{"title":"A RACE pathway for inventing and sustaining mobile payment innovation - A case study of a leading Bank in Taiwan","authors":"Shari S.C. Shang, Lynn S.L. Chiu","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study aimed to propose a resource framework called RACE to demonstrate how a conventional financial service provider developed a defensive strategy to secure existing assets and dynamically evolved to enter new areas of competition and achieve offensive success. RACE stands for technology resources (R), strategic alliances (A), customers (C), and ecosystems (E), which represent the critical resources of a conventional bank for digital transforming in the mobile payment market. The study adopts an explorative single case study to analyze Inter-firms’ coopetition in the market and to explore how competitive advantages were developed through a critical path of RACE model. The revelatory case is a leading financial institute in Taiwan. A qualitative case analysis was conducted and the results revealed that through dynamic interplays of the proposed RACE model among the internal and external resources, a conventional enterprise can create new competition battleground and develop new types of coopetition. The innovative disruption in advancing mobile payment is not a straightforward process, the journey is full of challenges from defensive resource exploitation to offensive market acceleration. The Implications of the evolving path of the RACE model provide various avenues for further research on the dynamic capabilities, and the results are suggested for academics and practitioners in the era of digital disruption.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"28 4","pages":"Pages 401-409"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46416154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital intelligence as a partner of emotional intelligence in business administration","authors":"Selcuk Yeke","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2023.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2023.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The concept of digital intelligence, which is frequently mentioned, especially in educational sciences, is rarely seen in the business administration literature. This study aimed to discuss digital intelligence regarding business administration literature and put forward a discussion about whether companies need digital intelligence simultaneously with emotional intelligence in the way of competition and whether the two phenomena should be considered together. In this context, data were obtained from “The Internship” movie and the first three seasons of the “Silicon Valley” series using the document analysis data collection method. The obtained data were analyzed through content analysis. The grounded theory approach was adopted because of creating categories based on the data. Findings showed that successful outcomes for companies could occur if emotional intelligence and digital intelligence are given equal importance and evaluated simultaneously.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"28 4","pages":"Pages 390-400"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48039180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Winston T. Lin , Yueh H. Chen , Shih-Sian (Sherwin) Jhang
{"title":"The effects of unemployment and inflation rates on the business value of information technology and economic performance: The partial adjustment valuation approaches","authors":"Winston T. Lin , Yueh H. Chen , Shih-Sian (Sherwin) Jhang","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.12.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Equipped with the one-equation theory of partial adjustment (PA) under the constant speeds of PA assumption (<span>Nerlove, 1958</span>) and the two-equation theory of PA under the dynamic and variable speeds of PA assumption (<span>Lin & Kao, 2014</span>), this paper applies the constant PA speeds (<span>Lin et al., 2010</span>) and dynamic PA speeds (<span>Lin & Kao, 2014</span>) PA valuation (PAV) approaches to analyze the grand research issue (for three research questions), namely, how IT and two important macroeconomic variables, unemployment rate and inflation rate, affect the country's performance jointly and separately from a global perspective. The ten research models are fitted into a panel data sample composed of 11 countries (Canada, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Belgium, Denmark, Greece, Norway, Portugal, and Spain) over the period from 1993 to 2011. The results reveal that the IT productivity paradox remains in some developed countries; IT payoffs hinge on the exploitation of available complementary resources; and the complementarity and substitutability relationships between IT and unemployment and inflation rates exist.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"28 4","pages":"Pages 371-389"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45494613","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors of application of activity-based costing method: Evidence from a transitional country","authors":"Uyen Tu Tran , Hien Thi Tran","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.01.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines the factors in the application of the activity-based costing (ABC) method in firms in a transitional country. The study adopts a quantitative approach by developing a Logit regression model. The study tests the model in a sample of 71 publicly-listed Vietnamese pharmaceutical companies in 2017 when Resolution Number 10, issued by the Central Political Party of Vietnam, took place. The primary data was collected from a company survey. The study finds that indirect cost proportion, competition pressure in price and quality, and product diversification significantly affect a firm's decision of whether to implement the ABC method. In Vietnam, most of the pharmaceutical companies are state-owned. Consequently, the use of a research context whereby the market economy is combined with state regulation to test the hypothesized factors is of value. Our findings have implications for managerial practice and public policy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 303-311"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313222000021/pdfft?md5=ad45dfa7734bb439342612aa86434569&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313222000021-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43686608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The mediating effect of corporate culture on the relationship between business model innovation and corporate social responsibility: A perspective from small- and medium-sized enterprises","authors":"Chih-Hung Chen","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2022.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Studies on business model innovation have generally focused on large corporations to the neglect of small- and medium-sized enterprises. On the way towards BMI, corporate social responsibility plays a critical role that has barely been taken into consideration. In this study, corporate culture was adopted as a mediating factor for exploring the relationship between CSR and BMI. Based on quantitative methods and data from 218 respondents working at SMEs in Taiwan, the findings indicate that SEMs may implement CSR to promote business model innovation, as well as identify the mediating effect of corporate culture for the influence of CSR on BMI. The conclusions reveal the managerial implications of the ways, paths, and mechanism of BMI by enabling SEMs to participate in CSR activities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 312-319"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S102931322200001X/pdfft?md5=8eb19a03a765cca67066310ed218c700&pid=1-s2.0-S102931322200001X-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54214606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Thriving in a shifting landscape: Role of social media in support of business strategy","authors":"Nazanin Tourani","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contemporary organizations need to communicate with their customers in order to know them better, so that they can learn how to better satisfy their needs, provide better customer service and in so doing improve their commercial performance. Social media are one type of communication channel that organizations currently use to support these strategies. The purpose of this paper is to study how different types of organizations employ social media to support their business strategies, and how this affects the organizations’ performance. To achieve this goal, this study collects information from several organizations in Tehran, the Capital of Iran, and 58 managers, marketing experts, social media experts and university faculty. This study uses questionnaires to collect data and employs descriptive-inferential statistical methods to analyze the data. The results show that social media play an important role, yet differing role, in supporting prospector, analyzer, reactor and defender business development strategies that are key elements in business performance improvement.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 276-281"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313221000993/pdfft?md5=fcf2dfe2271ccf09d87999bf88ca46b8&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313221000993-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45679588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring consumer online purchase and search behavior: An FCB grid perspective","authors":"Shiu-Li Huang, Yi-Hsien Lin","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.10.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.10.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Among the various types of online advertising, keyword advertising brings the business to consumers' attention effectively with little effort. Extant studies on consumer search behavior and keyword advertising have paid attention to the relationship between the types of keywords and ad effectiveness. However, we remain unclear about how consumers select keywords in different stages of the purchase and how marketers can best devise advertising strategies in accordance with consumers' online purchase and search behavior. This study focuses on this unexplored issue by conducting a contextual inquiry into consumers’ search and purchase behavior, their selected keywords, and their purchase process across different types of products. We base our inquiry on the “FCB grid” designed by Foote, Cone and Belding Advertising. The results show that consumers follow a certain sequence of stages, depending on the product type, as follows: (1) Learn-Learn-Feel-Do for high involvement and thinking products, (2) Feel-Learn-Do for high involvement and feeling products, (3) Do-Learn-Do for low involvement and thinking products, and (4) Do-Feel-Do stages for low involvement and feeling products. We identify the types of keywords searched in each of these stages. We also develop a planning model for keyword advertising to guide marketers bidding on appropriate keywords for various types of products. This study provides marketers and researchers with a better understanding of consumers' online buying decision process and the keywords that are searched in different stages of the process based on product types and prior product knowledge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 245-256"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313221000889/pdfft?md5=841f5092ed5487d2992227acc86bdb8a&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313221000889-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46289514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial literacy environment scan in Mozambique","authors":"Atanásio Cossa , Mara Madaleno , Jorge Mota","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.09.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.09.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This research aims to scan financial literacy in Mozambique, assessing its levels and identifying the sociodemographic factors that influence it, generalizing to the developing countries. Quantitative research was performed using a survey database of 3,875 respondents collected in Mozambique. Our results document that more than 61% of the respondents did not answer correctly the questions regarding financial literacy, which indicates that the levels of financial literacy in Mozambique are low. Individuals are not qualified to make the most appropriate financial decisions and end up compromising their financial well-being. It was also found that age impacts respondents' financial knowledge, gender influences financial behavior, educational level influences financial knowledge and behavior, and the training area influences financial knowledge, attitude, and behavior. This article contributes by providing information regarding the financial literacy of Mozambique, which is still scarce and providing a scientific basis for decision-makers to improve public policies regarding financial literacy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 229-244"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313221000853/pdfft?md5=f2b737fe219e3d8e1241d46debc02f7b&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313221000853-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45201811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Open innovation and drug discovery startups in Japan: The importance of communication in licensing","authors":"Kenji Tomita","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Drug discovery startups conduct research and development for open innovation by specializing in basic and discovery research. To explore the promotion strategies that these startups can apply when selling knowledge products through licensing, we conducted a survey to identify the factors that enhance open innovation performance through business negotiations in Japan. We obtained valid responses from 42 drug discovery startup executives (13.6% response rate) and tested our hypotheses through multiple regression analyses. While relevant research does not focus on enhancing communication during business negotiations, this study emphasizes its importance in open innovation. We found that communication directly affects performance in open innovation, especially customer-oriented communication. In the communication process during business negotiations, drug discovery startups must be willing to modify its knowledge products, such as candidate substances, in accordance with the customers' needs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 282-291"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313221001020/pdfft?md5=2af30cbb1be139857ef496b996582f93&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313221001020-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43624230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the mitigation effects of corporate social responsibility on the negative impact of high leverage in ASEAN-5","authors":"Adrian Ade Surya, Rofikoh Rokhim","doi":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.10.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.apmrv.2021.10.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>One of the ASEAN Economic Community's intentions is to direct firms in ASEAN to society-oriented development. We investigate the impact of corporate social responsibility that is moderated by high leverage to sales growth in the region of ASEAN-5. The research sample consisted of 87 firms that were listed in the stock exchange of ASEAN-5, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and the Philippines during the period of 2014–2018. This research found a significant positive impact of corporate social responsibility moderated by a high leverage to sales growth. This research contributes to previous research on high leverage costs literature through reviewing existing determinants of high leverage costs including additional variables such as country-level factors in the ASEAN-5 region.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":46001,"journal":{"name":"Asia Pacific Management Review","volume":"27 4","pages":"Pages 257-264"},"PeriodicalIF":4.4,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1029313221000877/pdfft?md5=6259374cbb352046168fc3a4f61f7e2b&pid=1-s2.0-S1029313221000877-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46977893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}