Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 190, issue C, 2025

Language translation effects in Chatbots: Evidence from a randomized field experiment on a mobile commerce platform

Ashutosh Nayak and Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair

Harnessing technological resources for effective growth hacking: A mixed-method framework using systematic literature review, content analysis, and multi-layer decision-Making

Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Hojatallah Sharifpour Arabi, Keru Duan and Demetris Vrontis

Do managers and employees see eye to eye? A dyadic perspective on high-performance work practices and their impact on performance

Jeske Van Beurden, Karina Van de Voorde, Marc Van Veldhoven and Kaifeng Jiang

How facial cues of streamers drive purchase intention in live streaming commerce: Based on a lens model

Yun Zhang, Xia Li, Rongqin Liu, Qinghong Shuai and Caiyan Huang

Online chat encounters: Satisfying customers through dialogical interaction

Judith Anne Garretson Folse, Dora E. Bock, Stephanie M. Mangus and Kristina K. Lindsey Hall

The role of social norms in retirement saving: Evidence from two natural field experiments

Trond Døskeland, Jareef Bin Martuza, Lars Jacob Tynes Pedersen, Francisco Santos, Hallgeir Sjåstad and Helge Thorbjørnsen

Preference for animal welfare products: The effect of power and animal anthropomorphism

Sunyee Yoon, Danny JM Kim and Jeffrey P. Boichuk

Non-market strategies and firms’ organizational performance. Evidence from the energy sector in Sub-Saharan Africa

Francesca Albino, Jonathan Doh, Paola Garrone and Lucia Piscitello

Driving brand evangelism by Unleashing the power of branding and sales management practices

Farooq Ahmed Jam, TARIQ Iqbal Khan and Justin Paul

Making the most of digital social innovation: An exploration into success factors

Christoph Buck, Laura Heim, Katrin Körner-Wyrtki, Anna Krombacher and Maximilian Röglinger

Growth hacking: Leveraging hyper-scalability, hyper-specialization, and human-centric strategies for competitive advantage

Veronica Scuotto, Theofilos Tzanidis, Alan Murray and Del Giudice Manlio

Corporate social responsibility and financial performance in a cross-country context: A meta-analysis

Wanli Li, Tiantian Yan and Yue Li

Unveiling virtual interactive marketplaces: Shopping motivations in the Metaverse through the lens of uses and gratifications theory

Rajasshrie Pillai, Brijesh Sivathanu and Nripendra P. Rana

All the cues we cannot see: How reward-driven distractors render consumers insensitive to assortment complexity

Sebastian Sadowski, Bob M. Fennis and Koert van Ittersum

Going against the Tide: How Self-Construal Moderates Receptivity towards Popular Brand Activism

Geetanjali Saluja and Eugene Y. Chan

Overcoming reactance to climate change: The business-ecology nexus

Gajendra Liyanaarachchi, Thilini Chathurika Gamage, Giampaolo Viglia and Florence Charton-Vachet

An emerging future for digital marketing: From products and services to sequenced solutions

Sonja Gensler and Arvind Rangaswamy

Marketing strategy implementation: Why is it so hard?

Neil A. Morgan, Ajay Menon, Bernard J. Jaworski and Giuseppe Musarra

Sustainable development at a temporal crossroads: Learning from the past while focusing on the future

Bansal, Pratima (Tima), Ju Young Lee, Alice Mascena, Stephanie Rüegger and Elizabeth M. Miller

Empowering salespeople in complex negotiations: autonomy and leeway in preparation and concession-making

Christine Lai-Bennejean and Aaron D Arndt

Economic or Political Outcomes: Corporate Political Activity in a Populist Setting

Hammad ul Haq and Andrea Kuiken

The effects of dual-oriented branding strategies on brand equity through innovation investment

Lefa Teng, Chenxin Xie, Xue Huang and Jun Ma

Coping with uncertainty: The interaction of psychological safety and authentic leadership in their effects on defensive decision making

Florian M. Artinger, Stefanie Marx-Fleck, Nina M. Junker, Gerd Gigerenzer, Sabrina Artinger and Rolf van Dick

Comparing AI coaching and sales manager coaching: A construal-level approach

Eric Casenave and Laurianne Schmitt

Energizing, yet tiring: The dual impact of felt trust on employee creativity and work-to-family conflict

Qi Song, Yuxuan Guo, Qiqi Ren, Yingwei Ren, Hui Lv, Ruotong Ma and Yujing Gan

Toward a multilayered framework of privacy-related decision-making in B2B

Jan H. Schumann, Johanna Zimmermann, Lena Steinhoff, Dirk Totzek, Michel van der Borgh and Kelly D. Martin

Threatened by your stars? A multi-method research investigating the negative upward influence of star employees on immediate supervisors

Jincen Xiao, Jing Wei, Bao Cheng and Yingjian Wang

Young consumers’ brand distrust model: Understanding the antecedents of young consumers’ distrust of brands

Tuominen Jesse, Sormanen Niina, Hietajärvi Lauri, Luoma-aho Vilma and Wilska Terhi-Anna

Volume 189, issue C, 2025

Organization Capital and International Acquisitions

Florian Bauer, Arpit Raswant and Md Ahasan Habib Sarkar

Fit the actions to the words: The psychological contract perspective on organizations’ CSR adoption and employees’ job involvement

Mavis Yi-Ching Chen, Irene Wen-Fen Yang, Yi-Ting Lin and Nien-Chi Liu

The platform economy and futures of market societies: Salient tensions in ecosystem evolution

Udo Zander, Lixin Lu and Gianluca Chimenti

Inclusivity in the marketplace through the lens of social-movements and counter-movements theories

Maura L. Scott, Martin Mende and Lorena García Ramón

Look before you leap: Earnings gaps and elderly self-employment

Pankaj C. Patel

Pathways to scaling up in emerging economies: A configurational analysis of organizational capabilities in social enterprises

Yue Xiao

ESG rating uncertainty and corporate financial misconduct

Jian Zhou and Xiaodong Lei

Consumers’ adoption of autonomous cars as a personal values-directed behavior

B. Crisafulli, R. Guesalaga and R. Dimitriu

The personality of luxury. A new measure and the effects of brand personality distinctiveness and congruence on consumer responses

George Balabanis and Aleksandra Karpova

How “smart” should smart products look? Exploring boundary conditions of the Most-Advanced-Yet-Acceptable (MAYA) principle

Atsushi Akiike, Sotaro Katsumata, Tohru Yoshioka-Kobayashi and Chris Baumann

Claiming single or multiple product benefits: Moderating role of intergoal association

Manqiong Shen, Song, Yiping (Amy), Xiuping Li and Haizhong Wang

Coopetition in supply chains: A case study of Australian construction industry in supplier market

Atif Saleem Butt

Organizing for resilience in high-risk organizations: The interplay between managerial coordination and control in resolving stability/flexibility tensions in a nuclear power plant

Natalia Jubault Krasnopevtseva, Catherine Thomas and Renata Kaminska

Insisting or shifting technological trajectory? TMT attention and firms’ innovation responses to technology-forcing policy changes

Qi He, Chang Wang, Chan Deng and Yifang Zhou

Informal competition and sales of new offerings in emerging markets: The role of Non-Market effort and offerings newness

Sadrac Cenophat and Alexander Haas

The impact of influencers on brand social network growth: Insights from new product launch events on Twitter

Elisabetta Benevento, Davide Aloini, Paolo Roma and Davide Bellino

Internationalization of digital firms: A systematic review and research agenda

Bo Yang, Wensong Bai, Yantai Chen and Ke Rong

How perceived stakeholder orientations affect consumers’ perceived firm innovativeness across nations

Nele Jacobs and Bernhard Swoboda

Switching to cloud gaming: A push-pull-mooring perspective

Winston T. Su, Zach W.Y. Lee, Xinming He and Tommy K.H. Chan

The dynamics of consumer boycott intention: Examining the roles of moral reasoning, cognitive dissonance, and self-congruence

Eva Maria Jedicke, Christian Arnold and Jörg Lindenmeier

Efficient Inefficiency: Organisational challenges of realising economic gains from AI

Stuart Mills and David A. Spencer

Boosting brand behavioral intentions via integrated explicit product placements in podcasts

Anca-Maria Milovan, Costinel Dobre and Moisescu, Ovidiu‑Ioan

I Can’t Keep It to Myself Much Longer! How daily affective shifts shape employees’ constructive and destructive voice behaviors

Chang-Jun Li, Hua Li, Jingyu Dong, Kunjing Li and Houyong Tao

How and when incentives and collaboration are effective in fostering supplier component innovation: Insights from social exchange theory

Ashwin W. Joshi

Virtual influencers in social media versus the metaverse: Mind Perception, blame judgements and brand trust

Sian Joel-Edgar, Soumyadeb Chowdhury, Peter Nagy and Shuang Ren

Innovation in global forestry: Evolution towards a diversified industry

Andre Wise and Hamieda Parker

The ripple effect of abusive supervision: A longitudinal examination of psychological contract breach, turnover intentions, and resilience among third parties

Yannick Griep, Johannes M. Kraak, Wieke M. Knol, Johannes Dolislager and Elizabeth M. Beekman

The influence of stress on satiation from products and experiences

Benjamin E. Borenstein, Luke Nowlan and Juliano Laran

Responsible stakeholder engagement marketing

V. Kumar, Linda D. Hollebeek, Amalesh Sharma, Bharath Rajan and Rajendra K Srivastava

B2B market segmentation – An analysis of current practices and their implications

Roberto Mora Cortez, Ann Højbjerg Clarke and Per Vagn Freytag

Corrigendum to “The effect of different types of virtual influencers on consumers’ emotional attachment” [J. Bus. Res. 177 (2024) 114646]

Ji Yan, Senmao Xia, Amanda Jiang and Zhibin Lin

Looking behind the curtain: How transparent design shapes consumer imagination and enhances purchase intentions

Tongxi Wang, Carol L. Esmark Jones and Clay M. Voorhees

The length of historical path and the digitalization speed of record labels: A path dependence perspective

Ryan W. Tang and Yi Wang

Ambidextrous leadership: A systematic review and roadmap for future research

Olga Gianzina and Sotirios Paroutis

Proposing an integrative scale of digital influence in the context of influencer marketing

Marianny Jessica de Brito Silva, Patrícia de Oliveira Campos, Jairo de Pontes Gomes, Francisco Vicente Sales Melo and Maria Raíza Ferreira de Moura

Polychronicity and entrepreneurial intentions: Exploring cognitive flexibility and adaptability in potential entrepreneurs

Kevin C. Cox, Michael A. Gyensare, Stephen E. Lanivich, Samuel Adomako and Irene Chu

Conformity or Differentiation: Optimal distinctiveness through mediating channels

Duygu Phillips, Bryan D. Edwards and Matthew W. Rutherford

Exploring innovative work behavior: A gender perspective on corporate competitive culture, role models and intrapreneurs

Katarina Blomkvist, Jeanette Engzell, Philip Kappen and Ivo Zander

The role of work design in entrepreneurship: A review and meta-framework

Georgia Hay, M.K. Ward, Sebastiaan van Doorn, Sharon Parker and Daniel Schepis

Team polychronicity elevation hurts team performance more under time pressure: The mediating role of process conflict

Wu Wei, He Zhao, Siyi Tao, Ming Jin and Meng Zhong

Profit-driven pre-processing in B2B customer churn modeling using fairness techniques

Shimanto Rahman, Bram Janssens and Matthias Bogaert

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) revolution: A deep dive into GenAI adoption

Aman Kumar, Amit Shankar, Linda D. Hollebeek, Abhishek Behl and Weng Marc Lim

Pay for individual performance and knowledge sharing: A new explanation based on the nonlinear effect

Shaorong Jin, Jialiang Pei, Pengxiang Nian, Wenzhu Lu and Sibin Wu

Proposing the “Digital Agenticity Theory” to analyze user engagement in conversational AI chatbot

Min Gyeong Kim and Kun Chang Lee

The agile way of working and team adaptive performance: A goal-setting perspective

R. Steegh, K.Van De Voorde, J. Paauwe and T. Peeters

Are intrateam trust and organizational trust substitutable? Effects on team reflexivity, engagement and performance

Xing Liu, Abere Kassa and Amanuel G. Tekleab

Customer experience management in B2B markets: CXM value propositions and archetypical CXM strategies

Jochen Wirtz, Christian Kowalkowski, Elina Jaakkola, Maria Holmlund, Wolfgang Ulaga and Tanvir Ahmed

Servitizing for sustainability: Leveraging technology-enabled platforms and service innovation for carbon reduction in Africa’s Agri-Food Sector: A dynamic capabilities perspective

Afaf Camel, Amine Belhadi, Sachin Kamble, Martin Wetzels and Fatima Ezahra Touriki

Platforms, infrastructures and the Futures of market society

Gianluca Chimenti, Johan Hagberg and Luis Araujo

Does your neighbor’s absorptive capacity matter? The effect of the local dimension on firms’ absorptive capacity and business failure

Mariluz Mate-Sanchez-Val and MCarmen Martinez-Victoria

Serving the people: Board’s communist ideology imprinting and CEO compensation

Ethan Xin Liu and David H. Weng

What determines the effectiveness of social media influencer marketing? An fsQCA-based study of influencer characteristics and content features’ configurational effects

Caiyuan Ma, Billy Wei Wang, Lingqi Dai, Xinya Guan and Zhilin Yang

Do shining stars cast shadows on others? Investigating the effect of star centrality on shared leadership

Ahsan Ali, Janet A. Boekhorst and Hongwei Wang

Wielding a double-edged sword: Unravelling the development of dynamic capabilities through growth hacking

Carolin Gerlich, Katharina Brenk, Jerome L. Antonio, Dominik K. Kanbach and Sascha Kraus

Shoot the moving target: A dynamic perspective on optimal distinctiveness and strategic repositioning

Pengfei Wang and Yanlin Shi

Status incongruence effects under conditions of task interdependence: Too close for comfort

María del Carmen Triana, M.Fernanda Garcia, Orlando Richard, İlhami Yücel and Rawia Ahmed

Inconsistency across short-term and long-term oriented signals: Effect on investor reactions

Maogang Sun, Zhengyu Li and Lu Yang

The role of party embeddedness in environmental governance of Chinese firms: An institutional perspective

Jian Li, Yueru Zhao, Nengzhi Yao, Qiaozhe Guo and Lexin Zhao

Leveraging design thinking to foster Knowledge-Based dynamic capabilities

Vaneet Kaur

Corporate Egoism: An investigation of business ethics in the South-Western Nigerian banking industry

Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Mayowa T. Babalola, Chima Mordi, Kareem Folohunso Sani, Olatunji David Adekoya and Michael Harrison

Growth hacking adoption in focus: Developing scale and enhancing the nomological network of its antecedents

Shaker Bani-Melhem, Muhammad Waheed Akhtar, Nadia Zahoor, Adeel Khalid and Muhammad Usman

Consumer Behaviour in Growth Hacking: Developing and Validating the Shareability Construct

Karolina Sallaku, Anthi Avloniti, Solon Magrizos, Šárka Vilamová and Alfredo De Massis

Marketplace power and choice framing: How and when CSR surcharges generate consumer anger

Tyler Milfeld and Olivia Packer

Looking for new possibilities in emerging industries: The impact of strategic sensing capability on high-tech startups’ product innovation

Xiaolin Li, Mengjie Zhang, Weiwen Li and Juanyi Chen

From diversity to distinction: Exploring the role of diversity and inclusion related to consumer perceptions of company innovativeness and attractiveness

Lina Fogt Jacobsen, Darius-Aurel Frank, Helle Alsted Søndergaard and Anne Odile Peschel

Why being labeled “creative” triggers employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior: The role of felt obligation for constructive change and Machiavellianism

Long Zhang, Chuang Zhang, Ya Xi Shen and Haiping Liu

Family strains, work passion drains: The impact of daily family demands on daily work passion

Yongyi Liang, Eric Adom Asante, Lihua Shi, Kangyu Chen and Zehui Guan

Imprinting effects of childhood resource-scarcity experience on CEO-TMT interface: Political and market resource strategies

Jianan Li and Eric W.K. Tsang

Talk, but don’t talk too much: How corporate sustainability communication evokes stepwise organizational change

Manuel Reppmann, Frederik Maibaum, Laura Marie Edinger-Schons and Johann Nils Foege

Relationships Between Clinical Psychological Depression and Employee Absenteeism: A data analytics approach

Kenny Grifno, Chenzhang Bao, Craig J. Russell and Dursun Delen

What do you want to hear? A self-presentation view of social desirability bias

Katherine C. Alexander, Jeremy D. Mackey, Charn P. McAllister and B. Parker Ellen

The influence of emotions and communication style on customer satisfaction and recommendation in a call center context: An NLP-based analysis

Thomas De Cleen, Philippe Baecke and Frank Goedertier

Foreign ownership and corporate litigation risk

Xuchang Chen, Changqi Wu and Xuanli Xie

Donation type effects in corporate giving: A moderated dual mediation model

Sajeeb Saha, Ravi Pappu, Kumar Rakesh Ranjan and Saeed Akhlaghpour

How do omnichannel customer experiences affect customer engagement? Theory and empirical validation

Syed Mahmudur Rahman, Jamie Carlson, Siegfried P. Gudergan, Martin Wetzels and Dhruv Grewal

Managing change when integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the retail value chain: The AI implementation compass

Jeandri Robertson, Elsamari Botha, Kim Oosthuizen and Matteo Montecchi

Algorithmic control as a double-edged sword: Its relationship with service performance and work well-being

Bingqian Liang, Yixin Wang, Weiwei Huo, Mengli Song and Yi Shi

The round start time effect: Start time roundness drives consumers’ willingness to participate

Shuangshuang Zhao, Yanghong Hu, Lan Xu, Nan Cui and Dong Sun

The time-healing effects: A multi-method study on how time affects consumers’ attitude change following the occurrence of brand scandals

Wumei Liu, Heng Zhang, Shaobo Kevin Li and Yan Liu

The kaleidoscope of international business – The past, current, and future development of theory

Peter Buckley

Supervisor to employee bottom-line mentality: The mediating role of moral disengagement and the moderating roles of organizational justice and self-efficacy

Gabi Eissa and Scott W. Lester

How managers ‘make meaning’ of business tournament rituals

David Sarpong, Shadrack Asante, Christopher Agyapong Siaw, O’Regan, Nicholas and Derrick Boakye

Director knowledge, shared leadership, and board service performance

Wim Voordeckers, Alana Vandebeek, Frank Lambrechts, Yannick Bammens and Maarten Vandewaerde

Non-profit fundraising activities in a war environment: An exploration of hindrance factors using a modified Z-HISA hybrid model

Chia-Chi Chang and Chun-Jui Pai

Green process innovation and financial performance in small and medium-sized enterprises in a developing Country: Role of resource orchestration

Listowel Owusu Appiah, Dominic Essuman, Cassiel Ato Forson, Nathaniel Boso and Jonathan Annan

The humanistic state in family firms: Exploring the significance of socioemotional wealth and culture as drivers of stewardship

Carl Åberg, Charlotte Haugland Sundkvist and Giovanna Campopiano

How founder experiences Matter? investigating novel technology development in autonomous driving ventures

Kyung-Baek Min and Young-Choon Kim

Keep them busy, keep them flowing? The effects of actively versus passively occupied wait time

Sebastian Böddeker, Caroline Rothert-Schnell, Gianfranco Walsh and Markus Groth