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Tribute to Professor Edgar H. Sibley and his contributions to the IS discipline
No full textInternational audienceProfessor Edgar Henry Sibley (the Founding Editor of Information & Management, in short, I&M) passed away peacefully in Virginia, USA on January 12, 2020. As an eminent scholar in Information Systems (IS) and the Founding Editor of I&M, Professor Sibley has left a remarkable legacy to both the journal and the IS discipline. If the journal (I&M) could talk, it would tell the story of the passion, effort, untold amount of time, and incredible rigor Professor Sibley put into this journal. As the second and the current Editor-in-Chief of the journal, I took the liberty to invite three IS scholars, one from each region of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) community to speak about professor Sibley’s contributions to the IS discipline. They are Professor Prashant Palvia from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, USA Professor Jose Benitez from Rennes School of Business, France and the University of Granada, Spain and Professor T.P. Liang from National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Taiwan. All three scholars had different and positive interactions and experiences with Professor Sibley and I&M that they are eager to share with us. We hope the whole IS community will join us to acknowledge and pay our heart-felt tribute to Professor Sibley´s many contributions to our discipline
Delivery time quotation and pricing in two-stage supply chains: Centralized decision-making with global and local managerial approaches
No full textInternational audienceThis study investigates the delivery time quotation and pricing in a two-stage make-to-order supply chain facing a time- and price-sensitive demand. We consider different managerial approaches which results in different models. First, we study a global model where a pair of price and delivery time are quoted to customers to maximize the expected overall profit while satisfying a global service level on the whole system. Second, we study a local model where each stage is required to quote a local delivery time while satisfying a local service level, and the delivery time quoted to customers consists of both local delivery times and must satisfy the global service level. The objective is similar to that of the global model. When both stages target the same service level than the one imposed to the whole system, we demonstrate under realistic conditions that satisfying the local service constraints enables to satisfy the global service constraint. This allows to remove the global constraint from the local model and solve it analytically. With comparison to the global model, the local model presents several managerial advantages with a limited profit loss. The mean gap is only 1.68% for a service level of 95%. We perform sensitivity analyses to derive insights into the impact of market characteristics and capacities on the performance of each stage and the overall performance. Finally, we extend the local model by allowing each stage to targeting a different service level. This leads to closing the profit gap with the global model
The chopsticks debacle: how brand hate flattened Dolce & Gabbana in China
No full textInternational audiencePurpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the development of brand hate based on the case of Italian luxury fashion house Dolce & Gabbana in China. Design/methodology/approach The strategy adopted in this study is a single in-depth case study. Qualitative methods are applied in both the data collection and analysis. Findings The findings identified six distinct stages through which brand hate can develop: awareness, anger, amplification, antagonism, action and apathy. Research limitations/implications The case is specific to a luxury brand and the Chinese cultural context. Practical implications Practitioners need to consider how business strategies can be adapted to manage the six stages of the manifestation of brand hate. A “proactive” approach is needed to avoid arousing brand hate, while a “reactive” approach is needed to manage its potential ramifications. Originality/value There has been a paucity of anti-consumption research within the business strategy literature. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the focus on China makes this the first study to investigate brand hate within a Chinese cultural context
A note on big data analytics capability development in supply chain
No full textInternational audienceBig data analytics (BDA) are gaining importance in all aspects of business management. This is driven by both the presence of large-scale data and management's desire to root decisions in data. Extant research demonstrates that supply chain and operations management functions are among the biggest sources and users of data in the company. Therefore, their decision-making processes would benefit from increased use of BDA technologies. However, there is still a lack of understanding of what determines a company's ability to build BDA capability to gain a competitive advantage. In this study, we attempt to answer this fundamental question by identifying the factors that assist a company in or inhibit it from building its BDA capability and maximizing its gains through BDA technologies. We base our findings on a qualitative analysis of data collected from field visits, interviews with senior management, and secondary resources. We find that, in addition to technical capacity, competitive landscape and intra-firm power dynamics play an important role in building BDA capability and using BDA technologies.
Sustainable closed-loop supply chain network for an integrated water supply and wastewater collection system under uncertainty
No full textInternational audienceToday, an increase in the drought and water shortage all around the world is a challengeable threat for different governments and international committees. Water supply chain aims to manage the water consumption and to control the water shortage. Contrary to most of previous studies focused on the forward directions of the water supply chain, this paper also considers the reverse logistics known as a Closed-Loop Supply Chain (CLSC). Hence, an integrated Water Supply and Wastewater Collection System (WSWCS) under uncertainty is proposed. Furthermore, regarding the trend of sustainable development, the environmental dimensions and social benefits of the integrated WSWCS are contributed. To meet the standards of the sustainable development in developing countries, a case study in Iran is applied to a novel multi-objective stochastic optimization model based on triple bottom lines of sustainability. Having already been employed to similar optimization problems, the Social Engineering Optimizer (SEO) has been never applied in this research area. Another innovation of this study is to introduce an improved multi-objective SEO to solve this complicated model. Eventually, with regards to an extensive comparison contributing to the Pareto-based metrics and different sensitivities, some managerial implications are concluded as the main findings
Lost in translation? Transferring creativity insights from arts into management
No full textInternational audienceSince the early 2000s the business sector has, as a matter of both professional and academic concern, repeatedly advocated the transfer of artistic practices, especially those deemed exemplary forms of creativity, to a management world grappling with new challenges – a claim we here call the ‘transferability thesis’ in order to consider the responses made to what Boltanski and Chiapello define as an artistic critique of capitalism. Drawing on the wide range of relevant academic literature, this article critically examines the plausibility of the ‘thesis’. To this end, we review analytical literature advocating artistic transfers alongside empirical work that examines art interventions within organizations. Both are important components of a broader organizational aesthetics approach even though, we contend, neither strands of research provide a plausible argument for meaningful transferability. We then draw on arts-based literature, management theory and psychology to compare notions of creativity at both ends of the proposed transferral process. We highlight convergence and variance in art and business thinking, noting fundamental mismatches with regard to utility, rationalization and heteronomy – three levels of incompatibility that make a genuine transplantation of art ideas highly unlikely. Finally, we discuss our critical contribution in relation to the specious status of the ‘thesis’ and the centrality of Boltanski and Chiapello’s triadic model of capitalism to our investigation. By way of a conclusion, we suggest that further research is needed to examine the symbolic nature of appeals to artistic creativity by management
Effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on the interdependence between Bitcoin and traditional financial markets
No full textInternational audienceThis paper analyses the effects of economic policy uncertainty (hereafter, EPU) on the relationshipbetween Bitcoin and traditional financial markets during the period 27/04/2015 to 25/10/2018, rep-resented by five stock market indices namely the NASDAQ100, S&P500, Euronext100, FTSE100 andNIKKEI225. EPU is measured in terms of economic policy, monetary policy, financial regulation, taxationpolicy, and the news-based policy uncertainty index for the U.S., U.K., Europe and Japan. By apply-ing a variety of statistical techniques (multivariate EWMA models, Spearman’s rho, the Diebold andYilmaz (2012) spill-over index, GAS models with conditional multivariate Student–t distribution andtime–varying scales and correlations, BVAR models with the Litterman/ Minnesota priors and nonlinearimpulse responses with local projections accounting for different regimes in uncertainty) we estimateinterdependence between traditional financial and Bitcoin markets and their reaction to the selectedpolicy shocks. Our findings indicate the investment attractiveness of bitcoin as a hedging tool againstshocks in uncertainty in the USA economic policy.The results are significant and potentially useful to researchers, practitioners, and Bitcoin market par-ticipants to better understand the nature of Bitcoin and facilitate better portfolio and risk-managementdecisions
Non-profits and the environment in China: struggling to expand their franchise
No full textInternational audiencePurpose Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), one of the major forces in environmental protection, have developed rapidly in the past few years, especially in developing countries such as China. This paper aims to reveal how the ENGOs select their focuses, specifically if they only concentrate on one focus or on contexts in which they obtain various focuses and the motivations behind their choosing strategies. Design/methodology/approach The current research interviewed 103 leaders of ENGOs covering every province in mainland China and adopts existing theories of NGOs alongside diversification strategy from a management perspective. Findings The results showed that most Chinese ENGOs now tend to be diversified but face different challenges. This research highlights the importance of ENGOs’ resources and capacities in facing current challenges and suggests directions to improve their diversification strategy. Originality/value This research adds value to the research of environmental NGOs and gives suggestions to environmental NGO practitioners, in particular to those in emerging markets
Becoming a more attractive supplier by managing references – The case of small and medium-sized enterprises in a digitally enhanced business environment
No full textInternational audienceThe importance of corporate online references in managing client perceptions and firm attractiveness is increasingly recognized. At the same time, evidence pointing to how references work in business-to-business contexts remains sporadic, with particularly limited information regarding the supplier pre-selection process in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Within the theoretical orbit of attractiveness, the purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of corporate online references, Word-of-Mouth recommendations, and firm size on customer intention to initiate the business relationship with the supplier. The study takes on a mixed methods design combining qualitative interviews and focus groups with an experimental approach; both conducted with managers from SMEs based in the United Kingdom. Results indicate important preferential differences in supplier pre-selection between managers in small versus large customer firms. While generally more elaborated corporate online references tend to be preferred across small and large SMEs, less elaborated references appear sufficient in the case of small SMEs, as long as they occur in combination with a Word-of-Mouth recommendation. Our study makes important contributions to the literature on partnering attractiveness from an SME perspective and adds meaningfully to the discussions on reference management
Enhancing organisational commitment through task significance: the moderating role of openness to experience
No full textInternational audienceResearchers have extensively explored the factors influencing employees’ organisational commitment. However, few studies make an explicit distinction between different commitment types when exploring its determinants, and the scholarly attention to individual differences is also limited. In this paper, we confirm that developing managerial interventions to enhance task significance can be useful to promote organisational commitment, but this relationship is contingent on the commitment type and the employees’ openness to experience. We focus on two forms of organisational commitment: affective and continuance commitment. Our study shows that task significance is a better predictor of affective commitment than continuance commitment.We also find that increasing task significance is particularly good to promote more continuance commitment among employees with low levels of openness to experience. Based on data gathered from a sample of 403 employees working in Spanish firms, we find support for these ideas and develop practical implications