TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sparr, Jennifer L.
A1  - van Knippenberg, Daan
A1  - Kearney, Eric
T1  - Paradoxical leadership as sensegiving
BT  - stimulating change-readiness and change-oriented performance
JF  - Leadership & organization development journal
N2  - Purpose Paradoxical leadership (PL) is an emerging perspective to understand how leaders help followers deal with paradoxical demands. Recently, the positive relationship between PL and follower performance was established. This paper builds on and extends this research by interpreting PL as sensegiving and developing theory about mediation in the relationship between PL and adaptive and proactive performance. Design/methodology/approach The paper develops a new measure for PL as sensegiving and provides a test of the mediation model with data from two different sources and two measurement times in a German company. Findings Multilevel mediation analysis (N = 154) supports the mediation model. Originality/value The paper presents sensegiving about paradox as a core element of PL, which informs the choice of change-readiness as mediator. This study also develops and validates a scale to measure PL in future research.
KW  - Paradoxical leadership
KW  - Sensegiving
KW  - Change-readiness
KW  - Adaptive
KW  - performance
KW  - Proactive performance
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1108/LODJ-04-2021-0161
SN  - 0143-7739
SN  - 1472-5347
VL  - 43
IS  - 2
SP  - 225
EP  - 237
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
CY  - Bingley
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  -