Björn Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 5919799 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Björn Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Björn |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Waseda University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3047-6504 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Switching From Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles to Battery Electric Vehicles
In the context of the global automotive market transition to more sustainable products, this study examines the mechanisms behind users' intentions to switch from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Grounded in self‐congruity and comparative value theories, it investigates how ICE vehicle users' self‐characteristics (self‐efficacy and self‐innovativeness) influence their intention to switch to BEVs throu…
Restoring consumer trust in e-commerce
Blockchain technology has unique technological features that could help e-commerce firms regain consumer trust lost due to widespread online fraud. However, their effectiveness and underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Drawing on trust formation theory, this article examines the effectiveness of these blockchain technology features and its variation across consumer needs. A multi-method approach combines a randomized between-subjects experiment (…
The role of trust as the facilitator and contingency factor in the adoption of digital healthcare services
This article revisits the effect of trust in digital healthcare services, specifically telemedicine, as a context of heightened privacy risks. It posits that trust in a telemedicine service provider causes potential users of the telemedicine service to have confidence in the service provider, and empowers them to take responsibility for their own service adoption decision. Drawing on both the unified theory of acceptance and use of the technology…
Consumer preferences for artificial intelligence-enhanced products
Products with artificial intelligence (AI) functions perform thinking, decision-making, and social tasks, similar to human assistants. Drawing on this similarity to complement established theories of technology acceptance, this research develops hypotheses about consumers' preferences to buy or avoid AI products and the variation of these preferences across consumers and AI product types, which is particularly novel in the literature. Three studi…
Explaining interpersonal differences in Covid-19 disease prevention behavior based on the health belief model and collective resilience theory
Background Governments have attempted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by issuing guidelines for disease prevention behavior (e.g., wearing masks, social distancing, etc.) and by enforcing these guidelines. However, while some citizens have complied with these guidelines, others have ignored them or have even participated in large-scale protests. This research aims both to understand the causes of such variation in citizens’ adherence to governmen…
The AI-extended consumer
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are set to revolutionize established industries. Drawing on delegation theory, this article extends the marketing literature by explaining technology, consumer, and country differences in the formation of demand for AI-empowered consumer products (AI products). Based on hierarchical linear modeling of 2,775 consumer evaluations of automobile add-on autonomous driving systems across five countries, t…
Inspired and inspiring
The role of individualism vs. collectivism in the formation of repurchase intent
As repurchase intent drives profitability and firms are facing culturally diverse customers, managers should know how individualism (vs. collectivism) influences the formation of repurchase intent. This research models individualism as a dimension of both national culture and personal values. Based on HLM of data from six countries and ten industries, study 1 shows that cultural individualism is more influential than personal individualism. Indiv…
Gender and Corruption
Bribing versus gift-giving – An experiment
Does economic growth enhance life satisfaction? The case of Germany
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether economic growth enhances life satisfaction. It provides a conceptual solution to the heavily debated Easterlin paradox which states that aggregate income positively relates to life satisfaction in one‐time international comparisons but not in longitudinal analyses. First empirical results are presented for Germany. Design/methodology/approach The present study uses path analysis to capture n…
The German Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry
Maurseth P. B. and Frank B. The German information and communication technology (ICT) industry: spatial growth and innovation patterns, Regional Studies. This paper is motivated by previous studies that have found that information and communication technology (ICT) industries seem to cluster geographically and having spatially clustered growth rates. In Germany, the production of ICT devices is concentrated in clusters of innovating regions (in t…
The spatial econometrics of elephant population change
Creativity and Space. Labour and the Restructuring of the German Advertising Industry
Joachim Thiel Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 194 pp. Price: $89.95/£45.00 A book about the German advertising industry. What is it that makes the German advertising industry more interesting than, say, hair dressing in France or tax consultancy in Mexico? Here is why this book is potentially of interest to economic geographers and regional and urban economists: 1 Or, as Marshall has put it, 'Employers are apt to resort to any place where they are like…
On Samuel Cameron's ‘The economics of preference change
The use of internal games
A note On the international dominance of the U.S. in the trade in movies and television fiction
The author argues that past economic models explaining U.S. dominance in the trade in motion pictures and television programming are flawed and do not adequately take into account structural dimensions for the dominance. He presents an extension of the Wildman and Siwek model and argues that the European Community cannot be considered the equivalent of the U.S. in the models.
Gender and Corruption
Bribing versus gift-giving – An experiment
Inspired and inspiring
Does economic growth enhance life satisfaction? The case of Germany
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether economic growth enhances life satisfaction. It provides a conceptual solution to the heavily debated Easterlin paradox which states that aggregate income positively relates to life satisfaction in one‐time international comparisons but not in longitudinal analyses. First empirical results are presented for Germany. Design/methodology/approach The present study uses path analysis to capture n…
The German Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry
Maurseth P. B. and Frank B. The German information and communication technology (ICT) industry: spatial growth and innovation patterns, Regional Studies. This paper is motivated by previous studies that have found that information and communication technology (ICT) industries seem to cluster geographically and having spatially clustered growth rates. In Germany, the production of ICT devices is concentrated in clusters of innovating regions (in t…
The use of internal games
The role of individualism vs. collectivism in the formation of repurchase intent
As repurchase intent drives profitability and firms are facing culturally diverse customers, managers should know how individualism (vs. collectivism) influences the formation of repurchase intent. This research models individualism as a dimension of both national culture and personal values. Based on HLM of data from six countries and ten industries, study 1 shows that cultural individualism is more influential than personal individualism. Indiv…
A note On the international dominance of the U.S. in the trade in movies and television fiction
The author argues that past economic models explaining U.S. dominance in the trade in motion pictures and television programming are flawed and do not adequately take into account structural dimensions for the dominance. He presents an extension of the Wildman and Siwek model and argues that the European Community cannot be considered the equivalent of the U.S. in the models.
The use of internal games
On Samuel Cameron's ‘The economics of preference change
Creativity and Space. Labour and the Restructuring of the German Advertising Industry
Joachim Thiel Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005. 194 pp. Price: $89.95/£45.00 A book about the German advertising industry. What is it that makes the German advertising industry more interesting than, say, hair dressing in France or tax consultancy in Mexico? Here is why this book is potentially of interest to economic geographers and regional and urban economists: 1 Or, as Marshall has put it, 'Employers are apt to resort to any place where they are like…
The spatial econometrics of elephant population change
The German Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry
Maurseth P. B. and Frank B. The German information and communication technology (ICT) industry: spatial growth and innovation patterns, Regional Studies. This paper is motivated by previous studies that have found that information and communication technology (ICT) industries seem to cluster geographically and having spatially clustered growth rates. In Germany, the production of ICT devices is concentrated in clusters of innovating regions (in t…
Does economic growth enhance life satisfaction? The case of Germany
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether economic growth enhances life satisfaction. It provides a conceptual solution to the heavily debated Easterlin paradox which states that aggregate income positively relates to life satisfaction in one‐time international comparisons but not in longitudinal analyses. First empirical results are presented for Germany. Design/methodology/approach The present study uses path analysis to capture n…
Gender and Corruption
Bribing versus gift-giving – An experiment
The role of individualism vs. collectivism in the formation of repurchase intent
As repurchase intent drives profitability and firms are facing culturally diverse customers, managers should know how individualism (vs. collectivism) influences the formation of repurchase intent. This research models individualism as a dimension of both national culture and personal values. Based on HLM of data from six countries and ten industries, study 1 shows that cultural individualism is more influential than personal individualism. Indiv…
Inspired and inspiring
The AI-extended consumer
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are set to revolutionize established industries. Drawing on delegation theory, this article extends the marketing literature by explaining technology, consumer, and country differences in the formation of demand for AI-empowered consumer products (AI products). Based on hierarchical linear modeling of 2,775 consumer evaluations of automobile add-on autonomous driving systems across five countries, t…
Explaining interpersonal differences in Covid-19 disease prevention behavior based on the health belief model and collective resilience theory
Background Governments have attempted to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by issuing guidelines for disease prevention behavior (e.g., wearing masks, social distancing, etc.) and by enforcing these guidelines. However, while some citizens have complied with these guidelines, others have ignored them or have even participated in large-scale protests. This research aims both to understand the causes of such variation in citizens’ adherence to governmen…
Consumer preferences for artificial intelligence-enhanced products
Products with artificial intelligence (AI) functions perform thinking, decision-making, and social tasks, similar to human assistants. Drawing on this similarity to complement established theories of technology acceptance, this research develops hypotheses about consumers' preferences to buy or avoid AI products and the variation of these preferences across consumers and AI product types, which is particularly novel in the literature. Three studi…
The role of trust as the facilitator and contingency factor in the adoption of digital healthcare services
This article revisits the effect of trust in digital healthcare services, specifically telemedicine, as a context of heightened privacy risks. It posits that trust in a telemedicine service provider causes potential users of the telemedicine service to have confidence in the service provider, and empowers them to take responsibility for their own service adoption decision. Drawing on both the unified theory of acceptance and use of the technology…
Switching From Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles to Battery Electric Vehicles
In the context of the global automotive market transition to more sustainable products, this study examines the mechanisms behind users' intentions to switch from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Grounded in self‐congruity and comparative value theories, it investigates how ICE vehicle users' self‐characteristics (self‐efficacy and self‐innovativeness) influence their intention to switch to BEVs throu…
Restoring consumer trust in e-commerce
Blockchain technology has unique technological features that could help e-commerce firms regain consumer trust lost due to widespread online fraud. However, their effectiveness and underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Drawing on trust formation theory, this article examines the effectiveness of these blockchain technology features and its variation across consumer needs. A multi-method approach combines a randomized between-subjects experiment (…
Economics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works)