International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Volume 31 Issue 5

Guest editorial: Beyond rationality in organizations’ choices: exploring the dark and the bright sides of non-rational decision-making

Not by what we see: how Christian religious beliefs influence market and community logics in a rural context

This study aims to address decision-making processes of Christian entrepreneurs living and working in rural areas. The authors draw on the institutional logics perspective and…

Shaping individual paths for decision-making: a fuzzy set approach of religious and humanistic beliefs leading to the (non)acceptance of euthanasia

While the influence of individual beliefs on decision-making has been widely acknowledged, the interaction of different types of beliefs remains an under-researched topic. This…

Confidence and coincidences in executive decision-making during periods of crisis

The purpose of this study, which is grounded in decision-making theory, is to explore whether the occurrence of meaningful coincidences can positively influence executive…

Opaque decision-making in organizations

Many decision rules are rational but opaque, and many others are irrational but transparent. This paper aims to propose a theoretical framework to operationalize opacity in…

(Non) rationality and choice architecture: a behavioural approach to public administrative discretion in New Zealand

A central question of public administration is how political principals secure the cooperation of administrators within organisational frames and contexts; increasingly, rational…

Youth entrepreneurial intentions: an integrated model of individual and contextual factors

The purpose of this study is to identify factors instrumental in developing entrepreneurial intentions among youth. Although, numerous studies have been conducted focusing on…

Uncovering the role of competitor orientation and emotional capability in enhancing innovation performance

Competitor orientation (CO) has been considered as a traditional driver of innovation performance (IP), being an important source of innovative ideas. Nevertheless, the slowness…

The mediating role of work-life balance on the relationship between job resources and job satisfaction: perspectives from Indian nursing professionals

The purpose of this study is to empirically investigate the mediating effect of work-life balance (WLB) in the relationship between three significant job resources (namely, job…

Examining the gendered organizations: evidence of institutional discrimination

The purpose of this study is to examine how a group of special companies, i.e. highly acknowledged and awarded ones operating in Brazil handle the gender issue.

Implicit followership theories and resistance to leaders’ unethical requests: the mediating role of organizational citizenship behavior

This study aims to adopt a follower-centric approach in leadership and ethics research by investigating the impact of implicit followership theories (IFTs) on followers’…

The role of organizational and individual-level factors for the inclusion of women managers in Japan

This study aims to analyze and contrast the role of organizational and individual level factors in influencing the effective participation of women managers in decision-making in…

Patient organizations supporting health care and co-creating value: insights from a simulation model

Patient organizations (POs) belong to the non-profit world and carry on several activities alongside health care. However, literature devotes scarce attention to POs’ management…

Do values reflect what is important? Exploring the nexus between work values, work engagement and job burnout

Work values are a representation of people’s priorities as they reflect what is pertinent for them and what they want to accomplish. In light of this, the purpose of this study is…

The importance of intellectual capital in networks formed by start-ups

This study aims to analyse the importance of intellectual capital (IC) in networks formed by start-ups, with a view to obtaining resources that individually they would be unable…

How to make intelligent automation projects agile? Identification of success factors and an assessment approach

Organizations are fast adopting new technologies such as automation, analytics and artificial intelligence, collectively called intelligent automation, to drive digital…

Functional responsibility for internal communication management and its integration in contemporary businesses

Despite the proven link between internal communication and more effective business results, only a few attempts have been made to answer the essential question of who is…

A system of values and economic behaviour models of young entrepreneurs

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship of values with individual economic behaviour, identifies the correlation between personality values that are…

International cooperation in developing countries health systems: in-depth analyses from Gaslini Children Hospital

The purpose of this study is to provide a framework useful for identifying the elements that aim for success in the construction of collaborative governance and to investigate how…

Personality meta–traits and time-based work–family conflict: the mediating role of work–home boundaries

This study aims to examine the complex relationship between the personality meta-traits of stability and plasticity and time-based work–family conflict (WFC). Stability and…

Deinstitutionalization revisited

The purpose of this paper is to offer a new analysis and understanding of the notion of deinstitutionalization. Deinstitutionalization of taken-for-granted practices as a natural…

Re-positioning workplace aggression interventions: a violence framework

This paper aims to investigate the socio-psychological systems in organizations that structurally support workplace aggression.

Knowledge management practices and green innovation in SMES: the role of environmental awareness towards environmental sustainability

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of knowledge management dimensions (i.e. knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge responsiveness) on green…

Over half a century of strategic planning performance research – what have we been missing?

The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of literatures and previous studies on the relationship between strategic planning and performance and propose conceptual designs…

When the going gets tough, the tough are let go? The effects of political ideology on leader tenure in organisations

Drawing on moral foundations theory (MFT), this paper aims to examine the relationship between community-level political ideology, organisational performance and leader tenure by…

Mediating-moderating effect of employee creativity and team potency on expatriate innovative work behaviour

This study aims to investigate how learning goal orientation (LGO), participative decision-making (PDM) and leadership member exchange (LMX) influence innovative work behaviour…

Artificial intelligence and creative activities inside organizational behavior

This study aims to investigate about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) (man machine relationship) regarding organizational behavior. The aim of this research paper is to…

A green human resource management approach of participation in decision-making and behavioural outcomes – a moderated mediated model

This study aims to assess the moderating and mediating role of supportive culture (SC) in the relationship between participation in decision-making (PDM) and job satisfaction (JS…

Job satisfaction and OCBs: what’s new? The mediating role of organizational identification

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of intrinsic job satisfaction (JS) on organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) directed toward individuals (OCBs-I) and…

Performance, job crafting and work context: practical implications from a multilevel perspective

Effort by managers and academics have been applied to understand elements that improving organizational performance and results. This study aims to analyze the relationship among…

Work from home: understanding boundary management profiles using boundary-fit perspective

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has (triggered) lots of interest in work from home (WFH) practices. Many organizations in India are changing their work practices and adopting new…

The paradox of the peasantry in management and organization studies

Burrell (2020) challenged management and organization studies (MOS) scholars to pay attention to a topic they have mostly ignored: the peasantry, those 2 billion people that work…

Systems methodologies for handling problem complexity

The purpose of this paper is to examine how holistic thinking and the use of systems methodologies can help organisations handle increased problem complexity. The paper provides a…

Do school leaders in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi predominantly practice a transformational, transactional, or laissez-faire style of leadership?

The purpose of this study is to understand the predominant leadership style of school leaders in Abu Dhabi. The leadership style deployed by a school leader affects the…

Cultural distance and expatriates’ psychological adjustment: the moderating role of perceived social supports

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between cultural distance and psychological adjustment of expatriates in Nigeria and perceived social supports…

Assessing the effects of cost, revenue and profit efficiency on bank performance: empirical evidence from Indian banking

This paper aims to investigate the effects of cost, revenue and profit efficiency on bank profitability in an emerging economy such as India over the period 1997 to 2017…

A qualitative study of military officers’ perceptions of the adaptions couples make to meet the military organisation’s implicit expectations

The purpose of this study was to investigate military officers’ perception of the implicit expectations the organisation has for the officer’s private life and what implications…

Mechanisms adopted by social enterprises for effective volunteer-based operations

This paper aims to describe an exploratory study aiming to identify the mechanisms adopted by social enterprises for effective operations based on volunteer work.

Impact of organizational dynamic capability on international expansion and the moderating role of environmental dynamism

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of dynamic capability (DC) of organizations on international expansion and further investigate the moderating role of…

Institutional theory in international business studies: the period of period of 1990–2018

The purpose of this study is to evaluate different strands of institutional theory within the internationalization process of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in developed and…

A comparative study of organizational commitment process in the private and public sectors

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the motivational process that leads to commitment development in the private and public sectors. It has been suggested that…