Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 214, issue C, 2026

Handling the beast: How entrepreneurs regulate obsessive passion

Mirjam N. Streeb, Sonja K. Franzke and Matthias Baum

Green innovations and environmental championing: A resource-based approach to innovation implementation

I-Shuo Chen and Jin Nam Choi

AI service robots in physical retail: Can they reduce the intrusiveness of human retail assistants and prevent shoppers from leaving the store early?

Woojin Choi, Ki, Chung-Wha (Chloe) and Lee, Hyunhwan (Aiden)

How Consumers Respond to AI- versus Human-Generated Review Summaries: The Moderating Role of Verbal versus Numerical Probability Expressions

Shaowei Chai, Yaping Chang and Han Wang

Do aggressive jokes push us to the brink of hopelessness? Investigating the roles of team dissonance and team cultural tightness

Fu Yang, Yixuan Gong and Xiaoran Hu

AI washing under media pressure: evidence from China

Mengyu Fu, Jianlin Lu and Renyong Chi

Hitting the mark: How managers’ performance goal assignment and employees’ prior goal attainment influence employee performance

Ruo Mo and Xin Fu

Free versus paid over-the-top video streaming services and the influence of social media

Chang Hee Park, Kim, Jikyung (Jeanne), Youshin Kwak and Jeonghye Choi

Motivation for deviation: How top management team regulatory focus affects strategic distinctiveness

Shihua Chen, Weijia Lin and Khalil Jebran

The power of facial allure: How AI streamer facial physical and emotional attractiveness drive consumer engagement

Miyan Liao, Jiaming Fang, Lintong Han, Yangting Zhang and Lu Liu

Service robot failure: The interplay of monetary compensation and voice anthropomorphism

Maximilian Bruder and Michael Paul

More than a collaborator: the rise of human-machine symbiosis in service frontlines

Khanh B.Q. Le, Laszlo Sajtos and Werner H. Kunz

Unraveling the institutional paradox of social entrepreneurship: Evidence from pro-market institutions

Xing Li, Niels Bosma and Wanxiang Cai

From personality traits to types: a person-centered framework of global leadership

Madelynn Stackhouse and Marketa Rickley

CEO nonlocality and corporate misbehavior: a social identity perspective

Tao Wang, Yongqing Ye, Jun Xia and Xiaoyang Deng

Enacting AI from the perspective of effectuation and causation

Daniel Lupp

Time and timing matter: The role of temporal leadership in the emergence and effectiveness of team voice

Zhipeng Zhang, Shuxia Zhang, Guangjian Liu, Chao Liu, Runna Wang and Lynda Jiwen Song

How job design explains business analyst recruitment challenges

Ransome Epie Bawack, Oteng Ntsweng and Emilie Bonhoure

The robot won’t look at you: Anticipatory face loss in unethical consumer behavior toward artificial intelligence

Jiaming Liang, Yimin Zhu and Jifei Wu

The loneliness-enhancing effect of anthropomorphism: How anthropomorphic robots increase consumers’ loneliness

Changdian Deng, Yaping Chang and Lixiao Geng

Influencing differently: how Chinese male beauty influencers develop influencer marketing beyond Silicon Valley

Shuyu Yang and Jack Waverley

The role of organization type in shaping consumer perceptions of trust, competence, and goodwill – and its impact on green product purchase intentions

Andrzej Szymkowiak, Marta Szaban and Daria Plotkina

Retraction notice to “The ripple effect of abusive supervision: A longitudinal examination of psychological contract breach, turnover intentions, and resilience among third parties” [J. Bus. Res. 189 (2025) 115141]

Yannick Griep, Johannes M. Kraak, Wieke M. Knol, Johannes Dolislager and Elizabeth M. Beekman

Words speak louder than actions: Perceived bragging’s negative effect on consumers’ preference for prosocial companies

Eric Narcum, Subhash Jha and George D. Deitz

Antecedents and outcomes of customer engagement with climate-friendly transportation services

Saleh Bazi, Jiexian Chloe Huang, Matthew Gorton and Barbara Tocco

Customer engagement in circular economy initiatives: Exploring pathways toward climate change mitigation in the apparel industry

Frederic Dreher and Tim Ströbel

Developing a typology of Business-to-Business (B2B) customer journeys

Christina Kuehnl, Ekaterina Panina and Moritz Tischer

The technostress paradox: Understanding when CRM systems and their AI functions hurt or help sales performance

James Adeniji, Reika Igarashi, Merve Vardarsuyu and Ghasem Zaefarian

Empowering sales teams for market sensing and market performance

Ryan Mullins, Bulent Menguc and Adam Rapp

Unveiling the underlying mechanism of customers’ resistance to AI–powered healthcare: An information input perspective

Ran Wang and Yaping Chang

Volume 213, issue C, 2026

Product-harm crises and corporate tax reporting

Yifei Chen, Dan Palmon, An Qin and Dan Ding

Exploring the spillover effects of a family member’s personal health crisis on the family business

Kristen K. Shanine, Kristen Madison and Marilyn V. Whitman

Breaking barriers, building wellbeing: an inclusive metaverse framework

Maja Golf-Papez, Debbie Isobel Keeling, Ko de Ruyter and Tim Hilken

Can prototype followers create leaders’ positive perceptions of them? A study on follower group prototypicality and empowering leader behavior

Yahua Cai, Jinhua Ye, Amer Ali Al-Atwi, Zhengyu Li and Yuanmeng Wang

Emergent change in family firms: the interplay between start-ups, family firm employees, and owner-managers in innovation collaborations

Laura Doriane Baumgärtner, Jonas Soluk and Nadine Kammerlander

Democratic distance in cross-border M&A: How political system alignment shapes ownership strategy

Jong Min Lee, Jooyoung Kwak and Xinyue Zhang

Strategic under-disclosure in online property platforms: listing agent credibility and buyer response to sparse listings

Tenace Setor, Faheem Shaikh and Damien Joseph

Hybrid regimes and international business: Exploring the interplay between democracy and authoritarianism in the belt and road initiative

Peter J. Buckley, Hussain G. Rammal and Ryan W. Tang

Volume 212, issue C, 2026

Perceived financial scarcity leads to financial avoidance: the mediation of financial self-efficacy and financial risk avoidance

Xue Wang, Xueli Guo, Wei-Fen Chen, Qinglu Wu and Song Su

Why more isn’t always better: Examining the effects of network density on firms’ likelihood of new product innovation

Eric Schaap, Dominik Mahr, Ines Wilms, Jonas Klingwort and Dhruv Grewal

Do companies’ climate change actions increase customers’ attitudinal loyalty? An empirical investigation of direct, mediating, and moderation effects

Valentina Ndou, Giovanni Pino and Elisabetta Raguseo

Using sensor technology to evaluate the effects of a price promotion on store arrival traffic

Ignacio Inostroza-Quezada, Leonardo D. Epstein and Ronald C. Goodstein

The spillover effects of ESG performance on the trade credit: A supplier-customer dyad perspective

Liukai Wang, Shenghao Xie, Na A, Jason X. Wang and Fengsheng Chien

Linking business analytics to firm performance: A mixed-method analysis of capabilities, decision quality, and firm size

Xenia J. Mamakou

Defining problems worth solving: Design thinking practices in the problem space, data technologies, and radical innovation

Dell’Era, Claudio, Marina Candi, Stefano Magistretti, Roberto Verganti and Ileana Stigliani

Does home bias persist? The effect of funder experience on home bias

Kristian Roed Nielsen and Jan Michael Bauer

Digital-driven strategy and corporate greenwashing: evidence from the overlapping policies of the broadband China and big data comprehensive pilot zones

Ruizeng Zhao and Yan Jiang

AI Tsunami: The role of AI in reshaping firms’ labor skill structure

Jiancong Tao and Yujie Xu

Different values, different ways: How ideological diversity within top management teams influences strategic distinctiveness

Yungu Kang, David H. Zhu and M.K. Chin

AI strategy under institutional pressure: strategic conformity and decision-making in large language models

Timo Stoeber, Jonas Hammerschmidt, Alexander Lundervold, Endrit Kromidha, Dominik K. Kanbach and Sascha Kraus

Employee and asset retrenchment strategies in SMEs: An institutional perspective

Rachid Achbah and Sylvie Rouchon

Managerial ability, CEO overconfidence, and firm value

Tuba Toksoz, Sebahattin Demirkan, Irem Demirkan and Birendra Mishra

Chatbot failures in e-commerce after-sales service: mechanisms linking perceived corporate hypocrisy to third-party complaints

Yu Zhang and Yue Yuan

Too hard to imagine: material versus experiential product preference while seeking happiness

Aekyoung Kim

The leftover effect: how shelf spacing between leftover products affects purchase intention of subsequent consumers

Hao Liu, Xiaoling Guo, Mo Luan and Martin Heinberg

Does salesperson polychronicity yield value-based selling initiatives in business-to-business markets? A multilevel moderation perspective

Jingbo Yuan, Bilal Ahmad, Zhilin Yang, Hiram Ting and Khuram Shahzad

Deciphering pressure signals: a cross-level model of performance pressure transmission from team leaders to team members

Ning Chen and Lu Chen

The allocative channel of digital transformation: Information precision and production-network spillovers

Mingrui Gu and Cunyi Yang