Nankai Business Review International: Volume 5 Issue 2

Blaming leaders for team relationship conflict? The roles of leader-member exchange differentiation and ethical leadership

Mingjian Zhou, Shuisheng Shi

The purpose of this paper is to extend our understanding of the role of leaders in team relationship conflict. Leader-member exchange (LMX) differentiation was hypothesized to be…

Supervisor-subordinate guanxi and managers’ feedback-seeking behavior: A new look at psychological expectations and political skill

Jun Xie, Caodie Peng, Lin Wang, Xiaoping Chu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of supervisor-subordinate guanxi (SSG) on managers’ feedback-seeking behavior in the context of Chinese organizations…

Can training promote employee organizational commitment? The effect of employability and expectation value

Ling Ling, Tao Qing, Peng Shen

This paper aims to provide theoretical analysis and empirical study on the relationship between training and organizational commitment; analyze the mediating role of employability…

Partial centralization in three-division organizations

Siguang Li, Xi Weng

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the optimal allocation of authority within “chain” organizations and to show when partial centralization becomes dominant in the sense…

Research on mechanism of consumer innovativeness influencing green consumption behavior

Kefu Lao

The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanism of the influence of consumer innovativeness (CI) on consumer-reasoned green consumption (GC) behavior to understand more…

Extreme IPO underpricing: Can the market-oriented incremental reform work in China?

Lihui Tian, Wei Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to model the Chinese unique regulation changes with the supply-and-demand analytical framework and structure the relationship between initial public…