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Management
Matthew P. Crayne, Alice M. Brawley Newlin
Summary: The nature of gig work lacks the dynamics of traditional leadership and is characterized by algorithmic management. Success in gig work depends on the individual's self-leadership ability to set objectives, identify strategies, and develop skills. However, this agency can either be a resource gain or drain, depending on job satisfaction and financial stress.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
(2023)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Anna Akhmedova, Marta Mas-Machuca, Frederic Marimon
Summary: This study aims to explore the satisfaction and loyalty of peer (service) providers (PPs) on sharing economy platforms (SEPs), comparing capital and labour sharing platforms. The findings suggest that satisfaction with the platform and the role of PP are related to loyalty, and sensitivity to the peer-to-peer business model also impacts loyalty.
JOURNAL OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Operations Research & Management Science
Wenzhu Zhang, Yue Dai, Lin Tian
Summary: This paper analyzes the impact of capacity flexibility on a monopoly's capacity investment strategy, product-line design, consumer surplus, and social welfare. It shows that the capacity investment strategy can be categorized based on the efficiency and cost of flexible resources. The study finds that flexible capacity can lead to higher service levels for high-valuation consumers when the flexible resource is cost-efficient, but customer discrimination may increase if the flexible resource is not cost-efficient. Additionally, consumer surplus and social welfare only increase when the flexible resource is cost-efficient.
ANNALS OF OPERATIONS RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Silke Hertel, Yves Karlen
Summary: The study examined how students' implicit theories of self-regulated learning (SRL) influenced their learning behaviors. Results showed that domain-specific implicit theories of SRL were closely related to students' achievement goals, learning strategies, and metacognitive knowledge, but were mostly unrelated to students' demographics and personality traits.
BRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Social Issues
Santiago Melian-Gonzalez
Summary: Despite concerns about service quality, a study suggests that consumer perceptions of gig economy delivery services, such as food delivery, are not worse compared to traditional professional service companies.
TECHNOLOGY IN SOCIETY
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yeong Gug Kim, Yeasun Kate Chung, Eunju Woo
Summary: This study aims to understand and examine the perception of platform workers regarding working conditions, work/life balance, and quality of life. It utilizes a conceptual model based on quality of life and work/life balance, and collects data through an online survey of 447 gig workers. The results indicate significant relationships between working environment, leisure domain, economic domain, emotional domain, overall quality of life, and psychological well-being, suggesting that factors in the life domain have more impact on overall quality of life than those in the work category. Implications for future research and the work environment for gig workers in the platform market are discussed.
Article
Business
P. D. Harms, Joshua V. White, Tyler N. A. Fezzey
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of the emerging entrepreneurial economy and its impact on the understanding of work. It discusses the influence of dark personality traits on interest in new occupations and explores the uncertainty surrounding the functioning of individuals with dark traits in these vocational contexts enhanced by artificial intelligence technology. It proposes improvements for future research in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of dark personality in the entrepreneurial economy.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ana-Maria Cazan
Summary: This study examines the development of self-regulated learning strategies in academic settings from a social-cognitive perspective. The impact of an intervention on the development of these strategies at a course-specific level is examined, along with the transferability of these strategies to different learning contexts. The study also investigates the possibility that the training leads to the improvement of learning motivation and behavioral strategies. The findings suggest that the intervention has positive effects on self-regulated learning skills and that the trained strategies can be transferred to different learning contexts.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Economics
Karen Gregory
Summary: This article examines how on-demand food couriers in Edinburgh, Scotland, navigate the risks associated with platform labour, utilizing strategies such as privatizing, normalizing, and minimizing risks, as well as forming new support communities. Interview data demonstrates how algorithmically managed work introduces uncertainty and complicates the issue of choice for couriers.
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
(2021)
Article
Information Science & Library Science
Geng Sun, Yeongin Kim, Yinliang (Ricky) Tan, Geoffrey G. Parker
Summary: This paper studies the optimal choices of online food delivery platforms in a competitive setting. The analysis shows that conventional insights from two-sided platforms do not completely apply to the online food delivery market. The platforms are able to mitigate the negative impact of network effects by adjusting their service strategies. However, introducing gig labor may lead to a prisoner's dilemma situation for competing platforms. Furthermore, the introduction of minimum wage regulation, while benefiting gig drivers, may have negative effects on society as a whole.
INFORMATION SYSTEMS RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Kelsey Urgo, Jaime Arguello
Summary: This study examined the impact of goal-setting on learning during search through a crowdsourced study. The researchers developed a tool called the Subgoal Manager (SM) to investigate the role of goal-setting. The results showed that participants achieved the best learning outcomes in the condition where they set their own subgoals.
INFORMATION PROCESSING & MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Economics
Benedicte Apouey, Mark Stabile
Summary: This study examines the impact of Uber diffusion on the mental health of drivers, showing a positive correlation between Uber diffusion and mental health for self-employed drivers, but not a causal relationship. Among salaried drivers, the introduction of Uber may lead to a decline in mental health.
Article
Industrial Relations & Labor
Despoina Georgiou
Summary: This paper critically evaluates the use of 'business risk-assumption' as a criterion for determining EU employment status, proposing an alternative criterion based on the 'involuntary assumption of risks' to protect vulnerable quasi-subordinate persons excluded from the current EU 'worker' definition. It argues for a fair mutualisation of risks between parties and suggests expanding the EU nomen juris of 'worker' through the adoption of the proposed criterion.
INDUSTRIAL LAW JOURNAL
(2022)
Article
Management
Kostas Bimpikis, Yiangos Papanastasiou, Wenchang Zhang
Summary: This paper examines the impact of optimal information provision on the supply side in two-sided marketplaces. The findings suggest that information design can improve matching efficiency, increase transaction volume, and generate higher commission revenue for the platform.
MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Xuezhao Zhang, Siyuan Zhang, Mingsen Wang
Summary: The uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented unprecedented challenges for frontline employees in tourism enterprises. Fulfilling corporate social responsibility is of great significance in this context. Based on the social cognitive theory, a conceptual framework was developed to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility and tourism service improvisation, mediated by self-efficacy. The results indicate that frontline employees' perception of corporate social responsibility has a significant positive impact on self-efficacy and service improvisation, and self-efficacy also has a significant positive impact on service improvisation. Furthermore, self-efficacy partially mediates the relationship between corporate social responsibility and service improvisation.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Business
Sylvie Chetty, Oscar Martin Martin, Wensong Bai
Summary: Foreign market selection and entry are important decisions for internationalizing SMEs as they involve uncertainty and influence performance. This study contributes to the field by proposing a model that explains SMEs' international performance through causal and effectual logic, as well as business network theory.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Yaming Wang, Xingyuan Wang, Haipeng (Allan) Chen, Qiang Ouyang
Summary: Negative psychological experiences, such as exposure to a status threat, can significantly influence consumers' behavior. Previous studies have shown that consumers often choose to cope with a status threat by purchasing status-related or hedonic products, but this research suggests that consumers who perceive the threat as controllable are more likely to prefer self-improvement products within their own domain. Furthermore, trade-off beliefs play a moderating role in the relationship between status threat and perceived loss of control, which subsequently predicts consumers' preference for self-improvement products across different domains.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Maud Pindard-Lejarraga, Jose Lejarraga
Summary: The information source used by nascent entrepreneurs affects their performance expectations. Experience-based information leads to lower expectations of success, while descriptive information leads to higher expectations. These effects are influenced by industry conditions.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
George Kuk, Mario Schaarschmidt, Dirk Homscheid
Summary: Much research on open source software development has tended to overlook the behavioral differences between various developer groups. This study expands upon the private-collective innovation model using a networking approach and reveals the influence of network closure and positional embeddedness on technical contribution. The empirical findings show that network closure has a negative impact on technical contribution, while the relationship between positional embeddedness and technical contribution follows an inverted U-shape. Moreover, high positional embeddedness can counteract the negative influence of extensive network closure on technical contribution. These effects are moderated by different developer groups.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Business
Jie Wu, Narisa Zhao, Tong Yang
Summary: This article introduces an innovative method for conducting SWOT analysis using online reviews. Overcoming the subjectivity and limitations of traditional SWOT analysis, this method effectively addresses the dynamic business environment and helps managers develop preventive strategies.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Karin Sanders, Phong T. Nguyen, Dave Bouckenooghe, Alannah E. Rafferty, Gavin Schwarz
Summary: During times of crisis, employees look to their managers for information and guidance. Sharing distinctive, consistent, and consensual information, also known as human resource management (HRM) system strength, makes it easier for employees to understand their roles. This study explores the factors that influence managers when sharing information with employees, and suggests that the interaction between managers' motivation and their cultural values can explain HRM system strength in times of crisis. The findings indicate that crisis severity and organization reputation have stronger effects on HRM system strength in countries with high uncertainty avoidance, but weaker effects in countries with high power distance. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Sumaya Albalooshi, Mehrad Moeini-Jazani
Summary: This study shows that economic inequality increases the preference for personal control appeals in advertising. The effect is observed when economic inequality is objectively measured or experimentally manipulated. The study also identifies financial threat as the mechanism underlying this effect, which reduces consumers' sense of control. Moreover, it is found that a boost in the sense of control or stronger belief in economic mobility can mitigate the psychological threats of higher economic inequality and reduce the preference for personal control appeals.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Oihab Allal-Cherif, Jose Manuel Guaita-Martinez, Eduard Montesinos Sansaloni
Summary: This article explores how sustainable esports entrepreneurs in emerging countries manage to build successful businesses and have a positive impact on society. They overcome various challenges such as failing infrastructure, high equipment costs, limited purchasing power, low public and private investment, lack of institutional recognition, and the strong domination of leading countries, by utilizing their knowledge, talents, and innovative processes and technologies, and demonstrating resilience and audacity in adversity.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Dasha Antsipava, Joanna Strycharz, Eva A. van Reijmersdal, Guda van Noort
Summary: This study examines the factors that influence the adoption of blockchain technology in the online advertising ecosystem from a multi-stakeholder perspective. The findings reveal that all factors of the Interactive Communication Technology Adoption Model (ICTAM) simultaneously affect blockchain adoption, often in contradictory ways. The study extends the application of the ICTAM to a whole ecosystem perspective and identifies the essential factors for successful blockchain adoption in online advertising. The study concludes that more education about blockchain's potential, favorable regulation, and ready-to-use applications are needed for wide-scale adoption.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Nadine Pieper, David M. Woisetschla
Summary: This study examines the use of external regulation and introjected actions to reduce customer misbehavior in access-based mobility services. The results show that these two prevention strategies usually do not provide advantages, and thus, the actions should be carefully selected depending on the service setting.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Yi Wu, Yuanyuan Cai, Xiaohan Zhou, Xinyi Huang
Summary: This study proposed a novel sensory marketing strategy using shape cues to influence consumers' reactions to distant brand extensions. The findings suggest that circular shapes lead to more favorable evaluations of distant brand extensions compared to angular shapes, and these effects are mediated by consumers' cognitive flexibility and fit perceptions. The influence of shapes on brand extension evaluation diminishes when a sub-branding strategy is used to introduce the extension product, but is not affected when a direct-branding strategy is used. These results were replicated across different product categories and cultures and have implications for both theory and practice.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Elizabeth Napier, Steven Y. H. Liu, Jingting Liu
Summary: Organizational resilience has become a critical concept in today's international business environment. It encompasses multiple levels including individuals, organizations, ecosystems, institutions, and the global level, and is examined through a dynamic process model to help multinational enterprises navigate change, adapt to adversity, and achieve success.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Jose Antonio Porfirio, Jose Augusto Felicio, Tiago Carrilho
Summary: This study analyzes the impact of digital transformation on banking performance in Portugal. It identifies the factors and configurations between employees, internal factors, and external factors that influence the impact of digital transformation. The study highlights the importance of flexibility and management capacity in enhancing the impact of digital transformation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
Omar Al-Tabbaa, Nadia Zahoor
Summary: By integrating alliance capability and resource-based view, this study examines how SMEs can expand their internationalization through collaboration. The results show that alliance management capability enhances radical and incremental co-innovation in SMEs, leading to their international expansion. Furthermore, the study reveals the moderating effects of alliance partner diversity on the relationship between alliance management capability and co-innovation.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
Article
Business
P. D. Harms, Joshua V. White, Tyler N. A. Fezzey
Summary: This paper introduces the concept of the emerging entrepreneurial economy and its impact on the understanding of work. It discusses the influence of dark personality traits on interest in new occupations and explores the uncertainty surrounding the functioning of individuals with dark traits in these vocational contexts enhanced by artificial intelligence technology. It proposes improvements for future research in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of dark personality in the entrepreneurial economy.
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS RESEARCH
(2024)
