Management Decision: Volume 53 Issue 5

Transformational leadership and employee creativity: Mediating role of creative self-efficacy and moderating role of knowledge sharing

Swati Mittal, Rajib Lochan Dhar

Among the different styles of leadership, transformational leadership has gained most attention from organisational researchers and academics. Although transformational leadership…

Ownership concentration, board characteristics and firm performance: A contingency framework

Sanjaya S. Gaur, Hanoku Bathula, Deeksha Singh

The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of the relationship between firm-level governance mechanisms and firm performance using a contingency framework. The…

Does commitment to environmental self-regulation matter? An empirical examination from China

Han Lin, Saixing Zeng, Hanyang Ma, Hongquan Chen

The purpose of this paper is to develop a better understanding of the mechanisms by which symbolic commitment to self-regulation influences corporate environmental performance…

Empirical study on the relationship between entrepreneurial cognitions and strategic change momentum: The moderating effect of organizational knowledge structures

Lin Yang

Due to the scanty of theoretical attempts to link entrepreneurial cognitions to strategic change momentum (SCM) and to explore moderating effects of organizational knowledge…

Life on heels and making deals: A narrative approach to female entrepreneurial experiences in the UAE

Virginia Bodolica, Martin Spraggon

The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues related to entrepreneurial undertakings of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the purpose of contributing to the…

Nonverbal communication and relational identification with the supervisor: Evidence from two countries

Panagiotis Gkorezis, Victoria Bellou, Nikolaos Skemperis

Nonverbal communication comprises a core element of the interactions between leader and follower. Nevertheless, there is limited empirical attention regarding the impact of…

The mediating role of the extensiveness of strategic planning on the relationship between slack resources and organizational performance

Yasir Fadol, Belal Barhem, Said Elbanna

The purpose of this paper is to improve the understanding of the mediating role of the extensiveness of strategic planning on the relationship between slack resources and…

Supervisor support and pro-environmental behavior: the mediating role of LMX

Panagiotis Gkorezis

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the mediating mechanisms of the relationship between supervisor support and pro-environmental behavior. To this end, the quality of the…

Family involvement and organizational ambidexterity in later-generation family businesses: A framework for further investigation

Martin R. W. Hiebl

How family businesses (FBs) manage to survive in the long term is still not well understood in FB research. A promising concept to explain survivability, that is currently heavily…

Revisiting the strategy-performance linkage: An application of an empirically derived typology of strategy content areas

Mikko Antero Luoma

The linkage between strategy and performance is central to strategic management. Empirical studies have nevertheless produced mixed results on the nature of this relationship, and…

Leadership in a changing world: developing managers through a teaching and learning programme

Ann-Louise Holten, Anne Bøllingtoft, Inge Wilms

The purpose of this paper is to present a model for the development of effective leadership teaching and learning. The model takes central factors into account, which have…

Does family involvement foster IPO value? Empirical analysis on Italian stock market

Alessandro Cirillo, Mauro Romano, Otello Ardovino

– The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the relationship between family involvement and Initial Public Offering (IPO) value in the Italian context.