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Drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and conservation of resources (COR) theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine the negative consequence of abusive supervision on knowledge sharing. Further, this paper explores the moderating role of organizational tenure in the relationship between abusive supervision and employees’ knowledge sharing behavior applying sense-making theory.

The hypotheses were tested using regression analysis across two independent studies conducted in South Korea.

The authors found evidence that there was a negative relationship between abusive supervision and employees’ knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, the aforementioned relationship was strengthened for those with longer organizational tenure.

This research deepens our understanding of the negative consequences of abusive supervision on employees’ knowledge sharing behavior by drawing on SET and COR theory. Through two independent studies, the results demonstrated that employees who receive abusive treatment from their supervisors tend to reduce their knowledge sharing behavior. Furthermore, this detrimental effect is stronger for key knowledge providers, namely long-tenured employees.

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the risk of war aroused by North Korea’s threatening actions trigger strategic responses from US multinational enterprises (MNEs) operating in South Korea. The authors compare two competing perspectives of real options and risk diversification to see which prevails when US MNEs are facing risk of war.

The authors hand collected news articles regarding North Korea’s threatening actions that may trigger strategic responses from MNEs operating in South Korea. The authors use archival data of US MNEs to verify our results.

Empirical tests of the two competing perspectives reveal that US MNEs adopt the risk diversification strategy when threatened by the risk of war. However, as MNEs have more available foreign markets outside the host country that is at risk of war, MNEs tend to take an operational flexibility approach more seriously and shift their productions to the remaining global operations. The ownership structure of the subsidiary does not appear to have significant effect on US MNEs’ strategic risk management.

This paper compares two perspectives, namely, real options and risk diversification, to observe how US MNEs treat their subsidiaries when facing risk of war in South Korea.