European Journal of Management and Business Economics , Open Access

Identifying high-growth firms in five European countries: micro firms vs. larger firms

Paz Rico-Belda, Bernardí Cabrer-Borrás

This study uses an extensive sample of firms from Germany, France, UK, Portugal and Spain with the aim of obtaining conclusive results on the determinants that drive a firm to be…

Mapping the research landscape: exploring the relationship between corporate entrepreneurship and the circular economy

Eloísa Díaz-Garrido, Isabel Soriano-Pinar, Sara Bermejo-Olivas

The analysis of current research trends in a specific research topic provides a starting point for future research. As a means to represent the conceptual structure of this field…

The relevance of legal requirements in the going public process: the discretionary decision of adopting an audit committee

Leticia Castaño, José E. Farinós, Ana M. Ibañez

We study the role of having an audit committee (AC) as a signal of firm quality and as a monitoring device of the information quality contained in the listing prospectus.

Cognitive social capital and new product performance: indirect effect of potential absorptive and innovation capacity: a tourism-based study

Patricia Pilar Zirena-Bejarano, Elbia Myreyle Chavez Zirena, Andrea Karina Caryt Malaga

The purpose of this paper is to respond to the existing gap in the literature and analyze empirically the mediating role of potential absorptive capacity and innovation capacity…

Exploring factors influencing smart tourism destination visiting behaviors in a historic country: a theory of e-consumption behavior

Abdulla Al-Towfiq Hasan, Md. Masudur Rahman, Mohammad Osman Gani

This study aims to explore factors that influence tourists’ visiting behaviors towards smart tourism destinations (STDs) by extending the theory of planned behavior.

Employee job security and job performance: the mediating role of well-being and the moderating role of perceived organizational support and psychological capital

Moza Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Jawaher Majdi Al Ahbabi, Mesheal Abdulmohsen Alabdulrahman, Ibrahim Alhosani, Fauzia Jabeen, Sherine Farouk

Grounded in social cognitive career theory, this study investigates how employees' perceptions of job security and well-being affected their performance during the COVID-19…

“I love your brand! I engage with you, and I do online brand-related activities (COBRAs)”: the role of brand value

Sandra Castro-González, Belén Bande, Pilar Fernández-Ferrín

Few studies have explained how and when consumers are willing to engage in online brand-related activities (COBRAs). This study examines the role of brand love in a consumer’s…

Banking with purpose: the impact of CSR-S on customer behavior during the COVID-19

Attia Abdelkader Ali, Fernando Campayo-Sanchez, Felipe Ruiz-Moreno

This article examines the impact of banks’ corporate social responsibility communication through social media (CSR-S), electronic word of mouth (eWOM), and brand reputation on…

The market reaction of energy companies to the announcement of the Russian–Ukrainian invasion

Rizky Yudaruddin, Dadang Lesmana

This study aims to empirically analyze the market response of energy companies to the Russian-Ukrainian invasion. Additionally, it examines the comparison of market reactions…

A comparative analysis of supply chain management between Portugal and Ireland

Sérgio Dominique-Ferreira, Richard Brophy, Catherine Prentice

This study investigates how insurance intermediaries in Portugal and Ireland evaluate supply chain management (SCM) practices within the insurance industry, specifically focusing…

What factors determine the intention to use and recommend public autonomous shuttles in a real-life setting?

Myriam Quinones, Jaime Romero, Anne Schmitz, Ana M. Díaz-Martín

User acceptance is a necessary precondition to implementing self-driving buses as a solution to public transport challenges. Focusing on potential users in a real-life setting…

How compulsive and impulsive buying affect consumer emotional regulation. Is anxiety a differential element?

Gabriel Cachón-Rodríguez, Alicia Blanco-González, Camilo Prado-Román, Antonio Fernández-Portillo

Academic literature calls for research on the impact of psychological states derived from mental illness on detrimental consumer behaviour. The purpose of this study is to assess…

Toward a sustainable research agenda on food eco-labelling in the business and management research domain

Valeska V. Geldres-Weiss, Carolina Nicolas, Nathaniel P. Massa

This study aims to critically review the research on food eco-labels to identify research gaps and recommend future research directions in business and management.

The importance of social comparison in perceived justice during the service recovery process

Óscar Aguilar-Rojas, Carmina Fandos-Herrera, Alfredo Pérez-Rueda

This study aims to analyse how consumers' perceptions of justice in a service recovery scenario vary, not only due to the company's actions but also due to the comparisons they…

Adaptation, compensation and disengagement: how ICT competences influence nascent entrepreneurs' strategies in a global crisis environment

Marina Estrada-Cruz, Ignacio Mira-Solves, Jesús Martínez-Mateo

A global crisis like that caused by the COVID-19 pandemic threatens the survival of any business, but especially of nascent entrepreneurs, due to their vulnerable situation. At…

Organizational justice, supervisor-provided resources and duty orientation: lessons from the mining sector

Abraham Ansong, Robert Ipiin Gnankob, Isaac Opoku Agyemang, Kassimu Issau, Edna Naa Amerley Okorley

The study analysed the influence of organizational justice on the duty orientation of employees in the mining sector of Ghana. Also, it examined the mediating role of…

The dark side of co-worker friendship in the restaurant context: roles of gender and promotion focus

Muhammad Haroon Shoukat, Kareem M. Selem, Mukaram Ali Khan, Ali Elsayed Shehata

This paper investigates the focal role of close co-worker friendship in reducing incivility. Furthermore, this paper examines negative workplace gossip as a mediator and gender…

Branding fashion through gameplay: the branded gaming and the cool dynamics in the fashion markets. A game-theory approach

Alshaimaa Bahgat Alanadoly, Suha Fouad Salem

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of immersive gaming on brand coolness and brand equity, with particular emphasis on fashion gaming collaborations. We used game…

Expanding career adaptability: connections as a critical component of career success

Anita Gaile, Ilona Baumane Vitolina, Agnis Stibe, Kurmet Kivipõld

Subjective career success has been widely researched by academics and researchers as it provides job and career satisfaction that can lead to the perceived life satisfaction of…

Twitter's capacity to forecast tourism demand: the case of way of Saint James

Adrián Mendieta-Aragón, Julio Navío-Marco, Teresa Garín-Muñoz

Radical changes in consumer habits induced by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic suggest that the usual demand forecasting techniques based on historical series are…

Sustainability performance in science and technology parks: how can firms benefit most?

Beatriz Forés, José María Fernández-Yáñez

Achieving good sustainability performance requires balancing higher economic profits with better environmental and social performance. Knowledge plays a key role in improving…

The informal role of marketing control systems

Paola Andrea Ortiz-Rendon, Jose Luis Munuera-Aleman, Luz Alexandra Montoya Restrepo

The implementation of control systems allows marketing managers to improve operational decisions and organizational results. This paper aims to identify the relationship between…

The impact of economic policy uncertainty on stock types while considering the economic cycle. A quantile regression approach

Jessica Paule-Vianez, Carmen Orden-Cruz, Camilo Prado-Román, Raúl Gómez-Martínez

This study aims to analyse the effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on the return of growth/value and small/large-cap stocks during expansionary and recessionary periods…

Simultaneous consideration of consumer preferences and seller revenue as a smart retail sales and management strategy

Sina Ahmadi Kaliji, Seyed Mojtaba Mojaverian, Hamid Amirnejad, Maurizio Canavari

The authors propose a dairy bundle, integrating strategies to jointly maximise producer revenue and consumer utility according to the latter's preferences.

Assessing the drivers to share the content on social media in tourism: the empirical evidence on a world heritage city

María Ángeles García-Haro, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Ricardo Martínez-Cañas, María Pilar Martínez-Ruiz

This study seeks to provide a greater understanding of the variables that influence travellers’ intention to participate in social media, paying special attention to (1) the…

The consumer intention to use e-commerce applications in the post-pandemic era: a predictive approach study using a CHAID tree-based algorithm

Elena Higueras-Castillo, Helena Alves, Francisco Liébana-Cabanillas, Ángel F. Villarejo-Ramos

This study proposes a hierarchic segmentation that develops a tree-based classification model and classifies the cases into groups. This allows for the definition of e-commerce…

The impact of multiple sources of employees’ capital on judgments regarding potential for career advancement

Carlos Botelho

The human resource and talent management fields have been increasingly focusing on the process and criteria to identify employees’ potential for career advancement due to their…

Social media impact on international sports events related to the brand Spain: a comparison between inner versus outside events

Inés Küster Boluda, Natalia Vila-Lopez, Elisabet Mora, Javier Casanoves-Boix

This study analyzes the impact of sports social media on a country regarding three international events connected to the brand Spain. It examines (1) the use and importance of…

Exploring flexible working practices and the digital divide in a post-lockdown era

Lebene Richmond Soga, Yemisi Bolade-Ogunfodun, Anna De Amicis

This paper explores flexible working practices (FWPs) and takes a critical view that argues a need to consider not only access to digital technological resources but also the vast…

Institutional pressures for sustainability: a triple bottom line approach

Susana Pasamar, Mar Bornay-Barrachina, Rafael Morales-Sánchez

This paper empirically addresses the effect of coercive, normative and mimetic pressures on sustainability results, focussing on the three dimensions of the triple bottom line…

The role of engagement and knowledge-sharing in the high-performance work systems–innovative behaviour relationship

Naiara Escribá-Carda, Teresa Canet-Giner, Francisco Balbastre-Benavent

This paper aims to examine two indirect mechanisms through which employees' perceptions of high-performance work systems (HPWS) foster employees' innovative behaviour (IB)…

The effect of perceived corporate social responsibility on purchase intention in mobile commerce: mediating roles of trusting beliefs and satisfaction

Gulrukhsor Urinbaeva, Dilfuzakhon Khasanova, Christopher John Clugston

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities of companies have been reported to generate favorable consumer attitudes towards the business, which in turn, encourages positive…

Lack of resilience after COVID-19: the role of family firm heterogeneity and behavior. fsQCA versus regression

María Iborra, José Fernando López-Muñoz, Vicente Safón

This study analyzes antecedents explaining the lack of resilience in family-owned firms. Our model suggests that family-owned firms’ strategic behaviors and heterogeneity explain…

The interplay between firms’ capabilities and ownership in explaining environmental performance

Beatriz Forés, César Camisón-Zornoza, José María Fernández-Yáñez

This study empirically assesses the effects of two key types of organizational and managerial capabilities—dynamic capabilities, and coordination and cohesion capabilities—on…

Assessing the entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial intentions of current and future labor forces: the role of entrepreneurial orientation

Azra Bičo, Emil Knezović

The study aims to examine whether there is a difference in entrepreneurial intentions (EI) and intrapreneurial intentions (II) between current labor force (CLF) and future labor…

Do corporate social responsibility practices have an impact on employer attractiveness – an approach to corporate volunteering programs

Margarida Seara, Teresa Proença, Marisa R. Ferreira

The purpose of this study is to understand the impact that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices have on the perceived attractiveness of companies in the eyes of their…

The mediating effect of job satisfaction between inclusive leadership and commitment to change: evidence from Brazil and Spain

Alfonso J. Gil, Gabriela Mosegui, Rosana Zenezi Moreira, Mauro J. Eguizabal

In the current context of change, leadership is significant in developing employees' commitment to change. In this work, the authors analysed the relationship between inclusive…

Tracking the literature on strategic alliances in the biotechnology industry: insights from a bibliometric approach over the last 30 years

Marisol Carvajal-Camperos, Paloma Almodóvar

The purpose of this study is to identify papers that have produced the most significant impact on research on strategic alliances in the biotechnology industry. The authors…

The directional spillover effects and time-frequency nexus between stock markets, cryptocurrency, and investor sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic

Hayet Soltani, Jamila Taleb, Mouna Boujelbène Abbes

This paper aims to analyze the connectedness between Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) stock market index and cryptocurrencies. It investigates the relevant impact of RavenPack COVID…

Credit default swaps, investor protection, and audit cost: international evidence

Patrick Kwashie Akorsu

Credit Default Swap (CDS) trading alters equilibrium interactive monitoring of external corporate monitors due to a possible change in private lenders' incentive to monitor client…

Multi-frequency information transmission among constituents and global equity returns: a sustainable and conventional way of investing

Emmanuel Asafo-Adjei, Anokye M. Adam, Peterson Owusu Junior, Clement Lamboi Arthur, Baba Adibura Seidu

This study investigates information flow of market constituents and global indices at multi-frequencies.

Asymmetric market efficiency of the Eurozone using the MF-DFA: a comparison between global financial crisis and COVID-19 era

Sajid Ali, Syed Ali Raza, Komal Akram Khan

This research paper aims to explore asymmetric market efficiency of the 13 Euro countries, i.e. Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherland…

What drives consumers to use P2P payment systems? An analytical approach based on the stimulus–organism–response (S-O-R) model

Ana Irimia-Diéguez, Francisco Liébana-Cabanillas, Antonio Blanco-Oliver, Juan Lara-Rubio

Traditional payment systems based on cash and bank cards are being replaced by new innovative formats. This research analyzes the success factors in the adoption by customers of…

Looking at the darker side of the mirror: the impact of CEO's narcissism on corporate social irresponsibility

Marta Riera, María Iborra

The aim of this article is to highlight the major part played by executives in the escalation of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). Based on the upper echelons theory, the…

The common welfare human resource management system and innovativeness: the mediating role of altruism

Francisco Fermín Mallén-Broch, Ricardo Chiva, Alma Rodríguez-Sánchez, Jacob Guinot

The paper analyzes and develops Chiva's (2014) proposal on the common welfare HRM system and uncovers its relationship with innovativeness, using altruism as a mediator.

Corporate social responsibility and firm performance: a threshold analysis of European firms

Abdelaziz Hakimi, Rim Boussaada, Majdi Karmani

This paper aims to investigate the reciprocal nonlinear relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm performance (FP).

Customer engagement and loyalty: the moderating role of involvement

Jesica Yanet Perez Benegas, Marina Zanfardini

The purposes of the present study were to analyse: (1) if there is a hierarchical relationship between cognitive dimension (attention) and emotional dimension (enthusiasm); (2) to…

Zooming into paternalistic leadership: evidence from high power distance culture

Talat Islam, Saleha Sharif, Hafiz Fawad Ali, Saqib Jamil

Nurses' turnover intention has become a major issue in developing countries with high power distance cultures. Therefore, the authors attempt to investigate how turnover intention…

Rule with an iron hand: powerful CEOs, influential shareholders and corporate performance in Russia

Marina Zavertiaeva, Tatiana Ershova

This study examines whether CEO power influences the book-based and market-based performance of Russian companies when it is restricted by the presence of essential shareholders…

Location factors and agglomeration economies in the hotel industry: the case of Spain

Andrea Valenzuela-Ortiz, Jorge Chica-Olmo, José-Alberto Castañeda

This research investigates the effect of accessibility to points of tourist interest (buffer) and direct and indirect spatial spillover effects of agglomeration economies on…

Exploring the roles of self-determined motivation and perceived organizational support in organizational change

Rui-Ting Huang

The primary purpose of this study is not only to examine the connections between self-determined motivation, attitudes toward change and participation in change, but also to…

Connectedness between cryptocurrencies, gold and stock markets in the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Achraf Ghorbel, Sahar Loukil, Walid Bahloul

This paper analyzes the connectedness with network among the major cryptocurrencies, the G7 stock indexes and the gold price over the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic…