Management Decision: Volume 55 Issue 4

Knowledge search and open innovation performance in an emerging market: Moderating effects of government-enterprise relationship and market focus

Dan Zhang, Shengxiao Li, Dengpan Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to examine how knowledge search (KS) affects open innovation performance (OIP) in consideration of appropriability hazard in an emerging market…

Service implementation in manufacturing firms: The role of service-orientated human resource management practices and demand-side search

Yapu Zhao, Wenhong Zhang, Depeng Liu, Fenghua Bao, Longwei Tian

Given the importance of frontline employees in implementing the service strategy, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether service-orientated human resource management…

Stimulating employee ambidexterity and employee engagement in SMEs

Oluseyi Moses Ajayi, Kayode Odusanya, Susan Morton

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the emerging theory of ambidexterity by developing measures to assess employee ambidexterity. Specifically, it identifies and tests…

Exploring the determinants of and predicting the helpfulness of online user reviews using decision trees

Sangjae Lee, Joon Yeon Choeh

The purpose of this paper is to suggest important determinants for helpfulness from the reviews’ product data, review characteristics, and textual characteristics, and identify…

The impact of qualities of social network service on the continuance usage intention

Sangjae Lee, Byung Gon Kim

Although there are a number of studies on the factors affecting the continuance usage intention for social network services (SNS), the studies on the integrated model encompassing…

Social influence of hubs in information cascade processes

Joohyun Kim, Ohsung Kwon, Duk Hee Lee

The purpose of this paper is to explore how hubs’ social influence on social network decisions can cause the behavior of information cascades in a market.

Decision quality of the research project evaluation mechanism by using particle swarm optimization

Young Wook Seo, Kun Chang Lee, Sangjae Lee

For those who plan research funds and assess the research performance from the funds, it is necessary to overcome the limitations of the conventional classification of evaluated…

Differences between inter- and intra-group dynamics in knowledge transfer processes

Motohiro Nakauchi, Mark Washburn, Kenji Klein

Knowledge transfer (KT) processes are important for building and sustaining competitive advantages and dynamic capabilities. Prior research often treats KT processes as a…