Chinese Management Studies: Volume 18 Issue 6

Regional institutional environment and R&D performance: Evidence from marketization index of China’s provinces and panel data of high-tech manufacturing firms

Bo Song, Kun Yuan, Yiwen Jin, Liangjie Zhao

How does the regional institutional environment of China’s transitional economy influence the relationship between a firm’s R&D investment intensity and innovation performance…

The effect of supervisor developmental feedback on employee silence behaviour: perspective of cognitive-affective personality system

Xuanfang Hou, Yanshan Zhou, Xinxin Lu, Qiao Yuan

This study aims to examine the effect of supervisor developmental feedback on employee silence behaviour by developing a moderated mediation model. The model focuses on the…

Perceived working conditions and employee performance in the coal mining sector of China: a job demands-resources perspective

Weijie Zhou, Tao Wang, Jianhua Zhu, Yuan Tao, Qingzhi Liu

This paper aims to investigate how perceived working conditions affect employee performance, including safety compliance and task performance, through employee well-being (i.e…

Winner-takes-all or competitive coexistence? Research on the co-opetition relationships between platform owners and complementors

Lijuan Pei

The purpose of this study is to explore the coopetition relationships between platform owners and complementors in complementary product markets. Drawing on the coopetition…

A predictive study on the impact of board characteristics on firm performance of Chinese listed companies based on machine learning methods

Xin Huang, Ting Tang, Yu Ning Luo, Ren Wang

This study aims to examine the impact of board characteristics on firm performance while also exploring the influential mechanisms that help Chinese listed companies establish…

Accelerate or delay? Big step internationalization and the speed of subsequent foreign expansion—evidence from Chinese MNEs

Shifang Zhao, Shu Yu

In recent decades, emerging market multinational enterprises (EMNEs) have predominantly adopted a big step internationalization strategy to expand their business overseas. This…

When digitalization meets HRM: developing a HRM value chain model in China

Yixuan Zhao, Guangyuan He, Danxia Wei, Shuming Zhao

The purpose of this study is to explore the mechanism of digitalized transformation in organizations’ human resource management (HRM). This study summarizes three basic factors…

The individual-team multilevel outputs of humble leadership based on the affective events theory

Cailing Feng, Lisan Fan, Xiaoyu Huang

This study aims to break through the limitations of previous studies that have focused too much on the individual-level effects of humble leadership. Based on the affective events…

Being politically connected: corporate charitable giving before and after the 2016 Charity Law

Min Ji, Detian Deng, Guangyu Li

Charitable giving in China has moved from being subjected to government attention and public skepticism to receiving government encouragement and public support. The role played…

Unraveling psychological dilemma among miners in the context of low-carbon transformation: an ISM-MICMAC approach

Shuai Han, Tongtong Sun, Izhar Mithal Jiskani, Daoyan Guo, Xinrui Liang, Zhen Wei

With the rapid low-carbon transformation in China, the industrial approach and labor structure of mining enterprises are undergoing constant changes, leading to an increasing…

Navigating multiple institutional environments: institutional quality and the role of Belt and Road Initiative on location choice of Chinese MNEs

Ya’nan Zhang, Xuxu Li, Yiyi Su

This study aims to explore the extent to which Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) rely on supranational institution – the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – versus host…

Reporting good news but not bad: the dual effect of employee stewardship behavior on work–family interface

Mengke Wang, Chen Qian, Ataullah Kiani, Guangyi Xu

Stewardship behavior is an important embodiment of the spirit of employee ownership, which is critical to the sustainability of companies, especially under the influence of the…

How does leader emotional labor influence employee voice: the mediating roles of psychological safety and perceived voice efficacy

Jia Li, Ying Xia, Chengyu Ji, Hongxu Li

This study aims to explore the impact of leader emotional labor on employee voice. According to the emotion as information theory and the voice as a deliberate decision-making…

Political institutional imprinting and Chinese private enterprises’ initial ownership strategies in OFDI

Meiting Ma, Xiaojie Wu, Xiuqiong Wang

There is consensus among scholars on how political institutional imprinting interprets the unique management and practice phenomenon of Chinese enterprises. However, little…