Chinese Management Studies: Volume 12 Issue 3

Work values across generations in China

Jun Yang, Chun-Sheng Yu, Jun Wu

This study aims to examine how the perceived importance of work values differs among the three generations (Cultural Revolution, Social Reform and Millennial) in the Chinese…

Triple-down model of capability, job characteristics and burnout

Thuy Thi Thanh Nguyen, Man-Ling Chang

A Chinese proverb states: “Able people should do more work.” Although working hard is a common workplace phenomenon, does it lead to burnout in capable people? This study aims to…

The impact of B2B seller’s value appropriation upon customer relationship performance: Empirical evidence from China

Jing Zhang, Mingfei Du

Value appropriation and value creation are two sides of the same coin. How B2B seller’s value appropriation impacts customer relationship performance still remains an…

Exploitation versus exploration: The impact of network embeddedness on the innovation of subsidiary firms

Haiyuan Zhao, Xiaobao Peng

This paper aims to draw on the network perspective of organizational innovation to present an argument on how a subsidiary should select innovation behavior.

Building firm capability through imitative innovation: Chinese manufacturing SME cases

Steven Si, Song Wang, Steven M. Welch

This study aims to investigate how firm capability can be accumulated with the inputs of learning efforts targeted at resolving barriers existing in the imitative innovation…

How HR practice, work engagement and job crafting influence employee performance

Xiaoyu Guan, Stephen Frenkel

Scholars have adopted different theoretical perspectives to explain the influence of HR practice on employee outcomes. However, few studies have investigated the role of human…

Firm CSR implementation and societal moral degradation

Zhiqiang Li, Qinqin Zheng

This paper aims to examine how firms respond to societal moral degradation in a transition economy from the corporate social responsibility (CSR) perspective.

Advance or face: Which makes Chinese entrepreneurial households spend more on education?

Rui Li, Jia Xu, Mingshan Zhou, Tianyu Wang

In accordance with the traditional ranking of “scholar, farmer, artisan and merchant” in China, entrepreneurs are characterized as having lower social status, and are driven by…

Gain without pay causes lazybones’ loss: The influence of formal and informal leader–member relationships on customer service performance

Wen Wu, Jingli Liu, Xiaopu Shang

Building on social informational processing theory, the purpose of this paper is to develop and test a theoretical model of moderated mediation in which social loafing tendency…

A new scale to measure cross-organizational cultural intelligence: Initial development and validation

Chuncheng Zhou, Nan Hu, Jianlin Wu, Jibao Gu

Cross-organizational cultural intelligence (COCI) is conceptualized as an ability of individuals to interact effectively with persons from different organizational cultures. To…