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Linking Business Games to Business and Entrepreneurship Education: Insights from a Bibliometric and Literature Review
No full textInternational audienceBusiness games seem like a sustainable solution to business and entrepreneurshipeducation. Still, knowledge on the topic is so dispersed that educatorslack a clear understanding of the conceptual path linking business gamesto business and entrepreneurship education. This article proposed to synthesizeacademic literature on business games. It analyzes bibliographic datafrom 733 documents from the Web of Science core collection published overthe past 65 years. The results provide rich content on the main knowledgeclusters in business game research, the key concepts driving each cluster, therelationships between them, emerging trends, and the seminal papers businessscholars and practitioners could use to deepen their knowledge of eachcluster. The results also led to a conceptual framework describing current researchon business games in entrepreneurship education, identifying key researchgaps, and proposing a research agenda that could help scholars makemeaningful contributions to the entrepreneurship niche in business gamesresearch. Specifically, technology acceptance and experiential learning literaturehave laid the theoretical foundations for understanding the role of businessgames in business and entrepreneurial education. Research has mainlyfocused on higher-education students’ entrepreneurial intentions and entrepreneurial self-efficacy as outcomes
From screen to cart: how influencers drive impulsive buying in livestreaming commerce?
No full textInternational audiencePurposeThe recent livestreaming commerce has magnified the role of influencer marketing, where the influencers are partnering with brands for product promotion. This study examines the impact of influencer attributes, interaction strategies and parasocial relationships on impulsive buying in livestreaming commerce.Design/methodology/approachA survey with 368 livestreaming commerce users was analyzed using the symmetric-thinking approach – partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and asymmetric thinking approach – fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA).FindingsThe results of PLS-SEM indicate that influencer trustworthiness, influencer interactivity and self-disclosure determine parasocial relationships, which in turn influence impulsive buying. The fsQCA finding returned three configurations with various combinations of the causal conditions (i.e. influencer attributes, interaction strategies, parasocial relationships, perceived fit uncertainty and perceived quality uncertainty) explaining the formation of impulsive buying.Originality/valueThese findings provide unique linear and nonlinear insights to explain the combinatory effects of influencer attributes, interaction strategies, parasocial relationships, perceived fit uncertainty and perceived quality uncertainty on impulsive buying in livestreaming commerce
Personal, Private, Emotional? How Political Parties Use Personalization Strategies on Facebook in the 2014 and 2019 EP Election Campaigns
No full textInternational audienceIn 2014, the EU introduced the lead candidate procedure to raise citizens’ awareness and interest in the European Parliament (EP) elections and, thereby, voter turnout. We study the use of personalization, centralized personalization (focusing on lead candidates), emotional personalization, and private personalization on Facebook by political parties across 12 countries during the 2014 and 2019 EP campaigns and the effects of personalization on user engagement. A standardized quantitative content analysis of 14,293 posts by 227 political parties shows that about half of the Facebook posts were personalized, but there is no general trend of rising personalization. While emotional personalization increased, parties hardly ever posted about their lead candidates and their private lives. Variations are not due to structural (e.g., party and media systems) or geographical/cultural factors. Positive effects are found for the use of emotional personalization attracting a higher volume of user reactions (likes, reactions, shares, and comments) in both elections
The interaction of narcissism, agreeableness and conscientiousness in entrepreneurial mentoring: Implications for learning outcomes
No full textThe personality configuration of mentors and mentees is important in understanding mentoring outcomes. While the best mentors appear to have higher degrees of agreeableness and conscientiousness, entrepreneurs generally score lower on agreeableness and have higher degrees of narcissism, a personality trait that could be detrimental to mentoring. We investigated the interaction of narcissism with two traits from the Big Five Inventory, namely agreeableness and conscientiousness, to see how this interaction influenced learning from the relationship of mentee entrepreneurs. Our findings suggest that mentee narcissism negatively influences learning, and mentor agreeableness mitigates the negative effects on mentee learning. These findings show certain beneficial personality configurations in entrepreneurial mentoring and provide elements to consider in managerial practice when pairing mentors and mentees in this context.</div
Optimization of operating pressure of hydrogen storage salt cavern in bedded salt rock with multi-interlayers
No full textInternational audienceIn this paper, the numerical calculation model of salt cavern hydrogen storage was established based on the proposed salt cavern hydrogen storage in a bedded salt mine in Jiangsu Province of China. The effects of the minimum internal pressure, maximum internal pressure, average internal pressure and injection-production rate on the stability and tightness of the storage were explored respectively. The results revealed that: (1) The volume shrinkage rate and the plastic zone distribution of the surrounding rock decreased with the increase of the minimum internal pressure, and increased with the decrease of the maximum internal pressure. (2) When the depth of salt cavern is around 1700 m, its long-term stability cannot meet the requirements according to the traditional standard of 0.3-0.8 times of the vertical stress at the cavern roof. It is therefore suggested that the minimum internal pressure of the storage should be increased to 0.4 times of the vertical stress at the cavern roof. (3) The tightness evaluation indexes, including leak range, pore pressure distribution of hydrogen, and cumulative leakage of hydrogen in surrounding rock, all increased with the increase of average pressure and amplitude of internal pressure. (4) Under the same average internal pressure and injection-production frequency, the greater the injection-production rate (the amplitude of internal pressure), the smaller the cumulative leakage rate is. Therefore, increasing the injection-production rate is beneficial to the storability of the hydrogen storage
Commentaire sur « Look up ! Cinq propositions de recherche pour repenser le marketing dans une société post-croissance » : le Marketing doit penser sa propre évolution à l’ère de l’Anthropocène
No full textInternational audienceCet article fait suite à la proposition de Rémy et al. Il propose de réfléchir à l'évolution du marketing à l'ère de l'Anthropocène en trois temps. Dans un premier temps, il revient sur les constats macroéconomiques et clarifie certains postulats qui sont associés à tort à la vision du marketing durable attribuée à Dekhili et al. Dans un second temps, il développe le cadre de ce que devraient être les pratiques de marketing durable pour une organisation. Dans un dernier temps, il offre des pistes d’orientation pragmatiques pour des chercheurs en marketing souhaitant conduire des projets de recherche dans le contexte de l'Anthropocène
Intergroup ethnocentrism and social media: evidence from three Western democracies
No full textInternational audienceMass media have long been known to be deeply linked to ethnocentrism and its consequences. Attitudes towards ethnic outgroups are shaped by news agendas, framing, and tone at least as much or more than by the realities of immigration. By contrast, comparatively little is known about social media and interethnic contact. Unlike mass news, the interactive features of social media use can combine information with a direct interethnic contact. This creates an online public sphere which has the potential of being ethnically more diverse than the offline public sphere. By reviewing and connecting the literature on intergroup contact and online political communication, the given study attempts to connect the optimal intergroup contact theory by Gordon Allport to the realities and affordances of social media. The empirical analysis relies on a three-country survey with 4532 respondents in France, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Mindful of the endogeneity problem in our cross-cutting data, we perform propensity score matching and find that spending more time on X (formerly Twitter) is correlated with lower intergroup ethnocentrism under randomized conditions. No such effect was found for Facebook. We also find that people who discuss politics with those that have different ethnicity or race via social media (or offline) are less ethnocentric
Why did you delete my comment? Investigating observing consumers' reactions to comment-deletion-clues during a brand crisis
No full textInternational audienceMany users criticize brands by posting negative comments on their social media pages when a brand crisis occurs. Brands often choose to delete negative comments when coping with brand crises. While deleting comments often goes unnoticed, complaints about comment deletion from users whose comments are deleted (e.g., “Why did you delete my comment?”) serve as clues for observers after a crisis. Drawing from Warranting Theory, this study examines comment-deletion-clues' impact on observers' forgiveness and negative word-of-mouth (NWOM) transmission and how two types of brand explanations (custom vs. general) alter this impact. Four studies show that the comment-deletion-clues reduce observers' intention to forgive the brand and increase the spread of NWOM. Furthermore, the results indicate that brands' custom explanations mitigate the adverse effects of comment-deletion-clues. This article is among the first to explore the role of content moderation during brand crises and extends the brand crisis literature and the emerging content moderation literature
Disruptive Change Within Financial Technology - A Methodological Analysis of Digital Transformation Challenges
No full textInternational audienceThe digital transformation of the FinTech industry, has revealed a plethora of significant challenges for industry decision makers and wider stakeholder groups as organisations contend with the onset of new regulatory frameworks, legacy systems, flexible business models, and alignment with corporate social responsibility practice. The reshaping of organisations and drive to greater levels of decentralisation and employee centric practice, presents a cultural shift for the sector, with implications for the success and resulting benefits of change across the industry. This study aims to develop novel insight to the “lived in” impact of digital transformation within the FinTech industry from a factor interdependency perspective. This research adopts a mixed methods approach incorporating Interpretive Structural Modelling, Analytical Hierarchy Process and interviews with expert participants, to offer a unique perspective on the challenges and unintended consequences of industry level technological change. The findings highlight the high levels of interdependency and priority for challenges related to the investment in products and infrastructure for new markets, criticality of stakeholder support and development of a digital mindset for the adoption of new technologies
Offshore activities and corporate tax avoidance
No full textInternational audienceWe investigate the relation between tax avoidance and offshore activities using a new text-based measure for offshore activities based on Hoberg and Moon (2017, 2019). Our evidence shows that, although providing cross-border tax-avoidance opportunities, offshore activities reduce the marginal benefits of tax avoidance by introducing incremental foreign-market risk exposure. We find that the intensity of offshore sales of outputs is positively associated with the cash effective tax rate. The effect is stronger when the offshore sales rely on overseas production rather than domestic production, when the offshore sales are located in countries with higher economic uncertainty, when the firm has a lower ability to pass on shocks, and when the firm has less flexibility in adjusting tax strategies