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ItemMechanisms of service ecosystem emergence: Exploring the case of public sector digital transformation(ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC, 2021-12)This research extends literature on the emergence of service ecosystems by developing new theoretical insight and explanation into how service ecosystems experience change and stability over time. Empirically, our case study focuses on digital transformation in the New Zealand public sector and the enterprise services market in 2010–2017. The exploratory and illustrative study builds on 22 in-depth interviews and extensive document analysis. We reveal three key mechanisms of service ecosystem emergence: compression, ecotonal coupling, and refraction. These mechanisms contribute to overcoming conflationary theorizing and the value of emergence in service research by establishing emergent relationality and a processual intertwining of being and becoming. These become the basis of multi-levelled, multidimensional complexity and cumulative organizing. We conclude the work by discussing the paper's contribution to service research.
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ItemToward a "human being to commodity model" as an explanation for men's violent, sexual consumption of women(WILEY, 2021-09)Abstract This research proposes a consumer behavior model that highlights how women may be valuated across a continuum of living human being to commodity. We use the social epidemic of men's sexual violence against women to build a model that reframes sexual violence as men's violent consumption of women. Our model describes the process through which men can think about women as a commodity. We propose different paths through which commoditization occurs—men perceiving women as instrumental, interchangeable, and violable, as well as denying their subjectivity and autonomy—which can lead to violent consumption (the commitment of sexual violence). While sexual violence is a complex problem that defies easy solutions, we believe our nuanced and concrete model is more informative to actions to stop sexual violence than existing theories. We also discuss the role of other factors, including the marketplace, in enabling, attenuating, and reversing this process.
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ItemThe Effect of Knowledge Decomposability on Technological Exploration in Technological Acquisitions(Academy of Management, 2017)We investigate the effect of the acquiring firm’s knowledge-base decomposability on its post-acquisition technological exploration. We develop arguments to explain how organizational variations in a firm’s capability to understand the interdependencies between internal knowledge elements affect the generation of exploratory technologies from technological acquisitions. We also examine how the malleability and size of the acquired knowledge base compensate the magnitude of this effect. Our findings suggest that firms with a moderate understanding of the interdependencies between internal knowledge elements (i.e., with a near-decomposable knowledge base) generate the most exploratory technologies from technological acquisitions. We also find that the magnitude of this effect can be enhanced by acquiring knowledge bases with higher malleability, or with a larger size.
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ItemFamily Structure and Peasants Entrepreneurship: Empirical Analysis Based on CTVS Data(China Industrial Economics Press, 2017)Many scholars explore rural entrepreneurship behavior from the perspective of individual traits and external environment. In fact, rural entrepreneurship behavior is deeply influenced by family factors. How family structure affects rural entrepreneurship behavior is still an unexplored research question. Based on family capital theory and by using data of Chinese Thousand Village Survey (CTVS) in 2016, this paper tries to figure out the relationship between families structure and rural entrepreneurship, and gets the following conclusions. 1. The elite background of rural family, ie. family member holding village cadre title, being a party member, or regarded as respectable person, will significantly improve the peasant’s entrepreneurial activities; while as soon as the family structure is broken, ie. Divorce, disability of siblings, kids or parents, will significantly decrease the possibility of peasant’s entrepreneurial activities. 2. Peasants in elite families are more inclined to choose opportunity-oriented entrepreneurship, and those in disintegration families are more inclined to choose survival-oriented entrepreneurship. 3. The regional GuanXi culture plays a significant moderating role between elite family and peasants’ entrepreneurial behavior. Peasants in elite families are more inclined to start new business in the areas with strong GuanXi culture. This paper analyses the internal mechanism of Chinese rural entrepreneurial behavior in economic transition period, which can help to explore the family factors and their mechanism of encouraging peasants’ entrepreneurial behavior. It has a theoretical contribution to promote the new development of rural entrepreneurship theory paradigm.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableExamining trade-offs in the airline industry(Inderscience Publishers, 2021)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableSocietal challenges and business leadership for social innovation(EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LTD, 2021-09-24)Purpose Today’s pressing global societal challenges are urgent and require substantial solutions and innovations that tackle the roots of a problem. These challenges call for new forms of leadership, stakeholder engagement and innovation. This paper aims to examine whether, why and how business leaders engage in social innovation. The authors argue that leadership perspective and motivation are important drivers for developing substantial social innovations suited to resolving societal challenges at their roots. More specifically, the authors propose that intra-personal factors (degree of care and compassion), an inter-relational perspective of leadership (shareholder versus stakeholder) and the corresponding leadership motivation (personalized versus socialized) may unveil what quality of social innovation (first-order versus second-order solutions) is pursued by a business leader. Implications for future research and practice are provided. Design/methodology/approach The authors revisit the concept of social innovation and explore its connection with care and compassion. They suggest a series of propositions pertaining to the relationship between different configurations of leadership and different forms of social innovation. Findings Responsible business leaders with an integrative leader trait configuration (stakeholder perspective, socialized motivation, high degree of care and compassion) are more likely to foster substantial second-order social innovations for uprooting societal problems than business leader with an instrumental leader trait configuration (shareholder perspective, personalized motivation, low degree of care and compassion). An organization’s stakeholder culture plays a moderating role in the relation between leadership and social innovation. Social implications This paper reveals a path for conceptualizing leadership in social innovation from a stakeholder perspective. Future research should investigate the role of business leaders, their mindsets, styles and relational competencies in co-creation processes of social innovation empirically. If the development of substantial second-order social innovations requires leaders with a stakeholder perspective and socialized approach, then this has implications for leader selection and development. Originality/value This paper advocates for new kinds of leaders in facilitating and sustaining social innovations to tackle global societal challenges.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableCOVID-19 is an opportunity to rethink I-O psychology, not for business as usual(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2021-06)
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ItemNo Preview Available"How Do I Carry All This Now?" Understanding Consumer Resistance to Sustainability Interventions(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2021-05)Given the increasingly grave environmental crisis, governments and organizations frequently initiate sustainability interventions to encourage sustainable behavior in individual consumers. However, prevalent behavioral approaches to sustainability interventions often have the unintended consequence of generating consumer resistance, undermining their effectiveness. With a practice–theoretical perspective, the authors investigate what generates consumer resistance and how it can be reduced, using consumer responses to a nationwide ban on plastic bags in Chile in 2019. The findings show that consumer resistance to sustainability interventions emerges not primarily because consumers are unwilling to change their individual behavior—as the existing literature commonly assumes—but because the individual behaviors being targeted are embedded in dynamic social practices. When sustainability interventions aim to change individual behaviors rather than social practices, they place excessive responsibility on consumers, unsettle their practice-related emotionality, and destabilize the multiple practices that interconnect to shape consumers’ lives, ultimately leading to resistance. The authors propose a theory of consumer resistance in social practice change that explains consumer resistance to sustainability interventions and ways of reducing it. They also offer recommendations for policy makers and social marketers in designing and managing sustainability initiatives that trigger less consumer resistance and thereby foster sustainable consumer behavior.
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ItemNo Preview AvailableThe Lived Experience of Paradox: How Individuals Navigate Tensions during the Pandemic Crisis(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2021-04)
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ItemNo Preview AvailableMobilizing the Temporary Organization: The Governance Roles of Selection and Pricing(SAGE Publications, 2021-07-01)Many marketing transactions between buyers and suppliers involve short-term collaborations or so-called temporary organizations. Such organizations have considerable value-creation potential, but also face challenges, as evidenced by their mixed performance records. One particular challenge involves relationship governance, and in this respect, temporary organizations represent a conundrum: On the one hand, they pose significant governance problems, due to the need to manage numerous independent specialists under time constraints. At the same time, temporary organizations lack the inherent governance properties of other organizational forms like permanent organizations. The authors conduct an empirical study of 429 business-to-business (B2B) construction projects designed to answer two specific questions: First, how are particular selection and pricing strategies deployed in response to monitoring and coordination problems? Second, does the joint alignment between the two mechanisms and their respective attributes help mitigate cost overruns? We follow up our formal hypotheses tests with a series of in-depth interviews to explore and to gain insight into the validity of our key constructs, explanatory mechanisms, and outcomes. Managerially, the authors answer the long-standing question of how to mobilize a temporary organization. Theoretically, they develop an augmented “discriminating alignment” heuristic for relationship management involving multiple governance mechanisms and attributes.