Management Decision: Volume 50 Issue 6

A proposed cooperation framework for organisations and their leaders

Colm Heavey, Eamonn Murphy

The aim of this paper is to provide new insights into cooperation for organisations.

Planning, capabilities, and performance: an integrated value approach

Marcelo Bronzo, Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira, Kevin McCormack

How do planning and capabilities affect operational performance? This paper aims to formulate hypotheses comprising correlations amongst those constructs in an integrated approach…

Boosting firm performance via enterprise agility and network structure

Chyan Yang, Hsian‐Ming Liu

Drawing on a network perspective on enterprise agility, the purpose of this paper is to explore whether firms with superior network structure not only may be better able to…

Effect of ITC on the international competitiveness of firms

Jesús C. Peña‐Vinces, Gabriel Cepeda‐Carrión, Wynne W. Chin

This paper's aim is to evaluate the effect of the use of information technology and communications (ITC) on the international competitiveness of firms in developing countries. The…

Normative interventions, emergent cognition and decision rationality in ad hoc and established groups

Petru Curşeu, Sandra Schruijer

As normative interventions (NIs) have been claimed to be effective in improving decision quality in groups, the aim of the paper is to address the effectiveness of NIs in ad hoc…

Re‐examining mimetic isomorphism: Similarity in mergers and acquisitions in the financial service industry

Monica Yang, MaryAnne Hyland

In this study the aim is to analyze multiple decisions in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) strategy to verify whether isomorphism appears in these decisions when a firm imitates…

Knowledge stock, ambidextrous learning, and firm performance: Evidence from technologically intensive industries

Cheng‐Yu Lee, Yen‐Chih Huang

This study aims to examine the relationships among knowledge stock, ambidextrous learning, and firm performance while considering the moderating effect of firm size.

Environmental disclosure management: a constructivist case

Fabricia Silva da Rosa, Sandra Rolim Ensslin, Leonardo Ensslin, Rogério Joao Lunkes

The aim of this paper is to present a framework to create a better understanding of the context and to aid the environmental disclosure management process. The paper seeks to…

How to intensify the individual's feelings of belonging to a social networking site?: Contributions from community drivers and post‐adoption behaviours

Manuel J. Sánchez‐Franco, Eva M. Buitrago‐Esquinas, Rocío Yñiguez

This paper aims to test an interaction effects model that includes perceived community support, community satisfaction, and post‐adoption behaviours by analysing a social…