Management Decision: Volume 59 Issue 9

Enhancing creativity in organizations: the role of the need for cognition

Yan Pan, Yufan Shang, Richards Malika

The authors explain the conditions under which positive personality traits and work environment factors either interact synergistically or yield diminishing-gains when creative…

Project flexibility and creativity: the moderating role of training utility

Olajumoke A. Awe, E. Mitchell Church

The purpose of this paper is to study project management performance measures by analyzing how training utility affects the relationships between mutual trust, social interaction…

Generating knowledge through micro-contradictions: the case of a nursing home for the elderly

Mahrane Hofaidhllaoui, Temna Satouri, Mourad Chouki, Ali Smida

The purpose of this paper is to coordinate the different stages involved in designing a “CSR approach” in order to visualize and analyze micro-contradictions occurring between…

The effects of inter-organizational compatibility on knowledge transfer in cross-border M&As

Ying Qi, Xiangyang Wang, Yujia Li, Gongyi Zhang, Huiqi Jin

The study adopts congruence theory to explore the structure of inter-organizational compatibility and its structural effects on knowledge transfer in cross-border merger and…

A “North star:” spirituality and decision-making among strategic leaders

Kelly A. Phipps, Charlotte Shelton

The purpose of this study was to examine the experience of strategic-level leaders whose spiritual beliefs or practices inform their organizational decision making.

Narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented OCB

Wenting Wang, Lirong Jian, Qiuyun Guo, Haitao Zhang, Wenxing Liu

The purpose of this study is to build a link between narcissistic supervision and employees' change-oriented organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs). On the basis of the…

Unpacking the relationship between procedural justice and job performance

Dirk De Clercq, Inam Ul Haq, Muhammad Umer Azeem

This study investigates the mediating role of improvisation behavior in the relationship between employees' perceptions of procedural justice and their job performance, as…

A moderated-mediated examination of the relations among strategic planning, organizational learning, slack and firm performance

Devaki Rau, Luis Flores, Aditya Simha

Planning is a perennially popular management tool with an ambiguous relationship to learning and performance. The purpose of this study attempts to resolve this ambiguity. The…

The role of environmental management control systems for ecological sustainability and sustainable performance

Shafique Ur Rehman, Anam Bhatti, Sascha Kraus, João J. M. Ferreira

The purpose of this study determines how environmental management control system (MCS) packages influence ecological sustainability and sustainable performance through the…

Creating competitive advantage through network ties, entrepreneurial orientation and intellectual capital

Chih-Hsing (Sam) Liu

This study attempts to explore how a cultural and creative firm's competitive advantages can be maintained through the accumulation of intellectual capital and entrepreneurial…

The dual effect of foreign competition on emerging market firms' internationalization

Hongquan Chen, Saixing Zeng, Chongfeng Wu, Haiping Fu

The authors develop a theoretical framework of how foreign competition in a firm's home country jointly interacts with other environmental factors to influence the…

Brand community motives and their impact on brand community engagement: variations between diverse audiences

Matti Haverila, Caitlin McLaughlin, Kai Christian Haverila, Julio Viskovics

The purpose of this research is to compare two different sample populations (student and general) to determine the impact of brand community motives on brand community engagement.