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Showing papers in "Journal of Business Research in 2015"


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider sustainable competitive advantage, reputation, and customer satisfaction as three probable mediators in the relationship between CSR and firm performance, and conclude that only reputation and competitive advantage mediate the relationship.

1,037 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of a specific type of organizational leadership (knowledge-oriented leadership) in knowledge management (KM) initiatives that seek to achieve innovation.

554 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, dual-process theory has been adopted to investigate the informational and normative predictors of information diagnosticity and its links with consumers' information adoption, which suggests that consumers are primarily influenced by the quality of information and subsequently influenced by customer ratings and overall rankings.

501 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop and test a typology of online brand community engagement (i.e., the compelling intrinsic motivations to continue interacting with an online brand communities). And they identify 11 independent motivations and test the scale's predictive power for participation in an online Brand community.

430 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative study builds on an integrative literature review and case studies to propose a methodological framework for the implementation of smart cities, which is based on case studies.

369 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric citation meta-analysis of consumer brand relationships has been carried out using the ISI Web of Science database, which includes 392 papers by 685 authors in 101 journals.

325 citations


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TL;DR: The Journal of Business Research (JBR) is a leading international journal in business research dating back to 1973 as mentioned in this paper, which analyzes all the publications in the journal since its creation by using a bibliometric approach.

304 citations


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TL;DR: The authors investigated how persuasive messages (i.e., argument quality, post popularity, and post attractiveness) can lead internet users to click like and share messages in social media marketing activities.

285 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the factors of the central and peripheral route in online customer reviews that make readers feel they are trustworthy and helpful, and the impact of social factors in the reviews on consumers.

252 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of organizational, industry, and national readiness and environmental pressure on the adoption of diverse EC technologies by SMEs in developing countries is systematically examined, and the authors conclude that significant influence of environmental pressure has been observed on adoption of various EC technologies.

212 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors build on corporate innovation, social innovation, and corporate social innovation literature to develop a preliminary theory and use case studies to build a framework that describes factors leading to successful CSI.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of business incubators on firm survival was analyzed using a configurational comparative method, namely fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), and the authors examined whether degree of business innovation, size, sector, and export activity affects firm survival.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the role of firm capabilities in enhancing inter-firm collaboration and found that these capabilities positively affect the effectiveness of external collaboration, which in turn contributes to the firm's market and financial performance.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the different coping mechanisms used by customers when they confront service failure and found that the coping mechanism used by the customers changes depending on the severity of the service failure.

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TL;DR: In this paper, structural equation modeling (SEM) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) were applied to data from social network media (SNM) users' surveys to identify possible SNM viral effects on consumers' purchase intention.

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TL;DR: This study presents an automated web content mining approach and demonstrates how to extract destination brand identity and image through web contentmining.

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TL;DR: This article found that place satisfaction is positively associated with place dependence, identity, affect, and social bonding, while gender moderates the relationship between environmental behavioral intention and place attachment, and the conditional indirect effect of place satisfaction on place attachment is significant only for male visitors.

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TL;DR: The authors disentangles the effect of prior entrepreneurial exposure on entrepreneurial intention in terms of different types of exposure and their perceived quality, and analyzes whether attitude, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control mediate the influence of entrepreneurial role models and work experience in small or newly founded firms.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model incorporating environmental beliefs, attitudes toward ecotourism, behavioral indications, and willingness to pay premium (WTPP), in combination with materialism and general tourism motivation, is proposed.

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TL;DR: The authors used quantile regression and structural equation modeling to explore the causal linkages among corporate social responsibility, brand equity, and firm performance in Taiwanese high-tech companies over the period 2010-2013.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between religion and sustainable consumption-related behaviors and found that highly religious Buddhists more likely participate in sustainable behaviors, with little difference between locations.

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TL;DR: In this article, the mediating role of innovation outcomes in the relationship between organizational unlearning and overall performance was empirically tested empirically, and the moderated role of firm size in reducing the strong link between organizational learning and innovation outcomes.

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TL;DR: The authors identified the impact of the perceived value and perceived usefulness of a halal-labeled product, culture and religion on intent to purchase and intent to patronize stores using data from 10 in-depth interviews and 303 self-administered questionnaires among British Muslims.

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TL;DR: In this article, a modified technology acceptance model was used to examine factors that influence consumers' acceptance of SMS advertising in the U.S. and Korea to test the conceptual model and cross-cultural validity of the measurement scales.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the interrelationships among destination personality, tourist satisfaction, and tourist-destination identification, and the extent to which they are important in influencing positive word-of-mouth and revisit intentions.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive overview of three moderating factors for the relationship of corporate reputation with its antecedents and consequences in the literature from 101 quantitative studies and suggest that practitioners need to exercise considerable caution when developing and managing the reputation of their organizations through the use of research evidence from various countries, with different stakeholder groups and when employing diverse reputational measures.

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TL;DR: The authors explored how abstract appeal and concrete appeal can encourage consumers to engage in green consumption behavior, such as purchasing green products, and found that abstract appeal is more effective in generating green purchase intentions than concrete appeal in situations where the benefit association of green products is other (self).

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TL;DR: The authors analyzed three groups of factors affecting entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs' perceptions of opportunity: social, cultural, and economic variables, and employed the partial least squares method for two groups of countries: (1) European countries, and (2) Latin-American and Caribbean countries.

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TL;DR: The authors conducted two experiments using positive and negative online consumer reviews and found that high risk-averse travelers find negative online reviews more useful than positive reviews, while expert reviewers' postings, travel product pictures, and well-known brand names enhance usefulness of the positive online reviews.

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TL;DR: This paper investigated the direct and indirect effects of environmental concern on environmental purchase intentions in an effort to better understand these inconsistent findings, and found that intentional and incidental learning strategies mediate the relationship between environmental concern and environmental purchase intention.