Management Decision: Volume 54 Issue 2

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Emotional strategizing in service innovation

Catharina von Koskull, Tore Strandvik, Bård Tronvoll

– The purpose of this paper is to shed light on an aspect of service innovation processes that has remained fairly hidden so far, namely, the role of emotions.

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Self-organizing behavior in collective choice models: laboratory experiments

Santiago Arango, Erik R. Larsen, Ann van Ackere

The purpose of this paper is to consider queuing systems where captive repeat customers select a service facility each period. Are people in such a distributed system, with…

Developing sustainable management theory: goal-setting theory based in virtue

Mitchell J. Neubert, Bruno Dyck

This paper responds to ongoing calls to develop alternative management theory to guide management practice. In particular, the purpose of the paper is to demonstrate the merit of…

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Measuring the effectiveness of R & D activities: Empirical validation of a scale in the Spanish pharmaceutical sector

Eva Mulero Mendigorri, Teresa García Valderrama, Vanesa Rodríguez Cornejo

The purpose of this paper is to validate empirically a measurement scale of the effectiveness of R & D activities, starting from previous work in which the content was…

CSR communications strategies through social media and influence on e-reputation: An exploratory study

Vincent Dutot, Eva Lacalle Galvez, David W. Versailles

Publics are becoming responsible customers that urge firms to improve society. By using social media, corporate social responsibility (CSR) actions could influence organization’s…

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Social entrepreneurship and corporate architecture: evidence from Italy

Angelo Bonfanti, Enrico Battisti, Luca Pasqualino

The purpose of this paper is to examine the contribution of corporate architecture to social value creation. It especially analyses the social effects of investments in…

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Understanding the challenges and strategic actions of social entrepreneurship at base of the pyramid

Sandeep Goyal, Bruno S. Sergi, Mahadeo P. Jaiswal

The purpose of this paper is to examine the social entrepreneurship focussed organizations in the context of challenges faced and strategic actions adopted by them during the…

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Towards a balanced view of innovations

Christiane Prange, Bodo B. Schlegelmilch

Based on theoretical input from punctuated equilibrium theory and the exploration vs exploitation paradigm, a set of innovation drivers and propositions is developed. The purpose…

How abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate influence salesperson creativity and sales team effectiveness in China

Wan Jiang, Qinxuan Gu

Adopting the social information processing theory and social comparison theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine how abusive supervision and abusive supervisory climate…

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Family embeddedness and business performance: evidences from women-owned firms

Michela Mari, Sara Poggesi, Luisa De Vita

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the family context may affect female firms’ performance by contextualising the study within Italy and empirically analysing 307…

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Value chain supply procurement strategies in international construction: Cases of foreign constructors in China

Igor Martek, Chuan Chen

Firms compete using a variety of strategies. Typically they aim to provide something different, to be better, or simply cheaper. In the construction industry, the performance…

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CEO power and CEO hubris: a prelude to financial misreporting?

Denis Cormier, Pascale Lapointe-Antunes, Michel Magnan

The purpose of this paper is to explore how the tension between a firm’s CEO power features and externally observable hubris attributes may determine the likelihood of financial…

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Cover of Management Decision

ISSN:

0025-1747

Online date, start – end:

1967

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Brandon Randolph-Seng (Editor-in-Chief)