Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 9

Online social networks as an enabler of innovation in organizations

Daniel Palacios-Marqués, José M. Merigó, Pedro Soto-Acosta

The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of online social networks on firm performance and how this technology can help to create value. The authors approach the problem…

Value creation and value appropriation in innovation process in publicly-traded family firms

Esra Memili, Hanqing Chevy Fang, Dianne H.B. Welsh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the generational differences among publicly traded family firms in regards to value creation and value appropriation in the innovation…

Cashing-in: understanding post-acquisition CEO stock option exercise

John S. Marsh, William J. Wales, Rachel Graefe-Anderson, Marshall W. Pattie

The purpose of this study is to explore post-acquisition compensation management and examine how the two most commonly used theories to explain CEO stock option exercise, agency…

Mining the dominant patterns of customer shifts between segments by using top-k and distinguishing sequential rules

Elham Akhondzadeh-Noughabi, Amir Albadvi

– The purpose of this paper is to detect different behavioral groups and the dominant patterns of customer shifts between segments of different values over time.

Competitive advantage: the known unknown concept

Christos Sigalas

The purpose of this paper is to investigate empirically managers’ awareness regarding the concept of competitive advantage, the most taken-for-granted concept in the field of…

Getting what you want from your transorganizational partners: “Social-sharedness” and decision-making within a transorganizational system

Michael Halinski, Linda Duxbury

– The purpose of this paper is to examine how the group decision-making process unfolds over time in a transorganizational system (TS) planning change.

Top executives’ compensation, industrial competition, and corporate environmental performance: Evidence from China

H. L. Zou, S. X. Zeng, H. Lin, X. M. Xie

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how top executives’ compensation is associated with environmental performance in the Chinese context and how this…

The effect of organizational learning and Web 2.0 on innovation

Shouzhen Zeng, Joaquin Gonzalez, Clemente Lobato

– The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationships between Web 2.0 adoption, innovation, organizational learning and organizational performance in the hotel industry.

Policies to promote entrepreneurial activity and economic performance

María-Soledad Castaño-Martínez, María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo, Miguel-Ángel Galindo-Martín

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of some political measures on entrepreneurship to promote economic growth and employment, specifically, R & D policies…

Institutional diversity, internal search behaviour, and joint-innovations: Evidence from the US biotechnology industry

Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli, Daniele Rotolo

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the innovation performance of R & D collaborations from an institutional perspective.

Selecting business partner for service delivery co-innovation and competitive advantage

Hung-Tai Tsou, Colin C.J. Cheng, Hsuan-Yu Hsu

While co-innovation with third parties (e.g. customer or supplier) has been widely documented, the literature seems to pay scant attention on co-innovation with business partners…

Changing attitudes towards diversity: The Netherlands and Morocco compared

Sophie Hennekam, Loubna Tahssain-Gay

The purpose of this paper is to provide a cross-cultural comparison of the attitudes toward diversity among human resource managers working for the same multinational company in…

Board capital and exploration: from a resource provisional perspective

Nami Kim, Eonsoo Kim

Drawing upon the resource dependence theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how the board capital diversity influences the explorative innovation of firms, attempting to…

Is a firm’s financial risk associated with corporate social responsibility?

Feng Jui Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether socially responsible firms behave differently from other firms in terms of financial risk using US-based firms from 1991 to 2012…