Management Decision: Volume 57 Issue 1

Fashioning clothing with and for mature women: a small-scale sustainable design business model

Katherine Townsend, Anthony Kent, Ania Sadkowska

An ageing population in the developed world has become a significant topic in the contemporary research agenda. The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of a new…

SME ambidexterity during economic recessions: the role of managerial external capabilities

Henar Alcalde-Heras, Cristina Iturrioz-Landart, Cristina Aragon-Amonarriz

Most literature on ambidexterity has focused on large firms and on the influence of internal issues in this strategy, that is, organizational structures, top management…

How does top management team composition matter for continual growth? Reinvestigating Penrose’s growth theory through the lens of upper echelons theory

Wein-Hong Chen, Min-Ping Kang, Bella Butler

Penrose’s argument regarding the managerial constraint on continual expansion over two consecutive periods is termed the “Penrose effect,” a relatively less investigated premise…

Intra-organizational communication and its consequences

Manami Suzuki, Naoki Ando, Hidehiko Nishikawa

The purpose of this paper is to address intra-organizational communication between parent firms and foreign subsidiaries and examine how such communication effectively facilitates…

Internationalization of exploitation alliance portfolios and firm performance

Oliver Rossmannek, Olaf Rank

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of alliance portfolio internationalization (API) on firm performance in the context of exploitation alliances.

M&A effects on innovation and profitability in large European firms

Sara Fernández, Ángela Triguero, Esteban Alfaro-Cortés

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on innovation and profitability in large European firms.

Effectuation, opportunity shaping and innovation strategy in high-tech new ventures

Runping Guo

Innovation strategy is critical for firms to achieve success in the market. However, relatively little is known about what factors promote the development of innovation strategy…

The impact of corporate venture capital involvement in syndicates

Shinhyung Kang

Prior literature indicates that syndication enhances the likelihood of ventures’ successful exits; however, it has neglected the differences among venture capital (VC) investor…

Corporate social responsibility and employees’ affective commitment: A multiple mediation model

Khadija Bouraoui, Sonia Bensemmane, Marc Ohana, Marcello Russo

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and employees’ affective commitment. Three underlying mechanisms are used to…

Collateral, mutual guarantees and the entrepreneurial orientation of SMEs

Federico Beltrame, Josanco Floreani, Luca Grassetti, Michela Cesarina Mason, Stefano Miani

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether guarantees characterised by different degrees of relationship lending (particularly referring to collateral and guarantees…

The influence of exploration and exploitation on born globals’ speed of internationalization

Song Lin, Steven Si

The purpose of this paper is to investigate exploration and exploitation as antecedents to speed of internationalization in born global firms.

Sleeping with the enemy: The moderating effect of cooperation on competitive dynamics from collective identity perspective

Ming-Chang Huang, Bau-Jung Chang

This paper highlights cooperation as an important moderating condition of competitive action and response. Drawing on a new perspective of collective identity on competitive…

Credit rating system for small businesses using the K-S test to select an indicator system

Shanli Yu, Guotai Chi, Xin Jiang

The purpose of this paper is to propose a system with the highest discriminatory power by selecting an indicator system based on the K–S test according to the unique circumstances…

Organizational ambidexterity in public non-profit organizations: interest and limits

Hongxia Peng

The purpose of this paper is to study the potential interest in and the possible limits of the concept of organizational ambidexterity (Duncan, 1976; Tushman and O’Reilly, 1996…

Internal factors & consequences of business model innovation

Makhmoor Bashir, Rajesh Verma

The purpose of this paper is to propose a theoretical model of business model innovation based on evidences from the past literature. The paper established a link between business…