Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 200, issue C, 2025

Creating human-technology synergies at the organizational frontlines

Ilias Danatzis, Joy M. Field and Mahesh Subramony

Why the masses purchase prestige products? A meta-analysis

Manish Das, Charles Jebarajakirthy, Amit Shankar, Haroon Iqbal Maseeh and Raiswa Saha

Beyond the bottom line: The influence of political ideology on preference for corporate sociopolitical activism

Justin Pomerance and Ermira Zifla

The impact of biotech acquisitions on inventor productivity

Luca Verginer and Massimo Riccaboni

Exploring the ethical use of LLM chatbots in higher education

Gustave Florentin Nkoulou Mvondo, Ben Niu and Salman Eivazinezhad

Advancements in Artificial Intelligence-based prescriptive and cognitive analytics for business performance: a special issue editorial

Vincent Charles, Ali Emrouznejad and Werner H. Kunz

Providing the best value to consumers: an efficiency analysis of durable goods markets across the evolution of the internet

Sonika Singh and Ellen Garbarino

Interpersonal guilt and shame appeals in health advertising: the role of self-construal and autonomous motivation

Kathrynn Pounders, Seungae Lee and Marla Royne Stafford

Cross-affinity effects of cat and dog products and corporate social responsibility appeals (CSRAs)

Sunhee Choi, Wesley Friske and Mayukh Dass

The visual language of brand logos: Exploring the relationship between logo simplicity and perceptions of brand warmth and competence

Jiuqi Chen, Xin Liu, Wenjin Feng and Lu Monroe Meng

Conceptualizing and measuring strategic authenticity? A reflective-formative second-order model

Lin Zhu

A synthesised literature review of technology-based services: towards a paradoxical perspective on consumer-technology interactions

Xueqin Wang, Tianyi Chen and Kum Fai Yuen

With help from strangers: entrepreneurs’ networking for serendipity

Kim Klyver, Ingela Sölvell and Sara Winterstorm Värlander

Do opposites attract? Understanding the influence of infographics and message credibility on investor perceptions and decision-making

Purnima Khemani and Dilip Kumar

A meta-analysis of the antecedents of entrepreneurial well-being

Xiaoyu Yu, Xiaotong Meng, Kyle Stockdall, Stephen E. Lanivich and Gang Cao

Practice what you preach: Family faith integrity and family social capital in U.S. family firms

Steven D. Kofford, W. Gibb Dyer, Ritch L. Sorenson, W. Justin Dyer and Jackie M. Milbrandt

Child viewers’ engagement with social media influencers: Exercising socialisation-driven agency

Junior Oliveira de Almeida, Peter Lugosi and Sarah Quinton

Are charitable gifts truly appreciated by the recipients who requested them? Impact of gift type and amount on recipients’ appreciation

In-Hye Kang and Hyoseok Kim

Metaverse and B2B marketing: untapped research opportunities

Khashayar Afshar Bakeshloo, Raj Agnihotri and Mohammad Mohammadzadeh

Marketing strategy implementation in healthcare organizations: Navigating the challenges of marketing dispersion

Avinash Malshe, Wim Biemans and Scott B. Friend

Growth hacking and network effects: learning for growth and learning for survival

Francesco Schiavone, Claudia Perillo, Annaluce Mandiello and Fabian Bernhard

Transactive memory system and breakthroughs: a multi‑dimensional, contextualized model for inventor teams

Zhiwei Wang, Lican Wei, Die Hu, Wim Vanhaverbeke and Maoyan She

Spilling the beans of recent oil spills in Latin America and Africa: A multi-case study analysis of corporate social irresponsibility

Shubh Majumdarr, Abhinav Jindal and Jayesh Pandey

How sentiment volatility of influencer product recommendation posts affects customer engagement

Mingli Zhang, Kesheng Xie, Shensheng Cai and Yu Wang

You plan to manipulate me: A persuasion knowledge perspective for understanding the effects of AI-assisted selling

Dewen Liu, Haoding Wang and Youping Zhu

Activating moral knowledge or suppressing deviance? The interactive effects of honesty-humility and ethical leadership on workplace deviance

Addison Maerz and Madelynn Stackhouse

Dark personality traits and workplace recommendations: Does job dissatisfaction trigger the trait-specific dominant Effect?

Salman Yousaf, Soonchul Hyun and Jong Min Kim

Liability of not being known: CEO media visibility and acquisition timing in acquisition waves

Russell Fralich, Alireza Ahmadsimab and Marie-Ann Betschinger

When greenwashing meets ESG: Exploring the role of third-party ESG ratings in corporate greenwashing behavior

Hua Zhang, Jie Lai and Zheng Guo

A new battlefield for later-generation successors: The effects of transgenerational succession on corporate venture capital investments

Liangyong Wan, Lai Deng, Weiwen Li and Ai He

Optimal or detrimental? Distinctiveness in high risk aversion contexts

Huajie Shen, Zhongyuan Sun and Stan Xiao Li

Supplier response to Apple’s friendshoring

Ziliang Deng, Youhan Wang and Haojun Xu

The Influence of Lighting on Perceived Product Size: The Role of Surface Curvature and Attention

Itrat Batool, L’Espoir Decosta, Patrick J.N., Hamish Simmonds and Aaron Gazley

Exploring the potential downsides and antecedents of across-boundary task crafting in the workplace

He Peng, Feng Wei, Zhen Zhang and Gregory A. Laurence

Locked in tradition? Clan culture and network closure: Evidence from China

Nan Zhang, Zhefei Li, Jinxuan Wu and Yuanxu Li

Capability joint effects, transaction costs, outsourcing decisions, and performance

Amit Jain

Stakeholder pressure, democracy levels, and multinational enterprise corporate social responsibility: Stakeholder and institutional theories

Taewoo Roh, Shufeng Xiao, Byung Il Park and Pervez N. Ghauri

Turning the tables towards gender inclusivity in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Elina Isakova and Iulia Stroila

A PERFECT MATCH? HOW ENTREPRENEURS EVALUATE AND DECIDE ON VENTURE CAPITAL FIRMS

Alexander Schröder, Christian Schlereth, Christoph Hienerth and Franz Kellermanns

Headquarters–subsidiary exchanges and relationship quality: Moderating roles of subsidiary establishment mode and managers’ identity with the subsidiary

Fuming Jiang, Li Xian Liu and Jizhong Li

Women directors on traditionally male-dominated stock exchange boards: can they make a difference?

Laura Padilla Angulo and Faten Ben Slimane

Transforming last-mile delivery into marketplaces of logistics services: An investigation on consumer participation motives, resources, and contextual differences

Xiaodi Liu, Qiwei Pang, Kum Fai Yuen and Xueqin Wang

Forgiveness as a catalyst for knowledge sharing: overcoming the effects of abusive supervision on relational attachment

Yimo Shen, Bin Yang, Yucheng Zhang and Junqi Shi

The impact of standard-setting knowledge networks on firm innovation

Philipp Heß, Magnus Buggenhagen and Knut Blind

The role of media memorability in facilitating startups’ access to venture capital funding

Laura Toschi, Salvatore Torrisi and Andrea Fronzetti Colladon

Corporate venture capital and strategic search: Performance spillovers in parent companies from sticking to the core business

Manuel Hess, Jana Reuther, Dietmar Grichnik and Joakim Wincent

When competition meets connections: The asymmetric effects of political ties on firm survival and efficiency

Weiting Zheng and Kulwant Singh

Performance feedback, performance prospects, and firm search behavior: the role of institutional settings

Ali Alipour, Kamyar Goudarzi, Nüfer Yasin Ateş, Remzi Gözübüyük and Mehmet Genç

What do we know about climate change and multinational enterprises?: A systematic review and an integrated theoretical framework for future research

Fang Lee Cooke, Jingtian Wang and Geoffrey Wood

To humor or not humor buyers? Evaluating the effective use of humor in B2B advertisements

Kunal Swani, Charles S. Gulas and John Dinsmore

The impact of design thinking and artificial intelligence capabilities on performance: The role of new product development decision-making agility

Nikolaos Kyriakopoulos, Euiyoung Kim, Erik Jan Hultink and Sicco Santema

Digital transformation, knowledge management, and ambidextrous innovation in the high-speed train industry in China: The role of TMT’s digital knowledge

Zihao Jiang, Jiarong Shi and Zhiying Liu

The cost of contradiction: exploring consumer negative responses to activist brands’ moral transgressions

Riaj Mahmud and Francisco Guzmán

Media approval and CSP–CFP translation: the role of institutional development in an emerging market

Liang Wen, Jing Yu Yang and Wen Helena Li

Fostering individual entrepreneurial orientation among employees: the role of leaders communicating entrepreneurial visions and goals

Gertraud M. Gänser-Stickler, Katrin Burmeister-Lamp, Johanna Kuske and Christian Schwens

Effects of team proactive personality on team creativity through team promotion focus: The moderating role of leader mindful communication

Wu Wei, Xia Liu and Christopher S. Reina

Constrained by work: Linking daily work connectivity behavior after-hours to next-day employee job performance

Jing Quan, Dirk van Dierendonck, Zhengyang Wu and Tianjiao Feng

Secret power of the product ecosystem: A network perspective from the case of Apple

Jung-Hua Chang

Backfire effect of organizational pressure to behave unethically: The roles of organizational dehumanization and moral attentiveness

Florence Stinglhamber, Marc Ohana and Stephanie Demoulin

A meta-analytic investigation of digital transformation: Antecedents, consequences, and contingencies

Qin Lin

Consumer flexibility and the effectiveness of limited time offers: the role of psychological reactance

Ashesh Mukherjee, Seung Yun Lee and Andrew Gershoff

Antecedent configurations of organizational resilience in a major crisis: A strategic fit perspective

Chao Zhou, Yuanyuan Huang and Renhuai Liu

Virtual influencers: Definition and future research directions

Alice Audrezet, Bernadett Koles, Julie Guidry Moulard, Nisreen Ameen and Brad McKenna

Market competition in the platform economy: new insights, integrative framework and research agenda

Yuanzhu Zhan, Ajay Kumar, Sameer Hosany, Yusen Xia, Tobias Schoenherr and Lan Xia

CEO tenure and strategic time horizons: Exploring the trajectory of decision-making

Maximilian Weis

Learning from recall patterns: the spatial concentration of past recalls, CEO regulatory focus, and future recall prevention

Kui Wang, Yanyan Chen, Wenlong Mu and Jinjun Yu

Entrepreneurial Team Design and Outcomes: Exploring the Influence of Ownership Structure, Team Size, and Gender Composition

Kyoung Yong Kim, Riki Takeuchi, Kevin D. Clark and Pankaj C. Patel

Marketing to one: how arousal potential and consumer knowledge influence solo attendance

Inyoung Lee, Sang-Hoon Kim and Jisu Yi

Through the eyes of the leader: CEO big five personality traits and financial reporting quality

Shiqiang Chen, Yun Liu, Huijuan Cao and Albert Tsang

How awe shapes sustainable “buy less, buy premium” consumer preference

Dayeon Choi, Divya Tewari, Yuri Seo and Eunju Ko

Forty Years of Brand Logo Literature: A Review and Future Research Directions

Arnav Pati, Debasis Pradhan, Tapas Ranjan Moharana, Himadri Roy Chaudhuri and Bikash Kumar Rup

Retail media networks: definition, development, and differentiation

Rodney Thomas, Stephanie Thomas, Molly Rapert, Brent Williams and Andy Murray

Political visits and foreign direct investment

Eunbi Kim

Immigrant youth: The role of familism and intergenerational attitudes on self-employment

R. Gabrielle Swab and Pankaj C. Patel

Unlocking the potential: Examining Chile’s 2007 temporary worker labor reform as a key to boosting productivity in micro-firms

Pankaj C. Patel

The subscription business model and new venture viability during a crisis

William C. Zhou, Sunny Li Sun and Peiyi Jia

The influence of artificial intelligence chatbot problem solving on customers’ continued usage intention in e-commerce platforms: an expectation-confirmation model approach

Junzhe Gao, Abdullah Promise Opute, Caroline Jawad and Meng Zhan

Achieving a balance between positive and negative aspects of pain consumption: The central role of coping strategies in counter-hedonic experiences

Sarah Péronne and Sandra Camus

How CEO narcissism, organizational identification, and performance feedback shape middle managers’ strategic behavior

Xiaoxuan Li, Miles M. Yang, Yue Wang and Yanzhao Tang

Accelerating expertise in professional decision making: The effects of a simple rules training

Gavin R. Maistry, Jochen Reb, Shenghua Luan and Thomas Menkhoff

Emphasizing self-control related values buffers adverse effects of ancestral experiences of resource scarcity and harshness on offspring consumption traits

Justina Baršytė and Bob M. Fennis

Futures of market society, seeing and studying market topographies editorial for the special issue “Exploring futures of market society”

Hans Kjellberg and Ashlee Humphreys

Success of mass customization toolkits: Product design typicality as boundary condition

Michael A. Zaggl, Marc Linzmajer, Gianfranco Walsh, Ronny Reinhardt and Judith Pottbäcker

Do endorsers contribute to the social standing of brands? Exploring social judgments about celebrities versus influencers

Françoise Simon and Marine Cambefort

Micro-power dynamics within teams when implementing corporate social responsibility − A case of SMEs in Vietnam

Mai Chi Vu and Hyemi Shin

Business diversification and ESG engagement: Riding tandem to risk reduction and value creation?

Gabriel de la Fuente, Margarita Ortiz and Pilar Velasco

Achieving energy justice through corporate carbon disclosure: The effects of voluntary and third-party verification mechanisms

Jiao Du, Ziyu Zhen, Xiaoxue Wei and Ranran Li

Self-regulatory focus: The eagerness to respond in extremes

Elke Cabooter, Bert Weijters and Luk Warlop

Empowering conservation: how increased power promotes conservation behaviors

Eugene Y. Chan and Karun Tangri