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Open Access 15.03.2024

Time to get your hands dirty: Bricolage or pro-organizational unethical response to entrepreneurial adversity

As the business landscape escalates the level of uncertainty and thus profoundly disrupts entrepreneurship, it is crucial to understand risk-taking as a coping strategy for entrepreneurs with limited resources. Past studies have been fragmented: …

verfasst von:
Inseong Jeong, Yaping Gong

06.03.2024

The impact of management power on digital transformation

Digital transformation is crucial for companies to stay competitive in the modern business landscape. However, many organizations face obstacles such as organizational inertia, lack of unified transformation cognition, and weak top leadership. In …

verfasst von:
Zhengang Zhang, Yushu Lu, Haojun Wang

24.02.2024

Political connections and profit persistence in India

The extant literature on corporate political activities has extensively examined whether and how political connections help in improving performance. We extend this literature by examining whether and how political connections help in profit …

verfasst von:
Kshitij Awasthi, Sai Yayavaram, Rejie George, Trilochan Sastry

23.02.2024

Social sustainability practice innovation diffusion and its relationship to organizational improvement: A mechanism for Vietnamese handicraft companies

Social sustainability practices (SSP) have gained global recognition as management innovations for improving organizational performance, thus promoting sustainable development of individual companies and across supply chains. However, the …

verfasst von:
Thi Ha Uyen Tran, Kwok Hung Lau, Chin Eang Ong

23.02.2024

A four-factor model of knowledge agglomeration

This study develops a comprehensive four-factor model to analyze the factors that influence knowledge agglomeration. To test the model empirically, we use a dataset from firms in China’s digital industry and employ the structural equation model …

verfasst von:
Zhen Che, Changqi Wu, Xiaoxi Liu

15.02.2024

Is an informal leader always popular? The curvilinear relationships between informal leadership, threat to peers, and helping from peers

The positive effect of informal leadership has been well established, whereas our understanding of its potential negative effect in interpersonal interaction is still limited. This study explores the influence of individual informal leadership on …

verfasst von:
Shengming Liu, Ning Li, Hui Wang, Zhen Wang, Jiayi Du

14.02.2024

How entrepreneurial team informational and social category faultlines affect new venture performance: A conservation of resources perspective

The topic of entrepreneurial team faultlines has been gaining ground in entrepreneurship research, as it provides novel insights into the entrepreneurial team composition. However, our understanding of how entrepreneurial team faultlines affect …

verfasst von:
Feng Wei, Yongjun Mo, Yi Zhang, Yi Yang

13.02.2024

Understanding the effects of performance pressure on fluctuations in pro-environmental behavior: a threat rigidity perspective

Research on pro-environmental behavior (PEB) in the workplace is increasing. However, the prevailing research is typically based on the assumption that PEB are relatively stable, suggesting that employees consistently engage in PEB over time. In …

verfasst von:
Dan Yang, Kenneth S. Law, Guiyao Tang

08.02.2024

Double-edged sword effect of stretch goal: is stretch goal a burden or boost to employees?

Drawing upon conservation of resources theory, we examine how and when stretch goals affect work effort and cheating behavior. We conduct an online experimental study (Study 1, N = 194) and a three-wave field study (Study 2, N = 298) to test our …

verfasst von:
Zhe Zhang, Chang Chen, Ming Jia

Open Access 06.02.2024

Power distance orientation alleviates the beneficial effects of empowering leadership on actors’ work engagement via negative affect and sleep quality

Although many studies have explored the benefits of empowering leadership for followers, the beneficial effect of such behavior for actors who demonstrate empowering leadership has been overlooked. Applying conservation of resources theory, we …

verfasst von:
Ho Kwong Kwan, Yang Chen, Guiyao Tang, Xiaomeng Zhang, Jiaqi Le

Open Access 01.02.2024

Combining cognition and context: entrepreneurial alertness and the microfoundations of entrepreneurial ecosystems

Entrepreneurial alertness (EA) research has made substantial progress in identifying the psychological and organizational antecedents and consequences of EA. However, the interactions between environmental factors and EA are understudied and it is …

verfasst von:
Philip T. Roundy, Subin Im

31.01.2024 | Correction

Correction to: The double-edged sword of narcissism: influences of university students’ grandiose and vulnerable narcissism on entrepreneurial intention

verfasst von:
Tingko Lee, Chih-Hsing Liu, Bernard Gan, Cheng-Kuei Yang

18.01.2024

Taming the black swan: CEO with military experience and organizational resilience

In this study, we explore how chief executive officers (CEOs) with military experience affect the pre-shock risk taking of firms and thus their organizational resilience to exogenous shocks. We find that the military experience of a CEO is …

verfasst von:
Xin Wang, Zhe Zhang, Ming Jia

17.01.2024

Be cautious or win in danger? Firms’ economic policy uncertainty perception and green technology innovation

Synthesising insights from threat-rigidity theory, this study explores the impact of firms’ economic policy uncertainty (EPU) perceptions on their green technology innovation (GTI) performance. By regarding EPU as an individualised perception …

verfasst von:
Yanmin Shao, Kunliang Xu

06.01.2024

Chinese early internationalizing firms: A review and research agenda

The rise of Chinese early internationalizing firms (CEIFs) has attracted increasing interest from international entrepreneurship scholars. However, a clear consolidation and integration of extant literature on CEIFs is missing. This article …

verfasst von:
Shuijing Jie, Deeksha Singh, Hongjia Ma, Chenwei Li

26.12.2023

Advancing the entrepreneurship ecosystem of India: A qualitative study with Chevening Fellows

Using social cognitive theory as a guide, this research seeks to explain the perceptions of current and aspiring Indian entrepreneurs. A multiple case study approach using 19 interviews with intellectuals provided qualitative data to conduct a …

verfasst von:
Kamal Gulati, Amrik Sohal, Tharaka de Vass, Nrupal Das

13.12.2023

Exploring the impact of entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence on creative self-efficacy: A global perspective

Globalization has encouraged the growth and popularity of recognizing opportunities worldwide. As such, entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence stand out as essential catalysts for innovation and creativity. Managers' ability to …

verfasst von:
Jase R. Ramsey, Raina Rutti, Eric Arseneau, Smita Srivastava, Trip Knoche

07.12.2023

Organizational non-conformity in an emerging economy: Exploring the non-adoption of credit rating in China

Institutional scholarship tends to emphasize the tendency of organizations to conform to prevailing practices, but this study investigates Chinese firms’ non-conformity behavior in terms of not participating in credit rating. State ownership and …

verfasst von:
Weiping Liu, Jiatao Li, Jieyu Zhou

22.11.2023

Team-medical staff incongruence in patient orientation and medical service quality: A moderated mediation model

This study draws on conservation of resources theory to propose a moderated mediation model in which team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation affects medical service quality through emotional exhaustion. In addition, we identify …

verfasst von:
Yan Bao, Weibo Ma, Xin Wang

16.11.2023

To lead or not? The role theory perspective on the moderating roles of transformational and laissez-faire leadership in shared leadership teams

There is ongoing debate in extant empirical work on whether vertical leadership acts as a facilitator or an inhibitor of shared leadership teams and whether shared leadership acts as a substitute for vertical leadership. This study adopts role …

verfasst von:
Yu-Chuan Tung, Chih-Ting Shih