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Millennials' Hybrid Consumer Identities: Balancing Consumer Ethnocentrism

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While consumer ethnocentrism has been widely examined, little is known about how consumers manage the persistent gap between ethnocentric attitudes and everyday purchasing behavior. Drawing on balance theory (Heider 1958), this study conceptualizes consumer ethnocentrism as a situationally activated balancing process rather than a stable ...
Barbora Vaculová, Clarinda Jansberg
wiley   +1 more source

Professionalization as a Factor of Heterogeneity in Family and Nonfamily Firms: Effects on Performance

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between firm ownership and organizational performance with a focus on heterogeneity in the professionalization of management. Using a comprehensive panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, the study identifies significant ownership‐ and management model‐related differences in productive efficiency. The
Javier Ortiz, Ana F. Gargallo‐Castel
wiley   +1 more source

Industry 5.0 for Sustainable Healthcare Services: Analyzing the Prospects and Obstacles for the Indian Healthcare System

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The fifth industrial revolution (I5.0), which is based on the utilization of interconnected data for efficient resource usage in meeting human requirements, proposes efficient solutions to resource constraint situations. However, the transition to I5.0 in the health sector is not easy and has to face several obstacles.
Ajay Jha   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thinking and feeling about novelty: How cognition and emotion shape investment in novel ideas

open access: yesStrategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract While prior research on the strategic framing of innovation highlights the cognitive mechanisms underlying novelty evaluation, we know little about the corresponding emotional mechanisms. Drawing on appraisal theory, construal level theory, and the literature on emotions, we theorize two distinct appraisal‐emotion pathways through which the ...
Matthew P. Mount   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structures of Ideological Systems Programming. The Case of Sustainability in Prices

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper aims to demonstrate Niklas Luhmann's systems theory and its concept of ideologies as a general framework for analysing the actual implementation of normative ideas in modern society. Using the example of sustainable pricing within the economic system, it shows how values can be established at the programmatic level of function ...
Kristoffer Klement
wiley   +1 more source

Human factors in triaging forensic items: Casework pressures and ambiguity aversion. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Justice
Almazrouei MA   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Face‐to‐face interaction is a foundational concept in microsociology. This article surveys the social experiences of autistic people, who are commonly known for having a strained relationship with interactions face to face. By interpretively reviewing and synthesizing the broader literature on “autistic sociality,” the article provides a nuanced ...
Lars E. F. Johannessen
wiley   +1 more source

Is Ambiguity Aversion a Preference?

open access: yes, 2016
Ambiguity aversion has been used to explain a wide range of phenomena in law and policy: incomplete contracts, stock market volatility, abstention from voting, and why prosecutors offer and defendants accept harsh plea bargains. This paper presents evidence problematizing the experimental basis for ambiguity aversion.
Chen, Daniel L., Schonger, Martin
openaire   +5 more sources

Digital Engineering Transformation as a Sociotechnical Challenge: Categorization of Barriers and Their Mapping to DoD's Policy Goals

open access: yesSystems Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Digital Engineering (DE) transformation represents a paradigm shift in systems engineering (SE), aiming to integrate heterogeneous analytical models and digital artifacts into an authoritative source of truth to improve traceability and lifecycle management.
Md Doulotuzzaman Xames, Taylan G. Topcu
wiley   +1 more source

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