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Gender diversity, education diversity and big data analytics investments - A test of moderation Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jennifer Lai Yee Chong, Ling Jong, Ching Seng Yap, Poh Ling Ho
Purpose: This study examines the influence of education diversity in moderating the association between gender diversity and big data analytics investments. Design/methodology/approach: A multimethod approach is employed where the data (161 responses) are drawn from two quantitative data sources. The primary data are obtained from the questionnaire survey, and the secondary data are gathered from the
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Employee engagement in voice at times of crisis: COVID-19 pandemic as an example Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Iman Karam IM Ashmawy
Purpose: During crises and unpredictable events, organizational leadership faces time constraints for making decisions. Decisions are, therefore, often centralized. However, such centralized decision-making processes frequently deprive the organizations of vital inputs coming from the employees, who are usually closer to the problems and the customers. Therefore, this paper aims how employees engage
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The virtue of calculative mindset: A community-based view of entrepreneurial action and its implications to altruistic venturing Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Shu-Jung Sunny Yang, Yanto Chandra, Yan Emma Liu
We develop a community-based model of entrepreneurial action under value-destroying uncertainty (e.g., disasters) to formalize two well-established altruistic motivations— reciprocal opportunity belief (a “calculative” mindset of doing good with expectations of future payback) and compassionate opportunity belief (a “non-calculative” mindset of doing good without expectations of future payback)—and
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Creativity and service innovation in the banking sector: The role of knowledge acquisition and knowledge provision Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Nam Kim Nguyen, Nga Thi Hang Nguyen
Creativity and service innovation in the banking sector have been attracting the attention of researchers in Vietnam recently. Therefore, this study focuses on examining the influence of knowledge acquisition and knowledge provision on individual creativity and service innovation in the banking sector. The structural equation modeling (SEM) is used to analyze survey data from 282 employees working
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Alone as a drop, together as an ocean: Corporate political activity in cooperatives Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Eleandra Maria Prigol Meneghini, Jeferson Lana, Marina Amado Bahia Gama, Rosilene Marcon
Cooperatives are formed by the collective efforts of various actors pursuing common goals, enabling competition with stronger rivals. In Brazil, there is a strong relationship between agricultural cooperatives and politics, with their involvement focused on competing for regulations, information, and access to capital. However, little is known about the effects of this involvement. In this paper, we
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The mediational role of individual and organizational factors in the work engagement and occupational stress relationship Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Majoreen Osafroadu Amankwah
This study investigated the mediating role of individual and organizational factors on the relationship between work engagement and occupational stress among males and females, junior, mid-level an...
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The relationship between non-family management in family firms and firm performance: A meta-analysis Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Vasiliki Kosmidou, Jestine Philip
The purpose of this meta-analysis is to empirically quantify the relationship between non-family management and family firm performance and to examine the potential influence of moderating factors ...
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Corporate entrepreneurship in banks: The role of technology self-efficacy and technology-based customer relationship management Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Waheed Ali Umrani, Beenish Tariq, Virginia Bodolica, Asif Nawaz, Munwar Hussain Pahi
In today’s hypercompetitive business landscapes, corporate entrepreneurship (CE) plays a critical role in organizational growth and success. While the impact of CE on firm performance is widely exp...
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Ethical leadership communications scale: Development and validation of a measure and multi-level test Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Hassan Abu Bakar, Stacey L. Connaughton
Ethical leadership emphasizes the promotion of ethical behavior through two-way communication with followers. This article introduces the development of an ethical leadership communication scale th...
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Responding to a societal crisis: How does corporate social responsibility engagement influence corporate reputation? Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-15 Skylar Rolf
While both an “insurance” and “penance” effect of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been discussed within prior literature, it is unclear how a firm’s CSR engagement in response to a societ...
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A power-with versus power-over framework of leadership behaviors, employee expectations, and employee creativity: A meta-analysis Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Hongguo Wei, Bingqing Wu, Haesang Park, Diana Bilimoria
Drawing on a power-over versus power-with framework and implicit leadership theories, this study examines how positive relations-oriented and task-oriented leadership behaviors affect employee crea...
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A review on the sequential ordered behaviour of users’ experiential values, flow state and continuing use of mobile apps Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Sumiyana Sumiyana, Nur Halimah Siahaan
This study investigates whether experiential values, such as escapism, enjoyment, social affiliation, visual appeal and entertainment, affect users’ cognitive flows, as suggested by the grand theor...
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Value of corporate political contributions from the investors’ perspective Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jihyun Eun, Yoon-Suk Baik, Seung-Hyun Lee
In this study we consider corporate political contributions as a special type of social capital reserved for future contingencies. Firms benefit from making such contributions when the government s...
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Founder-CEOS’ procedural fairness: How and when it matters to new venture ambidexterity Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Yuanyuan Huo, Li-Qun Wei, Yan Ling, Song Chang, Hao-Chieh Lin
Different from the typical research about procedural fairness that focuses on lower level leaders and its influence on non-managerial teams, we pay particular attention to founder-CEOs’ procedural ...
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Teleconsultation management in healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: The impact of Perceived Justice on satisfaction and Word-Of-Mouth Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Patricia Baudier, Galina Kondrateva, Chantal Ammi, Tony De Vassoigne
Following the restrictions on movement imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the greater demands placed on physicians and many healthcare infrastructures, a large number of health teleconsultation ...
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Planned, improvised or resilience: Small business owner-managers’ perception and response to crises in crisis-prone environments Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Oluwasoye P Mafimisebi, Demola Obembe, Adekunle I Ogunsade
This article addresses a fundamental question concerning planning, improvisation and resilience in the context of crisis management and business continuity. We seek to explore when and how small bu...
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Psychological contract breach and emotional exhaustion among self-initiated expatriates: The role of social support and cultural orientation Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Taiba Hussain, Stephen Deery
Self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) face a unique set of challenges associated with working abroad without organizational sponsorship or support. A lack of clarity about mutual obligations and respon...
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A synthetical view of Western, Asian, and Latin American perspectives onorganizational citizenship behaviors: Matching etic, emic, and unique approaches with cultural dimensions Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Miguel A Baeza, Yong J Wang, Brian K Martinson
This study proposes a three-practice approach for organizing, analyzing, and studying organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) taking into account the different views reflected across global, re...
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From research to action and back again: The long journey of organizational climate – A review of the literature and a summative framework Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Alessia D’Amato
Within management studies and practice, the construct of organizational climate has long been studied, its theoretical value, support to human resource management and organizational development. De...
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The effect of COVID-19 on managerial leadership style within Australian public sector organizations Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Hanan AlMazrouei
This study investigates the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on leadership styles within Australian public sector organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. A qualitative methodology was employed for t...
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Simultaneous multi-stakeholder value creation: How Volkswagen made it happen in Wolfsburg Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-01-07 Timothy A Hart, Adrien Bouchet
Recent work in stakeholder theory argues that additional research into how multi-stakeholder value creation happens is an important focus for the field. However, despite calls for greater attention...
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Family director board governance index: An analysis of family directors and firm performance in Malaysia Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Lynn Ling, Ling Jong, Wendy Law, Fayrene Chieng
This study constructs a family director board governance index (FBGI) and examines its impact on the firm performance. This motivation is prompted by the literature and theoretical gaps. Despite th...
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Linking organizational justice with positive behavior in temporary organization: The mediating role of cooperative willingness Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2023-01-02 Xinhua Liu, Peng Guo, Ning Guo, Juan Du
This article associates cooperative willingness and positive behavior to fairness preference in temporary cooperation. Drawing on social exchange theory and project citizenship behaviors, the analy...
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Organisational support for healthcare innovation in hospitals: Towards a commitment framework Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-12-30 Anna Żukowicka-Surma, Albrecht Fritzsche
The article investigates organisational drivers and restrainers of innovation in hospitals on the background of different institutional logics. It presents evidence from a multiple case study in Po...
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The increasing importance of the alternate real estate sectors for institutional investors Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-12-24 Graeme Newell, Muhammad Jufri Bin Marzuki
The alternate real estate sectors (including healthcare, data centres, self-storage, university student accommodation and infrastructure) have taken on increased importance in recent years with ins...
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Tackling false advertising and strengthening consumer protection in emerging economies Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Zhi-xing Xu, Ying Zhu, Song Yang
False advertising has many negative consequences for the protection of consumer rights and wellbeing. In emerging economies in particular, false advertising has been widespread across business sect...
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Commercial real estate governance in an era of climate change and biodiversity rising issues: Interview with Nathalie Palladitcheff, president and chief executive officer Ivanhoé Cambridge Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Andrée De Serres
Commercial Real Estate Governance in an Era of Climate Change and Biodiversity Rising Issues : Interview with Nathalie Palladitcheff, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ivanhoé Cambridge.
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The influence of stakeholders in the process of accepting or rejecting social innovations Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sylvain MBONGUI-KIALO
Acceptance of ecotourism is still a topic of great concern for vulnerable regions. Often described as a credible response to the problems of natural resource reduction and the development of inappr...
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Salespeople’s performance and digital technologies in real estate: Evidence from the Portuguese retail real estate sector Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Pedro Mendonça Silva, José Freitas Santos, Victor Ferreira Moutinho
The digital transition is an unstoppable process that affects consumers and companies. Consequently, new sales strategies oriented to the application of digital technologies are needed to increase ...
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Overconfident leaders? Testing the effect of misaligned leader-member-exchange perceptions on the relationship between justice, trust and organizational performance measures Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sarah Bonau
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of manager and employee perception of justice and trust on workplace outcomes, by testing the mediating effect of employee trust on the relationsh...
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On the economic nature of behavioural control in smart real estate Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Patrick Lecomte
The implementation of smart technologies in the built environment presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges for the real estate sector. Among the challenges is building occupants’ behavio...
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Employer branding: Confirmation of a measurement model and its implication for managing the workforce Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Jawahitha Sarabdeen, Sreejith Balasubramanian, Valerie Lindsay, Janya Chanchaichujit, Sony Sreejith
Employer branding is becoming increasingly important for organizations to attract and retain top talent. While practitioners use a range of tactics to build and promote employer branding, it is sti...
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Understanding possible personal correlates of organizational citizenship behavior: Mindfulness and oneness behaviors Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Duysal Aşkun, Fatih Çetin
The current study aims to understand the mechanisms underlying the predictive relationship between mindfulness and organizational citizenship behaviors especially targeted for other individuals ins...
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How high-tech SMEs renew resources in innovation projects: A dynamic capabilities perspective Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Sin-Pei Ng
Although resource renewal allows high-tech SMEs to adapt to environmental changes through innovation to seize new business opportunities and sustain competitiveness in volatile business environment...
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Can cutting pay be an alternative to cutting people when maintaining work attitudes is a concern? It can be if employees trust you Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Yeongjoon Yoon, Sukanya Sengupta
Despite the social pressure to cut pay instead of people when payroll cost (i.e., cost of salaries and wages) needs to be reduced, only a limited effort has been made to identify “when” cutting pay...
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Under pressure: Finding organizational legitimacy through the supply chain Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Alicia R Ingersoll, Kunpeng Li, Alison Cook, Christy Glass
This study analyzes whether firms face a tradeoff in responding to pressures of shareholders versus stakeholders in their quest for supply chain management excellence. Are firms that are recognized...
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A framework for exploring digital entrepreneurship development from a social interaction perspective Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Fang Zhao, Llandis Barratt-Pugh, Yuliani Suseno, Peter Standen, Janice Redmond
There is almost universal agreement within extant studies that digital technologies such as social media and digital platforms have accelerated and expanded social networks on an unprecedented scal...
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How does frugal innovation help young firms in the US? The moderating roles of venture capital investment and debt financing Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Zafrin Rahman, Wanying Shi
This study examines the effects of frugal innovation on firm performance among young firms located in the U.S. Though frugal innovation is a concept that originated from innovation practices among ...
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Knock, knock, who’s there? Leader humor, leader–member exchange, and the dimensions of engagement Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Bradley G Winton, Misty A Sabol
The workplace is rife with the use of humor. However, the theoretical ties between the use of leader humor and common employee outcomes remain incomplete. This research extends social exchange theo...
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When does CEO succession lead to strategic change? The mediating role of top management team replacement Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 David B Wangrow, Donald J Schepker, Vincent L Barker, III
While mandates for strategic change may accompany the selection of new Chief Executive Officer (CEOs), the broader set of leadership changes necessary for strategic change remains unclear. Motivate...
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Relationship between stress due to COVID-19 pandemic, telecommuting, work orientation and work engagement: Evidence from India Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Vijayabanu Chidambaram, Gayathri Ramachandran, Therasa Chandrasekar, Satyanarayana Parayitam
The purpose of the present study is to examine the effect of stress induced by coronavirus (COVID-19), telecommuting, and work orientation on work engagement among employees in the Information Tech...
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Managerial attention and knowledge-based dynamic capabilities: A meta-theoretical approach to competitive advantage Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Vaneet Kaur
The development of competitive advantage as a field of academic inquiry has come at the price of significant fragmentation of the overall scientific quest. The existing competitiveness studies are ...
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Effects of non-technological innovation on technological innovation of small- and medium-sized enterprises: The role of the local business environment Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Nam Hoang Vu, Tram Bao Hoang, Bich Ngoc Thi Le, Thanh Van Nguyen
Although non-technological innovation has been found to have influences on technological innovation of firms in the literature, some studies suggest it has no effect on technological innovation. It...
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Workplace ostracism and service performance: The mediating role of job tension, organizational identification, and work engagement Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Dorine M Mattar, Joy J Haddad, Chloe J Haddad
Given the empirical evidence indicating the relationship between workplace ostracism and counterproductive work behavior, this study aims to tackle, in a collectivistic culture, the impact of workp...
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Is change all in the mind? A study of leader mindfulness, leader behaviors in implementing change Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Professor Malcolm Higgs, Deborah Rowland
Organizations are facing an ever-growing need to implement continuous transformational change. This has led to an increase in interest in change leadership. However, this has not been supported by ...
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Nomophobia in today’s overlapping work and family domains: The influences on organizational identification Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Eser Erdurmazlı, Haluk Erdem, Ufuk Türen, Yunus Gökmen, Rukiye Can Yalçın
Drawing on attentional control theory, this study addresses the influences of nomophobia (no-mobile-phone-phobia) on organizational identification and work-family conflict. It also examines the med...
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Sovereign public sector property fund: Building a conceptual framework Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-26 David M Higgins
The public sector is the largest UK landowner and space occupier with local authorities owning and managing the majority of the real estate assets to meet services to the community. As central fund...
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Kaizen blitz the muda out of the firm’s globalization strategy Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Mark Wm Cawman
The global production and global supply chain environment of the 2020 decade and beyond requires strategic retooling by industries and firms, both for efficiency/viability and to minimize some of t...
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The impact of Covid-19 on management decision-making: The case within Australian organizations Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Hanan Saber Almazrouei, Robert Zacca
The Covid-19 pandemic has significantly altered the way leaders in organizations manage their employees, requiring them to adopt a more supportive stance to facilitate employee wellbeing and at the...
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Determinants of hedging strategy in foreign exchange risk management by exporting small and medium-sized enterprises: The mediating role of resources Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Vu Hung Dang, Valerie Lindsay
Foreign exchange risk management is well researched in the context of multinational enterprises, but how small and medium sized exporting firms manage their forex risk is still largely unexplored, ...
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Business diplomacy in practice: A strategic response to global business challenges Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Fahad M. Alammar, David J. Pauleen
This paper investigates business diplomacy from the perspective of senior managers and diplomats. In one of the earliest empirical studies, twenty-one official diplomats, CEOs, and business people ...
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Compositional capability as a mean to improve performance in an uncertain environment Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Ansar Waseem, Yasir Rashid, Abdul Rashid Kausar
Dynamic capabilities are widely regarded to be critical to ensure the growth and survival of firms in an uncertain environment. Recently, the concept of compositional capability has been proposed w...
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Embeddedness in internationalization: Knowledge map and research agenda proposal Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Rúben Rocha, Carla S E Marques, Anderson R Galvão
This study conducted a bibliometric review of the literature on the importance of embeddedness in internationalization processes in order to map the research on this topic, identify its main trends...
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The impacts of LGBT inclusion on business processes: The case of Bulgaria Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Nina Zlateva, Stanislav Ivanov, Boris Popshterev
This study surveyed 178 managers and employees of public and private organisations in Bulgaria to evaluate their perceptions towards the effects of LGBT inclusion on the business processes in their...
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The impact of doctors’ career calling on organizational citizenship behavior mediated by work–life balance and job satisfaction Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Sakshi Vashisht, Ravi Vashisht
The present study explored the relationship between doctors’ career calling and organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). A model proposing that the effect of career calling on OCB mediated by wor...
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Big N auditors and the quality of earnings: Evidence from Middle Eastern and North African countries Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Ahmad Al-Hiyari, Mohamed Chakib Kolsi, Riham Muqattash
In recent years, the importance of audit quality has garnered significant attention by managements, academics and the general public. In this study, we examine the relationship between Big N audito...
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Translation of systems thinking to organizational goals: A systematic review Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Hong T.M. Bui, Eleni Galanou
This study examines how systems thinking theories have been applied within organizational learning and management. This study follows the six phases developed in the systematic review undertaken by...
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Leader humility and team creativity: The role of team creative efficacy and task interdependence Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Ran Li, Siting Wang, Hui Wang
Although research on leader humility is developing into a prominent literature, the majority of studies have focused on the dyadic or individual rather than collective outcomes of leader humility. ...
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Organizational structure and organizational learning: The moderating role of organizational defensive routines Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-07-13 Yumei Yang, Davide Secchi, Fabian Homberg
Literature on organizational learning (OL) shows that even firms who self-perceive themselves to have appropriate organizational structures still fail to generate appropriate learning outcomes. In ...
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Book Review: Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Development: An Integrative Perspective Journal of General Management Pub Date : 2022-03-27 Karen Cripps