Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 10

When and why does a “poker face” facilitate workplace creativity?

Weiyi Chen, Xinmei Liu, Xiaojie Zhang

The authors investigate when and why a subordinate's expressive suppression facilitates workplace creativity, building on the conservation of resources theory and considering the…

Does perceived morality of CEO activism matter? Understanding employees' responses to CEO actions on sociopolitical issues

Yeunjae Lee, Weiting Tao

From an internal perspective, the purpose of this study is to understand employees' responses to chief executive officer (CEO) activism, a phenomenon wherein a company's CEO…

Japanese CEOs cross-cultural management of customer value orientation in India

Ashok Ashta, Peter John Stokes, Simon M. Smith, Paul Hughes

The purpose of this paper is to develop understanding of cross-cultural issues relating to the experience and implications of an elite grouping of Japanese CEOs customer value…

Diversity management and postmergers and acquisitions performance

Nara Jeong

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of diversity management on postmergers and acquisitions (M&A) performance. Building on prior literature, it investigates whether a…

Organizational rewards and knowledge hiding: task attributes as contingencies

Zhen Zhang, Min Min

Although scholars have provided sufficient empirical evidence on the effectiveness of organizational rewards in managing knowledge sharing, little attention has been paid to the…

Protecting organizational competitiveness from the hazards of knowledge leakage through HRM

Sayed Muhammad Fawad Sharif, Naiding Yang, Atiq ur Rehman, Fouzia Kanwal, Fangmei WangDu

Collaborative projects are useful tools for learning and innovation. However, there is an associated cost – knowledge leakage, which is theoretically linked to challenging…

The moderating effect of network power on relational risks and knowledge flow in R&D network

Naiding Yang, Min Guo, Jingbei Wang, Yanlu Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of two dimensions of relational risks, namely, opportunism behavior and interest conflict, on knowledge flow and to…

The dynamics of organizational reputation and status: momentum and volatility

Eunjung Kim, Tohyun Kim, Mooweon Rhee

Organizational reputation and status are similar yet distinct constructs, serving as signals conveying information about an organization and its products and thus constituting…

Sales response to corporate social irresponsibility and the mitigating role of advertising

Stacey Sharpe, Nicole Hanson

This study examines the relationship between corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) and firm-level sales and estimates the potentially mitigating role of advertising.

Bridging employee advocacy in anonymous social media and internal corporate social responsibility (CSR)

Yeunjae Lee

This study explores the link between internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employee advocacy intention in the anonymous online environment, viewing the positive…

A multi-level programming model for green supplier selection

Srikant Gupta, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Morteza Yazdani, Ernesto D.R. Santibanez Gonzalez

Industrial organizations often face difficulties in finding out the methods to meet ever increasing customer expectations and to remain competitive in the global market while…

Predicting total sales volume interval of an experiential product with short life cycle before production: similarity comparison in attribute relationship patterns

Zhongjun Tang, Tingting Wang, Junfu Cui, Zhongya Han, Bo He

Because of short life cycle and fluctuating greatly in total sales volumes (TSV), it is difficult to accumulate enough sales data and mine an attribute set reflecting the common…