Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 10

A study of the relationship between the knowledge base and the innovation performance under the organizational slack regulating

Xin Jin, Jie Wang, Song Chen, Ting Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the knowledge breadth and depth and the balance of the two affect various dimensions of the innovation performance under the…

Decision-maker characteristics and international decisions for SMEs

Barbara Francioni, Fabio Musso, Marco Cioppi

The purpose of this paper is to explore how characteristics of decision-makers influence internationalization strategies within small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with a…

Alliance management capability: the roles of alliance control and strength of ties

Olivier Mamavi, Olivier Meier, Romain Zerbib

Strategic alliances have a low success rate despite the profusion of literature on this topic in the last 20 years. To understand the factors that determine performance of…

Values, feelings, job satisfaction and well-being: the Turkish case

Mehmet Yusuf Yahyagil

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between universal individual value priorities, feelings and global job satisfaction as well as satisfaction with life in…

Strategic orientation and business performance: An empirical study in the UAE context

Yahya Al-Ansaari, Hakim Bederr, Chuanhai Chen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of strategic orientations (technology, alliance, and market orientations) of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in an…

Knowledge inflows effects on middle managers’ ambidexterity and performance

Juan Pablo Torres, Camilo Drago, Claudio Aqueveque

The purpose of this paper is to report on lab experiments conducted to determine what impact managerial top-down knowledge transfer has on a middle manager’s individual…

Toward a better understanding of MNEs’ local staffing decision: a multilevel analysis

Youjin Baik, Young-Ryeol Park

The purpose of this paper is to address the question of how regional diversification affects subsidiary staffing composition in multinational enterprises. Another important…

The organizational slack and performance relationship: a configurational approach

Dan Marlin, Scott W Geiger

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the organizational literature and improve the understanding of the slack and performance link by: examining the slack and performance…

The consumption of management ideas: a cognitive perspective

Annick Van Rossem, Stefan Heusinkveld, Marc Buelens

Building on recent research that emphasizes the role of managers as central in the adoption and implementation of management ideas, the purpose of this paper is to explore the…

An empirical investigation of the relationship between workload and performance

Alexander Bruggen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of workload on quantitative and qualitative job performance. Different levels of workload can affect performance of employees…

Data envelopment analysis with interactive variables

Aibing Ji, Hui Liu, Hong-jie Qiu, Haobo Lin

– The purpose of this paper is to build a novel data envelopment analysis (DEA) model to evaluate the efficiencies of decision making units (DMUs).

Organisational psychopaths: a ten year update

Clive Roland Boddy

This current paper reviews the theoretical speculations concerning psychopaths in the workplace that were originally presented in a paper published in this journal in 2006. The…

The paradoxical image of consultant expertise: a rhetorical deconstruction

Onno Bouwmeester, Jelmer Stiekema

The purpose of this paper is to explore the paradoxical image of consultants as “experts without expertise.” It examines the extent to which different stakeholders’ perceptions of…

The influence of supply network structure on firm’s multiple innovation capabilities: A longitudinal study in the fashion industry

Emanuela Delbufalo

The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical framework grounded in the fashion industry that investigates the relational capabilities of the lead firms to sustain…