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Linguistically Induced Time Perception and Asymmetric Cost Behavior

Management international review, 2020-10, Vol.60 (5), p.755-785 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany,part of Springer Nature 2020 ;Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 ;COPYRIGHT 2020 Gabler Verlag ;Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020. ;ISSN: 0938-8249 ;EISSN: 1861-8901 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11575-020-00429-4

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Title:
Linguistically Induced Time Perception and Asymmetric Cost Behavior
Author: Huang, Wei ; Kim, Jaehyeon
Subjects: Adjustment ; Asymmetry ; Behavior ; Business and Management ; Business Strategy/Leadership ; Cognition ; Cognition & reasoning ; Cost analysis ; Cost behavior ; Costs ; Discount rates ; Discretion ; Economic aspects ; Emerging Markets/Globalization ; Encoding ; Future events ; Hypotheses ; International aspects ; Language ; Linguistic geography ; Operations Management ; Opportunity costs ; Organization ; Psychological aspects ; Research Article ; Sales ; Sensitivity ; Social aspects ; Time perception
Is Part Of: Management international review, 2020-10, Vol.60 (5), p.755-785
Description: Cost asymmetry indicates that costs decrease to a lesser extent when sales decline than costs increase when sales rise by the same magnitude. This asymmetric sensitivity of costs to activity changes is denoted as "cost stickiness" (Anderson et al. in J Account Res 41:47-63, 2003). Prior studies on cost analysis identify resource adjustment costs and managerial discretion as fundamental drivers of asymmetric cost behavior. This study examines whether linguistically induced time perception arising from future time reference in languages relates to the asymmetric sensitivity of costs to activity changes. We find that asymmetric cost behavior is more pronounced for firms located in countries whose languages do not require future events to be grammatically marked. Our evidence suggests that time encoding in languages influences speakers' cognition, their resource adjustment decisions, and the cost behavior of firms they manage.
Publisher: Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0938-8249
EISSN: 1861-8901
DOI: 10.1007/s11575-020-00429-4
Source: ProQuest Central

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Linguistically Induced Time Perception and Asymmetric Cost Behavior

Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany,part of Springer Nature 2020 ;Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020 ;COPYRIGHT 2020 Gabler Verlag ;Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020. ;ISSN: 0938-8249 ;EISSN: 1861-8901 ;DOI: 10.1007/s11575-020-00429-4

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