Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 205, issue C, 2026

The shifting meaning of togetherness: How culture and preference convergence enhance advertising co-exposure

José-Domingo Mora

Mindset matters! The active involvement of women in family businesses: harnessing context through the STEP project

Georges Samara, Nupur Pavan Bang, Elisa Conti, Issam Mejri, Andrea Calabrò, Tulsi Jayakumar, Rocio Martinez Jimenez, María-Jesús Hernández-Ortiz and Francisca Panades Zamora

The impact of effectuation on international diversity and performance of SMEs

Wensong Bai, Jie Wu and Sylvie Chetty

Financial information sources and their impact on the financial self-confidence gap between male and female young adult consumers

Tina Harrison, Jake Ansell and D. Eric Boyd

How to liberate human labor? Understanding the interplay of virtual streamer type and interaction style in livestreaming e-commerce

Xiuyuan Gong and Pengkai Sun

The impact of source-based aggregation on content consumption behaviors

Dan Ding, Xiaoyan Xu and Tuan Q. Phan

Following the trend or not? How does peer pressure affect firm’s digital transformation

Na Yang and Xuanyu Chen

Strategic leadership at high altitude: Investigating how AI affects the required skills of top managers

Simone Bevilacqua, Alberto Ferraris, Kurt Matzler and Michal Kuděj

Social credit environment and corporate trade credit financing: Evidence from China

Yuhong Huang, Xiaozhou Chen and Xinmin Chen

Investor risk concern and opportunistic insider sales

Le Lin and Nongwen Li

The paradox of power: why high sense of power suppresses green consumption intentions

Jiatong Dai, Siyu Gong and Ruofei Dai

Uncovering the negative impact of flash sales on instant order cancellations in live streaming

Xueting Zhang, Feng Wang, Xia Cao and Ao Zan

Marketer-generated content in digital social touchpoints: A systematic literature review and research agenda

Bernd F. Reitsamer, Nicola E. Stokburger-Sauer, Johann N. Giertz and Janina S. Nocker

Internationalizing while nurturing symbolic value in differentiated products: cultural events as intermediaries in the internationalization of performing arts

María-Angeles Rastrollo-Horrillo and José C. Casillas

A model for building capabilities among family-controlled multinational corporations in emerging markets

Ayse Ozturk and Steven Y.H. Liu

The effects of organizational status on market entry timing and performance: The biopharmaceutical industry amid environmental disruption

Shinhye Ahn, Theresa S. Cho and Sun Hyun Park

Pacing and path dependence: how strategic consistency in capital reallocation shapes firm performance

Tomoki Hayata

Stakeholder salience and standardisation: The case of the industrial internet of things

Boris van Dongen, Geerten van de Kaa and Marcel Ludema

Merchant guild culture and strategic choices: a subnational perspective

Hengyi Su, Jianbo Huang and Lingyun Chen

Opening the black box: how managers’ political ideologies drive CSR decision-making through information processing

Nida Farman, Susan Freeman, Abdul Waheed Khan, S. Tamer Cavusgil, Huda Khan and Pervez Ghauri

CSR role crafting: bringing corporate social responsibility into individual work roles

Walter D. Davis, W. Randy Evans and Andrea R. Neely

The power of minority: interplay between descriptive norms and emotional appeals on green behaviors

Jungwon Kim, Donghwa Lee and Yongjun Sung

The shorter the response time, the higher the customer satisfaction? An empirical study of online medical consultation services

Jinxin Zhang, Liping Liang, Gustave Florentin Nkoulou Mvondo and Ben Niu

Interpreting and reacting to followers’ proactive work behaviors: the role of leaders’ proactive implicit followership theories

Jian Peng, Qi Nie and Xiao Chen

Making your CSR message effective: A language perspective on the impact of CSR on job seekers’ organizational attraction

Suman Choudhary, Kirti Mishra and Pawan Budhwar

Bitter or better: how social comparison emotions drive coworker altruism and ostracism in response to job crafting

Feifan Yang, Rongwei Chu and Zhijun Chen

The dual faces of cultural heterogeneity in firm growth: Evidence from large-scale employee reviews

Muyu Zhang, Shan Liu, Baojun Gao, Keyu Cui and Guangsen Si

Analyzing consumer satisfaction using Interpretive Structural Modeling driven by online reviews: An integrated approach

Xiao Liu, Ming-Yang Li and Duo-Ning Yuan

Communication consistency in B2B livestreaming: effects of explanatory and affective cues on streamer’s sales performance

Lu Liu, Jiaming Fang, Zhenyu Ji and Md. Altab Hossin

Expectation or stress? How and when subordinates adopt promotive and prohibitive voice in response to leader empowering behavior

Chong Chen, Mingyu Zhang, Cong Xu and Yihua Zhang

The role of social comparison and self-enhancement on consumer-to-consumer helping behavior in online communities

Renata Monteiro Martins, Lucia S.G. Barros, Felipe Zambaldi, Mateus Canniatti Ponchio and Carlos Eduardo Lourenço

Do innovation requirements always boost innovation? The moderating influence of creative Self-Efficacy

Yuhuan Xia, Mingyue Liu, Wenjia Zhang and Yi Liu

Volume 204, issue C, 2026

Customers’ tales: Special-request motives and responses to frontline employees’ denials

Sijun Wang, Liliana L. Bove, Sharon E. Beatty and Fang-Chi Lu

The role of transitory events in shaping subjective well-being among the self-employed: Finland’s tax day effect

Pankaj C. Patel

On what basis do cooperatives engage in the cultivated meat market? Insights from Brazilian cooperatives

Alexandre Borba da Silveira, Gustavo Abib and Germano Glufke Reis

Green or greenwashed? ESG contracting and corporate environmental investment

Xiumei Liu, Youchao Tan, Ziheng Xie and Ruixue Zhou

The way of technological acquisition: Are firms below aspiration level reinforcing the cornerstone?

Jongseon Lee and Nami Kim

Business model innovation from dynamic capabilities perspective: A systematic literature review

Oscar Cruz-Sánchez, Claudio Cruz-Cázares and Alfonso Hernandez-Vivanco

Digital linkage and inter-firm risk spillovers: Evidence based on the knowledge graph

Yuxue Chi, Zhongbo Jing and Wei Zhang

Bringing the founders back in: How does prosocial motivation affect social enterprises’ organizational legitimacy?

Yingzhao Xiao, Anna J.C. Hsu, Kevin Au and Zhen Liu

The impact of abusive supervision on subordinate job satisfaction: The moderating role of subordinate negative affectivity

Orlando C. Richard, Jun Yang and María del Carmen Triana

Technically feasible, ethically questionable? Psychological pitfalls of digital eavesdropping

Kevin Krause and Andrea Groeppel-Klein

Luxury in focus: Decoding image fluency and user engagement on social media

Joanne Yu and Selina Yuqing Xie

Navigating the human-robot workplace: How robotic mental capability shapes employee collaborative intention

Canmian Liu, Xin Liu, Lu Zhang and Christy M.K. Cheung

Developing judgement for business: an AI-based model of independent management learning

Mark Johnson, Elizabeth Maitland and Wolfgang Sofka

Can trustworthiness be trusted? Board chair swift trust in CEOs and R&D investment

Leilei Gu, Danyang Xu, Ruobing Ling, Jianluan Guo and Zhongyang Liu

How challenge demands affect employee innovative behavior? The dual role of team leaders’ Dark Triad personality traits

Yun Na, Ying Lu, Yue Wang and Lingfeng Yi

Paths to innovation ecosystem robustness: An fsQCA of structural and relational conditions in Dutch healthcare innovation ecosystems

Dieudonnee Cobben, Ward Ooms, Nadine Roijakkers and Ard-Pieter de Man

Passion and performance: A moderated mediation model of bricolage and entrepreneurial autonomy

Younggeun Lee and Pol Herrmann

Corporate activism in conflict escalation: The strategy of discursive mediation

Carmen Valor, Elisa Aracil, Carlos Bellón and Laura Fernández-Méndez

A separated service: examining virtual reality experiences of actor groups in a rehabilitative healthcare setting

Higor Leite, Ian R. Hodgkinson and Alison M. Joubert

Consumer price perception under math anxiety: the effects of price levels and bundle framing

Peter Andersen and Fei L. Weisstein

The double-edged sword: polarized stakeholder engagement with corporate sociopolitical activism and its downstream effects on brand performance

Mithila Guha, Daniel Korschun and Trina Larsen Andras

Inspire me to donate: The role of group membership between donor and solicitor

Xiaohong Zhao, Zhiyong Yang and Fengyan Cai

Ties that matter: Effects of domestic political ties and foreign ties on emerging market firm performance

Yisheng Chen, Qun Tan and Chenxi Zhou

Tiny brands, big challenges: The limits of loyalty and the role of penetration in driving growth

Alicia Barker-Trowse, Steven Dunn, Charles Graham, Byron Sharp and Armando Maria Corsi

Performance-induced CEO turnover in China

Linyin Xie, Yifei Chen, Wai Kin Leung and Kam C. Chan

Unpacking the role of context: Understanding ambidextrous orientation in family firms

Isabel C. Botero, M. Cristina Barriuso, Ascension Barroso, Ramon Sanguino and Tomas M. Bañegil

Foreign expansion pressure in the digital era: online media-based institutional pressure and internationalization

Young Soo Yang and Dongyoub Shin

Self-other discrepancy: the role of decision transparency in risky choices

Arslan Javed and Ayse Onculer

“I want to be honest…but how much can I share?”: Sustainable influencing and experiences of moral residue

Amira Mukendi, Iain Davies, Sarah Glozer, Pierre McDonagh and Anne Marie Doherty

Influencers as socioeconomic intermediaries: Democratizing consumption

Thaysa Costa do Nascimento, Isabela Carvalho de Morais and Eliane Zamith Brito

Product recommendation source, persuasive messages and media richness in social commerce

Chin-Lung Hsu, Judy Chuan-Chuan Lin and Yi-Feng Miao