Organizational attention and learning under regulatory intervention: Governmental investigation into auto engine quality

We examine the efficacy of government regulation on a firm's product. We draw on the behavioural approach of organization research in order to understand the micromechanisms whereby the regulatory intervention process affects corporate operation. We suggest that while government investigations may limit the improvements in product quality by distracting a firm's attention, this unintended outcome depends on the extent to which the firm engages in a substantive problem‐solving process with the regulator during an investigation process. A longitudinal analysis of the US government's investigation into motor vehicle engine production offers overall support for our argument. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications that our findings present to learning theory and institutional literature. Copyright © 2017 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Investor attention,firm-specific characteristic,and momentum: A case of the Korean stock market

This study examines the sources of negative momentum profits by combining investor attention and the properties of common and firm-specific factors. We choose the Korean stock market as a good case to characterize the negative momentum profits identified in Asia. In both portfolio and stock analyses, a method is devised to generate return data involving the property of each common and firm-specific factor within stock groups by investor attention. This study found significant negative momentum profits within the stock group with high investor attention. This momentum effect is highly dependent on the reversed performance of the past loser portfolio, not the continued performance of the past winner portfolio, and this reversal is strongly attributable to the properties of firm-specific factors, and not those of common factors. These results are robustly consistent regardless of changes in empirical design and the consideration of influence factors, market dynamics, and other stock markets.     

如何解决传媒人才短缺难题

当前,传媒业的激烈竞争实质上是人才的竞争。人才是传媒成败的“牛耳”。解决人才短缺问题是着眼向外,还是着手向内？不排除向外,但主要应下力激活内部人力资源。这样做,可以防止造成新的人才浪费,可以避免爆发恶性人才大战,从而有利于传媒业的和谐发展。那种过份“引进”、忽视“挖潜”的做法是不可取的。     

Attention to Fairness versus Profits: The Determinants of Satisficing Pricing

We investigate determinants of the competitive behaviour of satisficing, non‐profit‐maximizing pricing. Taking a behavioural approach, we argue that pricing decisions are motivated by fairness objectives as well as the desire to achieve economic objectives. We draw from the attention‐based view to build our theoretical model explaining the contextual conditions that are most likely to be associated with attention to fairness relative to attention to achieving maximum profits when setting prices. Our hypothesized predictors of satisficing pricing decisions encompass the institutional context in which the firm is embedded, the exchange context with customers and suppliers, and the context internal to the firm. Hypotheses are tested with survey data of over 3000 firms from 15 countries. We find that the decision to set prices at a satisficing level is remarkably common, and its prevalence is associated with contextual factors that are consistent with greater attention to fairness concerns.     

Is consumer psychology research ready for today’s attention economy?

ABSTRACT

Attention has become an area of major interest in marketing research as a dependent or moderating variable. In this article, we argue for respondent attention as a pivotal part of any consumer psychology research protocol and highlight the risks of not incorporating realistic attention components into research design. We propose four areas where this approach can help the external validity of consumer psychology research. Our recommendations include accounting for variability in the baseline attention levels; smart use of distractions; allowing for variability in attention over the task and avoiding attention leading/assumptive questions.     

视觉营销眼动研究:回顾与展望

视觉营销的关键是吸引并保持消费者的视觉注意,而眼动技术能够有效地测量消费者的视觉注意情况,从而揭示视觉营销的效果。本文首先介绍了眼动与视觉注意的关系以及视觉注意的影响因素,然后对视觉营销眼动研究近年来所涉及的非平面广告设计、食品包装设计、网站/网页设计、产品/服务设计和超市货架管理这五个主要领域的新动态进行了回顾和梳理,重点说明了视觉营销眼动研究中的热点问题和研究发现,最后在总结现有研究的基础上探讨了该领域未来可能的研究方向。     

交叉上市、投资者关注与企业创新——基于沪深A股上市公司的实证研究

企业通过交叉上市引入多个资本市场的投资者关注,可能对企业的创新行为产生影响,然而少有研究从该视角切入。本文以2007—2014年沪深A股上市公司为研究对象,综合运用PSM模型和多元线性回归模型,从投资者关注视角探究交叉上市与企业创新行为间的内在关联。结果显示,(1)相比仅在A股上市的企业,交叉上市企业更加注重创新投入,该结论在控制了可能的内生性问题后依然成立;(2)在区分了交叉上市类型后发现,交叉上市对企业创新活动的促进作用仅存在于A+H股交叉上市公司;(3)以境内外投资者持股比例测度投资者关注的异质性,实证检验境内外投资者关注差异是引起企业创新水平高低的重要因素。本文拓展了交叉上市领域的研究范畴,并为解决中国企业创新不足提供不同视角的方案。     

区域经济效率与公平兼顾模型的构建及实证分析

如何兼顾效率与公平,一直是经济学研究的主题和难题之一。针对区域经济发展中的效率与公平问题,基于SUP-CCR-DEA模型,在保证整体效率最优的同时,增加政府进行区域补贴后的居民收入区域差异最小化的约束条件,建立区域经济效率与公平兼顾模型,对中国东、中、西、东北四大区域进行实证分析,并用锡尔系数进行验证。分析表明,通过政府补贴改变区域间居民的收入分配,可以改善区域经济公平性,也可增进整体经济效率;西部和中部地区应获得更多的政府补贴;在缩小四大区域经济发展差距的同时,也要积极改善各大区域内部的经济公平性。     

Exogenous and Endogenous Attention and the Convergence of Analysts’ Forecasts

The propensity of the forecasts of sell-side financial analysts to converge (or diverge) is a function of their exogenous and endogenous selective attention and overconfidence. When returns are negative, the endogenous form of selective attention—a static measure of analysts’ goal-driven attention at a particular point in time—has a positive association with convergence. The exogenous form of selective attention—a relatively involuntary dynamic process of exogenous attentional shift driven by external changes in the market over time—is associated with a tendency for forecasts to diverge.     

Payoff equivalence between Bayesian and ex post individually rational dominant strategy mechanisms

Summary. An efficient, interim individually rational, ex post budget balanced Bayesian mechanism is shown to be payoff equivalent to an ex post individually rational and ex ante budget balanced dominant strategy mechanism. This result simplifies the search for mechanisms that implement efficient allocation rules by pointing to a class of Groves mechanisms. It eliminates the strict requirement of common knowledge of priors and can be applied to many problems of incomplete information. Received: October 22 1996; revised version: November 25, 1997