Consumer responses to trade-offs in eco-friendly clothing: The moderating effects of fashion leadership and regulatory focus

Consumers of eco-friendly clothing often face trade-offs between eco-friendliness and other product attributes. Across two experiments, we investigate the moderating role of fashion leadership and regulatory focus in such trade-off situations. Our results suggest that while non-fashion leaders are willing to trade-off hedonic attributes for eco-friendliness, fashion leaders are not willing to trade-off either hedonic or utilitarian attributes. It is also suggested that prevention-focused fashion leaders are more likely than promotion-focused fashion leaders to trade-off hedonic attributes for eco-friendliness. Implications for practitioners as well as directions for future research are discussed.     

Diversification, Ownership and Control of Swedish Corporations

We study the short‐ and long‐term valuation effects of Swedish takeovers. Using a sample of 93 bidding firms that acquired 101 targets between 1980 and 1995, we find that diversifying acquisitions lead to a negative market reaction and deterioration of the operating performance of the bidder. Announcement and performance gains in each of the three years following the acquisition occur only when bidders expand their core rather than their peripheral lines of business. Our findings suggest that focused acquisitions lead to greater synergies and operating efficiencies than diversifying acquisitions. Intra‐group acquisitions, however, show that bidders do not realise significant gains whether they adopt diversifying or focusing investment strategies by purchasing firms controlled by the Wallenberg and SHB conglomerate groups. Intra‐group targets realize significant gains regardless bidder's investment strategy. Finally, the evidence does not support the view that intra‐conglomerate acquisitions are associated with expropriation of minority shareholders. However, they appear to enhance the control rights of large shareholders of the bidding firm.     

Knowledge sharing in the hospitality context: The roles of leader humility,job crafting,and promotion focus

Grounded in a view of self-transcendence, leader humility is expected to influence employees to acquire and share knowledge for self-development. This study investigates how and when leader humility activates hospitality employees’ knowledge collection and knowledge donation. The dataset was built from 674 employees and 87 direct managers working in the Vietnam-based hotel organizations. Analyzed through multilevel structural equation approach, the data provided support for the positive relationships between leader humility and knowledge collection and donation behaviors among hospitality employees. The three dimensions of job crafting functioned as mediators for these relationships. Employees’ promotion focus played a moderating role for the relationships between leader humility and seeking resources and challenges, but did not interact with leader humility to impact job demands. The discussion on the implications for hospitality scholars and practitioners from the research findings is presented.     

Outsourcing customer support: The role of provider customer focus

An increasing number of firms are outsourcing customer support to external service providers. This creates a triadic setting in which an outsourcing provider serves end customers on behalf of its clients. While outsourcing presents an opportunity to serve customers, service providers differ in their motivation and ability to fulfill customer needs. Prior research suggests that firms with a strong customer focus have an intrinsic motivation to address customer needs. We suggest that in an outsourcing context, this intrinsic motivation does not suffice. Using a Motivation–Opportunity–Ability framework, we posit that the effect of a provider's customer focus will be moderated by a set of relational, firm, and customer characteristics that affect its ability to serve end customers. We test our conceptualization among 171 outsourcing clients from the Netherlands and then validate these results among 135 Indian outsourcing providers. The findings reveal that customer-focused providers achieve higher levels of customer need fulfillment but this effect is contingent on their ability to serve end customers. In particular, customer-focused providers more effectively fulfill customer needs when clients and providers share close relational ties, when clients also have a high level of customer focus, and when end customer needs exhibit a low degree of turbulence. In addition, we find that, in turbulent markets, equipment-related services offer greater opportunity for effective customer need fulfillment than other outsourced services.     

Client focus in regulatory agencies

Abstract

‘Client focus’ seems like a counter-intuitive notion for regulatory agencies, whose job is to compel people to comply with government requirements. Yet it is becoming the catchphrase for many regulatory authorities. This article puts forward an argument, based on social exchange and regulatory theory, that a client-focused approach is not only compatible with a regulatory role, but also actually facilitates it. It recognizes that most people's propensity to comply is a function of factors other than the fear of punishment, such as their intrinsic or normative motivations and their ability to do what is required. It also assists in delineation and understanding of the proportion of regulatees who opportunistically avoid their obligations. The article advances a broader model of social exchange between regulators and regulatees.     

Keep it vague? New product preannouncement,regulatory focus,and word-of-mouth

This paper aims to examine the interaction between firm's new product preannouncement (NPP) strategies and consumers' regulatory foci on their WOM intention and the underlying mechanisms. In three experiments, we find that (1) the promotion-focused (prevention-focused) consumers have higher WOM intentions for vague (specific) NPP; (2) curiosity (outcome expectancy) mediates the effects of the NPP strategies on WOM intention for promotion-focused (prevention-focused) consumers; and (3) brand familiarity plays a moderating role, such that the interaction effect between NPP strategy and regulatory focus on consumers' WOM intention holds for a low-familiarity brand only. Our research contributes to a better understanding of NPP strategies and provides actionable strategic support for firms to conduct NPP.     

分众时代广告媒体传播策略探析

广告媒体传播策略是企业营销战略的重要一环,媒体组合的终极目标是协助达成产品营销的目的,而营销的成功有赖于杰出的广告媒体组合策略。文章试从分众时代下,目标受众的生活片段实施立体化、无缝化传播策略角度,探讨广告的媒体传播策略。     

结构问题是21世纪中国人口的核心问题

认为数量问题是 2 0世纪中国人口问题的关键 ,其标志是决定人口数量的主要因素——生育率和死亡率都在 2 0世纪经历了以人口转变为重要概括的历史性转折。虽然人口数量问题并没有随人口转变的完成退出历史舞台 ,但其地位已发生改变。在 2 1世纪结构问题将成为中国人口问题的核心 ,并且分别表现在人口年龄结构、人口地域结构以及人口性别结构等诸多方面     

山区绿色发展研究热点与前沿探讨——基于CiteSpace可视化分析

作为中国的生态屏障,山区的绿色发展是中国可持续发展以及生态文明建设的重要保障。通过对我国山区绿色发展的现状及存在的问题进行归纳总结,阐明绿色对于山区区域经济发展的重要性。结合CiteSpace可视化分析,从文献数据库检索相关文献,提取关键词,并对其进行热点分析,聚类分析和时序分析,探索出山区绿色发展的研究热点与前沿。结合山区绿色发展的实际背景,根据可视化分析结果,提出坚持绿色发展理念,强化绿色产业发展,明确绿色发展思路,加强欠发达山区研究,加大基建资金投入等措施,为中国山区经济和社会发展带来新篇章。     

林权改革的评价与思考

对林权改革进行了国际透视,比较了农业改革与林业改革的不同;分析了集体林权改革滞后的原因,对改革进行了总体评价。主要观点:全球林业经营普遍存在效率改进空间,而效率损失普遍与产权安排不当有关;林权改革的含义是还权与赋权,而不是对林权实行彻底的私有化;森林经营主体可以有农户本位和社区本位,经营形式选择权在民众。集体林区的林权改革调动了农民培育森林的积极性,改善了林业治理结构,但林业改革还没有完成。完善林业政策应考虑的问题:简化农村的林木采伐管理程序;构建便利的林业产权交易制度;引导农村社区逐步达到林业生产经营的最小经营规模;通过合作和市场交易促进林地经营权流转,优化资源配置;确保权利与责任的对称性。