Chinese Management Studies: Volume 10 Issue 4

Towards research for shaping Chinese policy and selected papers

Check Teck Foo

This paper aims to make a call for the establishment of a new research journal: a likely title for which would be Chinese Public Management. The background to this is clearly set…

Does the reputation mechanism of media coverage affect earnings management?: Evidence from China

Peng Wu, Lei Gao, Xiao Li

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between earnings management and media reports, assess the roles played by the media in determining the reputation mechanism and…

Exploring the relationship among human resource flexibility, organizational innovation and adaptability culture

Ben-Roy Do, Pi-Wen Yeh, Jean Madsen

Human resource (HR) flexibility is a firm-level capability that consists of employee skill flexibility, employee behavior flexibility, and HR practice flexibility. HR flexibility…

Understanding change recipients’ responses to organizational change in Chinese hospitals

Bruce Gurd, Tian Gao

The purpose of this paper is to build a new model of organisational change in Chinese hospitals drawing in all the key factors which explain the change process. At a time of…

Board size, ownership concentration and future firm risk

Junaid Haider, Hong-Xing Fang

The purpose of this paper was first to find out whether the negative relationship between board size and future firm risk persists in China while contemplating all sorts of…

The determinants of family business owners’ intrafamily succession intention: An interplay between business owners and institutional environment

Yonglong Zhou, Qiongjing Hu, Jingjing Yao, Xin Qin

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of family business owners’ intrafamily succession intention based on the theory of planned behavior and neo-institutional…

Joint effects of creative self-efficacy, positive and negative affect on creative performance

Tomas G. Thundiyil, Dan S. Chiaburu, Ning Li, Dave T. Wagner

The purpose of this study is to test a model connecting Chinese employees’ positive and negative affect and creative self-efficacy with supervisor-rated creative performance in…

A research on the cluster competitiveness evaluation of the Chinese automobile industry based on cuckoo-AHP

Xiujie Wang, Jian Liu, Can Ma

The purpose of this study is that on the basis of the competitive edge theory, source mechanism and evaluation approaches of industrial cluster competitiveness, combined with…

Public service motivation and organizational performance in Chinese provincial governments

Chunkui Zhu, Chen Wu

This paper aims to examine different hypotheses concerning the effects of public service motivation (PSM) and other attitudinal or institutional dimensions on organizational…

The resource evolution of standard alliance by technology standardization

Wang Daoping, Wei Xiaoyan, Fang Fang

This paper aims to explore the evolution mechanism of resources in a standard alliance that are matched with resources required at different standardization stages from the…