Management Research Review: Volume 46 Issue 11

Role conflict, need frustration and supervisor support: a moderated-mediation model of employee voice and silence

I. M. Jawahar, Jennifer L. Kisamore, Thomas H. Stone

Drawing on the conservation of resources theory, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether role conflict is associated with frustration of employees’ basic needs and whether…

Performance management in Africa: an agenda for research

Emmanuel Senior Tenakwah, Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, Chrystie Watson

Performance management (PM) remains one of the fundamental human resource practices in organisations today and is a dominant strategy adopted in managing employees. This paper…

Embedded agency in competitive environments: distribution of new occupations for data-oriented practices

Jaemin Kim, Michael Greiner, Cynthia Miree

In competitive environments, explicitly seeking institutional changes to adopt a new technology, rather than exploiting current resources, can harm more than help organizations’…

Agential explanations: how employee participation is enhanced in normatively controlled organizations?

Danial Hassan, Sadia Nadeem

The study aims to highlight and understand, and bring the human agency into the debate on the theory of normative control. While, the previous literature has highlighted the…

Does dispositional greed predispose employees to hide knowledge?

Ibeawuchi K. Enwereuzor

As knowledge hiding is prevalent and often leaves severe detrimental consequences in its wake, it is imperative to place strategies on the front burner to identify its potential…

Punitive switching costs and behavioral responses in the context of contractual services

Yi-Fei Chuang, Cong-Minh Dinh, Wei-Min Lu

Contractual services are characterized by features such as termination fees, long-term commitment, and complex terms. When customers find better deals from other providers, they…

Surviving the unprecedented: family firms under COVID-19

Alessandro Bressan, Abel Duarte Alonso, Oanh Thi Kim Vu, Daniel Borer

The purpose of this study is to examine factors contributing to family firms’ survival in the ongoing COVID-19 crisis; in this endeavour, the study espouses the underpinnings of…

Can trusting individuals achieve career success?

Aamir Ali Chughtai

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of trust propensity on both objective (salary) and subjective (career satisfaction) indicators of career success and investigate…

COVID-19 uncertainty, pandemic management strategy, management control and public health performance

Edward Nartey

Although the use of management control systems (MCS) in crisis management has received extensive attention, limited knowledge exists regarding the benefits of the broad scope…

The damage of deference: how personal and organizational factors transform deference to leader authority into unethical pro-organizational behavior

Dirk De Clercq

The purpose of this study is to examine how employees’ deference to leader authority may induce their unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB) and whether this translation is…