European Business Review: Volume 33 Issue 4

Antecedents and postcedents of satisfaction in seller-business relationships: positive and negative alter egos

Nils Høgevold, Göran Svensson, Mornay Roberts-Lombard

This study explores a seller’s perspective in business relationships to validate whether the findings reported in previous studies based on buyer business relationships apply to…

How do consumers perceive old brands? Measurement and consequences of brand oldness associations

Richard Huaman-Ramirez, Nada Maaninou, Dwight Merunka, Véronique Cova

This paper aims to focus on brand oldness associations and their measurement. Research on brand age points to a variety of interpretations concerning perceived brand oldness and…

Distributed leadership and organizational commitment: moderating role of confidence and affective climate

Sinda Ben Sedrine, Amel Sabra Bouderbala, Myryam Hamdi

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of distributed leadership on organizational commitment and the role of trust and open group climate as moderator variables in…

Leadership styles, justice and whistle-blowing intention: testing a mediation model

Smita Gupta, Kanika T. Bhal

This study aims to focus on justice perceptions as the operating mechanism for leadership to impact whistle-blowing intention (WBI). Consequently, it aimed to test the mediating…

Motivational factors, customer engagement and loyalty in the South African mobile instant messaging environment: moderating effect of application usage

Ronnie Kritzinger, Daniël Johannes Petzer

The purpose of this paper is to examine specific gratifications obtained from using mobile instant messaging (MIM) applications by applying the uses and gratifications theory…

Sources of accountability inside the boardroom

Julia Goodman, Hayley Pearson, Morris Mthombeni

Despite indications of scholarly interest, there are still gaps in the research of the concept of felt accountability, especially the felt accountability of board members. This…