Business models often transform due to adaptation in response to external changes. However, relatively little is known about what causes these types of adaptations. We suggest that threat-rigidity as well as prospect theory have the potential to explain what causes business model adaptation in...

Wisdom in negotiation is increasingly vital in managing conflicts, yet its behavioural expression remains underexplored. This study explores the behavioural signatures of individuals nominated as wise negotiators within an organisational context. There were 48 participants recruited as wise...

Investment and insurance constitute pivotal subjects in financial management, especially in an era characterized by inflation. Unit-Linked Insurance Plans (ULIPs), with a unique combination of investment risks and insurance protection, potentially trigger distinct psychological processes that...

Direct-to-customer sales provide higher returns, maximising the profitabil-ity of wine businesses. While recent research has expanded the understanding of the sales relationship developed during a cellar door experience, individual influences on this relationship remain under-researched. The...

This contribution presents the results of a survey among +6,000 German-speaking fans of heavy metal music. Apart from better understanding this community's demographics, the survey aims to answer three questions: Does metalheads' big five personality differ from the general population? Does the...

This paper validates a new set of behavioral measures for socioemotional skills across three Sub-Saharan African countries-Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Tanzania-and compares them to widely used self-reported measures. The behavioral measures demonstrate strong psychometric properties and are...

Current consumption patterns in the Global North are unsustainable across environmental, social, and economic dimensions. To promote more sustainable consumer behavior, emotional priming on social media has become an increasingly popular tool. In this paper, we mimic social media content to test...

Effective supervisory mechanisms enable both monitoring and regulation of employee behavior, ensuring behavioral compliance and performance stability. However, continuous supervision can increase employees' psychological arousal, especially evident in the face of emergencies. To avoid revealing...

Identifying sensitive periods in which the returns to investments into skills are especially high is challenging, but crucial for an effective and efficient timing of parental or public investments aimed at fostering children's skills. We can detect sensitive periods with a novel design by...

This work introduces a novel method for sentiment analysis in the stock market by combining Deep Neural Networks (DNN) and an improved Firefly Algorithm (FA). It is essential to comprehend investor sentiment in financial markets in order to forecast stock price movements and make wise investment...

Purpose - This research aims to examine the relationship between ethical leadership and employee emotional stability during a pandemic crisis in the hospitality industry, with a chain-mediating effect of perceived emotional support and employee satisfaction with organization COVID-19 responses....

Founders of family firms differ from descendants, particularly in terms of affective attachment, cognitive identification, and social concern. This study examines how these generational differences between founder-led and descendant-led family firms affect corporate social responsibility (CSR)...

Grounded in the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, this study investigates how negative workplace gossip (NWG) influences counterproductive work behavior (CWB) in the hospitality industry. It further examines the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating influence of emotional...

Work happiness is commonly described as an umbrella concept encompassing job satisfaction, engagement, and emotional attachment to the workplace. However, few studies have explored its underlying sources and emotional experiences, raising questions about its conceptual clarity and measurement....

The purpose of this conceptual and explorative study is to investigate whether health-promoting self-leadership could be used as a coping strategy enabling employees to deal with negative emotions in an organizational change process, providing a conceptual framework. A total of 18 faculty...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and the broad adoption of distance learning over the past few years have caused a remarkable shift in the educational landscape. However, the vast majority of available MOOCs often challenge learners in selecting courses that align with their academic goals,...

Existing studies on romance fraud have been criticized for neglecting the social contexts where these crimes occur. This study takes a psychosocial approach to understanding victims/survivors' experiences with romance fraud to demonstrate how recognizing the interplay between social norms and...