Chinese Management Studies: Volume 12 Issue 4

Distributed leadership in organizations: an investigation of antecedent conditions

Lihua Fu, Zhiying Liu

This study aims to investigate antecedent conditions that lead to the development of distributed leadership (DL). The authors examine how the emergence of DL is affected by…

Balancing local and international knowledge search for internationalization of emerging economy multinationals: Evidence from China

Hang Wu, Yang Liu

Internationalization has emerged as a vital catch-up strategy for firms in emerging markets. Although external knowledge search has been widely acknowledged as an important way…

How does open innovation affect firms’ innovative performance : The roles of knowledge attributes and partner opportunism

Huiping Zhou, Yanhong Yao, Huanhuan Chen

This paper aims to explore the direct effects of open innovation (OI) on firms’ innovative performance, and to examine the moderating effects of knowledge attributes, including…

Impact of benevolent leadership on follower taking charge: Roles of work engagement and role-breadth self-efficacy

Qin Xu, Yixuan Zhao, Meng Xi, Shuming Zhao

The topic of employees’ taking charge behaviors has garnered increasing interest in both practical and academic fields. Leaders play a critical role in influencing followers’…

The effect of executive incentives on FDI ambidexterity: Evidence from Chinese multinational enterprises

Zijie Li, Qiuling Gao, Kai Shen, Junyue Zhang

This paper aims to examine different hypotheses concerning the effects of executive incentive on the degree of Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) ambidexterity. Specifically…

Chinese reverse M&A: the Wu Wei paradigm of post-M&A integration process

Zhe Sun

The purpose of this paper is to unpack the black box of post-merger and acquisition (M&A) integration of reverse M&A by Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs).

Differential leadership and organizational corruption in China: Mediating role of moral disengagement and moderating role of organizational justice

Yanzhao Tang, Xuemei Zhan, Ken Chen

This paper aims to examine the effect of differential leadership on organizational corruption by developing a measure of organizational corruption and proposing a moderated…

A study on the factors to measure employer brand: the case of undergraduate senior students

Chi-Cheng Lee, Rui-Hsin Kao, Chia-Jung Lin

This paper aims to develop the structure of employer brand and discuss whether employees and employers have the same view on the elements of employer brand.

Effect of power source mismatch on new venture performance

Li Wang, Marshall Shibing Jiang

The venture capital syndication brings in various resources for the portfolio firms, which positively affects those firms’ performance, while conflicts within syndicates also have…

Is business planning useful for the new venture emergence?: Moderated by the innovativeness of products

Ya-long Wei, Dan Long, Yao-kuang Li, Xu-sheng Cheng

The purpose of this paper is to build a research model to examine the effects of business planning on the new venture emergence, as well as to examine the moderating effects of…