Chinese Management Studies
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Gaining legitimacy or exploiting opportunities? MNCs’ response to the belt and road initiative in China
Ping Lv, Jakob Arnoldi, Anders Ryom VilladsenThis study aims to investigate whether and why multinational corporations (MNCs) seek to reduce institutional costs of foreign direct investments (FDIs) by aligning with…
The impact of employee entrepreneurship on sustainable innovation capability: the effect of value cocreation and role stress
Zhonghai Su, Xinbo Sun, Donghui ZhaoEnterprises generally change their organizational structures in an era of uncertainty for flexibility, and accordingly, employee entrepreneurship emerges as employees gain…
How and when top management green commitment facilitates employees green behavior: a multilevel moderated mediation model
Xinfeng Ye, Shaohan Cai, Xinchun Li, Zhining WangThe purpose of this paper is to argue that green hope (GH) and green organizational identification (GOI) play critical roles in transforming top management green…
CEO transformational leadership and firm innovation: the role of strategic flexibility and top management team knowledge diversity
Kui Yin, Can Li, Oliver J. Sheldon, Jing ZhaoDrawing upon a dynamic managerial capabilities perspective, this study aims to unpack how and when chief experience officer (CEO) transformational leadership influences…
Coevolution of post-merger integration and dual knowledge networks reconstruction: evidence from Chinese overseas acquisitions
Feiqiong Chen, Wenjing Wang, Jieru ZhuPost-merger integration (PMI) is driven by coevolving processes. By integrating the literature on acquisitions with that of knowledge networks, this paper highlights…
Workaholism and work–family conflict: a moderated mediation model of psychological detachment from work and family-supportive supervisor behavior
Po-Chien Chang, Xiaoxiao Gao, Ting Wu, Ying-Yin LinThe purpose of this study is to examine the effects of the workaholism on work–family conflict via the mediator of psychological detachment from work and the moderator of…
Government support, talent, coupling of innovation chain and capital chain: empirical analysis in integrated circuit enterprises
Qiuling Chen, Tianchi WangThis study aims to investigate the impact of government support on the coupling coordination degree of innovation chain and capital chain in integrated circuit (IC…
Legitimacy-building role of incubators: a multiple case study of activities and impacts of business incubators in a developing Chinese city
Ying Cheng, Yanyan Liu, Adam R. CrossBusiness incubators are advantageous to new venture legitimacy because they provide rich access to entrepreneurial resources, and their incubation networks can offer…
Stock market reaction to affiliated sports teams’ performance: evidence from China
Yongqiang Gao, Yingli Wang, Taïeb HafsiDrawing on the affect transfer and stakeholder theories, this study aims to examine how the performance of a sports team that a firm owns or sponsors may affect the firm’s…
Striving to improve investment efficiency among Chinese firms: does the role of venture capital matter?
Jinbo Wang, Maosheng Ran, Yi LiThis study aims to investigate the impact of venture capital (VC) involvement on investment efficiency (IE) and its potential action mechanisms from the perspective of…
Impact of managerial power on enterprise innovation performance: the mediating roles of financing constraints and strategic orientation
Mengjun Huo, Chao LiThe aim of this paper is to explore the specific relationship between managerial power and enterprise innovation performance. Combined with managerial power theory and…
Effect of workplace status on employees’ creativity from the perspective of expectation identity: a moderated chain double mediation model
Yuanyuan Liu, Li Zhao, Pingqing Liu, Zheng YangDrawing upon the creativity interaction theory and expectation-identity perspective, the purpose of this paper is to construct a chain mediation model of the influence of…
How does technology sourcing in organizational ambidexterity produce high venture performance?
Taoyong Su, Yuzhu Yu, Yuanqing Li, Jintao ZhangBased on a theoretical framework of ambidexterity in technology sourcing beyond organizational and technological boundaries, this study aims to explore how start-ups…
What makes talents stay? Perceived organizational support and future time perspective
Yu-Chen WeiThis study aims to integrate self-determination and social exchange theories to assess how the three-way interaction between human capital, perceived organizational…
How substitute scarcity appeals effect on experiential gift’s purchase intention?
Tser-Yieth Chen, Tsai Lien Yeh, Yen Ling LinThe purpose of this study is to explore the substitute scarcity appeals (unit scarcity or option scarcity) effect on experiential gift’s purchase intention, based on…
Curvilinear effect of economic policy uncertainty on innovation in Chinese manufacturing firms: do managerial pay gaps matter?
Xi Zhong, Weihong Chen, Ge RenThis study aims to re-examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firm innovation. Studies on how EPU affects firm innovation have been inconclusive. The…
Does global value chain position affect innovation performance of China’s high-tech industries?
Nana Yang, Qiming Liu, Furong Qian, Xinglong WangBecause of the rapid progress of global value chains (GVCs), it is worthwhile to study their impact on innovation. This study aims to explore the impact of GVC position of…
Mechanisms of knowledge workers’ adaptive perfectionism on taking charge
Caiyun Wei, Lanxia ZhangThis study aims to explore the mechanisms of adaptive perfectionism on employees’ taking charge (TC), the mediating role of work family enrichment and the moderating role…
Does hierarchical ranking matter to corporate innovation efficiency? An empirical study based on a corporate culture of seniority
Xixiong Xu, Cuiliang Lin, Lingling DuanThis study aims to investigate whether and how corporate seniority culture (a form of high power distance or hierarchy), a typical feature of Confucian norms, affects the…
On the link between job insecurity and CWB: moderated mediation by employment status and turnover intention
Wenzhu Lu, Xiaolang Liu, Shanshi Liu, Haibo Wu, Chuanyan Qin, Bing MaDespite mounting evidence that job insecurity triggers counterproductive work behavior (CWB), the underlying mechanism within the association in hybrid employment remains…
Generating business intelligence through automated textual analysis: measuring corporate image with online information
Ziqing Peng, Yan WanIn this age of extremely well-developed social media, it is necessary to detect any change in the corporate image of an enterprise immediately so as to take quick action…
The impact of green supply chain management on enterprise environmental performance: a meta-analysis
Lei Fu, Daojian Yang, Suxia Liu, Qiang MeiThe purpose of this study is to systematically analyze the relationships between green supply chain management (GSCM), enterprise environmental performance (EEP) and the…
Multigenerational product innovation process in electronic information industry: a qualitative study
Qingwen Bo, Bo Zou, Jinyu GuoDeveloping multigenerational products through iteration helps enterprises cope with environmental uncertainty and maintain lasting competitive advantages in a globally…
Influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance: a multilevel moderated mediation model
Tao Guo, Nan Yao, Lei ZhangThe purpose of this study is to explore the influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance and its internal mechanism.
The effect of job insecurity on employee silence: test an interactive model
Shengxian Yu, Shanshi Liu, Chao XuThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of job insecurity on employee silence by developing a moderated mediation model. The model focuses on the mediating…
The impact of project manager’s emotional intelligence on project performance: a meta-analysis
Qi Zhang, Shengyue Hao, Kon Shing Kenneth ChungA project manager’s (PM) emotional intelligence (EI) is essential for project performance (PP). However, the cause and effect and the potential moderators of the…
Strategic flexibility or persistence? Examining the survival path of export enterprises under COVID-19
Wanyi Chen, Rong Jin, Yuchuan XieThe rising uncertainties in the macroeconomic environment exacerbate the challenges firms face in the export market. This study aims to explore which strategy is suitable…
The micromechanism of “co-beneficial” cooperation between government and business in the context of Chinese transition economy: the case of “Daqing–Geely mode”
Baoxin Qi, Mu Tian, Yajun WuThis study aims to answer few questions, such as which factors influence the local government’s choice of private firm investments; what factors influence private firms…
Government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity: empirical analysis in photovoltaic companies
Jing Chen, Tianchi WangThis study aims to investigate the relationship between government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity, and to explore the heterogeneity effects in different time…
Proto-institutional work: the “special treatments for special matters” in institutional transition
Zheng Joseph Yan, Jin Luo, Ziran ChenThis study aims to examine an important mechanism in the policy-led institutional transitions in China, namely, Te Shi Te Ban (Special Treatments for Special Matters) – an…
Cyberloafing at the workplace: effect of Zhong-Yong thinking on mental health and mindfulness as a moderating role
Liping Liu, Chunyu ZhangThis study aims to integrate conservation of resources theory discus the antecedents and consequences of cyberloafing as well as the boundary effect between cyberloafing…
Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments
Haitang Yao, Mengqing Zhong, Wei Liu, Bo ChenThis study aims to explore the effect of the home country institutional environment on firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and how it is affected by…
Nonlinear impact of market segmentation on the upgrading of Chinese manufacturing enterprises
Sai Yuan, Xiongfeng PanPrior studies have confirmed market segmentation as an important shackle to China's macroeconomy upgrade, but the systematic analysis of microenterprise upgrade remains…
Formation of TMT strategic consensus: the effects of collective team identification and information elaboration
Yi Liu, Yaqun YiHow is strategic consensus formed in top management team (TMT)? Prior literature provides inadequate evidence. A few scholars explore its antecedents from some…
Mediation effect of product diversification on the relationship between top management team heterogeneity and firm value in China
Ning Shen, Zhiyi ZhuoBased on upper echelons (UE) theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate a conceptualized moderated mediation model for examining the effects of top management…
Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: a two-path mediating role of trust
Lisan Fan, Cailing Feng, Mulyadi Robin, Xiaoyu HuangTransformational leadership and service performance of civil servants greatly affect the government’s administrative effectiveness. However, there are few studies on the…
Value co-creation and new product development success: the moderating effect of structural empowerment
Dong Wu, Tanfei Liu, Fei Wu, Wenxiao Bai, Xinyi LinThis paper aims to represent an empirical study of what role does structural empowerment play in the relationship between multi-stakeholder value co-creation (VCC) and the…
Gain or loss: the double-edged effect of empowering leadership on employees’ innovative behaviours
Zhengwei Li, Chenye Qiu, Kai Zeng, Feirong WangEmpowering leadership is often considered unequivocally positive for employees, but recent studies have shown that this ostensibly straightforward effect is more complex…
Can earning much lead to doing good? Firm performance implications for corporate social responsibility
Siyu Hou, Zhaoyang Guo, Chuangneng Cai, Xiaobo JiaoThe purpose of this study is to examine the influence of firm performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its possible moderating effect. Despite the…
How large entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation: the roles of interdepartmental collaboration and organizational culture
Xifang Ma, Zhengyun Rui, Genyuan ZhongThis study aims to provide a better understanding into how large-scale companies overcome their rigidity and bureaucracy, and transform entrepreneurial orientation (EO…
Do corporate social responsibility reduce crash risk of stock price: evidence from China
Kun Su, Ziting ZhouThe 2008 global financial crisis stimulated the research interest in stock price crash risk. However, the determinants of stock price crash risk remain unclear, especially…
Experiencing tensions, regulatory focus and employee creativity: the moderating role of hierarchical level
Zhiqiang Liu, Xi Ouyang, Xiaoqing PanThis study aims to explore how employees respond to tensions in groups and whether experiencing tensions could spur on their creativity (including radical and incremental…
Public psychological crisis reports: an investigation during the remission of COVID-19 in China
Shuai Han, Tongtong Sun, Yanming Sun, Xi GaoThe COVID-19 outbreak has been effectively controlled in China, but the resulting public psychological crisis is a latent, persistent and torturous disaster. This crisis…
Foreign competition and corporate social responsibility: the role of the firm–government relationships
Shuang Meng, Yueling SimaThis study aims to investigate how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) among domestic firms in emerging countries is affected by foreign competition.
Sleep late? Pre-reform institutional embeddedness and entrepreneurial reinvestment of private firms in China’s transition economy
Di Song, Aiqi Wu, Xiaotong Zhong, Shufan YuThis study aims to introduce an important temporal dimension to the research on institution and entrepreneurship in the transition period. This study develops the concept…
Mind the gap: independent directors and corporate social responsibility in China
Ruijie Jin, Xiaoxian Jiang, Ao ShenThis study aims to examine the effect of independent directors on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) gap – a misalignment between internal and external CSR. More…
Interdependence with suppliers in the innovation ecosystem: the effects of supplier concentration on firm innovation
Caiting Dong, Xiang Li, Xinzhi ChangBased on the strategy and new institutional economic literature, this study aims to explore how different levels of supplier concentration (SC) will be characterized by…
Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy
Guangning Zhang, Yingmei WangThis study aims to investigate the effect of organizational identification to employees’ innovative behavior, the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role…
Linking ownership acquired in Chinese firms to post-acquisition innovation performance: role of institutional distance
Nadia Hanif, Jianfeng Wu, Ahmad Bilal BabarThe primary purpose of this study is to explore the impact of acquired ownership in Chinese target firm on the innovation performance of developed economies (DE) acquiring…
The Eastern construction of paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedents: a Yin–Yang balancing perspective
Yong Yang, Youqing Fan, Jianfeng JiaIn the face of external paradoxical requirements, the cognitive framework of managers and employees use to perceive, interpret and reconstruct information is important to…
How entrepreneurial team heterogeneity impacts decision-making performance? An input-process-output approach
Zhipeng Zhang, Li Zhu, Gong Chen, Lu Shang, Qiuyun Zhao, Feng RenExisting studies mostly rely on the static characteristics of team members, and there is still a lack of empirical investigation on how entrepreneurial team members make…
Blockchain for smart manufacturing systems: a survey
Zhiting Song, Jianhua ZhuSmart manufacturing is the prime gripper for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Smart manufacturing systems (SMSs) largely determine how smart…
Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion
Tao Yi, Yao Dong, Jizu LiUnder the de-capacity circumstances of coal production in China, the purpose of this paper is to examine the processes underlying the association between job insecurity…
The dilemma of winners: market power, industry competition and subsidy efficiency
Jialin Song, Yiyi Su, Taoyong Su, Luyu WangThe purpose of this paper is, from a resource accumulation and resource allocation perspective, to examine the variant effects of government subsidies among firms with…
Ties, status, and internationalization of Chinese private firms
Zhu Zhang, Jiaqi Xue, Baoxin QiThis study aims to investigate the role of network in affecting private firms’ internationalization decision. Specifically, it investigates the way that business ties…
How and when does leader narcissism hinder team radical creativity? The role of team information elaboration and inter-team competition
Zhiqiang Liu, Rong Zhou, Lihua Wei, Xi Ouyang, Kong ZhouDrawing on social information processing theory and trait activation theory, this study aims to examine the mediating effect of leader narcissism on team radical…
Be zhongyong and be ethical: dual leadership in promoting employees’ thriving at work
Shenghao Guo, Qianqian HuThe roles that one single leadership style plays on motivating employees have been studied. However, in reality, an individual may exhibit more than one type of leadership…
Managerial openness and employee voice: a moderated mediation model
Yishuai Yin, Jinyun Duan, Tingxi Wang, Xuhui JiaoDrawing on a costs-benefit analysis perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between managerial openness and employee voice and its…
Similar or different? When Cross-Strait employees face psychological contract violations
Chao-Hsing Lee, Chien-Wen ChenThough there are still political turbulences, the economic cooperation between mainland China and Taiwan is inseparable. Cooperation between enterprises on both sides has…
The effect of abusive supervision on safety behaviour of Chinese underground miners: a multi-level moderated mediation analysis
Xinfeng Ye, Shaohan Cai, Zhining WangPrior research has suggested that abusive supervision has negative impacts on various work outcomes. However, little attention has been paid to the relationship between…
Too much of a good thing: the non-linear effect of vertical pay dispersion on vice presidents’ voluntary turnover rate
Xiaoguo Xiong, Weihong Chen, Xi ZhongWhile the effect of vertical pay dispersion on the voluntary turnover rate of vice presidents (VPs) has received attention, the existing research conclusions are still…
Governance role of media coverage: from the view of accounting information value relevance and market value about share pledge firms in China
Li Gao, Jinnan Song, Jianxiao Guo, Jiajuan LiangShare pledge is a popular way to raise funds in China, but it aggravates information asymmetry. As an indispensable information intermediary in the financial market, media…
Innovation with Chinese characteristics: theory and practice
Zheng Li, Jun Li, Jin Chen, Tsvi VinigThis is a special issue of Chinese Management Studies and this study aims to engage with debates on innovation in China and to provide new insights for innovation research…
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