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Financial forecasting in the lab and the field : Qualified professionals vs. smart students
No full textInternational audienceWe compare the performance of financial professionals (CFAs) with university students in four financial forecasting tasks ranging from simple lab prediction tasks to longitudinal field prediction tasks. Although students and professionals performed similarly in the most artificial forecasting tasks, CFAs outperformed students in the field predictions. Differences in forecasting performance between finance professionals and students were explained by financial literacy, not cognitive ability.<br /
An Endogenous Approach to the Polluted River Problem
No full textPolluting agents situated along a river must collectively clean it to meet a minimum water quality standard. Since cleaning operations are costly, it is crucial to allocate these expenses fairly. This paper introduces the Upstream Prorata Sharing method, which endogenously assigns responsibility to each agent based on the potential costs their pollution imposes on downstream river segments. We present three distinct axiomatic characterizations grounded in different principles. First, we explore fairness properties, which address scenarios where some agents reduce their cleanup costs. Next, we examine merging properties, analyzing the implications of two agents combining into a single entity. Finally, we propose a redistribution property, which quantifies how much an agent should contribute to cleaning downstream segments
Elevating Corporate Transformation : The Power of Agile Intrapreneurship
No full textInternational audienceThis paper examines agile intrapreneurship, an emerging concept in both academic and industrial spheres, as a driving force for corporate transformation and a source of competitive advantage in dynamic business landscapes. Study probes the intricacies of agility, intrapreneurship, and corporate transformation to provide a detailed synthesis of existing research and to elucidate how agile intrapreneurship can be cultivated within organizations to reap a range of benefits, notably enhanced innovation, competitive edge, and overall performance. To this end, we have analyzed and classified the facilitators, obstacles, and potential impacts of agile intrapreneurship, evaluating their representation in scholarly discussions and articulating their influence on corporate change. Our results underscore the significant positive effect of agile intrapreneurship on the success of corporate transformation and on business performance at large, emphasizing the imperative of adapting to change to ensure enduring growth. Furthermore, this paper establishes a foundation for future research into the ramifications of agile intrapreneurship on corporate evolution.<br /
Women entrepreneurs’ negotiation of the work-family balance in patriarchal society
No full textInternational audienceThrough the lens of boundary theory, we explore how women entrepreneurs in patriarchal societies display bounded agency through their boundary management strategies when negotiating their roles as entrepreneurs and as wives/mothers. We selected 75 highly educated, urban women entrepreneurs from both traditionally female-dominated and nontraditional sectors who started their businesses at home to explore possible differences in their boundary management strategies. Contrary to the prominent view that the work–family interface is problematic and the work and family domains are incompatible, we find that any conflict arising from the work–family interface disappears when work and family are not understood as separate domains and entrepreneurial work is instead embedded within family life. Using interpretative phenomenological analysis, our findings demonstrate how in a patriarchal society women entrepreneurs’ boundary management strategies, negotiated in a nonconfrontational way in congruence with cultural expectations, ensure that their work boundaries remain permeable while keeping their family role sacrosanct.<br /
The role of energy consumption in robotic mobile fulfillment systems : Performance evaluation and operating policies with dynamic priority
No full textInternational audienceThe robotic mobile fulfillment system (RMFS), with wide application in warehousing and logistics, requires many robots powered by electricity, which significantly impacts energy consumption. This paper investigates the energy consumption in the RMFS under a classic e-business environment, which classifies the orders into regular orders and expedited orders. We evaluate the impact of three dynamic priority policies (the earliest deadline first policy, waiting time-dependent policy, and weighted waiting time first policy) on throughput time and energy consumption. This paper proposes multi-class semi-open queuing network models (SOQN) with dynamic priority policies to investigate energy consumption. We validate the accuracy of the analytical models by simulation models. This paper makes the following contributions: (1) In methodology, we propose new methods to solve the SOQN with dynamic priority policies. (2) In operational planning and control, we are among the earliest to investigate the impact of dynamic priority policies on order throughput time and energy consumption in an RMFS. (3) In design optimization, we propose a decision tool to optimize the robot number for realizing the required throughput time with minimal energy consumption. Our model can also decide the optimal warehouse shape to minimize energy consumption. (4) In system analysis, we estimate the energy consumption per transaction in an RMFS, providing logistics managers insights into energy saving of warehouses.<br/
Review of “Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough”
No full textInternational audienceReview of “Middle Tech: Software Work and the Culture of Good Enough” By Paula Bialski Princeton University Press, 2024, 224 pages, price: 28.95 (paper) / $28.95 (eBook). https://press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/9780691257174/middle-tech-1<br /
From seller to broker : When and how issue sellers engage with external stakeholders to sell issues inside organizations
No full textInternational audienceIssue sellers employ a variety of tactics to create internal support for issues they seek to advance within an organization. While the relationship between internal issue “sellers” and “buyers” has been examined in prior work, we address a crucial omission in this body of literature, namely how issue sellers engage with external stakeholders to influence internal issue selling. We study corporate social responsibility (CSR) managers, their organizational counterparts who are expected to implement CSR, and external stakeholders (in our study non-governmental organizations). We find that issue sellers have three issue-selling tactics at their disposal that they employ dynamically and depending on internal buyers’ perception of the issue: First, mobilizing external stakeholders when internal support for the issue is low; second, buffering external expectations when they are incongruent with internal requirements; and third, moderating between external stakeholders and internal buyers when issues are difficult to implement. Our contribution is to explain why issue sellers’ role vis-à-vis internal buyers and external stakeholders can be better understood as that of “issue brokers” when they navigate strategically between external stakeholder expectations and organizational goals. This advances the issue-selling literature and research on brokerage roles and contributes to individual-level research on CSR. <br /
Community Socioemotional Wealth as the Glue that Binds Distinct Communities in Enterprising: A Tale of Success From Colombia
No full textInternational audienceRecent advances in research have shed light on why and how community-based enterprises (CBEs) emerge. Nevertheless, little is known about the underlying factors that contribute to their success over time. This lack of attention is intriguing, given CBEs’ widespread proliferation as an instrument for socioeconomic development. We contribute to the CBE literature by applying and extending socioemotional wealth (SEW) to the CBE context. Our findings demonstrate how the presence of community socioemotional wealth (CSEW) enables CBEs to achieve enduring success. Beyond the presence of SEW's five traditional dimensions, we identify two new dimensions (empowerment and holistic mission) unique to CBEs. When jointly present, these seven dimensions explain how CSEW creates a favorable terrain for the CBE to succeed
Is the devil in the details? A qualitative exploration of differentiated mindsets during job search
No full textInternational audienceThe literature on mindsets about the plasticity of personal attributes is largely comprised of between-person studies examining the self-regulatory implications of fixed and growth mindsets. Less attention has been paid to whether mindsets differ at the within-person level, such that individuals simultaneously hold differentiated mindsets about specific abilities. In the context of a looming job loss, we conducted a qualitative investigation into whether job seekers hold different mindsets regarding their job-related networking, vacancy searching, interviewing, and negotiating abilities. Beyond the present study providing evidence of differentiated mindsets about abilities, it illustrates how qualitative methods can enable the detection of more nuance in mindsets than is currently captured in the almost universally quantitative mindset literature. These nuances include observations of how mindsets are deduced from one's experiences, the prevalence of mixed mindsets wherein individuals hold both fixed- and growth-oriented views, and that self-labeling is not only the province of fixed mindsets. Such insights have important implications for both updating assumptions about the ontology of mindsets, as well as for facilitating job seekers' engagement in various job search initiatives.<br /
Humor in Online Brand-to-brand Dialogues : Unveiling the Difference between Top Dog and Underdog Brands
No full textInternational audienceMany brands periodically respond humorously to the content that other brands and celebrities post on social media. Drawing on three scenario-based experiments and a content analysis of humorous tweets based on their likes and retweets, the authors use the benign violation theory to understand whether using humor constitutes a benign (i.e., translating into amusement) or malign (i.e., translating into ulterior motives) violation. The success of a humorous brand-to-brand interaction (i.e., brand attitudes and purchase intentions) depends on its ability to generate amusement without causing customers to suspect ulterior motives. Study 1’s results reveal that customers respond more favorably when brands use affiliative humor rather than aggressive humor. Affiliative humor constitutes a benign violation that generates amusement, while aggressive humor constitutes a malign violation that leads customers to infer that brands have ulterior motives. Study 2 shows that aggressive humor partially compensates for its weaknesses over affiliative humor when brands target competing brands. Studies 3A and 3B reveal a reversed effect depending on brand positioning (top dogs versus underdogs). While underdog brands should always use affiliative humor, top dog brands could perform better by favoring aggressive humor (i.e., such brands could receive more likes and retweets without lowering customers’ purchase intentions).<br /