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Free-riding in multi-party alliances: The role of perceived alliance effectiveness and peers' collaboration in a research consortium
No full textInternational audienceMulti-party alliances rely on partners' willingness to commit and pool their efforts in joint endeavors. However, partners face the dilemma of how much to commit to the alliance. We shed light on this issue by analyzing the relationship between partners' free-riding-defined as their effort-withholding-and their perceptions of alliance effectiveness and peers' collaboration. Specifically, we posit a U-shaped relationship between partners' subjective evaluations of alliance effectiveness and their free-riding. We also hypothesize a negative relation between partners' perceptions of the collaboration of peer organizations and their free-riding. Results from a mixed-method study-combining regression analysis of primary data on a major inter-organizational research consortium and evidence from two experimental designs-support our hypotheses, bearing implications for the multi-party alliances literature. Managerial summary: Free-riding is a major concern in multi-party alliances such as large research consortia, since the performance of these governance forms hinges on the joint contribution of multiple partners that often operate according to different logics (e.g., universities, firms, and government agencies). We show that, in such alliances, partners' perceptions have relevant implications for their willingness to contribute to the consortium's shared goals. Specifically, we find that partners free-ride more-that is, contribute less-when they perceive the effectiveness of the overall alliance to be either very low or very high. Partners also gauge their commitment to the alliance on the perception of the effort of their peers-that is, other organizations similar to them. These findings provide managers of multi-party alliances with additional levers to motivate partners to contribute fairly to such joint endeavor
The real effects of sustainable & responsible investing?
No full textInternational audienceSustainable and responsible investing (SRI) may have a mixed effect on firms’ incentives to remove negative externalities. Whereas SRI screening incentivizes the removal of externalities, SRI trading can disincentivize it when traders disagree on the externality removal’s cash flow effects
Appréciation de la performance sociale de l’entreprise par les employés, adéquation employé-organisation en matière de valeurs et d’objectifs, satisfaction au travail et intention de quitter son emploi
No full textInternational audienceRecent research in the domain of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has underlined the importance of moving away from an institutional perspective of CSR towards research at the micro-level. Such calls have insisted on the necessity of a developing a deeper, and more nuanced understanding of its impacts and mechanisms at the individual level. This paper addresses this issue by focusing on the nexus between how employees judge their companies’ actual CSR performance and how that judgement can affect individual, micro-level outcomes such as job satisfaction and turnover intentions. We study this by a consideration of how perceived fit between employees and their organization mediates the relationship between perceived corporate social performance (CSP) on the one hand, and job satisfaction and turnover intentions on the other
Managing brand identity strategy: how professional football wins the game
No full textInternational audienceWhile research on brand identity is abundant, an area that is less explored is whether an organisation’s communication about itself directly translates to key stakeholders’ perception of that organisation. The purpose of this study is to explore whether certain Web-based communication strategies are more effective in aligning organisations’ communicated identity (CI) with their perceived identity (PI)
Is the future a political economy? Functional analysis of three leading foresight and futures studies journals
No full textInternational audienceThis article tests whether the field of foresight and futures studies shows significant variable selection biases in the modelling of the future in general and the impact of function systems in particular. We performed a word frequency analysis to measure the relative importance of the political system, the economy, science, art, religion, law, sport, health, education, and the mass media to three pertinent journals in the field of futures studies and foresight. The results show that Futures, Long Range Planning, and Technological Forecasting and Social Change have different and changing preferences for the above function systems, an information which authors may find helpful in supporting decisions on where to submit. Our results also show that all journals feature a highly significant bias to the triple helix systems – the political system, the economy, and science. While the latter bias may be adequate to scientific journals, the dominant focus on the political system and the economy as well as the corresponding neglect of the other systems points at implicit presumptions about the importance of the individual systems that may not be in line with their importance to the larger society. Highlights: This article • Shows that present visions of futures are predominantly visions of political economies, and how to change this. • Suggests that solutions to future political and economic key problems might also be in the so-far neglected further function systems. • Proposes a new systematic set of key variables for consideration and inclusion in models and simulations of futures
Fifty years of the bowl phenomenon
No full textInternational audienceThis article provides an overview and update of the extant literature on the bowl phenomenon, fifty years after the seminal work of Hillier and Boling. It provides insights into the conditions under which unbalancing a production line with faster stations toward the center of the line in a ‘bowl shape’ is effective. It further points to its relevance in modern-day production systems where outsourcing, flexibility needs and disassembly lines are proliferating, and suggests where research into the bowl phenomenon can usefully contribute to manufacturing needs in the future
Sustainability and differentiation: Understanding materiality from the context of Indian firms
No full textInternational audienceManagers do not see all environmental sustainability practices as equally important. Thus, this study seeks to integrate the natural resource based view (NRBV) and materiality perspective to explore environmental sustainability practices that firms in India deem material. The findings resulting from text mining using centering resonance analysis (CRA) reveal that Indian firms see prevailing industry practices such as reverse logistics, product recycling, and/or improving supplier environmental performance as immaterial. Instead, these firms focus on water, energy, resource efficiency, supplier integration, and, to some extent, improving work conditions at supplier sites. Thus, the focus of Indian firms regarding these issues is different from their global counterparts
Arbitrary temporal heterogeneity in time of European countries panel model
No full textInternational audienceIt considers a panel data model for 24 European countries with unobservable multiple interactive effects, which are correlated with the regressors. Grounded on properties of the traditional micro-economic theory of production, the arbitrary temporal heterogeneity in time with a factor structure is fit to the Cobb-Douglas stochastic distance frontier with multiple inputs/multiple outputs model and a semi-parametric approach is applied to parameters estimation. The results show that heterogeneity over time and across the European countries matters. The model distinguished 5 unobserved factors that influence the European industry production. The unobserved common factors have a cyclical behavior with the approximate length of 2 years
Individual values and household finances
No full textInternational audienceWe create individual cultural values measures for households and show that this is an important determinant of their financial behaviour. To date, personal cultural values have only been indirectly measured through religion and trust. But these are, at best, an approximation of true cultural values. Applying a holistic framework from the World Values Survey (WVS), we create individual measures of cultural values, and show that the self-expression values of this framework are positively associated with households’ financial decisions. Examining the individual cultural values that make up the WVS model, we further show that happiness, trust, and playing an active role in society, are individually important determinants of household financial decision-making. Our study shows that cultural values can be brought from a generalized national level to the individual level in order to improve our understanding of household financial decision-making
Non-wage benefits, corporate ownership and firm performance in post-communist economies: evidence from Ukraine
No full textInternational audienceThe economic reforms in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe have fundamentally reshaped ownership and governance of economic production, notably through the privatization of former state-owned enterprises. These reforms were expected to transform management practices by displacing ‘cradle-to-grave’ welfare arrangements administered by state-owned enterprises. Using data drawn from two large samples of Ukrainian establishments, we investigate, in two different time points, the relationship between non-wage benefits and firm performance during the period of transition to a market economy (1994–2004). We found that non-wage benefits continued to be a critical feature of HRM practices in Ukraine during this period, and were positively associated with firm performance