Journal of Business Research

1973 - 2025

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Volume 133, issue C, 2021

Trust and firm internationalization: Dark-side effects on internationalization speed and how to alleviate them pp. 1-12

Luis Oliveira and Martin Johanson

Product nutrition, innovation, advertising, and firm’s financial gains pp. 13-22

Zixia Cao and Ruiliang Yan

Are franchises really more viable? Evidence from loan defaults pp. 23-33

Nicolas Legendre, Miwako Nitani and Allan Riding

Big data and human resource management research: An integrative review and new directions for future research pp. 34-50

Yucheng Zhang, Shan Xu, Long Zhang and Mengxi Yang

Franchising research on emerging markets: Bibliometric and content analyses pp. 51-65

Vanessa P.G. Bretas and Ilan Alon

Continuous techno-training and business-to-business salesperson success: How boosting techno-efficacy enhances sales effort and performance pp. 66-78

Steven W. Rayburn, Vishag Badrinarayanan, Sidney T. Anderson and Aditya Gupta

Theorizing the dark side of business-to-business relationships in the era of AI, big data, and blockchain pp. 79-88

David M. Gligor, Kishore Gopalakrishna Pillai and Ismail Golgeci

Integrating the bright and dark sides of leadership: An investigation of the intragroup and intergroup effects of leader group prototypicality pp. 89-97

Yongyi Liang, Ming Yan, Kenneth S. Law, Haibo Wang and Yuanyi Chen

What factors moderate the effect of assortment reduction on store switching? Insights and implications for grocery brands pp. 98-115

Juan Carlos Gázquez-Abad, Francisco J. Martínez-López and Raj Sethuraman

Customer-brand disidentification: Conceptualization, scale development and validation pp. 116-131

Nwamaka A. Anaza, José Luis Saavedra, Joe F. Hair, Ramin Bagherzadeh, Monika Rawal and Christian Nedu Osakwe

Transcultural identity development among third generation minority consumers pp. 132-142

Amandeep Takhar, Ahmad Jamal and Hatice Kizgin

Not all dieters are the same: Development of the Diet Balancing Scale pp. 143-157

Xie, Yi (Fionna), Naomi Mandel and Meryl P. Gardner

The resource-based view in business ecosystems: A perspective on the determinants of a valuable resource and capability pp. 158-169

Melike Sarah Gueler and Sabrina Schneider

HRM operational models and practices to enable strategic agility in PBOs: Managing paradoxical tensions pp. 170-182

Ambisisi Ambituuni, Farzaneh Azizsafaei and Anne Keegan

Social media strategic capability, organizational unlearning, and disruptive innovation of SMEs: The moderating roles of TMT heterogeneity and environmental dynamism pp. 183-193

Feng Zhang and Lei Zhu

Internationalization of entrepreneurial firms: Leveraging real options reasoning through affordable loss logics pp. 194-207

Richard Hunt, Yue Song, David M. Townsend and Maximilian Stallkamp

Corporate growth strategies in an era of digitalization: A network analysis of the national basketball association’s 2K league sponsors pp. 208-217

Colin Lopez, Anthony D. Pizzo, Keshav Gupta, Heather Kennedy and Daniel C. Funk

The joint effects of individual and firm level knowledge attributes on inventor mobility to entrepreneurial and established firms pp. 218-230

Richard B. Scoresby and Haemin Park

New product pricing in business markets: The role of psychological traits pp. 231-241

Andreas Hinterhuber, Mario Kienzler and Stephan Liozu

Leader political skill, influence tactics, and member performance: Supplementary, complementary and contrasting perspectives pp. 242-251

Ashish Mahajan and Andrew Templer

The impact of IT infrastructure capability on NPD performance: The roles of market knowledge and innovation process formality pp. 252-264

Jian Qin, Bo van der Rhee, Venugopal Venkataraman and Taher Ahmadi

Sport entrepreneurship and value co-creation in times of crisis: The covid-19 pandemic pp. 265-274

Vanessa Ratten, Vitor Lélio da Silva Braga and Carla Susana da Encarnação Marques

The effect of Augmented Reality on purchase intention of beauty products: The roles of consumers’ control pp. 275-284

Jeong Bin Whang, Ji Hee Song, Boreum Choi and Jong-Ho Lee

How to conduct a bibliometric analysis: An overview and guidelines pp. 285-296

Naveen Donthu, Satish Kumar, Debmalya Mukherjee, Nitesh Pandey and Weng Marc Lim

How does relationship quality sustain the rich world’s poorest businesses? pp. 297-308

Umme Hani, Shahriar Akter, Ananda Wickramasinghe and Uraiporn Kattiyapornpong

Message personalization and real-time adaptation as next innovations in sport sponsorship management? How run-of-play and team affiliation affect viewer response pp. 309-316

Christoph Breuer, Felix Boronczyk and Christopher Rumpf

The unpowered customer: Co-creation as tactics of the weak pp. 317-326

Gloria Appiah, Samuel K. Bonsu and David Sarpong

Unveiling the impact of the adoption of digital technologies on firms’ innovation performance pp. 327-336

A. Usai, F. Fiano, A. Messeni Petruzzelli, Paola Paoloni, M. Farina Briamonte and B. Orlando

Standardized vs. customized firm-initiated interactions: Their effect on customer gratitude and performance in a B2B context pp. 341-353

Miguel Á. Ruz-Mendoza, Andreea Trifu, Jesús Cambra-Fierro and Iguácel Melero-Polo

Being an ethical leader during the apocalypse: Lessons from the walking dead to face the COVID-19 crisis pp. 354-364

Oihab Allal-Chérif, María Guijarro-García, José Carlos Ballester-Miquel and Agustín Carrilero-Castillo

Mirror, mirror on my phone: Drivers and consequences of selfie editing pp. 365-375

Fernando Fastoso, Héctor González-Jiménez and Teresa Cometto

Truth and lies: The impact of modality on customer feedback pp. 376-387

Christine Ringler

Multimarket competition effects on product line decisions – A multi-objective decision model in fast moving consumer goods industry pp. 388-398

Subrat Sarangi, Abhishek Chakraborty and Konstantinos P. Triantis

Consumer brand curation on social shopping sites pp. 399-408

Jessica Babin Weeks, Keith Marion Smith and John Hulland

Innovation configurations in sport clusters: The role of interorganizational citizenship and social capital pp. 409-419

Anna Gerke, Davide Luzzini and Carlos Mena

When sadness and hope work to motivate charitable giving pp. 420-431

Pamela Miles Homer

Psychological determinants of retirement financial planning behavior pp. 432-449

Sweta Tomar, H. Kent Baker, Satish Kumar and Arvid O.I. Hoffmann

Volume 132, issue C, 2021

Product market competition and the cost of equity capital pp. 1-9

Zhen Zheng, Yongjia Lin, Xiaoou Yu and Xinming Liu

Buying gifts for multiple recipients: How culture affects whose desires are prioritized pp. 10-20

Ruomeng Wu, Mary Steffel and Sharon Shavitt

The determinants of social CRM entrepreneurship: An institutional perspective pp. 21-31

Khaled Saleh Al-Omoush, Virginia Simón-Moya, Mohammad Atwah Al-ma'aitah and Javier Sendra-García

Bundling and exporting: Evidence from German SMEs pp. 32-44

Tommaso Aquilante and Ferran Vendrell-Herrero

Market entry timing: The impact of complementary capabilities on strategic outcomes pp. 45-55

Mariyani Ahmad Husairi, Robert E. Morgan and Luigi M. De Luca

Investigating the relationship between innovation strategy and performance pp. 56-66

Kenneth B. Kahn and Marina Candi

Coworking spaces and Start-ups: Empirical evidence from a product market competition and life cycle perspective pp. 67-78

Felix Gauger, Andreas Pfnür and Jan-Oliver Strych

We stand by our brand: Consumers’ post-food safety crisis purchase intention and moral reasoning pp. 79-87

Heyao Yu, Tiffany S. Legendre and Jing Ma

Moving beyond the content: The role of contextual cues in the effectiveness of gamification of advertising pp. 88-101

S. Sreejesh, Tathagata Ghosh and Yogesh K. Dwivedi

Propagation of online consumer perceived negativity: Quantifying the effect of supply chain underperformance on passenger car sales pp. 102-114

Amit Singh, Mamata Jenamani, Jitesh J. Thakkar and Nripendra P. Rana

Brand respect: Conceptualization, scale development and validation pp. 115-123

Jahanvi Jahanvi and Meenakshi Sharma

Linguistic elements of conversational human voice in online brand communication: Manipulations and perceptions pp. 124-135

Christine Liebrecht, Christina Tsaousi and Charlotte van Hooijdonk

Luxury goods in online retail: How high/low positioning influences consumer processing fluency and preference pp. 136-145

Eugene Y. Chan and Gavin Northey

“Stop the unattainable ideal for an ordinary me!” fostering parasocial relationships with social media influencers: The role of self-discrepancy pp. 146-157

Eugene Cheng-Xi Aw and Stephanie Hui-Wen Chuah

Resources and digital export: An RBV perspective on the role of digital technologies and capabilities in cross-border e-commerce pp. 158-169

Stefano Elia, Maria Giuffrida, Marcello M. Mariani and Stefano Bresciani

Enhancing user engagement: The role of gamification in mobile apps pp. 170-185

Paula Bitrián, Isabel Buil and Sara Catalán

Understanding influencer marketing: The role of congruence between influencers, products and consumers pp. 186-195

Daniel Belanche, Luis V. Casaló, Marta Flavián and Sergio Ibáñez-Sánchez

Childhood left-behind experience and labour market outcomes in China pp. 196-207

Haining Wang, Zhiming Cheng, Ben Zhe Wang and Yuanyuan Chen

Social sharing of consumption emotion in electronic word of mouth (eWOM): A cross-media perspective pp. 208-220

Hongfei Liu, Chanaka Jayawardhena, Victoria-Sophie Osburg, Vignesh Yoganathan and Severina Cartwright

Protection of trade secrets and corporate tax avoidance: Evidence from the inevitable disclosure doctrine pp. 221-232

Rong Ding, Sushil Sainani and (John) Zhang, Ziyang

Female entrepreneurship in Africa: A review, trends, and future research directions pp. 233-248

Nathanael Ojong, Amon Simba and Leo Dana

Strategic change and innovation reputation: Opening up the innovation process pp. 249-259

Todd Morgan, Michael Obal and Robert D. Jewell

No laughing matter, or a secret weapon? Exploring the effect of humor in service failure situations pp. 260-269

Sarah Kobel and Andrea Groeppel-Klein

Hierarchical balanced scorecard-based organizational goals and the efficiency of controls processes pp. 270-288

Sangjae Lee, Francis Joseph Costello and Kun Chang Lee

The corporate reputation and consumer-company identification link as a sensemaking process: A cross-level interaction analysis pp. 289-300

Jeremy S. Wolter, D. Todd Donavan and Michael Giebelhausen

Which consumers believe luxury must be expensive and why? A cross-cultural comparison of motivations pp. 301-313

Jean-Noël Kapferer and Pierre Valette-Florence

Creativity amidst standardization: Is creativity related to auditors’ recognition of and responses to fraud risk cues? pp. 314-326

Eddward T. Herron and Robert M. Cornell

Masking, claiming and preventing innovation in cross-border B2B relationships: Neo-colonial frameworks of power in global IT industry pp. 327-339

Ashish Malik, Jasmin Mahadevan, Piyush Sharma and Tuyet-Mai Nguyen

Consumers’ navigation of risk perceptions in the adoption of stigmatized products pp. 340-353

Edna G. Ndichu and Terri L. Rittenburg

A meta-analysis of the UTAUT model in the mobile banking literature: The moderating role of sample size and culture pp. 354-372

Yassine Jadil, Nripendra P. Rana and Yogesh K. Dwivedi

From personal to online selling: How relational selling shapes salespeople’s promotion of e-commerce channels pp. 373-382

Johannes Habel, Sascha Alavi and Kim Linsenmayer

How reward uncertainty influences subsequent donations: The role of mental accounting pp. 383-391

Haijiao Shi, Rong Chen and Xiaobing Xu

The double-edged sword of intricate idea enactment in product development pp. 392-402

Fiona Schweitzer and Robert Mai

Purchasing professionals and the flat-rate bias: Effects of price premiums, past usage, and relational ties on price plan choice pp. 403-415

Mario Kienzler, Christian Kowalkowski and Daniel Kindström

What makes consumers purchase apparel products through social shopping services that social media fashion influencers have worn? pp. 416-428

Eonyou Shin and Jung Eun Lee

Multichannel presence, boon or curse?: A comparison in price, loyalty, regret, and disappointment pp. 429-440

Satadruta Mookherjee, Jennifer J. Lee and Billy Sung

The dark side of channel rewards for observer distributors: A social comparison perspective pp. 441-452

Fue Zeng, Ying Huang, Zhenxin Xiao, Cheng Lu Wang and Maggie Chuoyan Dong

Inter-organisational relationships for social impact: A systematic literature review pp. 453-469

Dariusz Siemieniako, Krzysztof Kubacki and Maciej Mitręga

Institutional context and female entrepreneurship: A country-based comparison using fsQCA pp. 470-480

Zhimin Xie, Xia Wang, Lingmin Xie, Shuai Dun and Jiaxin Li

Childhood migration and work motivation in Adulthood: Evidence from China pp. 481-490

Lijuan Chen, Wei Guo and Miaomiao Liu

Social enterprises and market performance: The moderating roles of innovativeness, sectoral alignment, and geographic localization pp. 491-506

(Ian) Lee, In Hyeock, Sung Min Kim and Seth Green

Digital servitization and sustainability through networking: Some evidences from IoT-based business models pp. 507-516

Marco Paiola, Francesco Schiavone, Roberto Grandinetti and Junsong Chen

The nature of service characteristics and their impact on internationalization: A multiple case study of born global firms pp. 517-529

Murray Taylor, R. Jack, T. Madsen and M.A. Alam

So many ways for assessing outliers: What really works and does it matter? pp. 530-543

Joe H. Sullivan, Merrill Warkentin and Linda Wallace

Informal institutions and leadership behavior in a developing country: A comparison between rural and urban areas pp. 544-556

David Urbano, Claudia Felix and Sebastian Aparicio

Extending the resource and knowledge based view: A critical analysis into its theoretical evolution and future research directions pp. 557-570

Vijay Pereira and Umesh Bamel

Exercising a firm’s growth options: A portfolio approach pp. 571-585

Pablo de Andrés, Gabriel de la Fuente and Pilar Velasco

Research lines on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on business. A text mining analysis pp. 586-593

Patricia Carracedo, Rosa Puertas and Luisa Marti

Dump or recycle? Nostalgia and consumer recycling behavior pp. 594-603

Xiadan Zhang, Xiushuang Gong and Jing Jiang

It grows on you: Perceptions of sales/service personnel with facial hair pp. 604-613

Sarah Mittal and David H. Silvera

Forty years of research on factors influencing ethical decision making: Establishing a future research agenda pp. 614-630

Gian Luca Casali and Mirko Perano

Unfair customer reviews: Third-party perceptions and managerial responses pp. 631-640

Surachartkumtonkun, Jiraporn (Nui), Debra Grace and Mitchell Ross

Impact of preciseness of price presentation on the magnitude of compromise and decoy effects pp. 641-652

(Gina) Cui, Yuanyuan, (Sam) Kim, Seongseop and Jungkeun Kim

Too small to do it all? A meta-analysis on the relative relationships of exploration, exploitation, and ambidexterity with SME performance pp. 653-665

Kathrin Wenke, Florian B. Zapkau and Christian Schwens

Web Trends: A valuable tool for business research pp. 666-679

Stephen L. France, Yuying Shi and Brett Kazandjian

Does seeing bad make you do good? How witnessing retail transgressions influence responses to cause marketing offers pp. 680-692

Katina Kulow, Mina Kwon and Michael J. Barone

How consumer confidence affects price conscious behavior: The roles of financial vulnerability and locus of control pp. 693-704

Daniel P. Hampson, Shiyang Gong and Yi Xie

The dark side of leadership: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of destructive leadership research pp. 705-718

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

Déjà vu: A data-centric forecasting approach through time series cross-similarity pp. 719-731

Yanfei Kang, Evangelos Spiliotis, Fotios Petropoulos, Nikolaos Athiniotis, Feng Li and Vassilios Assimakopoulos

The effects of consumer attitude on green purchase intention: A meta-analytic path analysis pp. 732-743

Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Normala Ismail, Seyedali Ahrari and Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah

The effect of social mission on service quality and brand image pp. 744-752

Yi-Hsin Lin, Feng-Jyh Lin and Kuo-Hsiung Wang

Control mechanisms, management orientations, and the creativity of service employees: Symmetric and asymmetric modeling pp. 753-764

Filipe J. Coelho, Heiner Evanschitzky, Carlos M.P. Sousa, Hossein Olya and Babak Taheri

The role of sense of community in harnessing the wisdom of crowds and creating collaborative knowledge during the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 765-774

Khaled Saleh Al-Omoush, Maria Orero-Blat and Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano

When is top management team heterogeneity beneficial for product exploration? Understanding the role of institutional pressures pp. 775-786

Hamed Mehrabi, Nicole Coviello and Chatura Ranaweera

The clothes that make you eat healthy: The impact of clothes style on food choice pp. 787-799

Xuehua Wang, Xiaoyu Wang, Jing Lei and Mike Chen-ho Chao

The role of family firms’ generational heterogeneity in the entry mode choice in foreign markets pp. 800-812

Sergio Mariotti, Riccardo Marzano and Lucia Piscitello

To purchase or to remove? Online shopping cart warning pop-up messages can polarize liking and purchase intention pp. 813-836

Haichuan Zhao, Xuehua Wang and Lan Jiang

The generous consumer: Interpersonal generosity and pro-social dispositions as antecedents to cause-related purchase intentions pp. 838-847

Molly Inhofe Rapert, Anastasia Thyroff and Sarah C. Grace

Geographic diversification and credit supply in times of trouble: Evidence from microlending pp. 848-859

Davide Castellani and Joana Silva Afonso

The superstar social media influencer: Exploiting linguistic style and emotional contagion over content? pp. 860-871

Michael T. Lee and Carol Theokary

Negative performance feedback and firm cooperation: How multiple upward social comparisons affect firm cooperative R&D pp. 872-883

David Diwei Lv, Hang Zhu, Weihong Chen and Hailin Lan

The danger of flavor: E-cigarettes, social media, and the interplay of generations pp. 884-896

Anjala S. Krishen, Han-fen Hu, Andrew L. Spivak and Olesya Venger

Greedy for thee or greedy for me? A contingency model of positive and negative reactions to leader greed pp. 897-905

Joel B. Carnevale, Jack E. Carson and Lei Huang

Cultural cognition and endorser scandal: Impact of consumer information processing mode on moral judgment in the endorsement context pp. 906-917

Joon Sung Lee, Dae Hee Kwak and Richard P. Bagozzi