Alliance or Acquisition? A Mechanisms‐Based,Policy‐Capturing Analysis

Research summary : While alliance researchers view prior partner‐specific alliance experience as influencing firms' subsequent alliance or acquisition decisions, empirical evidence on the alliance versus acquisition decision is surprisingly mixed. We offer a reconciliation by proposing and testing an analytical framework that recognizes prior partner‐specific experiences as heterogeneous along three fundamental dimensions: partner‐specific trust, routines, and value certainty. This allows us to use a policy‐capturing methodology to rigorously operationalize and test our mechanism‐level predictions. We find that all three mechanisms can increase the likelihood of a subsequent alliance or acquisition, and in terms of the comparative choice between alliances versus acquisitions, partner‐specific trust pulls towards alliances, and value certainty pulls towards acquisitions. We conclude with a discussion of the theoretical and empirical implications of our approach and method . Managerial summary : This study focuses on an important corporate decision: When a firm has had an alliance with another firm, how would that experience affect the likelihood of a future alliance or acquisition with that same firm? We first suggest that it will depend on three factors: the level of trust that existed in that prior alliance, the extent to which specific work routines were developed, and the degree to which the firm was able to confidently assess the value of the partner firm's resources. We then find that trust is a particularly strong predictor of future alliances, while confidence regarding value more strongly predicts future acquisitions. In this way, we demonstrate more precisely how past corporate choices can affect (consciously or unconsciously) future ones . © 2017 The Authors. Strategic Management Journal Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.     

双元压力对员工情绪劳动的影响

以资源保存理论为基础,探讨双元压力对员工情绪劳动影响的过程机制。采用问卷调查法,对435名企业基层工作人员的双元压力及对情绪的影响进行研究。研究结果显示：挑战性压力对表层行为产生抑制作用,对深层行为产生促进作用;阻碍性压力对表层行为产生促进作用,对深层行为产生抑制作用;情绪倦怠起到显著的中介效应。基于研究结论,提出管理启示和未来展望。     

Emotional prototypes,emotional memory usages,and customer satisfaction

In this study, we investigated the positive and negative emotion concepts in the prototype perspective and then tested them on customer satisfaction. By studying 612 customers in luxury restaurants, we found that two levels of customer emotions (i.e. positive and negative emotions) as a super-ordinate level, 4 positive emotions (i.e. contentment, happiness, love, and pride) and 5 negative emotions (i.e. anger, fear, sadness, shame, and disgust) as a basic level, and 49 specific emotions as a subordinate level are significantly related to customer satisfaction. We also examined the moderating role of emotional memory (EM) usage in the relationship between consumers’ emotions and their satisfaction. We found that product (food and beverage)-related EM strengthens and service-related EM usage weakens the relationship between customers’ negative emotions and their satisfaction. Interestingly, we found that positive and negative emotions are significantly related to customer satisfaction regardless of experience and store-related EM usage.     

Understanding responses to comedic advertising aggression: the role of vividness and gender identity

As the use of comedic aggression in advertising has become more frequent, questions about the boundary conditions of its effectiveness become more important. Issues related to the vividness of the aggression, unique audience responses, and legitimacy of the aggression are examined here as potential influences on the impact of comedic advertising aggression. Two experiments are reported that explore how reactions to comedic advertising aggression are influenced by components of vividness (concreteness – aggressive intensity, emotional interest – psychological distance), the audience's gender identity, and whether the aggression was provoked and justified. Feminine identity individuals in close psychological situations react quite negatively to advertising using the highest level of comedic aggression while masculine identity individuals actually prefer the most vivid aggression in some conditions. The response patterns become different for feminine and masculine identity individuals when the aggression is unprovoked and therefore less justified. The results provide guidance about the limits of using comedic advertising aggression.     

Social Ties,Social Capital,and Recruiting Managers in Transnational Ventures

Social capital provides access to resources; however, how migrant entrepreneurs use social capital in the recruitment of managers for their transnational ventures is less understood. The authors conducted eight in-depth interviews with transnational entrepreneurs of Indian origin in the United Kingdom and nine confirmatory interviews with managers of their transnational ventures. Findings show that transnational entrepreneurs substitute or complement international and local social capital in the recruitment of managers contingent on whether they (a) live in the United Kingdom or India and (b) use social ties in the United Kingdom or India to recruit managers. Implications for research, policy and management are discussed.     

The influence of life satisfaction on nostalgic advertising and attitude toward a brand

Nostalgic advertising has become a popular means for advertisers to reach their consumers. A viewer's life satisfaction is an important factor that may influence the effect of nostalgic advertising. Positive life satisfaction is an important determinant of nostalgic advertising receptivity. Thus, the present study builds a model for the relationships among life satisfaction, nostalgic advertising, emotional response toward a brand, ad attitude and purchase intention. Life satisfaction was identified as an antecedent variable for evoked nostalgia. In addition, emotional response to the advertised brand was shown to be an important predictor of purchase intent. The findings provide insightful implications for marketers and advertisers by identifying meaningful relationships between life satisfaction and nostalgic advertising.     

Reversal of fortune? The long-term effect of conservation-led displacement in Nepal

Building on a panel data-set using two rounds of self-administered surveys, this study assesses the long-term welfare effects of conservation-led displacement in Nepal. Empirical findings indicate that while displaced households suffered from poor land productivity and food insecurity in the first five years after displacement, they appear to be better off today, a decade since displacement, compared to non-displaced households. However, this has come at the expense of loosening social ties, increased strain on human capital and, most importantly, an overall deterioration in people’s socio-cultural wellbeing.     

政治认同、心理契约与成功智力的相关性研究——基于知识型人才的数据检验

知识型人才是一类特殊的群体,政治认同对知识型人才成功智力的成长存在着驱动作用。文章基于我国知识型人才的样本数据,借助于结构方程模型,揭示了政治认同、心理契约优化和成功智力的内在关系,发现了政治认同对心理契约及心理智力的促进路径,从而为知识型人才的培养提供了现实性的理论启示。研究发现:情感认同和行为认同对交易型心理契约和关系型心理契约均存在着促进效应;交易型心理契约和关系型心理契约对分析型智力、创造型智力和实践型智力均存在着促进效应。     

基于战略网络视角的企业关系资源

通过企业的战略网络视角分析在经济全球化背景下企业的战略选择,企业如何认识自己所需要的战略资源,从而获得竞争优势。在企业的战略网络视角下,企业的经营不再单纯考虑自身的利益而且还要考虑企业的战略联盟的利益,企业将以基于企业间关系的合作战略作出战略抉择。企业的价值将依据网络和竞争情况的演化而变化。     

服务业员工情绪智力、动机与情绪劳动的关系

服务行业需要员工付出情绪劳动。本文基于情绪智力理论和动机理论,提出情绪智力可以通过内、外部动机,影响情绪劳动策略的假设。研究结果表明:(1)员工情绪智力通过内部动机影响员工深层行动,通过外部动机影响员工表层行动;(2)情绪智力对深层行动的正效应大于对表层行动的正效应,说明情绪智力在促进深层行动方面具有更重要的作用;(3)外部动机可以转化为内部动机,从而影响深层行动。