{"title":"Celebrity Credibility by Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) and Regression Analysis","authors":"Hulya Bakirtas, Mukaddes Ozlem Celik Celik","doi":"10.1177/09721509231221982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231221982","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies on reading habits overlooked the potential role of celebrities in reading books. This study assesses how celebrities influence young people to purchase books. The study, which is based on the fsQCA, helps to reveal some of the subtleties related to the intention of young people to purchase books. The data were collected in two stages. In the first phase, a preliminary study was conducted in order to determine the celebrities that young people liked and followed. Preliminary research was carried out at a university in Turkey. In the first phase, 332 surveys were completed. In the second phase, a total of 620 surveys were completed. The study used regression analysis and fsQCA. It was found that celebrities and TV series have a significant effect on book purchase intention. It is also seen that celebrities influence the intention of young people to purchase books again. The findings have important implications on celebrity effect for both publishers and consumers.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"126 1-3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139861648","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":"Understanding Mutual Fund Investors’ Behaviour Using an Extended Model of Goal-directed Behaviour","authors":"Sushma Vishnani, Nidhi Singh, Aman Srivastava","doi":"10.1177/09721509241224020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509241224020","url":null,"abstract":"The study explores and understands the behavioural process followed by individual investors who choose or do not choose to invest in mutual funds (MFs) employing the extended model of goal-directed behaviour (MGB). The study design comprises building and testing a theoretically integrated MGB in the context of MFs investing decisions by incorporating a moderating variable, Regret Averse Bias in MGB. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was utilized for the present study. The study’s outcomes revealed that the attitude of investors positively affected their desire to invest in MFs. The findings about emotions indicated the regulatory-focused approach of investors. They revealed the positive influence of negative emotions and no impact of positive emotions on an individual’s desire to invest in MFs. This confirmed the positive influence of financial self-efficacy (FSE) on the desire to invest and actual behaviour. Finally, the study established the moderating effect of regret aversion bias of investors on the association between the desire to invest and behavioural intention (BI). The study addresses the need to probe the relationship between anticipated emotions (AEs), regulatory focuses and behaviour strategies, as pointed out in earlier related literature.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"10 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139870151","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":"Understanding Mutual Fund Investors’ Behaviour Using an Extended Model of Goal-directed Behaviour","authors":"Sushma Vishnani, Nidhi Singh, Aman Srivastava","doi":"10.1177/09721509241224020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509241224020","url":null,"abstract":"The study explores and understands the behavioural process followed by individual investors who choose or do not choose to invest in mutual funds (MFs) employing the extended model of goal-directed behaviour (MGB). The study design comprises building and testing a theoretically integrated MGB in the context of MFs investing decisions by incorporating a moderating variable, Regret Averse Bias in MGB. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was utilized for the present study. The study’s outcomes revealed that the attitude of investors positively affected their desire to invest in MFs. The findings about emotions indicated the regulatory-focused approach of investors. They revealed the positive influence of negative emotions and no impact of positive emotions on an individual’s desire to invest in MFs. This confirmed the positive influence of financial self-efficacy (FSE) on the desire to invest and actual behaviour. Finally, the study established the moderating effect of regret aversion bias of investors on the association between the desire to invest and behavioural intention (BI). The study addresses the need to probe the relationship between anticipated emotions (AEs), regulatory focuses and behaviour strategies, as pointed out in earlier related literature.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139810402","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":"Impact of Capital Structure on Firm Performance: Empirical Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Sector","authors":"Shobha Panchal, Subhash Chand","doi":"10.1177/09721509231213235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231213235","url":null,"abstract":"The present study has been carried out to investigate empirically the impact of capital structure on a firm’s performance in the Indian manufacturing sector from the year 2013 to 2022 and a comparative analysis of its findings with the results of previous studies. A sample of 51 firms from the Nifty India Manufacturing Index is selected for the study. The data are analyzed by employing the panel data technique and the random effect model is found to be consistent as per the results of Hausman test. The capital structure is proxied by debt-equity ratio, whereas return on equity (ROE) and return on assets (ROA) are used as firm performance indicators. Apart from these, some control variables such as firm size, liquidity, tangibility and growth are also included in the study. The results exhibit that the debt-equity ratio has a detrimental effect on the performance of the Indian manufacturing firms. This negative association is substantial when performance is measured using ROA as opposed to ROE. Among the control variables, only size revealed a negative relationship with firm performance. The comparative analysis highlighted that for the time being, the negative association between capital structure and performance is consistent over time for the developing nations. The outcomes of the study will have ramifications for the managers and policymakers responsible for decision making to enhance performance and will drive them to consider the influence of debt financing on performance before deciding the debt level. It also provides updated insights that can guide the strategic and financial decisions of the manufacturing firms in India.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":" 38","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139139873","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}
C. A. Hoyos-Vallejo, N. Carrión-Bósquez, Juan Cardona-Prada
{"title":"Consumer Perceptions of Online Food Delivery Services: Examining the Impact of Food Biosafety Measures and Brand Image","authors":"C. A. Hoyos-Vallejo, N. Carrión-Bósquez, Juan Cardona-Prada","doi":"10.1177/09721509231215739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231215739","url":null,"abstract":"This study aimed to examine the impact of food biosafety measures, e-service quality, and product quality on the satisfaction of e-consumers who use food delivery services, as well as to investigate whether brand image moderates the relationship between e-consumer satisfaction and e-loyalty. The sample comprised 1709 Colombian consumers who use food delivery services at home or work. The study found that food biosafety measures, e-service quality, and product quality have a positive impact on e-consumer satisfaction and influence e-loyalty. However, no moderating effect of brand image was found between e-satisfaction and e-loyalty. The study’s novelty lies in providing insights into consumer behaviour changes regarding the online food delivery service (OFDS) during the post-pandemic period, which has resulted in an increased demand for food biosafety globally. These findings offer valuable information to develop strategies that can interpret consumer needs and expectations, learn from new trends in the food delivery industry, and apply lessons learned promptly.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"2 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173438","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":"Impulse Purchase Intention in an AI-mediated Retail Environment: Extending the TAM with Attitudes Towards Technology and Innovativeness","authors":"H. Arachchi, G. D. Samarasinghe","doi":"10.1177/09721509231197721","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231197721","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers and retailers alike need to know how customers feel about artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technologies in the light of the increasing number of retail-tech hybrids driven by AI. The current research set out to gauge interest in and willingness to buy an AI-powered product in a retail environment. Determinants related to AI-based customer attitude and impulse purchase intention were theorised by drawing from the literature. The model was empirically tested with structured questionnaires using a representative sample of 354 customers chosen from the modern-trade retail industry in Sri Lanka. The findings suggest that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use related to AI and attitudes towards technology significantly and positively impact the impulse purchase intention. Interestingly, consumer innovativeness strengthens the relationship between attitudes towards AI and impulse purchase intention, but does not influence the relationship between attitudes towards technology and impulse purchase intention. The study provides theoretical and practical insights for scholars and retail marketers.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"143 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139208392","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}
Mohammed Abdulrahman Almatrudi, Ibrahim Alhassan, Prakash Singh
{"title":"Vocal for Local: A Saudi Arabian Consumers’ Perspective Towards Saudi-made Products and Foreign Products","authors":"Mohammed Abdulrahman Almatrudi, Ibrahim Alhassan, Prakash Singh","doi":"10.1177/09721509231207792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231207792","url":null,"abstract":"Businesses and policymakers must recognize the significance of understanding how consumers evaluate and choose between locally produced products and foreign products in the era of globalization and increased trade. This is especially critical in Saudi Arabia, with a growing interest in promoting local industries and businesses. The study aims to bridge the gap in the literature by exploring Saudi consumers’ attitudes towards Saudi-made products and foreign products and identifying the factors influencing their decision-making processes when choosing between them. The study employs a quantitative approach, collecting data from 319 respondents in Saudi Arabia and analysing it using SPSS software. The study’s findings are of utmost importance, as they have the potential to inform businesses and policymakers on developing effective strategies that cater to Saudi consumers’ attitudes and preferences towards locally produced and foreign products. By understanding the factors that drive Saudi consumers’ purchasing decisions, businesses and policymakers can promote locally produced goods’ consumption and support local industries’ growth. The study’s findings can also contribute to the existing literature on consumer behaviour in Saudi Arabia and enhance our understanding of how culture and national identity shape consumption patterns. Moreover, businesses can leverage the study’s findings to understand diverse consumer behaviours and develop tailored marketing strategies that appeal to Saudi consumers’ values and preferences, particularly concerning their nationalistic culture and attitudes towards Saudi-made products. By aligning their marketing strategies with Saudi consumers’ attitudes and preferences, businesses can gain a competitive edge and increase their market share.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"3 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139240619","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":"Resource Linkages, Organizational Slack and Restructuring Behaviour Decisions","authors":"Shan-Huei Wang","doi":"10.1177/09721509231202007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231202007","url":null,"abstract":"This study uses resource-based theory to examine the relationship among parent-subsidiary resource linkages, organizational slack and parent firms’ restructuring behaviours. By using data from 199 Taiwanese firms investing in Greater China and global markets. This study shows that their international strategy decision regarding resource allocation and similarity has no significant effects on the parent firm’s restructuring behaviours unless that firm has sufficient slack resources to support the restructuring. In addition, parent firms are more likely to acquire subsidiaries with dissimilar resources among their group members, than ones having similar resources same as the parent firm. Moreover, there is a U-shaped relationship between organizational slack and the parent firm’s restructuring behaviour decisions. This study constructs the research framework under the resource-based theory and examines the relationships between resource allocation, resource similarity and parent firms’ restructuring behaviour in conditions of organizational slack.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139251649","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}
E. Graziano, Lucia Leonelli, Gerardo Petroccione, Gian Paolo Stella
{"title":"Cash or m-Payment? The Dilemma of Payment Behaviour During the COVID-19 Pandemic","authors":"E. Graziano, Lucia Leonelli, Gerardo Petroccione, Gian Paolo Stella","doi":"10.1177/09721509231209111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231209111","url":null,"abstract":"The COVID-19 pandemic represented an unexpected shock to the global economy, with a significant impact on business and consumer behaviour, particularly on spending and payments. This article aims to identify the drivers affecting consumers’ payment behaviour in Italy during the COVID-19 lockdown. We develop an empirical study, using structural equation modelling on data collected from 2,872 consumers in the period May 2020–June 2020 through the computer-assisted web interviewing methodology. A robustness check is run with an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression analysis. The findings highlight the positive and significant effect of COVID-19 worries on consumers’ payment behaviour. The uniqueness of this work derives from the creative approach with which it investigates the financial and social consequences of the COVID-19 crisis and focuses on possible solutions to encourage the adoption of innovative tools.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"17 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139251352","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":"Leaders’ Coping Strategies After Abusive Behaviour – From the Eyes of the Perpetrator","authors":"Jannatul Rafia-Tracy","doi":"10.1177/09721509231208327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231208327","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of abusive supervision is prevalent in organizations across the board. However, the dark side of leadership is under-researched. The focus of this article is abusive managers’ coping strategy with the guilt of being abusive with subordinates. First, a review has been provided about abusive supervision, which was followed by different literature on coping strategies. Following the discussion on the methodology, findings on coping strategies adopted by managers were presented. Implications and limitations were also discussed at the end. Using qualitative research methodology and by interviewing 21 managers across four countries in seven different sectors data analysis revealed that managers adopt up to eight different types of coping strategies and the most used coping strategies are seeking social support, planning to reduce abusive behaviour, blaming others and acceptance. Moderately used coping strategies are self-control, the mental undoing of the transgression, rationalization and mental disengagement. No manager was found to adopt positive reinterpretation, resignation and plan to make up for the transgression as a coping strategy for their abusive behaviour towards employees.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253315","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}