Chinese Management Studies: Volume 15 Issue 1

CEO’s with global experience and outward foreign direct investment: a contextualized analysis of Chinese firms

Kai Sun, Hung-Gay Fung, Yuping Zeng, Penghua Qiao

This paper aims to examine the effect of chief executive officers (CEOs’) global experience (GE) on the Chinese firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and provides new…

Effects of open innovation strategies on innovation performance of SMEs: evidence from China

Chang Lu, Bo Yu, Jing Zhang, Dan Xu

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between two types of open innovation (OI) strategies (OI breadth and depth) and innovation performance of small- and…

Guanxi orientation, value creation and value capture in buyer-supplier relationships: a dyadic perspective

Lucy Sojung Lee, Weiguo Zhong

This paper aims to investigate the importance and prevalence of Guanxi in business interactions in network-based societies such as China, few studies have the phenomenon from a…

What prevent you from stepping into the entrepreneurship? Evidence from Chinese makers

Xinmin Liu, Yanan Zhang, Liu Fan

This study aims to investigate the influence of three key categories of perceived entrepreneurial obstacles (perceived loss of financial resources, perceived loss of customer…

Impact of work values and knowledge sharing on creative performance

Hualiang Ren, Qinglei Zhang, Ying Zheng

The purpose of this paper is to find the influence of employees’ work values on their creative performance and test the role of knowledge sharing among them.

Can multiple large shareholders promote corporate social responsibility?

Xiao-xia Wang, Hai-ying Pan, Kun-kun Xue

This study aims to examine the relationship between an ownership structure with multiple large shareholders and corporate social responsibility (CSR) with regard to Chinese-listed…

Does entrepreneurial experience always promote novelty-centered business model design in new venture?

Lingling Wang, Wenhong Zhao, Zelong Wei, Changbao Zhou

This paper aims to explore how intra-industry entrepreneurial experience and failure entrepreneurial experience affect novelty-centered business model design in a new venture…

Exploring the moderated mediation relationship between leader narcissism and employees’ innovative behavior

Jie Yang, Mingchao Chang, Jian Li, Lulu Zhou, Feng Tian, JiangJiang Zhang

Based on the social information processing theory, the purpose of this study is to propose a conceptualized moderated mediation model for testing the linkage between leader…

Multinationality and performance effects: an integrated theory of new patterns of multinationality and home political influence

I-Fan Yen, Hsin-Mei Lin

This paper aims to develop an integrated perspective on the relationship between multinationality and performance in the outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) of Chinese firms…

Effects of job autonomy on workplace loneliness among knowledge workers

Diyang Wang, Hong Liu

Given its detrimental implications for employees’ well-being and work performance, this paper seeks to understand how workplace loneliness occurs by focusing on a job-related…

How China’s internet commonweal platform improves customer participation willingness? An exploratory study of Ant Forest

Xiangdong Shen, Li Wang, Xiangmeng Huang, Shuai Yang

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influence of internet commonweal characteristics on consumers’ participation willingness, mainly predicated on the…

Relational embeddedness in home-based network and dynamic capabilities: evidence from Chinese MNCs

Jian Du, Keying Lu, Chao Zhou

Prior studies have argued that multinational firms with dynamic capabilities can reconfigure and upgrade their internal and external resources and adapt to an ever-changing…