Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 12

The curvilinear relationship between team informational faultlines and creativity: moderating role of team humble leadership

Jin Yao, Xinmei Liu, Wenxin He

The purpose of this paper is to examine the curvilinear relationship between team informational faultlines and team creativity and the moderating effects of team humble leadership…

Toward a conceptual framework of reflexivity and practices in knowledge management

Ibticem Ben Zammel, Tharwa Najar

In the present paper the research respects a specific steps regarding to the specificities of the study. The first step is compiling data into formal set which calls for the…

Allies or rivals: how abusive supervision influences subordinates’ knowledge hiding from colleagues

Changyu Wang, Jiaojiao Feng, Xinze Li

Previous research suggests that abusive supervision has a positive effect on subordinates’ behaviors of knowledge hiding. However, the authors argue that this effect depends on…

Efficiency and the scope of outsourced services: a client firm’s absorptive capacity perspective of knowledge-intensive services

Pia Ellimäki, J. Alberto Aragón-Correa, Nuria Esther Hurtado-Torres

Strategic literature has focused on how economies of scale in a firm offering outsourcing may generate incentives for clients to increase the outsourced services, but there has…

Informational efficiency and governance in restricted share settings: boosting family business leaders' financing decisions

Daniel Dupuis, Virginia Bodolica, Martin Spraggon

Volume-based liquidity ratios suffer from potential measurement bias due to share restriction and may misrepresent actual liquidity. To address this issue, the authors develop two…

Do dissimilarities in the family involvement in family firms lead to different levels of indebtedness? Evidence from Spain

María Comino-Jurado, Sonia Sánchez-Andújar, Purificación Parrado-Martínez

This paper examines how differences in the family involvement in a family business can influence its level of indebtedness. Assuming the influence of family is not the same for…

Industry ties, entrepreneurs' employment experience and resource acquisition of new ventures in China

Wenhong Zhao, Wenwei Zhang, Chengli Shu

Social network theory emphasizes that, to acquire needed resources, new ventures should cultivate industrial connections (intra-industry ties and extra-industry ties). In the…

Developing organisational citizenship behaviour for the environment: the contingency role of environmental management practices

Haris Aslam, Muhammad Umer Azeem, Sami Ullah Bajwa, Asher Ramish, Amer Saeed

Drawing on the “substitute for leadership” theory, this study investigates the mediating role of employee attitude between supervisory support and employee’s organisational…

Identifying the configurational conditions for marketing analytics use in UK SMEs

Guangming Cao, Yanqing Duan, Na Tian

While marketing analytics can be used to improve organizational decision-making and performance significantly, little research exists to examine how the configurations of multiple…

Post-acquisition control strategy and cross-border acquisition performance of Chinese MNEs: a fsQCA approach

Qi Yue, Ping Deng, Yanyan Cao, Xing Hua

Post-acquisition control is a crucial factor affecting acquisition performance. We investigate how post-acquisition control strategy affects cross-border acquisition performance…