Consumers in Western markets are increasingly critical of globalization and are returning to local values. Companies must therefore decide whether to pursue global brand strategies and/or rejuvenate local brand strategies. To explore the implications of market globalization on consumer preferences, we use signal theory to investigate the roles of perceived globality vs. perceived brand locality as signals of brand credibility, associated downstream effects and boundary conditions of application. This study is carried out in two countries with different levels of globalization. In globalized markets, perceived brand globality is a weaker brand credibility signal than perceived brand locality, whereas in globalizing markets, both signals are of equal importance.
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When time is of the essence and teams face unexpected contextual changes, they must adapt quickly, sometimes even in real time, that is, they may have to improvise. This paper adopts an inductive approach to explore how teams decide to engage in improvised adaptation, and what happens during those processes for improvisation to be successful. The study analyzes improvisation from the perspective of paradox
theory and identifies six paradoxical tensions driven by these contexts: deployment, development, temporal, procedural, structural, and behavioral tensions. We propose a dynamic equilibrium model of team improvised adaptation that leads to team plasticity.
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