Management Decision: Volume 62 Issue 3

Enhancing organizational citizenship behaviour: role of collectivism in soft total quality management

Ai-Fen Lim, Voon-Hsien Lee, Keng-Boon Ooi, Pik-Yin Foo, Garry Wei-Han Tan

Soft total quality management (STQM) practices are essential for promoting value-added organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB) among employees in quality-focussed manufacturing…

Exploring the dark side effects of visionary leadership – A dual-path perspective of cognition and affect

Hao Chen, Lynda Jiwen Song, Wu Wei, Liang Wang

The purpose of this study is to test the mechanism of visionary leadership on subordinates' work withdrawal behavior through cognitive strain and psychological contract violation…

Star CEOs: influence on competitor CEOs' risk-taking

Sam Yul Cho, Yohan Choi

Research has focused primarily on the antecedents that influence the risk taking of CEOs themselves. This study examines how an important event experienced by a CEO at a direct…

HR practices, service orientation and employee outcomes: a regulatory foci

Li Lin-Schilstra, Yuntao Bai, Lan Lin, Changwei Mo

Understanding employees’ multi-dimensional motivations is at the core of realizing the potential of a well-designed human resource (HR) system. This study aims to investigate…

Micro understanding of the macro: employee perception, corporate social responsibility and job performance

Chenxiao Wang, Qingpu Zhang, Lu Lu, Fangcheng Tang

This study was aimed at obtaining a micro understanding of corporate social responsibility (CSR) by investigating the effect of perceived CSR on job performance. Especially, an…

Meaningfulness at work: role of distributive justice, managerial respect and work self-efficacy

Jiamin Peng, Liwen Chen, Xiaoyun Yang, Lishan Xie

Drawing on signaling theory and the “signal transmission–interpretation–feedback” framework, this study explores the effects of perceived distributive justice and respect from…

Safety “works”: the influence of safety coaching on work engagement

Mudit Shukla, Divya Tyagi, Jatin Pandey

During the COVID-19 pandemic, organizations undertook initiatives such as safety coaching to ensure the safety of their employees and to prevent the spread of the disease…

Performance feedback duration and strategic change in USA manufacturing firms

Pouya Derayati

This paper seeks to explore the effect of performance duration (rather than intensity) on the subsequent initiation of strategic change by firms. Specifically, the effect of…

Offshoring, hierarchical control and transnational and dynamic environments

Liang-Hung Lin, Yu-Ling Ho

This study aims to examine the effect of exploratory innovation offshoring on the level of hierarchical control and how this effect is moderated by transnational and dynamic…

Understanding regional growth of social enterprises: the art of the state

Chengcheng Song, Echo Lei Wang

The paper examines the key driving factors behind the rapid and uneven growth of social enterprises in China based on Kerlin’s Macro-Institutional Social Enterprise (MISE) model…

Rational herding: evidence from equity crowdfunding

Lan Yi, Na Shen, Wen Xie, Yue Liu

This study explores whether herd behavior exists for equity crowdfunding investors in China and whether this herding is rational.

Business diversification choices: do director incentives matter?

Yan Zhang

Much prior work involving director incentives and corporate behaviour has been focussing on their absolute dollar value or the intrinsic value and generated mixed findings…

Accounting in the shadows of tradition: the role of national culture

R.M. Ammar Zahid, Muhammad Kaleem Khan, Volkan Demir

Current research aims to investigate the relationships between Chinese national cultural values (uncertainty avoidance (UA), power distance, masculinity (MAS), individualism (IDV…

Leverage and regulatory capital ratios in Japan

Faisal Abbas, Shoaib Ali

This study aims to understand how quickly Japanese banks readjust their capital ratios (leverage, regulatory capital, tier-I capital and common equity) following an economic shock.

Decarbonizing an energy-hungry world: the dilemma of investing in fossil fuels

Ralitza Nikolaeva, Sean Field, Aliya Tskhay

The study examines the diversity of ethical motivations for investments in fossil fuels amid growing calls to decarbonize. Faced with the dilemma between energy needs and net-zero…