AI-chatbots on the services frontline addressing the challenges and opportunities of agency

T Chong, T Yu, DI Keeling, K de Ruyter - Journal of Retailing and Consumer …, 2021 - Elsevier
AI-chatbots as frontline agents promise innovative opportunities for sha** service offerings
that benefit customers and retailers. Examining current practice through the lens of agency …

Ambidexterity and entrepreneurship studies: A literature review and research agenda

M Guerrero - Foundations and Trends® in Entrepreneurship, 2021 - nowpublishers.com
Originated by an individual capacity, organizational ambidexterity represents how
organizations do two different things equally well (ie, efficiency and flexibility, adaptability …

Integrating green strategy and green human resource practices to trigger individual and organizational green performance: The role of environmentally-specific …

TT Luu - Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Integrating strategic, top-down management and employee-oriented, bottom-up
approaches, this inquiry proposes a research model in which green management initiatives …

Salesperson ambidexterity and customer satisfaction: examining the role of customer demandingness, adaptive selling, and role conflict

R Agnihotri, CB Gabler, OS Itani… - Journal of Personal …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This research investigates the effects of sales-service ambidexterity on salesperson role
perceptions, behaviors, and customer satisfaction. Using a business-to-business …

Understanding and managing customer engagement through social customer relationship management

L Arora, P Singh, V Bhatt, B Sharma - Journal of Decision Systems, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
In the present scenario of the globalised digital era, organisations have implemented social
media as a methodology of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Social Customer …

Individual ambidexterity in SMEs: Towards a typology aligning the concept, antecedents and outcomes

T Mu, A Van Riel, R Schouteten - Journal of Small Business …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Individual ambidexterity is of vital importance to the competitive advantage of organizations,
especially small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Yet the ambiguous conceptualization in …

Self-efficacy and personal selling: review and examination with an emphasis on sales performance

RA Peterson - Journal of Personal Selling & Sales Management, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Self-efficacy has been a focal construct in personal selling research for more than four
decades. This article reviews and examines how self-efficacy has been conceptualized …

How AI chatbots have reshaped the frontline interface in China: Examining the role of sales–service ambidexterity and the personalization–privacy paradox

H Fan, B Han, W Gao, W Li - International Journal of Emerging …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study serves two purposes:(1) to evaluate the effects of organizational
ambidexterity by examining how the balanced and the combined sales–service …

Analyzing the relationship between exploration, exploitation and organizational innovation

M Guisado-González, J González-Blanco… - Journal of Knowledge …, 2017 - emerald.com
Purpose Although most of the literature supports the existence of a substitutive relationship
between exploration and exploitation, some authors suggest that this relationship is …

The ambidextrous sales force: aligning salesperson polychronicity and selling contexts for sales-service behaviors and customer value

R Mullins, R Agnihotri, Z Hall - Journal of Service Research, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
While many firms are increasing salespeople's service expectations alongside selling
responsibilities, evidence suggests this strategy is difficult to implement. Yet research …