Management Decision: Volume 56 Issue 9

Board financial expertise and dividend-paying behavior of firms: New insights from the emerging equity markets of China and Pakistan

Bushra Sarwar, Ming Xiao, Muhammad Husnain, Rehana Naheed

Numerous researchers have developed theories and studies to uncover the issues pertinent to dividend policy dynamics, but it is still one of the unresolved problems of finance…

An exploration of an entrepreneur’s open innovation mindset in an emerging country

Alenka Slavec Gomezel, Kaja Rangus

The purpose of this paper is to connect open innovation and entrepreneurship literature by focusing on the influence of entrepreneurs’ open innovation mindset and alertness on a…

The role of R&D investments and export on SMEs’ growth: a domain ambidexterity perspective

Daniele Battaglia, Paolo Neirotti, Emilio Paolucci

International sales are critical for the prosperity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), because of the limited size of their domestic market, but they can be difficult to…

Commonality, conflict, and absorptive capacity: Clarifying middle manager roles in the pharmaceutical industry

Muhammad Rafique, Shafqat Hameed, Mujtaba Hassan Agha

The purpose of this paper is to explore the roles of middle managers (MM) in the knowledge-intensive environment as perceived by the employees, MM and principal decision makers…

Corporate social responsibility disclosure and catering to investor sentiment in China

Weizhang Sun, Chunguang Zhao, Yaping Wang, Charles H. Cho

The purpose of the paper is to examine the impact of investor sentiment on managers’ decisions to provide CSR disclosures. The core issue focuses on whether, why and how managers…

Perceived deviance tolerance: Make employees’ moral constructs accessible from a dual-system

Ming Kong, Yue Yuan

Based on the emerging stream of research in moral psychology and behavioral ethics which shows that accessibility of moral constructs influences ethical decisions, judgments, and…

The contrasting moderating effect of exploration on the relationship between stock options/stock ownership and a firm’s long-term performance

Gun Jea Yu, Joonkyum Lee

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contrasting moderating effect of a firm’s exploration on the relationship between the two types of long-term incentives (stock…

Developing a service quality scale in context of organized grocery retail of India

Prachi Jain, Vijita Singh Aggarwal

The purpose of this paper is to check the reliability and validity of a well-acknowledged scale developed by Pratibha A. Dabholkar (1996) in the context of Indian organized…

Ethical leadership and work engagement: The roles of psychological empowerment and power distance orientation

Israr Ahmad, Yongqiang Gao

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the mediating role of psychological empowerment in the relationship between ethical leadership and employee work engagement as well as…

Determining quantitative targets for performance measures in the balanced scorecard method using response surface methodology

Sorour Farokhi, Emad Roghanian

The purpose of this paper is to propose a quantitative methodology for setting targets in the framework of Balanced Scorecard (BSC) in order to achieve vision and goals.

The Tide that lifts all boats? Acquisitions and CEO-TMT pay disparity in the Netherlands

Padma Rao Sahib, Gerwin Van der Laan, Hans Van Ees

The purpose of this paper is to examine how firm growth, and its decomposition into acquisitive and organic growth, can serve as an antecedent to the disparity in pay between the…