Management Decision: Volume 61 Issue 6

The neurophysiological basis of leadership: a machine learning approach

Elena Parra Vargas, Jestine Philip, Lucia A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Gaetano Valenza, Javier Marín-Morales, Mariano Alcañiz Raya

This research employed two neurophysiological techniques (electroencephalograms (EEG) and galvanic skin response (GSR)) and machine learning algorithms to capture and analyze…

Humble leadership and career success: a moderated mediation analysis

Aamir Ali Chughtai, Shehla R. Arifeen

This study aims to examine the impact of humble leadership on both objective (salary) and subjective (career satisfaction) measures of career success and to investigate the…

Ethical leadership and employee unethical behavior: a dual-processing model

Chenjing Gan, Chi-Ying Cheng, Yandong Chai, Linbo Yang

This study seeks to apply a dual-processing model to understand how ethical leadership prohibits employee unethical behavior through both employee deontic justice and distributive…

Overall justice and emotion regulation: combining surface acting with unfairness talk for greater satisfaction and less exhaustion

Jeffrey Joseph Haynie, Bryan Fuller, Christopher L. Martin, Joe Story

This study examined the dual roles of supervisor-directed surface acting (SDSA) and unfairness talk emerging from low overall justice judgments and the impact of these variables…

Shop floor performance feedback, employee's motivation and engagement: study of a beverage distribution company

Giuliano Almeida Marodin, Guilherme Tortorella, Tarcísio Abreu Saurin, Erico Marcon

This paper aims at examining how different types of shop floor performance feedback affect employee motivation and engagement. Based on this dataset, the authors analyzed the…

A framework for transitioning brand trust to brand love

Geeta Marmat

This study aims to propose a conceptual framework for transition of brand trust to brand love in an uncertain market situation, from the perspective of cognitive-emotion theory…

The family business brand: cross-fertilization between fields

Gloria Aparicio, Amaia Maseda, Txomin Iturralde, Pilar Zorrilla

Following a bibliometric approach, this study examines research on brand and branding in family businesses (FBs) to identify influential sources and main areas of knowledge…

Purchasing managers' supplier selection decision: environmental influences on choice

Ziad Salem, Zhu Min, Samer Mohamed Sahl, Bahtiyar Mehmed

This paper was formulated to address the impact of different individual decision modes on purchasing managers' satisfaction and find out whether different environments could…

Assessing the feasibility of hyperlocal delivery model as an effective distribution channel

Sunita Guru, Subir Verma, Pratibha Baheti, Vishal Dagar

The successive waves of the Covid-19 SARS-II pandemic and the attendant lockdown imposed by the governments worldwide drove the economic activities to a halt. Offices and…

Motivations behind SME greenfield investment in emerging markets

Lian-Lin Ti, Boon-Kwee Ng, Rajah Rasiah

This paper identifies the motivations for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) when they undertake greenfield foreign direct investment (FDI) into an emerging market. It…

Drivers and outcomes of corporate sustainability in the Indian hospitality industry

Tahniyath Fatima, Saïd Elbanna

This study aims to examine corporate sustainability in the hospitality industry as it caters to multiple stakeholders such as society and environment. Further, the researchers…

Environmental dynamism and sustainability: the mediating role of innovation, strategic flexibility and HR development

Dimitrios Kafetzopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether environmental dynamism can drive firms to adopt sustainability, taking into consideration the mediating role of the innovation…

Microfoundations of dynamic capabilities: a systematic review and a multilevel framework

Yantai Chen, Lu Liu, Weiwen Li, Zaiyang Xie, Chenchen Wei

Microfoundations have become an effective approach for capability scholars to explore the heterogeneity of organizational results. Since the early pioneering work of scholars such…

Enabling social entrepreneurship: examining the impact of state, market and religious factors

Amirmahmood Amini Sedeh, Rosa Caiazza, Negar Moayed, Mohammad Mahdi Moeini Gharagozloo

The study examines how the interactions among three prominent institutional logics—state, market and religion—fundamentally shape the patterns of individuals’ engagement in social…

Entrepreneurial orientation, CEO power and firm performance: an upper echelons theory perspective

Abrar Ali Saiyed, Ekrem Tatoglu, Salman Ali, Dev K. Dutta

Adopting insights from the upper echelons theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and firm performance under the…

Does board diversity reduce the likelihood of financial distress in the presence of a powerful Chinese CEO?

Shoukat Ali, Ramiz ur Rehman, Shoaib Aslam, Ismail Khan, Ghulam Murtaza

This paper empirically investigates the impact of board diversity in terms of demographic and cognitive dimensions on financial distress likelihood in an emerging Chinese market…

A q-rung orthopair fuzzy combined compromise solution approach for selecting sustainable third-party reverse logistics provider

Arunodaya Raj Mishra, Pratibha Rani, Abhijit Saha, Dragan Pamucar, Ibrahim M. Hezam

Reverse logistics (RL) is a type of supply chain management that moves goods from the end customer to the original manufacturer for reuse, remanufacturing and disposal purposes…