Role Of Environmental Turbulence Research Articles

The effect of environmental turbulence on cyber security risk management and organizational resilience

Even though there is a plethora of research on the role of environmental turbulence in organizational performance in general, little attention has been paid to the effect of environmental turbulence on cyber security risk management and further - organizational resilience. Drawing on the resource-based view and contingency theory, this study investigates how technological and market turbulence influence organizational cyber security risk management (CSRM) and then organizational resilience. Using a data set from 150 European companies, the study findings show how the two types of turbulence have different effects on CSRM in the companies studied. Technological turbulence directly impacts the firms’ cyber security risk maturity while market turbulence has a direct positive affect on firms’ cyber security risk perception. The study also determines the interplay between risk perception and risk maturity and subsequent resilience.

Entrepreneurial marketing and bank performance in Egypt: is environmental turbulence a missing link?

PurposeCurrent research argues that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurial marketing (EM) and business performance. However, this relationship has only been discussed in a relatively stable environmental situation and it is not clear whether such a relationship remains positive during environmental turbulence (ET) and whether organizations adopting EM activities during such turbulence, will change their behavior to enhance their performance. Thus, this study aims to examine the relationship between EM and the performance of Egyptian banks. Furthermore, building upon environmental contingency theory, this study examined the moderating role of ET on the relationship between EM and the performance of banks in Egypt.Design/methodology/approachData were collected during the period March–June 2020 using a sample of 358 employees working in 20 banks in Egypt. Online surveys and self-administered questionnaires were used to collect the required data during the COVID-19 pandemic. The hypotheses were tested through structural equation modeling using SPSS 25.FindingsThe main results of this study indicated that EM and bank performance are positively related. Results also showed that ET and technological turbulence positively moderates this relationship, i.e. this relationship is more robust in highly turbulent business environments than in more stable environments.Practical implicationsThis study provides useful managerial and practical implications. Fruitful insights can be communicated to bank managers in Egypt on the importance of EM and its implications for performance. With an increased understanding of EM, bank managers will come to understand that EM is critical for the sustainability and development of their banks.Originality/valueAn extensive review of the existing research material indicates that this is the first study to examine the relationship between EM and Egyptian banking performance and the moderating role of ET, particularly in large organizations.

A Study of the Impact of Cloud Computing Alignment on the Enterprise Technological Capability Based on Environmental Turbulence

One of the most current concerns in the field of information system is whether cloud computing technology can deliver the desired improvement of capability and value to enterprises. This paper studied the enterprise technology development capability of the enterprises in Beijing Zhongguancun Technology Park, the first national high-tech industrial development zone in China, from the perspective of the breadth and depth of the alignment of cloud computing and enterprise. It proposed a theoretical model to study how the breadth and depth of alignment affects the enterprise technology development capability in a turbulent environment and considers the intermediary role of the enterprise technology absorption capability and the moderation role of environmental turbulence in it. The model was tested empirically by questionnaires and structural equation model (SEM). Empirical results showed that both the deep and wide alignment of cloud computing can enhance the enterprise technology development capability by improving the enterprise technology absorption capability.

How does strategic flexibility affect bricolage: The moderating role of environmental turbulence.

While most studies have viewed strategic flexibility as a capability to cope with the environmental turbulence and promote the product innovation, few of them investigate the mediating mechanism in the relationship between the strategic flexibility and product innovation. According to the resource-based view, we regard the bricolage as a concrete activity of recombining the different resources in the product development process and explore the underlying mechanism. Our results reveal that strategic flexibility has a positive and significant effect on bricolage. The effect of strategic flexibility on product innovation is partially mediated by bricolage. Furthermore, environmental turbulence moderates the relationship between strategic flexibility and bricolage positively. We contribute to the strategic flexibility research by exploring the effect of strategic flexibility on the bricolage and product innovation form a mediating perspective and offering a more nuanced and in-depth understanding of the impact of strategic flexibility. This research also provides new evidence on the effect of strategic flexibility on product innovation in transition economies such as China, where strategic flexibility is essential for firms to adapt to an uncertain environment.

A Model to Assess the Impacts of Cloud Computing Use on SME Performance: A Resource-Based View

Currently, cloud computing services that are available in the market are very appealing to SMEs. This is because these services are not only up-to-date in terms of ICT but more importantly they are affordable to them. However, the adoption of the cloud computing services presents significant challenges to the SMEs. They need to determine the appropriate path in order to ensure their sustainable presence in the cloud computing environment. Additionally, SMEs have to assess whether cloud services can provide value to their business. Past research has focused on cloud computing adoption by SMEs; the post-adoption and impacts of cloud computing was not thoroughly investigated. Using the Resource-Based theory, this paper discusses a conceptual model developed to assess the impact of cloud computing on SME performance, mediated by cloud computing benefits. The role of environmental turbulence is also included in the model which is postulated to moderate the effect of cloud infrastructure capability on cloud computing benefits. The model contributes towards understanding the impacts of cloud computing on SMEs from the lens of Resource-based View, and practically can guide SME managers in planning their cloud migration initiative.

The dynamics of expert and team intuition in NPD projects: The role of environmental turbulence and expert power

This paper empirically examines the roles that an expert intuition, an expert power, and a team intuition play when applied to a particular task in the NPD team context. The objectives are achieved in two phases. In the first phase, the antecedents of expert intuition and team likeliness to accept expert intuition were tested. The moderating role that environmental turbulence plays was also measured. In the second phase, we measured the impact that an expert intuition and team likeliness to accept expert intuition had on an NPD team intuition. The moderating role that an expert power plays was also measured. A comprehensive literature review was conducted to develop the hypothesis and conceptual framework. Data was collected from 325 respondents of 116 software houses in Pakistan. Structured equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that task uncertainty had a positive and significant impact on expert intuition and team likeliness to accept expert intuition. Environmental turbulence also played a significant moderating role except in the case of task creativity and the team likeliness to accept expert intuition. There was also a positive impact from expert intuition and team likeliness to accept expert intuition on team intuition. The moderating role of expert power was also significant. This study adds value to the existing literature on expert intuition, team intuition and expert power especially in the NPD context. The relationship between intuition at the individual and team levels is established and the results revealed the impact of task uncertainty and expert power on the relationship.

Information technology utilization to improve project team-owner relationship and project performance

While prior research suggested a positive relationship between the use of particular Information Technology (IT) tools and organizational performance, very few published studies have attempted to assess the influence of IT usage on project team-owner relationship and the performance of capital facility projects. Thus, the first objective of this study is to validate a framework for assessing the associations among IT usage, project team-owner relationship, and project performance. The second objective is to examine the moderating role of environmental turbulence in the relationship between project team-owner relationship and project performance. This study empirically investigated a sample of projects in the Taiwanese construction industry. The results show that IT utilization can enhance the relationship with the owner and then improve project performance. The findings also indicate that the positive relationship between project team-owner relationship and project performance depends on environmental turbulence.

Technological Competency and New Product Development Performance: The Moderating Role of Environmental Turbulence

Although studies have emphasized the importance of fit between technology competency and environmental factors on new product development, the empirical examination of this field has been somewhat scarce. This paper therefore examines whether the fit between technology competency and environmental turbulence exist, and impact of this fit on firm’s new product performance. Based on a survey of cross-industry sample of 336 manufacturing SMEs in China, we find that technology competency and environmental turbulence interactively impact NPD performance. Specifically, the efficiency of internal technology competency would deteriorate in dynamic environment.

Team intuition as a continuum construct and new product creativity: The role of environmental turbulence, team experience, and stress

Although past research has reported the benefits of intuition in new product decision-making (i.e., higher quality product; enhanced customer satisfaction), intuition has largely been studied as an individual phenomenon and little work has examined the role of intuition on new product development (NPD) project teams. Furthermore, in a turbulent environment, NPD project teams may rely more on intuitive judgments, and other factors such as experience and stress may also influence the relationship between team intuition and team decision making. Drawing from the organizational design literature on creativity in decision making, this study builds a conceptual model of NPD team intuition and its effect on the team's ability to generate creative new products. We then derive hypotheses regarding team intuition, stress, environmental turbulence, and new product creativity, and test the hypotheses using data from a sample of 155 firms operating in Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey. We specifically test whether an inverted-U relationship exists between team intuition and new product creativity (that is, a balance of both intuitive and rational judgments is preferred), and whether this relationship is moderated by team experience and stress. Moreover, direct impact of turbulent conditions (i.e. market and technical turbulence) on intuition was also examined. The results of our empirical study with a sample of 310 new product/project developers and 155 project managers showed a positive and linear relation between turbulent conditions (both market and technical) and team intuition and an inverted U-shaped team intuition–new product creativity relation for teams with high experience and low stress. Finally, theoretical implications for future research and managerial implications for practitioners are discussed in the conclusion section.

Invited Commentary—Motion Pictures: Consumers, Channels, and Intuition

AboutSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail Go to Section HomeMarketing ScienceVol. 25, No. 6 Invited Commentary—Motion Pictures: Consumers, Channels, and IntuitionBerend WierengaBerend WierengaPublished Online:1 Nov 2006https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.1050.0185 Previous Back to Top Next FiguresReferencesRelatedInformationCited ByThe Effect of Calorie Posting Regulation on Consumer Opinion: A Flexible Latent Dirichlet Allocation Model with Informative PriorsDinesh Puranam, Vishal Narayan, Vrinda Kadiyali21 August 2017 | Marketing Science, Vol. 36, No. 5RESEARCH ON THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY: STATE OF THE ART AND NEW DIRECTIONS OFF THE BEATEN TRACK AWAY FROM THEATRICAL RELEASE1 March 2016 | Journal of Economic Surveys, Vol. 31, No. 2Financial and Nonfinancial Performance Measures for Managing Revenue Streams of Intellectual Property Products: The Case of Motion Pictures23 November 2016Substitution or Promotion? The Impact of Price Discounts on Cross-Channel Sales of Digital MoviesJournal of Retailing, Vol. 91, No. 2When Kerry Met Sally: Politics and Perceptions in the Demand for MoviesJason M. T. Roos, Ron Shachar24 February 2014 | Management Science, Vol. 60, No. 7Perturbation model for a product of joint consumption23 July 2012 | Journal of Targeting, Measurement and Analysis for Marketing, Vol. 20, No. 3-4Understanding preferences for motion picturesJournal of Business Research, Vol. 64, No. 8Team intuition as a continuum construct and new product creativity: The role of environmental turbulence, team experience, and stressResearch Policy, Vol. 40, No. 2Motion picture performance: A review and research agendaInternational Journal of Management Reviews, Vol. 11, No. 3An Empirical Investigation of the Dynamic Effect of Marlboro's Permanent Pricing ShiftTao Chen, Baohong Sun, Vishal Singh, 21 November 2008 | Marketing Science, Vol. 28, No. 4How Complex Do Movie Channel Contracts Need to Be?Sumit Raut, Sanjeev Swami, Eunkyu Lee, Charles B. Weinberg, 31 March 2008 | Marketing Science, Vol. 27, No. 4Millennial Students, Movies, and TourismTourism Analysis, Vol. 13, No. 2Intuitive Knowledge Generation in Post-Bureaucratic Organizations Volume 25, Issue 6November-December 2006Pages 551-765 Article Information Metrics Information Published Online:November 01, 2006 Copyright © 2006, INFORMSCite asBerend Wierenga, (2006) Invited Commentary—Motion Pictures: Consumers, Channels, and Intuition. Marketing Science 25(6):674-677. https://doi.org/10.1287/mksc.1050.0185 Keywordsmoviesconsumer choice modelsmarketing channelsmodels and intuitionPDF download

The Role of Environmental Turbulence, Readiness for Change, and Salesperson Learning in the Success of Sales Force Change

Today's sales forces are under pressure to change or risk becoming extinct. Changes in the business marketplace have accelerated the need for salespeople to learn continuously. The purpose of this paper is to examine readiness for change in a sales force context. Change is presumed to be initiated in response to some galvanizing event in the business environment. Business turbulence requires recognition of the need for change by members of the sales organization. We discuss the sales force's perceptions of a sales organization's readiness for change and propose that these perceptions impact the organization's change success. Furthermore, an organization's culture, climate, and policies are proposed as key drivers of an organization's readiness for change. Sales force perceptions of organizational readiness for change are then posited to be related to several measures of change success. The paper concludes with a call for more research on salesperson's learning orientation and sales organizational readiness for change as keys to sales performance.