TY - JOUR A1 - Abramova, Olga T1 - No matter what the name, we're all the same? BT - examining ethnic online discrimination in ridesharing marketplaces JF - Electronic markets N2 - Sharing marketplaces emerged as the new Holy Grail of value creation by enabling exchanges between strangers. Identity reveal, encouraged by platforms, cuts both ways: While inducing pre-transaction confidence, it is suspected of backfiring on the information senders with its discriminative potential. This study employs a discrete choice experiment to explore the role of names as signifiers of discriminative peculiarities and the importance of accompanying cues in peer choices of a ridesharing offer. We quantify users' preferences for quality signals in monetary terms and evidence comparative disadvantage of Middle Eastern descent male names for drivers and co-travelers. It translates into a lower willingness to accept and pay for an offer. Market simulations confirm the robustness of the findings. Further, we discover that females are choosier and include more signifiers of involuntary personal attributes in their decision-making. Price discounts and positive information only partly compensate for the initial disadvantage, and identity concealment is perceived negatively. KW - sharing economy KW - discrimination KW - racism KW - discrete choice experiment KW - stated preferences KW - social inclusion Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-021-00505-z SN - 1019-6781 SN - 1422-8890 VL - 32 SP - 1419 EP - 1446 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abramova, Olga A1 - Batzel, Katharina A1 - Modesti, Daniela T1 - Collective response to the health crisis among German Twitter users BT - a structural topic modeling approach JF - International Journal of Information Management Data Insights N2 - We used structural topic modeling to analyze over 800,000 German tweets about COVID-19 to answer the questions: What patterns emerge in tweets as a response to a health crisis? And how do topics discussed change over time? The study leans on the goals associated with the health information seeking (GAINS) model, discerning whether a post aims at tackling and eliminating the problem (i.e., problem-focused) or managing the emotions (i.e., emotion-focused); whether it strives to maximize positive outcomes (promotion focus) or to minimize negative outcomes (prevention focus). The findings indicate four clusters salient in public reactions: 1) “Understanding” (problem-promotion); 2) “Action planning” (problem-prevention); 3) “Hope” (emotion-promotion) and 4) “Reassurance” (emotion-prevention). Public communication is volatile over time, and a shift is evidenced from self-centered to community-centered topics within 4.5 weeks. Our study illustrates social media text mining's potential to quickly and efficiently extract public opinions and reactions. Monitoring fears and trending topics enable policymakers to rapidly respond to deviant behavior, like resistive attitudes toward containment measures or deteriorating physical health. Healthcare workers can use the insights to provide mental health services for battling anxiety or extensive loneliness from staying home. KW - social media KW - Twitter KW - modeling KW - regulatory focus theory KW - crisis management KW - text mining Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jjimei.2022.100126 SN - 2667-0968 VL - 2 IS - 2 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abramova, Olga A1 - Gladkaya, Margarita A1 - Krasnova, Hanna T1 - The differential effects of self-view in virtual meetings when speaking vs. listening JF - European journal of information systems N2 - With the surging reliance on videoconferencing tools, users may find themselves staring at their reflections for hours a day. We refer to this phenomenon as self-referential information (SRI) consumption and examine its consequences and the mechanism behind them. Building on self-awareness research and the strength model of self-control, we argue that SRI consumption heightens the state of self-awareness and thereby depletes participants’ mental resources, eventually undermining virtual meeting (VM) outcomes. Our findings from a European employee sample revealed contrary effects of SRI consumption across speaker vs listener roles. Engagement with self-view is positively associated with self-awareness, which, in turn, is negatively related to satisfaction with VM process, perceived productivity, and enjoyment. Looking at the self while listening to others exhibits adverse direct and indirect (via self-awareness) effects on VM outcomes. However, looking at the self when speaking exhibits positive direct effects on satisfaction with VM process and enjoyment. KW - self-view,virtual meetings KW - self-awarenesssender-receiver framework zoom KW - sender-receiver framework KW - Zoom Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2024.2325350 SN - 0960-085X SN - 1476-9344 SP - 1 EP - 19 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abramova, Olga A1 - Wagner, Amina A1 - Olt, Christian M. A1 - Buxmann, Peter T1 - One for all, all for one BT - social considerations in user acceptance of contact tracing apps using longitudinal evidence from Germany and Switzerland JF - International Journal of Information Management N2 - We propose a conceptual model of acceptance of contact tracing apps based on the privacy calculus perspective. Moving beyond the duality of personal benefits and privacy risks, we theorize that users hold social considerations (i.e., social benefits and risks) that underlie their acceptance decisions. To test our propositions, we chose the context of COVID-19 contact tracing apps and conducted a qualitative pre-study and longitudinal quantitative main study with 589 participants from Germany and Switzerland. Our findings confirm the prominence of individual privacy calculus in explaining intention to use and actual behavior. While privacy risks are a significant determinant of intention to use, social risks (operationalized as fear of mass surveillance) have a notably stronger impact. Our mediation analysis suggests that social risks represent the underlying mechanism behind the observed negative link between individual privacy risks and contact tracing apps' acceptance. Furthermore, we find a substantial intention–behavior gap. KW - digital contact tracing KW - privacy calculus KW - longitudinal study KW - privacy risks KW - surveillance KW - intention-behavior gap Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102473 SN - 0268-4012 SN - 1873-4707 VL - 64 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Elsevier CY - Kidlington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alerasoul, Sayed Alireza A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Bouncken, Ricarda B. T1 - Entrepreneurship and innovation BT - the coevolution of two fields JF - Journal of small business strategy N2 - Both entrepreneurship and innovation play a key role for business growth and economic development and are conceptually highly intertwined. Both fields have received extensive attention that has resulted in a large number of publications. The aim of this work is to provide an overview on the coevolution of entrepreneurship and innovation over the last decades, with particular attention to recent research trends. To track the evolution at the intersection of both fields, we employ a bibliometric analysis, which allowed us to identify the key concepts, the backbone of research, and to provide a systematic classification of main research themes diagnosed including: 1) entrepreneurial innovation and digital transformation, 2) sustainable innovation and entrepreneurship, 3) product innovation and knowledge, 4) entrepreneurial orientation and leadership, and 5) regional entrepreneurship and innovation (innovative entrepreneurship and historical roots). The findings of this bibliometric review are reported in the form of a knowledge graph that represents the results obtained in terms of the knowledge base (key terms), knowledge domains, and knowledge evolution (themes and bursts), based on which themes for future research are suggested. KW - bibliometric analysis KW - literature review KW - innovation KW - entrepreneurship KW - knowledge graph Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.53703/001c.29968 SN - 1081-8510 SN - 2380-1751 VL - 32 IS - 2 PB - Middle Tennessee State University CY - Murfreesboro, TN ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alnoor, Alhamzah A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Atiyah, Abbas Gatea A1 - Khaw, Khai Wah A1 - Yin, Teh Sin A1 - Chew, XinYing A1 - Abbas, Sammar T1 - How positive and negative electronic word of mouth (eWOM) affects customers’ intention to use social commerce? BT - a dual-stage multi group-SEM and ANN analysis JF - International journal of human computer interaction N2 - Advances in Web 2.0 technologies have led to the widespread assimilation of electronic commerce platforms as an innovative shopping method and an alternative to traditional shopping. However, due to pro-technology bias, scholars focus more on adopting technology, and slightly less attention has been given to the impact of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) on customers’ intention to use social commerce. This study addresses the gap by examining the intention through exploring the effect of eWOM on males’ and females’ intentions and identifying the mediation of perceived crowding. To this end, we adopted a dual-stage multi-group structural equation modeling and artificial neural network (SEM-ANN) approach. We successfully extended the eWOM concept by integrating negative and positive factors and perceived crowding. The results reveal the causal and non-compensatory relationships between the constructs. The variables supported by the SEM analysis are adopted as the ANN model’s input neurons. According to the natural significance obtained from the ANN approach, males’ intentions to accept social commerce are related mainly to helping the company, followed by core functionalities. In contrast, females are highly influenced by technical aspects and mishandling. The ANN model predicts customers’ intentions to use social commerce with an accuracy of 97%. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of increasing customers’ intention toward social commerce channels among consumers based on our findings. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2125610 SN - 1044-7318 SN - 1532-7590 SP - 1 EP - 30 PB - Taylor & Francis CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Andres, Maximilian T1 - Four essays on communication, cooperation, and text mining in experimental economics Y1 - 2023 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Appenfeller, Dennis T1 - A social marketing approach to voluntary simplicity BT - communicating to consume less JF - Sustainability N2 - Higher eco-efficiency will not be enough to slow global warming caused by climate change. To keep global warming to 2 degrees, people also need to reduce their consumption. At present, however, many who would be able to do so seem unwilling to comply. Given the threats of a runaway climate change, urgent measures are needed to promote less personal consumption. This study, therefore, examines whether social marketing consume-less appeals can be used to encourage consumers to voluntarily abstain from consumption. As part of an online experiment with nearly 2000 randomly sampled users of an online platform for sustainable consumption, we tested the effectiveness of five different “consume-less” appeals based on traditional advertising formats (including emotional, informational, and social claims). The study shows that consume-less appeals are capable of limiting personal desire to buy. However, significant differences in the effectiveness of the appeal formats used in this study were observed. In addition, we found evidence of rebound effects, which leads us to critically evaluate the overall potential of social marketing to promote more resource-conserving lifestyles. While commercial consumer-free appeals have previously been studied (e.g., Patagonia’s “Don’t Buy This Jacked”), this study on the effectiveness of non-commercial consume-free appeals is novel and provides new insights. KW - social marketing KW - voluntary simplicity KW - spending patterns KW - donation behavior KW - sustainability KW - randomized trial KW - rebound-effect Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/su15032302 SN - 2071-1050 VL - 15 IS - 3 PB - MDPI CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Hoffmann, Stefan T1 - The Effectiveness of consume-less appeals in social marketing JF - Journal of macromarketing N2 - Consume-less appeals in social marketing can help reduce the lavish consumption in wealthy countries, which poses a major threat to the climate. This study experimentally examines the effectiveness of three different types of consume-less appeals (informative, social normative, and emotional appeals) on participants’ actual spending levels during a real shopping trip compared to a control group (no appeal). In addition, the study tests whether these appeals evoke negative rebounds (in terms of post-purchase climate donation) or positive rebounds (in terms of accepting post-purchase material giveaways). A field experiment in a grocery store in Germany with 170 participants shows that social normative and the emotional appeals reduce actual shopping spending. Informative and social normative appeals increase donations, and emotional appeals reduce the items of taken giveaways. The findings further support certain indirect impacts of the consume-less appeals on rebounds in terms of spending levels. KW - consume-less appeals KW - emotional appeals KW - rebound effects KW - social marketing social norms Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/02761467231205448 SN - 0276-1467 SN - 1552-6534 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Hoffmann, Stefan A1 - Hüttel, Alexandra T1 - How empowerment and materialism contribute to anti-consumers’ well-being JF - European journal of marketing N2 - Purpose Because steadily growing consumption is not beneficial for nature and climate and is not the same as increasing well-being, an anti-consumerism movement has formed worldwide. The renouncement of dispensable consumption will, however, only establish itself as a significant lifestyle if consumers do not perceive reduced consumption as a personal sacrifice. Since prior research has not yielded a consistent understanding of the relationship between anti-consumption and personal well-being, this paper aims to examine three factors about which theory implies that they may moderate this relationship: decision-control empowerment, market-control empowerment and the value of materialism. Design/methodology/approach The analysis is based on data from a large-scale, representative online survey (N = 1,398). Structural equation modelling with latent interaction effects is used to test how three moderators (decision-control empowerment, market-control empowerment and materialism) affect the relationship amongst four types of anti-consumption (e.g. voluntary simplicity) and three different well-being states (e.g. subjective well-being). Findings While both dimensions of empowerment almost always directly promote consumer well-being, significant moderation effects are present in only a few but meaningful cases. Although the materialism value tends to reduce consumers’ well-being, it improves the well-being effect of two anti-consumption styles. Research limitations/implications Using only one sample from a wealthy country is a limitation of the study. Researchers should replicate the findings in different nations and cultures. Practical implications Consumer affairs practitioners and commercial marketing for sustainably produced, high-quality and long-lasting goods can benefit greatly from these findings. Social implications This paper shows that sustainable marketing campaigns can more easily motivate consumers to voluntarily reduce their consumption for the benefit of society and the environment if a high level of market-control empowerment can be communicated to them. Originality/value This study provides differentiated new insights into the roles of consumer empowerment, i.e. both decision-control empowerment and market-control empowerment, and the value of materialism to frame specific relationships between different anti-consumption types and various well-being states. KW - sustainable consumption KW - anti-consumption KW - consumer well-being KW - materialism KW - consumer empowerment Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/EJM-04-2020-0284 SN - 0309-0566 SN - 1758-7123 VL - 57 IS - 4 SP - 1186 EP - 1218 PB - Emerald CY - Bradford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Lee, Michael S. W. A1 - Seegebarth, Barbara A1 - Peyer, Mathias T1 - A sustainable pathway to consumer wellbeing BT - the role of anticonsumption and consumer empowerment JF - The Journal of consumer affairs N2 - This study investigates the effect of different anticonsumption constructs on consumer wellbeing. The study assumes that people will only lower their level of consumption if doing so does not also lower personal wellbeing. More precisely, this research investigates how specific subtypes of sustainable anticonsumption (e.g., voluntary simplicity, collaborative consumption, and debt-free living) relate to different states of consumer's wellbeing (e.g., financial, psychosocial, and subjective wellbeing). This work also examines whether consumer empowerment can improve personal wellbeing and strengthen the anticonsumption wellbeing relationship. The results show that voluntarily foregoing consumption does not reduce wellbeing and consumer empowerment plays a significant role in supporting sustainable pathways to consumer wellbeing. This study reasons that empowerment improves consumer sovereignty, but may be detrimental for consumers heavily concerned about debt-free living. The present investigation concludes by proposing implications for public and consumer policymakers wishing to promote appropriate sustainable (anticonsumption) pathways to consumer wellbeing. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12278 SN - 0022-0078 SN - 1745-6606 VL - 54 IS - 2 SP - 456 EP - 488 PB - Wiley CY - Malden, Mass. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Seegebarth, Barbara A1 - Lee, Michael S. W. T1 - Less is more! BT - The rationale behind the decision-making style of voluntary simplifiers JF - Journal of cleaner production N2 - Enhancing consumer satisfaction and well-being is an important objective of companies, retailers and public policy makers. In the current debate on climate change, a consistent theme is that consumers in developed countries must learn to consume less. The present study (based on representative data sets from the US, N = 1,017, and Germany, N = 1030) addresses these issues by using a scenario-based experiment to analyze how satisfied voluntary simplifiers (people who voluntarily abstain from consumption) are with their purchase decisions in the case of a muesli brand. The research question is whether people who follow a sustainable, simple lifestyle are more satisfied with their daily consumption choices than people who have a more consumerist lifestyle. If so, it would be easier for many people to change their lifestyles and consume less. In addition, this scenario experiment manipulates consumer empowerment and decision complexity since both factors are supposed to influence purchase satisfaction. The results are consistent across both countries and indicate that voluntary simplifiers experience a higher level of purchasing satisfaction than non-simplifiers, whereby empowerment and decision complexity play different roles. KW - voluntarily simplicity KW - well-being KW - consumer empowerment KW - decision complexity KW - sustainable consumption Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.124802 SN - 0959-6526 SN - 1879-1786 VL - 284 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baum, Katharina A1 - Abramova, Olga A1 - Meißner, Stefan A1 - Krasnova, Hanna T1 - The effects of targeted political advertising on user privacy concerns and digital product acceptance BT - a preference-based approach JF - Electronic markets N2 - Online businesses are increasingly relying on targeted advertisements as a revenue stream, which might lead to privacy concerns and hinder product adoption. Therefore, it is crucial for online companies to understand which types of targeted advertisements consumers will accept. In recent years, users have been increasingly targeted by political advertisements, which has caused adverse reactions in media and society. Nonetheless, few studies experimentally investigate user privacy concerns and their role in acceptance decisions in response to targeted political advertisements. To fill this gap, we explore the magnitude of privacy concerns towards targeted political ads compared to “traditional” targeting in the product context. Surprisingly, we find no notable differences in privacy concerns between these data use purposes. In the next step, user preferences over ad types are elicited with the help of a discrete choice experiment in the mobile app adoption context. Our findings suggest that while targeted political advertising is somewhat less desirable than targeted product advertising, the odds of choosing an app are statistically insignificant between two data use purposes. Together, these results contribute to a better understanding of users’ privacy concerns and preferences in the context of targeted political advertising online. KW - online privacy KW - targeting KW - advertisement KW - DCE Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-023-00656-1 SN - 1019-6781 SN - 1422-8890 VL - 33 IS - 46 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baum, Katharina A1 - Meissner, Stefan A1 - Krasnova, Hanna T1 - Partisan self-interest is an important driver for people’s support for the regulation of targeted political advertising JF - PLoS one N2 - The rapid emergence of online targeted political advertising has raised concerns over data privacy and what the government's response should be. This paper tested and confirmed the hypothesis that public attitudes toward stricter regulation of online targeted political advertising are partially motivated by partisan self-interest. We conducted an experiment using an online survey of 1549 Americans who identify as either Democrats or Republicans. Our findings show that Democrats and Republicans believe that online targeted political advertising benefits the opposing party. This belief is based on their conviction that their political opponents are more likely to be mobilized by online targeted political advertising than are supporters of their own party. We exogenously manipulated partisan self-interest considerations of a random subset of participants by truthfully informing them that, in the past, online targeted political advertising has benefited Republicans. Our findings show that Republicans informed about this had less favorable attitudes toward regulation than did their uninformed co-partisans. This suggests that Republicans' attitudes regarding stricter regulation are based not solely on concerns about privacy violations, but also, in part, are caused by beliefs about partisan advantage. The results imply that people are willing to accept violations of their privacy if their preferred party benefits from the use of online targeted political advertising. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250506 SN - 1932-6203 VL - 16 IS - 5 PB - PLoS CY - San Fransisco ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behrendt, Aileen Jorena T1 - Against the Capitalist Narrative of Success and Failure BT - the Precarious Lives of Jean Rhys`s Interwar Women JF - Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe : Representation, Contestation, Critique Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-85754-0 SN - 978-3-631-85755-7 SN - 978-3-631-83999-7 SN - 978-3-631-85753-3 SP - 137 EP - 159 PB - Lang CY - Frankfurt am Main ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Behrendt, Aileen Jorena A1 - Courtman, Nicholas T1 - Introduction JF - Writing the Economic Subject in Modern Western Europe : Representation, Contestation, Critique Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-631-85754-0 SN - 978-3-631-85755-7 SN - 978-3-631-83999-7 SN - 978-3-631-85753-3 SP - 9 EP - 31 PB - Lang CY - Frankfurt am Main ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beier, Grischa A1 - Ullrich, André A1 - Niehoff, Silke A1 - Reißig, Malte A1 - Habich, Matthias T1 - Industry 4.0 BT - how it is defined from a sociotechnical perspective and how much sustainability it includes - a literature review JF - Journal of cleaner production N2 - Industry 4.0 has had a strong influence on the debate on the digitalization of industrial processes, despite being criticized for lacking a proper definition. However, Industry 4.0 might offer a huge chance to align the goals of a sustainable development with the ongoing digital transformation in industrial development. The main contribution of this paper is therefore twofold. We provide a de-facto definition of the concept "Industry 4.0" from a sociotechnical perspective based on its most often cited key features, as well as a thorough review of how far the concept of sustainability is incorporated in it. KW - sustainability KW - digitalization KW - manufacturing KW - Industry 4.0 KW - definition KW - sociotechnical approach Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120856 SN - 0959-6526 SN - 1879-1786 VL - 259 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bellmann, Lutz A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Tübbicke, Stefan T1 - The post-reform effectiveness of the new German start-up subsidy for the unemployed JF - Labour-England N2 - The current German start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals underwent a major reform in 2011 that altered key parameters of the program, leading to ambiguous ex ante predictions on the post-reform effectiveness of the program, making a new evaluation necessary. In our descriptive analysis, we find that participants after the reform differ significantly from pre-reform participants in terms of important characteristics and subsequent labor market performance. Our causal analysis reveals positive and sizable treatment effects on the treated regarding employment and income that are larger effects than what was estimated for the pre-reform program. Potential reasons for this are discussed. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/labr.12126 SN - 1121-7081 SN - 1467-9914 VL - 32 IS - 3 SP - 293 EP - 319 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bender, Benedict A1 - Bertheau, Clementine A1 - Körppen, Tim A1 - Lauppe, Hannah A1 - Gronau, Norbert T1 - A proposal for future data organization in enterprise systems BT - an analysis of established database approaches JF - Information systems and e-business management N2 - The digital transformation sets new requirements to all classes of enterprise systems in companies. ERP systems in particular, which represent the dominant class of enterprise systems, are struggling to meet the new requirements at all levels of the architecture. Therefore, there is an urgent need to reconsider the overall architecture of the systems and address the root of the related issues. Given that many restrictions ERP pose on their adaptability are related to the standardization of data, the database layer of ERP systems is addressed. Since database serve as the foundation for data storage and retrieval, they limit the flexibility of enterprise systems and the chance to adapt to new requirements accordingly. So far, relational databases are widely used. Using a systematic literature approach, recent requirements for ERP systems were identified. Prominent database approaches were assessed against the 23 requirements identified. The results reveal the strengths and weaknesses of recent database approaches. To this end, the results highlight the demand to combine multiple database approaches to fulfill recent business requirements. From a conceptual point of view, this paper supports the idea of federated databases which are interoperable to fulfill future requirements and support business operation. This research forms the basis for renewal of the current generation of ERP systems and proposes to ERP vendors to use different database concepts in the future. KW - database KW - enterprise system KW - ERP system KW - requirements KW - problems KW - future Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-022-00555-6 SN - 1617-9846 SN - 1617-9854 VL - 20 SP - 441 EP - 494 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bender, Benedict A1 - Gronau, Norbert T1 - Coring on digital software platforms BT - Fundamentals and Examples from the Mobile Device Sector JF - Schriften zur Business Analytics und zum Informationsmanagement N2 - Today’s mobile devices are part of powerful business ecosystems, which usually involve digital platforms. To better understand the complex phenomenon of coring and related dynamics, this paper presents a case study comparing iMessage as part of Apple’s iOS and WhatsApp. Specifically, it investigates activities regarding platform coring, as the integration of several functionalities provided by third-party applications in the platform core. The paper makes three contributions. First, a systematization of coring activities is developed. Coring modes are differentiated by the amount of coring and application maintenance. Second, the case study revealed that the phenomenon of platform coring is present on digital platforms for mobile devices. Third, the fundamentals of coring are discussed as a first step towards theoretical development. Even though coring constitutes a potential threat for third-party developers regarding their functional differentiation, an idea of what a beneficial partnership incorporating coring activities could look like is developed here. KW - coring KW - digital platforms KW - digital marketplaces KW - mobile software ecosystems Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-658-34798-7 SN - 978-3-658-34799-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-34799-4_4 SN - 2946-0670 SN - 2946-0662 SP - 45 EP - 77 PB - Springer CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bender, Benedict A1 - Heine, Moreen T1 - Government as a Platform? BT - the power of platforms to support personalization of public services JF - Journal of Data Intelligence N2 - Digital platforms, by their design, allow the coordination of multiple entities to achieve a common goal. In the public sector, different understandings of the platform concept prevail. To guide the development and further re-search a coherent understanding is required. To address this gap, we identify the constitutive elements of platforms in the public sector. Moreover, their potential to coordinate partially autonomous entities as typical for federal organized states is highlighted. This study contributes through a uniform understanding of public service platforms by providing a framework with constitutive elements, that may guide future analysis. Apart from chance regarding coordination, platforms are well suited to support contextual eGovernment targets. Among them is service personalization. Highly individualized service offerings support targets such as No Stop government. To this end, the paper extends the framework for service personalization in the public sector and exemplifies related aspects using a reference case. KW - Public service platforms KW - Digital platforms KW - Government as a platform KW - Public sector KW - Platform economy KW - Federal states Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.26421/JDI3.1-5 SN - 2577-610X VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 169 EP - 187 PB - Rinton Press CY - New Jersey ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bertels, Jana A1 - Schulze-Gabrechten, Lena T1 - Mapping the black box of intraministerial organization BT - An analytical approach to explore structural diversity below the portfolio level JF - Governance : an international journal of policy and administration and institutions N2 - This article explores the structural diversity of intraministerial organization over time. Based on organization theory, it proposes a generic typology for intraministerial units applicable to any hierarchically structured government organization. We empirically investigate the critical case of the German federal bureaucracy. By classifying its subunits, we analyze the longitudinal development of structural differentiation and its correspondence to denominational variety. The data stem from a novel international dataset, covering all ministries between 1980 and 2015. We find that intraministerial structure differentiates over time, across and within ministries. A stable core of traditional Weberian structure is complemented by structurally innovative intraministerial units. We conclude that the German federal bureaucracy is more diverse than suggested in previous literature. Our findings indicate that less Weberian bureaucracies are at least as structurally diverse and that more reform-driven bureaucracies will have experienced at least as many changes in structural diversity. KW - continuity KW - government KW - impact KW - public management KW - reforms KW - state Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12486 SN - 0952-1895 SN - 1468-0491 VL - 34 IS - 1 SP - 171 EP - 189 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beverungen, Daniel A1 - Hess, Thomas A1 - Köster, Antonia A1 - Lehrer, Christiane T1 - From private digital platforms to public data spaces BT - implications for the digital transformation JF - Electronic markets N2 - Technological developments such as Cloud Computing, the Internet of Things, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence continue to drive the digital transformation of business and society. With the advent of platform-based ecosystems and their potential to address complex challenges, there is a trend towards greater interconnectedness between different stakeholders to co-create services based on the provision and use of data. While previous research on digital transformation mainly focused on digital transformation within organizations, it is of growing importance to understand the implications for digital transformation on different layers (e.g., interorganizational cooperation and platform ecosystems). In particular, the conceptualization and implications of public data spaces and related ecosystems provide promising research opportunities. This special issue contains five papers on the topic of digital transformation and, with the editorial, further contributes by providing an initial conceptualization of public data spaces' potential to foster innovative progress and digital transformation from a management perspective. KW - digital transformation KW - public data spaces KW - digital platforms KW - GAIA-X Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12525-022-00553-z SN - 1019-6781 SN - 1422-8890 VL - 32 IS - 2 SP - 493 EP - 501 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Biermann, Kaija A1 - Nowak, Bianca A1 - Braun, Lea-Marie A1 - Taddicken, Monika A1 - Krämer, Nicole C. A1 - Stieglitz, Stefan T1 - Does scientific evidence sell? BT - combining manual and automated content analysis to investigate scientists’ and laypeople’s evidence practices on social media JF - Science communication N2 - Examining the dissemination of evidence on social media, we analyzed the discourse around eight visible scientists in the context of COVID-19. Using manual (N = 1,406) and automated coding (N = 42,640) on an account-based tracked Twitter/X dataset capturing scientists’ activities and eliciting reactions over six 2-week periods, we found that visible scientists’ tweets included more scientific evidence. However, public reactions contained more anecdotal evidence. Findings indicate that evidence can be a message characteristic leading to greater tweet dissemination. Implications for scientists, including explicitly incorporating scientific evidence in their communication and examining evidence in science communication research, are discussed. KW - evidence KW - public engagement KW - social media KW - COVID-19 KW - computational methods Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/10755470241249468 SN - 1075-5470 SN - 1552-8545 VL - 0 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bouncken, Ricarda B. A1 - Cesinger, Beate A1 - Tiberius, Victor T1 - Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy of top managers BT - can entrepreneurial orientation secure performance? JF - International journal of entrepreneurial venturing N2 - Numerous studies show that high levels of Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) in firms positively influence firm performance. Yet, high levels of Dark Triad (DT) traits - narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy - of managers might work detrimental to EO. Our study empirically tests if top managers who score high on Dark Triad traits have a negative influence on firm performance, reducing the merits of EO. Results of a survey study on 191 firms show that all three dimensions of the DT, narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy, suppress the positive effects that EO has on firm performance. Accordingly, selfish behaviour, emotional coldness, propensity for duplicity, and top managers' quest for self promotion, status, and dominance lead to behaviour that reduces the positive influences around innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking of EO. KW - dark triad KW - entrepreneurial orientation KW - firm performance KW - Machiavellianism KW - narcissism KW - psychopathy KW - upper echelons Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1504/ijev.2020.107932 SN - 1742-5360 SN - 1742-5379 VL - 12 IS - 3 SP - 273 EP - 302 PB - Inderscience Enterprises CY - Geneva ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bouncken, Ricarda B. A1 - Ratzmann, Martin A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Brem, Alexander T1 - Pioneering strategy in supply chain relationships BT - how coercive power and contract completeness influence innovation JF - IEEE transactions on engineering management N2 - Today, firms pursuing a pioneering strategy are often engaged in supply chain relationships to benefit from external resources and to improve their innovation. However, this effort can be impeded by power asymmetries in such relationships and especially by the execution of coercive power by their partner firm. Contracts could potentially reduce this risk of opportunistic behavior. Our survey study on 778 small to medium-sized enterprises in the European packaging and medical equipment industries examines how coercive power of the partner and the contractual arrangement between firms moderate the pioneering strategy's innovation outcomes in the short and long run. Our results confirm the negative effect of coercive power on innovation performance in both the short and long term. However, the compensating effect of rather complete contracts differs temporally. Whereas, contract completeness protects against higher dependence at the beginning of the collaboration, their effect diminishes over time. In contrast, rather incomplete contracts enhance the innovation performance in the long term, possibly complemented with trust. KW - alliances KW - coercive power KW - contracts KW - pioneering strategy KW - R&D KW - supply chain Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TEM.2020.3019965 SN - 0018-9391 VL - 69 IS - 6 SP - 2826 EP - 2841 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bouncken, Ricarda B. A1 - Tiberius, Victor T1 - Legitimacy processes and trajectories of co-prosumption services BT - Insights from coworking space JF - Journal of service research N2 - Our study applies legitimacy theorizing to service research, zooming in on co-prosumption service business models, which reside on significant direct contacts among provider-actors and customers as well as fellow customers in the service space. Our findings are based on a longitudinal flexible pattern matching method on 17 coworking spaces. The service cocreation nuances the double role of customers as evaluators and cocreators of legitimacy. This is because customers can have immediate perceptions of the actions and values of the services in their legitimacy evaluation while cocreating the service. Legitimacy shaped via social and recursive processes occurs in three stages: provisional, calibrated, and affirmed legitimacy. Findings inform four trajectory mechanisms of value-in-use pattern provenance, emergent Business Model development adaptive to the spatial context and loyal customers, visible trances as well as inside-out and outside-in identification processes. Further, the processes in the micro-ecosystem of an interstitial service space can develop a superordinate logic which overlays the potentially present coopetive and heterogenous institutional logics and interests of service customers. KW - service business models KW - collective consumption context KW - co-creation KW - coworking spaces KW - flexible pattern matching approach Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705211050208 SN - 1094-6705 SN - 1552-7379 VL - 26 IS - 1 SP - 64 EP - 82 PB - Sage Periodicals Press CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brandenburger, Bonny T1 - A multidimensional and analytical perspective on Open Educational Practices in the 21st century JF - Frontiers in education N2 - Participatory approaches to teaching and learning are experiencing a new lease on life in the 21st century as a result of the rapid technology development. Knowledge, practices, and tools can be shared across spatial and temporal boundaries in higher education by means of Open Educational Resources, Massive Open Online Courses, and open-source technologies. In this context, the Open Education Movement calls for new didactic approaches that encourage greater learner participation in formal higher education. Based on a representative literature review and focus group research, in this study an analytical framework was developed that enables researchers and practitioners to assess the form of participation in formal, collaborative teaching and learning practices. The analytical framework is focused on the micro-level of higher education, in particular on the interaction between students and lecturers when organizing the curriculum. For this purpose, the research reflects anew on the concept of participation, taking into account existing stage models for participation in the educational context. These are then brought together with the dimensions of teaching and learning processes, such as methods, objectives and content, etc. This paper aims to make a valuable contribution to the opening up of learning and teaching, and expands the discourse around possibilities for interpreting Open Educational Practices. KW - open education KW - Open Educational Practices KW - participation KW - focus group research KW - analytical framework for Participatory Educational Practices KW - teaching and learning process Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.990675 SN - 2504-284X VL - 7 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Breier, Matthias A1 - Kallmuenzer, Andreas A1 - Clauss, Thomas A1 - Gast, Johanna A1 - Kraus, Sascha A1 - Tiberius, Victor T1 - The role of business model innovation in the hospitality industry during the COVID-19 crisis JF - International journal of hospitality management N2 - The hospitality industry worldwide is among the hardest-hit industries from the COVID-19 lockdowns. Initial theoretical and practical observations in the hospitality industry indicate that business model innovation (BMI) might be a solution to recover from and successfully cope with the COVID-19 crisis. Interestingly, some firms in the hospitality industry already started to successfully adapt their business models. This study explores the why and how of these successful recovery attempts through BMI by conducting a multiple case study of six hospitality firms in Austria. We rely on interview data from managers together with one of their main stammgasts for each case, which we triangulate with secondary data for the analysis. Findings show that BMI is applied during and after the crisis to create new revenue streams and secure a higher level of liquidity, with an important role of stammgasts. KW - business model innovation KW - hospitality KW - tourism KW - COVID-19 KW - crisis KW - stammgasts Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhm.2020.102723 SN - 0278-4319 VL - 92 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brennecke, Julia A1 - Coutinho, James A. A1 - Gilding, Michael A1 - Lusher, Dean A1 - Schaffer, Graham T1 - Invisible iterations: how formal and informal organization shape knowledge networks for coordination JF - Journal of management studies N2 - This study takes a network approach to investigate coordination among knowledge workers as grounded in both formal and informal organization. We first derive hypotheses regarding patterns of knowledge-sharing relationships by which workers pass on and exchange tacit and codified knowledge within and across organizational hierarchies to address the challenges that underpin contemporary knowledge work. We use survey data and apply exponential random graph models to test our hypotheses. We then extend the quantitative network analysis with insights from qualitative interviews and demonstrate that the identified knowledge-sharing patterns are the micro-foundational traces of collective coordination resulting from two underlying coordination mechanisms which we label ‘invisible iterations’ and ‘bringing in the big guns’. These mechanisms and, by extension, the associated knowledge-sharing patterns enable knowledge workers to perform in a setting that is characterized by complexity, uncertainty and ambiguity. Our research contributes to theory on the interplay between formal and informal organization for coordination by showing how self-directed, informal action is supported by the formal organizational hierarchy. In doing so, it also extends understanding of the role that hierarchy plays for knowledge-intensive work. Finally, it establishes the collective need to coordinate work as a previously overlooked driver of knowledge network relationships and network patterns. © 2024 The Authors. Journal of Management Studies published by Society for the Advancement of Management Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. KW - coordination KW - hierarchy KW - informal organization KW - knowledge sharing KW - multiplexity KW - social network Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.13076 SN - 0022-2380 SN - 1467-6486 SP - 1 EP - 42 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brück, Christian A1 - Knauer, Thorsten A1 - Meier, Harald A1 - Schwering, Anja T1 - Self-set salaries and creativity JF - Journal of Business Economics N2 - Organizations frequently try to incentivize employees to develop highly creative solutions. In this study, we examine self-set salaries as a specific type of incentive design. We investigate whether self-set salaries affect employees’ motivation and overall (creative) performance. Moreover, because self-set salaries potentially risk opportunistic employee behavior, we consider the effect of the observability of peer performance on employees’ level of self-set salaries. Using a laboratory experiment, we hold the average employee compensation constant and demonstrate that, in comparison with fixed-pay contracts, self-set salaries increase the quantitative performance in creative tasks without affecting the average creativity. However, we do not find significant differences between the amount of individuals’ self-set salaries with observability of peer performance and the amount for individuals without the chance to observe peer performance. Our findings are important for firms that rely on the development of creative ideas but are unsure about the effects of the introduction of self-set salaries Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11573-020-00985-z SN - 1861-8928 SN - 0171-9130 VL - 91 IS - 1 SP - 91 EP - 121 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brünker, Felix A1 - Marx, Julian A1 - Mirbabaie, Milad A1 - Stieglitz, Stefan T1 - Proactive digital workplace transformation BT - unpacking identity change mechanisms in remote-first organisations JF - Journal of information technology N2 - Digital transformation fundamentally changes the way individuals conduct work in organisations. In accordance with this statement, prevalent literature understands digital workplace transformation as a second-order effect of implementing new information technology to increase organisational effectiveness or reach other strategic goals. This paper, in contrast, provides empirical evidence from two remote-first organisations that undergo a proactive rather than reactive digital workplace transformation. The analysis of these cases suggests that new ways of working can be the consequence of an identity change that is a precondition for introducing new information technology rather than its outcome. The resulting process model contributes a competing argument to the existing debate in digital transformation literature. Instead of issuing digital workplace transformation as a deliverable of technological progress and strategic goals, this paper supports a notion of digital workplace transformation that serves a desired identity based on work preferences. KW - digital transformation KW - digital workplace transformation KW - remote-first KW - identity theory Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/02683962231219516 SN - 0268-3962 SN - 1466-4437 PB - Sage Publishing CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buss, Martin A1 - Kearney, Eric T1 - Navigating the unknown BT - uncertainty moderates the link between visionary leadership, perceived meaningfulness, and turnover intentions JF - Journal of occupational and organizational psychology N2 - Visionary leadership is considered to be one of the most important elements of effective leadership. Among other things, it is related to followers' perceived meaningfulness of their work. However, little is known about whether uncertainty in the workplace affects visionary leadership's effects. Given that uncertainty is rising in many, if not most, workplaces, it is vital to understand whether this development influences the extent to which visionary leadership is associated with followers' perceived meaningfulness. In a two-source, lagged design field study of 258 leader-follower dyads from different settings, we show that uncertainty moderates the relation between visionary leadership and followers' perceived meaningfulness such that this relation is more strongly positive when uncertainty is high, rather than low. Moreover, we show that with increasing uncertainty, visionary leadership is more negatively related to followers' turnover intentions via perceived meaningfulness. This research broadens our understanding of how visionary leadership may be a particularly potent tool in times of increasing uncertainty. KW - follower turnover intentions KW - perceived meaningfulness KW - uncertainty KW - visionary leadership Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/joop.12500 SN - 0963-1798 SN - 2044-8325 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Buss, Martin A1 - Kearney, Eric A1 - Noureen, Riffat A1 - Gandhi, Nilima T1 - Antecedents and effects of visionary leadership BT - when and how leader work centrality is linked to visionary leadership and follower turnover intentions JF - Journal of leadership & organizational studies N2 - Scholars have argued that visionary leadership is an effective tool to motivate followers because it provides them with meaning and purpose. However, previous research tells us little about which leaders and under which circumstances leaders engage in visionary leadership. We draw on theories of human and social capital to argue that leader work centrality is an important antecedent of visionary leadership, and especially so for leaders with low organizational tenure. Moreover, we propose that visionary leadership then provides followers with meaningfulness and thereby decreases their turnover intentions. Our predictions were confirmed by data from a two-wave, lagged-design field study with 101 leader-follower dyads. Overall, our research identifies an important antecedent of visionary leadership, a specific situation in which this antecedent is particularly important, and provides empirical evidence for why visionary leadership can bind followers to an organization. KW - visionary leadership KW - leader work centrality KW - leader organizational tenure KW - follower meaningfulness KW - follower turnover intentions Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/15480518231203637 SN - 1548-0518 SN - 1939-7089 VL - 30 IS - 4 SP - 413 EP - 427 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Fedorets, Alexandra A1 - Preuss, Malte A1 - Schröder, Carsten A1 - Wittbrodt, Linda T1 - The short-run employment effects of the German minimum wage reform JF - Labour economics : an international journal N2 - We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into the regional wage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrast to previous studies, we construct two regional bite indicators based upon detailed individual wage data from the Structure of Earnings Survey (SES) 2014 and combine it with administrative information on regional employment. Moreover, using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we are able to affirm the absence of anticipation effects and verify the assumption of a common trend in wages before the reform. In sum, we find only moderate negative effects on overall employment of about 140,000 (0.4%) jobs, which are mainly driven by a sharp decline of marginal employment (‘mini-jobs’), while we do not find pronounced significant effects for regular employment in most specifications. Our results are robust to a variety of sensitivity tests. KW - Minimum wage KW - Regional bite KW - Employment effects Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2018.07.002 SN - 0927-5371 SN - 1879-1034 VL - 53 SP - 46 EP - 62 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Caliendo, Marco A1 - Tübbicke, Stefan T1 - Design and effectiveness of start-up subsidies BT - evidence from a policy reform in Germany JF - Economic analysis and policy N2 - While a growing body of literature finds positive impacts of Start-Up Subsidies (SUS) on labor market outcomes of participants, little is known about how the design of these programs shapes their effectiveness and hence how to improve policy. As experimental variation in program design is unavailable, we exploit the 2011 reform of the current German SUS program for the unemployed which strengthened caseworkers' discretionary power, increased entry requirements and reduced monetary support. We estimate the impact of the reform on the program's effectiveness using samples of participants and non-participants from before and after the reform. To control for time-constant unobserved heterogeneity as well as differential selection patterns based on observable characteristics over time, we combine Difference-in-Differences with inverse probability weighting using covariate balancing propensity scores. Holding participants' observed characteristics as well as macroeconomic conditions constant, the results suggest that the reform was successful in raising employment effects on average. As these findings may be contaminated by changes in selection patterns based on unobserved characteristics, we assess our results using simulation-based sensitivity analyses and find that our estimates are highly robust to changes in unobserved characteristics. Hence, the reform most likely had a positive impact on the effectiveness of the program, suggesting that increasing entry requirements and reducing support increased the program's impacts while reducing the cost per participant. (C) 2021 Economic Society of Australia, Queensland. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - start-up subsidies KW - institutions KW - policy reform KW - difference-in-differences Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2021.02.015 SN - 0313-5926 VL - 70 SP - 333 EP - 340 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cromwell, Johnathan R. A1 - Haase, Jennifer A1 - Vladova, Gergana T1 - The creative thinking profile BT - predicting intrinsic motivation based on preferences for different creative thinking styles JF - Personality and individual differences N2 - Intrinsic motivation is widely considered essential to creativity because it facilitates more divergent thinking during problem solving. However, we argue that intrinsic motivation has been theorized too heavily as a unitary construct, overlooking various internal factors of a task that can shape the baseline level of intrinsic motivation people have for working on the task. Drawing on theories of cognitive styles, we develop a new scale that measures individual preferences for three different creative thinking styles that we call divergent thinking, bricoleurgent thinking, and emergent thinking. Through a multi-study approach consisting of exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and convergent validity, we provide psychometric evidence showing that people can have distinct preferences for each cognitive process when generating ideas. Furthermore, when validating this scale through an experiment, we find that each style becomes more dominant in predicting overall enjoyment, engagement, and creativity based on different underlying structures of a task. Therefore, this paper makes both theoretical and empirical contributions to literature by unpacking intrinsic motivation, showing how the alignment between different creative thinking styles and task can be essential to predicting intrinsic motivation, thus reversing the direction of causality between the motivational and cognitive components of creativity typically assumed in literature. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112205 SN - 0191-8869 SN - 1873-3549 VL - 208 PB - Elsevier Science CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Crozet, Matthieu A1 - Hinz, Julian A1 - Stammann, Amrei A1 - Wanner, Joschka T1 - Worth the pain? BT - firms’ exporting behaviour to countries under sanctions JF - European economic review N2 - How do exporting firms react to sanctions? Specifically, which firms are willing — or capable — to serve the market of a sanctioned country? We investigate this question for four sanctions episodes using monthly data on the universe of French exporting firms. We draw on recent econometric advances in the estimation of dynamic fixed effects binary choice models. We find that the introduction of new sanctions in Iran and Russia significantly lowered firm-level probabilities of serving these sanctioned markets, while the (temporary) lifting of the U.S. sanctions on Cuba and the removal of sanctions against Myanmar had no or only small trade-inducing effects, respectively. Additionally, the impact of sanctions is very heterogeneous along firm dimensions and by case particularities. Firms that depend more on trade finance instruments are more strongly affected, while prior experience in the sanctioned country considerably softens the blow of sanctions, and firms can be partly immune to the sanctions effect if they are specialized in serving “crisis countries”. Finally, we find suggestive evidence for sanctions avoidance by exporting indirectly via neighboring countries. KW - sanctions KW - trade KW - foreign policy KW - extensive margin KW - firm behaviour Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2021.103683 SN - 0014-2921 SN - 1873-572X VL - 134 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Czakon, Wojciech A1 - Klimas, Patrycja A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Ferreira, João A1 - Veiga, Pedro M. A1 - Kraus, Sascha T1 - Entrepreneurial failure BT - structuring a widely overlooked field of research JF - Entrepreneurship research journal N2 - Although entrepreneurial failure (EF) is a fairly recent topic in entrepreneurship literature, the number of publications has been growing dynamically and particularly rapidly. Our systematic review maps and integrates the research on EF based on a multi-method approach to give structure and consistency to this fragmented field of research. The results reveal that the field revolves around six thematic clusters of EF: 1) Soft underpinnings of EF, 2) Contextuality of EF, 3) Perception of EF, 4) Two-sided effects of EF, 5) Multi-stage EF effects, and 6) Institutional drivers of EF. An integrative framework of the positive and negative effects of entrepreneurial failure is proposed, and a research agenda is suggested. KW - entrepreneurial failure KW - entrepreneurship KW - failure outcomes KW - systematic review Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0328 SN - 2157-5665 SP - 1 EP - 34 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dapprich, Jan Philipp T1 - Tokens make the world go round BT - socialist tokens as an alternative to money JF - Review of Evolutionary Political Economy N2 - The paper argues that non-circulating tokens should be used as an alternative to money in a socialist economy. These tokens would be used to distribute consumer products out of socialised production to individual consumers. Like modern fiat money, these tokens are a kind of IOU. But unlike money, these tokens are not intended to facilitate the private exchange of commodities. Marx’s proposal to eventually abolish a token-based lower phase of communism in favour of a distinct higher phase is rejected because the ‘needs principle’ of the higher phase can be sufficiently realised within the token system. It is further shown that the prices of items should not be tied to the socially necessary labour time needed to produce them. Instead, prices should be regulated towards market clearing rates. KW - Money KW - Labour tokens KW - Socialism KW - Communism KW - Marx Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s43253-022-00091-6 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dehnert, Maik T1 - Sustaining the current or pursuing the new: incumbent digital transformation strategies in the financial service industry JF - Business Research N2 - Digital transformation (DT) is a major challenge for traditional companies. Despite the term, DT is relatively new; its substance is not: a whole stream of research has examined the relationship between DT and firm performance with contradictory findings. Most of these studies have chosen a linear correlational approach, however, did not analyze the holistic interplay of DT dimensions, leading to firm performance. This applies especially to the mature financial services industry and the future perspectives of traditional financial service providers (FSP). Hence, it remains an open question for both research and practice what DT configurations have a positive impact on firm performance. Against this background, the aim of this exploratory study is to examine how DT dimensions are systemically connected to firm performance of incumbent FSP. Drawing on a qualitative-empirical research approach with case data from 83 FSP, we identify digital configurations along different levels of firm performance. Our findings suggest an evolution of digital configurations of FSP, leading to five empirical standard types from which only one managed to establish a profound basis of DT. KW - Digital transformation KW - Banking KW - Insurance KW - Financial services KW - Configurational analysis KW - fsQCA Y1 - 2020 SN - 1866-8658 VL - 13 PB - Springer Nature CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deyanova, Kameliya A1 - Brehmer, Nataliia A1 - Lapidus, Artur A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Walsh, Steve T1 - Hatching start-ups for sustainable growth BT - A bibliometric review on business incubators JF - Review of managerial science N2 - Business incubators hatch start-ups, helping them to survive their early stage and to create a solid foundation for sustainable growth by providing services and access to knowledge. The great practical relevance led to a strong interest of researchers and a high output of scholarly publications, which made the field complex and scattered. To organize the research on incubators and provide a systematic overview of the field, we conducted bibliometric performance analyses and science mappings. The performance analyses depict the temporal development of the number of incubator publications and their citations, the most cited and most productive journals, countries, and authors, and the 20 most cited articles. The author keyword co-occurrence analysis distinguishes six, and the bibliographic coupling seven research themes. Based on a content analysis of the science mappings, we propose a research framework for future research on business incubators. KW - business incubators KW - bibliometric analysis KW - nascent entrepreneurs KW - start-ups Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11846-022-00525-9 SN - 1863-6683 SN - 1863-6691 VL - 16 IS - 7 SP - 2083 EP - 2109 PB - Springer CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Drăgan, George Bogdan A1 - Ben Arfi, Wissal A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Ammari, Aymen T1 - Gravitating exogenous shocks to the next normal through entrepreneurial coopetive interactions BT - a PLS-SEM and fsQCA approach JF - Journal of business research N2 - Purpose: Entrepreneurship can be viewed as an individual or group pursuit of market opportunities irrespective of the context. But when an exogenous shock alters and permanently alters the known normal, entrepreneurs can do no more than cope with the immediate impact. Covid-19 changed the normal for every-one, and the current study aims to analyse how the pandemic changed the context and entrepreneurial perspective of business owners geographically located in different cultural environments. Various experiences impacted them as they tried to navigate and mitigate the effects of the crisis on the wider economy and their business. We seek to identify the probable relevant entrepreneurial configurations in which one or more combinations of antecedent conditions are needed to cause entrepreneurs to adapt their behavior in order to increase their coopetitive interactions further, to mitigate the effects of the crisis.Originality: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first empirical study to address an entrepreneurial phenomenon using an integrative approach using PLS-SEM and fsQCA as separate prediction-oriented methods in order to validate the proposed conceptual model and to create a preliminary scaffolding for building the Theory of Unplanned Behavior in a crisis context. KW - entrepreneurial coopetitive interactions KW - entrepreneurial behavior KW - PLS-SEM KW - fsQCA KW - next normal KW - theory of unplanned behavior Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113627 SN - 0148-2963 VL - 157 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ertug, Gokhan A1 - Brennecke, Julia A1 - Tasselli, Stefano T1 - Theorizing about the implications of multiplexity BT - an integrative typology JF - Academy of Management Annals N2 - Multiplexity, the coexistence of more than one type of relationship between two actors, is a prevalent phenomenon with clear relevance for a wide range of management settings and phenomena. While there is a substantial body of work on multiplexity, the absence of a shared terminology and a typology for the mechanisms and arguments that are used in theorizing about its implications nevertheless hamper its appeal to organizational network scholars and slow its progress. Based on content analysis of 103 studies, we propose “relational harmony,” “task complementarity,” and “relational scope” as three categories to integrate the mechanisms and arguments used in the literature to theorize about the implications of multiplexity. We then survey the literature in light of this typology to show how it is also useful in revealing patterns of theorizing; for example, with respect to the types of relationships that are studied in relation to multiplexity. We conclude with suggestions for future research directions, focusing on how these can be pursued based on our integrative typology. We hope that the common ground we provide for theorizing about the implications of multiplexity will make it an even more engaging topic for organizational network and management scholars, and place it in the company of more prominently used relational constructs in management research, as aligned with its prevalence and relevance. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5465/annals.2021.0193 SN - 1941-6520 SN - 1941-6067 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 626 EP - 654 PB - Erlbaum CY - Mahwah, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ewelt-Knauer, Corinna A1 - Schwering, Anja A1 - Winkelmann, Sandra T1 - Probabilistic audits and misreporting BT - the influence of audit process design on employee behavior JF - European accounting review N2 - We investigate how the design of audit processes influences employees’ reporting decisions. We focus specifically on detective employee audits for which several employees are randomly selected after a defined period to audit their ex-post behavior. We investigate two design features of the audit process, namely, employee anonymity and process transparency, and analyze their impact on misreporting. Overall, we find that both components influence the extent of individuals’ misreporting. A nonanonymous audit decreases performance misreporting more than an audit in which the employee remains anonymous. Furthermore, the high incidence of performance misreporting in the case of anonymous audits can be decreased when the process transparency is low. Thus, our study informs accountants about how the two design features of employee anonymity and transparency of the audit process can be used to constrain performance misreporting to increase the efficiency of audits KW - Performance misreporting KW - Employee audits KW - Employee anonymity KW - Process KW - transparency Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2021.1899014 SN - 1468-4497 SN - 0963-8180 VL - 30 IS - 5 SP - 989 EP - 1012 PB - Routledge CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ewelt-Knauer, Corinna A1 - Schwering, Anja A1 - Winkelmann, Sandra T1 - Doing good by doing bad BT - How tone at the top and tone at the bottom impact performance-improving noncompliant behavior JF - Journal of business ethics N2 - This study investigates how tone at the top, implemented by top management, and tone at the bottom, in an employee’s immediate work environment, determine noncompliance. We focus on the disallowed actions of employees that improve their own and, in turn, the company’s performance, referred to as performance-improving noncompliant behavior (PINC behavior). We conduct a survey of German sales employees to investigate specifically how, on the one hand, (1) corporate rules and (2) performance pressure, both implemented by top management, and, on the other hand, (3) others’ PINC expectations and (4) others’ PINC behavior, both arising from the employee’s immediate work environment, influence PINC behavior. When considered in isolation, we find that corporate rules, as top management’s main instrument to guide employee behavior, decrease employee PINC behavior. However, this effect is negatively influenced by the employees’ immediate work environment when employees are expected to engage in PINC or when others engage in PINC. In contrast, even though top management places great performance pressure on employees, that by itself does not increase PINC behavior. Overall, our study informs practitioners and researchers about whether and how the four determinants increase or decrease employees’ PINC behavior, which is important to comprehend triggers and to counteract such misconduct. KW - noncompliance KW - tone at the top KW - tone at the bottom KW - corporate rules KW - performance pressure KW - others’ expectations KW - 0thers’ behavior Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-020-04647-6 SN - 0167-4544 SN - 1573-0697 VL - 175 IS - 3 SP - 609 EP - 624 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fabian, Benjamin A1 - Bender, Benedict A1 - Hesseldieck, Ben A1 - Haupt, Johannes A1 - Lessmann, Stefan T1 - Enterprise-grade protection against e-mail tracking JF - Information Systems N2 - E-mail tracking provides companies with fine-grained behavioral data about e-mail recipients, which can be a threat for individual privacy and enterprise security. This problem is especially severe since e-mail tracking techniques often gather data without the informed consent of the recipients. So far e-mail recipients lack a reliable protection mechanism. This article presents a novel protection framework against e-mail tracking that closes an impor- tant gap in the field of enterprise security and privacy-enhancing technologies. We conceptualize, implement and evaluate an anti-tracking mail server that is capable of identifying tracking images in e-mails via machine learning with very high accuracy, and can selectively replace them with arbitrary images containing warning messages for the recipient. Our mail protection framework implements a selective prevention strategy as enterprise-grade software using the design science research paradigm. It is flexibly extensible, highly scalable, and ready to be applied under actual production conditions. Experimental evaluations show that these goals are achieved through solid software design, adoption of recent technologies and the creation of novel flexible software components. KW - E-Mail Tracking KW - Enterprise-grade KW - Anti-Tracking Infrastructure KW - Software Prototype Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2020.101702 SN - 0306-4379 IS - 97 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Filser, Matthias A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Kraus, Sascha A1 - Spitzer, Jonathan A1 - Kailer, Norbert A1 - Bouncken, Ricarda B. T1 - Sharing economy BT - a bibliometric analysis of the state of research JF - International journal of entrepreneurial venturing N2 - The sharing economy has received increased attention in entrepreneurship research, resulting in a complex research landscape that is hard to overlook. Using a bibliometric analysis, we aim to further synthesise the field by: 1) summarising the most important definitions given by extant literature to capture the common understanding of the sharing economy; 2) identifying three thematic clusters based on the top 20 most cited publications; 3) conducting a citation analysis to show interdependencies between all authors; and 4) identifying the research methods used in the SE publications. Our results show: 1) many definitions with different emphases; 2) conceptualisation, collaborative consumption/ownership and the disruptive character of the sharing economy as three dominant research clusters; 3) a fairly even citation practice allowing for unbiased future research; and 4) that conceptual publications and quantitative as well as qualitative studies are fairly evenly published. KW - bibliometrics KW - business models KW - citation analysis KW - collaborative consumption KW - disruption KW - literature review KW - regulations KW - sharing economy Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEV.2020.112234 SN - 1742-5360 SN - 1742-5379 VL - 12 IS - 6 SP - 665 EP - 665 PB - Inderscience Enterprises CY - Genève ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Filser, Matthias A1 - Tiberius, Victor A1 - Kraus, Sascha A1 - Zeitlhofer, Tanita A1 - Kailer, Norbert A1 - Müller, Adrian T1 - Opportunity recognition BT - conversational foundations and pathways ahead JF - Entrepreneurship research journal N2 - This paper provides an overview of the ever-increasing literature on opportunity recognition, with a focus on its antecedents and determinants. With a two-step research approach, a bibliometric analysis and a systematic literature review, we structure the current research in this field. By using bibliometric techniques, we analyzed 161 publications and, consequently, clustered the 30 most influential references. Apart from economic theories and the role of opportunity recognition in entrepreneurship, a strong research focus is on antecedents of opportunity recognition. Therefore, in our subsequent literature review, we focus on determinants which influence opportunity recognition. We find that the opportunity recognition process is influenced by various personal, organizational and environmental factors. We conclude with a research outlook for future research opportunities on opportunity recognition. KW - opportunity recognition KW - bibliometric analysis KW - systematic literature review Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2020-0124 SN - 2194-6175 VL - 13 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 30 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fischer, Caroline T1 - Incentives can’t buy me knowledge BT - the missing effects of appreciation and aligned performance appraisals on knowledge sharing of public employees JF - Review of public personnel administration N2 - This study examines whether incentives affect public employees' intention to share knowledge. Tested incentives satisfy needs for either achievement or appreciation. Both treatments were tested on implicit as well as explicit knowledge sharing. A 2 x 3 factorial survey experiment was designed to observe within-person and between-person effects. Data were collected from public employees in the core administration and healthcare sector (n = 623) in 2018. The analysis indicates that both treatments positively affect knowledge-sharing intention if it is explicit knowledge that ought to be shared. However, no effects of either treatment can be found in either type of knowledge sharing. No negative effect of the tested incentives on knowledge sharing was observed. Hence, incentives might not harm knowledge sharing but also do not pay off in organizational practice. In contrast to these motivation-enhancing human resource practices, ability and opportunity-enhancing practices should be tested to foster knowledge sharing. KW - knowledge sharing KW - knowledge management KW - work behavior KW - rewards KW - survey KW - experiment Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0734371X20986839 SN - 0734-371X SN - 1552-759X VL - 42 IS - 2 SP - 368 EP - 389 PB - Sage CY - London ER -