Chinese Management Studies: Volume 15 Issue 5

Innovative search, capability reconfiguration and firm innovation performance in the process of technological leapfrogging

Pan Hu, Ying Wang, Tao Feng, Yuxin Duan

The purpose of this paper is to investigate three issues: how does an innovative search (local search and boundary-spanning search) impact firm innovation performance of…

The impact of integrative leadership on employees’ innovation performance in the context of internet-based transition: evidence from China

Dapeng Zhang, Xinbo Sun, Feng Tian, Shunyi Zhou

The internet-based transition is the major trend for Chinese organizations with increasing demands imposed on their organization and management. As the organizational structures…

Multilevel models of transformational leadership, behavioral integration of top management team and manager ambidexterity in SMEs

Yuzhen Duan, Xiaobao Peng, Qiong Gui, Haibin Zhou, Xuehe Zhang, Wei Song

This paper aims to investigate the effect of transformational leadership (TL), behavioral integration of top management team (TMT) and team conflict on manager ambidexterity…

The effect of on-the-job shocks on employees’ intention to stay: an investigation of organizational embeddedness

Chunjiang Yang, Yashuo Chen, Aobo Chen

Using the theoretical lens of sensemaking, this paper aims to investigate the relationship between on-the-job shocks, as experienced by the employees and intention to stay (IS) by…

CEO overconfidence and future firm risk in China: the moderating role of institutional investors

Zulfiqar Ali, Muhammad Zubair Tauni

The purpose of this paper is to determine how CEO overconfidence influences firm’s future risk in a sample of Chinese listed firms. It further examines the moderating effect of…

Configuration analysis of influencing factors of operating efficiency based on fsQCA: evidence from China’s property insurance industry

Zhiguang Li, Yaokuang Li, Wei Zhang

Based on the perspective of complexity theory, the operation process of property insurance companies can be regarded as a complex dynamic nonlinear chaotic system. This paper aims…

The contingent effects of coopetition on new product development under dual institutional interactions: evidence from China

Hao Shen, Yu Gao, Chuan Liu, Xiangru Chen

Integrating the coopetition perspective with institutional theory, this study aims to determine how balanced patterns (BPs) and combinative patterns (CPs) of coopetition impact…

Speed of internationalization and firm performance: the moderating role of potential slack and knowledge assets

Banruo Zhang, Zijie Li, Xiaomeng Li, Ziqi Liu

The speed of internationalization is an important research topic in the process of internationalization. This paper aims to answer two questions: first, what is the relationship…

Work-related identity discrepancy and employee innovation behavior: the role of intrinsic motivation and self-construal

Yahui Chen, Jianmin Zhang, Chang-E Liu, Tingting Liu, Wei He

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of intrinsic motivation and self-construal in explaining the relationship between work-related identity discrepancy and…