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Consumer perspectives on food traceability - a systematic literature review and future research agenda
(Wiley, 2024-10-31)Food traceability is a critical approach that ensures the safety and quality of food. It has garnered significant attention, particularly in the aftermath of multiple food safety incidents reported in various countries. ... -
Creating safe spaces through exclusionary boundaries: examining employers treatment of domestic workers during the COVID-19 pandemic in India
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-19)Our study illustrates how boundary mechanisms exacerbated the marginalization of paid domestic workers in India, after they resumed their employment at the end of the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw upon ... -
Problem of plenty? understanding the impact of choice and information overload on Airbnb bookings
(Springer, 2024-10-21)Online sharing platforms offer countless choices and detailed product descriptions to consumers. In this study, we demonstrate the effect of choice and information overload on booking decisions using large-scale field data ... -
Spokesperson effectiveness in B2B advertising: spokesperson characteristics and posture using eye-tracking
(Emerald, 2024-09-26)Purpose – This study aims to investigate the nuances of celebrity spokesperson effectiveness in business-to-business (B2B) advertising. Specifically, the study addresses the question of endorser effectiveness in the ... -
Cut the scrap? The impact of truck age on driver retention, driving safety, and driving productivity
(Springer, 2024-10-02)In many countries, vehicle replacement policies are implemented to reduce the average age of the vehicles on the road. Through these policies, policymakers typically aim to reduce emissions and to stimulate demand for ... -
A machine learning approach to solve the e-commerce box-sizing problem
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-01)E-commerce packages are notorious for their inefficient usage of space. More than one-quarter volume of a typical e-commerce package comprises air and filler material. The inefficient usage of space significantly reduces ... -
What happens when parents find violence acceptable? A case of violent-humorous commercials targeted at children
(Taylor and Francis, 2024-09-11)We examine the influence of violent–humorous commercials on children and whether parental mediation can temper children’s aggressive responses to violent–humorous ads. We find that (a) violent–humorous ads lead to higher ... -
Does David make a Goliath? Impact of rival’s expertise signals on online user engagement
(INFORMS PubsOnline, 2024-09-05)How does information on a rival’s expertise influence the focal user’s engagement in online competitive settings? Online competitive settings differ fundamentally from other online contexts, such as e-commerce and social ... -
The impact of board characteristics on the financial slack–CSR relationship: evidence from the Indian hospitality and tourism industry
(Sage Journals, 2024-08-02)Extant research in the hospitality and tourism (H&T) industry has largely ignored the influence of contextual factors like institutional environment and board characteristics on the financial slack and CSR relationship. ... -
I bond, I engage, I visit: investigating the effects of vloggers tourist engagement and its outcome on tourist attitudes
(Sage Journals, 2024-09-19)The present study investigates the effectiveness of tourism vlogs (video blogs), the parasocial bonding between the vloggers and the tourist/prospect and the wishful identification of the tourist/prospect on the different ... -
Ethicality in B2B service delivery: examining the impact of individual and organisational ethics on firm performance through ethical leadership and climate
(Springer, 2024-09-20)The criticality of ethical practices in B2B service delivery is increasingly recognised for its substantial impact on firm performance. However, there remains a gap in understanding how ethicality at managerial and staff ... -
Moderating effect of chief executive officer servant leadership on the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance
(Sage, 2024-08-26)Although entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is widely believed to benefit firms, it is increasingly considered necessary but insufficient for achieving superior firm performance. To better understand the circumstances under ... -
The role of founder CEO and independent board in family firms’ international growth: evidence from India and Italy
(Emerald, 2023-08-02)This paper investigates the role of the founder CEO and board independence in shaping the way in which Indian and Italian family firms (FFs) pursue international growth via two modes, that is exports and FDI. This article ... -
Product market shock, stakeholder relationships, and trade credit
(ScienceDirect, 2024-08-14)The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in an extremely rare instance of a shock to global product markets. Using quarterly data for a sample of 7397 firms from 54 countries over the period 2017–2020, we study the causal impact of ... -
Impact of TMT structural power asymmetry on family firm internationalization
(ScienceDirect, 2023-08-04)We examine the impact of the top management team’s (TMT) structural power asymmetry on a family firm’s degree of internationalization. Structural power is the administrative power drawn from formal positions and is different ... -
The role of family in unfolding the process of external corporate venturing in small family businesses
(Springer, 2022-08-15)The extant literature argues that small family firms with higher family ownership have a lower proclivity toward external corporate venturing (ECV) activities. We contend that this is not true for all small family firms. ... -
Women’s empowerment and intra-household diet diversity across the urban continuum: evidence from India’s DHS
(Science Direct, 2024-07-18)Women’s empowerment has been associated with improved nutritional outcomes in various settings. However, the gains from empowerment do not necessarily accrue to different members of the same household in the same manner. ... -
Opening first-party app resources: empirical evidence of free-riding
(Informs PubsOnline, 2024-07-26)Platform owners are releasing their own apps on their platforms. These first-party apps (FPAs) typically leverage platform resources more effectively, competitively threatening rivals. Although the impact of FPAs on rivals’ ... -
Multi-plant firms and the heavy tail of firm size distribution
(Wiley, 2024-07-23)The right tail of the firm size distribution has a heavy tail. The origin of this phenomenon, especially the specific characteristics of firms driving this pattern, remain a subject of extensive debate. Previous work has ... -
An exact method for trilevel hub location problem with interdiction
(Elsevier, 2024-07-14)In this paper, we study the problem of designing a hub network that is robust against deliberate attacks (interdictions). The problem is modeled as a three-level, two-player Stackelberg game, in which the network designer ...
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