Eva Alexandra Jakob

University of Bayreuth · Faculty of Law, Business Administration and Economics

Drawing on the information processing perspective, this paper investigates how young adults' attitudes toward entrepreneurship are shaped by their beliefs about the role and activities of entrepreneurs. Our first study (N = 129) reveals that young adults hold a biased set of beliefs. They believe that entrepreneurship affords agentic aspects (e.g.,...

Companies increasingly recognize the importance of communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) including their engagement toward employees, the community, the environment and other stakeholder groups to attract applicants. The positive findings on the effect of CSR on applicants’ reactions are commonly based on the assumption that companies...

Companies increasingly recognize the importance of communicating corporate social responsibility (CSR) including their engagement toward employees, the community, the environment and other stakeholder groups to attract applicants. The positive findings on the effect of CSR on applicants’ reactions are commonly based on the assumption that companies...

The combination of multiple institutional logics has important implications for the management and performance of hybrid organizations, but differences in this regard are not thoroughly understood yet. We address this gap by analyzing organizational value logics of 127 social enterprises, which results in a taxonomy including three clusters: social...

Guided by two competing theoretical perspectives, we investigate the contextual role of perceived regulatory stakeholder pressure in the relationship between firms’ strategic orientation and their pursuit of a proactive environmental strategy (PES). While the enhancing perspective suggests that perceived regulatory stakeholder pressure strengthens...