Management Decision: Volume 51 Issue 9

How social capital is leveraged in social innovations under resource constraints?

Punita Bhatt, Levent Altinay

This paper aims to explore how social capital is leveraged in social innovations to overcome resource constraints. The paper reports on the findings from an exploratory study on…

The hybrid consumer: exploring hybrid consumption behaviour

Hanna Ehrnrooth, Christian Gronroos

– The article aims to explore hybrid consumption behaviour as an emergent consumption pattern that may make conventional consumer stereotypes outdated.

Differentiating foothold attacks from strategic feints

John H. Humphreys, Dragan Loncar, Milorad Novicevic, Foster Roberts

The purpose of this article is to broaden our understanding of the relationship between footholds and feints, particularly within a context of judo strategy, and propose a…

Ode to a “million dollar” question: does the future of football lie in the Middle East?

Nnamdi O. Madichie

This paper reflects on recent events in the global football landscape and their implications for the Middle East, especially in their ambitious aspiration to be the future…

Effects of tidy/messy work environment on human accuracy

Ricardo Mateo, Jose Roberto Hernández, Carmen Jaca, Szabolcs Blazsek

– The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between accuracy and conscientiousness among people working in a tidy/messy work environment.

Psychosocial factors in the information and communication technology sector

Birgit Susanne Lehner, Julia Jung, Brigitte Stieler-Lorenz, Anika Nitzsche, Elke Driller, Jürgen Wasem, Holger Pfaff

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of psychosocial factors in the German information and communication technology (ICT) sector. Specifically, the authors seek to…

Moderating role of Type-A personality on stress-outcome relationships

Tejinder K. Billing, Pamela Steverson

The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating role of Type A/Type B personality on job stress-work and non-work outcomes. While research on the etiology of this…

Exploring cognitive bias: expert ratings of business schools

Erin Pleggenkuhle-Miles, Theodore A. Khoury, David L. Deeds, Livia Markoczy

This study aims to explore the objectivity in third-party ratings. Third-party ratings are often based on some form of aggregation of various experts' opinions with the assumption…