Baltic Journal of Management: Volume 17 Issue 5

Founder domination, industry environment, and family firms' earnings management

Xi Zhong, Liuyang Ren, XiaoJie Wu

Based on socioemotional wealth theory, the authors explore the impact of founder domination (with the founder as the chairman or CEO) on the earnings management activities of…

Moderating role of perceived work addiction of managers in the relationship between employees' perfectionism and work addiction: a trait activation theory perspective

Modesta Morkevičiūtė, Auksė Endriulaitienė

Earlier authors suggested that a combination of different factors leads to the development of work addiction, hereby indicating that no single perspective is enough to fully…

Linking supervisors’ bottom-line mentality to workplace cheating behavior: examining the mediating and moderating role of organizational cynicism and moral identity

Mobina Farasat, Akbar Azam, Hassan Imam, Hamid Hassan

The purpose of this study is to examine how and when supervisors’ bottom-line mentality (BLM) influences workplace cheating behavior. Specifically, the authors draw upon social…

Organizational hierarchical position, perception of unfair pay, and job satisfaction: evidence from large nation-wide surveys in Poland

Vera A. Adamchik, Thomas J. Hyclak, Piotr Sedlak

The study examines the relationship between perceived unfair pay and job satisfaction and how this relationship is contingent on organizational hierarchical rank.

Female managers' meaningful work and commitment: organizational contexts and generational differences

Eun Jee Kim, Sunyoung Park

The aim of this research is to examine the relationships among family-friendly organizational culture, job characteristics, supervisor support, meaningful work, and organizational…

Who needs transformational leadership to craft their job? The role of work engagement and personal values

Agnieszka Wojtczuk-Turek

The purpose of this paper is to discuss relationships between transformational leadership and job crafting. Using the job demands-resource (JD-R) theory, this study investigates…

Family- and non-family-related reasons for entrepreneurial exits

Izabela Anna Koładkiewicz, Eugene Kaciak, Marta Wojtyra-Perlejewska

This study examines the family- and non-family-related reasons that may determine the choice of the anticipated entrepreneurial exit strategy (exit intention).

Resource integration capabilities to enable platform complementarity in healthcare service ecosystem co-creation

Minna Pikkarainen, Laura Kemppainen, Yueqiang Xu, Miia Jansson, Petri Ahokangas, Timo Koivumäki, He Hong Gu, Julius Francis Gomes

Covid has increased the usage of multisided digital platforms. For companies, this has become a business opportunity. Data usage on platforms requires that platform companies…

When working from home might come at a cost: the relationship between family boundary permeability, overwork climate and exhaustion

Jurgita Lazauskaite-Zabielske, Arunas Ziedelis, Ieva Urbanaviciute

Drawing on boundary theory, this study aims to analyse whether the intensity of working from home will be related to higher exhaustion through family boundary permeability, with…

Why do good soldiers in good organizations behave wrongly? The vicarious licensing effect of perceived corporate social responsibility

Sherzodbek Murodilla Ugli Dadaboyev, Sungwon Choi, Soyon Paek

While most corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has focused on its positive effects, the potential “dark side” of CSR has received scant attention. Grounded in vicarious…

The effects of a firm's capabilities on its innovativeness: the mediating roles of resource flexibility

Yu Gao, Wei Yang, Hao Shen

This study examines the effects of technological and marketing capabilities on administrative and product innovativeness, and the mediation effects of resource flexibility.