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Forty years of business research in China: a critical reflection and projection

Indigenous business research has largely mirrored the economic growth in China over the past 40 years, which has reached a critical juncture. It is, therefore, important to take stock of the past progress to i...

Authors: Ji-Ye Mao

Corporate spinoffs and executive compensation

This paper investigates the impact of corporate spinoffs on executive compensation. We find no significant association between executive compensation and stock returns prior to spinoffs, but a significant posi...

Authors: Justin Law and Wayne Yu

Is transformational leadership always good for employee task performance? Examining curvilinear and moderated relationships

Transformational leadership, generally considered as a desirable leadership style, has positive effects on various performance outcomes of employees; however, its productivity has been called into question bec...

Authors: Yashuo Chen, Ranran Ning, Tong Yang, Shangjun Feng and Chunjiang Yang

Where there is light, there is dark: a dual process model of high-performance work systems in the eyes of employees

High-performance work systems have been widely adopted in the workplace. Previous research on high-performance work systems debated whether the generated effects are mutual gains or conflicting outcomes for em...

Authors: Xueqing Fan, Yan Liu and Xi Zou

Towards an asymmetry-based view of Chinese firms’ technological catch-up

By carefully reviewing our research and related literature, in this paper, we propose a two-stage model of Chinese firms’ technological catch-up, and provide asymmetry-based explanations. We argue that at the ...

Authors: Jiang Wei, Ding Wang and Yang Liu

The effects of entrepreneurial long-term commitment on post-IPO performance: Chinese evidence

Long-term commitment is a motivational factor that drives people towards entrepreneurship. Scholars and practitioners have lacked a robust and validated instrument for measuring long-term commitment and its di...

Authors: Dongmin Kong, Maobin Wang and Xiyu Zhang

Non-family chair and corporate performance

Using a sample of Chinese family firms listed from 1999 to 2014, we investigate the relationship between non-family leadership and firm performance. We find that firms with a non-family member as board chair p...

Authors: Fuxiu Jiang, Xiaojia Zheng and Wei Tang

Work-family conflict and organizational citizenship behavior: the role of job satisfaction and decision authority

Drawing upon the conservation of resources theory (Hobfoll, Am Psychol 44:513–524, 1989), social exchange theory (Blau, Exchange and power in social life, 1964) and the job demand-control model (Karasek, Adm S...

Authors: Kun Yu, Zhen Wang and Youhuang Huang

Foreign institutional investors and stock return comovement

We investigate whether foreign institutional investors facilitate firm-specific information flow in the global market. Specifically, using annual institutional ownership data from firms across 40 countries, we...

Authors: Li Jiang, Jeong-Bon Kim and Lei Pang

Production risk caused by human factors: a multiple case study of thermal power plants

Thermal power plants are very popular in China. However, there has not been proportional research attention paid to production risk in these plants and human impact on production due to their importance in ele...

Authors: Huiyue Diao and Majid Ghorbani

R&D spending, strategic position and firm performance

Based on R&D investment data from Chinese listed manufacturing firms, this paper examines the effect of R&D spending on firms’ future performance conditional on their strategic positions. We find that firms pu...

Authors: Bing Guo, Jing Wang and Steven X. Wei

The perceived effectiveness of democratic management, job performance, and citizenship behavior: evidence from a large Chinese state-owned petrochemical company

Democratic management, a unique union-based form of employee participation in China, is seldom studied in the employee participation literature. This paper investigates the associations between employees’ perc...

Authors: Fuxi Wang

The newsvendor model revisited: the impacts of high unit holding costs on the accuracy of the classic model

The newsvendor problem has been applied in various business settings. It is often assumed that the decision variable, i.e., order-up-to level, has no impacts on the holding costs for average inventory cycled i...

Authors: Shaolong Tang, Stella Cho, Jacqueline Wenjie Wang and Hong Yan

Cross-listing and CSR performance: evidence from AH shares

This study investigates the association between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and cross-listing. In a clean setting where a change in CSR performance can be attributed to the cross-listing,...

Authors: Haina Shi, Xin Zhang and Jing Zhou

Cultural similarities and housing market linkage: evidence from OECD countries

The subprime crisis provoked a growing study on international housing market linkage. Nevertheless, the extant literature fails to explore housing price co-movements in terms of culture and a country’s respons...

Authors: Weida Kuang and Qilin Wang

The impact of reporting frequency on the information quality of share price: evidence from Chinese state-owned enterprises

As a major global exchange, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong (SEHK) only requires semi-annual reporting whereas other major exchanges including the ones in Chinese mainland require quarterly reporting. We argue...

Authors: Yin Toa Lee and Wilson H. S. Tong

Commentary of the Special Issue in Organization Behavior

Authors: Jason D. Shaw

The effect of result publicity on self-serving attributional bias —— a social comparison perspective

Self-serving bias suggests that people tend to attribute success to internal factors and attribute failure to external factors (Bradley, J Pers Soc Psychol 36:56–71,1978; Miller and Ross, Psychol Bull 82:213–2...

Authors: Shanshan Wen

Chinese employees’ leadership preferences and the relationship with power distance orientation and core self-evaluation

Informed by implicit leadership theories, this study investigates contemporary Chinese employees’ preferences for paternalistic leadership (including three components: moral leadership, benevolent leadership a...

Authors: Cai-Hui Veronica Lin and Jian-Min James Sun

High performance work systems and corporate performance: the influence of entrepreneurial orientation and organizational learning

This study investigates the functioning mechanisms of how high performance work systems (HPWS) affect organizational performance. We propose that (HPWS) can positively affect organizational performance through...

Authors: Chunling Zhu, Anqi Liu and Guoling Chen

How authentic leadership influences employee proactivity: the sequential mediating effects of psychological empowerment and core self-evaluations and the moderating role of employee political skill

This study aims to examine the relationship between authentic leadership and employee proactive behavior. Based on self-determination theory, we argue that such a relationship is sequentially mediated by psych...

Authors: Jing Zhang, Lynda J. Song, Yue Wang and Guangjian Liu

Childhood economic status predicting later income: the role of networking ability and encouragement of participation

Drawing from a social capital perspective, this study examines the psychological mechanism and boundary conditions of the relationship between individuals’ childhood economic status (CES) and later income. Spe...

Authors: Kun Yu and Yuhui Li

Ranking and selecting the best performance appraisal method using the MULTIMOORA approach integrated Shannon’s entropy

The selection process of appropriate Performance Appraisal (PA) methods for organizations in today’s dynamic and agile environments along with its funding scales is a complex problem. Performance appraisal in ...

Authors: Abteen Ijadi Maghsoodi, Gelayol Abouhamzeh, Mohammad Khalilzadeh and Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas

You don’t actually want to get closer to the star: How LMX leads to workplace ostracism

High-quality leader-member exchange (LMX) is commonly seen as beneficial to employees. However, this is not always the case in the eyes of other members of the same team. Based on social comparison theory, we ...

Authors: Zi Wang and Guiquan Li

Intertemporal pricing strategies for fashion tech products with consumption externalities

With the rapid development of technology, more and more products tend to both meet customers’ functional needs and provide stylish consumption experiences at the

Authors: Tong Wang and Xiaofang Wang

Economic freedom and IPO underpricing

This paper examines how the difference in institutional environments constitutes differential IPO underpricing across countries. Using the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Economic Freedom (IEF) as a proxy for t...

Authors: Yibiao Chen, Steven S. Wang, Wilson H. S. Tong and Hui Zhu

Individual knowledge sharing behavior in dynamic virtual communities: the perspectives of network effects and status competition

While most literature concerning knowledge sharing examines it as an organizational method for innovation and value creation, this paper considers online knowledge sharing as an individual behavior decision em...

Authors: Shenglei Pi and Weining Cai

Heterogeneous consumers, search and retail formats

This paper proposes a model featuring the heterogeneity of consumer preferences and analyzes the multiple equilibrium of retail formats by building a map of the relationships between consumer heterogeneity and...

Authors: Mingming Shi and Xiao Yan

High ownership concentration and exporting of emerging market firms: evidence from Peru

Despite the extraordinarily high ownership concentration widely observed in emerging market firms as a result of institutional voids, there is little research on how this high ownership concentration affects t...

Authors: William Gonzalo Vega Salas and Ziliang Deng

Want to make me emotional? The influence of emotional advertisements on women’s consumption behavior

A wide difference of opinion exists about the content and composition of emotions. Advertising may influence an audience and their buying decisions about products and services. The objective of this study is t...

Authors: Salman Majeed, Changbao Lu and Muhammad Usman

Creative leaders create ‘unsung heroes’: leader creativity and subordinate organizational citizenship behavior

As leader creativity is found to be effective at promoting outcomes for organizations, more and more organizations select creative individuals as leaders. However, the influence of leader creativity has not re...

Authors: Xiao Deng and Zhishuang Guan

The effect of domestic and foreign trade coordination on technological innovation: complements or substitutes?

Based on the theory of technology spillover in international trade, this paper discusses the technological innovation effect of trade by taking the influence of domestic trade into account. Under the constrain...

Authors: Lijuan Xie, Shixun Wang and Xiaodong Wang

Complexity absorption: a processual strategic approach to corporate entrepreneurship strategy

In contrast to traditional strategic approaches that are based on complexity reduction, this paper aims to develop an alternative way of understanding entrepreneurial strategy and managing complexity from a pr...

Authors: Haina Zhang

Can returnee managers promote CSR performance? Evidence from China

With growing economic globalization, returnee managers who have obtained education or work experience overseas play a much more crucial role in corporations, especially in emerging economies. Using hand-collec...

Authors: Wen Wen and Jianbo Song

Methodological choices of HR research conducted in Asia

A twenty-year study of the Human Resource (HR) practices–outcome relationship has found that more rigorous methodologies have been adopted over time. However, several problematic features such as cross-section...

Authors: Karin Sanders, Julie A. Cogin and Cai-Hui Veronica Lin

Why employees stay: the roles of psychological ownership, territoriality and work relationship closeness in affecting employee turnover intention

Drawing on a tripartite perspective on attitudes, this study examines the influence of psychological ownership and territoriality on turnover intention, as well as the moderating role of work relationship clos...

Authors: Lu Lu, Jun Liu and Na Zhao

Exhaustion and emotional demands in China: a large-scale investigation across occupations

As the Chinese economy moves toward a market-based model, employees are likely to face more emotional demands and exhaustion at work. However, there are some unique aspects to the emotional demands of work in ...

Authors: Kelly Z. Peng

How do work-family balance practices affect work-family conflict? The differential roles of work stress

This paper investigates the relationship between employees’ perception of work-family balance practices and work-family conflicts. It examines the role of challenge stress and hindrance stress as moderators. B...

Authors: Xiaoxi Chang, Yu Zhou, Chenxi Wang and Carmen de Pablos Heredero

Why it is hard to explain Chinese face?—FACE measurement models and its influence on ecological product preference

Face in China is a well-known word but still lacks a precise and authoritative definition. Other than the counterpart connotation of social norms in western culture, Chinese face is also a cultural construct s...

Authors: Zhuomin Shi, Zaoying Kuang and Ning Yang

Digital entrepreneurship ecosystem as a new form of organizing: the case of Zhongguancun

Digital innovation is becoming increasingly important in today’s economy. Many digital innovations are developed not within organizations, but in innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystems, where various ent...

Authors: Wenjie Li, Wenyu Du and Jiamin Yin

ROE as a performance measure in performance-vested stock option contracts in China

In this paper, we hand-collect the performance measures adopted in performance-vested stock option plans in China. We find that return on equity (ROE) is a widely used performance measure. Different from most ...

Authors: Bo Zhang, Hongliu Yuan and Xiaoqiang Zhi

The neglected state of organizational-level turnover studies in the Chinese context: a call for research

In this essay, the authors discuss the neglected state of organizational-level turnover research in the Chinese context. They provide a brief overview of the importance of turnover research in the organization...

Authors: Jason D. Shaw and Shuisheng Shi

Construction of an open innovation network and its mechanism design for manufacturing enterprises: a resource-based perspective

Innovation is the engine of development for enterprises, and there is an increasing trend to adopt an open innovation strategy. However, how to manage external resources in an open, collaborative and complemen...

Authors: Haijun Wang and Sardar M. N. Islam

Voluntary disclosure of internal control and auditor’s attestation: evidence from China

We examine what determines a firm’s decision to disclose a self-assessment report on its internal control (IC) system and to further attain an auditor’s attestation on the report, using a sample of firms from ...

Authors: Fang Lou, Qian Sun and Hongqi Yuan

Impact of ownership types on R&D intensity and innovation performance—evidence from transitional China

This paper examines the effects of ownership types on firms’ R&D intensity and innovation performance, using a sample of 357,857 Chinese firms from 2005 to 2007. This study finds considerable divergence among ...

Authors: Da Teng and Jingtao Yi

Strategy transition and marketing innovation of a vertical search engine: The case of Kuxun company

Kuxun is an online travel search company in China. This paper describes the transition and innovation of the company’s marketing strategy, from comprehensive information search to online travel search. It show...

Authors: Lin Jiang, Yadan Zhang, Xun He, Haijun Zhang, Jun Kang and Bo Zhang

A new organization’s breaking out of cocoon: Advantech’s dilemma in building a “direct marketing force”

Focusing on the recognition and resolution of conflicts between newly-created business units and existing ones, this teaching case depicts the reasons, process, and problems in Advantech’s creation and managem...

Authors: Fengbin Wang, Zhexiong Tao, Bin Li and Niaoyun Shi

Network architecture and firm performance: A resources-based view

Previous studies have investigated alliance networks primarily from two alternative views, a relational view that focuses on the “strength of strong/weak ties,” or a structural view that refers to a firm’s pos...

Authors: Qin Wang and Shanxing Gao

Investor behavior and volatility of futures market: A theory and empirical study based on the OLG model

Investor trading behaviors are always an important issue in behavioral finance and market supervision. This study examines the relationship between investor behavior and future market volatility. We first intr...

Authors: Yun Wang, Zongcheng Zhang and Renhai Hua

Perceived market/government influences, politics and justice in Chinese organizations

Although government intervention in economies has been widely debated lately, the extent to which government and market affect employees’ perceptions about their organization remains inadequately discussed. We...

Authors: Jie Li, Lawrence Gales, Minli Yi and Hu Hu