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Full-Text Articles in Business
Family Firms' Cross-Border Mergers And Acquisitions, Matteo P. Arena, Michaël Dewally, Bharat A. Jain, Yingying Shao
Family Firms' Cross-Border Mergers And Acquisitions, Matteo P. Arena, Michaël Dewally, Bharat A. Jain, Yingying Shao
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
We evaluate the link between family ownership and cross-border investment behavior. By analyzing a sample of 2000 large U.S. acquirers between 2001 and 2016, we empirically show that family firms are less active in the international market for corporate control. Unlike non-family firms, family firms generate positive cross-border acquisition returns. Our results also suggest that target country conditions and acquirer financing constraints influence the link between family ownership and cross-border acquisitiveness as well as its valuation consequences. Overall, we find evidence to indicate that reduced shareholder-manager agency conflicts in family firms result in value enhancing cross-border investment behavior.
Helping Youth Navigate Privacy Protection: Developing And Testing The Children's Online Privacy Scale, J. Craig Andrews, Kristen L. Walker, Richard G. Netemeyer, Jeremy Kees
Helping Youth Navigate Privacy Protection: Developing And Testing The Children's Online Privacy Scale, J. Craig Andrews, Kristen L. Walker, Richard G. Netemeyer, Jeremy Kees
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
As children’s and teens’ internet use has reached record highs, the protection of their online privacy is a pressing issue for parents, consumer groups, social media firms, and federal, state, and international agencies. Even with strategies to help children protect their personal information, questions remain as to what children really know about the risks of interacting online. Thus far, much of the online privacy research has relied on subjective measures of adult beliefs and attitudes, which may not be predictive of children's online privacy behaviors. To address these issues, the authors develop and test a children's online privacy scale tapping …
The Impact Of Stakeholder Orientation On Tax Avoidance: Evidence From A Natural Experiment, Gary Chen, Ani Manakyan Mathers, Bin Wang, Xiaohong Wang
The Impact Of Stakeholder Orientation On Tax Avoidance: Evidence From A Natural Experiment, Gary Chen, Ani Manakyan Mathers, Bin Wang, Xiaohong Wang
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
We study the effect of stakeholder orientation on corporate tax avoidance. Using the staggered passage of constituency statutes across U.S. states between 1983 and 2006, we show that greater stakeholder orientation results in increased tax avoidance. We further find greater tax avoidance among firms with limited financial resources and that employees benefit from the change. Our results are consistent with stakeholder salience theory that resource-constrained managers prioritize the claims of salient stakeholders, such as employees, at the expense of secondary stakeholders, such as the government.
Litigation Risk Management Through Corporate Payout Policy, Matteo Arena, Brandon Julio
Litigation Risk Management Through Corporate Payout Policy, Matteo Arena, Brandon Julio
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
Firms modify their payout policy in anticipation of future litigation costs. We examine a comprehensive sample of U.S. corporate lawsuits and find that firms facing significant litigation risk pay lower dividends, and in some cases omit dividends while distributing more cash through share repurchases. Litigation risk changes the distribution of payouts but not the total payout yield as the increase in share repurchases offsets the decrease in dividends. Cash-poor firms cut share repurchases when settlement costs are incurred. The results suggest that firms at a higher risk of litigation increase their payout flexibility.
Momentum Crashes And The 52-Week High, Byoung-Hyun Jeon, Suk-Joon Byun
Momentum Crashes And The 52-Week High, Byoung-Hyun Jeon, Suk-Joon Byun
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
Momentum strategies suffer from occasional large drawdowns referred to as momentum crashes when the market rebounds. We find that a surge of investor speculation toward stocks far from their 52-week highs can partially explain the momentum crashes. If a momentum strategy is revised to be neutral on a 52-week high effect, momentum crashes are significantly attenuated and the revised strategy does not exhibit procyclical returns. Furthermore, the revised strategy generates a higher Sharpe ratio in different sub-periods and international stock markets.
The Board Committee Chair Effect: How Much Does It Contribute To Firm Performance?, Kalin Kolev, Donald J. Schepker, David B. Wangrow, Vincent L. Barker Iii
The Board Committee Chair Effect: How Much Does It Contribute To Firm Performance?, Kalin Kolev, Donald J. Schepker, David B. Wangrow, Vincent L. Barker Iii
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Boards of directors rely on committees to perform important specialized monitoring and advising tasks. While there is general consensus that committees and their chairs influence board outcomes and, thus, firm performance, we know little about the magnitude of these effects on firm performance. Using variance decomposition, we show that audit, compensation, and nominating committee chairs explain a significant portion of variance in firm financial performance. Some of the performance variance attributed to committee chairs comes from the increased explanatory power of adding an important level of strategic leaders. However, most of the committee chair effect seems to stem from performance …
Gender Effects On The Impact Of Colorectal Cancer Risk Calculators On Screening Intentions: Experimental Study, Jungmin Lee, Mark Keil, Jong Seok Lee, Aaron Baird
Gender Effects On The Impact Of Colorectal Cancer Risk Calculators On Screening Intentions: Experimental Study, Jungmin Lee, Mark Keil, Jong Seok Lee, Aaron Baird
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Background:
Risk calculators are increasingly being used to promote cancer awareness and improve compliance with screening tests. Research concerning the effects of colorectal cancer (CRC) risk calculators on the intention to undergo CRC screening, however, has been limited. Some studies have shown lackluster impacts of CRC risk calculators, reporting that people tend to lower their risk perception after receiving personalized assessments from such calculators.
Objective:
We conducted an experiment to examine the mechanisms through which CRC risk calculators might influence individuals’ intentions to undergo CRC screening by examining the role of perceived susceptibility to CRC as a mediating mechanism for …
Who They Are Versus What They Want: How Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, And Compliance Profiles Can Aid In Developing Employability, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Jason Fertig, Pamela Wells, Carelle B. Bassil
Who They Are Versus What They Want: How Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, And Compliance Profiles Can Aid In Developing Employability, Bonnie S. O'Neill, Jason Fertig, Pamela Wells, Carelle B. Bassil
Management Faculty Research and Publications
This paper draws attention to a behavior-based assessment instrument that is frequently utilized in industry settings but less utilized in the academic classroom. The authors argue that this instrument, the dominance, influence, steadiness, and compliance (DISC) profile, can be useful in training and developing soft skills desired by employers. They also examine the effects of gender and work experience on the various DISC patterns to better understand how this instrument may be useful for coaching and mentoring in those academic and organizational contexts. In this study, DISC pattern data were gathered from 1547 undergraduate and graduate students across multiple universities …
Perception Of Internal Controls Helps Explain Whistleblowing, Andrea M. Scheetz, Tonya D.W. Smalls, Joseph Wall, Aaron B. Wilson
Perception Of Internal Controls Helps Explain Whistleblowing, Andrea M. Scheetz, Tonya D.W. Smalls, Joseph Wall, Aaron B. Wilson
Accounting Faculty Research and Publications
The nonprofit sector may suffer financially from inconsistency in regulations and polices surrounding internal control implementation. To address this issue, our study explores how perceived internal control strength differs between nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Furthermore, we examine three components of the Committee of Sponsoring Organization framework to determine which components might significantly influence whistleblowing for nonprofit organizations. As expected, all three components appear to significantly influence whistleblowing for those in for-profit organizations. For those in nonprofit organizations, the perception of control activities and monitoring activities significantly mediates the relationship between organization type and whistleblowing intentions. Finally, the data indicate that …
What Exactly Is Marketing And Public Policy? Insights For Jppm Researchers, J. Craig Andrews, Scot Burton, Gregory T. Gundlach, Ronald Paul Hill, Jeremy Kees, Richard G. Netemeyer, Kristen L. Walker
What Exactly Is Marketing And Public Policy? Insights For Jppm Researchers, J. Craig Andrews, Scot Burton, Gregory T. Gundlach, Ronald Paul Hill, Jeremy Kees, Richard G. Netemeyer, Kristen L. Walker
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
In this article for the 40th Anniversary of the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing (JPPM), the authors first share what is meant by “policy,” “public policy,” and “marketing and public policy” for researchers in our field. The authors then offer examples of JPPM research informing policy across different stages of the policy-making process: problem identification, agenda setting, policy formulation, budgeting, implementation, and evaluation. They also discuss important sources of public policy (e.g., federal, state, and international agencies; self-regulation; the courts; nonprofits; society; industry standards; company policies; personal ethics) and their role in the marketing and public policy …
Does Corporate Lobbying Benefit Society?, Rami Kaplan, David L. Levy, Kathleen Rehbein, Brian Kelleher Richter
Does Corporate Lobbying Benefit Society?, Rami Kaplan, David L. Levy, Kathleen Rehbein, Brian Kelleher Richter
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Lobbying, defined as an effort to influence policy through strategic communication, has grown dramatically in recent years. This paper presents three viewpoints regarding the societal impact of corporate lobbying on society: one perspective argues that lobbying will be primarily beneficial, an alternative perspective contests this viewpoint and suggests that it is generally harmful, and the third argues that the impact is contingent on a number of factors. Proponents of lobbying argue that it is a vital mechanism to transmit valuable information and expertise to policymakers, leading to substantive legislative solutions for resolving complex societal issues. Critics, on the other hand, …
Influence Of Social Media Posts On Service Performance, Carol L. Esmark Jones, Stacie F. Waites, Jennifer Stevens
Influence Of Social Media Posts On Service Performance, Carol L. Esmark Jones, Stacie F. Waites, Jennifer Stevens
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
Purpose
Much research regarding social media posts and relevancy has resulted in mixed findings. Furthermore, the mediating role of relevancy has not previously been examined. This paper aims to examine the correlating relationship between types of posts made by hotels and the resulting occupancy rates. Then, the mediating role of relevancy is examined and ways that posts can increase/decrease relevancy of the post to potential hotel users.
Design/methodology/approach
Within the context of the hotel industry, three studies were conducted – one including hotel occupancy data from a corporate chain – to examine the impact of social media posts on relevancy …
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing And Its Marketing: Emergent Ethical And Public Policy Implications, Alexander Nill, Gene R. Laczniak
Direct-To-Consumer Genetic Testing And Its Marketing: Emergent Ethical And Public Policy Implications, Alexander Nill, Gene R. Laczniak
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
This paper provides a marketing ethics analysis that addresses the practice of selling genetic tests (GT) directly to the consumer (DTC). It details the complexity of this emergent sector by articulating the panoply of evolving ethical/social questions raised by this development. It advances the conversation about DTC genetic testing by reviewing the business and healthcare literature concerning this topic and by laying out the inherent ethical complications for consumers, marketers, and regulators. It also points to several possible public and company policy adjustments. Because this area is relatively new and incredibly dynamic, its current discussion is necessarily an exercise in …
Retaining College Students Experiencing Shocks: The Power Of Embeddedness And Normative Pressures, David B. Wangrow, Kristie M. Rogers, Delia Saenz, Peter W. Hom
Retaining College Students Experiencing Shocks: The Power Of Embeddedness And Normative Pressures, David B. Wangrow, Kristie M. Rogers, Delia Saenz, Peter W. Hom
Management Faculty Research and Publications
Why do college students persist with their education, especially when facing challenges? We answer this question by exploring the complexities surrounding college student retention, using the organizational research lenses of job embeddedness, normative pressures, and the unfolding model of turnover. We first developed a college embeddedness scale and adapted a measure of normative pressures on college persistence. Then, we surveyed 287 first-year students from a broad range of racial and ethnic groups to understand their re-enrollment intentions and behavior. We found a positive relationship between re-enrollment intentions and normative pressures. Additionally, both college embeddedness and normative pressures predicted actual re-enrollment. …
Prosocial Messaging During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Examination Of Email Advertisements, Ashley Deutsch Cermin, Ashton Mouton
Prosocial Messaging During The Covid-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Examination Of Email Advertisements, Ashley Deutsch Cermin, Ashton Mouton
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
Purpose
This study aims to evaluate how brands communicate with consumers through the COVID-19 pandemic and how messaging has shifted over time. The authors identify a typology drawn from extant literature and use it to understand how brands shape consumers’ behavior.
Design/methodology/approach
Through a mix of interpretive and thematic analysis, the authors examine 858 US email advertisements and how these messages have evolved throughout the pandemic.
Findings
The authors findings demonstrate brand communication ranges from prosocial to brand messaging and brands employed different strategies at different phases of the pandemic. Specifically, while brands started out emphasizing socially desirable behavior before …
Navigating The Ethically Complex And Controversial World Of College Athletics: A Humanistic Leadership Approach To Student Athlete Well-Being, Jay L. Caulfield, Felissa K. Lee, Catharyn Baird
Navigating The Ethically Complex And Controversial World Of College Athletics: A Humanistic Leadership Approach To Student Athlete Well-Being, Jay L. Caulfield, Felissa K. Lee, Catharyn Baird
Management Faculty Research and Publications
The college athletics environment within the USA is ethically complex and often controversial. From an academic standpoint, athletes are often viewed as a privileged class receiving undue benefit. Yet closer inspection reveals that student athletes are at risk psychologically, physically, and intellectually in ways that undermine development and flourishing. This reality stands in troubling contrast to the prosocial, virtue-based goals expressed by university mission statements. Given the role of sport in many university business models, college athletics invites scrutiny from a business ethics standpoint. Using a humanistic leadership perspective (Pirson in: Humanistic management: protecting dignity and promoting well-being, Cambridge University …
Executive Dismissal Or Retention? A Study Of Performance, Power, And Survival For College Basketball Coaches, David B. Wangrow, Evan Schwartz, Margaret Hughes-Morgan
Executive Dismissal Or Retention? A Study Of Performance, Power, And Survival For College Basketball Coaches, David B. Wangrow, Evan Schwartz, Margaret Hughes-Morgan
Management Faculty Research and Publications
This study applies upper echelons theory associated with executive dismissal and power to examine the relationships of performance and four types of executive power—structural, prestige, expert, and governance concentration—with dismissal. Using the context of National Collegiate Athletic Association college basketball, in which coaches are completely responsible for strategies and human capital acquisition and retention, a curvilinear relationship between performance and dismissal is found. Significant relationships for prestige and expert power with dismissal are also found, but the “honeymoon period” is longer than prior studies of executive and coach dismissal have shown. Surprisingly, concentrated governance is found to …
Toward An Understanding Of Year-Over-Year Changes In Municipal Management Discussion And Analysis Disclosures, Kevin Rich, Brent L. Roberts, Joseph Wall, Jean X. Zhang
Toward An Understanding Of Year-Over-Year Changes In Municipal Management Discussion And Analysis Disclosures, Kevin Rich, Brent L. Roberts, Joseph Wall, Jean X. Zhang
Accounting Faculty Research and Publications
Using a unique setting in which the standard setter (the Governmental Accounting Standards Board) provides guidance on the content of Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) disclosures, we investigate the determinants of content changes in municipal government MD&A. We do so in terms of economic changes, turnover, and regulatory characteristics. We use a sample of 1142 municipal MD&A disclosures from fiscal year 2011 to 2015 to calculate a difference score based on the degree to which municipal MD&As change from the previous year. Our empirical analysis highlights that MD&A content changes vary directly with changes in the unemployment rate, fund balance …
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: How Investors Respond When Violation Severity And Corresponding Penalty (Mis)Match, Wioleta Olczak
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: How Investors Respond When Violation Severity And Corresponding Penalty (Mis)Match, Wioleta Olczak
Accounting Faculty Research and Publications
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) has become a major focus for corporations, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Department of Justice (DOJ), as indicated by the dramatic increase in the number of FCPA enforcement actions and the level of civil and criminal penalties. Prior regulatory practice shows that the SEC and the DOJ struggle not only to evaluate the severity of a company's FCPA violation, but also to establish the penalty amount. Given the difficulty in assessing penalties, the severity of a company's FCPA violation at times appears mismatched with the size of the penalty. Leveraging signaling …
Linguistic Tone Of Management Discussion And Analysis Disclosures And The Municipal Debt Market, Kevin T. Rich, Brent L. Roberts, Jean X. Zhang
Linguistic Tone Of Management Discussion And Analysis Disclosures And The Municipal Debt Market, Kevin T. Rich, Brent L. Roberts, Jean X. Zhang
Accounting Faculty Research and Publications
Purpose
As the management discussion and analysis (MD&A) section contains discretionary narrative disclosures regarding a government's yearly financial changes and status, the authors investigate several municipal debt market consequences of linguistic tone within these disclosures.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors textually analyze municipal MD&As with Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) software and develop narrative tone measures based on existing financial-specific dictionaries. Using a final sample of 446 municipal bond issuances from 2012 to 2016, the authors modify the current bond regression models to examine the association between MD&A disclosure tone and future bond interest costs or rating disagreements.
Findings
This study’s …
Identifying And Selecting Effective Graphic Health Warnings To Prevent Perceptual Wearout On Tobacco Packaging And In Advertising, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer
Identifying And Selecting Effective Graphic Health Warnings To Prevent Perceptual Wearout On Tobacco Packaging And In Advertising, Scot Burton, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
Graphic visual health warnings (GHWs) on cigarette packaging are used in more than 120 countries globally. Because there are concerns about the effectiveness of using the same visual warnings over many years due to wearout, a primary issue is how to identify the most effective visual stimuli. Adolescent smokers and nonsmokers provided more than 2000 ratings of different visual warnings. Cluster analysis and follow-up analyses are used to identify a high-performing visual stimuli group from the larger group of GHWs. Subsequent analyses also show that compared to other pictorial stimuli, the high-performing group is perceived as effective in preventing adolescent …
Review Of Before March Madness: The Wars For The Soul Of College Basketball, Paul M. Mcinerny
Review Of Before March Madness: The Wars For The Soul Of College Basketball, Paul M. Mcinerny
Management Faculty Research and Publications
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Toward A Doctrine Of Socially Responsible Marketing (Srm): A Macro And Normative-Ethical Perspective, Gene R. Laczniak, Clifford Schultz
Toward A Doctrine Of Socially Responsible Marketing (Srm): A Macro And Normative-Ethical Perspective, Gene R. Laczniak, Clifford Schultz
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
In this conceptual article, the authors use a macro-level analysis and normative ethical theory to delineate and to explicate a doctrine of socially responsible marketing (SRM). Applying a theory-in-formation approach, we postulate a literature-informed definition of SRM. We discuss why a macro and normative-ethical rather than a micro and positive-descriptive perspective is essential to justifying the elements of SRM. We explore and explain why the roots of an authentic doctrine of SRM can be discerned from the literatures of marketing history, corporate social responsibility, institutional economics and moral philosophy. In so doing, the mandate to engage in socially responsible marketing …
Corporate Social Responsibility And Information Flow, Gary Chen, Bin Wang, Xiaohong Wang
Corporate Social Responsibility And Information Flow, Gary Chen, Bin Wang, Xiaohong Wang
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
We find that a firm's greater commitment to corporate social responsibility (CSR) increases firm- specific information incorporated into stock prices. We further show that information searches increase around major disclosure events for firms that are more socially responsible, as observed through requests for newly released annual (10-K) filings on EDGAR and company ticker searches on Google around earnings announcements. Using alternative empirical specifications, we establish a robust and positive relation between CSR and stock price informativeness. Our results are consistent with the ethical and reputational view that a commitment to CSR encourages information acquisition and facilitates information flow into stock …
What Consumers Actually Know: The Role Of Objective Nutrition Knowledge In Processing Stop Sign And Traffic Light Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labels, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer, Scot Burton, Jeremy Kees
What Consumers Actually Know: The Role Of Objective Nutrition Knowledge In Processing Stop Sign And Traffic Light Front-Of-Pack Nutrition Labels, J. Craig Andrews, Richard G. Netemeyer, Scot Burton, Jeremy Kees
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
Examining the effects of what consumers actually know (i.e., objective knowledge) is an important gap in front-of-pack (FOP) nutrition research. In experiments with over 2,000 primary food shoppers, we examine the moderating impact of objective nutrition knowledge on key FOP nutrition symbols (Stop Sign labels, Traffic-Light labels, and a control) for effects on nutrient perceptions, nutrition use accuracy, disease risk, brand attitudes, and purchase intentions. Results support the effectiveness of the Stop Sign label over the Traffic Light label for key outcome measures, with the Traffic Light label performing better on nutrition use accuracy. Importantly, those with greater objective nutrition …
Independent Directors' Dissensions And Firm Value, Wonseok Choi, Monika K. Rabarison, Bin Wang
Independent Directors' Dissensions And Firm Value, Wonseok Choi, Monika K. Rabarison, Bin Wang
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
Using a novel dataset of independent directors’ voting activities on items proposed by managers of Korean firms, we investigate whether independent directors’ dissension in board meetings plays an effective role in enhancing firm value through improved corporate governance. Our results indicate that dissension improves firm value. This finding is robust to different measures of firm value and alternative model specifications including subsample, propensity score matching, and instrumental variable analyses. Overall, we contribute to the understanding of the relation between corporate governance and firm value. Specifically, we provide new evidence that the monitoring by independent directors enhances firm value.
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Standards Utilization And Influences On Their Adoption, Julie Beckel Nelsen
Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting Standards Utilization And Influences On Their Adoption, Julie Beckel Nelsen
Dissertations (1934 -)
Many organizations disclose non-financial operations through a formal corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability report assessing how the firm’s actions impact the environment, humanity, society, and economy. These publicly available reports offer detailed data to stakeholders, and they can guide companies to improve operations, reduce costs, and advance sustainability. Yet, no required disclosure or disclosure method exists for U.S.-based firms, and comparison and evaluation of impact without a standard are problematic. Using Minnesota’s Fortune 500 firms as the sample, this study determined the state of reporting CSR using a standard and determine the influences to adopting CSR reporting standards within …
The Role Of Female Directors In The Boardroom: Examining Their Impact On Competitive Dynamics, Kalin Kolev, Margaret Hughes-Morgan, Kathleen Rehbein
The Role Of Female Directors In The Boardroom: Examining Their Impact On Competitive Dynamics, Kalin Kolev, Margaret Hughes-Morgan, Kathleen Rehbein
Management Faculty Research and Publications
This study contributes simultaneously to research on women board members and competitive dynamics by investigating two unresolved research questions: What is the effect of female directors on the firm’s competitive repertoire? Under what conditions is this effect more pronounced? Leveraging the “Awareness-Motivation-Capability” (AMC) framework, we predict that having women on the board of directors should impact the complexity, heterogeneity, and volume of the firm’s competitive moves. Relying upon a sample of U.S. pharmaceutical firms for the years 2000 to 2017, we find that adding female directors on the board positively affects the complexity and volume of a firm’s competitive moves, …
Option Trading And Reit Returns, George D. Cashman, David M. Harrison, Hainan Sheng
Option Trading And Reit Returns, George D. Cashman, David M. Harrison, Hainan Sheng
Finance Faculty Research and Publications
This article examines the relation between option trading volume and real estate investment trust (REIT) market performance. Specifically, we find that option volume increases are followed by decreases in returns. Furthermore, the portion of option volume that is orthogonal to REIT characteristics drives the observed return predictability relation, thereby suggesting that the return predictability of option trading is (at least partially) attributable to information-based explanations. Finally, consistent with informed traders favoring option market activities due to short-sale costs and/or constraints, we find option based return predictability is more evident within REITs than non-REITs, even though firms within this industry are …
Rise Up: Understanding Youth Social Entrepreneurs And Their Ecosystems, Melissa G. Bublitz, Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Laura A. Peracchio, Ashley Deutsch Cermin, Mentor Dida, Jennifer Edson Escalas, Meike Eilert, Alexei Gloukhovtsev, Elizabeth G. Miller
Rise Up: Understanding Youth Social Entrepreneurs And Their Ecosystems, Melissa G. Bublitz, Lan Nguyen Chaplin, Laura A. Peracchio, Ashley Deutsch Cermin, Mentor Dida, Jennifer Edson Escalas, Meike Eilert, Alexei Gloukhovtsev, Elizabeth G. Miller
Marketing Faculty Research and Publications
This research focuses on youth social entrepreneurs who are leading ventures that address pressing societal problems including climate change, gun reform, and social justice. It answers Journal of Public Policy & Marketing’s call for more research in marketing on social entrepreneurship. Consistent with the mission of Transformative Consumer Research to enhance individual and societal well-being, this research explores how the dynamic ecosystem of youth social entrepreneurs empowers them to rise up to transform people, communities, and the future for the better. The authors partnered with 20 established youth social entrepreneurs who have founded social impact initiatives as well as …