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Online Interactions, Offline Behaviors: A Study of Social Media Feedback as an Indirect Predictor of Prosocial Behaviors at Work
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This study examines affective, cognitive and behavioral workplace outcomes of interpersonal interactions on social media. Design/methodology/approach
Full-time employees reported their social media interactions, emotional states, cognitive resources and workplace proactive behaviors at work twice a week for eight weeks. Findings
The results demonstrate that favorable written comments on social media (but not the number of likes) have a positive indirect relationship with cognitive resources necessary for engaging in prosocial behaviors at work. Research limitations/implications
The findings advance our understanding of how positive social media interactions impact workplace prosocial behaviors. Originality/value
This finding advances our understanding of the workplace repercussions of interpersonal interactions on social media
Martha L. Wofford
Get PDFHonorary Degree recipient and speaker at the Graduate Commencement Exercises
Founder Gender and Firm Exit Routes: The Mediating Roles of Firm Size and VC Financing
No full textWhile it is well established that founder gender influences starting and managing new ventures, little is known about the influence of founder gender on firm exits. In this paper, by drawing on liberal feminist and social feminist theories, we argue that female entrepreneurs are less likely to have positive exits via M&As and IPOs, and that firm size venture capital (VC) financing are two important factors mediating this relationship. We test our hypothesis using data from Crunchbase dataset on 18,495 new ventures in the US and find that firm size and VC financing fully mediate the negative relationship between female-founded firms and IPOs, but partially mediate the negative relationship between female-founded firms and M&As. These results are robust to propensity score matching. This paper provides valuable contributions to the entrepreneurship literature by explicitly investigating the mechanisms through which gender influences probabilities of positive firm exits via M&A or IPO and has important practical implications for policymakers
