Signal optimization: using signals to mitigate information overload in crowdfunding campaigns

Purpose – This study explores how information volume affects crowdfunding success and identifies the signals – operational transparency, past crowdfunding experience, perceived project authenticity and perceived product quality – that moderate this relationship. The goal is to provide insights into managing information overload and enhancing the probability of funding success in various information volume contexts. Design/methodology/approach – Data were collected from 2,681 Kickstarter campaigns and analyzed using fixed effects logit regression models. Findings – The study reveals a curved relationship between information volume and funding success, moderated by factors such as operational transparency, crowdfunding experience, project authenticity and product quality. Practical implications – This study provides fund-seekers with essential insights into disseminating information effectively. Originality/value – This study contributes to the literature by elucidating the complex dynamics among information volume, signaling types and crowdfunding success, offering a nuanced understanding of how fund-seekers can optimize their campaigns for better outcomes

Mobile drawing methods in landscape research: collaborative drawing in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

In this paper, we show how mobile drawing methodologies can bring the dynamic, relational and non-representational qualities of landscape encounters to the foreground. The research paper discusses a mobile drawing project that took place in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. The project entitled ‘Taxi Guff-Gaff’ invited participants to undertake a collaborative drawing and conversational journey. Mobile drawing together on a bumpy taxi journey required artist participants to move together and literally ‘pay attention to the moment at hand’. In so doing it produced imagery that foregrounds the inherent dynamic quality of all our landscape encounters. We propose that mobile drawing offers an immersive way to relate to the urban landscape and each other and can open up spaces of landscape research that centre on speculative forms of thinking, being, drawing and conversation

An attention-based view on environmental exigencies and opportunity valuation

Title from PDF of title page viewed August 11, 2021Dissertation advisor: Brian S. AndersonVitaIncludes bibliographical references (pages 97-106)Thesis (Ph.D.)--Henry W. Bloch School of Management. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2021Attention-based view of the firm (ABV) combines structural components of the task environment with cognitive components of the decision-maker, developing a comprehensive perspective of strategic behavior. ABV suggests strategic behavior is an outcome of a decision maker's rationalization of the firm's operating environment. The attention-based view of the firm suggests that noticed change in a firm's operating environment leads to a corresponding change in firm behavior. Additionally, whether decision-makers rely on intuition or deliberate reasoning to construe the change influences the relationship between 'noticing an environmental change' and 'change in opportunity valuation. This dissertation builds on Shepherd et al.'s (2017) attentional model and develops a theoretical framework that identifies the antecedents of change in opportunity valuation. This dissertation hypothesizes that i) noticing environmental change mediates the relationship between change in environmental exigencies and change in opportunity valuation, and ii) cognition of decision-makers moderates the mediating effect. With the aid of a double randomized experimental design and data collected through Amazon M-Turk, the findings from this dissertation support the hypothesis that noticing environmental change mediates the relationship between change in environmental exigencies and change in opportunity valuation. However, findings related to the second hypothesis were inconsistent. This dissertation extends the literature on the attention-based view, environmental exigencies, cognition, and opportunities. Furthermore, limited research within the entrepreneurship domain has applied an experimental approach to a complex moderated-mediation model; this dissertation also makes a methodological contribution by exhibiting an approach to testing a moderated-mediation model using an experimental approach.Introduction -- Literature review and hypothesis -- Methodology -- Results -- Discussions and conclusion

Assessing psychological and environmental factors influencing the long-term orientation of TMTs

PurposeThis study identifies and examines psychological and environmental factors that influence the long-term orientation of top management teams (TMTs).Design/methodology/approachData on S&amp;P 500 companies from 2011 to 2020 are collected from the Compustat database. Additional variables were measured through content analysis of earnings conference calls. This study used two-stage least squares regression with fixed effects to analyze the data and test the hypotheses. Appropriate diagnostic tests were conducted to ensure validity and eliminate endogeneity.FindingsThe results indicate that a chief executive officer’s (CEO) promotion focus positively and significantly influences the TMT's long-term orientation. However, the influence of prevention focus is statistically insignificant. Furthermore, the results indicate that environmental hostility moderates both relationships.Practical implicationsThe TMT's long-term orientation can be improved through the insights provided by this study.Originality/valueTo the authors’ knowledge, this is the first study to examine the collective effects of psychological and task environmental factors on the long-term orientation of the TMT. Additionally, this study sheds light on the internal dynamics of the top-management team.</jats:sec

Long-term focus and attitude toward entrepreneurial behaviors: the moderating effect of industry-clockspeed

Purpose This study aims to identify and examine the antecedents of attitude toward entrepreneurial behaviors (ATEB) of firms. Additionally, this study also identifies and examines the antecedents of innovativeness and proactiveness. Furthermore, this study explains how factors within and outside the organization affect ATEB, innovativeness and proactiveness. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the attention-based view (ABV) and examines the effects of long-term focus and industry clockspeed on attitude toward firms’ entrepreneurial behaviors (EB). This study measures ATEB by analyzing the top management team’s words in the earnings conference calls. It applies the two-stage least squares regression with fixed effects and instrumental variables to conduct the empirical analysis. Findings The results indicate that the direct effects of long-term focus and industry clockspeed on ATEB are not significant. However, the moderating effect of industry clockspeed on the relationship between long-term focus and EB is significant and positive. The results indicate that firms that are operating in fast clockspeed industries exhibiting long-term focus exhibit EB. Furthermore, the results also indicate that long-term focus and industry clockspeed collectively affect innovativeness and proactiveness. Practical implications This research helps firms to develop entrepreneurial behavior operating under various task environment conditions. Originality/value This study applies the ABV of the firm and contributes to the area of firm-level EB, while prior studies have not implemented this perspective in investigating firm-level EB. Past studies have not applied the ABV of the firm to study EB, innovativeness and proactiveness either independently or collectively. </jats:sec

Stereotype Tax: The Unequal Terrain of Crowdfunding for Women and Black Entrepreneurs

The higher information asymmetry in crowdfunding underscores the significance of trust compared to traditional financing methods. Trust in the high-asymmetry crowdfunding environment relies on cues, which can lead to biased judgments by fund-providers. This study addresses the scarcity of research on bias in crowdfunding by examining how fund-providers, relying on entrepreneurial cues, develop trust. The study defines and introduces the concept of a stereotype tax in entrepreneurial funding, suggesting that minority entrepreneurs face additional expectations to secure trust and funding. Drawing on social categorization theory, the study explores the interaction of uncontrollable cues (race and gender) and controllable cues (expertise, enactment, passion, novelty, and usefulness). Data were collected from MTurk using an experimental survey. This study attempts to create awareness regarding hidden challenges in the form of a \u27hidden\u27 stereotype tax for women and black entrepreneurs in the US in securing trust and funding from fund-providers

Wear in centrifugal pumps with causes, effects and remedies: A Review

Abstract Pumps are widely used machinery in various applications. Mostly now, a day in importance is seen from household applications to different industrial level. Various types of pumps are available in the market according to their applications and centrifugal pumps are one of most common types among them. In the course of time, pumps faces various problems and repairing is required. Among them wear is one of the most common problem for reduction in pump performance. Cavitation, corrosion, erosion, fatigue are the common wear mechanisms faced by the centrifugal pumps. In order to minimize such problems frequent maintenance strategies are required. Various researchers have purposed different methodologies. Material properties, coatings in design and optimizing hydraulic and mechanical design for such challenges has been now a major topic of research. In this study, the different wear mechanisms and their causes with reference to various research paper is presented. Different effects for such problems is highlighted. Finally, new emerging technology developed by various researchers for minimizing such wear challenges are discussed.</jats:p

Numerical and experimental study of pump as turbine for sediment affected micro hydropower project in Nepal

Abstract Designing and manufacturing site-specific turbines for small hydropower is not economical. Using abundantly available Pump, from the market, as Turbine (PAT) instead of designing a completely different turbine can be much more economical for small-scale hydropower. Lot of research have been going throughout the world on this and has already proven its effectiveness. In Nepalese hydropower, including the ones already developed and the ones that will be developed in the future, Francis turbines are supposedly the suitable turbine of choice. However, designing and manufacturing Francis turbine is a tedious task and the local manufacturers, who are expert in manufacturing Cross-flow turbines; do not have the technology and competence to manufacture the modern Francis turbines. Sediment in Himalayan rivers are the major hurdles of operation as they reduce the lifetime of the turbine by a very large factor, shooting up the maintenance cost of the hydropower. The operational region of Francis turbine and PAT overlaps quite a lot, thus indicating that PAT can be used in many of the hydropower in Nepal. The Chinese and Indian pump manufacturers are already renowned in developing a wide range of pumps and supplying them in Nepal. Despite having such great opportunity, pumps have never been used in turbine mode in Nepalese hydropower. In addition to that, no research has been done, in Nepal, regarding the effects of sediment on pumps being operated as pump or turbine. This paper describes performance of pump in erosive environment using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). It also compares the results obtained from the CFD analysis of sediment erosion in pump operated in pump mode as well as turbine mode with other researchers work. Finally, it compares the results obtained from the CFD with the results obtained from the experiment.</jats:p