Stickiness Factor Research Articles

A Study of the Impact of Manufacturing Servitization on Firms’ Cost Stickiness

Since 2014, China has been actively promoting the transformation of manufacturing servitization, clarifying the importance of manufacturing servitization. This paper investigates the correlation between manufacturing servitization and cost stickiness, supplementing the research on the economic consequences of manufacturing servitization and the influencing factors of cost stickiness. This paper launches an empirical study with a sample of A-share manufacturing companies from 2014 to 2022. The research results show that, first, manufacturing servitization can inhibit enterprise cost stickiness; second, manufacturing servitization affects enterprise cost stickiness through the path of reducing enterprise adjustment costs, reducing managers’ optimistic expectations and reducing enterprise agency costs; third, the negative relationship between manufacturing servitization and cost stickiness is stronger among firms with a low level of internal control, a strong degree of financing constraints, a good quality internal information environment, a strong degree of competition in the market, and firms that are in capital-intensive manufacturing industries; fourth, the role of embedded servitization on enterprise cost stickiness is not significant, while hybrid servitization can have a significant negative effect on enterprise cost stickiness; and fifth, the impact of manufacturing servitization on enterprise cost stickiness mainly lies in the cost of material resources rather than the cost of human resources.

A Five-year Summary of Cost Stickiness Research

In the existing research on cost stickiness, the research on the existence, causes and influencing factors of cost stickiness is more systematic, while the research on economic consequences is more fragmented. As one of the information basis for stakeholder decision-making, it is of great significance to study its latest achievements. This paper reviews the relevant literature on the influencing factors and economic consequences of cost stickiness in the past five years, and summarizes the impact of management characteristics, digitization and intelligence, R & D innovation, earnings management, financing constraints, policies and economic environment on cost stickiness and the economic consequences of cost stickiness on corporate performance, corporate value and corporate risk. On this basis, two suggestions for future research are put forward. First of all, in terms of research content, this paper suggests paying more attention to the micro level. For example, whether managers make decisions to adjust the changes of corporate finance and operating conditions based on the phenomenon of cost stickiness, whether external stakeholders will respond to the stickiness of the enterprise and the economic consequences of cost anti-stickiness. In terms of research methods, the existing literature is mainly based on empirical research, and there are relatively few case studies. It is suggested to further expand case studies to help business practice and academic research.

Research on the Impact of Perceived Interaction on User Stickiness in the Context of Tiktok E-commerce Live Broadcast -- The Mediating Role Based on Emotional Attachment

COVID-19 has been recurrent for the last three years, the competition in the e-commerce live broadcast market of ‘more, faster, better and more economical’ is becoming increasingly fierce. The Tiktok app as a typical e-commerce live broadcast platform that urgently needs to improve user stickiness to stabilize traffic. Based on the survey of users, this paper explores the influencing factors of user stickiness of e-commerce live broad-cast platform according to CAC theory, and uses SPSS software to test the obtained data. Studies have shown that perceived interaction positively affects emotional attachment, and emotional attachment positively affects user stickiness, perceived interaction can be divided into user control, connectedness, responsiveness, and entertainment, emotional attachment can be divided into platform identity and platform affection. Based on the research conclusions, reasonable suggestions are put forward for e-commerce live broadcast platform.

Analysis of the transmission of international breaking news on social media platforms from the perspective of Tipping point Theory -- Taking the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe as an example

Malcolm Gladwell's "Tipping Point" theory has been widely used in analyzing epidemic phenomena since its inception. The theory's core is the three laws of popularity: the law of the few, the stickiness factor, and the context power. Previous studies have proved the explanatory power in the context of Internet communication. On July 8, 2020, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated in Nara. The incident spread rapidly on Weibo and became a phenomenon. This paper introduces the Tipping Point theory and studies the case to summarize the mechanism and principle of international flash news dissemination on social media platforms and explore the experience and enlightenment for future communication. What is discovered is that with the dissemination of international breaking news on social media, the "mavens" journalists shift from the frontstage to the backfield, forming a "journalist-news organization" mechanism with both "mavens" and "connectors" roles, which directly triggers the epidemic. Influencers with a considerable fan base work as salesmen, forming a communication mechanism where "salesmen" take the center and spread out, and new salesmen appear at key nodes to continue to spread, which has the possibility of continuously exploding. The research on the "stickiness" of events discovered that the content framework and dynamic reporting mode combining photographs or videos with text could help increase users' attention to news events and spread enthusiasm. The study of context power found that the objective social environment greatly influences the spread of events, directly affecting the public's sensitivity to events.

How experience value affect user stickiness? An empirical research on booking tourism application

This study with a view to explore the influencing factors of user stickiness of booking tourism applications’ users. Conducting surveys on samples from China online, this study analyzes the impact of different levels of user experience value, user satisfaction, and perceived risk on user stickiness by using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0.Results of correlation analysis and structural equation modeling indicate that both functional experience value and user satisfaction significantly positive influence user stickiness, while neither emotional experience value nor perceived risk have significant impact on user stickiness. In addition, user satisfaction is found an important mediator in the relationship between experience value and user stickiness. In exploring the moderating effect of perceived risk, results find that as perceived risk deepens, both the positive impacts of functional experience value and emotional experience value on user satisfaction are weaken, and the positive influence of functional experience value on user stickiness is decline.

How experience value affect user stickiness? An empirical research on booking tourism application

This study with a view to explore the influencing factors of user stickiness of booking tourism applications’ users. Conducting surveys on samples from China online, this study analyzes the impact of different levels of user experience value, user satisfaction, and perceived risk on user stickiness by using SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 23.0.Results of correlation analysis and structural equation modeling indicate that both functional experience value and user satisfaction significantly positive influence user stickiness, while neither emotional experience value nor perceived risk have significant impact on user stickiness. In addition, user satisfaction is found an important mediator in the relationship between experience value and user stickiness. In exploring the moderating effect of perceived risk, results find that as perceived risk deepens, both the positive impacts of functional experience value and emotional experience value on user satisfaction are weaken, and the positive influence of functional experience value on user stickiness is decline.

Surface energetics to assess influence of biomass-type and biomass\u2013adsorbent interactions in expanded beds

In integrated bioprocessing applications, expanded bed adsorption (EBA) chromatography presents an opportunity to harvest biomolecules directly from the crude feedstock. However, unfavorable biomass interactions with adsorbent usually leads to fouling, which reduces its protein binding capacity as it alters column hydrodynamics and binding site availability. In this work, a detailed study on biomass adhesion behavior of four different industrially relevant microorganisms on 26 different, most commonly occurring adsorbent surfaces with varying degrees of surface energy and surface charge has been conducted. The results showed the derivation of a relative “stickiness” factor for every microorganism, which further classifies each organism based on their general degree of adhesion to surfaces with respect to one another. The obtained results can help to better understand the effect of biomass homogenization on biomass–adsorbent interactions in EBA. The data of surface energy and charge for the surfaces investigated in this work can be used to calculate the stickiness factor of other microorganisms of interest and may assist in the development of novel adsorbent materials for EBA chromatography.

Pre-Clerkship Medical Students’ Experiences and Perspectives of System 1 and System 2 Thinking: A Qualitative Study

Dual-process theories may be invoked to explain how physicians interact with, interpret, and draw inferences from clinical information. Stanovich and West’s model articulates two kinds of thinking—intuitive-based System 1 and analytical-based System 2—which have been under-investigated with physicians in training. This qualitative study explored pre-clerkship medical students’ retrospective perspectives and experiences of System 1 and System 2 thinking via 12 semi-structured interviews and abductive, progressive focusing. Participants identified patient interactions, clinical note writing, knowledge synthesis, problem list and differential diagnosis generation, evaluating evidence, and critical appraisal of literature as pre-clerkship opportunities to engage in System 1 or System 2 thinking. Six major themes emerged from analysis of participants’ interview transcripts: cognitive processes, deliberate practice, learning environment: being alone or being together, stickiness factor, biases and heuristics, and prior experience of attaining competence. Participants valued the anticipated role that System 1 and System 2 thinking will play in their future practice, and experienced nascent, self-regulated development of these cognitive processes during the pre-clerkship phase of their education without formal feedback or coaching from clinician preceptors. Pre-clerkship curricula should further embrace low-stakes, incremental teaching on metacognition and continuous monitoring of knowledge processing as a key competency for physician learners.

Will Joint Management of the Couple Change Enterprises’ Cost Stickiness？Empirical Evidence from A-share Listed Family Business in China

Cost stickiness is an important concept in the field of management accounting, and it is also an interesting feature of cost asymmetry which is different from the traditional cost management model. The motivation behind the cost stickiness of business has always been the focus of academic study. The research focus of this paper is to explore the influencing factors and internal mechanism of the cost stickiness of enterprises from the perspective of the characteristics of the power structure of actual controllers. Different from the general organizational form, the family business based on marriage as the basis of the contract is unique in the allocation of organizational power. First, husband and wife, as the connection of marriage and the core of family business, have an impact on the development of enterprises. But, as independent individuals, they have individual heterogeneity to the firm. The influence of the above characteristics on the cost stickiness behavior under the property right structure-ownership allocation and management right allocation-is more profound.Using China’s A-share listed family companies from 2007 to 2018 as research samples to test, the results show that: （1）Spousal co-governance has a significant impact on the cost stickiness of enterprises: the ownership allocation based on the joint shareholding of husband and wife and the management right allocation based on the joint management of husband and wife have a significant impact on cost stickiness; （2）Equity restriction plays a significant regulating role between marital co-governance and cost stickiness; （3）Entrepreneurial ability of the couple plays a significant regulating role between marital co-governance and cost stickiness; （4）Further research finds that the involvement of relatives from both husband and wife significantly increases cost stickiness; （5）After a series of robustness tests, the main results remain stable. The findings of this paper have opened up the mechanism of internal cost control of family enterprises, and enriched the research on the influencing factors of cost stickiness. The research in this paper is also of enlightenment significance to deeply understand the characteristics of internal operation and management of family firms, improve the decision-making ability of private entrepreneurs, and improve the efficiency of resource allocation.

Analysis of Factors Affecting the Stickiness of Freight Forwarders Based on Customer Experience

Customer stickiness plays an important role in freight forwarding companies. From the perspective of customer experience, this paper collects market feedback information through a questionnaire survey, and uses factor analysis to analyze the relevant influencing factors of customer stickiness. The results show that the reform of freight forwarding companies must start from the main factors affecting customer stickiness, in order to meet the market demand to a certain extent, maintain a stable customer base, and increase customer stickiness. Therefore, bringing the main factors that affect the stickiness of customers into the development process of an enterprise is bound to gain more market competitiveness in its response to the increasingly changing international market.

Structural Equation Modelling for Influencing Virtual Community Networks

With the development of internet, the exchange of knowledge and information has been more convenient, and virtual communities with various themes have been formed. User stickiness has always been the focus of enterprises providing virtual community services. User stickiness refers to the tendency of users continuously using community services after their activity in virtual community; for enterprises providing virtual community services, enterprises are easier to gain profits if the users are more active in the community and have higher tendency of continuously using the community. This paper briefly introduced the stickiness and structural equation model of users in network virtual community, collected data using questionnaire survey, and made example analysis on the influencing factors of stickiness of users in network virtual community using structural equation model. The results showed that knowledge difficulty and environment had no significant impact on user usage, but had a significant positive impact on user satisfaction; competence matching, interpersonal relationship and knowledge quality had significant positive effects on user's usage and satisfaction; user usage and satisfaction had significant positive effects on user loyalty and user dependence reflecting user stickiness.

Regular Price Stickiness in German Food Retailing

Abstract The present study investigates the underlying factors of price stickiness in German food retailing using fluid milk as a case study. We distinguish the duration between two actual price changes and two regular price changes as measures for price stickiness. Especially in the case of private labels, the choice of proxy for price rigidity has important implications. If we consider (regular) price changes, private label products are more (less) rigid than national brands. Price rigidity increases in the product’s average price. Prices of low priced private labels are rather flexible. Price adjustment of high priced private labels is similarly sluggish compared to national brands. We rationalize this finding with variable mark-ups under imperfect competition. In line with previous research, we find that price stickiness also depends on product attributes, retail formats, menu costs, psychological price points, and time-varying market conditions.

Incorporating Inertia in Mode Choice and Influential Factors of Car Stickiness: Implications for Shifts to Public Transit

To explore efficient strategies of adjusting travel mode structure and support scientific implements of public transit system, this paper investigated travelers’ mode choice behavior in a multimodal network incorporating inertia in utility specifications. Comprehensive stated preference surveys considering four modes and four key decisive variables were designed, and face-to-face investigations were conducted to collect reliable data in Shanghai. The discrete choice technique considering mode-specific inertias was employed for modeling. The influencing factors of car stickiness were particularly explored. The results show that there are significant and mode-specific inertias in travelers’ choices of travel mode. The inertia of car users shifting to other modes is considerably large compared to inertias of public transit users. Travel time reliability and crowdedness in public transit are identified to be crucial factors influencing car users’ willingness to use public transit. Demographic attributes (age, income, education level and gender), spatial context features (commuting duration) and the regime of flexible work time are found to be significant influential variables of car stickiness. Moreover, direct and cross elasticity analyses were executed to show practical implications of shifting car users to public transit. The results provide serviceable support for transport planning and strategy making.

SNS를 통한 정보 노출이 브랜드 인지 및 구전행동에 미치는 영향 : 소수의 법칙과 고착성 법칙, 상황의 힘 역할을 중심으로

본 연구는 SNS를 통한 마케팅커뮤니케이션으로 신규브랜드의 인지도 구축이 가능할 것인가에 대한 것으로, 실무에 사용되는 티핑포인트 개념을 근거로 하였다. 연구결과를 통해 다음과 같은 시사점을 제시한다. 첫째, SNS를 통해 노출되는 제품이나 브랜드 정보에 대한 소비자들의 반응은 대중성이 있는 제품보다는 소수의 사용자들끼리 정보를 주고받는 비대중성 제품에 호응도가 더 높았다. 둘째, SNS를 통한 정보노출 및 커뮤니케이션의 특징은 정보수용자의 상황적 관여가 메시지 노출의 기회와 메시지에 대한 인게이지먼트를 조절한다. 셋째, SNS를 통해 노출된 브랜드 및 제품 정보에 대한 소비자들의 구전의도는 브랜드 인지도나 구매의도보다 높았는데, 이는 SNS가 구전확장의 채널로서 효과적이라는 방증이다. 본 연구결과는 시장진입에 어려움을 겪고 있는 개인 및 중소상인들이 광고 및 마케팅 활동을 효율적으로 전개할 수 있는 근거로 활용하기를 제안한다.

Человеческие ресурсы в социальных процессах эпидемического характера

Issues of social epidemics and social diseases emergence in the context of new communications and contemporary global social-informational medium development
 are discussed. serves as a basics for the analysis of new communications impact on human condition and social sphere is analyzed based on the
 social self-organization, or social synergetics, theory as a methodological foundation. The global informational environment has accumulated enormous
 collective intellect.
 Ever-growing intellectual resources create principally new non-equilibrium environment for social communications. Non-equilibrium itself brings about and
 prompts risks of mass natural phenomena and epidemic processes in the social medium. Self-organization is a spontaneous process going on without any
 outer managerial efforts. Self-organization facilitates spontaneous growth of individuals’ mobility and creates potential for counteraction to public administration.
 Mass diffusion of ideological or religious cults, movements, ideas, technological innovations, fashions, games of luck, alcohol and drug abuse — all
 these have epidemic character. Specifics of social epidemic processes are highlighted: multivariability of destructive impact on the social and economic fabric
 of society, relationship of social epidemics to economic crises, etc. Destructive epidemic processes can be stopped with social therapy methods and “vaccination”
 against information viruses, including techniques fo nurturing moral and intellectual foundation of personality. M. Gladwell’s approach to counter social epidemics
 is shown as promising (stickiness factor, the law of the few, force of circumstances).

소셜커머스에서 사이트 밀착도의 역할과 선행 요인에 관한 연구

Abstract http://dx.doi.org/10.9716/KITS.2013.12.3.023 논문투고일：2013년 03월 05일 논문수정완료일：2013년 09월 10일 논문게재확정일：2013년 09월 16일* 본 논문은 2013년도 서울여자대학교 교내학술특별연구비의 지원을 받았음.** 서울여자대학교 사회과학대학 경영학과 조교수Social commerce is a subset of e-commerce that involves using s ocial media, and user contributions to assist in the online buying and selling of products and services. Given the rapid growth of social commerce sites such as Groupon, Ticketmonster, and Coupang, it has become critical to understand customer purchasing decision-making processes in the social commerce environment. This study develo ped a theoretical model to examine the role of social commerce site's stickiness in customers' repurchasing decision processes. This study identifies price attribute, variety of selection, shopping enjoyment, and anger as the key factors of social commerce site's stickiness. Data collected from 164 users who had more purchasing experiences with social commerce for more than 7 months were empirically tested against the research model. The analysis results indicate that social commerce site's stickiness plays an important role in enhancing customer's purchasing behavior. Moreover, price attribute and shopping enjoyment significantly influence social commerce site's stickiness, whereas anger does not significantly affect consumer purchasing decision-making processes. However, contrary to our expectation, variety of selection negatively influences social commerce site's stickiness. The theoretical and practica l implications of the findings are described.

Interrupting long periods of sitting: good STUFF

There is increasing evidence that sedentary behaviour is in itself a health risk, regardless of the daily amount of moderate to vigorous physical activity. Therefore, sedentary behaviour should be targeted as important health behaviour.It is known that even relatively small changes of health behaviour often require serious efforts from an individual and from people in their environment to become part of their lifestyle. Therefore, interventions to promote healthy behaviours should ideally be simple, easy to perform and easily available. Since sitting is likely to be highly habitual, confrontation with an intervention should almost automatically elicit a reaction of getting up, and thus break up and reduce sitting time. One important prerequisite for successful dissemination of such an intervention could be the use of a recognisable term relating to sedentary behaviour, which should have the characteristics of an effective brand name. To become wide spread, this term may need to meet three criteria: the “Law of the few”, the “Stickiness factor”, and the “Power of context”. For that purpose we introduce STUFF: Stand Up For Fitness. STUFF can be defined as “interrupting long sitting periods by short breaks”, for instance, interrupting sitting every 30 min by standing for at least five minutes.Even though we still need evidence to test the health-enhancing effects of interrupted sitting, we hope that the introduction of STUFF will facilitate the testing of the social, psychological and health effects of interventions to reduce sitting time.

Factors of stickiness in transfers of know-how between MNC units

The effective sharing of organizational knowledge is particularly relevant for multinational corporations, where firm-specific tacit knowledge (know-how) is considered a source of competitive advantage for subsidiaries participating in a global strategy. To that end, multinational corporations (MNCs) are asking their IT departments to support both the exploitation of existing knowledge and the unit-to-unit transfer of new know-how derived in units from exploration. Nonetheless, new know-how derived from exploratory research, development and experience in one unit can be difficult to transfer to units that can exploit that know-how to commercial ends. The factors that impede the transfer of new know-how have been conceptualized as “factors of stickiness”. In this paper, we present a theoretical model of organizational factors that can cause (or conversely mitigate) stickiness in the flow of new know-how between MNC units. To test the six hypotheses of the model, we used meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) of 31 empirical studies, representing 10,432 cases of new know-how transfer between units. The result of MASEM shows that the factors of receiving units’ potential absorptive capacity and transmission channel in form of social capital that is enacted through its three dimensions (i.e., embedded social ties between units, institutional shared vision of units, and interorganizational trust of units) affect recipient subsidiaries’ capability to exploit new know-how in practice (i.e., realized absorptive capacity), thus effectuating its transfer. Based on our findings, we propose research directions within the context of agile information systems development, distributed software projects, and management of information systems functions in MNCs.

Will there be a tipping point in medical nutrition education?

The title of this presentation is derived from a national bestseller that defines the moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, "tips," and becomes widely disseminated. Three key tipping-point factors are discussed in the context of medical nutrition education. The Law of Few has to do with the essentiality of role models in directing educational curricula and clinical programs. The Stickiness Factor describes the quality and the content of the message that enable the information to have prolonged meaning. The Power of Context refers to the conditions and risk factors that are directly affected by diet and nutrition. Examples of these key factors are provided with a look to the future of medical nutrition education.

Sorption irreversibility and coagulation behavior of 234Th with marine organic matter

Abstract The partitioning of 234 Th to natural organic matter (NOM) in the colloidal size range (1 kDa–0.1 μm) was evaluated in order to examine the sorption and coagulation behavior of marine colloidal organic matter. Colloids were isolated using large volume cross-flow ultrafiltration and the partitioning of 234 Th was quantified using stirred cell ultrafiltration and radioactive assay. The uptake of 234 Th by NOM is irreversible over a period of 5 days, implying that over the mean life of 234 Th, very little release of 234 Th would occur after binding to NOM. Furthermore, the Th–NOM complex is stronger than the Th–EDTA complex, as EDTA was unable to displace the 234 Th from its association with NOM. The extent of the initial partitioning of 234 Th to suspended matter and colloids is similar and independent of pH in the range from 3 to 9. Coagulation experiments show that 234 Th complexed with low molecular weight (1–10 kDa) colloids is transferred to larger (>0.1 μm) filter retained fractions. However, 234 Th is transferred to a greater extent than is organic matter and this results in greater partitioning coefficients for 234 Th onto particle phases with time. The final equilibrium between 0.1 μm filter-retained and filter-passing 234 Th activity is the same regardless of whether the Th was tagged initially to colloidal or suspended matter fractions. The coagulation of colloidal organic matter, COM, consists of both fast and slow steps, with kinetic rate constants on the order of 0.02–0.03 and 0.003–0.007 h −1 , respectively. The stickiness (or collision efficiency) factor, α , for COM was experimentally determined to be 0.7(−) for seawater conditions. Using the colloidal pumping model of Honeyman and Santschi [J. Mar. Res. 47 (1989): 951], the ‘predicted’ “fast-phase” coagulation rate coefficient is 0.03 h −1 in our coagulation experiments when the measured α value and the experimental conditions are used for model inputs. These experiments demonstrate that coagulation is the dominant step in the transport of 234 Th to the particulate phase.