Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 5

Distressed Chinese firm prediction with discretized data

Jun Huang, Haibo Wang, Gary Kochenberger

The authors develop a framework to build an early warning mechanism in detecting financial deterioration of Chinese companies. Many studies in the financial distress and…

Where do high-impact ideas come from? The interplay between the cumulative knowledge structures and search strategies of researchers

Le Wang, Jun Lin, Jie Yan, Wentian Cui

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the combined effects of different modalities of long-term knowledge accumulation and short-term knowledge searching on the generation…

Asset growth and the cross-section of stock returns: evidence from Greek listed firms

Georgios Constantinou, Angeliki Karali, Georgios Papanastasopoulos

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firm-level asset investment effects in returns found for US firms occur within the Greek stock market.

The influence of organizational factors on board roles

Leticia Pérez-Calero Sánchez, Jaime Guerrero-Villegas, José Manuel Hurtado González

Using a contingency approach, the purpose of this paper is to study how organizational factors (such as the organizational life cycle, firm size, firm ownership concentration and…

Agri-food supply chain performance: an empirical impact of risk

Edmond Yeboah Nyamah, Yuansheng Jiang, Yi Feng, Evelyn Enchill

The purpose of this paper is to examine the key risk components (probability and consequence) and their respective thresholds affecting agri-food supply chain operations in Ghana…

Acquirer-to-target relatedness and target country unfamiliarity in acquisitions: The role of product diversification and international experience

Ilaria Galavotti, Donatella Depperu, Daniele Cerrato

The purpose of this paper is to analyze corporate scope decisions in acquisitions with a focus on the relationship between target country unfamiliarity and acquirer-to-target…

The impacts of brand experiences on brand loyalty: mediators of brand love and trust

Chao-Chin Huang

Prior studies on brand relationships tend to overlook the mediator(s) between the relationships between brand experience and brand loyalty. Hence, the main purpose of this paper…

An improved fuzzy decision analysis framework with fuzzy Mahalanobis distances for individual investment effect appraisal

Shang-Yu Chen

Due to such issues as the recent economic recession, low salaries, and an aging society, how people can strengthen their investment performance when managing their personal…

Operational efficiency of ASEAN airlines: based on DEA and bootstrapping approaches

Jin-Li Hu, Yang Li, Hsin-Jing Tung

For strategic and competitive insights, the purpose of this paper is to measure and benchmark the comparative operating efficiencies of Association of Southeast Asian Nations’…

Managers’ beliefs about marketing research and information use in decisions in context of the bounded-rationality theory

Piotr Tarka

The purpose of this paper is to diagnose two types of causal relationships from the perspective of the structural equations model. First, the relationship is analysed between…

The reference effect in newsvendor model with strategic customers

Jiaming Liu, Chong Wu, Tianyi Su

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the role of reference effect on newsvendor’s decision behavior in a market with strategic customers and work out the newsvendor’s optimal…

Employee empowerment and its contextual determinants and outcome for service workers: A cross-national study

Peter Beomcheol Kim, Gyumin Lee, Jichul Jang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a research model of employee empowerment along with its contextual determinants (i.e. leader-member exchange (LMX) and schedule…

The influence of strategic control and operational control on new venture performance

Ya-Hui Lin, Chung-Jen Chen, Bou-Wen Lin

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impacts of strategic control and operational control on new venture performance in the China context.

Alliance success factors and performance in social economy enterprises

Ramon Bastida, Frederic Marimon, David Tanganelli

Establishing alliances between social economy enterprises (SEEs) is considered to be a solution to the problem of providing enough resources and knowledge to compete in the global…