European Journal of Management and Business Economics: Volume 29 Issue 3 , Open Access

New evidence on accelerator performance based on funding and location

Lydia Cánovas-Saiz, Isidre March-Chordà, Rosa Maria Yagüe-Perales

Seed accelerators (SAs) appear as a more advanced version of business incubators. These for-profit organizations in exchange of equity, help setting new start-ups by providing…

Bank performance variability and strands of inflationary conditions

Rexford Abaidoo, Hod Anyigba

This study seeks to examine the extent to which strands of inflationary related conditions (inflation expectations, inflation uncertainty and realized inflation); macroeconomic…

Relationship between slack resources and performance: temporal symmetry and duration of effects

Maria Agusti-Perez, Jose Luis Galan, Francisco J. Acedo

Although slack resources and their relationship to performance have been widely studied in the literature, the temporal symmetry of this relationship, and the duration of its…

Impact of the perception of performance appraisal practices on individual innovative behavior

Teresa Canet-Giner, Ana Redondo-Cano, Carmen Saorín-Iborra, Naiara Escribá-Carda

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of employees’ perception of performance appraisal (PA) practices on innovative behavior (IB). The authors also propose to…

Causative effects of motivation to transfer learning among relational dyads: the test of a model

Brian Matthews, Jamie Daigle, Joy Cooper

The purpose of this study is to validate multiplicative cycle that exists between the job readiness and satisfaction model explored by Matthews et al. (2018), the satisfaction and…

Building reputation through sustainable supplier selection: the case of an emerging economy

Mohammad Asif Salam, Murad Ali

The purpose of this research is to examine the drivers of sustainable supplier selection (SSS) and investigate the extent to which it is associated with a buyer's financial…

A study of the influence of workplace ostracism on employees' performance: moderating effect of perceived organizational support

Youngkeun Choi

Based on the conservation of resource theory, this study developed and tested the relationship between workplace ostracism and job performance. And it assumes that the direct link…

Economic policy uncertainty and Bitcoin. Is Bitcoin a safe-haven asset?

Jessica Paule-Vianez, Camilo Prado-Román, Raúl Gómez-Martínez

The goal of this work is to determine whether Bitcoin behaves as a safe-haven asset. In order to do so, the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) on Bitcoin returns and…

Gamification in sport apps: the determinants of users' motivation

Paula Bitrián, Isabel Buil, Sara Catalán

Gamification is a tool with great potential to motivate individuals to increase their physical activity. That is why sport apps for mobile devices, such as Nike+ or Strava, have…