Management Decision: Volume 60 Issue 5

Women leaders and corporate social performance: do critical mass, CEO managerial ability and corporate governance matter?

Habib Jouber

This study aims to investigate the impact of top management team (TMT)'s gender diversity on corporate social performance (CSP). It sheds light on inconsistent results in…

Empowering leadership and employees' work engagement: a social identity theory perspective

Muhammad Arshad, Neelam Qasim, Omer Farooq, John Rice

This study aims to explore mediational mechanisms and conditions by which empowering leadership leads to positive outcomes at the employee level. Using social identity theory…

Do authoritarian leaders also have “fans”? The relationship between authoritarian leadership and employee followership behavior in the Chinese context

Yiming Wang, Yuhua Xie, Hua Qing Xie

The existing research rarely explains the value of authoritarian leadership in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The purpose of this study is to explore how…

Collective stupidity: influences on decision-making in knowledge-based companies

Somayeh Ahmadzadeh, Ali Safari, Hadi Teimouri

Even the smartest organizations believe that “good enough is never good enough.” Highly intelligent people may be able to do important things individually; still, it is their…

Spirituality in the workplace: a systematic review

Reetesh K. Singh, Saumya Singh

The purpose of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the extant literature of workplace spirituality (WPS) in a manner that helps us trace its emergence in management…

Psychological contract fulfilment and work behaviour nexus: the interactive effects of employee job autonomy and trust

Frances Noble-Nkrumah, Hod Anyigba, Henry Kofi Mensah

The purpose of this paper is to explore the interactive effects of employee job autonomy and trust on the relationship between psychological contract fulfilment and work behaviour…

Impact of organizational culture on strategic planning

Debadutta Kumar Panda

The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational culture on strategic planning and the role of leadership effectiveness in the association between…

Weathering the storm: what successful SMEs are doing to beat the pandemic

Diego Antonio Bittencourt Marconatto, Emidio Gressler Teixeira, Gaspar Antônio Peixoto, Kadigia Faccin

The purpose of this paper is to identify the configurations of working capital and customer and supplier diversification employed by successful small and medium-sized enterprises…

Social innovation in extreme institutional contexts: the case of Palestine

Rabeh Morrar, Sofiane Baba

This paper focuses on social innovation dynamics in extreme contexts where institutional volatility is deeply rooted and enduring. In other words, the authors focus their…

How firms accumulate knowledge to innovate – an empirical study of Vietnamese firms

Duy Quoc Nguyen

Organizational innovations are closely associated with organizational knowledge, and thus a firm builds its knowledge base to enhance its innovative performance. However, insights…

The role of sustainability control systems in translating CSR into performance in Iran

Kaveh Asiaei, Nick Bontis, Omid Barani, Majid Moghaddam, Jasvinder Sidhu

This study aims to explore the extent to which companies rely on sustainability management control systems (SMCS) to translate corporate social responsibility (CSR) into superior…

The nascence of a springboard subsidiary: drivers of the evolution of a subsidiary role

Nina Magomedova, Fariza Achcaoucaou, Paloma Miravitlles

The aim of this study is to explore the drivers of the evolution of a subsidiary’s strategic role from an ordinary subsidiary into a springboard subsidiary in multinational…

The role of market and product category characteristics in local versus foreign language branding in Latin America

Pablo Farías, Luis Torres

This paper explores which market and product category characteristics could influence the use of foreign language brand names (i.e. whether a brand uses a foreign language versus…