Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 31 Issue 1

Managing organizational change in emerging markets

Sanjay Kumar Singh

“In sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth?”: Economic crises and CSR change management in difficult times

Bruno Michel Roman Pais Seles, Ana Beatriz Lopes de Sousa Jabbour, Charbel Jose Chiappetta Jabbour, Daniel Jugend

“Economic crises” and “corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives” are two issues that dominate the modern business agenda. Although related, these issues have been…

Outsourcing decision: do strategy and structure really matter?

Deepa Mishra, Sameer Kumar, R.R.K. Sharma, Rameshwar Dubey

Although there is a growing body of literature on human resource (HR) outsourcing, there are still unresolved issues regarding the level of outsourcing HR activities initiated in…

Human resource management and performance at the Indian Railways

Vijay Edward Pereira, Rita Fontinha, Pawan Budhwar, Bimal Arora

High-performance work practices (HPWPs) have been well documented within private organisations in developed country economies. Such practices, however, remain under-investigated…

Managing the university-industry collaborative innovation in China: The case of Zhejiang NHU Company

Fei Li, Jin Chen, Yu-Shan Su

Collaboration with universities is an important innovation strategy for enterprises. However, currently very little research has focused on how such university-industry…

Organizational, technological and extrinsic factors in the implementation of cloud ERP in SMEs

Shivam Gupta, Subhas C. Misra, Ned Kock, David Roubaud

Use of cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) services equips an SME to forego the requirements of high financial budget, IT infrastructure, and trained IT personnel as it…

Coal saving in China: from Pareto-Koopmans to Kaldor-Hicks criterion

Jianlin Wang, Yi Tian, Malin Song, Jiajia Zhao, Hongzhou Li

In the creation of coal consumption reduction policy, the Chinese Government selected eight provinces as key provinces and encouraged them to replace coal with other non-coal…

The ethical gap of firms’ marketing practices: A comparison between the Brazilian and French markets

Fabio Lotti Oliva, Peter Kelle

The corporate ethical behavior is a subject that instigates the reflection and practice of researchers and managers in general. Companies dedicate efforts to offer something…

Managerial support for development and turnover intention: Roles of organizational support, work engagement and job satisfaction

Manish Kumar, Hemang Jauhari, Ashish Rastogi, Sandeep Sivakumar

The purpose of this paper is to integrate learnings from social exchange theory, organizational support theory and JD-R model to explore the relationship among support for…

Change management in Indo-Japanese cross-cultural collaborative contexts: Parallels between traditional Indian philosophy and contemporary Japanese management

Ashok Ashta, Peter Stokes, Paul Hughes

Within the globalized commercial context, Japanese business activity in India has increased significantly. The purpose of this paper is to highlight common attitudinal traits that…

Life enrichment for workers in contemporary China

Yang Zhao, Yuka Fujimoto, Sanjaya Singh Gaur

The purpose of this paper is to identify key antecedents of work-family enrichment (WFE) for Chinese workers in China. The paper adopts the Chinese cultural perspectives (i.e…

Tacit and explicit knowledge management and assessment of quality performance of public R&D in emerging economies: An Indian perspective

Santanu Roy, Jay Mitra

The authors investigate the relationship between the structure and the functioning of scientific and technical (S&T) personnel and the quality research and development (R&D…

Engagement of family members, corporate governance and social responsibility in family-owned enterprises

Abdul-Nasser El-Kassar, Walid ElGammal, Josiane Fahed-Sreih

With the increasing awareness and recognition of the importance of corporate governance (CG), its practices and mechanisms along with their effect on performance and general…

From resistance to readiness: the role of mediating variables

Rajiv R. Thakur, Shalini Srivastava

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of trust, perceived organizational support, and emotional attachment in bridging the gap between resistance and readiness to…