“年少有为”还是“老当益壮”?——CEO职业生涯关注与战略变革

企业的战略变革是宏观经济转型和产业升级的重要微观基础,然而,变革活动的引领者CEO对自身职业生涯的认知会给战略变革带来怎样的影响是一个重要但仍具争议性的问题。本文整合高阶梯队理论和特质激活理论,以2007—2014年A股上市公司为样本,研究CEO职业生涯关注对战略变革的影响;采用CEO年龄和职业余期来代理CEO职业生涯关注,选择企业关键战略维度来构建战略变革的指标,对相关理论假设进行实证检验。研究发现,CEO职业生涯关注对战略变革有显著的正向影响;同时,在环境不确定性较低、经营期望落差较小、组织冗余较少以及CEO持股比例较高等组织内外部情境下,CEO职业生涯关注所能发挥的影响作用更大,对战略变革的促进效应也更为明显;进一步研究表明,在非国有企业中,CEO职业生涯关注对战略变革的影响更为显著;区分战略变革的类型,与战略变异相比,CEO职业生涯关注对战略背离的影响更为显著。本文不仅从新的视角拓展了战略变革动因的研究,而且对企业如何有效从内部驱动变革、推动企业转型发展有一定的启示意义。     

E-Commerce Consumer Perceptions Regarding On-line Shopping

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a survey exploring the perceptions of e-commerce consumers regarding the benefits and concerns of shopping on-line. Implications for the industry, site development, operational issues and customer service are presented.     

Reputational cheap talk with misunderstanding

We consider a cheap talk game with a sender who has a reputational concern for an ability to predict a state of the world correctly, and where receivers may misunderstand the message sent. When communication between the sender and each receiver is private, we identify an equilibrium in which the sender only discloses the least noisy information. Hence, what determines the amount of information revealed is not the absolute noise level of communication, but the extent to which the noise level may vary. The resulting threshold in transmission noise for which information is revealed may differ across receivers, but is unrelated to the quality of the information channel. When information transmission has to be public, a race to the bottom results: the cut-off level for noise of transmitted information now drops to the lowest cut-off level for any receiver in the audience.     

Can information and communication overload influence smartphone app users' social network exhaustion,privacy invasion and discontinuance intention? A cognition-affect-conation approach

Thanks to the expansion of network technologies and the coupling of smartphone hardware, younger generations have unparalleled access to a diverse range of information and interactive communication opportunities. Despite voluminous research on the causes of social network exhaustion and privacy invasion, limited academic attention has been devoted to understanding the driving forces and contributing factors for discontinuing usage of smartphone app. Drawing on the cognition-affect-conation paradigm, the present research proposes a conceptual research model to examine how information overload and communication overload effect social network exhaustion, privacy invasion, and ultimately, smartphone app users' intentions to discontinue usage. The study evaluates data from 442 smartphone app users, employing statistical analyses to demonstrate that both information overload and communication overload significantly impact users' exhaustion and privacy invasion. Additionally, social network exhaustion and privacy invasion are two major predictors of smartphone app discontinuance intention. By identifying the influential factors and causes of younger generations' discontinuous usage intention of smartphone app, this study meets the need for a thorough assessment of the social network exhaustion and privacy invasion phenomena. The findings may potentially enhance comprehension of the discontinuation intention phenomenon in the context of cognitive overload. Furthermore, they may provide novel insights for practitioners regarding effective strategies conducive to managing mobile social network adoption behavior, as well as the preservation of engagement levels among young users in mobile-saturated societies.