Management Decision: Volume 56 Issue 11

Determinants of the intention of smartphone usage by mobile internet users for m-services

Moez Ltifi

This study is exploratory in nature. The purpose of this paper is to examine the intention to use smartphones by mobile users for m-services in a growing market. In fact, it…

Priming employees’ promotion focus: How and when servant leadership enhances customer service behaviors

Fu Yang, Jing Qian, Jun Liu

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between servant leadership and customer service behaviors by probing the mediating role of promotion focus and the…

Exploring the impact of being perceived as a socially responsible organization on employee creativity

Moustafa Abdelmotaleb, Abdelmoneim Bahy Eldin Mohamed Metwally, Sudhir K. Saha

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into the emotional or affective mechanisms that underlie the relationship between employees’ perceptions of corporate social…

Aligning purchasing portfolio management with sourcing negotiation styles

Mingu Kang, Paul Hong, Roman Bartnik, Youngwon Park, Changsuk Ko

The purpose of this paper is to examine how to align purchasing portfolio management with sourcing negotiation styles.

Franchise systems and lobbying: implications for Olsonian collective action theory

Richard S. Brown

Previous research combining corporate political activity and collective action theory has focused solely on industry structure and its role in predicting group lobbying or PAC…

Strategic behaviour of Russian companies with regard to intangibles

Carlos Fernández Jardón, Mariia Molodchik, Sofiia Paklina

The purpose of this paper is to explore strategy-specific competencies with regard to intangibles and provides empirical evidence of intangible-based strategy groups for Russian…

Fad and fashion? The relevance of subjective performance measures

Maria Chiara Demartini, Sara Trucco

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of the use of subjective (objective) performance measures on relevant organisational outcomes, namely perceived managerial…

Does corporate social responsibility extend firm life-cycles?

Feng Jui Hsu

The purpose of this paper is to assess US-based firms from 2005 to 2015 to determine whether firms with better corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance will allocate…

How does competition shape managerial decisions? Product market competition and financial statement comparability

Muhammad Ansar Majeed, Chao Yan, Muhammad Zubair Tauni

The purpose of this paper is to explore the effects of competitive pressure on financial statements’ comparability (comparability) by analyzing various dimensions of competition.

An end-to-end process of writing and publishing influential literature review articles: Do’s and don’ts

Virginia Bodolica, Martin Spraggon

Literature reviews are essential tools for uncovering prevalent knowledge gaps, unifying fragmented bodies of scholarship, and taking stock of the cumulative evidence in a field…

Managerial risk taking: a conceptual model for business use

Liana Holanda Nepomuceno Nobre, John E. Grable, Wesley Vieira da Silva, Fábio Chaves Nobre

The purpose of this paper is to establish a conceptual model for managerial risk taking that considers objective measures related to an organization’s characteristics and…

Back to the future of intellectual capital research: a systematic literature review

Eugénia Pedro, João Leitão, Helena Alves

For better mapping the path of intellectual capital (IC) research, the purpose of this paper is to selectively review empirical studies of IC published, and identify theories…