Management Decision: Volume 60 Issue 6

Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: a theory of dual responsibility

Marwan A. Al-Shammari, Soumendra Nath Banerjee, Abdul A. Rasheed

The authors aim to develop and test a theory of dual responsibility to explain the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance. The authors…

Toward a total morality of supply chain acts

Philipp Bagus, Frank Daumann, Florian Follert

In response to the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights from 2011, several governments are enacting laws against exploitation in global supply chains. Such a…

CSR discrepancies, firm visibility and performance: a mediated moderation analysis

Marwan A. Al-Shammari, Hussam Al-Shammari, Soumendra Nath Banerjee

The purpose of the current study is to revisit the relationship between CSR and firm market performance. The authors examine whether a gap between the firm's internal and external…

Assessing the “entrepreneurship as emancipation” perspective among women in STEM

Lalit Sharma

The study examines the emancipatory potential of entrepreneurship for women in STEM who have experienced a mid-career break. As studies on this subject are rather scarce, it also…

A social cognition perspective on entrepreneurial personality traits and intentions to start a business: Does creativity matter?

Levent Altinay, Endrit Kromidha, Armiyash Nurmagambetova, Zaid Alrawadieh, Gulsevim Kinali Madanoglu

This paper proposes and empirically assesses a social cognition conceptual model linking creativity (both artistic and scholarly), entrepreneurial personality traits, and…

“Eyes for eyes, teeth for teeth”: positive and negative reciprocity in NPOs

Lamberto Zollo, Guglielmo Faldetta, Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini, Cristiano Ciappei

Management scholars investigated the motivational aspects of volunteers, mainly focusing on their positive reciprocity – individuals feel obligated to reciprocate whenever they…

Do reputational signals matter for nonprofit organizations? An experimental study

Subhan Shahid, Annika Becker, Yasir Mansoor Kundi

This paper aims to untangle the underlying mechanisms through which reputational signals promote stakeholders' intentions to donate in nonprofit organizations via stakeholder…

Cooperation and competition among subsidiaries in a business group: their impacts on innovation

Donghong Li, Zhenning Yang, Pengcheng Ma, Hang Chen

The purpose of this paper is to document the relationship between intra-group coopetition and subsidiaries' innovation performance and the moderating impact of the intensity of…

Market orientation and firm performance: can there be too much of a good thing?

Vivien Jancenelle, Susan F. Storrud-Barnes, Dominic Buccieri

Past research has generally purported that market orientation (MO) leads to superior firm performance, despite emerging evidence suggesting that the highest levels of MO are not…

Loyalties divided or identities as resources? The role of external relational identification in facilitating socialization

Peter Anzollitto, Danielle Cooper

Although research regarding socialization processes recognizes the importance of organizational identification for newcomer adjustment outcomes, it has less frequently considered…

Are smart manufacturing systems beneficial for all SMEs? Evidence from Korea

Soojeen Jang, Yanghon Chung, Hosung Son

Through the resource-based view (RBV) and contingency theory, this study empirically investigates the impacts of smart manufacturing systems' maturity levels on the performance of…

Work and non-work life of R&D professionals during Covid-19: a cultural perspective

Ravisankar Jayaraman, Sushanta Kumar Mishra

The purpose of this study is to comprehend the approach and adaptation of research and development (R&D) professionals in managing work and non-work life during Covid-19. Besides…

Performance of Chinese foreign subsidiaries: the role of national distance, organizational learning and overseas Chinese networks

Jie Yu, Changjun Yi, Jian Huang, Huiyun Shen

The current literature lacks discussion on the effects of synergy among multiple factors at different levels on foreign subsidiary performance. The purpose of this paper is to…