Management Decision: Volume 61 Issue 3

Don't talk the talk, but walk the walk: the role of authentic CSR in fostering beneficial employee outcomes

Marie Servaes, Huong Nguyen Thi Thu, Tom Kluijtmans, Saskia Crucke

Organizations implement corporate social responsibility (CSR) to act, or present themselves as, sustainable. Yet, CSR efforts by organizations can be negatively received by…

Inclusive leadership and turnover intention: the role of follower–leader goal congruence and organizational commitment

Raheel Yasin, Ghulam Jan, Aydan Huseynova, Muhammad Atif

Using a dual-lens of leader–member exchange (LMX) and social exchange theory (SET), this study aims to propose a conceptual model that explores the nexus between inclusive…

The role of synergistic interplay among LMX, leader creativity expectations and job characteristics in stimulating creative process engagement

He Liu, Feng Xu, Chong Wu

As a typical creative behavior, creative process engagement (CPE) has received increased attention in recent years. Leadership behaviors such as leader–member exchange (LMX) and…

Digital onboarding and employee outcomes: empirical evidence from the UK

Kareem Folohunso Sani, Toyin Ajibade Adisa, Olatunji David Adekoya, Emeka Smart Oruh

Given the sharp rise in the adoption of digital onboarding in employment relations and human resource management practices, largely caused by the continuing COVID-19 pandemic…

The interactive effects of intragroup cooperation and competition: toward a perspective of paradox

Xi Ouyang, Zhiqiang Liu, Chenglin Gui

Underpinned by paradox theory, this study aims to investigate how and when intragroup cooperation and competition combine to drive individual creativity. It further examines how…

Managerial ties and learning ambidexterity: the moderating effects of manager service support and employee service rewards

Dong Liu, Beilei Dang, Yapu Zhao

Managerial ties (i.e. business ties and political ties) could help manufacturers conduct learning ambidexterity by providing external resources. However, the resource management…

Fostering strategic entrepreneurship of SMEs: the role of organisational change forces

Tien Dung Luu

Strategic entrepreneurship (SE) exemplifies the interconnection of strategic management and entrepreneurship, inferring that organisations could yield tremendous wealth by…

Women in Latin American family businesses: an institutional logics perspective

Georges Samara, Maria Lapeira

The authors conceptually theorize the obstacles and opportunities that women encounter in family businesses embedded in Latin America, by differentiating between two clusters of…

Institutional investment horizon and corporate technological diversification

Mincheol Choi, Jaeseog Na

Although investigating the factors influencing technological diversification is essential to understanding research and development (R&D) strategies, studies from the perspective…

Hitchhiking in board interlocks? The externality of partner innovation

Yusi Jiang, Yapu Zhao, Beilei Dang

This study explores the influence of partner innovation in board interlock networks on a firm's innovation tendency.

Sustainable supply chain clusters: an integrated framework

Mahmoud Ramadan Barakat, Nicoleta Tipi, Jialin Snow Wu

This research aims to provide a conceptual framework with the scope to assist in establishing sustainable supply chain clusters (SCCs) by providing an instrument for organisations…

Falling in the same predicament again? A network embeddedness perspective of organizational failure recidivism in special treatment firms

Wan Cheng, Yusi Jiang

Studies on organizational failure learning have focused on whether and how organizations learn from failures but have paid limited attention on the persistence of failure…

International competitiveness readiness, home country institutions and early internationalisation

Tianchen Li

Synthesising an individual–opportunity nexus model, this research aims to develop a model of early internationalisation by integrating international competitiveness readiness…

Do business strategies affect firms' survival during the COVID-19 pandemic? A global perspective

Mohammad Monirul Islam, Farha Fatema

This study examines the survival probability of the firms during the COVID-19 pandemic and identifies the effects of pandemic-era business strategies on firm survival across…