Cognitive sources of liability of foreignness in crowdsourcing creative work

Kumar, Pankaj; Deodhar, Swanand J.; Zaheer, Sri

doi:10.1057/s41267-022-00538-2

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“…Another study found that start-ups with high-status venture capital financiers only benefit when they originate in higher-status countries and when home audiences are familiar with them (Alvarez- Garrido & Guler, 2018). Even when information asymmetry is low, a cognitive bias may persist against outsiders (Kumar, Deodhar, & Zaheer, 2023). Thus, when foreign audiences are equivocal about status signals, new entrants tend to be allocated a lower place in social hierarchies.…”

Section: Status Signaling Across Geographic Boundariesmentioning

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See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling

Carney,

Dieleman

2024

J Int Bus Stud

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Status is an important intangible asset, yet when firms enter new countries, they lack standing in new social hierarchies as outsiders. Conventional wisdom suggests embeddedness in host-country networks can alleviate newcomers’ liability of outsidership. We complement this with insights from status signaling theory: Newcomers in host countries can address their liability of outsidership through the visual display of social affiliations. We utilize a novel visual qualitative research approach that analyzes annual report photographs of an emerging-market family business, depicting the firm’s leaders with high-status alters. Complementing the international business literature, which emphasizes strong ties to host-country business partners, we identify three signaling mechanisms that are more circuitous: bypass (host-country affiliations beyond the firm’s industry), allusion (global affiliations beyond the host country and industry, often celebrities), and aspiration (global industry affiliations). We also suggest that such diffuse status signaling mechanisms may be especially salient in emerging-market family firms investing in developed markets, which are accorded low status in many developed markets. These firms feature firm/owner identity overlaps, long leader tenures, and a tendency to build reputation through prosocial behavior, facilitating the activation of status signaling tactics through ephemeral affiliations with high-status actors situated in world society.

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Section: Status Signaling Across Geographic Boundariesmentioning

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See who I know! Addressing the liabilities of outsidership through status signaling

Carney,

Dieleman

2024

J Int Bus Stud

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“…For example, digital communication channels have reduced the costs of recruiting and interacting with employees based in other countries to the extent that it is now feasible to recruit individuals based in other countries in a phenomenon known as 'work from anywhere' (Choudhury, Foroughi, & Zhu, 2021). It is even feasible (and cost efficient) to tap into human capital in distant locations for specific projects, such as logo designs (Kumar, Deodhar & Zaheer, 2023).…”

Section: What Is ''Ib In the Digital World''mentioning

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“…Technologies such as video streaming or augmented reality enable formats of product and service delivery that have not been feasible before the digital age. New types of social activities leverage digital technologies, such as social networks, e-sports (Lin, Xu & Xie, 2023) and crowdfunding (Kumar et al, 2023) to create opportunities for entirely new types of business.…”

Section: What Is ''Ib In the Digital World''mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Internationally operating digital businesses may be particularly concerned about the association of trust and national identity, which contributes to preferences for domestic service providers as observed in studies of cross-border e-shopping (Kim et al, 2017) and online programming (Gefen & Carmel, 2008). In this issue, Kumar, Deodhar, Zaheer (2023) explain this phenomenon by focusing on cognitive biases that lead firms sourcing creative services online to prefer providers from their own or nearby countries.…”

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“…Three papers analyze challenges of digital transformation in mature organizations and ecosystems: the impact of Industry 4.0 (Lee et al, 2023), solving wicked problems (Tatarinov et al, 2023) and management of digital human resources (Grimpe et al, 2023). Three papers analyze digital strategy from a platform user perspective, exploring how individuals and teams engage with partners around the world, including e-sport teams (Lin et al, 2023), crowdsourcing (Kumar et al, 2023) and cybersecurity (Madan et al, 2023).…”

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Cited by 4 publications

References 147 publications

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