Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 208, issue C, 2026

Strategic responses to federal prosecution: A study of lobbying intensity and breadth in publicly traded firms

Rebecca Bogie, Lee Warren Brown, Jenny Gu and R. Greg Bell

Digitalization for survival: the impact of the duration of negative attainment discrepancy on enterprise digitalization breadth and intensity

Shiyi Tang, Wan Liu and Liang Han

Perceived femvertising: Measurement and implications for brand performance

Vu Phuong Uyen Ho, Syed Mahmudur Rahman, Jana Lay-Hwa Bowden and Jamie Carlson

My luxury my way: Crafting luxury experience in transient moments

Szu-Hsin Wu and Ruby Wenjiao Zhang

Functional and moral brand lapses sparking negative online brand engagement and anti-brand community growth

Xinyu Dong, Cleopatra Veloutsou and Anna Morgan-Thomas

Unbalanced ties, unequal leadership: network structure, status variation, and leader cultural orientations in LMX differentiation

Farid Jahantab and Huda Masood

Responsibility beyond the point of sale: Leveraging product stewardship to mitigate Scope 3 emissions

Lukas Schnabl, Anna-Karina Schmitz, Emily Waltermann and Katharina Göring-Lensing-Hebben

AI adoption and human value within organizations

Kunyi Wang, Kevin Zheng Zhou and Xuan Bai

ESG rating disclosure and corporate bond credit spreads: a time-varying difference-in-differences analysis from China

Gang Du, Xiaoling Ouyang, Ruipeng Tan and Lei Zhang

Trust in, isolation out: the impact of collective mindfulness on individual trust, perceived isolation, and employees’ feelings of energy at work

Aldijana Bunjak, Matej Černe, Heike Bruch and Amadeja Lamovšek

A regulatory fit explanation of financial and environmental performance

Jinyun Duan, Yue Zhu, Xiaotian Wang and Lixiaoyun Shi

The impact of mobile channel switching on purchase incidence: A cognitive load perspective

Xueting Zhang, Yajie Li, Jian Li, Lingji Wang and Feng Wang

When size doesn’t matter: The impact of unexpected surcharges on consumer reactions

Daniel Chaein Lee, Jungkeun Kim, Jihoon Jhang, Jooyoung Park, Areum Cho and Jaehoon Lee

Non-Fungible Token or physical product? Uncovering the effects of souvenir type and scenic type on tourist engagement

Yichen Zhao, Shan Li, Xinjian Liang and Jiaolong Xue

Understanding Gen Z consumers’ perceptions of sustainable fashion clothing:a PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach

Fulya Acikgoz, Abdelsalam Busalim, Theo Lynn and Noorminshah A. Iahad

Digital human avatars as virtual influencers shape climate engagement and pro-environmental commitment

Xi Luo, Weng Marc Lim, Ayoung Suh, Izian Idris, Pei Shan Soon, Lan Ma and Jun-Hwa Cheah

Face reading technology: improving preference prediction from self-reports using micro-expressions

Pantelis Karapanagiotis, Franziska Krause and Janina Krick

Stories that matter: the effects of narrative transportation and influencer-message congruity on prosocial behavior

Ser Zian Tan, Lin Yang, Wee Hong Loo and Anuja Chalke

To balance between efficiency and fairness: leveraging CSR as optimal distinctive instrument

Lingyun Zhou, Dan Hu and Liang Liang

Firm complexity and capital structure: evidence from U.S. public firms

Rudresh Pandey

Leadership styles revisited: From conceptual conflation to causal explanation and practical relevance

Thomas Fischer, Joerg Dietz and John Antonakis

How moral brand transgressions impact perceptions of social media message credibility

Scott Connors and Sean T. Hingston

A market-focused RBV on green product innovation: Detailing the relationships between market responsiveness, green product innovation and new product performance

Yaru Liu, Nengmin Wang, Jim Andersén and Wei Huang

The paradox of ambidexterity: marketing and service-sales in the spotlight

Omar S. Itani, Nawar N. Chaker, Mohd Atif Aman, Khashayar Kash Afshar Bakeshloo and Samer El Hajjar

Customer data privacy & security as a firm strategy: financial implications, risks, and the role of product-market competition

Panagiotis Avramidis, Nikolaos G. Panagopoulos, Konstantinos Serfes and Pavlos A. Vlachos

Douse the flames or fuel the fire? The impact of ESG mutual funds on strategic textual disclosure in ESG reports

Ruiqian Li, Jihui Dong and Muyao Li

Institutional investors and MNE establishment mode choice

Yue Zhao, Ronaldo Parente, Le Xu and Cinara Gambirage

The impact of diversity practices on ESG and the moderating role of TMT pre-career exposure to religion

Yeongsu Anthony Kim and María del Carmen Triana

Racial and ethnic differences in entrepreneurship

Christopher J. Boudreaux

Alliances with frenemies: capability-building mechanisms linking coopetition to firm performance

Arash Sadeghi, Omid Aliasghar and Vahid J. Sadeghi

Resource mobilization through bricolage for sustainable outcomes in a non-profit organization

Fadia Bahri Korbi, Yang Liu and Mokter Hossain

ESG rating divergence, greenwashing, and supply chain performance: the role of guanxi

Bozhi Fu and Xiaoyong Wei

Can sustainable technology features of products stimulate market performance? The perspective of consumer engagement in climate change

Yumeng Luo, Saleh Bazi, Shajara Ul-Durar, Marco De Sisto and Nadja Damij

Interactive effects of multiple types of exogenous uncertainty and prior experience on strategic investment decisions: A real options perspective

Hong Li and Gerardus J.M. Lucas

Double-edged sword effects of leader self-deprecating humor on employee feedback-seeking behavior: A social perception perspective

Chen Yang, Lu Zhang, Ying Zhang and Jinhua Sun

Linking strategic leadership to innovation and competitive advantage: The roles of strategic choices and organizational culture in SMEs

Tasneem Fatima, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Awais Ejaz, Fauzia Syed, Muhammad Usman and Nacef Mouri

Partner corporate social responsibility and alliance governance structure: a reputation-based framework and evidence

Lucas Liang Wang and Qing Dai

Managerial myopia and firms’ competitive strategies: the inhibitory effect on differentiation

Ziqiang Tong, Baihuan Zhang, Zhaoliang Wu and Jia Ma

Hidden costs of power: leaders’ knowledge hiding and innovation performance

Hafsa Bashir, Meng Fanchen and Shaham Saleem

Volume 207, issue C, 2026

A multi-actor collaborative governance pattern of crisis communication: Computational grounded analysis based on BERTopic

Mingxi Du and Yingzhong Hou

VAMOS: Value assessment method for smart services

Claudius M. Jonas, Felicitas Kuch and Anna Maria Oberländer

Does entrepreneurial learning translate into personal initiative in the workplace? A role congruity perspective

Davide Hahn, Azzurra Meoli and Giuliano Sansone

Explaining consumer climate engagement: a conceptual model and a typology based on social exchange and construal level theory

Stefanie Wannow and Martin Haupt

Symbolic self-completion: The case of sell-side analysts

Peter Clarkson, Ru Gao, Jiaxing You and Yankun Zhou

Interpreting disruption: how managers perceptions shape strategic responses

Sunil Sarferaz and Florian Urmetzer

What drives CSR specialization? The roles of relative marketing capability and market conditions

Fangyuan Teng, Mahabubur Rahman and Seongsoo Jang

A better tomorrow? Work and well-being in the entrepreneurial society

Joel B. Carnevale, Michael Frese, Sarah L. Jack, Sharon K. Parker and Johan Wiklund

Don’t shoot the messenger: the impact of anthropomorphized chatbots and recommendations during a process service failure☆

Carol L. Esmark Jones, Christian Barney Neuman, Brett Kazandjian, Joel Collier and Tyler Hancock

The impact of self-service technologies on consumer-retailer relationships: navigating trust, contribution, and the role of consumers as partial employees

Bertrand Audrin and Reza Etemad-Sajadi

Search vs. site retargeting: A holistic look to retargeting

Baojun Jiang, Chakravarthi Narasimhan and Ozge Turut

Zero pricing in ICT bundle offers: does it reinforce or weaken anticompetitive effects?

Youngwook Koo, Minki Kim and Minsoo Park

Digital new products in virtual worlds – How do limited-time offers influence consumers’ adoption behavior?

Christian Pescher, Oliver Hinz, Ju-Young Kim and Martin Spann

Advancing capability-actualization through human–robot collaboration: A strengths-based approach

Stefan Burggraf, Angelo Ranieri, Cristina Mele and Kristina Heinonen

Organizational adaptation and willingness to bear uncertainty: the role of CEO personality and government influence

Johan Bruneel, Gabriella Padilla and Matthias Staessens

Impact of content and emotion congruency on tipping: evidence from live streaming

Ziyang Huang, Kun Chen and Ting Xu

Loneliness increases consumers’ preference for virtual human companionship

Junyun Liao, Xinyue Wang and Xuebing Dong

Neither side gained: Exploring the impact of customer illegitimate tasks on service sabotage behavior of gig workers

Chao Zhang, Jinlian Luo and Zhu Yao

Storytelling through images: understanding the persuasive effectiveness of social media influencers’ visual narratives

Xing Zhang, Xinyu Ji, Pengfei Cao and Quan Xiao

When are reposts effective? Exploring the effects of OSM user engagement and post types on sales

Lifei Bai, Xiaorong Fu, Xiaoyan Xu and Tao Yin

Explicit strategy articulation and entrepreneurial orientation in dynamic and hostile environments

Anna M. Pastwa, Mathew Hughes, Hans Bruining, Aart Willem Saly and Ernst Verwaal

Transmission of democracy to a better business environment: roles of regulation and institutions

Wajid Ali, Devi Prasad Dash, Bhushan Praveen Jangam, Amit Singh and Nripendra P. Rana

From handshakes to hashtags: Fostering digital human touch in business interactions

Zsófia Tóth, Jun Luo, Martin J. Liu, Ruizhi Yuan, Omar S. Itani and Mona Mrad

Beyond the words: how reviewer status and review features jointly affect helpfulness in online employee reviews

Jong Min Kim, Marcello Mariani and Kyusung Hwang

Compassionate innovation: reframing ethical innovation through the relational lens of dependent origination

Somendra Narayan and Subhadeep Datta

Consumers’ acceptance of in-store technologies through the lens of segmentation

Aidin Namin, Rupinder P. Jindal, Dinesh K. Gauri, Brian T. Ratchford and Seth C. Ketron

Feelings over reasons: The impact of exposure to nature on consumer decision making

Sunxu Xu and Ying Ding

Epistemic objects and curious collectors: The revelation

Sheila Malone, Brendan Keegan and Dominic Medway

Corrigendum to “Enhancing ESG practices in supply chain operations through information disclosure: The “ETHICS” framework”. [J. Busin. Res. 201 (2025) 115668]

Yifan Cao, Bin Shen and Tana Siqin

What can service research contribute to better understand B2B: Editorial for the special issue “Service Research in Business-to-Business Marketing”

Mohamed Zaki, Anders Gustafsson, Janet McColl-Kennedy and Lars Witell

Transactions and relationships in stakeholder theory: A Luhmannian view

Vladislav Valentinov, Ingo Pies and Felix Carl Schultz

Through Thick or Thin: A Recursive Model of Workplace Slights and Social Relationships

Feigu Zhou, James M. Vardaman and Kyle Stockdall

The paradoxical consequences of high performers: how and when subordinate performance drives paradoxical leader behaviors

Lei Lu, Yiyong Zhou and Guiquan Li

Contractual arrangements and information consistency: How ESG executive compensation incentives affect corporate AI disclosure

Yiqiang Zhou, Lianghua Chen, Fangfang Zhou and Maoran Ye

The interplay between firm innovation, digital capabilities and HR skills and practices: The moderating role of GVC participation

Ioannis Giotopoulos, Areti Gkypali and Aggelos Tsakanikas

Cultivating a responsible dining mindset: Pro-environmental voice behavior by frontline service employees in restaurants

Li Lin-Schilstra, Mengyu He and Wenjing Cai

Executive job demands and corporate social irresponsibility: An investigation of corporate divestiture setting

Azadeh Sabz, Sana Chiu and Seemantini Pathak

Beyond the post: Crafting influencer marketing strategies across the funnel

Gloria Peggiani and Lucio Lamberti