Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences-Revue Canadienne Des Sciences De L Administration最新文献

Startups play a crucial role in driving disruptive innovation by creating and introducing radically new knowledge that challenges established incumbents and reshapes industries. This article examines the key factors that influence startups' radical knowledge creation, focusing on underlying mechanisms that provide a strategic advantage. By integrating multiple frameworks—creative destruction, disruptive innovation, Blue Ocean, human capital, social networks, and entrepreneurial cognition—the article contributes to the knowledge-based view (KBV) of the firm. It offers insights into the dynamic interplay between market and firm-related forces that promote radical knowledge creation, fueling discovery and disruptive innovation. The findings enhance our understanding of how startups leverage both internal and external resources to generate groundbreaking ideas and transform industries.

This special issue looks at how big data affects business decisions, processes, and organizational change within organizations. The issue starts with a review of the latest research in the field, including key developments and ongoing debates. The literature review shows how Big Data is affecting how organizations work, including ethical issues, internal rules, and using new technology. Next, the issue presents three key papers on how Big Data affects modern organizations. The first paper looks at how Big Data how Big Data is helping to make cities smarter. The third paper looks at how new technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and quantum computing affect financial organizations. Together, these contributions show the need to balance innovation with risk management. They advocate for ethical considerations and policy frameworks as organizations navigate the complexities of the Big Data era. This essay of synthesis, from literature review to focused studies on decision-making, operations, and organizational change, provides a holistic understanding of the role of Big Data in shaping the future of business.

This research examines how a decision-maker's perceived vulnerability influences their susceptibility to the “anecdotal bias,” a phenomenon where statistical evidence is disregarded in favor of anecdotal information. Across six studies, our research shows that high vulnerability aggravates the anecdotal bias instead of reducing it. Study 1 provides preliminary evidence that high vulnerability exacerbates the anecdotal bias among individuals seeking decision-relevant information in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies 2A and 2B demonstrate that high vulnerability intensifies the anecdotal bias in different decision contexts. Study 3 replicates these findings and identifies negative emotional arousal as a key mechanism underlying this effect. Study 4 examines the moderating role of personal relevance, showing that when individuals make decisions for others (vs. themselves), high vulnerability does not lead to the anecdotal bias. Moreover, it is cognitive disruption and intuitive thinking caused by negative emotional arousal that increases reliance on anecdotal (vs. statistical) information. Finally, Study 5 demonstrates the moderating effect of mindfulness meditation, highlighting its role as a preemptive safeguard against this biased behavior. Theoretical contributions and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

The technology sector is one of the most popular sectors for entrepreneurship. This paper investigates the success factors of fundraising in the technology sector. We argue that text elements of the project's description have a significant effect of the project success. We used text mining to extract and analyze 17,733 crowdfunding projects over an 11-year period between 2009 and 2019 from the Kickstarter platform. We identified 28 textual elements and examined whether they affect project success as measured by three different operationalizations. Most of the textual elements were found to have a significant effect on the project's success. The findings provide valuable insights and highlight substantial opportunities for crowdfunding in the context of technology.

Human resource management (HRM) practices and their associations with employees' job attitudes and behaviors are well-established, although the psychological mechanisms underlying these associations remain unclear. Based on the ability-motivation-opportunity framework, we propose that employees' HRM values play a key role in these associations. Specifically, we propose that employees' perceptions of the HRM practices present in their organization will predict their HRM value profiles which, in turn, will predict their levels of commitment. Latent profile analyses revealed four profiles characterized by very low, low, moderate, and high levels of HRM values. Our results suggest that ability-enhancing practices play an active role in employees' organizational commitment by shaping their HRM values.

We assess content, evolution and determinants of COVID-19 disclosures in accounting documents using natural language processing for TSX60 firms. We evaluate sentiment, extent of disclosure, choice of disclosure medium, links to governance, and the relationship with performance. We focus on accounting-related disclosures, an understudied aspect of corporate responses to the pandemic, and add to the choice of disclosure media literature. Our unique forward-looking longitudinal approach to understanding the content, evolution and determinants of COVID-19 corporate disclosures includes an evaluation of how these disclosures are affected by corporate governance and jurisdictional factors. Our findings include evidence of an inverse relationship between causal reasoning in disclosures and performance, with firms attributing poor performance to the pandemic across years, consistent with impression management.

The disruptions experienced by the healthcare supply chain of personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the importance of initiatives aimed at strengthening the resilience of this chain. This research takes the point of view of suppliers who were involved in the first months of the pandemic to fully understand their reading of events and thus be able to identify resilience initiatives to face future crises. The case under study is that of the PPE supply chain of the public healthcare and social services sector in the province of Quebec. Interviews with 23 suppliers were the main source of data, which was analyzed through the lens of social capital theory. This case study demonstrates that traditional resiliency initiatives such as safety stock or excess production capacity at suppliers would be better calibrated if buyers conducted a supplier market watch to anticipate major turbulence that could impact the supply chain.

This research examines how incidentally evoked approach-oriented (vs. avoidance-oriented) emotions help improve consumer attitudes toward brands with global consumer culture positioning (GCCP). Moreover, we demonstrate that promotion-focused brand associations that are uniquely linked with GCCP messages mediate this effect, while this effect is eliminated when consumers are aware of the potential influence of their emotions on judgment. We conducted four experiments to examine and clarify the above effects. The findings contribute theoretically by introducing emotions as a novel antecedent to consumers' GCCP preferences. Practically, this research provides actionable guidelines for international marketers in effectively implementing GCCP strategies.

Adaptive performance (AP) is crucial for individuals to respond to changes in their work role. Cognitive flexibility (CF) plays a role in AP, but the impact of the work environment on this relationship is not clear. Situational strength theory suggests that a strong situation, characterized by clarity, consistency, constraints, and consequences, weakens the effect of individual characteristics on behavior. This study aimed to examine if situational strength moderates the CF-AP relationship. A sample of 464 workers were recruited. Overall, the research hypothesis was not supported, indicating no moderation effect of situational strength. However, exploratory analysis suggests that constraints limit the contribution of CF to AP. Organizations should reduce constraints to leverage workers' CF for adaptive behaviors.