Chinese Management Studies: Volume 16 Issue 5

How entrepreneurial team heterogeneity impacts decision-making performance? An input-process-output approach

Zhipeng Zhang, Li Zhu, Gong Chen, Lu Shang, Qiuyun Zhao, Feng Ren

Existing studies mostly rely on the static characteristics of team members, and there is still a lack of empirical investigation on how entrepreneurial team members make decisions…

Governance role of media coverage: from the view of accounting information value relevance and market value about share pledge firms in China

Li Gao, Jinnan Song, Jianxiao Guo, Jiajuan Liang

Share pledge is a popular way to raise funds in China, but it aggravates information asymmetry. As an indispensable information intermediary in the financial market, media…

Be zhongyong and be ethical: dual leadership in promoting employees’ thriving at work

Shenghao Guo, Qianqian Hu

The roles that one single leadership style plays on motivating employees have been studied. However, in reality, an individual may exhibit more than one type of leadership style…

Linking ownership acquired in Chinese firms to post-acquisition innovation performance: role of institutional distance

Nadia Hanif, Jianfeng Wu, Ahmad Bilal Babar

The primary purpose of this study is to explore the impact of acquired ownership in Chinese target firm on the innovation performance of developed economies (DE) acquiring firms…

Managerial openness and employee voice: a moderated mediation model

Yishuai Yin, Jinyun Duan, Tingxi Wang, Xuhui Jiao

Drawing on a costs-benefit analysis perspective, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between managerial openness and employee voice and its boundary…

The Eastern construction of paradoxical cognitive framework and its antecedents: a Yin–Yang balancing perspective

Yong Yang, Youqing Fan, Jianfeng Jia

In the face of external paradoxical requirements, the cognitive framework of managers and employees use to perceive, interpret and reconstruct information is important to ease…

Organizational identification and employees’ innovative behavior: the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of creative self-efficacy

Guangning Zhang, Yingmei Wang

This study aims to investigate the effect of organizational identification to employees’ innovative behavior, the mediating role of work engagement and the moderating role of…

The effect of abusive supervision on safety behaviour of Chinese underground miners: a multi-level moderated mediation analysis

Xinfeng Ye, Shaohan Cai, Zhining Wang

Prior research has suggested that abusive supervision has negative impacts on various work outcomes. However, little attention has been paid to the relationship between abusive…

Interdependence with suppliers in the innovation ecosystem: the effects of supplier concentration on firm innovation

Caiting Dong, Xiang Li, Xinzhi Chang

Based on the strategy and new institutional economic literature, this study aims to explore how different levels of supplier concentration (SC) will be characterized by…

The dilemma of winners: market power, industry competition and subsidy efficiency

Jialin Song, Yiyi Su, Taoyong Su, Luyu Wang

The purpose of this paper is, from a resource accumulation and resource allocation perspective, to examine the variant effects of government subsidies among firms with varying…

Mind the gap: independent directors and corporate social responsibility in China

Ruijie Jin, Xiaoxian Jiang, Ao Shen

This study aims to examine the effect of independent directors on the corporate social responsibility (CSR) gap – a misalignment between internal and external CSR. More…

Can earning much lead to doing good? Firm performance implications for corporate social responsibility

Siyu Hou, Zhaoyang Guo, Chuangneng Cai, Xiaobo Jiao

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of firm performance on corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its possible moderating effect. Despite the significance of…

Blockchain for smart manufacturing systems: a survey

Zhiting Song, Jianhua Zhu

Smart manufacturing is the prime gripper for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry. Smart manufacturing systems (SMSs) largely determine how smart…

Influence of job insecurity on coal miners’ safety performance: the role of emotional exhaustion

Tao Yi, Yao Dong, Jizu Li

Under the de-capacity circumstances of coal production in China, the purpose of this paper is to examine the processes underlying the association between job insecurity (JI) and…

Too much of a good thing: the non-linear effect of vertical pay dispersion on vice presidents’ voluntary turnover rate

Xiaoguo Xiong, Weihong Chen, Xi Zhong

While the effect of vertical pay dispersion on the voluntary turnover rate of vice presidents (VPs) has received attention, the existing research conclusions are still divided…