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The effect of historical government affiliations on resource acquisition and organizing capability: evidence from Chinese private firms
Lihua Wang, Xiaoya LiangGrounded in the structural and relational inertia literature, this paper aims to investigate how two types of founding conditions – prior state ownership and a founder’s state…
Satisfaction, trust and loyalty: investigating the mediating effects of commitment, switching costs and corporate image
Harsandaldeep Kaur, Harmeen SochThe purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the factors influencing Indian consumers’ loyalty toward mobile phone service providers by exploring the mediating…
Integration of materialism with shopping motivations: motivations based profile of Indian mall shoppers
Devinder Pal SinghThe paper aims to investigate materialism as one of the retail shopping motives along with utilitarian/hedonic motivations in the Indian context. It aims to identify the key…
Convergence of management practices in India’s IT sector with an a priori validation
Jayashree Mahesh, Anil K. BhatThe purpose of this paper is to document similarities and differences between management practices of different types of organizations in India’s IT sector through an empirical…
Strategic IT-business alignment and organizational agility: from a developing country perspective
Sukanya Panda, Santanu Kumar RathThis study aims to test a model in which the effect of strategic information technology (IT)-business alignment on organizational agility is examined by the moderating influence…
Patenting choices for valuable subsidiary inventions created in an uncertain and fast changing environment
Feng Zhang, Guohua JiangFirms increasingly diversify their technological competencies to achieve different strategic objectives. This study aims to explore the impacts of technological knowledge…
E-consumer conformity and its impact on consumer attitude
Utkal Khandelwal, Seemant Kumar Yadav, Vikas Tripathi, Vivek AgrawalWith the tremendous increase in the number of netizens, online consumer behavior has become an important issue nowadays. One of the important issues of online consumer behavior is…
Trade-growth nexus and the rolling window analysis in United Arab Emirates
Syed Ali Raza, Rashid Sbia, Muhammad Shahbaz, Sahel Al RousanThis paper aims to examine the relationship between trade and economic growth using data of UAE economy for the period of 1974-2011.
Low leverage policy: a boon or bane for Indian shareholders
Soumya G. Deb, Pradip BanerjeeThis paper aims to explore whether following an apparently sub-optimal “almost zero leverage (AZL)” policy by some Indian firms actually creates incremental value for their…
How do social enterprises recruit workers? The case of social enterprises in Thailand
Chaturong NapathornThis paper aims to bridge the literatures on social enterprises and human resource management to examine the recruitment practices, specifically the recruitment channels, which…
Firm-specific internal determinants of profitability performance: an exploratory study of selected life insurance firms in Asia
Rozaimah Zainudin, Nurul Shahnaz Ahmad Mahdzan, Ee Shan LeongThis study is an exploratory study investigating firm-specific internal factors that influence the profitability performance of selected life insurance firms in eight Asian…
Does corporate governance influence earnings management in listed companies in Bahrain Bourse?
Bahaaeddin AlareeniThis paper aims to consider data for listed companies in Bahrain Bourse to determine whether companies practice earnings management (EM). Further, the effect of a set of corporate…
Impact of corporate sustainability reporting on firm performance: an empirical examination in Asia
Najul LaskarThe purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of corporate sustainability reporting on firm performance in four Asian countries – Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and India …
Personality traits and expatriate adjustment in Malaysia
Christopher Richardson, Guat-Hoon Tan, Shaian KiumarsiThis paper aims to investigate and reflect upon the effects of personality traits on expatriate adjustment within the context of Malaysia’s multicultural society.
Determinants of effective client entertainment in China: a transaction governance approach
Francis SunThis paper aims to take an economic transaction governance approach to explore the determinants for the effectiveness of the social practice of client entertainment in…
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2006Copyright Holder:
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