Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 9

Relationships between religious work values, sustainable work behaviours and sustainable energy consumptions: An empirical analysis using Muslim employees

Mastura Ab. Wahab

The purpose of this paper is to examine to what extent religious work values such as Islamic work values (IWVs) could have an influence on sustainable work behaviours and…

The consequences of outness: gay men’s workplace experiences

David Wicks

The purpose of this paper is to explore the positive and negative workplace experiences of gay men that they perceive to be a consequence of their sexual identity.

When the investors speak: intellectual capital disclosure and the Web 2.0

Maurizio Massaro, John Dumay, Carlo Bagnoli

The purpose of this paper is to investigate intellectual capital (IC) discussions held between investors using Web 2.0 tools. More precisely, this paper investigates the…

Bonding and spreading: Co-creative relationships and interaction with consumers in South Korea’s indie music industry

Hwanho Choi, Bernard Burnes

Although social media proficiency and use are key business and marketing practices in today’s digital environment, research has failed to offer sufficient insights into what…

Fair play: Perceived fairness in crowdsourcing competitions and the customer relationship-related consequences

Rita Faullant, Johann Fueller, Katja Hutter

Companies are discovering the power of crowdsourcing as a source of new ideas for products and services. It is assumed that the personal engagement and the continuous involvement…

Subnational institutions and open innovation: evidence from China

Fei Sun, Junjie Hong, Xiuying Ma, Chengqi Wang

The purpose of this paper is to examine how subnational institutions within a country explain the performance consequences of open innovation (OI) in emerging market enterprises…

Opening up the strategy process – a network perspective

Julia Hautz

While strategy was traditionally perceived as exclusive, and limited to small groups within organizations, recently a shift toward greater openness through inclusion of a larger…

Quality dimensions in online communities influence purchase intentions

Chung-Yu Wang, Hsiao-Ching Lee, Li-Wei Wu, Chih-Chung Liu

The purpose of this paper is to examine how quality dimensions in independently owned online brand communities influence purchase intentions via uncertainty reduction and the role…

Top management teams’ managerial resources and international diversification: The evidence under an uncertain environment

Peng-Yu Li, Fang-Yi Lo

The purpose of this paper is to incorporate the resource-based perspective with upper echelon theory to examine the effect of top management teams’ (TMTs) managerial resources on…

Family firm and analyst forecasts in an emerging economy

Xiaoxiang Zhang, Jo-Ting Wei, Hsin-Hung Wu

The purpose of this paper is to examine how family firms affect analyst forecast dispersion, accuracy and optimism and how earnings smoothness as the moderating factor, affects…

Do trade area grades really affect credit ratings of small businesses? An application of big data

Huifeng Pan, Man-Su Kang, Hong-Youl Ha

Although the study of credit ratings has focused on traditional credit bureau resources, scholars have recently emphasized the importance of big data. The purpose of this paper is…

Knowledge spillovers from inward foreign direct investment in the banking industry: An empirical examination in Korea

Chong-Hoe Kim, Byung Il Park

The purpose of this paper is to pinpoint key conduits promoting knowledge spillovers through inward foreign direct investment in the banking sector.