Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2025

Current editor(s): A. G. Woodside

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Volume 185, issue C, 2024

Should the wheel be reinvented? Market-referencing in the electric vehicle market charging infrastructure

Nicole Bulawa, Katy Mason and Frank Jacob

Consumer attitudes toward AI-generated ads: Appeal types, self-efficacy and AI’s social role

Yaqi Chen, Haizhong Wang, Sally Rao Hill and Binglian Li

Revisiting the decoupling phenomenon: Gender-based entrepreneurial responses to the government in an emerging economy

Ling Yang, Jinxing Qu, Fengdian Yang and Xiaobin He

Prioritization of organizational stakeholders: A managerial decision-making perspective

Alex Chernyi and Juha Uotila

Learning in the gray zone: Harmful organizational learning from safety deviations in nuclear power plants

Jungwon Min, Naoki Yasuda and Tohyun Kim

Expanding the boundaries of digital orientation research: Scale development and validation

Bastian Kindermann, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt, Florian Fengel and Steffen Strese

The negative effect of virtual endorsers on brand authenticity and potential remedies

Xiaobing Song, Yi Lu and Qiang Yang

First impressions vs. The Peak-End Rule: Episodic evaluations in a service experience and the moderating effect of retrospective delay

Heath McCullough, Daniel Padgett, Sumin Han, Kang Lee, David S. Martin and Brian L. Bourdeau

‘It just seems that they don’t act like men’: The influence of gender role stereotypes on women’s entrepreneurial innovation activities

Janina Sundermeier

More is less: The dual role of government subsidy in firms’ new product development

Zixu Liu, Jianghua Zhou, Jizhen Li and Xufei Ma

The effect of supplier CSR on customer–supplier relationship

Tri Trinh and Hong Zhao

“It doesn't bother me that much”: The congruence effect of product types and ad appeals on the effectiveness of sponsored ads on Instagram

Jinhee Seo, Yoon Hi Sung and Doyle Yoon

Understanding the viability conundrum in online crowdwork: The costs of unprecedented autonomy

Ward van Zoonen and Anu E. Sivunen

How past identity shapes consumer attitudes toward upcycled product advertisements: The mediating role of outcome efficacy

You Li, Shuilong Wu, Yongna Yuan and Ya Wang

Beyond livestreaming: The rise of social media gifting and paid memberships − A systematic literature review and future research agenda

Sara Alida Volkmer and Martin Meißner

The role of psychological distance and construal level in explaining the effectiveness of human-like vs. cartoon-like virtual influencers

Claudia Franke and Andrea Groeppel-Klein

Standing out or fitting in? How perceived autonomy affects virtual influencer marketing outcomes

Xiaoyun Zheng, Murong Miao, Lu Zhang and Li Huang

Give to give: The gifting motivation and behavior in the social live streaming service

Zhenya Robin Tang, Tao Eric Hu and Merrill Warkentin

Navigating livestream commerce: A dual-lens framework of influencers’ impact on product sales

Zhang, Shaoling (Katee), Tang, Tanya (Ya) and Alexandra Krallman

Exploring determinants of non-fungible token creators’ engagement behaviors on metaverse-based NFT platforms: A multi-analytical SEM-IPMA method

Crystal T. Lee and Yung-Cheng Shen

Inventor’s ego network change and invention impact: The moderating role of knowledge networks

Runhui Lin, Ze Ji, Qiqi Xie and Wenchang Li

Matchmakers or chaperones? How venture capital investors facilitate startups’ corporate venture capital partnership formation through aligning and disciplining

Shinhyung Kang, Minji Kim and Tohyun Kim

Gender discrimination lawsuits: How board gender diversity impacts gender litigation likelihood and outcomes

Clarissa R. Steele, John P. Berns and Karen A. Schnatterly

The influence of local institutional dynamics on foreign ownership in international joint ventures: Speed, irregularity and synchronization

Tiancheng Hu

Entrepreneurs’ network bricolage: Reconfiguring social ties for resource creation

Frances Y.M. Chang, Cynthia M. Webster, Muhammad Aftab Alam and Francesco Chirico

The impact of social presence cues in social media product photos on consumers’ purchase intentions

Sara-Maude Poirier, Sarah Cosby, Sylvain Sénécal, Constantinos K. Coursaris, Marc Fredette and Pierre-Majorique Léger

Hey, Boss, Please Share! An Exploitative Perspective on Supervisor Idea Credit Taking and Employees’ Reactions

Dan Ni, Siyuan Chen, Shaoxue Wu, Daisy Mui Hung Kee, Zhuyan Yu, Wen Wu and Chong Chen

The authenticity advantage: How influencer authenticity management strategies shape digital engagement with sponsored videos

Junyun Liao and Jiada Chen

Family ownership and internationalization of family firms: An S-curve hypothesis

Asimabha Bhowmick, Arindam Mondal and Somnath Lahiri

Betrayed by AI: How perceived betrayal by a virtual assistant affects consumers’ purchase intentions for recommended products

Christina Saenger, Christina A. Kuchmaner and Patrick J. Bateman

Do firms adjust their payout policy to public perception of their social irresponsibility?

Pascal Nguyen, Nahid Rahman and Ruoyun Zhao

A Bird in the hand is worth two in the bush: How SMEs leverage different types of knowledge and networks during effectual internationalization

Martin Johanson, Luis Oliveira and Afonso Fleury

Volume 184, issue C, 2024

Act as you preach! Authentic brand purpose versus “woke washing’s” impact on brand credibility: The moderating role of cause involvement and consumer skepticism

Nadine Walter, Ulrich Föhl, Frauke Sander and Angelique Nies

Enhancing e-commerce customer churn management with a profit- and AUC-focused prescriptive analytics approach

Yi Feng, Yunqiang Yin, Dujuan Wang, Joshua Ignatius, T.C.E. Cheng, Marianna Marra and Yihan Guo

The drivers of family business succession intentions of daughters and the moderating effects of national gender inequality

Eric Clinton, Farhad Uddin Ahmed, Roisin Lyons and O’Gorman, Colm

Does mutual fund ownership increase corporate environmental spending?

John Ashton, Yang Wang and Yifei Zhang

A bright side to unethical pro-organizational behavior: Improving work performance by satisfying psychological needs

Zaid Oqla Alqhaiwi

The role of social media in CSR performance: An integrated institutional and resource dependence perspective

Jing Zhou, Silin Ye, Xiaming Liu and Yuqi Tang

Customer backlash against pandemic Surcharges: The mediating role of inferred negative motives and implications for the “Surcharge Economy”

Jeff Joireman, Ismail Karabas and Pavan Munaganti

Keeping short sellers at bay: The deterring role of corporate lobbying

Orhun Guldiken, Le Xu, Dasol Sim and Mirzokhidjon Abdurakhmonov

Wait or pivot? Family and non-family firms’ strategic responses to COVID-19 and employment change

Wunnam Issah, Andrea Calabrò, Thomas Clauss, Alfredo Valentino and Luis Diaz-Matajira

Gratitude: A catalyst for encouraging consumer ethics

Dora E. Bock, Veronica L. Thomas, Jeremy Wolter and Stephanie M. Mangus

Lonely and Insecure: How salesperson Well-Being impacts performance

Valerie Good, Amy Greiner Fehl and Stephanie M. Mangus

Brand envy in economic disparity: Understanding and mitigating malicious envy towards brands among consumers perceiving limited economic mobility

Hyuna Bak and Youjae Yi

Good people good planet: Investigating the interconnection between social and environmental sustainability

Stacie F. Waites, Adam Farmer and Joel Collier

Wake up and search for coffee: Considering the circadian rhythm of consumers on online marketplaces

Zhouyang Liang, Spyros Angelopoulos, Meihua Zuo and Carol X.J. Ou

Volume 183, issue C, 2024

‘Smart’ Choice? Evaluating AI-Based mobile decision bots for in-store decision-making

Veena Chattaraman, Wi-Suk Kwon, Kassandra Ross, Jihyun Sung, Kiana Alikhademi, Brianna Richardson and Juan E. Gilbert

The more, the better: The influence of overconfident CEOs on their firms’ digital orientation

Julie Saesen, Corinna Vera Hedwig Schmidt and Steffen Strese

Does responsibility breed stability? An institutional framework on the link between partner corporate social responsibility and joint venture termination

Qing Dai and Lucas Liang Wang

The moderating effect of national culture on board interlocks’ impact on firm performance: A meta-analysis

Ying Teng, Zhenzhong Ma, Dapeng Liang, Shenyi Song and Yuhang Zheng

Be careful of the sharp Edges! how and why circular versus angular shapes influence consumer adoption of new products

Tong Chen, Zhenfeng Ma, Meizhen Xiao and Ping Qing

Signaling the family firm brand in recruitment materials: The role of category-based cognitive processing on applicant attraction

Duygu Phillips, Kristen Madison, Sandra Wolf, Andreas Hack and Franz W. Kellermanns

Value co-creation in tourism living labs

Astrid Dickinger and Yuliya Kolomoyets

Energy Performance of Building Refurbishments: Predictive and Prescriptive AI-based Machine Learning Approaches

Christian Gnekpe, Dieudonné Tchuente, Serge Nyawa and Prasanta Kumar Dey

A meta-analytic investigation into the pay-it-forward phenomenon: The roles of individualism-collectivism and social distance

Han Ma, Franklin Velasco, Narayan Janakiraman and Zhiyong Yang

Prescriptive multi-group networks: Humanoid service robots’ value co-creation and co-destruction potentials in apparel stores

Christina Soyoung Song

Not all friends are created equal: The effect of friendship type on performance of shared native ads on social media

Yuanqiong He, Qi Zhou, Jessica Canfield and Hong Yuan

Public actor roles in market experiments: Innovating digital health markets in New York and Ireland

Nicola Mountford and Susi Geiger

Lighting the fire of wisdom following humor: How and when leader humor yields team creativity through team knowledge integration capability

Fu Yang, Zihan Zhou and Ju Yang

Bridging consumption and work: The effects of thoughts about different types of purchases on job-related motivations

Yu Gu and Rong Chen

Unveiling the web of interactions: Analyzing dynamic customer engagements across multiple websites

Hyungsoo Lim, Chul Kim and P.K. Kannan

Advertising Stigmatized Products: Leverage Social Norms or Break the Stigma?

Arti Srivastava, Jayant Nasa, Prakash Satyavageeswaran, Chris Dubelaar and Rajesh Nanarpuzha

“Pets make you spend more!” Impact of pet ownership on consumer purchase decisions

Yahui Liu, Xinyu Chang, Shuai Yang, Zhen Li and Yingrong Wu

Digital transformation along the supply chain: Spillover effects from vertical partnerships

Yong Geng, Xiaojian Xiang, Guosheng Zhang and Xue Li

When people make the difference: A person-organization fit approach in knowledge transfer offices

Elisa Villani and Rosa Grimaldi

Understanding the multiple facets of risk in family firms: A review of the literature and a framework for future research

Marco Mismetti, Andrea Sangermano, Barbara Del Bosco and Mara Bergamaschi

Too much of two good things: The curvilinear effects of self-efficacy and market validation in new ventures

Xi Chen and Stephen X. Zhang

Optimal distinctiveness across different benchmarks: Implications for platform complementors to strategically position new products

Ji Xia, Jiexiang Wang, Huaguang Hu and Shuang Liu

Justice, jealousy and performance: Evidence from neo-feudal Pakistan

Sunil Sahadev, Geoffrey Wood, Muhammad Arshad Khan, Neeru Malhotra and Mehmet Demirbag

Echo ‘Our’ Voice? The influences of team members on the voice behavior of focal employees

Wing Lam, Ziguang Chen, Jianwei Ni, Jun Zhao and Jian An Zhong

Clicks for money: Predicting video views through a sentiment analysis of titles and thumbnails

Geng Cui, Yuho Chung, Ling Peng and Qiaofei Wang

Symmetrical and asymmetrical approaches to brand loyalty– The case of intelligent voice assistants

Wei He, Catherine Prentice and Xuequn Wang

Digital transformation and firms’ bargaining power: Evidence from China

Yongyi Zhu and Di Yu

Can technological diversity drive firm resilience? Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Rong Ran, Jie Zhang, Xiaoran Yang and Yejing Chen

Major government customer and corporate environmental responsibility: Evidence from China

Xiaojun Yu, Qiang Li and Lin Zhang

Making platform firms’ competitive advantage sustainable: The roles of network orchestration capabilities and collaborative innovation

Tao Wang, Xiying Zhao and Xin Wang

Resilience and agility in sustainable supply chains: A relational and dynamic capabilities view

Manzoor Ul Akram, Nazrul Islam, Chetna Chauhan and Muhammad Zafar Yaqub

Innovation centralization and top managers’ psychological well-being: The moderating effects of entrepreneurial passion and organizational identification

Christopher Pryor, Jaclyn Koopmann, Valeria Alterman and Mo Wang

Are managers with investment bank experience myopic?

Li Lai, Chundan Lan and Shan Wu

Developing oneself to serve others? Servant leadership practices of mindfulness-trained leaders

Laura Urrila and Nathan Eva

Bridging the divides: A case study of collective action across Scottish university business schools to support small business

James Cunningham, Jeffrey Hughes, Allane Hay, Francis J. Greene and Claire Seaman

Teams’ stressors and flow experience: An energy-based perspective and the role of team mindfulness

Xingyu Feng, Ping Han and Tianyi Long

Eyes that Lead: The charismatic influence of gaze signaling on employee approval and extra-effort

Simon Liegl, Thomas Maran, Sascha Kraus, Marco Furtner and Pierre Sachse

A cross-sector exploration of the barriers to customer satisfaction in the sharing economy

Umberto Panniello, Angelo Natalicchio, Lorenzo Ardito and Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli

How and when do virtual influencers positively affect consumer responses to endorsed brands?

Barbara Kobuszewki Volles, Jaewoo Park, Anneleen Van Kerckhove and Maggie Geuens

Business model innovations in high-velocity environments

Vikas Sarangdhar, Snehal Awate and Ram Mudambi

Does being ethical pay? Evidence from the implementation of SOX Section 406

Saurabh Ahluwalia, Linda Ferrell, O.C. Ferrell and Priyank Gandhi

What do you own if you have nothing? Psychological ownership in the context of institutional minimalism in the armed forces

Elena Essig

How does information competition affect new product diffusion? Insights from computational experiments

Yu Xiao and Liangliang Liu

Construal level theory in advertising research: A systematic review and directions for future research

Muhammad Rashid Saeed, Huda Khan, Richard Lee, Larry Lockshin, Steven Bellman, Justin Cohen and Song Yang

Determinants of positive consumer affect toward luxury brands’ social media posts on sustainability: A fsQCA approach

Jacqueline K. Eastman, Hyunju Shin, Varsha Jain and Xinfang Wang

Innovation search after failure: The role of peers

Jiwei Xiong, Tao Wang and Haibin Yang

The impact of content characteristics of Short-Form video ads on consumer purchase Behavior: Evidence from TikTok

(Monroe) Meng, Lu, Sining Kou, Shen Duan and Yongyue Bie

My job is a game, and I am the owner: How gamification facilitates self-leadership for gig workers

Mengyu Mao, Lanxia Zhang, Jiamin Li and Wladislaw Rivkin