The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influences of sociodemographic (SD), environmental, and marketing mix variables on household art expenditure.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the influences of sociodemographic (SD), environmental, and marketing mix variables on household art expenditure.
Design/methodology/approach
Using the latest US census data collect from 140 metropolitan statistical areas, three stepwise multiple regressions are employed to identify the key determinants of household art expenditure and their directional impacts.
Findings
The paper evinces that a set of SD, environmental, and marketing mix variables explains a large percentage of variation of household art expenditure. In addition to that, these variables influence household art expenditure differently.
Research limitations/implications
Limited by data availability, this paper focuses on investigating the effects of variables with available measures. Future researchers are encouraged to include a broader range of variables in analysis whenever possible.
Practical implications
This paper suggests that art dealers use the approach adopted in this research to predict household art expenditure. Market entry decisions should be based on an assessment of market expansion potential and a full comprehension of the limitations imposed by an area's SD, environmental, and marketing mix characteristics.
Originality/value
This is the first study to empirically explain the variation of household art expenditure.
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Qiumei Jane Xu and Jianfeng Jiang
This paper aims to examine the moderating role of cultural similarity between leaders and followers on leadership training effectiveness in terms of followers' fairness perception…
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Purpose
This paper aims to examine the moderating role of cultural similarity between leaders and followers on leadership training effectiveness in terms of followers' fairness perception and organizational citizenship behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
A quasi‐experiment was conducted with 40 managers from international corporations as the subjects. The 40 subjects were equally assigned to a treatment group and a control group. In each group, half share similar backgrounds with the followers while the other half do not. Leadership training was offered to managers in the treatment group, but not to those in the control group.
Findings
Results show that leadership training has positive effects on followers' fairness perception and organizational citizenship behavior, and the effects are stronger for those leaders who are similar to their followers in cultural background.
Research limitations/implications
The study further supports that followers' fairness perception and organizational citizenship behavior will be enhanced if their leaders receive proper leadership training, and it is the first to demonstrate that cultural similarity between leaders and followers plays an important role in influencing leadership training effectiveness.
Practical implications
The training program described in this study is straightforward, inexpensive, easy to implement, and can be used by organizations with a diverse workforce to improve their training effectiveness and facilitate their leaders' managerial efforts.
Originality/value
This is the first paper to examine how cultural similarity between leaders and followers influences leadership training effectiveness.
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Xiaochuan Jiang, Jianfeng Yang, Xiyan Wang and Yanhui Hou
To enhance the understanding of the antecedents of students' career adaptability, this study employs the crossover model to explore the potential transfer of career adaptability…
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Purpose
To enhance the understanding of the antecedents of students' career adaptability, this study employs the crossover model to explore the potential transfer of career adaptability from headteachers to students and the underlying mechanisms involved.
Design/methodology/approach
This study examined the proposed moderated mediation model using matched survey data collected from 37 headteachers and 1,598 students in Chinese higher vocational colleges.
Findings
Headteachers’ career adaptability is positively related to students’ career adaptability via students’ psychological capital. An increased frequency of headteacher–student interactions strengthened the indirect relationship between headteachers' career adaptability and students' career adaptability.
Originality/value
The findings suggest that, under certain conditions, headteachers’ career adaptability could be transferred to students via students’ psychological capital.
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Jianfeng Jia, Shunyi Zhou, Long Zhang and Xiaoxiao Jiang
Drawn upon the perspective of implicit voice theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying mechanism as well as the boundary effect in the relationship between…
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Drawn upon the perspective of implicit voice theory, the purpose of this paper is to explore the underlying mechanism as well as the boundary effect in the relationship between paternalistic leadership and voice behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
Multiple-wave survey data from a sample of 368 employees in China were used to test the hypothesized moderated mediation model.
Findings
The findings show that both benevolent leadership and moral leadership related positively to voice behavior, whereas authoritative leadership played a negative role in influencing voice behavior. Employees’ implicit voice belief played a partial mediating role between paternalistic leadership and voice behavior. Furthermore, perceived HRM strength weakens both the mediation relationship among benevolent leadership, implicit voice belief and voice behavior, and the mediation relationship among moral leadership, implicit voice belief and voice behavior. However, the moderated mediation effect of implicit voice belief on the relationship between authoritative leadership and voice behavior is not significant.
Practical implications
Leaders are encouraged to behave benevolently and morally whereas to avoid excessive authoritative style at work, so that employees can be encouraged to speak out. Organizations are advised to introduce management practices like training and development sessions and to improve employees’ perceived HRM strength so that the implicit voice belief can be reduced, and the voice behavior can be stimulated.
Originality/value
The research provided a fresh theoretical perspective on the underlying mechanism between paternalistic leadership and employees’ voice behavior by unveiling employee implicit voice belief’s partial mediating role between paternalistic leadership and employee voice behavior. Furthermore, the study contributed to the literature of voice by adopting a more integrative perspective and exploring the role of the implementation of the organization’s system, i.e., perceived HRM strength that provided a boundary condition in the above mediation model.
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Yong Yang, Youqing Fan and Jianfeng Jia
In the face of external paradoxical requirements, the cognitive framework of managers and employees use to perceive, interpret and reconstruct information is important to ease…
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In the face of external paradoxical requirements, the cognitive framework of managers and employees use to perceive, interpret and reconstruct information is important to ease anxiety and improve job performance. The Yin-Yang balancing of eastern philosophical thought is particularly good at explaining and predicting changes and conflict environments. For this reason, this study aims to propose the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework based on the Yin-Yang balancing theory and its antecedent framework.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper contrasts the similarity and differences between Chinese and Western philosophy’s thoughts on paradoxes. On this basis, the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework is proposed. Then, the paper puts forward the antecedent framework of managers’ cognitive framework and employees’ paradoxical cognitive framework.
Findings
This paper proposes the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework includes the following three dimensions: the unity-in-diversity of paradoxical elements, the asymmetric balance of paradoxical elements and mutual transformation of paradoxical elements. In addition, this paper proposes an antecedent framework of the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework – the paradoxical requirement of organizational environment exerts a direct impact on managers’ and employees’ paradoxical cognitive framework; managers’ paradoxical cognitive framework has a positive impact on paradoxical leadership; paradoxical leadership exerts an indirect impact on employees’ paradoxical cognitive framework through the collective paradoxical cognitive framework; paradoxical leadership directly affects employees’ paradoxical cognitive framework.
Research limitations/implications
This paper focuses on comparing the similarities and differences of the individual paradoxical cognitive framework in Chinese and Western cultures and proposes the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedent framework. Future research needs to further verify the theoretical framework proposed in this paper.
Originality/value
This paper makes a detailed comparison of the paradox views in Chinese and Western philosophy. It is the first to propose the eastern construction of the paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedent framework, laying a theoretical foundation for future empirical research.
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Wanying Guo, Heyun Bao, Jianfeng Cao and Yiping Zhou
The symmetry error generated in the machining process of herringbone gears will destroy the stability of the transmission system. The purpose of this paper is to establish a…
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The symmetry error generated in the machining process of herringbone gears will destroy the stability of the transmission system. The purpose of this paper is to establish a symmetry error measurement model of herringbone gear based on spiral measurement method, and to evaluate the transmission accuracy of herringbone gear based on the measured symmetry error.
Design/methodology/approach
A symmetry error measurement model of herringbone gear based on spiral measurement method is proposed. The measurement method is verified by three coordinate measuring instrument. The transmission error analysis model of herringbone gear is established. The influence of speed and load on it is analyzed.
Findings
At the same speed, when the load increases from 100 N·m to 500 N·m, the transmission error increases and the transmission accuracy of the system decreases. Under the same load, the speed is increased from 100 rpm to 500 rpm, which has little effect on the transmission error.
Originality/value
The measurement method and analysis model used in this paper provide reference value and significance for the measurement and analysis of symmetry error.
Peer review
The peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/ILT-09-2024-0350/
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Penggao Zhang, Boqin Gu, Jianfeng Zhou and Long Wei
The purpose of this study is to investigate the heat transfer characteristics in a spiral groove mechanical seal lubricated by magnetic fluid.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to investigate the heat transfer characteristics in a spiral groove mechanical seal lubricated by magnetic fluid.
Design/methodology/approach
The viscosity relationship of magnetic fluid in external electromagnetic field was deduced. The temperature distribution of sealing ring was calculated by the method of separation variables.
Findings
It has been found that the rotating ring absorbs most friction heat. The temperatures on the end faces of rotating ring and stationary ring decrease from inner radius to outer radius, the temperature of magnetic fluid film decreases from rotating ring to stationary ring and the highest temperature of the sealing system is at the junction of the inner radius and the end face of rotating ring.
Originality/value
Selecting the sealing rings with higher thermal conductivity and reducing the volume fraction of solid particles in magnetic fluid can reduce the temperature of sealing system effectively.
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Jianmei Wang, Zhixiong Li, Sadoughi Mohammadkazem, Min Cai, Jianfeng Kang and Yanan Zhang
The stability characteristics of an oil film directly influence the safety and service life of mill oil-film bearings. However, very limited work has been done to address the…
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The stability characteristics of an oil film directly influence the safety and service life of mill oil-film bearings. However, very limited work has been done to address the stability characteristics of mill oil-film bearings. To this end, this paper aims to investigate the stability characteristics of mill oil-film bearings through theoretical and experimental analysis.
Design/methodology/approach
For the first time, a special designed experiment platform was developed to investigate the stability characteristics of mill oil-film bearings. In addition, a theoretical model of lubricating film of the tested bearings was established to analyze the oil-film stability. The theoretical results were compared with the experimental results.
Findings
The comparison results demonstrate that the critical influential factors on the bearing stability were the eccentricity ratio and the ratio of bearing length to diameter. The mill bearing was likely to be unstable under a small load and at a high rotational speed.
Practical implications
The paper includes implications for suitable operation conditions in practical use of mill oil-film bearings.
Originality/value
This paper fulfills an identified need to investigate oil-film stability of mill bearings for practical applications.
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Jianfeng Guo, Xiaohan Yang, Sihang Yao, Fu Gu and Xuemei Zhang
The purpose of this paper is to examine the influences of positive-framed and negative-framed green advertising on pro-environmental WTP. This study also explores the impacts of…
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the influences of positive-framed and negative-framed green advertising on pro-environmental WTP. This study also explores the impacts of regulatory focus, environmental concern and pleasant level on green advertising effectiveness.
Design/methodology/approach
Data are collected from a within-participant between-group online experiment in China. The generalized estimating equation (GEE) is employed to investigate the impact of green advertising on WTP. Grouped regression and mediation analyses are conducted to explore the influences of regulatory focus, environmental concern and pleasure on advertising efficacy.
Findings
The experimental outcomes indicate that green advertising significantly increases participants’ pro-environmental WTP, and negative-framed advertising is more effective than its positive-framed counterpart. Prevention focus heightens receptivity to green advertising, and the relation of environmental concern to advertising effectiveness is inverted U-shaped. Pleasure mediates the effect of green advertising on the WTP, and this mediating role is influenced by emotional intensity when advertising is negatively framed.
Originality/value
Evidence suggests that green advertising may propel pro-environmental WTP by raising environmental awareness, but such a relationship remains severely understudied. As such, this study pioneers in exploring the impact of different-framed green advertising on pro-environmental WTP, extending the concept of green advertising to environmental management. By considering the influences of regulatory focus, environmental concern and pleasure, this study raises practical implications for designing green advertisements, such as increasing the usage of visual elements.