消费者创新性的结构测量及对创新性行为的影响

现有文献比较全面地揭示了消费者创新性与新产品创新性行为之间的多重关系,并探讨了这些关系产生的条件和机制。但绝大多数的理论和经验研究都将消费者创新性视为一个单维构念来进行操作性界定和测量,很少有研究去探索其内在结构并在此基础上检验每个维度与新产品创新性行为之间的关系。文章旨在探讨消费者创新性的结构维度并在此基础上观察不同类型的消费者创新性对创新性行为的影响。结论表明,消费者创新性是一个包括感知创新性和认知创新性的双维构念;作为整体的消费者创新性与新产品采用行为并没有显著的相关性,只有认知创新性才与新产品的采用行为正向相关,而感知创新性只与新产品的创新性信息搜寻正向相关。上述结论为消费者创新性提供了一个新的认识,也为今后学者从该角度来研究有关消费者创新性的其他问题提供了变量测量的工具,而且还为新产品的营销实践提供了新的管理启示。     

我国失地农民问题研究述评

随着我国城市化进程的推进,失地农民问题越来越引起学者的关注。现有研究主要集中在失地农民的权益、补偿安置、市民化及社会保障等四方面,研究视野较窄,还有待于对失地农民的幸福感、就业状况、满意度及少数民族失地农民的生存境况等方面进行研究。     

创业中的变革型领导对组织公民行为的影响:组织承诺的中介作用

现有研究发现,变革型领导方式能有效促进组织公民行为的发生,但对两者间影响机制和中介变量的研究还未有定论.基于此,本文以创业企业为研究对象,研究创业中的变革型领导与组织公民行为之间的关系,尤其关注员工组织承诺在其中的中介作用.通过结构方程模型研究发现:创业中的变革型领导方式与组织公民行为是正相关关系,而且员工组织承诺在两者间起部分中介作用.研究告诉创业者,除了自身通过变革型领导方式来直接唤起组织公民行为的发生,还需通过更多的互动和交换来编织员工与组织间的心理纽带,提升员工组织承诺的强度,由此促使员工外化为具体的工作投入,即组织公民行为.研究的理论贡献在于,挖掘了领导方式-员工心理活动-员工工作活动之间的互动关系.     

中国渐进式改革中政府行为的成本及成因分析

中国渐进式改革模式的成本是巨大的,突出地表现为由政府行为所导致。地方政府官员的寻租行为、隐蔽其他信息、地方政府间竞争造成的资源配置扭曲、宏观经济失序等负面影响的根本原因在于预算软约束、监督缺位以及经济分权和政府集权的体制。     

责任型领导对员工绿色行为的影响:道德反思的中介作用及同理心的调节作用

基于社会学习与情感事件理论视角,探讨了责任型领导对员工绿色行为的影响机制。通过对山东省、上海市多家企业317名人员的问卷调查,实证分析结果显示责任型领导显著正向影响员工绿色行为,道德反思在责任型领导与员工绿色行为之间起部分中介作用;同理心负向调节道德反思与员工绿色行为之间的关系,同理心越弱,道德反思对员工绿色行为的影响越显著;同理心还调节责任型领导通过道德反思影响员工绿色行为这一中介机制,同理心越弱,中介效应越显著。研究结果为责任型领导激发员工绿色行为提供了新的视角,对于增加组织的环保行为具有重要的现实意义。     

企业绿色行为与价值关联性研究——以高科技行业上市公司为例

以高科技行业上市公司为对象,借助修正后的Ohlson评价模式进行定量研究发现,内部环境管理、外部绿色供应链管理、投资回收和环境化设计等绿色行为对企业股权价值增值均具有显著的解释能力,其中内部环境管理和外部绿色供应链管理影响最为强烈,因此企业应进行资源节约和环境友好的文化培育和制度安排,并以资源深度利用为导向进行跨边界的流程设计,目的在于同时提升企业的经济效益和环境效益。     

Understanding organizational citizenship behavior from a cultural perspective: An empirical study within the context of hotels in Mainland China

Scholarly concerns in organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) have increased dramatically over the past two decades. Nevertheless, there are significant issues yet to be addressed and resolved, one of which relates to the influences of cultural values on such voluntary behaviors. In view of the importance of OCB in meliorating hotel service and cultivating customer loyalty, the current study seeks to investigate a possible mechanism through which Chinese values (CVs) may function on employee citizenship behaviors within the hotels in Mainland China. The research questions focus on whether CVs have a direct impact on OCB and its verified antecedents, leader–member exchange (LMX) and employee organizational commitment (OC). Eventually, the research findings have verified the conceptual model and confirmed all the postulated linkages among the constructs under study.     

When does an employee not help coworkers? The effect of leader–member exchange on employee envy and organizational citizenship behavior

Using a sample of 233 front-line hotel employees, we examined leader–member exchange (LMX), envy, and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). The results from path analysis support the research model that employees who have a relatively poor working relationship with their supervisor (i.e., low-quality LMX relationship) were more likely to show higher levels of envy than employees who have relatively closer working relationships with the same supervisor (i.e., high-quality LMX relationship). Ultimately, higher levels of envy decreased employee voluntary helping behavior (i.e., organizational citizenship behavior, OCB) toward coworkers. This finding suggests that employees perceiving a poor working relationship with their supervisor committed less voluntary helping behavior toward coworkers than their counterparts. Implications for managers and suggestions for future research are discussed.     

Coaching and employee organizational citizenship behaviours: The role of procedural justice climate

This study investigates how the level of procedural justice climate (PJC) in a group may reduce or increase the impact of coaching behaviour of department managers on the organizational citizenship behaviours (OCBs) of their subordinates in the hospitality sector. The sample consists of 40 department managers and 176 employees of 12 five star hotels operating in Northern Cyprus. A multilevel analysis using hierarchical linear modelling (HLM) was utilized due to the nested nature of employees in their corresponding departments. Effective coaching is especially more important in departments where procedural justice climate is low. When the PJC is low, the role of effective coaching becomes imperative for OCBs of employees. In line with the substitutes for leadership theory, the higher levels of PJC serve as a substitute for coaching.     

Gap year volunteer tourism: Myths of Global Citizenship?

The valorisation of cross-cultural understanding and promotion of an ethic of global citizenship are at the forefront of the recent development and proliferation of international ‘gap year’ travel programs and policies. Governments and industry alike promote gap year travel uncritically as a guaranteed pathway to the development of inclusive ideologies associated with global citizenship. In this paper we examine how the neoliberalist context in which gap year travel programs have proliferated does little to promote tolerance. We then consider the recent growth of ‘volunteer tourism’ as an alternative gap year youth travel experience and explore how the implied resistance to self-serving neoliberalist values that it engenders can become coopted by neoliberalism.