Purpose: Industry-wide crises involving consumer products place consumers at risk. Consumers rely on institutions that constrain corporate practice and control product quality to reduce risk. As institutions vary by country, country-of-origin (COO) acts as a salient cue for consumers to...

Purpose: This article investigated the relationship between loneliness and anthropomorphic products. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted three studies to examine their hypotheses. Findings: The authors confirmed that highly lonely people would like to seek for social...

Purpose: To reconcile the existing contradictory conclusions on the relationship between cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and innovation, this paper aims to propose a theoretical model of the impact of cross-border M&As on technological innovation and explore the moderating role of...