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

The objective of this article is to explore the influence of home bias and the moderating role of social networks (and more particularly family and friends—F&F) in the crowdfunding of a microbrewery in a French region (a lucrative business that uses a territorial solidarity process). We have chosen the case study as methodology to show that neither home bias nor F&F have a significant influence on amounts paid by individuals in crowdfunding. The results are specific to the case studied and are comparable to those of social enterprise. They explain but also justify the behavioural diversity crowdfunding can induce.

This paper presents the results of a study designed to identify the cues employees use to identify an email as important and/or urgent. Taking an emic perspective, a qualitative research methodology is used to analyze interview responses from knowledge workers. Our findings support the notion that employees use strategies similar to those encapsulated in Mitchell et al.’s (1997) operationalization of stakeholder salience when evaluating an email's importance and/or urgency. Results from this study can be used to design email policies to support knowledge worker performance.

The main contribution of this study to international business research is to integrate state fragility as a multidimensional factor determining FDI inflows. After considering 17 countries in the MENA region for the period between 2002 and 2018, our results reveal that state fragility has a negative impact on inward FDI. However, this negative relationship turns out to be moderated by natural resource endowment and democratic governance. While lower levels of democratic governance strengthen the negative impact of state fragility on FDI, it appears that, contrary to our expectations, higher levels of natural resource endowment accentuate this negative impact, thus providing evidence for the resource curse phenomenon.

This study explored aging consumers' multichannel shopping experiences and identified factors that contribute to their satisfaction and shopping well-being. We conducted 13 one-on-one semi-structured interviews with informants 50 years or older in a metropolitan area in Canada and used a deductive approach to analyze the qualitative data. Aging consumers in this study focused on two-channel shopping: brick-and-mortar and online stores. Participants emphasized the interactive engagement with sales associates, window shopping, and people-watching as benefits of the brick-and-mortar experience, in addition to shopping as a tool for socialization and risk-avoidance. For online shopping, participants underscored convenience and also concerns about privacy, security, financial risk, and product quality. Results indicate retailers' transparent practices will contribute to older adults' shopping well-being.

The main contribution of this study to the research in international business is to integrate “state fragility” as a multidimensional factor determining FDI inflows. By examining 17 countries in the MENA region during the period from 2002 to 2018, our results reveal that state fragility has a negative impact on inward FDI. However, this negative relationship turns out to be moderated by the host-country natural resource endowment and democratic governance. While lower levels of democratic governance strengthen the negative impact of state fragility on FDI, contrary to our expectations, higher levels of natural resource endowment accentuate this negative impact, thus providing evidence for the “resource curse” phenomenon.

The contribution of this study is its investigation of the engine driving consumer value-in-use through a resource—integration capability—value framework from the perspective of a resource-based view and a capability-based view. We analyze how business resources and consumer resources influence individual and collective value-in-use via the causal mechanisms of resource integration capability and relationship integration capability. The study surveys 511 respondents in the greater Taipei area and employs a structural equation model to examine eight hypotheses. The results show that the main causal path was that consumer resources had a positive impact on relationship integration capability. Relationship integration capability showed a primarily positive impact on collective value-in-use.

The aim of this study was to identify specific management practices that promote the psychological health of remote workers in the context of the COVID-19 crisis. A two-round Delphi study was conducted among 28 teleworkers and 22 managers. A list of 60 specific management practices was presented and participants had to identify whether each one could be used in the current remote working context and, if so, how useful it was to promote psychological health at work. Results indicate that most specific management practices usually used in a face-to-face setting can also be used in a remote context (85%). Practices that show consideration, establishing work structure, and allowing flexibility were also identified as the most useful to promote remote workers' psychological health during the pandemic. This study contributes to the advancement of knowledge about specific management practices, remote working, and crisis management. It also suggests specific practices that managers can adopt to promote the psychological health of their employees during a period of crisis, even while managing from a distance.

This article presents a rare empirical study on the measurement of public value. Public value is a multidimensional concept of the impact of a public organization on its audiences. Using action research at Radio-Canada, we hybridize conceptual models of public values from the literature with four practical models from public broadcasters, then we triangulate these results with our analyses of the Canadian public broadcaster's internal data to propose a new measurement model for Radio-Canada’s public value. This model illustrates and communicates the dynamic yet imperfect alignment between the public values served and the public value created. Our main contribution is the reconciliation of public value management with the public values perspective.

As the recording music industry entered the digital era, significant turmoil emerged due to piracy and illegal downloading, and royalty payments to artists via streaming platforms. To date, the previous research examining the industry shift focused on consumer-based decisions such as whether to download music illegally, and, more recently, experiences with streaming services. Using sensemaking as our lens, we examine changes and challenges through in-depth interviews with music industry practitioners. The participants have been directly impacted by the digital shift in general and by specific issues such as piracy and poor compensation from streaming platforms. We develop a typology of industry members based on their development of sensemaking capabilities as they navigate the ever-changing industry and the resulting influence on market practices.