Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 35 Issue 7

Guest editorial: Sustainable creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship: concerning failures and resilience in hard times, difficult conditions and special communities

Fu-Sheng Tsai

Reliving a traumatic experience through emotional creativity: the bright side of cancer during the COVID-19 pandemic

Saeedeh Rezaee Vessal, Judith Partouche-Sebban, Francesco Schiavone

The COVID-19 outbreak has undoubtedly affected overall mental health. Thus, researching resilience is important, as it has been previously discussed as a means to protect people…

How to recover from difficult condition? The relationship between leader-employee congruence in creativity goal and innovative performance

Yue Yuan, Ping Wang, SongYuan Tian

Drawing upon the literature on person-leader supplementary fit literature, this study aims to positions dissatisfaction with organizational performance as a difficult condition…

Individual ambidexterity after entrepreneurial failure in COVID-19 pandemic times: the influence of current employment status

Anil Boz Semerci

This study highlights the business failure experienced in pandemic times, its impact on entrepreneurs' perception of failure and the reciprocal relationship between entrepreneurs'…

Why Over-Guarantee Crises Always Cluster? Exploring Peer Effect in Financial Distress

Pan Xu, Bao Wu

This paper attributes the clustered occurrence of over-guarantee crises of Chinese listed firms to behavioural interactions among them when engaged in guarantee decisions…

Examining resilience: the role of creativity-oriented high-performance work practices and role clarity

S.M. Aparna, Sangeeta Sahney

The paper aims to highlight the understated role of creativity in R&D organizations by exploring the effect of creativity-oriented high-performance work practices (CHPWPs) on…

TMT's decision-making on adoption of management innovation

Ruida Li, Li Zheng, Ling Yuan

External environment drives established enterprises to employ management innovation. Drawing on dual-process theories, this paper purports to investigate TMT's intuitive and…

How does institutional environment in the digital context affect technology entrepreneurship? The moderating roles of government digitalization and gender

Hao Jiao, Lindong Wang, Yang Shi

Based on institutional theory, this study aims to analyze the influencing mechanisms of the institutional environment in the digital context on technology entrepreneurship.

Effects of industry evolution on corporate executive: evidence from Chinese listed companies

Renyu Li, Yi Feng

The real estate industry has experienced frequent changes in corporate executives in recent years. A total of 147 A-share listed firms witnessed a total of 191 corporate…

How entrepreneurs' dual narcissism affects new venture growth: the roles of personal initiative and learning from entrepreneurial failure

Hongxin Wang, Chundong Zheng, Wenqing Wu, Fanhui Sui

Based on a personality-behavior-outcome framework, this study analyzes how entrepreneurs' dual narcissism (i.e. narcissistic admiration and rivalry) affects new venture growth…