Kai Tan, Victor Postel, Yujia Liu, Dongtong Yang, Sen Tang, Chong Wang and Qingyuan Wang
Mechanical issues related to the information and growth of small cracks are considered to play a major role in very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) for metallic materials. Further…
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Purpose
Mechanical issues related to the information and growth of small cracks are considered to play a major role in very high cycle fatigue (VHCF) for metallic materials. Further efforts on better understanding in early stage of a crack are beneficial to estimating and preventing catastrophic damage for a long period service.
Design/methodology/approach
Dependent on the ultrasonic loading system, a novel method of in situ photomicroscope is established to study the crack behaviors in VHCF regime.
Findings
This in situ photomicroscope method provides advantages in combination with fatigue damage monitoring at high magnification, a large number of cycles, and efficiency. Visional investigation with attached image proceeding code proves that the method has high resolution on both size and time, which permits reliable accuracy on small crack growth rate. It is observed that the crack propagation trends slower in the overall small crack stage down to the level of 10–11 m/cycle. Strain analysis relays on a real-time recording which is applied by using digital image correlation. Infrared camera recording indicates the method is also suitable for thermodynamic study while growth of damage.
Originality/value
Benefiting from this method, it is more convenient and efficient to study the short crack propagation in VHCF regime.
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Jin Feng Uen, Shu-Yuan Chen, Hsien-Chun Chen and Chih-Tang Lin
– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cross-level relationship between moral obligation violation, overall justice climate, and survivors’ commitment.
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the cross-level relationship between moral obligation violation, overall justice climate, and survivors’ commitment.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were obtained from 25 companies with 261 individual employees’ cases from three main industries in Taiwan (n=25/261).
Findings
Organizations which have moral obligation violation during layoff would directly influence survivors’ perceptions of justice and further affect survivors’ level of affective commitment.
Originality/value
This is one of the first studies to provide evidence of the relationship between moral obligation violation, overall justice climate and survivors’ affective commitment. Additionally, most studies of survivors’ attitude and behavior are based on the third-party perspective; this study is the first to argue that survivors are also affected by employers’ layoff as well as victims. The influence of layoff will lead to survivors’ subsequent attitude and behavior.
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Xingang Wang, Wu Huang, Maiju Guo and Zhitong Liu
Brand interaction on social media increasingly involves brands openly praising their competitors. This paper examines the impact of selecting a praising target based on company…
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Purpose
Brand interaction on social media increasingly involves brands openly praising their competitors. This paper examines the impact of selecting a praising target based on company size in brand-to-brand praise, such as praising a smaller competitor versus a larger competitor, on consumers’ evaluations of the praiser.
Design/methodology/approach
Three online survey experiments using Sina Weibo as the stimuli were conducted to analyze the brand evaluation of brand-to-brand praising. Data were collected via Credamo.
Findings
Praising a smaller competitor leads to an increased evaluation of the praiser brand compared to praising a larger competitor. The perceived competence mediates the influence of relative brand size on praiser brand evaluation. Additionally, the praiser brand’s gender moderates the influence of relative brand size on the praiser brand evaluation, with a notable enhancement observed only for the masculine praiser brand.
Research limitations/implications
This paper suggests several avenues for future research. First, future research can examine how companies tailor praise content based on the recipient size. Second, future studies can consider the role of competition type, brand development potential and the perceptual differences between competitor sizes. Third, we encourage future research to examine whether certain brand personalities benefit more from praising smaller competitors and extend our study’s scope to non-food industries to generate more generalizable results. Lastly, future studies can look into the conditions where a praised brand should respond to public praise and the potential of such interactions to boost consumer favorability.
Practical implications
This study offers valuable insights for brand managers to boost customers’ perception of brand competence and brand evaluations through interactive marketing on social media. Brand managers are recommended to direct their praise towards smaller competitors to maximize the positive impact. Additionally, our study highlights the pivotal role of brand gender in effective brand-to-brand communication strategies. Notably, masculine brands can particularly benefit from praising smaller competitors. Overall, considering factors like company size and brand gender is crucial for crafting effective brand-to-brand praise strategies that can enhance brand competence perceptions and evaluations, ultimately fostering loyalty and sales.
Social implications
This study offers rich social implications regarding customers’ attitudes toward brand-to-brand praise on social media. Zhou et al. (2022) showed that brands praising competitors can significantly enhance consumer preference compared to other communication forms. Furthermore, this paper investigates how observing different types of brand-to-brand praise impacts consumer brand evaluations, such as praising larger or smaller competitors. We found that consumers preferentially evaluate brands that praise smaller (vs larger) competitors, and this effect is particularly salient for masculine brands.
Originality/value
This study provides valuable insights about enhancing customer evaluations of praiser brands through brand-to-brand praising on social media, points out the underlying mechanism and identifies a boundary condition.
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The purpose of this paper primarily contributes to the social enterprises and human resource management (HRM) literature by examining the roles of founders in shaping how workers…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper primarily contributes to the social enterprises and human resource management (HRM) literature by examining the roles of founders in shaping how workers in social enterprises are managed.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper uses a cross-case analysis of three social enterprises in the food and agricultural products and food and beverage industries in Thailand. The case study evidence in this paper draws on semi-structured interviews with each social enterprise’s founders, managers and employees; field visits to each social enterprise in Bangkok and other provinces in Thailand; and a review of archival documents and web-based reports and resources. This paper uses thematic analysis to pinpoint, examine and record the patterns or themes found in the data.
Findings
This paper proposes that the founders of social enterprises play a variety of roles in shaping the human resource (HR) systems and practices used in these enterprises. First, founders serve as role models for managers and employees of social enterprises. Second, founders serve as succession planners for social enterprises. Third, the founders serve as builders and enforcers of corporate culture in social enterprises. Finally, founders serve as builders and enforcers of the HR systems and practices used in these enterprises. Put simply, without the roles of founders, the corporate culture and HR systems and practices of social enterprises might not be sustainable over time.
Research limitations/implications
Because this research is based on case studies of three social enterprises located in Thailand, the findings may not be generalizable to all other social enterprises across countries. Rather, the aim of this paper is to further the discussion regarding the roles of founders in shaping the HR systems and practices used in social enterprises. Another limitation of this research is that it does not include social enterprises in several other industries, including the entertainment and media, printing and publishing and hotel and restaurant industries. Future research may explore how the founders of social enterprises in other industries shape the HR systems and practices used in those enterprises. Moreover, quantitative studies using large samples of social enterprises across industries might also be useful in deepening the understanding of a topic that is important from the perspectives of both social enterprises and HRM.
Practical implications
This paper has practical implications for founders and/or top managers of social enterprises is not only Thailand but also other countries. It also has social/policy implications for the government and/or relevant public agencies in Thailand and for several other developing countries/emerging market economies.
Originality/value
Very little research has examined the various roles of founders in shaping how workers in social enterprises are managed. In addition, there has been relatively little research focusing on the characteristics of social enterprises’ founders in developing countries, including Thailand. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature on social enterprises and HRM regarding how the founders of small, hybrid organizations such as social enterprises in Thailand play their roles as builders and enforcers of HR systems and practices and other roles relevant to the management of workers.
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Jack Shih-Chieh Hsu, Chao-Min Chiu, Yu-Ting Chang-Chien and Kingzoo Tang
Social media fatigue (SMF) has been widely recognized; however, previous studies have included various concepts into a single fatigue construct. Fatigue has typically been…
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Purpose
Social media fatigue (SMF) has been widely recognized; however, previous studies have included various concepts into a single fatigue construct. Fatigue has typically been explored from the stressor-strain-outcome (SSO) or stimulus-organism-response (SOR) perspectives. To further investigate SMF, the authors split it into the two constructs of exhaustion and disinterest. Furthermore, the authors introduced the concept of emotional labor and identified rules that may affect surface and deep acting strategies.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors designed and conducted a survey to collect data from social networking platform users.
Findings
Results from 364 users of social networking platforms supported most of the authors' hypotheses. First, most of the display rules affect the choice of deep or surface acting. Second, both types of acting lead to exhaustion, but only surface acting leads to disinterest. Third, discontinuance intention is affected by both types of fatigue.
Originality/value
This study contributes to SMF research by adding more antecedents (deep and surface acting) based on the emotional labor perspective and showing the impacts of communication rules on emotional labor. In addition, this study also distinguishes disinterest-style fatigue from exhaustion.
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Yaw A. Debrah and Ian G. Smith
Presents over sixty abstracts summarising the 1999 Employment Research Unit annual conference held at the University of Cardiff. Explores the multiple impacts of globalization on…
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Presents over sixty abstracts summarising the 1999 Employment Research Unit annual conference held at the University of Cardiff. Explores the multiple impacts of globalization on work and employment in contemporary organizations. Covers the human resource management implications of organizational responses to globalization. Examines the theoretical, methodological, empirical and comparative issues pertaining to competitiveness and the management of human resources, the impact of organisational strategies and international production on the workplace, the organization of labour markets, human resource development, cultural change in organisations, trade union responses, and trans‐national corporations. Cites many case studies showing how globalization has brought a lot of opportunities together with much change both to the employee and the employer. Considers the threats to existing cultures, structures and systems.
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Suk Ha Grace Chan, Binglin Martin Tang, Zhiwei (CJ) Lin and Kang Ying Connie Gao
Despite the growing interest in micro-celebrities in destination marketing, their role in transferring cognitive, emotional and behavioral outcomes to destination psychological…
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Purpose
Despite the growing interest in micro-celebrities in destination marketing, their role in transferring cognitive, emotional and behavioral outcomes to destination psychological ownership (DPO) is underexplored. This study aims to address this void by investigating how the perceived characteristics of micro-celebrities influence travel intentions through interactive engagement, perceived information quality and DPO. It highlights three pathways for fostering DPO.
Design/methodology/approach
A survey-based design was developed with 302 samples collected and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling and artificial neural network to examine the hypothesized model.
Findings
Findings reveal that the expertise and attractiveness of micro-celebrities enhance their perceived personal trustworthiness. This perception encourages social media users to view travel information from micro-celebrities as higher quality and to engage more with them, leading to DPO. Consequently, when social media users experience this psychological ownership, they show a stronger intention to travel to the destination, influenced partly by micro-celebrity marketing.
Originality/value
This study provides a psychological–developmental perspective on micro-celebrity marketing-induced travels. It underscores the importance of fostering micro-celebrity-induced DPO to establish a sustained, mutually beneficial relationship between tourists and destinations.
研究目的
尽管微名人在目的地营销中的作用已引起学术界的关注, 但他们在传递认知、情感和行为结果至目的地心理所有权中的作用尚未得到充分探索。本研究通过调查微名人的感知特征如何通过互动参与、感知信息质量及目的地心理所有权影响旅行意图, 填补了这一研究空白。此外, 本研究还强调了促进目的地心理所有权的三条途径。
研究方法
本研究采用基于调查的设计, 收集并分析了302个样本, 并使用偏最小二乘结构方程模型(PLS-SEM)和人工神经网络(ANN)对假设模型进行了检验。
研究结果
研究结果表明, 微名人的专业知识和吸引力增强了其感知个人可信度。这一感知促使社交媒体用户将微名人分享的旅行信息视为更高质量的信息, 并与他们进行更频繁的互动, 从而促进了目的地心理所有权的形成。由此, 当社交媒体用户体验到这种心理所有权时, 他们表现出更强烈的旅行意图, 这在一定程度上受到微名人营销的影响。
独创性
本研究从心理发展的角度探讨了微名人营销引发的旅行意图, 强调了通过微名人激发目的地心理所有权的重要性, 以建立游客与目的地之间持续且互利的关系。
Objetivo
A pesar del creciente interés por las micro-celebridades en el marketing de destinos, su papel en la transferencia de resultados cognitivos, afectivos y conductuales a la apropiación psicológica del destino (DPO) está poco explorado. Esta investigación aborda esta laguna de investigación analizando cómo las características percibidas de las micro-celebridades influyen en las intenciones de viaje a través del compromiso interactivo, la calidad de la información percibida y la DPO. Se destacan tres vías para fomentar la DPO.
Metodología
Se desarrolló un diseño basado en encuestas, recogiéndose y analizándose 302 observaciones. Se utilizó modelización de ecuaciones estructurales por mínimos cuadrados parciales y redes neuronales artificiales para analizar el modelo propuesto.
Conclusiones
Los resultados revelan que la experiencia y el atractivo de las micro-celebridades mejoran su credibilidad personal percibida. Esta percepción anima a los usuarios de redes sociales a considerar la información sobre viajes proporcionada por las micro-celebridades como de mayor calidad y a interactuar más con ellas, lo que conduce a la formación de la apropiación psicológica del destino. Como resultado, cuando los usuarios de redes sociales experimentan esta apropiación psicológica, muestran una mayor intención de viajar al destino, influenciados en parte por el marketing de micro-celebridades.
Originalidad/valor
Este estudio aporta una perspectiva de desarrollo psicológico sobre los viajes inducidos por el marketing de micro-celebridades. Subraya la importancia de fomentar la propiedad psicológica del destino inducida por micro-celebridades para establecer relaciones sostenidas y mutuamente beneficiosas entre los turistas y los destinos.
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J. Vincent Eagan, Vijaya Subrahmanyam and Kasim Alli
Summarizes the main hypotheses used in previous research on dividend policy and reports a study of patterns in dividend payouts/growth using neural networks as a data mining…
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Summarizes the main hypotheses used in previous research on dividend policy and reports a study of patterns in dividend payouts/growth using neural networks as a data mining technique. Discusses the properties of neural networks, recognizes that they are unsuitable for hypothesis testing and uses sensitivity analysis on 1992‐1997 data from 201 US firms. Presents the results, which do not outperform a previous model based on factor analysis, finds no significant nonlinear relationship in the data; but shows that dividend variability is sensitive to input variables, especially dividend growth.
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Felix Septianto, Gavin Northey and Scott Weaven
This paperaims to investigate a novel expectation by examining how framing a company as its constituent members (members frame) versus an organization (organization frame) can…
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Purpose
This paperaims to investigate a novel expectation by examining how framing a company as its constituent members (members frame) versus an organization (organization frame) can influence consumer evaluations of a product or service from this company.
Design/methodology/approach
Four studies were conducted examining the effectiveness of an organization (vs members) frame in a between-subjects experimental design (a pilot study, Studies 1a, 1b and 2). Study 2 also tested the moderating role of donation strategies (amount-focused vs frequency-focused).
Findings
Results show a members (vs organization) frame leads to a higher purchase likelihood of a product from a company engaging in corporate donations. Further, this framing effect is mediated by increased levels of consumers’ perceptions about how committed the company is to the cause and the emotion of moral elevation in response to the company’s corporate donations. Moreover, this effect is moderated when the company uses a frequency-based (vs amount-based) donation strategy.
Research limitations/implications
This research contributes to the literature on message framing by demonstrating how the same information about a company may lead to differential effects on consumer evaluations, depending on whether the company is framed as its constituent members versus an organization.
Practical implications
This paper presents significant managerial implications for small companies, in which the owner is the company, about how they can effectively communicate corporate donations to the consumers.
Originality/value
This research provides a novel perspective on how the same information about a company may lead to differential effects on consumer evaluations, particularly in the context of corporate donations.