CESR Faculty Research

How CEOs respond to mortality salience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Integrating terror management theory with regulatory focus theory.

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:24:03 +0000

How CEOs respond to mortality salience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Integrating terror management theory with regulatory focus theory. Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 04/13/2023 - 09:24

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. As chief strategists of their respective firms, how do Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) react to mortality salience associated with the number of new daily COVID deaths in the U.S.? To answer this question, we integrate terror management theory (TMT) with regulatory focus theory to examine how CEOs respond to mortality salience. Based on a sample of CEOs of S&P 500 firms, we found that mortality salience was associated with CEOs’ increased other-orientation, and this association was more pronounced among those with high prevention focus. Mortality salience also was associated with CEOs’ decreased self-orientation, particularly among those with high promotion focus. We also found that CEOs’ self-orientation was negatively related to the likelihood of their firms’ making community donations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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Does reframing fund carbon emissions to increase their personal relevance boost investment in sustainable funds? Evidence from a discrete choice conjoint experimental design.

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Does reframing fund carbon emissions to increase their personal relevance boost investment in sustainable funds? Evidence from a discrete choice conjoint experimental design. Anonymous (not verified) Sun, 01/01/2023 - 00:00

The market for green investments can be expanded by providing investors with clear information about the environmental impact of their investment options. Using a discrete choice conjoint experimental design with retail investors (Nchoices = 20,874, N = 499), we investigate the impact of presenting environmental information in different formats on investment decisions. Drawing on psychological theories of attention and information processing, we test whether reframing the presentation of a fund's carbon emissions to make them more personally relevant and easier to evaluate leads to increased investment in more sustainable funds. We compare the effectiveness of visual and numeric carbon labels, designed to improve the clarity and comparability of emissions, with analogies equating fund emissions to everyday activities such as cooking, commuting, and watching Netflix, which aim to increase the personal relevance of emissions. We find that, contrary to our predictions, carbon
emission labels outperformed analogies in increasing green investment choices.

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Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants?

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants? Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 09/21/2022 - 00:00

When screening candidates, organizations often give preference to certain applicants on the basis of their familial ties. This “legacy preference,” particularly widespread in college admissions, has been criticized for contributing to inequality and class reproduction. Despite this, studies continue to report that legacies are persistently admitted at higher rates than non-legacies. In this article, we develop a theoretical framework of three distinct sense-making strategies at play when decision-makers screen applicants into their organizations—the meritocratic, material, and diversity logics. We then apply this framework to investigate how legacy preferences either support or undermine each organizational logic using comprehensive data on the population of applicants seeking admission into one elite U.S. college. We find strong support for the material logic at the cost of the other two organizational logics: legacies make better alumni after graduation and have wealthier parents who are materially-positioned to be more generous donors than non-legacy parents. Contrary to the meritocratic logic, we find that legacies are neither more qualified applicants nor better students academically. From a diversity standpoint, legacies are less racially diverse than non-legacies. We conclude with a discussion of our study’s implications for understanding the role of family relationships annepotism in today’s organizational selection processes.

(Overcoming) Maternity Bias in the Workplace: A Systematic Review

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 06:00:00 +0000

(Overcoming) Maternity Bias in the Workplace: A Systematic Review Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 03/30/2022 - 00:00

Maternity, a period of transition beginning with prenatal bodily changes and progressing through postnatal lactation, is experienced by up to 66% of working women. Over the past several decades, research on maternity in the workplace has grown exponentially to reveal salient maternity biases that plague women as they navigate their employee and motherhood identities. With the aim of providing information that aids scholars and practitioners in better understanding the experiences of working mothers, we conducted a systematic review of 239 papers on maternity bias (i.e., formal, interpersonal, and internalized). Our interdisciplinary review discusses these three forms of bias and how they might present across different career stages for working mothers. Additionally, we review the antecedents that may drive maternity bias and the outcomes that result for working mothers who perceive or anticipate bias at work. Finally, we discuss areas of previous research aimed at overcoming maternity bias from the perspective of working mothers, their colleagues, and their organization. We conclude by discussing the trends brought to light in our review, the collective strengths and weaknesses of commonly adopted theoretical perspectives of the research reviewed, implications for combating maternity bias for women and their organizations, and recommendations for future research. Our model of maternity bias comprehensively reviews past work to provide insights into the bias that working mothers endure at work but also provides a path forward, as better understanding these biases empower organizations, coworkers, and employees to remediate maternity bias.

"Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals" Chapter in "Handbook on the Business of Sustainability"

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 18:52:30 +0000

"Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals" Chapter in "Handbook on the Business of Sustainability" Anonymous (not verified) Fri, 02/11/2022 - 11:52

This ground-breaking Handbook uniquely focuses on the business of sustainability, offering a fresh insight and practical solutions to the challenges that businesses face in making human activity sustainable. It is organized into four distinctive themes that cut across levels of analysis and illustrate a rich set of solution contexts that will guide future research.

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"Can Advertising Benefit Women's Development? Preliminary Insights from a Multi-Method Investigation"

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:49:37 +0000

"Can Advertising Benefit Women's Development? Preliminary Insights from a Multi-Method Investigation" Anonymous (not verified) Wed, 02/09/2022 - 13:49

We examine the interaction effect of country-level aggregate advertising spending and internet access on women’s development. We explain why this interaction effect either enhances or discourages women’s development. Our empirical analysis of aggregate advertising spending across forty-eight countries over five years uncovers a conditional effect. Advertising may have adverse consequences on women’s development when internet access is low. However, in conjunction with high levels of internet access, advertising corresponds to advancing women’s development. Through an experimental study, we show one possible mechanism for this development: on one hand, the growing trend of femvertising produces comments supportive of women’s empowerment. On the other, stereotypically-sexist ads elicit psychological reactance to objectifying messages. Both the celebration of messaging that supports women and the criticism of sexist stereotyping are now being widely shared online. To explore this phenomenon globally, we conducted a qualitative analysis of social media responses to Dove ads aired within multiple countries. We find that consumers amplified empowering advertisements across a range of different cultural contexts. These findings have implications for advertisers, marketers, and policy makers: such constituencies should consider how advertising can facilitate women’s development by providing marketplace conditions that promote personal evolution into unattained-but-attainable versions of the self.

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State fish and wildlife agency culture: Access points to leverage major change.

Erik William Jeffries — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 20:15:20 +0000

State fish and wildlife agency culture: Access points to leverage major change. Erik William J… Sat, 02/05/2022 - 13:15

Jacobson, Cynthia A.; Sullivan, Leeann; Gasta, Mark; Manfredo, Michael J.; Camuso, Judy; Novotny, Peter; Jacobson, Rick; Witthaus, Kendra. State fish and wildlife agency culture: Access points to leverage major change. Conservation Science & Practice. Feb2022, Vol. 4 Issue 2, p1-11.

Amid a time of unprecedented social‐ecological change, professionals within and outside of the US wildlife conservation community have called for transformation of existing processes and structures to ensure that the benefits of wildlife conservation can be realized well into the future. Current momentum behind an initiative to help increase conservation relevancy among population segments that have historically been underserved by the conservation community is underway. Sustainable institutional change will not be realized, however, without attending to internal cultural change within the conservation community itself. Although elements of an ideal institution have been suggested, specific interventions related to institutional culture need deeper exploration. State fish and wildlife agencies—a primary organizational actor within the conservation community—play a central role in institutional transformation. Using a systems framework, this essay describes key leverage points for cultural change for which interventions could result in sustainable culture shifts. Five possible interventions are introduced to stimulate conversation among conservation practitioners seeking to initiate transformational change within their specific cultural contexts. Amid a time of unprecedented social change, professionals within and outside of the US wildlife conservation community have called for transformation to ensure its ability to provide benefits to society. State fish and wildlife agencies—a primary organizational actor within the conservation community—are a major focal point for needed change. Using a systems framework, this essay describes key leverage points for cultural change for which interventions could result in sustainable culture shifts. Five possible interventions are introduced to stimulate conversation among conservation practitioners seeking to initiate transformational change within their specific cultural contexts.

https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.607

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Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:56:46 +0000

Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets Anonymous (not verified) Thu, 01/13/2022 - 13:56

A growing body of scholarship studies the emergence of moral markets—sectors offering market-based solutions to social and environmental issues. To date, researchers have largely focused on the drivers of firm entry into these values-laden sectors. However, we know comparatively little about postentry dynamics or the determinants of firm survival in moral markets. This study examines how regional institutional logics—spatially bound, socially constructed meaning systems that legitimize specific practices and goals within a community—shape firm survival in emerging moral markets. Using a unique panel of firms entering the first eight years of the U.S. green building supply industry, we find that (1) a regional market logic amplifies the impacts of market forces by increasing the positive impact of market adoption and the negative impact of localized competition on firm survival, (2) a regional proenvironmental logic dampens the impacts of adoption and competition on firm survival, and (3) institutional complexity—the co-occurrence of both market and proenvironmental logics in a region—negates the traditional advantages of de alio (diversifying incumbent) firms, creating an opportunity for de novo (entrepreneurial entrant) firms to compete more effectively. Our study integrates research on industry emergence, institutional logics, and firm survival to address important gaps in our knowledge regarding the evolution and growth of environmental entrepreneurship in moral markets.

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The ethics of diversity ideology: Consequences of leader diversity ideology on ethical leadership perception and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Anonymous — Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:37:23 +0000

The ethics of diversity ideology: Consequences of leader diversity ideology on ethical leadership perception and organizational citizenship behavior. Journal of Applied Psychology. Anonymous (not verified) Sat, 01/01/2022 - 10:37

Scholars have suggested that leader diversity ideologies are imbued with ethical or normative content (e.g., Nkomo & Hoobler, 2014). We advance this literature by examining the ethical consequences of leader diversity ideologies. Specifically, we integrate the ethical leadership framework and the theory of recognition to suggest that leaders who communicate about diversity by acknowledging individuals’ racial/ethnic identities (i.e., use identity-conscious ideology) are deemed by followers as more ethical than leaders who do not (i.e., use identity-blind ideologies). We further suggest that this effect is stronger for followers who are higher in institutional discrimination awareness (defined as those who are more likely to view racial/ethnic identities as consequential within society). Finally, we assert that this interactive effect on ethical leadership will subsequently influence follower engagement in discretionary, proactive behavior directed toward the organization. We found support for our predictions across two experiments and a field study. Overall, our findings illustrate the ethical consequences of leader diversity ideologies. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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Blood Money

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2021 06:00:00 +0000

Blood Money Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 10/11/2021 - 00:00

We use dramatic growth in plasma centers between 2014 and 2021 to study the causal effect of the ability to donate plasma on household financial well-being. We find that plasma donation absorbs demand for non-bank credit. Plasma donors tend to be younger and less educated with lower incomes, savings, and credit scores; they also report less access to traditional bank credit. The opening of a nearby plasma center reduces demand for payday and installment loans by 6.5% and 8.1%, respectively, with larger effects on younger borrowers. Meanwhile, foot traffic increases by 7-10% at both essential and non-essential goods establishments when a new plasma center opens nearby. Our findings suggest that households use discretionary income from plasma centers to smooth consumption without appealing to high-cost debt.

CESR Faculty Research

How CEOs respond to mortality salience during the COVID-19 pandemic: Integrating terror management theory with regulatory focus theory.

Does reframing fund carbon emissions to increase their personal relevance boost investment in sustainable funds? Evidence from a discrete choice conjoint experimental design.

Through the Front Door: Why Do Organizations (Still) Prefer Legacy Applicants?

(Overcoming) Maternity Bias in the Workplace: A Systematic Review

"Entrepreneurs as essential but missing actors in the Sustainable Development Goals" Chapter in "Handbook on the Business of Sustainability"

"Can Advertising Benefit Women's Development? Preliminary Insights from a Multi-Method Investigation"

State fish and wildlife agency culture: Access points to leverage major change.

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Green to Gone? Regional Institutional Logics and Firm Survival in Moral Markets

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