Management Decision: Volume 52 Issue 6

Does media pressure moderate CSR disclosures by external directors?

Isabel-Maria Garcia-Sanchez, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Cindy Sepulveda

The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effect of media pressure on external directors in relation to disclosure of information on corporate social responsibility…

Third sector organizations and the co-production of health innovations

Paul Windrum

The purpose of this paper is to examine the roles played by third sector organizations in forming and managing health innovation networks, and their contribution to the…

Entrepreneurial team locus of control: diversity and trust

Mohammad Saud Khan, Robert J. Breitenecker, Erich J. Schwarz

The purpose of this paper is to examine how internal locus of control (LOC) as a well-established entrepreneurial personality trait at team level impacts team performance…

Explaining factors affecting technological change adoption: A survival analysis of an information system implementation

Regis Coeurderoy, Nathalie Guilmot, Alain Vas

The purpose of this paper is to explore how drivers differentially speed up the change process adoption in the perspective of a technological change. More specifically, the paper…

Perceptions of intellectual capital held by the supervisors of nursing divisions in hospitals in Taiwan

Hsin-Yuan Chang, Ming-Yu Wu, Dwan-Fang Sheu

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how the nursing division supervisors at hospitals perceive intellectual capital (IC) and identify the relative importance of IC factors.

How mindfulness and acquisition experience affect acquisition performance

Thomas Hutzschenreuter, Ingo Kleindienst, Michael Schmitt

The purpose of this paper is to provide insights to the impact of acquisition experience from prior acquisitions on the performance of subsequent ones. The authors base the…

User liaisons’ perspective on behavior and outcome control in IT projects: Role of IT experience, behavior observability, and outcome measurability

Shan Liu, Lin Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which user liaison behavior and outcome control influence the process performance of information technology (IT) projects and…

Building a case against strategic equifinality: Hybrid ideal type service organizations in a developing country

Melih Madanoglu, Fevzi Okumus, Umut Avci

The purpose of this paper is to build a case against strategic equifinality. This is accomplished by employing hybrid ideal types approach and testing the effect of these…

A synergy measurement model to support the pre-deal decision making in mergers and acquisitions

Stefano Garzella, Raffaele Fiorentino

– The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective synergy measurement model to support the decision-making process in mergers and acquisitions (M&A).