Management Decision: Volume 51 Issue 3

Knowledge barriers, knowledge transfer, and innovation competitive advantage in healthcare settings

Margaret L. Sheng, Shen‐Yao Chang, Thompson Teo, Yuh‐Feng Lin

The aim of this paper is to examine the moderating role of information communication technology (ICT) competencies in enhancing knowledge transfer and mitigating the effects of…

Auditors' moral philosophies and ethical beliefs

Fan‐Hua Kung, Cheng Li Huang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of moral philosophy on the ethical beliefs of auditors. The paper argues that an individual's moral philosophy is the key…

Innovation, entrepreneurship and economic growth

Miguel‐Ángel Galindo, María‐Teresa Méndez‐Picazo

The main aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and economic growth, following the Schumpeter approach, considering the entrepreneurship activity.

Forecasting regime switches to assist decision making

Kun‐Huang Huarng, Tiffany Hui‐Kuang Yu

This paper aims to propose a novel model to forecast regime switches in a time series to assist decision making.

Implications of customer and entrepreneurial orientations for SME growth

Fabian Eggers, Sascha Kraus, Mathew Hughes, Sean Laraway, Susan Snycerski

The aim of this paper is to empirically investigate how the business orientations of customer orientation (CO) (represented by responsiveness to customers) and entrepreneurial…

Design management capability and product innovation in SMEs

Anabel Fernández‐Mesa, Joaquín Alegre‐Vidal, Ricardo Chiva‐Gómez, Antonio Gutiérrez‐Gracia

The aim of this paper is to present design management as a dynamic capability and to analyze its mediating role between organizational learning capability and product innovation…

A sustainable collaborative research dialogue between practitioners and academics

Chun‐Yu Chen, Yen‐Chun Jim Wu, Wen‐Hsiung Wu

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the co‐production of knowledge and dialogic relationships via the collaboration between business practitioners and academic researchers.

Pricing orientation, pricing capabilities, and firm performance

Stephan M. Liozu, Andreas Hinterhuber

How do pricing methods affect firm performance? From both an academic as well as a managerial perspective this question is important. The literature is silent on the relationship…

Communication in new technology based‐firms

Joan E. Ubeda, Clara Gieure, Carlos de‐la‐Cruz, Olga Sastre

The paper aims at identifying the main social media applications used by new technology based‐firms (NTBFs) and at calculating the volume of followers they have in each…

Greening with IT: practices of leading countries and strategies of followers

Sang M. Lee, Sang‐Hyun Park, Silvana Trimi

The aim of this paper is to present green information technology (GIT) initiatives of leading countries and to suggest strategies for environmental sustainability for the follower…

Implementing innovative HRM: trade‐off effects on employee well‐being

Almudena Cañibano

Although innovative HRM practices have been found to improve performance, the management literature has overlooked their effect on individual level outcomes, such as employee…

Firm culture and performance: intensity's effects and limits

Patrick J. Murphy, Robert A. Cooke, Yvette Lopez

The aim of this paper is to clarify distinct aspects of firm culture, delineate its effects on performance outcomes, and to examine culture intensity on theoretic grounds with…

Firm resources and entrepreneurial orientation as determinants for collaborative entrepreneurship

Mário Franco, Heiko Haase

The purpose of this paper is to investigate what factors drive collaborative entrepreneurship. To do so, the authors examine the joint influence of both firm resources and…

Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy

Marta Mas‐Machuca

Millennials and the Workplace: Challenges for Architecting the Organizations for Tomorrow

Margie Parikh