Management Decision: Volume 62 Issue 4

The nexus between servant leadership and employee's creative deviance for creativity inside learning and performance goal-oriented organizations

Nilesh Kumar, Yanghua Jin, Zhiqiang Liu

This study, based on motivated information processing theory and theories of leadership (contingency and functional), investigates how servant leadership (SL) could be an…

Foreign subsidiary performance: social trust–entry fit

Jie Yu, Changjun Yi, Huiyun Shen

This paper aims to study whether the adoption of an entry mode that fits the social trust level contributes to the improvement of foreign subsidiary performance.

How managers' perceptions about dynamic complexity change: sensemaking catalyzed by shock and surprise

Paul Langley, Alison Rieple

This empirical study uncovers emotional sensemaking factors that cause changes in management perceptions about wicked strategic problems under dynamic complexity. These perception…

Workaholism and quality of work-life: a psychosocial pathway to brain-drain syndrome

Olusegun Emmanuel Akinwale, Owolabi Lateef Kuye, Olayombo Elizabeth Akinwale

The cultural norm of compelling employees to work beyond the standard measure as a result of internal pressure from organisations is gaining popularity in the business environment…

What is not said in organisational methodology: how to measure non-verbal communication

Iuliana M. Chitac, Deborah Knowles, Spinder Dhaliwal

Non-verbal communication (NVC) remains largely understudied despite its importance in today's fast-paced and cross-cultural management and research landscape. This article is…

Institutions and macroeconomic indicators: entrepreneurial activities across the world

Oğuz Kara, Levent Altinay, Mehmet Bağış, Mehmet Nurullah Kurutkan, Sanaz Vatankhah

Entrepreneurial activity is a phenomenon that increases the economic growth of countries and improves their social welfare. The economic development levels of countries have…

Interlocking boards and firm outcomes: a review

Richard Ramsawak, Samuel Buertey, Greeni Maheshwari, Duy Dang, Chung Thanh Phan

This paper explores the relationship between board interlocks and firm outcomes by reviewing the most recent peer-reviewed articles examining this research theme.

Workplace ostracism and service-oriented behaviour: employees' workload and emotional energy

Md Karim Rabiul, Md Mahmudul Alam, Rashed Al Karim

Using conservation of resources (CoR) theory, this study investigates the role of emotional energy as a mediating mechanism in the relationship between workplace ostracism and…

Board's informal hierarchy: influences on enterprise innovation quality

Delin Meng, Yanxi Li, Lan Wang

Utilizing the expectation states theory in sociology, this study probes into the influence of the board's informal hierarchy on the quality of enterprise innovation, originating…

Green consumption by design: interaction experiences and customization intentions

Chen Wang, Yan Zhang, Ran Zhang

This study investigated the impacts of the interaction experiential customization (IEC) mode on consumers' information processing fluency and green customization intention (GCI…

Turning entrepreneurial networks into business model innovation for start-ups

Sha Xu, Xiaojie Wu, Jie He, Renhong Zhu, Alastair M. Morrison, Cheng Xie

Although it is acknowledged that entrepreneurial networks play a crucial role in fostering business model innovation (BMI) for start-ups, it is unclear how and when these networks…

Soft lean practices and organizational resilience in the service sector

Guilherme Tortorella, Anupama Prashar, Jiju Antony, Roberto Vassolo, Alejandro Mac Cawley, Rodrigo Peimbert Garcia, Daniel Luiz de Mattos Nascimento

This paper aims to examine the relationship between the implementation of soft lean practices and organizational resilience development in the service sector.