to have a significant impact. Surprisingly, we find no immediate effect of corruption on reported SWB, but a very strong deferred impact.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100192"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000516/pdfft?md5=0c2803ff6d0a433b2d76cdcdcff8ae90&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000516-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46332825","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":"Linking brand and competitive advantage: The mediating effect of positioning and market orientation","authors":"Orlando Lima Rua ,&nbsp;Catarina Santos","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100194","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100194","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between brand and competitive advantage (through differentiation) and the mediating effect of positioning and market orientation in this relationship.</p><p>An empirical study was developed using a quantitative methodological approach. The object of the study was Portuguese exporting companies in the footwear industry, to which a questionnaire survey was applied.</p><p>The results show that (1) brand has a significant direct impact on positioning and market orientation and competitive advantage through differentiation, (2) competitive advantage through differentiation is directly impacted by positioning, (3) market orientation does not have a significant direct impact on competitive advantage through differentiation, and (4) positioning has a mediating effect on the relationship between brand and competitive advantage through differentiation, and market orientation does not have on it.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100194"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S244488342100053X/pdfft?md5=cb7ab47b9db63da634f14f8635ac663a&pid=1-s2.0-S244488342100053X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54353041","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":"Zooming into firms’ location, capabilities and innovation performance: Does agglomeration foster incremental or radical innovation?","authors":"Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver ,&nbsp;Francisca Sempere-Ripoll ,&nbsp;Carles Boronat Moll","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100186","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100186","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study answers the question on whether areas of agglomeration or high industry specialization constitute supportive prone-to-innovation environments for the generation of radical innovation. By drawing on the CIS distinction between incremental vs radical innovation, we disentangle the effect of industry specialization on the occurrence of radical innovations, a phenomenon mostly overlooked. By analysing a large dataset of 3,602 firms from CIS and other geographic datasets, results show that a firm's location in high industry specialization areas primarily trims incremental but not radical innovation. Firms’ internal knowledge bases do matter more for radical innovation to occur, rather than location in agglomerations. External knowledge available in regions of high industry specialization is redundant for improving a firm's internal knowledge base for radical innovation and it is more likely to merely enable incremental innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100186"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000450/pdfft?md5=e1171fcb759917aa1668d97109c7929d&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000450-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54352656","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":"Art workers in Colombia: Characteristics, symbolic consumption and social identity","authors":"Ruby Lorena Carrillo Barbosa ,&nbsp;Alfredo Guzmán Rincón","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100180","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100180","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>To explore the characteristics of Art Workers in Colombia, expressed in terms of lifestyles and consumption practices, as well as the relationship between symbolic consumption and the social identity of the group.</p></div><div><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3><p>For this quantitative study, the instrument called \"Lifestyles and consumption practices\", designed by the Konrand Lorentz University Foundation, was applied along with the incorporation of two new sections which evaluate symbolic consumption and social identity. The sample was intentional and represented 160 people, 80 of them corresponding to the Art Workers category and the other 80 to the Non-Art Workers category (mirror sample).</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>It is observed that Art Workers in Colombia represent a social group with unique characteristics (lifestyles and consumption practices) looking for symbols in the products which allow them to relate to their counterparts in order to strengthen their sense of belonging to the social group.</p></div><div><h3>Originality/Value</h3><p>This work contributes the literature of marketing with a new perspective of the Art Workers which separates them from their role as instruments of advertising strategies by linking them as consumers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100180"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000395/pdfft?md5=73ce5b48ee9b36cd0ef81cc876068ce0&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000395-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54352488","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 entrepreneurial intention of university students: An environmental perspective","authors":"Virginia Barba-Sánchez ,&nbsp;María Mitre-Aranda ,&nbsp;Jesús del Brío-González","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100184","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100184","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Purpose</h3><p>This paper seeks evidence of which variables, directly or indirectly, have influence on the entrepreneurial intention of university students in order to adequately plan activities to reinforce such intention for Spanish universities. Specifically, we introduce the variable of environmental awareness to test whether it induces a greater entrepreneurial intention.</p></div><div><h3>Study design/methodology/approach</h3><p>The target population of the study has been students at the University of Oviedo who were enrolled in an undergraduate degree or a master's degree during the 2018–2019 academic year. A questionnaire has been sent obtaining the following data: 1,337 valid questionnaires, 2.58% sampling error rate for 95% confidence level, <em>p</em> = = <em>q</em> = = 0,5. To contrast the proposed hypotheses we have used the methodology of structural equations (SEM model).</p></div><div><h3>Findings</h3><p>Starting from the Ajzen´s Theory (TPB) we demonstrate that both the attitude towards the entrepreneurial behaviour (PA) and the perceived behavioural control (PBC) exert a significant influence on the entrepreneurial intention (EI) of university students. This is not the case of the third construct of the TPB, namely the social norms (SNs). We have verified that PA partially mediates the relationship between the PBC and the EI and PA totally mediates the relationship between the PBC and the EI. We have corroborated that a high degree of environmental awareness of university student's exerts influence in their PA. Finally, it has been corroborated that the SNs which are most proactive towards entrepreneurship mediate the relationship between the student's EnvA and the PA.</p></div><div><h3>Originality/value</h3><p>This paper proposes a variation of the model of planned behaviour (Ajzen's TPB) incorporating with the addition of mediating relationships amongst the variables and the introduction of the environmental awareness variable applied to the entrepreneurial intention of university student. The usefulness of this paper is to provide scientific evidence to support the inclusion of ecological transition in Estrategia España Nación Emprendedora.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100184"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000437/pdfft?md5=0034866f395ee9f18728cbb61fbb3234&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000437-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54352535","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":"Employee's subjective-well-being and job discretion: Designing gendered happy jobs","authors":"Maria Bastida ,&nbsp;Isabel Neira ,&nbsp;Maricruz Lacalle-Calderon","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100189","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100189","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper analyses the influence of job discretion on employees’ subjective well-being (SWB) from a gender-based approach. Specifically, it explores whether the level of discretion given to employees in performing their jobs influences their SWB and whether this impact differs between women and men. Data from 20 European countries from Round 8 of the European Social Survey (ESS) are used to undertake an ordered probit analysis. Job discretion is approached through autonomy at work, supervision of other employees and influence on organisational policy decisions. Additionally, the individual's educational level is controlled to further explore gendered differences of job characteristics on SWB. The results show that job discretion does indeed affect SWB, and this effect is different for women and men. Moreover, the effect of job discretion on SWB is not homogeneous across different education levels.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100189"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000486/pdfft?md5=75e506cdb3564471606d55bbfd1116af&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000486-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54352974","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":"Mission statements in universities: Readability and performance","authors":"Julián D. Cortés ,&nbsp;Liliana Rivera ,&nbsp;Katerina Bohle Carbonelld","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100183","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100183","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The mission statement(s) (MS) is one of the most-used tools for planning and management. Universities worldwide have implemented MS in their knowledge planning and management processes since the 1980s. Research studies have extensively explored the content and readability of MS and its effect on performance in firms, but their effect on public or nonprofit institutions such as universities has not been scrutinized with the same intensity. This study used Gunning's Fog Index score to determine the readability of a sample of worldwide universities’ MS and two rankings, i.e., Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking and SCImago Institutions Rankings, to determine their effect on performance. No significant readability differences were identified in regions, size, focus, research type, age band, or status. Logistic regression (cumulative link model) results showed that variables, such as universities’ age, focus, and size, have more-significant explanatory power on performance than MS readability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 2","pages":"Article 100183"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000425/pdfft?md5=6a8be69fac641498845ee88ef936db7e&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000425-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42234304","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":"A firm-industry analysis of services versus manufacturing","authors":"Esteban Fernández ,&nbsp;Vicente López-López ,&nbsp;Carlos M. Jardón ,&nbsp;Susana Iglesias-Antelo","doi":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100181","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.iedeen.2021.100181","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In the literature on the firm-industry debate to explain organizational performance the firm effect has been more supported than the industry effect by empirical studies, mainly focused on manufacturing firms and long time periods. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to the service sector. In this paper we study separately manufacturing and services in a broad sample of Spanish companies. We observe that in manufacturing the firm effect outweighs the industry effect while in services the opposite is the case in a ten-year period. However, when we split the time horizon into two five-year sub-periods, this behavior only remains in the second one, of moderate economic growth. In the first one, of strong economic growth, the firm effect prevails for both manufacturing and services. These findings underline the importance of the industry effect for services, suggesting that such effect may have been underestimated in the literature, as well as that of the level of economic growth specially for the decision-making of practitioners.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45796,"journal":{"name":"European Research on Management and Business Economics","volume":"28 1","pages":"Article 100181"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2444883421000401/pdfft?md5=262700d38063e957f154b2ca3f812900&pid=1-s2.0-S2444883421000401-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42364634","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}