Management Research Review: Volume 34 Issue 8

Does CEO optimism affect strategic process?

James R. Langabeer, Jami DelliFraine

Although management researchers have long recognized that cognitive and behavioral constructs can influence strategic process, there have been surprisingly few empirical studies…

The effect of HRM practices on impersonal organizational trust

Mika Vanhala, Riikka Ahteela

Organizations face an increasing need to foster trust. However, there are fewer opportunities for developing interpersonal trust and an evident need to establish complementary…

Multinational corporations: the changing landscape

Joseph T. Martelli, Patricia B. Abels

The purpose of this paper is to explore how internationalization has impacted the composition and performance of global companies. Trends among continents, countries and across…

Entrepreneurial social capital and cognitive model of innovation

Yang Xu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the social origin of an entrepreneurial cognitive model of the innovation process.

Global performance management: a research agenda

Nina Hellqvist

Whilst performance management (PM) is one human resource practice that is of importance for the company, research in international setting is still in its infancy. This paper…

The declining association between earnings and returns: Diminishing value relevance of earnings or noisier markets?

Steve C. Lim, Taewoo Park

This paper aims to identify what drives the temporal reduction in the value relevance of earnings documented in the literature. Is it the increasing noise in stock returns over…

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