Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2026

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 216, issue C, 2026

Startups’ sustainable business models as reference points for achieving the optimal integration of value networks

Daniel Eichenberg and Maik Hammerschmidt

A taxonomy of machine learning, AI, and generative AI in marketing: Recent applications and future directions

Koen W. De Bock, Ronnie Das and Raffaele Filieri

Categorizing customer perceptions of sustainable product packaging: Analyzing online reviews using large language models

Gulnara Mamirkulova, Adnan Muhammad Shah, Emma-Line Munk, Raja Ahmed Jamil, Abdul Qayyum and KangYoon Lee

Is it worthwhile for executives to spend time on social media? Evidence from China

Yu Zhang, Qingfeng Zeng, Xiya Wang and Weiguo Fan

Standing out while fitting in: content strategy and performance in social media marketing

Fei Wang, Liyi Yang, Shan Wang, Fang Wang and Min Zhang

The unintended ethical cost: How and when AI-human cooperation is associated with unjust decisions

Luyuan Jiang, Xin Qin, Kaifeng Jiang, Chen Chen, Xiaowei Dong and Jingtong Zheng

Strength in service: an Afrocentric framework for understanding customer vulnerability

Thomas Anning-Dorson

Stimulating older customers’ digital self-efficacy: A strengths-based approach to reduce digital vulnerability in augmented reality

Caro Ceyssens, Nanouk Verhulst and Michiel Vermeulen

Upframing the strength-based approach: liberating the natural strength of birthright human identity

Qusay Hamdan and Raymond P. Fisk

A multi-study on immersive technology and consumer wellbeing: role of openness to experience in tourism industry

Muhammad Ishtiaq Ishaq, Ali Raza, Asifa Younas, Qurat-ul-ain Talpur and Rehan Ahmad

Bridging the gap: The impact of proximity, efficacy and identity in our response to the climate crisis

Manish Das, Victor Saha, Subhrajit Paul and Mrinal Kanti Paul

Editorial: the bright and dark sides of in-store technology

Anne L. Roggeveen, Nancy Puccinelli, Abhijit Guha and Jens Nordfält

Haggling as consumer participation in pricing: A conflict and persuasion perspective

Kyoung-Nan Kwon and Yoo Jin Kwon

Toxic trade-offs: How peer-adjusted abnormal chemical emissions impact return on equity

Jan P. Hackmann and Paul P. Momtaz

When work legitimizes family favoritism: A cross-border moral licensing perspective on antecedents of unethical pro-family behavior

Shuwei Zong, Li Guo, Wenxing Liu and Jih-Yu Mao

Feminine-coded traits and behaviors as foundations for effective leadership

Zuzanna Staniszewska, Martyna Śliwa, Tamer Koburtay, Claudia Eger and Jawad Syed

Illegitimate tasks and work performance: double-edged effects contingent on core self-evaluations

Jianfeng Jia, Zhi Liu, Huaiqian Zhu, Weipeng Lin and Xiaojuan Tang

How extraordinary experiences drive stronger emotional brand attachment?

Ying Ying Li, Kevin E. Voss and Yuechen Wu

How bribery undermines the productivity gains of exporting: the role of institutional trust

Eliane Choquette and Marcus M. Larsen

Iron cages or open horizons? Exploring the influence of entrepreneurial ecosystem industry activity in new venture ideation

Austin R. Brown, Matthew S. Wood, David W. Williams and Eduardo Cuervo

From image to mind: the impact of tableware cues on audience engagement with social media food images

Yuzhe Xie, Fang Wang and Xiao-Ping Zhang

Rebalancing: The effect of corporate investment under digital environmental regulation

Youliang Jin, Qinxin Zhao and Huixiang Zeng

ESG performance, supply chain spillover and corporate financial distress

Yan Yang, Dandan Zhu, Jinyu Chen and Wu Chen

How artificial intelligence usage influences status conferral in teams: The moderating role of learning goal orientation

Gang He, Shengjun Zhang, Caidie Wu, Jinsong Li and Shanshan Wang

Empowering the visually impaired through smart voice assistants: a strengths-based approach to resilience

Floriane Goosse, Wafa Hammedi and Dominik Mahr

Immersive technology experience and user well-being: Growth mindset as a mechanism for intrinsic value and real-life happiness

Andreawan Honora, Arnold Japutra, Tianyi Long and Sebastian Molinillo

Voice of bias or fairness? How the voice gender of virtual agents affects workplace reward allocation

Ruixi Wang, Zhengyu Shen and Yunlu Yin

Antecedents and outcomes of customer adaptiveness in B2B solution selling: insights from the trade show industry

Victoria Kramer, Manfred Krafft, Stefan Worm and Sundar G. Bharadwaj

Linking leaders’ commitment to change to employees’ attitudes and behaviors during organizational change: The role of ethical leadership

Hyunjoo Lee and Jiseon Shin

How in-store QR codes shape the in-store customer experience

Matilda Holkkola, Tiina Kemppainen, Tiina Kaleton, Markus Makkonen and Lauri Frank

Affordable loss meets staging logic: how complementary heuristics drive small firms’ internationalization

Jamshid Alinasab, Vida Siahtiri and O’Cass, Aron

When stories backfire: how emotional appeals trigger others’ ownership in peer-to-peer fashion resale

Eunsoo Baek, Tung Yan Lee and Ying Qu

The governance paradox: how sharing economy platforms redistribute risks for providers and consumers

Michael Moorhouse and June Cotte

The good and the bad of transparency in CSR reporting

Andrea H. Tangari, Alexander Davidson, Cassandra Davis and Swati Verma

When self-congruence backfires: how Dark Triad consumers react to Dark Triad brand personalities

Silvia Blas Riesgo, Andrea Giuffredi-Kähr and Lucia Malär

Always on, never still: navigating the tensions of value creation within the livestreaming ecosystem

Martina Quadri, Daniela Andreini and Rossella Gambetti

CEO compensation and the political environment

Humnath Panta, David Rakowski, Salil K. Sarkar and Abdul A. Rasheed

Firm maturity and corporate biodiversity risk

Viput Ongsakul, Pornsit Jiraporn, Pattanaporn Chatjuthamard, Pandej Chintrakarn and Hongxia Wang

Mitigating shareholder concerns about ambitious corporate carbon neutrality goal setting

Shuhan Wang, Di Fan, Chris K.Y. Lo and Andy C.L. Yeung

Employee directors and pay equity: evidence from China

Xiaoyan Li, Jun Zhai, Rixin Liang and Yubin Li

No matter near or far: why soliciting donors via smartphones reduces inequities in funding across local and distant nonprofit organizations

Benjamin E. Borenstein, Claudia Townsend, Caglar Irmak and Vincentia Yuen

How can hedonic digital services enhance consumers’ perceived quality of life?

Winze Tam, Omar Merlo and Andreas B. Eisingerich

How AI matters for competitive advantage: a managerial cognition perspective on managing the triple role of AI and dynamic capabilities

Yao Wu, Yu Long, Chenyu Xie and Jingkun Bi

Can you feel it? Tactile product descriptions, psychological ownership, and purchase intention in online fashion retailing

Marion Garaus, Elisabeth Wolfsteiner and Sandra Holub

Of mice, cats, and underdogs: a soft power-based view of the entrepreneurial firm

David B. Audretsch and Antje Fiedler

The impact of external-internal CSR gap on investor sentiment: Evidence from China

Xianyi Long, Yuezhe Shen, Xinming Deng and Peng Xie

The gamification paradox: when losing fuels engagement but strains workplace bonds

Doaa Talaat, Wafa Hammedi and Thomas Leclercq

Is it You or is it all about Me? A dual pathway model of narcissistic admiration and rivalry and leader narcissism as a condition for follower creative performance

Xin Liu, Jingni Dong, Xiaoming Zheng, Peter D. Harms and Yu Yu

Emerging accountee-abilities in conflicts over energy projects

Sara Persson and Kim Eriksson

Power in structure or power in numbers? Women in top management teams and firm performance

Wei Zheng, Jing Cao, Xiaoping Zhao and María del Carmen Triana

How does customer ESG performance affect supplier carbon disclosure?

Xin Zhao, Yaxin Huo, Hyoungsuk Lee, Mohammad Zoynul Abedin and Huaan Shi

High speeds cause imbalances: the impact of digital transformation speed on firms’ ambidextrous innovation

Xi Zhong, Yanfeng Zhang and Ge Ren