Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 8

The role of house money effect and availability heuristic in investor behavior

Chieh-Shuo Chen, Jia-Chi Cheng, Fang-Chi Lin, Chihwei Peng

The house money effect is proposed to describe that people appear to consider large or unexpected wealth gains to be distinct from the rest of their wealth, and are thus more…

Does logistics influence economic growth? The European experience

Vittorio D’Aleo, Bruno S. Sergi

The purpose of this paper is to set forth a new economic model that includes variables that take account the mediator effect of global competitiveness index to better identify the…

Natural born opportunists

Anne Fennimore

The purpose of this paper is to adapt research conducted on subclinical psychopaths and Machiavellians to conceptualise false agents in transaction cost economics (TCE). Both…

Doing good while making money: Individual investor participation in socially responsible corporations

Bidisha Chakrabarty, Sang Bong Lee, Nitish Singh

The purpose of this paper is to examine the performance of exchange traded funds (ETFs) that hold corporate social responsibility (CSR) stocks and compare their risk-return…

Transparency among S&P 500 companies: an analysis of ESG disclosure scores

Nabil Tamimi, Rose Sebastianelli

The purpose of this paper is to explore the state of S&P 500 companies’ transparency by analyzing their Bloomberg ESG (Environmental-Social-Governance) disclosure scores…

Configurational examination of successful human resources outsourcing

Thuy Thi Thanh Nguyen, Man-Ling Chang

The causal conditions leading to successful human resources outsourcing (HRO) have until now attracted only limited research attention. To address this shortcoming, the purpose of…

The relevance of information transfer in learning culture: A multigroup study by firm size in the wine industry

Alfonso J. Gil, Mara Mataveli

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of the processes of orientation and empowerment and the transfer of information in the learning culture.

Effectuation-causation: what happens in new product development?

Ana M. Ortega, M. Teresa García, M. Valle Santos

The literature provides contradictory findings on planning contradictory findings on planning as a success factor in projects which entail high innovation. Nevertheless, new…

The impact of multinational enterprises on public governance institutions in areas of limited statehood

Dirk Hanekom, John Manuel Luiz

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interaction between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and public governance institutions in regions of limited statehood by focusing on…

Boundary-spanning demand-side search and radical technological innovations in China: The moderation of innovation appropriability

Wenhong Zhang, Yapu Zhao, Longwei Tian, Dong Liu

The purpose of this paper is to explore how boundary-spanning demand-side search (BSDSS) fuels radical technological innovations as well as how innovation appropriability…

The dynamic change in expatriate roles: strategy type and stage of internationalization

Sangeetha Lakshman, C. Lakshman

The purpose of this paper is to provide an initial exploration of how expatriate roles change over time, across different stages of MNC international expansion, and subsequently…

Characteristics of codified knowledge and replication-imitation speed differentials

Bongsun Kim, Minyoung Kim, Eonsoo Kim

The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate knowledge replication-imitation speed differentials in the context of patents as the target knowledge.

A method for designing strategy maps using DEMATEL and linear programming

Héctor López-Ospina, Luis E. Quezada, Ricardo A. Barros-Castro, Miguel A. Gonzalez, Pedro I. Palominos

The purpose of this paper is to propose a quantitative methodology for the identification of the causal relationships between strategic objectives in a strategy map of a balanced…

An ISM approach for the barrier analysis in implementing sustainable supply chain management: An empirical study

Mahmood Movahedipour, Jianqiu Zeng, Mengke Yang, Xiankang Wu

Sustainability has been on the executive agenda for years and it is now one of the fastest growing supply chain management trends. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the…