Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Administration: Volume 6 Issue 1

Development of a model relating internal organizational variables with customer orientation in the context of the emerging economy of India

Som Sekhar Bhattacharyya, Sumi Jha

The purpose of the study is to establish the relationship of customer orientation (CO) with internal organizational variable like transformational leadership fostering acceptance…

Effect of guanxi on Chinese subordinates' work behaviors: a conceptual framework

Shih Yung Chou, Bo Han, Xiaohu Zhang

– This study aims to investigate a subordinate's perception of supervisor-subordinate guanxi and its impact on the subordinate's work-related outcomes.

Marketers' psychological capital and performance: The mediating role of quality of work life, job effort and job attractiveness

Nguyen Dinh Tho, Nguyen Dong Phong, Tran Ha Minh Quan

Realizing the importance of psychological capital of marketers for their work, the authors aim to investigate the mediating role of quality of work life, job effort, and job…

The experience of New Zealand in the evolving wine markets of Japan and Singapore

Michel Rod, Tim Beal

The purpose of this paper is to explore the developing wine markets of Japan and Singapore for New Zealand (NZ) wine. It is principally an opinion piece with some reference to the…

Guanxi network and leader member exchange: The impetus for employee creative involvement

Ishfaq Ahmed, Wan Khairuzzaman Wan Ismail, Salmiah Mohamad Amin

This study investigated how leader-member relation and guanxi association create an impetus for creative work involvement (CWI) through feeling of energy (FE). The paper aims to…

Special issue Connecting brands, consumers and companies in Asia: research, relevance and rigour

Implementing change in the Asia-Pacific region: the contextualist framework

Yvon Dufour and Peter Steane

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