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Not all success is created equal: The innovation costs of extreme success Open

Hung M. Dao, Selina L. Lehmann, Oguz A. Acar, Dirk Deichmann · 2025

Core principles of responsible generative AI usage in research Open

Tim-Dorian Knöchel, Konrad J. Schweizer, Oguz A. Acar, Atakan M. Akıl, Ali H. Al‐Hoorie , et al. · 2025

Reframing the AI Doctor debate: the comparison should not be with Doctors but Doctorlessness Open

Aybars Tuncdogan, Oguz A. Acar, Josip Car · 2025

Recent debate has fixated on whether patients would be willing to use AI-based medical services as an alternative to doctors. However, this debate overlooks a key issue: in most parts of the world, doctors - especially specialists - are in…

Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages Open

Erin Michelle Buchanan, Savannah C Lewis, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel , et al. · 2025

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have s…

Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages Open

Erin Michelle Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel, Nicholas Alvaro Coles , et al. · 2025

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have s…

Identifying discourses of generative AI in higher education Open

Chahna Gonsalves, Oguz A. Acar · 2025

This chapter explores the integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in higher education through semi-structured interviews and discourse analysis of academic staff at a UK Russell Group university’s business school. Eight key …

Principles for Responsible AI Usage in Research Open

Tim-Dorian Knoechel, Konrad J. Schweizer, Oguz A. Acar, Atakan M. Akil, Ali H. Al‐Hoorie , et al. · 2024

In a rapidly evolving AI landscape, policymakers, publishers, and researchers have to continuously re-define responsible practices for research. Our consensus describes the fundamental principles required for responsible AI usage to guide …

Commentary: Reimagining marketing education in the age of generative AI Open

Oguz A. Acar · 2024

Generative AI (GenAI) holds the potential to revolutionise marketing education by enhancing the learning experience and addressing long-standing pedagogical challenges. This paper explores the transformative impact of GenAI, focusing on th…

Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases Open

Xin Yang, Jonathan Schulz, Kathleen Schmidt, Adam R Kenny, Gerit Pfuhl , et al. · 2024

Biases in favor of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group effect; MGE). The extent t…

Large-scale cross-societal examination of real- and minimal-group biases Open

Xin Yang, Jonathan Schulz, Kathleen Schmidt, Adam R Kenny, Gerit Pfuhl , et al. · 2024

Biases in favor of culturally prevalent social ingroups are ubiquitous, but random assignment to arbitrary experimentally created social groups is also sufficient to create ingroup biases (i.e., the minimal group effect; MGE). The extent t…

Beyond Prompt Engineering: Skills Marketers Need to Deploy Generative AI Successfully Open

Oguz A. Acar · 2024

Examining the Effects of AI Financial Advisor Attributes on Their Adoption Open

Adi Ghosh, Oguz A. Acar, Caroline Wiertz, Aneesh Banerjee · 2024

Crowd science and science skepticism Open

Oguz A. Acar · 2023

Science skepticism is widespread and on the rise. It is a strong threat to public well-being and global sustainability. In this paper, I argue that crowd science is a promising and underutilized tool to fight this threat. Drawing on recent…

A Framework for Responsible AI Education: A Working Paper Open

Caitlin Bentley, Christine Aicardi, Sammia Poveda, Leonardo Magela Cunha, David Kohan Marzagão , et al. · 2023

Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages Open

Erin Michelle Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel, Nicholas Alvaro Coles , et al. · 2021

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have s…

Measuring the Semantic Priming Effect Across Many Languages Open

Erin Michelle Buchanan, Kelly Cuccolo, Tom Heyman, Niels van Berkel, Nicholas Alvaro Coles , et al. · 2021

Semantic priming has been studied for nearly 50 years across various experimental manipulations and theoretical frameworks. Although previous studies provide insight into the cognitive underpinnings of semantic representations, they have s…

The Signal Value of Crowdfunded Products Open

Oguz A. Acar, Darren W. Dahl, Christoph Fuchs, Martin Schreier · 2021

Crowdfunding has emerged as an alternative means of financing new ventures by utilizing the financial support of a large group of individual investors. This research asks a novel question: Does being crowdfunded carry any signal value for …

Predicted Adoption Rates of Contact Tracing App Configurations - Insights from a Choice-Based Conjoint Study with a Representative Sample of the UK population Open

Caroline Wiertz, Aneesh Banerjee, Oguz A. Acar, Adi Ghosh · 2020

Business capabilities for industrial firms: A bibliometric analysis of research diffusion and impact within and beyond Industrial Marketing Management Open

Yiannis Kouropalatis, Alessandro Giudici, Oguz A. Acar · 2018

Creativity and Innovation Under Constraints: A Cross-Disciplinary Integrative Review Open

Oguz A. Acar, Murat Tarakci, Daan van Knippenberg · 2018

Generating creative ideas and turning them into innovations is key for competitive advantage. However, endeavors toward creativity and innovation are bounded by constraints such as rules and regulations, deadlines, and scarce resources. Th…

Registered Replication Report on Srull and Wyer (1979) Open

Randy J. McCarthy, John J. Skowronski, Bruno Verschuère, Ewout H. Meijer, Ariane Jim , et al. · 2018

Srull and Wyer (1979) demonstrated that exposing participants to more hostility-related stimuli caused them subsequently to interpret ambiguous behaviors as more hostile. In their Experiment 1, participants descrambled sets of words to for…

Using the inquiry-based learning approach to enhance student innovativeness: a conceptual model Open

Oguz A. Acar, Aybars Tunçdoğan · 2018

Individual innovativeness has become one of the most important employability skills for university graduates. In this paper, we focus on how students could be better prepared to be innovative in the workplace, and we argue that inquiry-bas…

Harnessing the creative potential of consumers: money, participation, and creativity in idea crowdsourcing Open

Oguz A. Acar · 2018

Given the growing importance of innovation and consumer engagement, many firms are strongly interested in finding ways to encourage their consumers to generate creative new product ideas for them in their crowdsourcing initiatives. To that…

Individual differences as antecedents of leader behavior: Towards an understanding of multi-level outcomes Open

Aybars Tunçdoğan, Oguz A. Acar, Daan Stam · 2016

Knowledge Distance, Cognitive-Search Processes, and Creativity Open

Oguz A. Acar, Jan van den Ende · 2016

Prior research has provided conflicting arguments and evidence about whether people who are outsiders or insiders relative to a knowledge domain are more likely to demonstrate scientific creativity in that particular domain. We propose tha…

Knowledge Distance, Cognitive-Search Processes, and Creativity: The Making of Winning Solutions in Science Contests Open

Oguz A. Acar, J.C.M. van deEnde · 2016

Prior research has provided conflicting arguments and evidence about whether people who are outsiders or insiders relative to a knowledge domain are more likely to demonstrate scientific creativity in that particular domain. We propose tha…

Understanding Fear of Opportunism in Global Prize-Based Science Contests: Evidence for Gender and Age Differences Open

Oguz A. Acar, Jan van den Ende · 2015

Global prize-based science contests have great potential for tapping into diverse knowledge on a global scale and overcoming important scientific challenges. A necessary step for knowledge to be utilized in these contests is for that knowl…

Understanding fear of opportunism in global prize-based science contests : Evidence for gender and age differences Open

Oguz A. Acar, J.C.M. van deEnde · 2015

Global prize-based science contests have great potential for tapping into diverse knowledge on a global scale and overcoming important scientific challenges. A necessary step for knowledge to be utilized in these contests is for that knowl…

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