Management Decision: Volume 60 Issue 8

Editorial: Over a half-century of management decision: a bibliometric overview

Andrea Caputo, Mohammad Fakahr Manesh, Muhammad Farrukh, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Brandon Randolph-Seng

Does herding behavior matter in investment management and perceived market efficiency? Evidence from an emerging market

Maqsood Ahmad, Qiang Wu

This article aims to clarify the mechanism by which herding behavior influences perceived market efficiency, investment decisions and the performance of individual investors…

Funding decisions and the role of trust: a qualitative study of reward-based crowdfunding in the creative industries

M. Isabella Cavalcanti Junqueira, Danny Soetanto

The purpose of this paper is to investigate funders' decisions in supporting reward-based crowdfunding (RBCF) in the creative industries by providing insights into the role of…

Social media content, customer engagement and brand equity: US versus Korea

Jungwon Lee, Cheol Park

This study analyzes the relationship between the characteristics of social media content, customer engagement (CE) and brand equity and investigates whether these relationships…

The moderating roles of trust and felt trust on the relationship between proactive personality and voice behaviour

Shuwei Hao, Ping Han

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the moderating roles of trust in leaders and felt trust by leaders on the relationship between proactive personality and voice…

In search of a cross-level mechanism linking paternalistic leadership to employee voice behavior

Jui-Chen Peng, S.W. Chen

Drawing upon social-exchange, social-cognitive and leadership theory, this study explores whether and how a cross-level mechanism connects team-level traditional Chinese…

The relationship between self-sacrificial leadership and employee creativity: multilevel mediating and moderating role of shared vision

Zhenting Xu, Xianmiao Li, Xiuming Sun, Mengting Cheng, Jicheng Xu

Drawing on the social exchange theory, this study examines the impact of self-sacrificial leadership on employee creativity and explores the mediating role of employees' creative…

You're draining me! When politically inept employees view organization-linked emotional exhaustion and unforgiveness as reasons for diminished job performance

Dirk De Clercq, Muhammad Umer Azeem, Inam Ul Haq

This study seeks to unpack the negative relationship between employees' political ineptness and their job performance, by proposing a mediating role of organization-induced…

Policy uncertainty and behavior of foreign firms in emerging economies

Amit Karna, Shamim S. Mondal, Viswanath Pingali

This study aims to examine how foreign and domestic firms react to policy uncertainty in an emerging economy. In addition, the study investigates if older foreign firms better…

Organizational capabilities and value creation for stakeholders: evidence from publicly traded companies

Simone R. Barakat, João Maurício G. Boaventura, Marcelo L.D.S. Gabriel

This paper investigates specific organizational capabilities related to stakeholder relationship capability and the effect of the latter on value creation.

Harmonious passion, effectuation and firm performance: the moderated mediation effect of entrepreneurial experience

Anastasiia Laskovaia, Younggeun Lee, Karina Bogatyreva, Pol Herrmann

Entrepreneurial passion lies at the foundation of the business development process, yet the available evidence is ambiguous regarding its effects on firm performance. In this…

Effect of buyer dependency of subcontracting SMEs on R&D investment

Pyoungsoo Lee, Sohee Lim, Hyejin Cho

This study aims to focus on the subcontracting relationship between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and business group buyers and analyze the effect of the level of…

A configurational approach to the intended use of IPO proceeds and performance

Christina Tupper, Mark Mallon

The authors seek an answer to the research question: how do the disclosure of the intended use of initial public offering (IPO) proceeds and firm characteristics jointly influence…