Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 7

Pay for performance and employee creativity: The importance of procedural justice and willingness to take risks

Yong Zhang, Lirong Long, Junwei Zhang

Previous studies concerning on the effect of reward on individual creativity have generated generally inconsistent conclusions. These ambiguities call for more studies to explore…

The state of opportunities: clarifying the transitions between opportunity types

Chris Welter, Sharon Alvarez

The purpose of this paper is to describe how discovery and creation opportunities transition from one to the other and thereby clarify the relationship between opportunity types…

The renewal of assets using a tool to aid decision making

Antonio Muñoz-Porcar, Mª Jesús Alonso-Nuez, Mónica Flores-García, Daniel Duret-Solanas

The purpose of this paper is the application of a tool to assist the multi-criteria decision-making process for selecting an asset for a company in the metallurgical industry…

The role of psychological distance in value creation

Jonas Holmqvist, Duncan Guest, Christian Grönroos

The field of service research has devoted considerable attention to the customer’s role as value creator, but there is a lack of research on understanding customers’ psychological…

Speak up! Enhancing risk performance with enterprise risk management, leadership style and employee voice

Johanna Sax, Simon S. Torp

The purpose of this paper is to test the effect of psychological safety and participative leadership style on risk performance as well as its interaction with enterprise risk…

Synergy management pitfalls in mergers and acquisitions

Raffaele Fiorentino, Stefano Garzella

The purpose of this paper is to advance a conceptual comprehensive framework to analyze synergy management pitfalls in mergers and acquisitions (M & As). The framework…

Prevalent concealed ignorance of low-moral careerist managers: Contextualization by a semi-native multi-site Strathernian ethnography

Reuven Shapira

Organizational research missed managerial ignorance concealment (MIC) and the low-moral careerism (L-MC) it served, leaving a lacuna in managerial stupidity research: MIC serving…

Financial effects of open innovation in the manufacturing industry

Yonghwi Noh

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the long-term financial effects of open innovation in the manufacturing industry.

Sectoral decision making: structures, processes and trust

Sybil S. Henderson, Erma Jean Smith-King

The purpose of this paper is to synthesize multi-sector, cross-sector, and other interorganizational alliance structures and processes with particular focus on their saliency in…

Information acceleration to improve strategic management decisions: The case of really new products

Heike Proff, Thomas M. Fojcik

Really new products (RNP) run the risk not only of technical problems in the development process, but also of problems with customer acceptance. Because market uncertainty in…

Firm performance and alliance capability: the mediating role of culture

Dave Luvison, Ard-Pieter de Man

Extant literature has looked at the effect of alliance capability and organizational culture on alliance portfolio performance, but the relationship between the two has not been…

Inter-organizational knowledge transfer through corporate venture capital investment

Sang M. Lee, Taewan Kim, Seung Hoon Jang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate venture capital (CVC) investment and the level of knowledge transferred from start-ups to corporate…

The influence of plural organizational forms on beliefs and outcomes related to new product adoption

William J. Ritchie, George Young, Ali M. Shahzad, Robert W. Kolodinsky, Steven A. Melnyk

The purpose of this paper is to explore product adoption beliefs and actions of a large retail food organization with both corporate-owned stores and privately held franchise…

Exploring the links between ethical leadership, customer orientation and employee outcomes in the context of retailing

Arto Lindblom, Sami Kajalo, Lasse Mitronen

In the increasingly competitive retail environment, retailers’ ability to elevate frontline employees’ customer orientation (CO) can make the difference between the success and…