Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 2

Managers' disruptive innovation activities: the construct, measurement and validity

Fawad Sadiq, Tasweer Hussain, Afshan Naseem

The purpose of this paper is to present results of a study that operationalizes the construct of disruptive innovation activities (DIA) at managerial level and to examine its…

The relationship between R&D team diversity and team creativity

Jinyong Kim, Chanhoo Song

This study aims to explore how and what type of team diversity is related to team creativity in R&D organizations, incorporating conflict as a mediator and transformational…

Impact of environmental performance and policy on firm environmental reputation

Marta De Miguel De Blas

This study investigates the impact of corporate environmentalism on corporate environmental reputation. Corporate environmentalism comprises both environmental performance and…

Abusive supervision and knowledge sharing: moderating roles of Islamic work ethic and learning goal orientation

Talat Islam, Saima Ahmad, Ahmad Kaleem, Khalid Mahmood

The purpose of this paper is to extend the scant literature on the effect of abusive supervision on knowledge sharing by examining the roles of Islamic work ethic and learning…

Alliance justice and relational performance: the mediating role of boundary spanners' citizenship behaviors

Xuan Bai, Julie Juan Li

The purpose of this paper is to examine the types of justice that affect knowledge acquisition and opportunism in strategic alliances and how these justice mechanisms function.

Behavioral perspective of newsvendor ordering decisions: review, analysis and insights

S. Yamini

The traditional newsvendor model has focused on deriving the optimal order quantity that minimises the balance between stocking too much or too less number of products. However…

CEO selection, reference setting, and postsuccession strategic change

Xin Liu, Guclu Atinc

Drawing on the literature on CEO succession research and impression management, the present study examines how the selection of CEO successors affects their motivation to initiate…

Paternalistic leadership style, employee voice and creativity among entrepreneurs: empirical evidence from SMEs of a developing country

Bahadur Ali Soomro, Maqsood Memon, Naimatullah Shah

In today’s world, employee voice has become an important factor in resolving organizational issues and making innovativeness. Therefore, this study proposes to investigate the…

Untangling knowledge fields and knowledge dynamics within the decision-making process

Constantin Bratianu, Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu, Sorin Anagnoste, Gandolfo Dominici

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the influences of different types of knowledge and their inherent dynamics on the effectiveness of the decision-making (DM) process…

How do knowledge governance mechanisms impact on repatriate knowledge transfer intention? The moderating role of perceived career and repatriation support and person-organization fit

Xiaoqian Ye, Zequn Wang, Yi Zhang, Huifeng Li

This paper aims to explore the moderation effect of person-organization fit and perceived career and repatriation support on the relationship between knowledge governance and…

The role of strategic environmental orientation in environmental design practices

Ma Ga (Mark) Yang, James Jungbae Roh, Mingu Kang

The current study aims to investigate the role of strategic environmental orientation (SEO) in implementing environmental design practices (EDPs).

Coping with workplace ostracism: the roles of emotional exhaustion and resilience in deviant behavior

Hongyan Jiang, Xianjin Jiang, Peizhen Sun, Xiuping Li

The purpose of this paper is to explicate the relationship between workplace ostracism and deviant behavior, and further test the mediating role of emotional exhaustion and the…

Workaholism and workplace incivility: the role of work–family enrichment

Fatemeh Taheri, Mohammad Asarian, Pooyan Shahhosseini

This paper investigated the relationships among workaholism, work–family enrichment (work–life enrichment), and workplace incivility.

Beyond agency and stewardship theory: shareholder–manager relationships and governance structures in family firms

Ann Sophie K. Löhde, Giovanna Campopiano, Andrea Calabrò

Challenging the static view of family business governance, we propose a model of owner–manager relationships derived from the configurational analysis of managerial behavior and…

A strategic decision making tool for new product and service design

Adrian Pavel Pugna, Sabina Alina Potra, Romeo Negrea

The present study aims to further research the theory of attractive quality for new offers by analyzing the HWWP (Health, Weapon, Wealth, Prospect) model and testing its…

Strategic business performance through network capability and structural flexibility

Muhammad Khalid Anser, Zahid Yousaf, Muhammad Usman, Seemab Yousaf, Naseem Fatima, Hadi Hussain, Junaid Waheed

The present study aims to develop a strategic business performance (SBP) model for larger firms by examining the mediating role of structural flexibility in the network…

Organizational injustice and knowledge hiding: the roles of organizational dis-identification and benevolence

Sadia Jahanzeb, Dirk De Clercq, Tasneem Fatima

With a basis in social identity and equity theories, this study investigates the relationship between employees' perceptions of organizational injustice and their knowledge…

Measuring dynamic absorptive capacity in national innovation surveys

Marlon F.R. Alves, Simone V.R. Galina

The dynamic capability view reshaped the understanding of how firms can achieve a sustained competitive advantage through innovation. However, studies based on national innovation…