Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 3

Editorial

Jay J. Janney

Intellectual capital, absorptive capacity and product innovation

Raquel Machado Engelman, Edi Madalena Fracasso, Serje Schmidt, Aurora Carneiro Zen

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of intellectual capital on a firm’s absorptive capacity (ACAP), and of ACAP on product innovation. The authors argue that…

Entrepreneurial round-tripping: The benefits of newness and smallness in multi-directional value creation

Richard Hunt, Lauren Ortiz-Hunt

The purpose of this paper is to develop and empirically test the theory that new industry entrants hold advantages over incumbents in the shift from unidirectional to…

The role of affective commitment in the relationship between social support and turnover intention

John Fazio, Baiyun Gong, Randi Sims, Yuliya Yurova

The purpose of this paper is to argue that affective commitment plays a significant and complex role in the relationship between social support and turnover intention.

Open innovation in the food and beverage industry

Cristina Bayona-Saez, Claudio Cruz-Cázares, Teresa García-Marco, Mercedes Sánchez García

The purpose of this paper is to extend the knowledge into the relationship between open innovation (OI) and firm’s innovative performance. Specifically, the authors aim to…

The role of customer participation for enhancing repurchase intention

Chih-Cheng Volvic Chen, Chih-Jou Chen

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of customer participation in the service delivery process by designing and testing an empirical model with the customers’ point…

Why do employees have counterproductive work behavior? The role of founder’s Machiavellianism and the corporate culture in China

Wenzhi Zheng, Yen-Chun Jim Wu, XiaoChen Chen, Shu-Jou Lin

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the mechanism of how Machiavellian corporate culture (MCC) affects employees’ counterproductive work behaviours.

Effects of management control systems and cognitive orientation on misreporting: an experiment

María J. Sánchez-Expósito, David Naranjo-Gil

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the simultaneous effect of management control system (MCS) designs (belief vs boundary) and cognitive orientations (individualism vs…

Revisiting the relationship between corporate social responsibility and national culture: A quantitative assessment

George Halkos, Antonis Skouloudis

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the macro-level and well-established dimensions of national culture…

The bright side and dark side of co-production: a dyadic analysis

Li-Wei Wu

Much research has emphasized the importance of service employees as boundary spanners that interact with customers by co-production. Service employees frequently engage in…