Showing papers in "Journal of Business Research in 2018"

TL;DR: This work develops a definition of co-creation as enactment of interactional creation across interactive system-environments (afforded by interactive platforms) entailing agencing engagements and structuring organizations, and introduces the concept of value-in-interactional creation.

TL;DR: The resulting definition “Open Science is transparent and accessible knowledge that is shared and developed through collaborative networks” helps the scientific community, the business world, political actors, and citizens to have a common and clear understanding about what Open Science is, and stimulates an open debate about the social, economic, and human added value of this phenomenon.

TL;DR: In this paper, a complexity-based definition of entrepreneurial ecosystems is proposed and three related forces that will influence entrepreneurial ecosystem emergence are intentionality of entrepreneurs, coherence of entrepreneurial activities, and injections of resources.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors validate the consumer brand engagement (CBE) scale proposed by Hollebeek, Glynn, and Brodie (2014) and use social exchange theory to replicate their proposed model to relate CBE to consumer involvement, self-brand connection, and brand usage.

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual model that combines Ducoffe's web advertising model and flow experience theory was proposed to understand the factors that motivate consumers to interact with smartphone advertisements and therefore what stimulates their decision to purchase.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the unique effect of entrepreneurial leadership on the relationship between employees' creative self-efficacy (CSE) and innovative behavior using multi-level data from multiple sources, namely, 66 middle-level managers and their 346 subordinates from a large Chinese multinational organization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically review the literature related to international franchising and create a road map of extant knowledge to provide a greater understanding of the use of theories, methodologies, and the emergent phenomenon of international franchise partnerships in multiple industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed methods approach, with both a quantitative survey and a qualitative content analysis of Airbnb listings, was used to compare two different types of accommodation offered on Airbnb: shared room and entire home.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of board structure on ESG disclosure in Latin American companies was examined, and the influence of board size, women on the board, CEO duality, and independent directors was examined.

TL;DR: Core findings are that expected utilitarian, hedonic, and symbolic benefits drive consumers' reactions to ARSGs and that the extent to which ARsGs threaten other people's, but not one's own, privacy can strongly influence users' decision making.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a measurement scale that helps firms assess the value of customers in the brand value co-creation process and how much value customers contribute to a brand in the process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the concept of skills and also investigated the skills needed to create and manage disruptive digital business which is emerging from the IT evolution, and made a proposal of a model of skills development for managers of the disruptive business.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors look at how and why SCA can be created by KMP from the educational environment's KBV and RBV and show a significant relationship between KMP and SCA.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the customer experience in relation to retailers' m-commerce mobile applications, and found that the importance of utilitarian factors in driving an effective customer experience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the wine tourism experience using the Experience Economy Model (4Es) and found that the experiences related to education and entertainment dimensions are predominant among the four dimensions of the conceptual framework, and highlighted the relevance of the holistic analysis and "sweet spot" concept of the 4Es model.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper provided a conceptualization of the gratifications derived from brand-consumer interactions, referred to as Brand-Consumer Social Sharing Value (BCSV), using a sample of brands' Facebook page users.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used VOSviewer and SciMAT for the construction of scientific maps to establish the results of creativity research in the scope of business economics and found that initially, creativity was seen as an important skill of an individual and has gradually come to be recognized as a performance drive within organizations to serve as a basis for the development of various study models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the role of materialism in participation in sharing-based programs of the sharing economy cross culturally and found that under certain circumstances, both in America and India, materialism will lead to greater participation in the sharing market.

TL;DR: In this article, a bibliometric analysis of 453 scientific papers on born global firms from the Thompson Reuters's Web of Science™ Core Collection database for the period 1994-2016 is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a behavioral measure of social entrepreneurship orientation (SEO) is proposed to capture entrepreneurial behavior in resource-constrained contexts, and five dimensions of SEO: innovativeness, proactiveness, risk management, effectual orientation and social mission orientation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply a network approach to develop a model that highlights the role of resource acquisition through networks as an important mediating mechanism through which entrepreneurial orientation influences firm performance.

TL;DR: This paper examined the underlying mediating mechanisms in the relationship between knowledge absorptive capacity and firms' innovation performance and found that there are positive relationships between knowledge acquisition, knowledge assimilation, knowledge transformation, and knowledge exploitation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the role of innovativeness in the intellectual capital and organizational performance relationship using a sample of small firms and found a positive relationship between two components of intellectual capital, human capital, and organizational capital.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of breadth of external stakeholder co-creation on innovation performance, considering the mediating roles of knowledge sharing and product innovation, using a set of ordinary-least-squares regression models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how corporate governance and ownership structure relate to the financial performance of firms, and they estimated this relationship using fsQCA and enhanced their analysis using complementary linear and non-linear multiple regression analysis.

TL;DR: This article identified the most appealing factors and analyzed the results through a multi-theory approach as follows: contrary to altruism and warm-glow giving theories, crowdfunding to support social impact projects does not perform well.

TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of psychological ownership as a primary determinant of entrepreneurial orientation in terms of proactiveness, innovativeness and risk taking is emphasized, and the relationship between psychological ownership and entrepreneurial orientation is mediated by knowledge sharing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of brand perception on brand loyalty and brand purchase intention using the lenses of complexity theory and found that it is the combinations of various perceptional elements of brand equity rather than any single factor that have strong impacts on brand loyalties and purchasing intention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether, how and to what extent big data has disrupted the process of board level decision-making, and found evidence of a shortfall in cognitive capabilities in relation to big data, and issues with cognitive biases and cognitive overload.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of extrinsic motivation, such as social pressure or internalized guilt, on employees' psychological needs satisfaction and behavioral intention, and found that when intrinsic motivation is internalized (such as through perceived personal value) it can support needs satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and behavioural intention.