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Do Digital Technologies Enable Firms that Prioritize Sustainability Goals to Innovate? Empirical Evidence from Established UK Micro-businesses Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Halima Jibril, Effie Kesidou, Stephen Roper
This paper examines the importance of sustainability within firms’ strategic goals and its links with innovation in the context of micro-businesses. Micro-businesses provide an appropriate context for investigating this relationship because, while they tend to prioritize social and environmental goals, they are also more likely to confront resource constraints that can restrict their capability to
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Negotiating Narratives of ‘Good’: A Model of Public Value Adaptation in a Grand Challenge Intervention Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Jennifer Bealt, Duncan Shaw
At the core of each grand challenge is a society that is thought to have a need and organizations with an ambition to address that need. This article explores the necessary negotiations between organizations and society as they address a grand challenge involving an ambitious programme of change. Using Narrative Inquiry, we analysed 78 interviews conducted with organizations and society in rural Sarawak
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Tackling Climate Change with End‐of‐Life Circular Fashion Practices—Remade in Italy with Amore Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Mariachiara Colucci, Alessandra Vecchi
The fashion industry makes a sizeable contribution to climate change. Research on grand challenges has now gained momentum in the management literature, given the vast array of grand challenges that are now globally affecting industries, societies and governments, such as the COVID‐19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and global warming. By coupling paradox theory with the literature on circular economy
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Socioemotional Wealth and Family Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of CEO Tenure and Millennial CEO Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Carl Åberg, Andrea Calabrò, Alfredo Valentino, Mariateresa Torchia
This study sheds light on how socioemotional wealth (SEW) theory functions in family firms. Focusing on the impact of the most highly appraised FIBER dimensions on the performance of such firms, we contextualize SEW by discussing the heterogeneity among family principals via the under‐researched role played by specific characteristics of family CEOs. Integrating arguments from SEW and generational
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Digitalization and Resource Mobilization Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Ilke Inceoglu, Tom Vanacker, Silvio Vismara
Digitalization can profoundly change resource mobilization, including the search, access and governance of resources. In this introductory paper to the Special Issue on Digitalization and Resource Mobilization, we review existing research to identify different approaches towards digitalization, different conceptualizations of what resources are in this context and different aspects of resource mobilization
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Institutional Logics, Risk and Extreme Events: Insights from and for Management Education Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 April L. Wright, Sandra Pereira, Catherine Berrington, David Felstead, Jonathan Staggs
To shed light on the interrelationship between risk and logics, we explore how multiple institutional logics shape management educators’ experiences of risk in classroom teaching. Using a two‐case research design, we analyse an empirical case study of management educators in a UK business school during the COVID‐19 pandemic and a case study of emergency physicians during the Ebola epidemic. Comparing
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Technology Transfer Potential in Local and Foreign‐Owned Firms in Emerging Economies Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Ellis L. C. Osabutey, Konan A. Seny Kan, P. K. Senyo, Felix Arndt, Christiaan Röell
Technology transfer in international collaborations is challenging but can bring benefits to both local and foreign‐owned firms in emerging economies. In this paper we focus on conditions for potential technology transfer in emerging economies. We develop a configurational theoretical framework and empirically operationalize it using qualitative comparative analysis. Building on differences in absorptive
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Nuances of Sales–Service Ambidexterity across Varied Sales Job Types Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Mohamed Sobhy Temerak, Milena Micevski, Selma Kadić‐Maglajlić, Zoran Latinovic
An ambidextrous approach to selling, in which salespeople are concurrently responsible for both selling to and servicing the customer, has become the norm in today's selling organizations. To date, the literature points to a ‘the more, the better’ mentality when it comes to the servicing part of sales–service ambidexterity. However, little is known about the value of servicing across sales jobs with
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Taking the Road Less Travelled: How Corpus‐Assisted Discourse Studies Can Enrich Qualitative Explorations of Large Textual Datasets Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Mathew Gillings, Mark Learmonth, Gerlinde Mautner
How might interpretivist qualitative researchers tackle large data sets consisting of millions or even billions of words? Corpus‐assisted discourse studies (CADS) is the approach we explore here. Specifically designed for the analysis of voluminous textual data, it offers a recognized empirical approach for making sense of such data. But it does so within an epistemology that understands language to
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Digital Skills Mobilization within Incumbent Organizations: The Agentic Role of Digital Champions Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Stefano D'angelo, Antonio Ghezzi, Angelo Cavallo
In a world increasingly influenced by digital technologies, incumbent organizations are urged to equip their employees with digital skills to unlock the transformative power of digitalization for their strategy and business model. Yet, extant research lacks guidance on how to mobilize and implement effective initiatives to develop digital skills in incumbents. Therefore, through an in‐depth case study
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Bankruptcy in the UK: Do Managers Talk the Talk Before Walking the Walk? Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Yousry Ahmed, Mohamed Elsayed, Bin Xu
This study examines whether managers employ annual report textual disclosures as a conduit to communicate the probability of future corporate bankruptcy or to intentionally mislead stakeholders owing to impression management incentives. We conduct various examinations around the information content of the tone conveyed by textual disclosures in unstructured UK annual reports and the probability of
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Managing Asymmetries for Data Mobilization under Digital Transformation Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Nikolai Kazantsev, Dimitrios Batolas, Leroy White
Resource mobilization is a significant challenge for firms seeking survival and competitive advantage, especially in the context of digital transformation. Data has emerged as a vital resource, but its intangible nature adds complexity to the interactions between resource holders and seekers. This paper aims to address the gaps in understanding data resource mobilization by integrating perspectives
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Pro‐market Institutions and the Degree of Hybridity in Startup Social Ventures: The Moderating Effects of Organizational Activities Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Zhiyang Liu, Liping Xu, Fu Jia, Xinhe Zhuang
As a departure from previous research that takes social ventures as a distinct organizational type, this study investigates the relationship between the pro‐market institutions in a country and the degree of hybridity in social ventures, focusing on the dimension of organizational goals. Additionally, it examines the contingent effects of organizational activities, such as the novelty of market offering
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A Shout‐out for the Value of Management Education Research: ‘Pedagogy is not a Dirty Word’ Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Katy Mason, Lisa Anderson, Kate Black, Ashley Roberts
Management Learning Education (MLE) research and curriculum and pedagogy innovation are urgently needed to lead our world out of crisis. If we are to take responsibility for educating future leaders of business, third‐ and public‐sector organizations with the skills, competences and knowledge to deliver sustainable futures for the planet and people, then pedagogy cannot be a dirty word. In this essay
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Maintaining an Aberrant Practice in a Contradictory Environment: The Case of Doping in Professional Road Cycling Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Tom Forbes, Robin Fincham
Sports doping is a practice that continues, despite hostile public opinion and counter-efforts to close it down. In this paper we explore the maintenance of doping in the sport of professional road cycling. While studies of controversial practices find that they often benefit from levels of acceptance and even perceived value, we supplement such research by providing one of the few studies of practices
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Forward-Looking Responsibility and Political Corporate Social Responsibility Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 John Ferguson
This paper contributes to the literature on political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) by considering the forward-looking, political responsibilities of corporations in relation to structural injustice, based on a critical engagement with Iris Marion Young's Social Connection Model (SCM) of responsibility. Although Young's SCM serves as a key reference point in the PCSR literature, engagement
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Post-IPO lead venture capital firm involvement, merger-related litigation and target firm valuation Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Anup Basnet, Thomas Walker
Venture capital firms (VCs) provide certification and monitoring services to the initial public offering (IPO) companies they finance, as has been well documented in the academic literature. Yet, there are few studies that explore what role – if any – VCs play when an IPO company is subsequently acquired, particularly if that acquisition is legally contested. Using a sample of 721 merger and acquisition
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The Importance of Human Rights for Management and Organization Studies Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Judith Schrempf-Stirling, Harry J. Van Buren
Business and human rights (BHR) scholarship examines the role of business in human rights violations as well as business responsibilities to respect human rights and to provide remedy where needed. BHR scholarship has been thriving over the last several decades, but it is at a turning point that begs for increased cross-disciplinary exchange. We argue that dealing systematically and explicitly with
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Do Pre-merger Loyalties Help or Hinder Post-merger Retention? A Longitudinal Study Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Martin R. Edwards, Jukka Lipponen, Janne Kaltiainen, Matthew Hornsey
Mergers potentially threaten employees’ organizational identities. For some, a merger could be a trigger to seek employment elsewhere, but the factors associated with increased withdrawal cognitions post-merger necessitate further research. Using a longitudinal, pre- and post-merger design, we investigated two competing predictions drawing on social identity theory: a vulnerability hypothesis (high
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Analyst Coverage and Synchronous Knowledge Search: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Fenglong Xiao
This study develops a theory concerning the ways in which firms manage knowledge search in relation to the search behaviours of competitors. While the search behaviours of competitors provide information cues regarding the possible distribution of valuable innovation opportunities in the knowledge space, a focal firm may search with competitors synchronously (i.e. searching with competitors in the
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Theory-Driven Perspectives on Generative Artificial Intelligence in Business and Management Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Olivia Brown, Robert M. Davison, Stephanie Decker, David A. Ellis, James Faulconbridge, Julie Gore, Michelle Greenwood, Gazi Islam, Christina Lubinski, Niall G. MacKenzie, Renate Meyer, Daniel Muzio, Paolo Quattrone, M. N. Ravishankar, Tammar Zilber, Shuang Ren, Riikka M. Sarala, Paul Hibbert
Reimagine the Relational Realm of Workplaces in the Generative Artificial Intelligence Era Shuang Ren, Riikka M. Sarala, Paul Hibbert The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has sparked both enthusiasm and anxiety as different stakeholders grapple with the potential to reshape the business and management landscape. This dynamic discourse extends beyond GAI itself to encompass closely
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Exploring the Third Type of Agency Problem: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Debt Suspension Programmes on SMEs’ Resource Allocations Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Riccardo Savio, Franceso Castellaneta, Silvio Vismara, Alessandro Zattoni
This study explores the third type of agency problem concerning the tension between shareholders and stakeholders. It does so by analysing whether small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) eligible for a temporary debt suspension programme favour the short-term interests of their shareholders or stakeholders, or the firm's long-term competitiveness. Using information from an Italian debt moratorium
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Why Avoid Participating in an Accelerator? Countersignalling by High-Quality FinTech Ventures Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-14 Oliver Browne, Douglas Cumming, Mark C. Hutchinson, Samuel N. Kirshner, Philip O'Reilly
This study investigates whether accelerators attract the highest-performing FinTech ventures. Drawing on countersignalling theory, we present a model of accelerator participation that predicts high-quality FinTech ventures will avoid accelerator programmes. Using a unique financial reporting dataset of FinTech accelerator participants and a propensity score-matched sample of comparison firms, we find
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Climate Change Exposure and Bankruptcy Risk Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Fan Feng, Liyan Han, Jiayu Jin, Youwei Li
This research documents that a firm's bankruptcy risk increases with its climate change exposure. This study further investigates the underlying mechanisms and finds that this effect is stronger for firms with lower operating cash flows or tighter financial constraints. Consistent with the agency theory of debt, the evidence suggests that improving the protection of creditor rights can mitigate the
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Advancing Research Methodologies in Management: Revisiting Debates, Setting New Grounds for Pluralism Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Michael Christofi, Elias Ηadjielias, Mathew Hughes, Emmanuella Plakoyiannaki
The purpose of this introduction and Special Issue (SI) is to offer a unique and timely opportunity to explore, revisit and critically examine key methodological debates and tensions with the purpose of advancing diversity and novel theorizing in the field. We join voices with the authors of the five papers of this SI to problematize taken-for-granted assumptions and research traditions and pave the
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From Negative Emotions to Personal Growth: Failure and Re-entry into Entrepreneurship Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Adam Shore, Luke Pittaway, Thomas Bortolotti
This study explores how entrepreneurs’ extent of experience of business failure affects the level of negative emotional response (NER) they experience, moderating the level of personal growth that occurs after business failure. Contrary to common assumption, the study finds no significant relationship between the extent of failure experience and the level of NER. The results show that many entrepreneurs
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Visualizing Embodied Experiences: Drawing as a Form of Reflective Inquiry Informed by Gestalt Art Therapy Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Miikka J. Lehtonen
This paper addresses the burgeoning interest in management studies concerning methodologies that generate societal or organizational impact. While much research has focused on tackling major societal and environmental challenges, less is known about how management research can benefit research participants. A promising approach involves developing novel methodologies that prioritize theoretical contributions
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The Effect of Foreign Divestment on Subsequent Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Spatial and Temporal Dispersion of Prior Divestment Experience Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Georgios Batsakis, Alexander Mohr, Palitha Konara, Christos Koritos
Previous research has stressed the importance of the relationship between foreign divestment and subsequent firm performance. Yet, controversy remains, as some authors suggest that foreign divestment has a positive effect on firm performance, and others propose that foreign divestment has negative performance effects. To help reconcile this controversy, we first explicate existing arguments and argue
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Stock Price Crash Risk and the Market for Corporate Control Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Nicholas F. Carline, Yang Gao, Jing-Ming Kuo
Recent studies suggest that greater exposure to the market for corporate control matters for managers and shareholders since it affects firms’ ex-post risk of experiencing a stock price crash. The findings though question the direction of the effect. In contrast, in this study, we are the first to examine the effects of firms’ ex-ante risk of experiencing a stock price crash, a likely antecedent of
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Blockchain-Based Governance: Implications for Organizational Boundaries and Structures Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Shubham Singh, Ajai Gaur, Deeksha Singh
Blockchain has emerged as a key Industry 4.0 technology, enabling novel forms of governance and coordination mechanism among organizations and markets. However, extant literature has largely focused on the technical aspects of blockchain, with limited attention to the behavioural and institutional aspects. In this paper, we argue that blockchain-based smart contracts and decentralized autonomous organizations
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The Relationship Between Business Angels’ Psychological Attributes and Investments in Successful Portfolio Ventures: An Empirical Investigation Using Twitter Data Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Angela Altmeier, Christian Fisch
The psychological attributes of business angels are an important but understudied determinant of business angels’ investment behaviour. We derive hypotheses on how psychological attributes (i.e. clout, risk-taking, analytical thinking) affect business angels’ investments in successful portfolio ventures. Our theorized mechanisms draw on cognitive biases (i.e. overconfidence bias, loss-aversion bias
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Do Institutional Investors Care About Operational Leanness? Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Daniel Neukirchen, Gerrit Köchling, Peter N. Posch
We investigate the relationship between operational leanness and institutional ownership. Based on a sample of 12,291 firm-year observations of US manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2020, we find leaner firms to attract significantly more institutional investors – both in terms of the fraction of shares held and the number of institutional investors holding shares of the firm. This finding holds in several
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Autonomy, Power and the Special Case of Scarcity: Consumer Adoption of Highly Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Darius-Aurel Frank, Tobias Otterbring
Unlike previous generations of artificial intelligence (AI), AI assistants today can autonomously perform actions without human input or intervention. Several studies have proposed but not tested the notion that increased levels of AI autonomy may ultimately conflict with consumers’ fundamental need for autonomy themselves. Across five experiments (N = 1981), including representative samples and pre-registered
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Board Ancestral Diversity and Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Emission Disclosure Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Johannes A. Barg, Wolfgang Drobetz, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Henning Schröder
This paper examines the relationship between board diversity and firms’ decisions to voluntarily disclose information about their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. We focus on board ancestral diversity as a relatively new dimension of (deep-level) board structure and document that it has a positive and statistically significant effect on a firm's scope and quality of voluntary GHG emission disclosure
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ChatGPT Undermines Human Reflexivity, Scientific Responsibility and Responsible Management Research Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Dirk Lindebaum, Peter Fleming
With ChatGPT being promoted to and by academics for writing scholarly articles more effectively, we ask what kind of knowledge does ChatGPT produce, what this means for our reflexivity as responsible management educators/researchers, and how an absence of reflexivity disqualifies us from shaping management knowledge in responsible ways. We urgently need to grasp what makes human knowledge distinct
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Early Patent Disclosure and R&D Investment in Family Firms Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Katrin Hussinger, Wunnam Basit Issah
This paper shows that the American Inventor's Protection Act, which introduced the disclosure of patent applications after 18 months, that is, before a grant decision is taken and, hence, before it is known whether the respective technology will receive legal protection, is associated with a reduction of family firms’ research and development (R&D) investment. This suggests that early disclosure of
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Financial Analyst Coverage and Corporate Environmental Disclosure Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-06 Mohammed Benlemlih, Mohammad Bitar, Imane El Ouadghiri, Jonathan Peillex
Consistent with the monitoring function played by financial analysts, we find that greater analyst coverage leads to the same extent of improvement in the quantity and quality of environmental information disclosed by the firm. This result is remarkably robust after conducting a difference-in-differences analysis that exploits brokerage closures and mergers as an exogenous decrease in analyst coverage
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Matter and Method: The Quest for a New-Materialist Methodology in Management Studies Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-11-04 Angelo Benozzo, Marco Distinto, Vincenza Priola
This paper offers methodological and theoretical contributions to the field of management at the so-called ‘turn to matter’ postulated within new materialist perspectives. It discusses more-than-human perspectives in management research and provides some methodological directions to support new materialist empirical investigations. Theoretically grounded on new materialism and posthumanism, the paper
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The New Tokenomics of Crowdfunding Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Carol Alexander, Michael Dakos
Whether proxied by the amount raised or the probability that this amount exceeds the soft cap, the factors driving the fundraising success of token offerings have changed considerably over the past 4 years. Possible factors include target market capitalization for the token, genuine signals of the venture's public credibility, price and momentum of ether, domicile of the venture and distribution of
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Problem Directors and Corporate Risk-Taking Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Md. Borhan Uddin Bhuiyan, Jia Liu, Ashraful Alam
This study investigates the impact of a ‘problem director’ on the risk-taking propensity of a firm and its consequences for firm value. Analysing a sample of US companies, we find that corporate risk-taking propensity increases when a firm appoints a problem director. Our results are of economic significance, indicating that a one standard deviation increase in problem director's score leads to a 2
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Reading In-Between: How Women Engage with Messages of ‘Superstar’ Business Role Models Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-20 Maria Adamson, Elisabeth K. Kelan
With role models being seen as central for developing women as leaders, recent research has been critical of messages that contemporary elite businesswomen role models promote. But how do women actually relate to female business ‘superstar’ role models’ messages? We argue that the implicit assumption that role models’ effects may be understood through exploring exclusively the kind of messages they
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The Speed of the Effects of Publicly Funded Research on Business R&D, Innovation and Innovation Behaviour: Evidence from UK Firms Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Christos Dimos, Felicia M. Fai, Philip R. Tomlinson
This study contributes to the understanding of the speed of the effects of publicly funded research – R&D grants – on firm R&D, innovation and innovation behaviour. We argue that while the speed of the positive effects on R&D (i.e. input additionality; IA) tightly relates to public support programmes’ requirement of private contribution in R&D spending, the positive effects on innovation (i.e. output
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Digitalization, Resource Mobilization and Firm Growth in Emerging Industries Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 David B. Audretsch, Maksim Belitski
While most firms do not grow, a small number of firms grow and enhance their equity and debt capital intensity. Researchers, managers and policymakers question the role that digital technologies play in propelling firm growth and resource mobilization. Using a longitudinal dataset from emerging industries in the United Kingdom during 2010–2019, we distinguish three types of firms and examine their
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Going the Extra Mile, Now or After a While: The Impact of Employee Proactivity in Retail Service Encounters on Customers’ Shopping Responses Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Tobias Otterbring, Jasenko Arsenovic, Peter Samuelsson, Suresh Malodia, Amandeep Dhir
Employee proactivity has been discussed as a key predictor of firm success and organizational performance. However, previous proactivity research has rarely focused on customers, and the few available proactivity studies from retail settings are either cross-sectional, solely based on subjective outcomes (e.g. customer satisfaction) or restricted to aggregated data of objective outcomes (e.g. profits
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Founder's Financial Knowledge and the New Firm's Ability to Obtain Debt Financing Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Laurence Rijssegem, Ine Paeleman, Egle (Vaznyte) Hünermund, Petra Andries
How does a founder's knowledge of debt financing influence his/her new firm's ability to obtain the amount of debt financing it desires? Building on the cognitive psychology literature, we propose that the depth of a founder's debt financing knowledge is positively associated with the new firm's ability to obtain debt financing as he/she will be better at selecting and acquiring relevant sources of
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Homophily and Merger Dynamics Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Stefano Bonini*, Meghana Vaidya
We propose a novel multi-factor metric of homophily between the CEOs of the acquirer and target firms as a causal determinant of mergers and acquisitions (M&As). We find strong evidence that higher homophily among the two CEOs increases the likelihood of M&A deal initiation and completion. When homophily is high, deals are more likely to be paid in cash, exhibit significantly larger long-term value
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Servant Leadership as a Catalyst for Middle Managers’ Learning Ambidexterity: A Resource-Based Perspective Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Muhammad Usman, Chidiebere Ogbonnaya, Hamid Roodbari, Rebecca Yusuf, Manjusha Hirekhan
Although recent years have seen a proliferation of research on organizational ambidexterity, important questions remain about the role that leaders play in leveraging learning ambidexterity for organizational benefits. Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, we investigate the indirect links between servant leadership and middle managers’ learning ambidexterity, with structural empowerment
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Fragmentation of Technology Ownership and Acquisition Strategy of Firms Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-13 Aman Asija, Solon Moreira, Dimo Ringov, Thiago J. Soares
This paper examines how the fragmented ownership of complementary intellectual property (IP) rights affects firms’ acquisition behaviour. We theorize that as the ownership of complementary IP rights fragments, the rate at which a focal firm engages in technology acquisitions will increase. Our predictions suggest that firms will expand their IP portfolios through acquisitions as a strategy to continue
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Political Connections and Shareholder Support Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Magnus Blomkvist, Eva Liljeblom, Anders Löflund, Etienne Redor
We study investors’ preferences for corporate political connections in the United States using a novel measure: shareholder votes given to individual directors. We find that, after fully accounting for all firm-year specific information and a wide range of director characteristics, politically connected directors on average do not obtain significantly greater shareholder support. During our sample
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Building Parallel Supply Chains: How the Manufacturing Location Decision Influences Supply Chain Ambidexterity Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Hamid Moradlou, Albachiara Boffelli, Deodat Edward Mwesiumo, Amy Benstead, Samuel Roscoe, Sanaa Khayyam
The purpose of this paper is to examine how managers can develop ‘parallel’ supply chains to overcome the efficiency/flexibility trade-offs of offshored versus reshored/nearshored production. Primary evidence is gathered from 22 field interviews with eight companies from multiple countries, all operating in the textile and apparel industry. The interview data is triangulated using a cross-industry
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Impact of Supervisor's Interactional Justice and Interpersonal Affect on Subordinates' Performance Rating: A Signalling Perspective Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Sanjay Kumar Singh, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar, Prakriti Soral
The complexity of performance evaluation and the insufficiency of objective measures to make informed performance decisions is an ongoing challenge. We suggest that extracting supportive information from social cues during supervisor–subordinate interactions can aid in navigating these complexities. The current study assesses how signals transmitted during supervisor–subordinate interactions play a
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Does Co-worker Incivility Increase Perceived Knowledge Hiding? The Mediating Role of Work Engagement and Turnover Intentions and the Moderating Role of Cynicism Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Upasna A. Agarwal, Sanjay Kumar Singh, Fang Lee Cooke
Drawing upon the conservation of resources theory, we investigate the serial mediation relationship between co-worker incivility, work engagement, turnover intentions and knowledge hiding. We also examine the moderating effects of employee cynicism in the incivility–knowledge–hiding relationship through work engagement. We found that the negative relationship between co-worker incivility and knowledge
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Expanding Capacity for Learning and Transformation: A New Look from Human Resource Configurations Towards Product Innovation in the Healthcare Industry Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-08-25 Gholamhossein Mehralian, Hossein Heidarian Ghaleh, Peng Wang, Mohammad Moradi
Prioritizing human resource (HR) practices has been found to improve innovation outcomes in organizations. However, most previous studies have concentrated on internal mechanisms, leaving a gap in our understanding of how HR practices facilitate organizations in adapting external knowledge and technology to drive innovation. To bridge this research gap, we study the mediating role of employees’ innovative
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Flight to Lottery Ahead of FOMC Announcements: Institutional Investors or Retail Investors? Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Haifeng Guo, Chi-Hsiou D. Hung, Alexandros Kontonikas, Yeqin Zeng
This paper studies the pre-Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announcement drift at the stock level. We hypothesize that investors have a higher propensity to speculate before the monetary policy announcements by the FOMC, due to the resolution of uncertainty and associated reduction in investors' fear. Indeed, we find evidence that there exists a drift of lottery-like stocks in the pre-FOMC window
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Performance Feedback and Risk-Taking: A Configurational Approach Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Lakshmi Goyal, Manish Popli
Based on the notion that organizations are complex systems, this study combines the configurational perspective with the performance feedback theory to explore constellations of multi-level causal conditions that explain variations in firm risk-taking behaviour. Using the fuzzy set methodology as our analytic approach, we derive multiple configurations based on a dataset of 1753 observations belonging
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Conforming to Gender Stereotypes and Entrepreneurs’ Financing Outcomes Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-19 Weixi Liu, Marc Cowling
Recent research into the gender aspects of small business financing has shown that in crisis periods, banks actively reward female entrepreneurs with privileged access to loans because they put forward more realistic and cautious funding proposals compared to hubristic male entrepreneurs. We build on this research by considering in greater detail how broader gender differences in entrepreneurial confidence
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Historical Military Conflict and Cross-Border VC Performance: The Role of Ownership Control Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Axel Buchner, Pia Helbing, Abdulkadir Mohamed, Hyungseok (David) Yoon
This study investigates the effect of historical military conflict (between the home countries of venture capital (VC) firms and portfolio companies) on the performance of cross-border VC investments. Using exhaustive data on global cross-border investments during 1986–2017, we find that adverse memories imprinted by historical military conflict have a negative effect on cross-border performance as
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A Cognitive Method for Comparing and Elaborating on Technology Frames Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Shahla Ghobadi, Lars Mathiassen
From employees’ varied interpretations of software efficacy to consumers’ diverse beliefs about data privacy, technology frames refer to cognitive interpretations, assumptions and expectations that people use to comprehend the essence of information technology within a particular context. These frames differ across groups with different values, interests, experiences and expertise, having critical
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Health Risks Related to COVID-19, Psychological Distress and Perceived Productivity Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Sarah Park, Michael Koch
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the lives of billions around the globe. Yet, our understanding of its impact on psychological distress and work productivity remains limited. Using data from two waves of the Understanding Society COVID-19 study, a representative British survey of reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, comprising 5829 individuals, we find that perceived health risks related to COVID-19
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Does Resilience Matter for Supply Chain Performance in Disruptive Crises with Scarce Resources? Br. J. Manag. (IF 7.45) Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Maciel M. Queiroz, Samuel Fosso Wamba, Rakesh D. Raut, Ilias O. Pappas
In today's disruptive world, firms and supply chains are facing massive disruptions, primarily owing to resource scarcity. We develop a model supported by the resilience and resource-based theories to assess supply chain decision-makers in the United States. We validate the model by employing partial least squares structural equation modeling and fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis. We find