Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6344
Debra Y. Hunter
Individuals in the workplace interact with peer constituents displaying various personality behaviors that influence productive workplace relationships. Sometimes, the darker side of leadership is masked and camouflages disturbing personality behaviors. Leaders are no exception to the array of personalities hindering productive follower relationships. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) in leaders manifest themselves in a variety of ways and have the potential to deter satisfactory relationships with followers. Subordinates are subjected to higher instances of employee surveillance, matriculate attention to detail, extraordinary communication and feedback, repetitive reprimands, and fear tactics to motivate desired behavior. Although these practices are within management scope, manifestations of OCD leader tendencies and their effect on followership cannot be ignored. As the level of anxiety in Americans continues to increase, organizations may observe higher instances of OCD-related behaviors in leaders. This paper addresses OCD behaviors in leaders and its effect on followership and productivity.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6338
Karin Werkhoven, Bas Kodden, Henk Burghout
In this study, a model is developed and tested to examine the influence of non-conformism on the relationship between the perceived leadership style and work engagement and the level of sickness absence amongst Dutch healthcare professionals. The results of this study showed that the perceived transformational leadership style is strongly positive related to work engagement, whereby work engagement is negatively related to sickness absence. The results of this study also showed non-conformism to be a significant influencer of the leadership style-work engagement relationship. Because of the strategic importance of human capital in healthcare, it is important that leaders practice effective leadership to improve well-being and organizational performance.
{"title":"Non-Conformism as a Mediator of the Leadership-Well-Being Relationship in the Dutch Healthcare Sector","authors":"Karin Werkhoven, Bas Kodden, Henk Burghout","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6338","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a model is developed and tested to examine the influence of non-conformism on the relationship between the perceived leadership style and work engagement and the level of sickness absence amongst Dutch healthcare professionals. The results of this study showed that the perceived transformational leadership style is strongly positive related to work engagement, whereby work engagement is negatively related to sickness absence. The results of this study also showed non-conformism to be a significant influencer of the leadership style-work engagement relationship. Because of the strategic importance of human capital in healthcare, it is important that leaders practice effective leadership to improve well-being and organizational performance.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90467635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6343
Ivonne A. Delgado Perez, Nancy J. Engelhardt, Kauyer Lor
Evidence suggests consumers actively seek environmentally-friendly products as public concern about the environment is growing worldwide. This study revisited earlier research of environmental labeling usage published over a decade ago. The current study compared environmental label usage between the original paper and post-pandemic consumer behavior. Survey results from a sample of 317 individuals indicated gender was not a predictor of label usage. The level of label usage (high versus low) was determined to be an effective predictor of environmental concern and behavior, as well as consumer involvement in environmental issues. Additionally, the current research indicated a preference by respondents for Internet news sources and social media rather than traditional news sources.
{"title":"Consumer Product Label Usage in a Post-Pandemic World","authors":"Ivonne A. Delgado Perez, Nancy J. Engelhardt, Kauyer Lor","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6343","url":null,"abstract":"Evidence suggests consumers actively seek environmentally-friendly products as public concern about the environment is growing worldwide. This study revisited earlier research of environmental labeling usage published over a decade ago. The current study compared environmental label usage between the original paper and post-pandemic consumer behavior. Survey results from a sample of 317 individuals indicated gender was not a predictor of label usage. The level of label usage (high versus low) was determined to be an effective predictor of environmental concern and behavior, as well as consumer involvement in environmental issues. Additionally, the current research indicated a preference by respondents for Internet news sources and social media rather than traditional news sources.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86377456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2668974/v1
Adnan Kisa
For authoritarian-minded leaders, the COVID-19 crisis offered a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Populist and autocratic leaders used the crisis as an excuse to do things they had long planned to do but had not been able to. Using a narrative literature review, this study examines the authoritarian responses to COVID-19 in Brazil and Turkey between 2020 and 2021. Available articles were retrieved from Medline and Google Scholar using a non-systematic approach using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Major identified authoritarian responses were imprisoning human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, political activists, and medical professionals; flaunting public health and human rights laws; blaming other countries for causing the pandemic; and underreporting COVID cases. The study concludes that these actions had devastating consequences for democracy, human rights, and public health.
{"title":"A Comparison of the Authoritarian Strategies Used by Brazil and Turkey to Tackle the COVID-19 Crisis","authors":"Adnan Kisa","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-2668974/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2668974/v1","url":null,"abstract":"For authoritarian-minded leaders, the COVID-19 crisis offered a convenient pretext to silence critics and consolidate power. Populist and autocratic leaders used the crisis as an excuse to do things they had long planned to do but had not been able to. Using a narrative literature review, this study examines the authoritarian responses to COVID-19 in Brazil and Turkey between 2020 and 2021. Available articles were retrieved from Medline and Google Scholar using a non-systematic approach using inclusion and exclusion criteria. Major identified authoritarian responses were imprisoning human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers, political activists, and medical professionals; flaunting public health and human rights laws; blaming other countries for causing the pandemic; and underreporting COVID cases. The study concludes that these actions had devastating consequences for democracy, human rights, and public health.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76597112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6351
Cynthia Arthur, Irina Khindanova
This paper investigates technological acquisitions and innovation’s impact on US acquiring firms’ stock performance between 2012 and 2016. Firms pursue technological acquisitions with the rationale of creating value, improving market share, and achieving economies of scale. Acquisitions have not always yielded the desired results. Overall, acquirers’ long-run abnormal returns tend to be negative. This study suggests that innovation positively impacts stock performance around the announcement date and one year after the acquisition. The 3-year post-acquisition analysis finds that technological acquisitions do not affect acquiring companies’ stock performance. A bump in the one-year post-acquisition performance dissipates over the three-year horizon.
{"title":"Technological Acquisitions: The Impact of Innovation on Stock Performance","authors":"Cynthia Arthur, Irina Khindanova","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6351","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates technological acquisitions and innovation’s impact on US acquiring firms’ stock performance between 2012 and 2016. Firms pursue technological acquisitions with the rationale of creating value, improving market share, and achieving economies of scale. Acquisitions have not always yielded the desired results. Overall, acquirers’ long-run abnormal returns tend to be negative. This study suggests that innovation positively impacts stock performance around the announcement date and one year after the acquisition. The 3-year post-acquisition analysis finds that technological acquisitions do not affect acquiring companies’ stock performance. A bump in the one-year post-acquisition performance dissipates over the three-year horizon.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73094194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6341
Daniel Condon, Anne M. Drougas, Michael Abrokwah
Analysis of business studies often involves the quantification of qualitative data to derive meaningful insights and making informed decisions. One such challenge is the inappropriate use of the arithmetic mean in economic and financial modeling. The arithmetic mean is a widely used statistical measure of central tendency that sums up a set of values and divides it by the total number of observations. While the arithmetic mean is simple and intuitive, its appropriateness in financial and economic modeling highly depends upon the nature of the data and the specific research question being addressed. This creates a dilemma. Despite the business community traditionally emphasizing quantitative research modeling, the growth of artificial intelligence and big data make qualitative research more desirable, particularly in areas such as ESG scorecards and financial literacy surveys. This paper discusses the challenges presented with analyzing studies after quantifying qualitative data and provides examples of how ordinal regression and other techniques could be used to analyze qualitative variables. This is especially applicable in undergraduate education.
{"title":"The Mean May Not Mean What You Think It Means: The Use and Misuse of Measures of Central Tendency","authors":"Daniel Condon, Anne M. Drougas, Michael Abrokwah","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6341","url":null,"abstract":"Analysis of business studies often involves the quantification of qualitative data to derive meaningful insights and making informed decisions. One such challenge is the inappropriate use of the arithmetic mean in economic and financial modeling. The arithmetic mean is a widely used statistical measure of central tendency that sums up a set of values and divides it by the total number of observations. While the arithmetic mean is simple and intuitive, its appropriateness in financial and economic modeling highly depends upon the nature of the data and the specific research question being addressed. This creates a dilemma. Despite the business community traditionally emphasizing quantitative research modeling, the growth of artificial intelligence and big data make qualitative research more desirable, particularly in areas such as ESG scorecards and financial literacy surveys. This paper discusses the challenges presented with analyzing studies after quantifying qualitative data and provides examples of how ordinal regression and other techniques could be used to analyze qualitative variables. This is especially applicable in undergraduate education.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89207241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6340
Aya Samir, Sayed Sharaf, Nermeen Elsaadany
Despite the growing interest of researchers and practitioners in figuring out why users stick to some websites and not others, the resulting scholarly work is still divergent, partial, and fragmented. Online stickiness plays a vertical role in consumer decision-making, so this research domain is still developing, and a comprehensive and critical overview of existing research on this topic is sorely needed. This paper seeks to establish a scientific foundation for future research on the subject matter by conducting a thorough evaluation of the literature on online consumer stickiness via publications in peer-reviewed academic journals in various domains. A systematic analysis of 53 articles from 32 journals listed in the Association of Business Schools (ABS) or Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) reveals a lack of consistent conceptual consistency and a conflict between stickiness’s antecedents and consequences in the online context.
{"title":"Online Consumer Stickiness: A Systematic Review","authors":"Aya Samir, Sayed Sharaf, Nermeen Elsaadany","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6340","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6340","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the growing interest of researchers and practitioners in figuring out why users stick to some websites and not others, the resulting scholarly work is still divergent, partial, and fragmented. Online stickiness plays a vertical role in consumer decision-making, so this research domain is still developing, and a comprehensive and critical overview of existing research on this topic is sorely needed. This paper seeks to establish a scientific foundation for future research on the subject matter by conducting a thorough evaluation of the literature on online consumer stickiness via publications in peer-reviewed academic journals in various domains. A systematic analysis of 53 articles from 32 journals listed in the Association of Business Schools (ABS) or Australian Business Deans Council (ABDC) reveals a lack of consistent conceptual consistency and a conflict between stickiness’s antecedents and consequences in the online context.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"100 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85936490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6342
S. Pae, Hyung Tae Kim, Young-Won Her
In this study, we investigate the relationship between CEO tenure and the implied cost of equity capital. Using 29,519 firm-year observations spanning the period from 1993 to 2021, we find a negative relationship between CEO tenure and the cost of equity. The negative relationship between CEO tenure and the cost of equity indicates that the cost of equity is higher for firms with CEOs in their early tenure, and the cost of equity is lower for firms with CEOs in their later tenure. Overall, our empirical evidence supports that investors perceive CEO tenure as a value-relevant signal in determining the cost of equity capital.
{"title":"CEO Tenure and the Cost of Equity Capital","authors":"S. Pae, Hyung Tae Kim, Young-Won Her","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6342","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigate the relationship between CEO tenure and the implied cost of equity capital. Using 29,519 firm-year observations spanning the period from 1993 to 2021, we find a negative relationship between CEO tenure and the cost of equity. The negative relationship between CEO tenure and the cost of equity indicates that the cost of equity is higher for firms with CEOs in their early tenure, and the cost of equity is lower for firms with CEOs in their later tenure. Overall, our empirical evidence supports that investors perceive CEO tenure as a value-relevant signal in determining the cost of equity capital.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78418458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-25DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6349
Nicholas Beadles, II, Christopher Lowery, Aric J. Wilhau
Researchers have attempted to understand the unionization process by examining the variables surrounding an individual’s decision to vote for a union. Despite the linkage of an individual’s attitude towards unions and the individual’s propensity to vote for a union, there has been little research which attempts to understand which personality constructs might be predictive of general attitudes towards unions. Using causal modeling techniques, we investigated the effect of collectivism on general union attitudes and union instrumentality beliefs with a sample of workers from the Southeastern United States. It was found that a more collectivist orientation is positively associated with beliefs about, and feelings towards, unions. Ancillary analyses revealed that African Americans held greater union favorability attitudes and greater positive beliefs about union instrumentality relative to Caucasians, though a more collectivist nature among African Americans did not explain these findings. It was also revealed that females had a more positive general attitude towards unions and were marginally more positive regarding the effects of unions on specific issues as compared to males.
{"title":"The Effect of Collectivism on Union Attitudes and Beliefs","authors":"Nicholas Beadles, II, Christopher Lowery, Aric J. Wilhau","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6349","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i4.6349","url":null,"abstract":"Researchers have attempted to understand the unionization process by examining the variables surrounding an individual’s decision to vote for a union. Despite the linkage of an individual’s attitude towards unions and the individual’s propensity to vote for a union, there has been little research which attempts to understand which personality constructs might be predictive of general attitudes towards unions. Using causal modeling techniques, we investigated the effect of collectivism on general union attitudes and union instrumentality beliefs with a sample of workers from the Southeastern United States. It was found that a more collectivist orientation is positively associated with beliefs about, and feelings towards, unions. Ancillary analyses revealed that African Americans held greater union favorability attitudes and greater positive beliefs about union instrumentality relative to Caucasians, though a more collectivist nature among African Americans did not explain these findings. It was also revealed that females had a more positive general attitude towards unions and were marginally more positive regarding the effects of unions on specific issues as compared to males.","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83165976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-07DOI: 10.33423/jabe.v25i3.6336
{"title":"An Exploratory Examination of The Threshold Concepts in Strategic Management","authors":"","doi":"10.33423/jabe.v25i3.6336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33423/jabe.v25i3.6336","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43552,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Economics and Business Research","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90699317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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