Management Research Review: Volume 39 Issue 10

The effects of logic replacement in coal-mining disaster: the case of Soma

Cigdem Kaya, Nihal Kartaltepe Behram, Göksel Ataman

Drawing from the institutional logics and organizational disaster literature, this paper aims to illustrate that the replacement of logics can be problematic in a high-risk…

The effect of internal factors and family influence on firms’ adoption of green product innovation

Yi-Chun Huang, Min-Li Yang, Ying-Jiuan Wong

Little research has been conducted on the internal factors that drive green product (GP) innovation and how family influence affects firm adoption of GP innovation. This study…

Rethinking Skinner’s model: strategic trade-offs in products and services

Roberto Sarmiento, Matthias Thurer, Garvan Whelan

The purpose of this paper is to further clarify the link between the theoretical and practical/real-life implications of a seminal topic in the strategic operations management…

The impact of knowledge management on innovation: An empirical study on Jordanian consultancy firms

Bader Yousef Obeidat, Mai Maher Al-Suradi, Ra’ed Masa’deh, Ali Tarhini

The paper aims to examine the effect of knowledge management processes (knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing and knowledge utilization) and knowledge management approaches…

Environmental turbulence: impact on UK SMEs’ manufacturing priorities

Eustathios Sainidis, Andrew Robson

This paper aims to assess the impact of 2008 recession (Great Recession)-led environmental turbulence on the manufacturing small and medium enterprise (SME) sector and its related…

The impact of name change on the financial performance of savings and credit co-operatives in Kenya

David Mutua Mathuva, Elizabeth Wangui Muthuma, Josephat Mboya Kiweu

This paper aims to investigate the impact of name change, if any on the financial performance of deposit-taking savings and credit co-operatives (SACCOs) in a developing country…

Our love/hate relationship with meetings: Relating good and bad meeting behaviors to meeting outcomes, engagement, and exhaustion

Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Joseph A. Allen, Dain Belyeu

Employees at all organizational levels spend large portions of their work lives in meetings, many of which are not effective. Previous process-analytical research has identified…

Natural resource-seeking intent and regulatory forces: Location choice of Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Asia

Yuanfei Kang, Yulong Liu

This study aims to investigate how natural resource-seeking as a type of strategic intent influences foreign direct investment (FDI) location choice. Grounded in the strategic…

Breach and willingness to support the organization: An attribution and social exchange perspective

Irene Tsachouridi, Irene Nikandrou

This study aims to integrate the attribution theory into the traditional social exchange view of the breach-outcome relationship. Perceived disinterested support (PDS), perceived…

Mapping Brazilian workforce diversity: a historical analysis

Anselmo Ferreira Vasconcelos

The purpose of this paper is to examine how Brazilian organizations have handled diversity.