Journal of Business Research

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Volume 118, issue C, 2020

Customer empowerment in the face of perceived Incompetence: Effect on preference for anthropomorphized brands pp. 1-11

Jamel Khenfer, Steven Shepherd and Olivier Trendel

Strategic agility in innovation: Unpacking the interaction between entrepreneurial orientation and absorptive capacity by using practice theory pp. 12-25

Marko Kohtamäki, Jesse Heimonen, David Sjödin and Vili Heikkilä

Corporate governance and firms’ acquisition behavior: The role of antitakeover provisions pp. 26-37

Shavin Malhotra, Horatio Morgan and Pengcheng Zhu

Do HRM systems impose restrictions on employee quality of life? Evidence from a sustainable HRM perspective pp. 38-48

Sugumar Mariappanadar

Productive partnerships? Driving consumer awareness to action in CSR partnerships pp. 49-57

Daniel Rayne, Civilai Leckie and Heath McDonald

How country development and national culture affect the paths of perceived brand globalness to consumer behavior across nations pp. 58-73

Bernhard Swoboda and Carolina Sinning

Organizing actor Engagement: A platform perspective pp. 74-85

Lorena Blasco-Arcas, Matthew Alexander, David Sörhammar, Julia M. Jonas, Sascha Raithel and Tom Chen

Offshoring innovation: An empirical investigation of dyadic complementarity within SMEs pp. 86-97

Ahmad Khraishi, Fahian Huq and Antony Paulraj

Bank profit efficiency and financial consumer protection policies pp. 98-116

Chrysovalantis Gaganis, Emilios Galariotis, Fotios Pasiouras and Christos Staikouras

Design thinking for innovation: Composition, consequence, and contingency pp. 117-128

Cheryl Nakata and Jiyoung Hwang

Acquisition announcements and stock market valuations of acquiring firms’ alliance partners: A transaction cost perspective pp. 129-140

JaSeung Koo, Junichi Yamanoi and Tomoaki Sakano

Out with the old: A Bayesian approach to estimating product modification rates pp. 141-149

Goksel Yalcinkaya, Tevfik Aktekin and Sengun Yeniyurt

The effect of entrepreneurial orientation on new venture performance: Contingency roles of entrepreneurial actions pp. 150-161

Francis Donbesuur, Nathaniel Boso and Magnus Hultman

When saving the planet is worth more than avoiding destruction: The importance of message framing when speaking to egoistic individuals pp. 162-176

Maria Lagomarsino, Linda Lemarié and Michael Puntiroli

Building dynamic service analytics capabilities for the digital marketplace pp. 177-188

Shahriar Akter, Saradhi Motamarri, Umme Hani, Riad Shams, Mario Fernando, Mujahid Mohiuddin Babu and Kathy Ning Shen

Running field experiments using Facebook split test pp. 189-198

Davide C. Orazi and Allen C. Johnston

Linking perceived overqualification with task performance and proactivity? An examination from self-concept-based perspective pp. 199-209

Chao Ma, Xiaoshuang Lin, Chen, (George) Zhen Xiong and Wu Wei

Our conditional love for the underdog: The effect of brand positioning and the lay theory of achievement on WOM pp. 210-222

Yi He, Ya You and Qimei Chen

Marketing intensity and firm performance: Contrasting the insights based on actual marketing expenditure and its SG&A proxy pp. 223-239

Dmitri G. Markovitch, Dongling Huang and Pengfei Ye

Do insider CFOs deliver better acquisition performance? pp. 240-252

Mai Iskandar-Datta and Shriya Shekhar

Investigating the emerging COVID-19 research trends in the field of business and management: A bibliometric analysis approach pp. 253-261

Surabhi Verma and Anders Gustafsson

Spillover effect in promotion: Evidence from video game publishers and eSports tournaments pp. 262-270

Petr Parshakov, Iuliia Naidenova and Angel Barajas

A tiger with wings: CEO–board surname ties and agency costs pp. 271-285

Liang Zhang, Zhe Zhang, Ming Jia and Yeyao Ren

Increase in cash holdings of U.S. firms: The role of healthcare and technology industries pp. 286-298

Xiafei Li and Di Luo

What makes social media-based supplier network involvement more effective for new product performance? The role of network structure pp. 299-310

Colin C.J. Cheng and Eric C. Shiu

Telepresence, time distortion, and consumer traits of virtual reality shopping pp. 311-320

Sang-Lin Han, Myounga An, Jerry J. Han and Jiyoung Lee

The road to consumer forgiveness is paved with money or apology? The roles of empathy and power in service recovery pp. 321-334

Chuang Wei, Maggie Wenjing Liu and Hean Tat Keh

Consumer acceptance of brand extensions: Is parental fit preeminent? pp. 335-345

Paul W. Miniard, Cecilia M.O. Alvarez and Shazad M. Mohammed

Do brand warmth and brand competence add value to consumers? A stereotyping perspective pp. 346-362

Živa Kolbl, Adamantios Diamantopoulos, Maja Arslanagic-Kalajdzic and Vesna Zabkar

Relative exploration and firm performance: Why resource-theory alone is not sufficient? pp. 363-377

Krishna Raj Bhandari, Sudhir Rana, Justin Paul and Jari Salo

When corporations get disruptive, the disruptive get corporate: Financing disruptive technologies through corporate venture capital pp. 378-388

Matteo Rossi, Giuseppe Festa, Alain Devalle and Jens Mueller

What drives online course sales? Signaling effects of user-generated information in the paid knowledge market pp. 389-397

Mingli Zhang, Yan Zhang, Lu Zhao and Xiaoyong Li

Female CEO leadership and the likelihood of corporate diversity misconduct: Evidence from S&P 500 firms pp. 398-405

Hazel H. Dadanlar and Michael A. Abebe

Ambidextrous leaders helping newcomers get on board: Achieving adjustment and proaction through distinct pathways pp. 406-414

Wenan Hu, Jinlian Luo, Zhijun Chen and Jing Zhong

Crisis? What crisis? Exploring the cognitive constraints on boards of directors in times of uncertainty pp. 415-430

Alessandro Merendino and Gerrit Sarens

The relationship between R&D, the absorptive capacity of knowledge, human resource flexibility and innovation: Mediator effects on industrial firms pp. 431-440

Angel Martínez-Sánchez, Silvia Vicente-Oliva and Manuela Pérez-Pérez

The effect of performance feedback on firms’ unplanned marketing investments pp. 441-451

Xinchun Wang and Tianyang Lou

How salesperson traits and intuitive judgments influence adaptive selling: A sensemaking perspective pp. 452-462

David A. Locander, Jennifer A. Locander and Frankie J. Weinberg

A new dynamic classification of enterprises for implementing precise industrial policies pp. 463-473

Bing Xu, Xiaohui Chen and Yanyan Wang

Shopping in augmented reality: The effects of spatial presence, personalization and intrusiveness on app and brand responses pp. 474-485

Anne R. Smink, Eva A. van Reijmersdal, Guda van Noort and Peter C. Neijens

Experiential interaction design model pp. 486-490

Kun-Huang Huarng, Stefano Bresciani and Alberto Ferraris

International cultural ambidexterity: Balancing tensions of foreign market entry into distant and proximate cultures pp. 491-506

Olga Bruyaka and Christiane Prange

Search behavior of individuals working in teams: A behavioral study on complex landscapes pp. 507-516

Ilaria Giannoccaro, Mirta Galesic, Giovanni Francesco Massari, Daniel Barkoczi and Giuseppe Carbone

Volume 117, issue C, 2020

The future of business education: A commentary in the shadow of the Covid-19 pandemic pp. 1-5

Sandeep Krishnamurthy

How multimedia shape crowdfunding outcomes: The overshadowing effect of images and videos on text in campaign information pp. 6-18

Jialiang Yang, Yaokuang Li, Goran Calic and Anton Shevchenko

It pays off to be authentic: An examination of direct versus indirect brand mentions on social media pp. 19-28

Miao Hu, Jie Chen, Qimei Chen and Wei He

The dynamics of innovation contest experience: An integrated framework from the customer’s perspective pp. 29-43

Stéphane Salgado, Aurelie Hemonnet-Goujot, David H. Henard and Virginie de Barnier

An integrated modelling approach examining the influence of goals, habit and learning on choice using visual attention data pp. 44-57

Miranda R. Blake, Subodh Dubey, Joffre Swait, Emily Lancsar and Peter Ghijben

Can’t leave it at home? The effects of personal stress on burnout and salesperson performance pp. 58-70

Michael C. Peasley, Bryan Hochstein, Benjamin P. Britton, Rajesh V. Srivastava and Geoffrey T. Stewart

CEO fixed effects and inside debt compensation pp. 71-86

Hui L. James, Bradley W. Benson and Jung Chul Park

(Not) giving the same old song and dance: Givers’ misguided concerns about thoughtfulness and boringness keep them from repeating gifts pp. 87-98

Julian Givi

Building trust through a personal touch: Consumer response to service failure and recovery of home-sharing pp. 99-111

Lu Lu, Ruiying Cai and Ceridwyn King

The nonlinear effect of effectuation and causation on new venture performance: The moderating effect of environmental uncertainty pp. 112-123

Xue Bing Peng, Yue Ling Liu, Qi Qi Jiao, Xiao Bin Feng and Bei Zheng

I'll trade you diamonds for toilet paper: Consumer reacting, coping and adapting behaviors in the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 124-131

Colleen P. Kirk and Laura S. Rifkin

Dynamic managerial capabilities, firm resources, and related business diversification – Evidence from the English Premier League pp. 132-143

Florian Holzmayer and Sascha Schmidt

Disentangling language from ethnic preferences in the recruitment of domestic workers: A discrete choice experiment pp. 144-151

Tobias Theys, Stef Adriaenssens, Dieter Verhaest, Nick Deschacht and Sandra Rousseau

Real options and strategic bankruptcy pp. 152-162

Tong Hyouk Kang, Sharon D. James and Frances Fabian

The interplay of brand-line assortment size and alignability in the sales of brand-lines and line-extensions of frequently purchased products pp. 163-175

Philippe Aurier and Victor D. Mejía

Internal selling: Antecedents and the importance of networking ability in converting internal selling behavior into salesperson performance pp. 176-188

Yongmei Liu, Bryan Hochstein, Willy Bolander, Kevin Bradford and Barton A. Weitz

What drives product-service integration? An abductive study of decision-makers’ motives and value strategies pp. 189-200

Wim Coreynen, Johanna Vanderstraeten, Arjen van Witteloostuijn, Nele Cannaerts, Ellen Loots and Hendrik Slabbinck

What’s in it for me? Local employees’ anticipated career opportunities derived from firm internationalization pp. 201-211

Marcelo J. Alvarado-Vargas, Michel Hermans and William Newburry

Interventions as experiments: Connecting the dots in forecasting and overcoming pandemics, global warming, corruption, civil rights violations, misogyny, income inequality, and guns pp. 212-218

Arch G. Woodside

How virtual reality affects consumer choice pp. 219-231

Martin Meißner, Jella Pfeiffer, Christian Peukert, Holger Dietrich and Thies Pfeiffer

Assessing the drivers of machine learning business value pp. 232-243

Carolina Reis, Pedro Ruivo, Tiago Oliveira and Paulo Faroleiro

The touchy issue of produce: Need for touch in online grocery retailing pp. 244-255

Frauke Kühn, Marcel Lichters and Nina Krey

Unpacking the relationship between social media marketing and brand equity: The mediating role of consumers’ benefits and experience pp. 256-267

Lamberto Zollo, Raffaele Filieri, Riccardo Rialti and Sukki Yoon

Nurturing tourists’ ethical food consumption: Testing the persuasive strengths of alternative messages in a natural hotel setting pp. 268-279

Claudia Cozzio, Michael Volgger, Ross Taplin and Arch G. Woodside

Impact of Covid-19 on consumer behavior: Will the old habits return or die? pp. 280-283

Jagdish Sheth

Variety is the spice of life: How much partner alignment is preferable in open innovation activities to enhance firms’ adaptiveness and innovation success? pp. 290-301

Nicolas A. Zacharias, Dace Daldere and Christian G.H. Winter

In the eye of the beholder: Cross-pollination between art-infused products and retail spaces pp. 302-311

Pielah Kim, Xiaoyan Deng and Rao Unnava

Tourism and COVID-19: Impacts and implications for advancing and resetting industry and research pp. 312-321

Marianna Sigala

TUTORIAL: AI research without coding: The art of fighting without fighting: Data science for qualitative researchers pp. 322-330

Leon Ciechanowski, Dariusz Jemielniak and Peter A. Gloor

Mixed signals? Decoding luxury consumption in the workplace pp. 331-345

Saerom Lee and Lisa E. Bolton

Calorie labeling law and fast food chain performance: The value of capital responsiveness under sales volatility pp. 346-356

Pankaj C. Patel, Elisabeth M. Struckell and Divesh Ojha

Not all that glitters is golden: The impact of procedural fairness perceptions on firm evaluations and customer satisfaction with favorable outcomes pp. 357-367

Pragya Mathur and Shalini Sarin Jain

How does cultural self-construal influence regulatory mode? pp. 368-377

Ashok K. Lalwani, Jessie Wang and David H. Silvera

The impact of service employees’ technostress on customer satisfaction and delight: A dyadic analysis pp. 378-388

Sonja Christ-Brendemühl and Mario Schaarschmidt

A sprinkle of emotions vs a pinch of crossmodality: Towards globally meaningful sonic seasoning strategies for enhanced multisensory tasting experiences pp. 389-399

Felipe Reinoso-Carvalho, Laura Gunn, German Molina, Takuji Narumi, Charles Spence, Yuji Suzuki, Enrique ter Horst and Johan Wagemans

The differentiated impact of perceived brand competence type on brand extension evaluation pp. 400-410

Haizhong Wang and Di Liu

Why and when does financial information affect retirement planning intentions and which consumers are more likely to act on them? pp. 411-431

Arvid O.I. Hoffmann and Daria Plotkina

Women backing women: The role of crowdfunding in empowering female consumer-investors and entrepreneurs pp. 432-442

Mya Pronschinske Groza, Mark D. Groza and Luis Miguel Barral

Covid-19′s impact on supply chain decisions: Strategic insights from NASDAQ 100 firms using Twitter data pp. 443-449

Amalesh Sharma, Anirban Adhikary and Sourav Bikash Borah

A meta-analysis of the relationship between customer participation and brand outcomes pp. 450-460

Vinicius Antonio Machado Nardi, William Carvalho Jardim, Wagner Júnior Ladeira and Fernando Santini

How corporate social responsibility (CSR) saves a company: The role of gratitude in buffering vindictive consumer behavior from product failures pp. 461-472

Junghyun Kim and Taehoon Park

Enhancing consumer value of the co-design experience in mass customization pp. 473-483

Frances Turner, Aurélie Merle and David Gotteland

This cloud has a silver lining: Gender diversity, managerial ability, and firm performance pp. 484-496

Guy D. Fernando, Shalini Sarin Jain and Arindam Tripathy

The role of brand equity in a new rebranding strategy of a private label brand pp. 497-507

Catarina Marques, Rui Vinhas da Silva, Nebojsa S. Davcik and Rita Tamagnini Faria

Influencers on Instagram: Antecedents and consequences of opinion leadership pp. 510-519

Luis V. Casaló, Carlos Flavián and Sergio Ibáñez-Sánchez

Matching luxury brand appeals with attitude functions on social media across cultures pp. 520-528

Yung Kyun Choi, Yuri Seo, Udo Wagner and Sukki Yoon

“You are too friendly!” The negative effects of social media marketing on value perceptions of luxury fashion brands pp. 529-542

Minjung Park, Hyunjoo Im and Hye-Young Kim

The role of live streaming in building consumer trust and engagement with social commerce sellers pp. 543-556

Apiradee Wongkitrungrueng and Nuttapol Assarut

Authenticity under threat: When social media influencers need to go beyond self-presentation pp. 557-569

Alice Audrezet, Gwarlann de Kerviler and Julie Guidry Moulard

Extending the luxury experience to social media – User-Generated Content co-creation in a branded event pp. 570-578

Elina Koivisto and Pekka Mattila

The power of lurking: Assessing the online experience of luxury brand fan page followers pp. 579-586

Hajer Kefi and Daniel Maar

Chatbot e-service and customer satisfaction regarding luxury brands pp. 587-595

Minjee Chung, Eunju Ko, Heerim Joung and Sang Jin Kim

How social capital impacts the purchase intention of sustainable fashion products pp. 596-603

Juran Kim, Seungmook Kang and Ki Hoon Lee

How small suppliers deal with the buyer power in asymmetric relationships within the sustainable fashion supply chain pp. 604-614

Cagri Talay, Lynn Oxborrow and Clare Brindley

Case-based models of customer-perceived sustainable marketing and its effect on perceived customer equity pp. 615-622

Yang Sun, Tony C. Garrett, Ian Phau and Bing Zheng

Exploring attitude–behavior gap in sustainable consumption: comparison of recycled and upcycled fashion products pp. 623-628

Hyun Jung Park and Li Min Lin

Managing sustainability in the fashion business: Challenges in product development for clothing longevity in the UK pp. 629-641

Helen Goworek, L. Oxborrow, S. Claxton, A. McLaren, T. Cooper and H. Hill

How to “Nudge” your consumers toward sustainable fashion consumption: An fMRI investigation pp. 642-651

Eun-Ju Lee, Hanah Choi, Jinghe Han, Dong Hyun Kim, Eunju Ko and Kyung Hoon Kim

Behind the runway: Extending sustainability in luxury fashion supply chains pp. 652-663

Hakan Karaosman, Patsy Perry, Alessandro Brun and Gustavo Morales-Alonso

Fashioning organics: Wellbeing, sustainability, and status consumption practices pp. 664-671

'Ilaisaane M.E. Fifita, Yuri Seo, Eunju Ko, Denise Conroy and Dayun Hong

Exploring digital corporate social responsibility communications on Twitter pp. 675-682

Shintaro Okazaki, Kirk Plangger, Douglas West and Héctor D. Menéndez

How CSR reputation, sustainability signals, and country-of-origin sustainability reputation contribute to corporate brand performance: An exploratory study pp. 683-693

Kirsten Cowan and Francisco Guzman

The role of corporate identity in CSR implementation: An integrative framework pp. 694-706

Marwa Tourky, Philip Kitchen and Ahmed Shaalan

Social media monitoring: What can marketers learn from Facebook brand photos? pp. 707-717

Carolin Kaiser, Aaron Ahuvia, Philipp A. Rauschnabel and Matt Wimble

Social media-driven antecedents and consequences of employees' awareness of their impact on corporate reputation pp. 718-726

Mario Schaarschmidt and Gianfranco Walsh

Negative tweets and their impact on likelihood to recommend pp. 727-739

Jennifer B. Barhorst, Alan Wilson and Joshua Brooks

Profiling (un-)committed online complainants: Their characteristics and post-webcare reactions pp. 740-753

Wolfgang J. Weitzl and Sabine A. Einwiller

Good citizen, good ambassador? Linking employees' reputation perceptions with supportive behavior on Twitter pp. 754-763

Mario Schaarschmidt and Raoul Könsgen

Country image appraisal: More than just ticking boxes pp. 764-779

Carmen Lopez and George Balabanis

An integrated model of city and neighborhood identities: A tale of two cities pp. 780-790

Saalem Sadeque, Sanjit Kumar Roy, Mohammad Shahidul Hasan Swapan, Cheng-Hao Chen and Md Ashikuzzaman

The effects of trust and peer influence on corporate brand—Consumer relationships and consumer loyalty pp. 791-805

Sena Ozdemir, ShiJie Zhang, Suraksha Gupta and Gaye Bebek

An investigation into corporate trust and its linkages pp. 806-824

Kavita Sharma, Tana Cristina Licsandru, Suraksha Gupta, Swati Aggarwal and Rama Kanungo

The moderating role of corporate reputation and employee-company identification on the work-related outcomes of job insecurity resulting from workforce localization policies pp. 825-838

Imran Ali, Murad Ali, Georgiana Grigore, Mike Molesworth and Zhongqi Jin

‘Corporate image at stake’: The impact of crises and response strategies on consumer perceptions of corporate brand alliances pp. 839-849

Jaywant Singh, Benedetta Crisafulli and La Toya Quamina

The role of corporate brand image for B2B relationships of logistics service providers in China pp. 850-861

John M.T. Balmer, Zhibin Lin, Weifeng Chen and Xinming He

Customers' need for uniqueness theory versus brand congruence theory: The impact on satisfaction with social network sites pp. 862-872

Ibrahim Abosag, Zahy B. Ramadan, Tom Baker and Zhongqi Jin

Creating and managing participative brand communities: The roles members perform pp. 873-885

Cleopatra Veloutsou and Iain Black

Social contagion of online and offline deviant behaviors and its value outcomes: The case of tourism ecosystems pp. 886-896

Loïc Plé and Catherine Demangeot

Female leadership and bank risk-taking: Evidence from the effects of real estate shocks on bank lending performance and default risk pp. 897-909

Ajay Palvia, Emilia Vähämaa and Sami Vähämaa