Chinese Management Studies: Volume 15 Issue 2

Institutional pressures and cluster firms’ ambidextrous innovation: the mediating role of strategic cognition

Bo Song, Zhonghua Zhao

How do institutional pressures influence the cluster firm’s innovation? Institutional pressure consists of regulative, normative and cognitive pressures; most scholars have only…

Explaining business excellence in Chinese firms: how does institutional relatedness matter?

Haifeng Yan, Qihu Wang, Yi Ke, Juan Wang

It is widely accepted that business excellence comes from firm-specific factors. However, it is still unclear how institutional relatedness – the degree of embeddedness with the…

Green human resource management, green organization identity and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment: the moderating effect of environmental values

Zonghua Liu, Shiye Mei, Yulang Guo

Green human resource management (GHRM) is a new management philosophy and pattern that applies the concept of “green” to human resource management, which plays an important role…

Conformity or differentiation? A U-shaped relationship between peers’ CSR and focal firms’ CSR

Xianyi Long, Ting Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of peers’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) on focal firms’ CSR from an integrated perspective. The current study…

Can a region’s network location characteristics affect its innovation capability? Empirical evidence from China

Minrui Han, Bing Sun, Xiao Su

This study aims to explore the influence of a region’s network location characteristics and indirect connections on its innovation capability. The aim is to assist regions in…

Employee strengths use and innovative behavior: a moderated mediation model

He Ding, Xinqi Lin, Weilin Su

This study aims to investigate the mediating role of positive affect and the moderating role of deficit correction in the relationship between employee strengths use and…

Congruence in career calling and employees’ innovation performance: work passion as a mediator

Zhengqiao Liu, Yongzhong Jiang, Zhu Yao, Xiliang Liu, Li Zhao, Xianchun Zhang

Based on self-consistency theory and conservation of resource theory, this study aims to discuss the impact of career calling congruence on employees’ innovation performance (IP…

Is doing economically good enough to shape the MNE’s governmental relations? In contingency with contextual influences

Chun-Ping Yeh, Hsueh-Liang Wu, Yi-Chi Hsiao

In response to the tilted emphasis on the corporate political activities and to the recent call for including the institutional perspective in the research of the MNE’s…

The curvilinear relationship between advice-giving and innovative capability: a knowledge exchange and combination explanation of the moderated relations

Dao-Jin Wang, Hong-Jiang Lv, Ying-Tang Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate how the advice-giving affects innovative capability by involving knowledge exchange and combination as a mediator and contextual…

Cross-border knowledge search and integration mechanism – a case study of Haier open partnership ecosystem (HOPE)

Junguang Gao, Hui He, Donghui Teng, Xinming Wan, Shiyu Zhao

Because of the complexity of technological innovation and the dynamics of the technological environment, it is impossible for a single firm to have all knowledge needed for…

To be more philanthropic when joining the government-controlled business association? Evidence from Chinese private firms

Youliang Yan, Xixiong Xu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether and how affiliation with the government-controlled business association, namely, China Federation of Industry and Commerce…

Unpacking the chain mediation process between transformational leadership and knowledge worker creative performance: evidence from China

Kwame Ansong Wadei, Chen Lu, Weijun Wu

This paper aims to draw upon motivated information processing theory to examine the sequential mediating roles of perspective taking and boundary spanning between transformational…