Perceived product creativity and mental contrasting: Desired future on consumers’ product replacement decisions

Consumers often imagine what it would be like to own a new product. Does engaging in such thoughts on desired future impact consumers’ purchase intentions, and if so, what is the underlying process? This study sets out to investigate the posed questions by assessing self‐regulatory strategies consumers employ upon pondering on a desired future. Based on Oettingen’s fantasy realization model, the authors take a comparative approach of two modes on desired future—mental contrasting and indulging—en route to purchase intentions. In mental contrasting, an individual juxtaposes a desired future with his/her present reality, whereas, indulging is simply envisioning a desired future. Contingent upon the perceived likelihood of fantasy realization, consumers in the mental‐contrasting condition adjust their level—that is, high (low) for high (low) feasibility case—in goal commitment as well as in energization to achieve the desired future. In contrast, consumers in the indulging condition engage in moderate level of goal commitment—irrespective of the likelihood of fantasy realization. In a series of experiments, this study scrutinizes the fantasy realization model in context of attribute alignability/nonalignability, uncertainty in attribute meaningfulness and novelty, technological and psychological obsolescence en route to affecting the consumers’ product purchase/upgrade intentions. Conceptually, this study is the first to adapt the fantasy realization model to the marketing context, and the authors provide managerial implications of their key findings.     

Social Trust and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence from China

We study whether greater social trust is associated with a lower incidence of corporate misconduct. Both social norm and network theory suggest that social trust can affect managerial behavior and reduce the likelihood of misconduct behavior. Consistent with this prediction, we find that social trust is negatively associated with corporate misconduct behavior. Moreover, we show that, when media coverage is higher, the negative relation between social trust and corporate misconduct behavior is more pronounced. Further analyses suggest that social trust can help mitigate both disclosure-related and nondisclosure-related misconduct.     

The Doctrine of the Mean: Workplace Relationships and Turnover Intention

The present study examines the curvilinear relationships between LMX/TMX and team members' turnover intention simultaneously. That is, members with high LMX, TMX, or both are more likely to have turnover intention. Hypotheses were tested with a sample of 452 nurses, and we adopted the response surface methodology and polynomial regression to test our theoretical model. The hierarchical regression analysis showed that TMX has a U‐shaped relationship with turnover intention but not with LMX. In addition, the results indicate that both the congruence and incongruence of LMX and TMX result in higher turnover intention, but moderate levels of LMX and TMX have the lowest turnover intention. Strengths, limitations, practical implications, and directions for future research are discussed. Copyright © 2018 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Who benefits from partial tax coordination?

In this paper, we investigate whether partial tax coordination is beneficial to countries within and outside a tax union, in which countries are supposed to compete in taxes and infrastructure. Our results demonstrate that a subgroup of countries agreeing on a common tax rate can harm both member and nonmember states. This is in contrast to the classical findings that partial tax harmonisation is Pareto improving. When a minimum tax rate is imposed within a tax union, we demonstrate that it does not necessarily improve the welfare of the member countries. Moreover, both the high‐tax and low‐tax countries can be worse off. This conclusion is at odds with the classical result that a high‐tax country benefits from the imposition of a lower tax bound.     

怀旧消费决策模型及其营销启示

怀旧是人的天性,是人们感时伤怀的一种情绪。消费者怀旧消费决策主要包括产生于转化两个环节。消费者怀旧情感从纵向视角来看分为两个层次:怀旧倾向与怀旧强度,对应两大产生机制:内化机制与唤起机制。怀旧情感通过品牌信任、品牌依恋和品牌承诺的中介,从而转化怀旧购买。这种怀旧情感的产生-转化模型可以为企业开展怀旧营销提供思路。     

浅谈钢与混凝土组合楼盖结构体系

通过对钢与混凝土组合楼盖结构体系的浅析,达到对组合楼盖结构在设计及施工中的更好应用。     

秩序自由主义对欧共体竞争法的影响

秩序自由主义推崇秩序与自由相结合的理念.受英影响,欧共体的竞争法不仅注重保护自由竞争,而且强调运用某种程度的干预来维护市场秩序,致力于建立更加和谐和人道的社会.     

试析不当得利返还请求权与其他请求权的关系

不当得利请求权和民法上的其他请求权之间的关系问题,即是一个理论问题,也是一个实务问题,不仅涉及民法各项制度的功能体系,也事关不当得利返还请求权在处理民事案件中作用的发挥。以财产上的请求权发生的基础为核心,不当得利与合同、无因管理、物的返还、侵权行为等之间的关系的适用性,仍是实践中存在的突出问题。我们应承认不当得利返还请求权的独立性,并在此基础上承认它与其他财产上请求权可能发生的竞合,这样有助于民法各项制度的功能协调,有利于更加充分地实现民法维护公平正义这一根本理念。     

中小物流企业的信息化建设探讨

信息化建设是物流企业未来发展的重要趋势,中小物流企业作为新兴物流行业中的绝对多数,它的信息化建设对行业的未来发展起着很重要的作用。该文对我国中小物流企业的现状进行了分析,据此提出中小物流企业信息化建设的几点建议,如采用应用服务提供商模式完成中小物流企业信息化建设。     

因子分析法在我国钢铁行业上市公司业绩评价中的应用

<正>引言钢铁行业是我国的支柱行业,其在我国所有行业中上市公司数量也是比较多的,对我国钢铁行业而言,2005年是我国钢铁工业实现历史性转折关键的一年。2005年我国粗钢产量首超3亿吨,达到34936.15万吨,比2004年狂涨24%以上,然而中国钢企利润却负增长,66家大中型钢铁生产企业利润768.65亿元,同比下降10.62%。目前我国经济发展依然保持较快增长速度,因而钢铁业总体仍处于较高景气空间。但受宏观调控的影响,中国钢材需求增长呈回落态势,钢铁行业固定资产投资也在明显降温。现在中国钢铁业一个引人注目