Management Decision: Volume 54 Issue 3

Board diversity and R & D investment

Jeanelle Midavaine, Wilfred Dolfsma, Rick Aalbers

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of board diversity on the extent to which firms invest in R & D.

What matters more? The impact of industry and organizational factors on organizational culture

Anjali Chaudhry, Ling Yuan, Jia Hu, Robert A. Cooke

Writings on organizational culture suggest that cultural values and norms are influenced by factors at the organizational, industry, and societal levels. While the effects of…

Intellectual capital and bank productivity in emerging markets: evidence from Ghana

Abdul Latif Alhassan, Nicholas Asare

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of intellectual capital on bank productivity in an emerging market in Africa.

Predicting entrepreneurial intentions from work values: Implications for stimulating entrepreneurship in UAE national youth

Syed Awais Ahmad Tipu, James C. Ryan

The purpose of this paper is to extend the current debate on value-intention link by investigating the hitherto unexplored relation between the concepts of the multidimensional…

Job insecurity and compensation evaluations: the role of overall justice

Jeffrey J. Haynie, Daniel J. Svyantek, Matthew J. Mazzei, Virajanand Varma

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relations of job insecurity with pay and incentive satisfaction and the role of overall justice in these relationships.

Strategic decision implementation in an emerging market: “The nature of the beast?”

John R. Anchor, Jehad S. Aldehayyat

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the institutional context impacts on strategic decision implementation in an emerging market. Previous studies of…

Top management team and IPO firms’ acquisition activity

Fariss T. Mousa, Sang Kyun Kim, Matthew A. Rutherford

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the top management team (TMT) in determining whether IPO firms in high-tech industry will engage in acquisitions during the…

Are competitive reactions changing over time?

Jimi Park, Shijin Yoo

The purpose of this paper is to answer why the predominant competitive reaction (CR) is non-reactive one in the previous literature by showing that some fluctuations of CR may…

The relationship between workplace ostracism and information exchange: The mediating role of self-serving behavior

Panagiotis Gkorezis, Victoria Bellou

The detrimental effect of workplace ostracism on core employee and organizational outcomes has received increasing attention. However, very little is known about its impact on…

A decision making model for selecting start-up businesses in a government venture capital scheme

Eric Afful-Dadzie, Anthony Afful-Dadzie

The purpose of this paper is to propose an intuitionistic fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) multi-criteria decision making method for…

Effect of knowledge management on growth performance in construction industry

Abu Hassan Abu Bakar, Mohamad Nizam Yusof, Muhammad Asim Tufail, Wiwied Virgiyanti

– The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between knowledge management and growth performance of construction companies.

International diversification and corporate social responsibility: An empirical study of Chinese contractors

Hanyang Ma, Saixing Zeng, Geoffrey Qiping Shen, Han Lin, Hongquan Chen

The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between international diversification strategy and corporate social responsibility (CSR) for firms from emerging…