Innovation capability and culture: How time-orientation shapes owner-managers’ perceptions

How Communication Shapes Culture

Linking Entrepreneurial Orientation and Export Intensity: How Organizational Learning Capability and Innovation Performance affect this relationship?

Abstract Firms that partake in export activity are entrepreneurial in nature because exporting firms would benefit by proactively seeking new markets, engaging in innovative action to meet local market’s needs, and be able and willing to take risks by venturing into previously unknown markets. While prior studies have looked at the importance of entrepreneurial orientation, organizational learn...

How Kinetic Property Shapes Novelty Perceptions

This paper demonstrates a new substantive finding kinetic property in advertising, defined as direction changes in the paths of moving on-screen ad elements, enhances consumer judgments of product novelty. Across six studies, we first outline an inference-based theory as to why the novelty-enhancing effect of kinetic property manifests – kinetic property generates impressions of how visually li...

Culture Shapes How We Look at Faces

BACKGROUND Face processing, amongst many basic visual skills, is thought to be invariant across all humans. From as early as 1965, studies of eye movements have consistently revealed a systematic triangular sequence of fixations over the eyes and the mouth, suggesting that faces elicit a universal, biologically-determined information extraction pattern. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Here we ...

Underdiversification of Owner-Managers - Required Returns and Incentive Effects

Owner-managers of private companies are often highly underdiversified. We investigate the consequences of underdiversification at the company level. There is a strong positive relationship between underdiversification, measured as the share of personal net worth invested in the company, and profitability, measured as the return on equity. The analysis identifies two causes for this underdiversi...