Management Decision: Volume 54 Issue 7

CEO transformational and transactional leadership and organizational innovation: The moderating role of environmental dynamism

Bhaskar Prasad, Paulina Junni

Organizational innovation is critical for firm competitive advantage. Yet, we do not know enough about the relationship between leadership and organizational innovation. The…

Engaging public servants: Public service motivation, work engagement and work-related stress

Silvia De Simone, Gianfranco Cicotto, Roberta Pinna, Luca Giustiniano

Considering the ongoing international debate on the role of public administrations in economic systems, the interest around public service motivation (PSM) has significantly grown…

An exemplar of open strategy: decision-making within multi-sector collaborations

Thomas G Pittz, Terry Adler

Collaborations and partnerships that span economic sectors heighten the complexity of decision-making processes and introduce challenges for structuring collective action. As…

Human capital and the decision to exploit innovative opportunity

Manoj Chandra Bayon, Esteban Lafuente, Yancy Vaillant

The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct and interaction effect of individuals’ human capital input and human capital output in the form of entrepreneurial…

Putting process on track: empirical research on start-ups’ growth drivers

Roberto Pugliese, Guido Bortoluzzi, Ivan Zupic

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on the growth drivers of start-up firms from the process perspective. Increasing scholarly attention to the growth of…

Decision rules, escalation of commitment and sensitivity to framing in group decision-making: An experimental investigation

Petru Lucian Curseu, Sandra G. L. Schruijer, Oana Catalina Fodor

The purpose of this paper is to test the influence of collaborative and consultative decision rules on groups’ sensitivity to framing effect (FE) and escalation of commitment…

How are corporate disclosures related to the cost of capital? The fundamental role of information asymmetry

Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros, Isabel-Maria Garcia-Sanchez, Jennifer Martinez Ferrero

The purpose of this paper is to analyze empirically the fundamental role that information asymmetry plays in the functioning of an efficient capital market as mediator in the…

An efficient resource allocation in strategic management using a novel hybrid method

Ratapol Wudhikarn

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a novel hybrid method by integrating a decision sciences approach with balanced scorecard (BSC) in order to scientifically enable the…

The changing paradigm of fair trade social entrepreneurship in the United States

John James Cater, Brent D. Beal, Lorna A. Collins

The purpose of this paper is to examine why social entrepreneurs in the USA choose to operate an entirely fair trade business and the factors that affect fair trade social…

The influences of knowledge loss and knowledge retention mechanisms on the absorptive capacity and performance of a MIS department

Tung-Ching Lin, Christina Ling-hsing Chang, Wen-Chin Tsai

Knowledge loss impact on the performance of management information system (MIS) departments due to its influence on absorptive capacity. Furthermore, knowledge retention in human…

Exploring the impact of open innovation on firm performances

Mauro Caputo, Emilia Lamberti, Antonello Cammarano, Francesca Michelino

– The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationships between the openness of firms and their innovation and financial performances.

Unfolding critical events and strategic decisions: the role of spatial and temporal cognition

Sajjad Haider, Francesca Mariotti

The purpose of this paper is to examine strategic decisions surrounding critical events to show how the decision-making processes evolve and how the dominant logic changes…