Baltic Journal of Management: Volume 13 Issue 4

Formal and informal governance mechanisms in state-owned enterprises: Evidence from post-transitional Poland

Aleksandra Wasowska, Igor Postula

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the formal and informal governance mechanisms of state-owned enterprises operating in a post-transitional economy of Poland.

“One foot in industry, the other in academia”: Why professional services want adjunct professors as employees?

Nataliya Galan

The purpose of this paper is to examine professional service firms’ (PSFs) motives and benefits related to their engagement in knowledge transfer interactions with universities…

Exploring selected antecedents of consumer–brand identification: The nature of consumer’s interactions with product brands

Urška Tuškej, Klement Podnar

The purpose of this paper is to examine how brand anthropomorphism (BA), consumer–brand engagement (CBE), consumer skepticism and brand prestige influence consumer–brand…

Linking protean and boundaryless career with organizational commitment: The case of young adults in finance sector

Raimonda Alonderienė, Indrė Šimkevičiūtė

Due to the changes in the market, the shift to proactive and self-developed career management is evident. It results in the emergence of contemporary career attitudes, namely…

Corporate reporting readability and regulatory review risk

Reza Hesarzadeh, Ameneh Bazrafshan

The regulatory review process imposes significant costs on companies. Therefore, managers try to find ways to avoid the regulatory review risk. The purpose of this paper is to…

Relationship-focused or deal-focused? Building interpersonal bonds within B2B relationships

Aldona Glinska-Newes, Iwona Escher, Pawel Brzustewicz, Dawid Szostek, Joanna Petrykowska

There is a research gap regarding frameworks identifying the specific activities and resources used by companies to build and enhance social ties between them and business actors…

Corporate entrepreneurship strategy: an analysis of top management teams in SMEs

Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi, Khaled Nawaser, Alexander Brem

In order to learn more about the antecedents of strategy at the top management team’s (TMT) level, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of TMT cultural…

Foreign sequential entry mode choice: A structural inertia perspective and evidence from Chinese firms

Gangxiang Xu, Bin Guo, Wen Li, Xiaoting Wang

The purpose of this paper is to use the theoretical perspective of structural inertia as a unique lens to study foreign sequential entry mode choices of multinational firms.

When does motivation to learn reduce innovative behavior? An examination of mediated-moderation model

Ming-Chuan Yu, Xiao-Tao Zheng, Greg G. Wang, Yi Dai, Bingwen Yan

The purpose of this paper is to test and explain the context where motivation to learn (MTL) reduces innovative behavior in the organizational context.

CEO succession puzzle in the Polish capital market

Katarzyna Byrka-Kita, Mateusz Czerwiński, Agnieszka Preś-Perepeczo, Tomasz Wiśniewski

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the market reaction to the appointments of chief executive officers (CEOs) in companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The authors…

The effect of negative work outcomes and values on the perceived likelihood of employee dishonest behaviour

Krista Jaakson, Maaja Vadi, Ilona Baumane-Vītoliņa

Employee dishonesty is problematic for businesses in general, particularly for retailers. The purpose of this paper is to empirically analyse selected factors associated with the…