Management Research: Volume 2 Issue 2

Adaptive Responses Under Competitive Pressure: Organizational Flexibility in an Emergent Economy

Andrés Hatum, Andrew M. Pettigrew

This paper examines the processes of organizational adaptation and competitiveness of firms in an emerging economy (Argentina). The empirical focus of this paper concerns the…

Trust Me: A Scale for Measuring Manager‐Employee Trust

Shay S. Tzafrir, Simon L. Dolan

This study investigates the conceptual and psychometric properties of trust in organizations. Critical review of recent literature led to the conclusion that there is no single…

An Empirical Investigation of Knowledge Management Styles and Their Effects on Learning Capacity

Isabel M. Prieto, Elena Revilla

This paper analyzes how organizations may use different knowledge management styles according to higher or lower emphasis on (1) techno‐structural initiatives for information…

Do Workers Share Innovation Returns? A Study of the Spanish Manufacturing Sector

Ester Martínez‐Ros, Vicente Salas‐Fumás

This paper explores whether workers share innovation returns and how the size of innovation returns is affected by market conditions. Using a panel data of Spanish manufacturing…

A Methodological Approach to Studying the Fit Between Commitment Management and Competitive Strategy

Vicente Roca‐Puig, Ana Belen Escrig Tena, Juan Carlos Bou Llusar

This work develops a new methodological process that attempts to test the contingent and universalistic arguments regarding the influence of human resources management on firm…

The Creation of Employee Commitment in Spanish Hotels Through Cultural Practices

Isabel Sánchez Quirós

The organizational literature accepts that when an organization generates commitment among employees through cultural mechanisms, it will be more efficient since the individuals…