Chinese Management Studies: Volume 12 Issue 1

Resource constraints, innovation capability and corporate financial fraud in entrepreneurial firms

Wenwen An, Yuehua Xu, Jianqi Zhang

Previous studies have produced inconsistent findings regarding the effects of resource constraints on corporate illegal behavior. This study aims to explore how entrepreneurial…

Internationalization and performance: evidence from Chinese firms

Chao Zhou

This paper aims to test the internationalization–performance relationship based on data of Chinese firms and the impact of firm size on the internationalization–performance…

Does foreign direct investment enhance or inhibit regional innovation efficiency?: Evidence from China

Zheng Li, Jun Li, Bin He

The purpose of this paper is to examine whether foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow impacts on regional innovation efficiency in China and whether the impacts of FDI are…

Exploring trust transfer between internet enterprises and their affiliated internet-only banks: An adoption study of internet-only banks in China

Yun Zhang, Xiaogang Chen, Xinhui Liu, Nan Zhu

With the development of information technology, there is a growing trend for internet enterprises in China to launch internet-only banks. This paper aims to explore how the brand…

New product launch actions and firm performance: The effects of breadth, complexity and heterogeneity

Yang Liu, Peng Cheng, Dingtao Zhao

This paper aims to examine the effect of new product launch actions and firm reputation on firm performance in the Chinese auto industry.

The gender difference in leadership effectiveness and its Sino-US comparison

Shimei Yan, Yike Wu, Gang Zhang

There are mainly two viewpoints on women’s leadership effectiveness compared with that of men – the questioning view and the admiring view, two points of view that are not in…

How does TMT transactive memory system drive innovation ambidexterity?: Shared leadership as mediator and team goal orientations as moderators

Qian Chen, Zhiying Liu

Although prior studies have found that transactive memory system (TMS) in top management team (TMT) can enable innovation ambidexterity, works that focus on only the direct role…

Why do Chinese employees engage in building supervisor-subordinate guanxi?: A planned behavior perspective

Han Ren, Charles Weizheng Chen

This paper aims to explore why some Chinese subordinates will engage in building guanxi with their supervisor while others will not. The authors conceptualize subordinates’…

Promotion of secure software development assimilation: stimulating individual motivation

Mingqiu Song, Penghua Wang, Peng Yang

The purpose of this study was to establish a Technology-Organization-Personality model of secure software development (SSD) innovation assimilation at the level of individual…

When informality meets formality: evidence from China

Kun (Michelle) Yang, Michael J. Pisani

This study aims to explore “what impact does competition from informal enterprises have on formal firms” within the Chinese economic and business environment.

Will my own perception be enough?: A multilevel investigation of workplace ostracism on employee voice

Wen Wu, Haihua (Jason) Wang, Lu Lu

The purpose of this paper is to fill important gaps by using the belongingness theory and examining the effects of individual-level workplace ostracism on members’ voice behavior…

Beyond exchange and prosocial motives, is altruistic helping a valid motive for organizational citizenship behavior?

Fung Yi Millissa Cheung, Kelly Peng, Chi-Sum Wong

The argument in this study is that employees differ in their motives in helping their organizations when they know that they may not be paid back for their efforts. This paper…