Management Decision: Volume 60 Issue 12

Mapping talent agility: a bibliometric analysis and future research agenda

Gopal Krushna Gouda, Binita Tiwari

This study explores the concept of “talent agility” since its inception using bibliometric analysis and paves the way for future research agenda in the field of business and…

Proactive responses to job insecurity: why and when job-insecure employees engage in political behaviors

Junwei Zhang, Yajun Zhang, Lu Lu, Lei Zhang

Drawing upon ego depletion theory, the authors developed a serial mediation model linking job insecurity with employee political behavior in which resource depletion and moral…

Ambidexterity and absorptive capacity in boundary-spanning managers: role of paradox mindset and learning goal orientation

Saurav Snehvrat, Sanjay Chaudhary, Siddharth Gaurav Majhi

Boundary-spanning managers need to recognize, learn and implement external knowledge while balancing the conflicts emerging from new and existing knowledge. The authors' study…

Economic policy uncertainty and firm propensity to invest in corporate social responsibility

Muhammad Ilyas, Rehman Uddin Mian, Muhammad Tahir Suleman

This study aims to examine the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on firm investment in corporate social responsibility (CSR)’s environmental, social and governance (ESG…

Corporate social responsibility and firm value: evidence from Chinese targeted poverty alleviation

Heshu Huang, Ruotong Shang, Liukai Wang, Yu Gong

Whilst the relationship between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financial performance has been well documented, CSR has rarely been studied from the…

The importance of managerial discretion on managerial ability–firm cash holding nexus

Efstathios Magerakis

This paper examines the role of managerial discretion in the relation between managerial ability on the level of corporate cash.

Exploring the deep neural network model’s potential to estimate abnormal audit fees

Seung Uk Choi, Kun Chang Lee, Hyung Jong Na

The paper aims to estimate abnormal audit fees more precisely than the traditional audit fee model by applying an artificial intelligence (AI) method.

Export intensity of foreign subsidiaries of multinational enterprises

Quyen Nguyen

The author contributes to the theory of the multinational enterprise by examining subsidiary-specific capability in financial management, defined as the stock of knowledge and…

Why online consumers have the urge to buy impulsively: roles of serendipity, trust and flow experience

Zheshi Bao, Jing Yang

This study aims to investigate some determinants of impulse buying in online shopping and then indicate the underlying mechanism regarding why consumers have the urge to buy…

Exploring the knowledge structure of the relationship between value co-creation and customer satisfaction

Juan-José Nájera-Sánchez, Ricardo Martinez-Cañas, María-Ángeles García-Haro, María Pilar Martínez-Ruiz

Given the growing importance of the relationship between customer value co-creation and customer satisfaction, it is essential to assess the implications of this connection from…

The effects of the COVID-19 crisis on startups' performance: the role of resilience

Renata de Oliveira Mota, Adauto Bueno, Jéssica dos Santos Leite Gonella, Gilberto Miller Devós Ganga, Moacir Godinho Filho, Hengky Latan

This paper aims to evaluate the impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on startups performance and the moderating effects played by several resilience-related startup characteristics…

Cloud-based big data analytics integration with ERP platforms

Jorge A. Romero, Cristina Abad

The importance of integrating cloud-based big data analytics software with enterprise resource planning (ERP) platforms is not clearly understood. Specifically, this study aims to…