Exploring multi-stakeholder value co-creation as an entrepreneurial approach to survival and sustainability: The case of Pennine Pubs (2022)
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Brown, D., Apostolidis, C., Singh, P., Dey, B. L., & Chelekis, J. (2022). Exploring multi-stakeholder value co-creation as an entrepreneurial approach to survival and sustainability: The case of Pennine Pubs. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503221145101

This case focuses on the entrepreneurial use of multi-stakeholder value co-creation to emerge stronger from challenging trading conditions. In particular, it examines Pennine Pubs, a small- / medium-sized enterprise (SME) operating several rural publ... Read More about Exploring multi-stakeholder value co-creation as an entrepreneurial approach to survival and sustainability: The case of Pennine Pubs.

The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification (2022)
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Bellelli, F. S., Aftab, A., & Scarpa, R. (2023). The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 17(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1086/722906

Several of the most pressing environmental problems involve transboundary issues and can be solved only through international cooperation. Hence, a successful policy response requires a good understanding of international environmental agreements—the... Read More about The Participation Dilemma: A Survey of the Empirical Literature on International Environmental Agreement Ratification.

Integrating interactions between target users and opinion leaders for better recommendations: An opinion dynamics approach (2022)
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Weng, L., Zhang, Q., Lin, Z., Wu, L., & Zhang, J. (2023). Integrating interactions between target users and opinion leaders for better recommendations: An opinion dynamics approach. Computer Communications, 15, 98-107. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.11.011

The social recommender system can accurately recommend information to users, according to their interests based on the characteristics of their social network, however, the interaction between users has not been fully captured in the existing social... Read More about Integrating interactions between target users and opinion leaders for better recommendations: An opinion dynamics approach.

(Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts (2022)
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Dey, B. L., Apostolidis, C., Nasef, Y. T., Samuel, L., Singh, P., & Brown, D. M. (2022). (Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts. Journal of World Business, 58(2), Article 101417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2022.101417

Increasing internationalisation in organisations demands further research on acculturation within international business (IB). Based on triangulated qualitative data on South Asian diasporas’ food consumption in the UK and Bahraini contexts, we intro... Read More about (Im)migrants’ appropriation of culture: Reciprocal influence of personal and work contexts.

Constructing Consumer-Masstige Brand Relationships in a Volatile Social Reality (2022)
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Moorlock, E., Dekel-Dachs, O., Stokes, P., & Larsen, G. (2023). Constructing Consumer-Masstige Brand Relationships in a Volatile Social Reality. Journal of Business Research, 155(Part A), Article 113381. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.113381

This article conceptualises how consumers construct their relationships with masstige brands. Drawing on a two-stage methodology of consumer interviews and online content analysis of brands’ social media pages, we offer innovative insight into how co... Read More about Constructing Consumer-Masstige Brand Relationships in a Volatile Social Reality.

Workplace loneliness, ego depletion and cyberloafing: Can leader problem-focused interpersonal emotion management help? (2022)
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Yang, H., Lin, Z., Chen, X., & Peng, J. (2023). Workplace loneliness, ego depletion and cyberloafing: Can leader problem-focused interpersonal emotion management help?. Internet Research, 33(4), 1473-1494. https://doi.org/10.1108/intr-01-2021-0007

Purpose: This study aims to explore whether and how workplace loneliness leads to cyberloafing and the role of leader problem-focused interpersonal emotion management in buffering this relationship. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on ego depleti... Read More about Workplace loneliness, ego depletion and cyberloafing: Can leader problem-focused interpersonal emotion management help?.

How does the combination of factors influence entrepreneurs’ decision-making logic? A qualitative comparative analysis (2022)
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Xu, Y., Baranchenko, Y., Lin, Z., Wu, Q., & Arakpogun, E. (2022). How does the combination of factors influence entrepreneurs’ decision-making logic? A qualitative comparative analysis. Entrepreneurship Research Journal, https://doi.org/10.1515/erj-2021-0249

This study explores the different paths that lead to the effectuation and causation of entrepreneurial decision-making logic. Data were collected from a sample of 300 entrepreneurs in China in January and March 2018 and analyzed using crisp-set quali... Read More about How does the combination of factors influence entrepreneurs’ decision-making logic? A qualitative comparative analysis.

Technology as a Catalyst for Sustainable Social Business: Advancing the Research Agenda (2022)
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Apostolidis, C. (2022). Technology as a Catalyst for Sustainable Social Business: Advancing the Research Agenda. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 183, Article 121946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121946

This guest editorial presents an introduction to the topic and overview of the papers in this Special Issue of Technological Forecasting & Social Change on Technology as a Catalyst for Sustainable Social Business. In this introduction, we review the... Read More about Technology as a Catalyst for Sustainable Social Business: Advancing the Research Agenda.

The Role of Digital-Media-Based Pedagogical Aids in Elementary Entomology: An Innovative and Sustainable Approach (2022)
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Lu, S., Chen, Y., Huang, H., & Liu, Y. (2022). The Role of Digital-Media-Based Pedagogical Aids in Elementary Entomology: An Innovative and Sustainable Approach. Sustainability, 14(16), https://doi.org/10.3390/su141610067

It has been challenging for city school pupils to learn about insects, given the lack of live insects. To overcome this challenge, the objective of this study is to propose the use of emerging digital media, namely three-dimensional printing (3DP) te... Read More about The Role of Digital-Media-Based Pedagogical Aids in Elementary Entomology: An Innovative and Sustainable Approach.

Towards measuring environmental income through a refined United Nations SEEA EA: Application to publicly-owned, protected, pine-forest-farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain (2022)
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Campos, P., Mesa, B., Álvarez, A., Oviedo, J. L., & Caparrós, A. (2022). Towards measuring environmental income through a refined United Nations SEEA EA: Application to publicly-owned, protected, pine-forest-farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain. Ecological Economics, 201, Article 107570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107570

The United Nations monetary System of Environmental-Economic Accounting—Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) does not recommend the measurement of the environmental incomes of single products from an ecosystem accounting area. The objective of this paper i... Read More about Towards measuring environmental income through a refined United Nations SEEA EA: Application to publicly-owned, protected, pine-forest-farm case studies in Andalusia, Spain.

From Chalk to Clicks - The impact of (rapid) technology adoption on employee emotions in the higher education sector (2022)
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Apostolidis, C., Devine, A., & Jabbar, A. (2022). From Chalk to Clicks - The impact of (rapid) technology adoption on employee emotions in the higher education sector. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 182, Article 121860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121860

Drawing on Appraisal Theory, this study explores the psychological impact of technology adoption during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic on UK Higher Education (HE) employees. Using sentiment analysis, we analyse approximately 9,000 tweets foc... Read More about From Chalk to Clicks - The impact of (rapid) technology adoption on employee emotions in the higher education sector.

Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study (2022)
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Fenton, A., Cooper-Ryan, A. M., Hardey, M. (., & Ahmed, W. (2022). Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(14), Article 8417. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19148417

Background: The last decade has seen a dramatic shift toward the study of fitness surveillance, thanks in part to the emergence of mobile health (mHealth) apps that allow users to track their health through a variety of data-driven insights. This stu... Read More about Football Fandom as a Platform for Digital Health Promotion and Behaviour Change: A Mobile App Case Study.

Using social media big data for tourist demand forecasting: A new machine learning analytical approach (2022)
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Li, Y., Lin, Z., & Xiao, S. (2022). Using social media big data for tourist demand forecasting: A new machine learning analytical approach. Journal of digital economy, 1(1), 32-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdec.2022.08.006

This study explores the possibility of using a machine learning approach to analysing social media big data for tourism demand forecasting. We demonstrate how to extract the main topics discussed on Twitter and calculate the mean sentiment score for... Read More about Using social media big data for tourist demand forecasting: A new machine learning analytical approach.

Cultural Personal Values and Switching Costs Perceptions: Beyond Hofstede (2022)
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Blut, M., Beatty, S. E., & Northington, W. M. (2022). Cultural Personal Values and Switching Costs Perceptions: Beyond Hofstede. Journal of Business Research, 150, 339-353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.06.005

Firms operating internationally need to ascertain effective relationship marketing (RM) strategies for their foreign operations. One set of RM strategies is based on understanding and using switching costs perceptions. Based on data from 1,630 custom... Read More about Cultural Personal Values and Switching Costs Perceptions: Beyond Hofstede.

Flexible versus Committed and Specific versus Uniform: Wholesale Price Contracting in A Supply Chain with Downstream Process Innovation (2022)
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Yan, S., Xiong, Y., Lin, Z., & Zhou, Y. (2024). Flexible versus Committed and Specific versus Uniform: Wholesale Price Contracting in A Supply Chain with Downstream Process Innovation. International Transactions in Operational Research, 31(1), 346-369. https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13159

If buyers are asymmetric in terms of their operating costs, researchers and managers broadly agree that the supplier can optimize her/his own profit by offering the more efficient buyer a higher price. In this paper, we develop a game theoretical mod... Read More about Flexible versus Committed and Specific versus Uniform: Wholesale Price Contracting in A Supply Chain with Downstream Process Innovation.

Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels (2022)
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Winterbottom, T., Xiao, S., McLean, A., & Al Moubayed, N. (2022). Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels. PeerJ Computer Science, 8(e974), Article e974. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.974

Bilinear pooling (BLP) refers to a family of operations recently developed for fusing features from different modalities predominantly for visual question answering (VQA) models. Successive BLP techniques have yielded higher performance with lower co... Read More about Bilinear Pooling in Video-QA: Empirical Challenges and Motivational Drift from Neurological Parallels.

Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach (2022)
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Filieri, R., Lin, Z., Li, Y., Lu, X., & Yang, X. (2022). Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach. Journal of Service Research, 25(4), 614-629. https://doi.org/10.1177/10946705221103937

Understanding consumer emotions arising from robot-customers encounters and shared through online reviews is critical for forecasting consumers’ intention to adopt service robots. Qualitative analysis has the advantage of generating rich insights fro... Read More about Customer Emotions in Service Robot Encounters: A Hybrid Machine-Human Intelligence Approach.

A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks (2022)
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Duan, J., Lin, Z., Jiao, F., Jiang, Y., & Chen, K. (2022). A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Expert Systems with Applications, 204, Article 117628. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117628

Infectious diseases are a global public health problem, which requires timely and effective responses. This study proposes a novel model that contributes to the development of such responses. First, the problem scenario features of infectious disease... Read More about A Dynamic Case-based Reasoning System for Responding to Infectious Disease Outbreaks.

What’s in it for you? Examining the roles of consumption values and Thaler’s acquisition–transaction utility theory in Chinese consumers’ green purchase intentions (2022)
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Yuan, R., Liu, M. J., & Blut, M. (2022). What’s in it for you? Examining the roles of consumption values and Thaler’s acquisition–transaction utility theory in Chinese consumers’ green purchase intentions. European Journal of Marketing, 56(4), 1065-1107. https://doi.org/10.1108/ejm-08-2020-0609

Purpose - This study examines the impact of five consumption values (i.e., ecological, functional, symbolic, experiential, and epistemic) on consumers’ intentions to adopt green products. Utilizing Thaler’s utility theory, we investigate the indirect... Read More about What’s in it for you? Examining the roles of consumption values and Thaler’s acquisition–transaction utility theory in Chinese consumers’ green purchase intentions.

Service design for the destination tourism service ecosystem: A review and extension (2022)
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Gao, Y., Zhang, Q., Xu, X., Jia, F., & Lin, Z. (2022). Service design for the destination tourism service ecosystem: A review and extension. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 27(3), 225-245. https://doi.org/10.1080/10941665.2022.2046119

This paper aims to synthesize two emerging streams of literature in tourism, i.e., service design and destination ecosystem, and develops a conceptual framework for service design for the destination tourism service ecosystem (DTSE). We first collect... Read More about Service design for the destination tourism service ecosystem: A review and extension.