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1 – 10 of over 51000Steven A. Creek, Joshua D. Maurer and Justin K. Kent
The purpose of this study is to examine how crowdfunding backer perceptions of market orientation and foreignness impact crowdfunding performance in emerging economies.
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Purpose
The purpose of this study is to examine how crowdfunding backer perceptions of market orientation and foreignness impact crowdfunding performance in emerging economies.
Design/methodology/approach
Using content analysis software, the authors analyzed 756 Kickstarter campaign narratives from the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa for the period between 2009 and 2019.
Findings
The authors’ results show that behavioral market orientation signals are positively related to amounts raised while decision criteria signals are negatively related. The authors also find that foreign entrepreneur status interacts with the two market orientations to impact funding amounts.
Practical implications
When creating crowdfunding campaigns in emerging economies, domestic entrepreneurs should use high levels of behavioral market orientation rhetoric but low levels of decision criteria rhetoric within their campaign narratives.
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This study unpacks the components of market orientation and examines their positive and negative effects on crowdfunding success in the context of emerging economies.
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Burze Yasar, Thomas Martin and Timothy Kiessling
This study aims to support and extend signalling theory because of information asymmetry. This study also aims to answer the call to further negative signalling and explore…
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This study aims to support and extend signalling theory because of information asymmetry. This study also aims to answer the call to further negative signalling and explore immediate reactions to signals, thus alleviating a gap with regard to temporality of signalling.
Design/methodology/approach
The study used two separate data sources, the S&P 500 and 51,500 pages of the public papers between 1981 and 1999, nearly 20 years of data. Inter-rater reliability, controlled for all macroeconomic announcements identified in the literature, is used, and the data are empirically tested using generalized autoregressive conditional heteroscedasticity (GJR-GARCH) modelling.
Findings
In accordance with signalling theory and the efficient market hypothesis, the study found that receivers do react to positive signals from a credible insider signaller to obviate information asymmetry. In line with previous research, the study also finds that receivers react much stronger to negative signals.
Practical implications
Investors, financial managers and top executives responsible for their stock price need to focus on presidential signalling as these directly affect market volatility. In particular, investors and financial managers can predict stock price volatility based upon signals from the president.
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This is the first research study that explores the correlation between presidential signalling and market volatility. This study is important for investors and financial managers.
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Paul Herbig and John C. Milewicz
Examines marketing signals as they are used in business‐to‐businesscommunications. Marketing signals can be implemented in a variety oforganizational marketing activities…
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Examines marketing signals as they are used in business‐to‐business communications. Marketing signals can be implemented in a variety of organizational marketing activities including promotion, pricing, distribution and competitive reactions. Provides observations and recommendations on their usage by industrial concerns so as to improve the efficiency of their signalling efforts.
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Paul Herbig, John C. Milewicz and Robert Gulbro
Marketing signals, whereupon marketing activities provide informationbeyond the activity itself, can be implemented in a variety of marketingactivities including advertising…
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Marketing signals, whereupon marketing activities provide information beyond the activity itself, can be implemented in a variety of marketing activities including advertising, pricing, quality control, and competitive reactions. Examines marketing signals as they are used in the industrial marketplace. Provides examples and specific applications for each specific characteristic associated with industrial marketing. Also provides observations and recommendations on their usage by industrial concerns.
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Describes market signals and market signaling, provides examples oftheir use in service‐oriented industries and, through a marketsimulation, examines their implications for…
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Describes market signals and market signaling, provides examples of their use in service‐oriented industries and, through a market simulation, examines their implications for profitability and competitive behavior. Marketing signals by firms within an industry are positively related to the profitability of the industry and the profits of the individual firms within the industry. However, there is a negative incentive for a firm to be the only signaler within an industry. This “lone man out” phenomenon puts a firm at a competitive disadvantage to the other firms within its industry. A “temporal pattern‐recognition deficiency” also seems to exist which tends to inhibit managers in finding patterns of behavior over time.
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Marketing signals are communication vehicles which provide information beyond the mere form of the message ‐ a message within a message. These signals can be sent to competitors…
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Marketing signals are communication vehicles which provide information beyond the mere form of the message ‐ a message within a message. These signals can be sent to competitors, customers, suppliers, or other interested stakeholders (e.g., government, stockholders, community). Discusses marketing signals and the advantages and disadvantages of market signalling. Provides the results of a study of business market signalling, and offers recommendations on how a firm can signal more effectively to its customers and competitors.
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Paul A. Herbig and John Milewicz
Examines the power of market signalling through a marketsimulation. Finds that use of marketing signals by firms within anindustry is positively related to the profitability of…
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Examines the power of market signalling through a market simulation. Finds that use of marketing signals by firms within an industry is positively related to the profitability of the industry and the profits of the individual firms within the industry. The marginal contribution by the addition of another signaller to the industry is significant. However, there is a negative incentive for a firm to be the only signaller within an industry. This “lone man out” phenomenon puts a firm at a competitive disadvantage to the other firms within its industry. A “temporal pattern recognition deficiency” also seems to exist which inhibits managers from finding patterns of behaviour over time.
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Aneesh Banerjee, Jörg M. Ries and Caroline Wiertz
Online B2B markets offer buyers a new source of information provided by social media signals about suppliers. These signals have not yet received much attention in the supplier…
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Purpose
Online B2B markets offer buyers a new source of information provided by social media signals about suppliers. These signals have not yet received much attention in the supplier selection literature. This study advances our understanding of how buyers respond to social media signals in the supplier selection process.
Design/methodology/approach
We develop a choice-based conjoint experimental design to isolate and manipulate two signals from social media: volume (the number of ratings) and valence (average evaluation of the ratings). We test how these signals are interpreted in the context of varying deal sizes and price points.
Findings
Both volume and valence are positively correlated with supplier selection. However, (1) the signals exhibit diminishing returns and (2) the efficacy of valence is interpreted in the context of volume. We also find that (3) there is no influence of the deal size and that (4) the relationships between signals and supplier selection are negatively moderated by deviations from the reference price.
Research limitations/implications
Social media signals should be considered in supplier selection decisions as they convey valuable information to the buyer. However, signals go through a process of interpretation which has implications for buyers, suppliers, and owners of online B2B markets.
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Our research opens new lines of inquiry in behavioural operations management research regarding the mechanisms by which buyers interpret social media signals and how these ultimately influence their choice.
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Debi P. Mishra and M. Deniz Dalman
Signals, e.g. information released by firms about new products attract the attention and scrutiny of customers, competitors and other stakeholders. In product management, an…
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Signals, e.g. information released by firms about new products attract the attention and scrutiny of customers, competitors and other stakeholders. In product management, an important area of research focuses on the economic value of such signals. However, extant studies consider valuation effects of product signals independently, and largely ignore how the value of a product signal at launch depends upon prior preannouncements. This study aims to investigate how the dependence of new product development (NPD) signals on past preannouncements affects firms’ security prices.
Design/methodology/approach
The study develops a conceptual model that draws upon information asymmetry theories, i.e. signaling and agency theory to hypothesize the effect of firms’ product introduction announcements on security prices given two antecedent preannouncement types (costless and costly signals). Hypotheses are tested by conducting an event study analysis on a sample of 149 matched observations (product introduction announcement preceded by a certain type of preannouncement).
Findings
Empirical results confirm the hypothesis that positive valuation effects are observed during product launch that is preceded by initial costless product signaling. In contrast, for ex ante costly product signaling, launch events are not diagnostic enough to affect value. Since organizations’ NPD communications can revise investors’ prior beliefs, they need to be understood in more detail and managed strategically.
Research limitations/implications
Valuation metrics can be noisy with a potential to influence information events. In addition, product introduction signals may be deployed more frequently in certain fast-paced industries, e.g. hi-tech.
Practical implications
Managers can incorporate signal dependence in product communications. For example, in costless ex ante product signaling situations, initial economic loss may be recovered through launch announcements. Furthermore, when costly signals have been used earlier, firms may economize on promotion costs during launch.
Originality/value
Past research has focused on assessing the economic value of new product signals independently, i.e. as discrete events. Absent is an examination of valuation effects due to the dependence of launch signals on prior preannouncements. This paper addresses the dependence gap, and empirical results show that even if firms do not deploy product signals ex ante, value can be created through ex post launch announcements.
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Hualong Yang, Helen S. Du and Wei Shang
Despite the prevalent use of professional status and service feedback in online healthcare markets, the potential interaction relationship between two types of information is…
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Purpose
Despite the prevalent use of professional status and service feedback in online healthcare markets, the potential interaction relationship between two types of information is still unknown. This study used the signaling theory to examine the substitute relationship between professional status and service feedback in patients' doctor choice, as well as the moderating effect of illness severity.
Design/methodology/approach
To test the paper's hypotheses, we constructed a panel data model using 418 doctors' data collected over a period of six months from an online healthcare market in China. Then, according to the results of the Hausman test, we estimated a fixed-effects model of patients' choice in online healthcare markets.
Findings
The empirical results showed that the effect of a doctor's professional status and service feedback on a patient's doctor choice was substitutable. Moreover, patients' illness severity played a moderating role, in that the influence of professional status on a patient with high-severity illness was higher than that on a patient with low-severity illness, whereas the influence of service feedback on a patient with low-severity illness was higher than that of a patient with high-severity illness. In addition, we found that illness severity negatively moderated the substitute relationship between professional status and service feedback on a patient's choice.
Originality/value
These findings not only contribute to signaling theory and research on online healthcare markets, but also help us understand the importance of professional status and service feedback on a patient's choice when seeking a doctor online.
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