Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 196, issue C, 2025

The Influence of the Perceived Hedonic vs. Utilitarian Product Type on Consumers’ Brand Engagement on Social TV

Sen, Sahana (Shahana), Michele Gorgoglione and Umberto Panniello

On the relevance of mandatory executive pay ratio disclosure: Evidence from India

Nidhi S. Bisht, Mahmood Mohebshahedin, Arun Kumar Tripathy, Ashish Mahajan and Amit Kumar Gupta

Self-proximity in augmented reality enhances consumer’s responses to green products through anticipated warm glow

Virginie Lavoye, Olivia Petit, Anssi Tarkiainen and Jenni Sipilä

Unpacking human-AI interaction: Exploring unintended consequences on employee Well-being in entrepreneurial firms through an in-depth analysis

Jianwen Zheng, Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Muhammad Mustafa Kamal, Xiaoyang Liang and Ebtesam Abdullah Alzeiby

Cultivating relationships between foreign multinationals and barricaded government buyers in emerging markets

Christiaan Röell, Wilson Ng and Felix Arndt

Smart manufacturing and supply chain resilience: Evidence from an emerging market

Xuan Bai, Kevin Zheng Zhou, Wei Jiang, Yongqiang Li and Xin Chen

Salesperson self-esteem: Measure development and validation

Nadia Pomirleanu and Babu John-Mariadoss

Are morally courageous leaders more effective?

Arménio Rego, Ace Volkmann Simpson, Dustin J. Bluhm and Miguel Pina e Cunha

Multiple social roles increase risk-taking in consumer decisions

Dan Liu, Xiaobing Xu and Zheng Yang

Does faster always mean better? The negative marketing consequences of fast product upgrade frequency

Wumei Liu, Manxin Wang and Jingjing He

An innovation intermediary’s role in enhancing absorptive capacity for cross-industry digital innovation: Introducing an awareness capability and new intermediary practices

Andrea Kerstens and David J. Langley

Do conflicts in cooperation matter to open innovation? An empirical study of industrial clusters in China

Rui Xu and Christian Felzensztein

Patents, trade secrets and performance aspirations in family firms

Katrin Hussinger and Wunnam Basit Issah

How does work passion affect employees’ radical and incremental creativity? —— A three-way interaction model

Ye Yang, Ling Yuan, Long Ye and Songlin Yang

Brand influences on the relationship between livestream seller commissions and sales

Jiani Jiang, Bruce A. Huhmann and Shiang Liu

Measuring true bootlegging: Conceptualization, scale development and validation

Di Zhao, Hongyu Wang and Xianliu Kou

Rethinking the top management team demographic faultlines–firm performance relationship: The roles of TMT temporal stability and TMT hierarchical differentiation

Kaili Li, Renjing Liu, Jiamin Dong and Yi Li

Growth hacking capability: Conceptualization, survey instrument development, and empirical study of its impact on firm performance

Manjul Gupta, Arman Ghafoori, Eunyoung Kim, Mohammad I. Merhi and Raffaele Filieri

Creativity is a journey, not a destination: A team flow theory perspective for service workers

Anastasia Kulichyova, Alisha Ali, Martin McCracken, Judith Woods and Sandra Moffett

Volume 195, issue C, 2025

Psychosocial resources linking consumer identification and social well-being: Integrating the social identity approach with transformative service research

Yuhei Inoue, Mikihiro Sato, Steve Swanson, Daniel Lock, James Du and Daniel C. Funk

On an even keel: Temporal balance, ADHD, and self-employment

Marcus T. Wolfe, Maria João Guedes, Pankaj C. Patel and Johan Wiklund

How categories grow: The behavioural drivers of revenue growth

Steven Dunn, Magda Nenycz-Thiel, Charles Graham, John Dawes, Nick Danenberg, Arry Tanusondjaja, Giang Trinh and Bruce McColl

One requirement, multiple insights: The impact of innovation job requirement on employee radical and incremental creativity

Xin Qi, Xiyao Liu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Yuhuan Xia, Shasha Liu, Hui Lin and Ziyao Wang

Pro-Self or Pro-Social? how AI and human job replacement elicit compensatory responses

Xiaofei Bai, Hao Zhang, Zengguang Ma and Chenyue Qi

A meta-analytic review of live streaming commerce research through the lens of means-end-chain

Xiaoyu Xu, Huan Sun and Qingdan Jia

Dark sides of algorithmic control in app-based gig work: An objectification perspective

Yihao Yang, Ming Chi, Xinhua Bi and Yongshun Xu

Mutual scrutiny and information exchange: Uncovering R&D Partners’ impact on ESG performance in the biopharmaceutical industry

Yahan Hu and Qinqin Zheng

Force majeure in business relationships

Davide Burkhart and Christoph Bode

Volume 194, issue C, 2025

Blurred lines? Disentangling the roles of consumers’ influencer- and brand engagement in shaping brand performance

Welf H. Weiger, Johann N. Giertz, Maik Hammerschmidt and Linda D. Hollebeek

The dual role of flexibility in driving innovation ambidexterity and firm performance

Thi Thanh Huong Tran, Maud Van den Broeke and Nicholas G. Paparoidamis

To be Participative or Laissez-Faire? Supervisors’ coping strategies to ego depletion depend on their power distance orientation

Yao Wang, Wang, Xiao-Hua (Frank), Guo, Zhiya (Alice), Zhang, Shuxia (Carrie) and Russell E. Johnson

Mapping consumer well-being: Contextualization, conceptualization, and classification using topic modeling

Charlotte Gaston-Breton and M. Cristina De Stefano

When thinking you’re good makes you dumber: An investigation of consumers’ earned dogmatism

Damien Chaney, Magali Trelohan and David Moroz

Freemium vs. Deterrence: Optimizing revenue in the face of piracy competition

Cheng-Han Wu, Netnapha Chamnisampan and Liou Sin

Looking at the Stars: Status shifts after collective achievements

Vincenzo Butticè, Angelo Natalicchio and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

I feel it, I buy it: Deploy AR-based product presentation to generate satisfying tactile experiences in online retail

Min Zhang, Yiwei Li, Yuxuan Sun and Lin Sun

The evolution of modern branding: Historical origins, current perspectives, and future directions

Kevin Lane Keller

Journal of Business Research Publications 1973–2024: Topics, methodological approaches, data, and analyses conducted

Praveen K. Kopalle, Donald R. Lehmann, Divya Ramachandran and Ruud Wetzels

Is it real or not? construction of meaning and identity in virtual influencer marketing

Jamie Thompson, Reika Igarashi, Agata Krowinska and Ashleigh Logan-McFarlane

Service marketing mix and customer engagement: A meta-analysis

Sudeep Rohit, Kumar Rakesh Ranjan and G. Shainesh

Innovations in Healthcare: A systematic literature review

Sandhya Mishra and Karuna Jain

Intermediaries that facilitate university–industry research partnerships: A systematic literature review

Jinghong Sun, Xuefeng Liu and Jing Cai

Unintended consequences of service robots – Recent progress and future research directions

Nima Heirati, Valentina Pitardi, Jochen Wirtz, Chanaka Jayawardhena, Werner Kunz and Stefanie Paluch

A counter-stereotype perspective on female CEOs and acquisition intensity

Guoguang Wan, Shili Chen, Mingyun Huai, Qian Lu and Lida L. Zhang

Accountability and referent Selection: Evidence from Chinese mutual funds

Zian Yang and Zhi Yang

Navigating the technology-tide: Mitigating the impact of technology-related political risks on firm innovativeness through strategic diversification and board technology competency

Jinglu Jiang, Soheil Goodarzi, Surinder Kahai and Ann-Frances Cameron

Unpacking the inverted U-shaped relationship between CEO polychronicity and business model implementation: The moderating role of the CEO-TMT interface

Yi Wang, Along Liu, Chenglin Jin and Meng Shao

Democracy’s political ideology and corporate political activities: The role of state capacity, firm size, and capital location

Alfredo Jiménez, Secil Bayraktar, Seong-Jin Choi and Chinmay Pattnaik

Trademark intensity and firm performance in family versus non-family firms: The role of organizational and knowledge capital

Pankaj C. Patel and Alfredo De Massis

How social entrepreneurs search for knowledge to solve complex social problems – An empirically based model and typology

Daniel J. Kruse, Katrin Eling and Cornelius Herstatt

Examining the complementary roles of market-driven and market-driving orientations in the geographical diversification strategies of e-commerce SMEs

Uyen Vu and Daniel Tolstoy

Enabling social identity work in social enterprises by leveraging hybridity

Margot Leger, Sebastian Gram Nguyen Rasmussen and Franziska Günzel-Jensen

Sustainability orientation in business Incubators: Empirical Evidence from France

Sofia Lamperti, Jean-Marie Courrent and Sylvie Sammut

The role of intellectual capital and women managers in the internationalization-performance relationship: An analysis of Spanish hotel firms

Rosario Andreu, Laura Rienda and Lorena Ruiz-Fernández

Consumers’ smartphone addiction: Impact of engagement and app type on wellbeing

Emi Moriuchi, Linda D. Hollebeek and Weng Marc Lim

Credit Dom(me)s, BNPL switches and debt subs: Experiences of pain and pleasure

Ruffin Relja, Philippa Ward, Richard Cook and Anita Lifen Zhao

Affiliative or self-defeating? Exploring the effect of humor types on customer forgiveness in the context of AI agents’ service failure

Yuguang Xie, Peiyu Zhou, Changyong Liang, Shuping Zhao and Wenxing Lu

Price green inference: The role of green = higher production cost lay belief

Amogh Kumbargeri and Sanjeev Tripathi

Internal marketing and organizational performance: A systematic review and future research agenda

David M. Brown, Steven Pattinson, Caroline Sutherland and Mark A.P. Davies

Consumers demand transparency… but do they actually engage? Exploring motives and interactions with brand transparency information

Kate Sansome, Jodie Conduit and Dean Wilkie

From consumers to consumption: The socio-technical assemblage of the persona in market segmentation

Henna Syrjälä, Carlos Diaz Ruiz, Hanna Leipämaa-Leskinen and Harri T. Luomala

Fully leveraging AI in B2B sales: Exploring sales managers’ capabilities and organizational knowledge processes

Pia Hautamäki and Minna Heikinheimo

How prior ties influence organizational behaviors and performance outcomes: A meta-analysis

Lihan Zhang, Bo Liu, Yongcheng Fu, Sujuan Zhang and Wenqian Guo

Trust and corporate governance in interfirm negotiations

Heather R. Parola, Kimberly M. Ellis, Lee C. Jarvis and Toufiq Nazrul

Top-down environmental quality regulation and boundary pollution control: Evidence in boundary towns of China

Weifen Lin and Longzheng Du