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Publication date: 27 August 2024

Yunfeng Xing and Yuanhong Liao

Environmental and health concerns are considered the most significant motivations for organic food purchasing behaviour (OFP). This study focuses on the roles of health and…

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Purpose

Environmental and health concerns are considered the most significant motivations for organic food purchasing behaviour (OFP). This study focuses on the roles of health and environmental concerns in OFP in China, aiming to explore whether there are differences in the effects and mechanisms of these two concerns.

Design/methodology/approach

We use the PLS-SEM to conduct empirical tests, drawing from survey data collected from 628 Chinese consumers.

Findings

The results showed that the OFP was influenced differently by health and environmental concerns. Specifically, the total effect of environmental concern on OFP outweighs that of health concern, whereas the opposite is true for direct impacts. Additionally, environmental and health concerns can influence OFP through attitude and subjective norms, although the specific mechanisms vary. Environmental concern affects OFP more through subjective norms, whereas health concern affects OFP mainly through attitude. Meanwhile, functional value quality was a significant moderator that enhanced the indirect effect of motivation on OFP.

Originality/value

A theoretical framework is constructed to explore the role of two types of motivations in OFP within emerging economies like China, revealing their mechanism and interaction effect with functional values.

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Publication date: 20 September 2024

Moxi Song and Yuanhong Liao

The empirical results of the pivotal relationship between big data analytics capability (BDAC) and firm innovation remain inconclusive, necessitating a comprehensive understanding…

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Purpose

The empirical results of the pivotal relationship between big data analytics capability (BDAC) and firm innovation remain inconclusive, necessitating a comprehensive understanding of the mediator and moderator through which firms can realize the potential innovation benefits of BDAC. Invoking the indirect perspective of dynamic capability theory, we constructed a moderated mediation model in which organizational learning mediates the impact of BDAC on firm innovation; the mediation effect of organizational learning is contingent upon market orientation.

Design/methodology/approach

Our hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping methods with a sample of 227 large- and medium-sized manufacturing firms in China.

Findings

The results reveal that both exploratory and exploitative learning fully mediate the link between BDAC and firm innovation. The mediation effect of exploitative learning is positively contingent upon market orientation; however, market orientation does not positively moderate the mediation effect of exploratory learning.

Originality/value

Our moderated mediation model is one of the first to provide a fine-grained understanding of the process through which BDAC is transformed into firm innovation as well as the conditions under which this mediating mechanism may work effectively, thereby further elucidating the theoretical black box regarding the BDAC-firm innovation link and resolving existing debates in the literature regarding why BDAC does not always yield positive outcomes.

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Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 19 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5265

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Publication date: 13 November 2018

Moxi Song and Yuanhong Liao

The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative explanation for inconclusive results in the existing literature on the information sharing-firm performance link by examining…

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The purpose of this paper is to offer an alternative explanation for inconclusive results in the existing literature on the information sharing-firm performance link by examining a moderated mediation model in which operations capabilities mediate the interactive effects of information sharing and market intelligence responsiveness on firm performance within a supply chain context. Drawing on the indirect view of dynamic capability theory, the authors propose that information sharing redeploys and reconfigures operations capabilities, thus leading to superior firm performance, even with a high level of market intelligence responsiveness.

Design/methodology/approach

The hypotheses were tested using hierarchical regression and bootstrapping methods with a sample of 154 Chinese manufacturing firms. A survey-based, two-informant design was used to collect data.

Findings

The results revealed that operations capabilities fully mediate the relationship between information sharing and firm performance. The information sharing-operations capabilities link is positively moderated by market intelligence responsiveness. Moreover, operations capabilities positively mediate the interactive effects of information sharing and responsiveness on performance.

Originality/value

The study shifts the research focus from the moderating effect of market intelligence responsiveness in the information sharing-performance link to the interactive effects between information sharing and responsiveness on performance via operations capabilities, thus offering a finer-grained picture of the essential information sharing-performance link. To the best of our knowledge, this study is among the first to advocate and substantiate the theoretical claim that even with a high level of responsiveness, a firm’s performance relies on its operations capabilities, which are renewed and enhanced by information sharing, rather than on information sharing itself.

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Baltic Journal of Management, vol. 14 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1746-5265

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Publication date: 12 November 2024

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

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Purpose

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Design/methodology/approach

This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context.

Findings

This paper identified that big data analytics capabilities is a skill that organizations should cultivate to improve their business performance.

Originality/value

The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

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Strategic Direction, vol. 40 no. 10
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0258-0543

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Publication date: 25 May 2010

Jing Zheng, Chuan‐You Deng, Shao‐Min Cheng, Wen‐Ya Liu and A‐Tao Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the great contributions made by the American library expert, Mary Elizabeth Wood, to Chinese library development.

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to examine the great contributions made by the American library expert, Mary Elizabeth Wood, to Chinese library development.

Design/methodology/approach

As a pioneer of the modern library movement Mary Elizabeth Wood devoted herself to a Chinese library career. It was structured according to the following theme: setting up the Boone Library and introducing the modern American public library into China; establishing Boone Library School and initiating Chinese library science education; raising money and appealing for China's library development; helping forward the foundation of the Library Association of China; as well as promoting Chinese library intercommunion and cooperation with the West.

Findings

With the background of underdeveloped Chinese librarianship, Mary Elizabeth Wood introduced modern American public library spirit into China, opened the gate of Chinese library science, and promoted Chinese library science.

Research limitations/implications

The paper discusses the library history of China and the role of an American librarian in Chinese library history; thus, it should be of wide interest to researchers involved in library history.

Originality/value

Mary Elizabeth Wood devoted herself to a Chinese library career, and promoted Chinese library science greatly, but research on her is limited. This paper considers her contribution to Chinese library science.

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Library Review, vol. 59 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0024-2535

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