Emotions and consumer behaviour: A review and research agenda

Consumers' emotions play a salient role in consumers' buying process, their consumption behaviours, and their engagement with product/service offerings, owing to which, it has gained much attention in recent years as an area of inquiry. However, literature in this field/subject is theoretically fragmented. Therefore, to enhance the conceptual understanding, this study synthesizes extant literature, using a hybrid review approach. Herein, we attempt to integrate bibliometric analysis, along with the theories, contexts, characteristics, and methodology framework, while consolidating and classifying the domain knowledge, trends, and progress/citation analysis using the bibliometric approach. In the process, we reviewed 384 conceptual and empirical articles, published during the period 1967–2021. The idea was to identify key theories, constructs, research contexts, and methods, based on which, we propose a few potential research areas. Based on our thorough analysis, these areas include (1) consumer co-creation, (2) consumer engagement, (3) service employee interactions, (4) consumer decision making, and (5) consumption experience.     

容错机制能促进国有企业创新吗

如何提高国有企业的创新能力是一个富有争议的问题。本文以近年来国有企业实施的容错机制为切入点研究国有企业创新问题，通过构建动态博弈模型并求解纳什均衡提出了两个理论假说：（1）正向激励可以提高国企高管的低风险创新激励，但不能提高其高风险创新激励；（2）正向激励和容错机制的结合可以提高国企高管的高风险创新激励。本文以中央企业建立容错机制为准自然实验，基于2013—2019年央企实际控制的上市公司数据，使用多期双重差分法验证了上述假说。进一步研究发现，容错机制对竞争性行业和高管年轻化的国有企业的高风险创新具有更加明显的促进作用。本文的发现为提升国有企业创新能力提供了一个新的视角，也为优化国有企业容错机制提供了依据。     

Is it time to reboot welfare economics? Overview

The contributions of economists have long included both positive explanations of how economic systems work and normative recommendations for how they could and should work better. In recent decades, economics has taken a strong empirical turn as well as having a greater appreciation of the importance of the complexities of real-world human behaviour, institutions, the strengths and failures of markets, and interlinkages with other systems, including politics, technology, culture and the environment. This shift has also brought greater relevance and pragmatism to normative economics. While this shift towards evidence and pragmatism has been welcome, it does not in itself answer the core question of what exactly constitutes ‘better’, and for whom, and how to manage inevitable conflicts and trade-offs in society. These have long been the core concerns of welfare economics. Yet, in the 1980s and 1990s, debates on welfare economics seemed to have become marginalised. The articles in this Fiscal Studies symposium engage with the question of how to revive normative questions as a central issue in economic scholarship.