Management Decision: Volume 62 Issue 1

Hubris research in business: taking stock and moving forward

Pasquale Massimo Picone, Marco Galvagno, Vincenzo Pisano

There is growing interest in how hubris bias shapes managerial and entrepreneurial judgments and decisions and, in turn, firm strategy and performance. Based on a 44-years dataset…

Proactive personality, transformational leadership and ethical standards: influences on radical creativity

Wengang Zhang, Feng Xu

This study aims to investigates the influence of proactive personality on employee radical creativity through transformational leadership, professional ethical standards and…

TMT's cognitive frame and breakthrough innovation

Xuecheng Yang, Yunfei Shao

This paper aims to reveal how different types of events and top management teams' (TMTs’) cognitive frames affect the generation of breakthrough innovations.

Near the breaking point: CEO job demands, innovation, and the role of CEO emotions

Andres Felipe Cortes, Pol Herrmann

Building on the premise that the CEO position is complex and challenging, and drawing on research on upper echelons, executive job demands and emotions, this study explores how…

Unintended influence of leader forgiveness: increased employee cyberloafing

Junwei Zhang, Kun Xie, Yajun Zhang, Yongqi Wang

The substantial cost of employee cyberloafing to organizations calls for research into exploring the factors that influence such behavior. Drawing upon social cognitive theory…

Proactiveness, knowledge management capability and innovation ambidexterity: an empirical examination of digital supply chain adoption

Gharib Hashem, Mohamed Aboelmaged, Ifzal Ahmad

This paper has predicted digital supply chain (DSC) adoption through the role of firms' proactiveness, knowledge management capability (KMC), innovation ambidexterity and the…

“Contagious” brands: Are they safe from coronavirus?

Enrique Bigne, Aline Simonetti, Diana Y.W. Shih

This study aims to investigate how brand love and brand loyalty for three brands evolved during critical moments of the 2020 pandemic, and how they performed in the long run up to…

How to transform brand haters into forgivers through emotional intelligence?

Latifa Mednini, Mouna Damak Turki

Consumers' responses to service failures are influenced not just by company-related issues but also by one's ability to react to stressful situations. The aim of this research is…

Influencer advertising: facilitating poor-fitting influencer posts

Matthew A. Hawkins, Fathima Z. Saleem

Recent literature identifies the importance of influencer-brand fit, a congruence between the narrative of the social media influencer (SMI) and the branded product being…

Diversity in online self-organizing teams: longitudinal evidence from an open innovation community

Jifeng Ma, Yaobin Lu, Yeming Gong, Ran Li

The development of information technologies has fueled the emergence of online self-organizing teams that involve members with diverse backgrounds to work on a shared goal…

Board reforms and the choice of debt: international evidence

Yige Xiao, Albert Tsang

The authors examine how the major board reforms recently implemented by countries around the world affect firms' choice of debt.

External environment and internal dynamics of “born global”: strategic and operational firm performance

Ranjan Chaudhuri, Demetris Vrontis, Sheshadri Chatterjee

“Born global firms” are those organizations which, from their inception and by nature, adopt an essentially global-scale entrepreneurial functional and attitudinal strategy for…

Foreign market involvement, entry-mode learning potential and SME internationalization outcomes

Said Elbanna, Linda Hsieh, John Child, Rose Narooz, Svetla Marinova, Pushyarag Puthusserry, Joanna Karmowska, Terence Tsai, Yunlu Zhang

Drawing on an organizational learning perspective, this paper examines the effect of levels of foreign market involvement (intensity and geographic spread) on internationalization…

Firm innovation: technological boundary-spanning search and knowledge base and distance

Xianglin Zhu, Naiding Yang, Mingzhen Zhang, Yu Wang

Technical knowledge is a key factor in firm innovation. This study aims to construct a theoretical framework of technological boundary-spanning search, exploratory innovation and…

Understanding configurations of continuance commitment for platform workers using fuzzy-set QCA

Ting Deng, Chunyong Tang, Yanzhao Lai

How to improve continuance commitment for platform workers is still unclear to platforms' managers and academic scholars. This study develops a configurational framework based on…