Chinese Management Studies: Volume 17 Issue 1

Similar or different? When Cross-Strait employees face psychological contract violations

Chao-Hsing Lee, Chien-Wen Chen

Though there are still political turbulences, the economic cooperation between mainland China and Taiwan is inseparable. Cooperation between enterprises on both sides has become…

Ties, status, and internationalization of Chinese private firms

Zhu Zhang, Jiaqi Xue, Baoxin Qi

This study aims to investigate the role of network in affecting private firms’ internationalization decision. Specifically, it investigates the way that business ties, political…

How and when does leader narcissism hinder team radical creativity? The role of team information elaboration and inter-team competition

Zhiqiang Liu, Rong Zhou, Lihua Wei, Xi Ouyang, Kong Zhou

Drawing on social information processing theory and trait activation theory, this study aims to examine the mediating effect of leader narcissism on team radical creativity via…

How large entrepreneurial-oriented companies breed innovation: the roles of interdepartmental collaboration and organizational culture

Xifang Ma, Zhengyun Rui, Genyuan Zhong

This study aims to provide a better understanding into how large-scale companies overcome their rigidity and bureaucracy, and transform entrepreneurial orientation (EO) into…

Foreign competition and corporate social responsibility: the role of the firm–government relationships

Shuang Meng, Yueling Sima

This study aims to investigate how and why corporate social responsibility (CSR) among domestic firms in emerging countries is affected by foreign competition.

Public psychological crisis reports: an investigation during the remission of COVID-19 in China

Shuai Han, Tongtong Sun, Yanming Sun, Xi Gao

The COVID-19 outbreak has been effectively controlled in China, but the resulting public psychological crisis is a latent, persistent and torturous disaster. This crisis affects…

Mediation effect of product diversification on the relationship between top management team heterogeneity and firm value in China

Ning Shen, Zhiyi Zhuo

Based on upper echelons (UE) theory, the purpose of this study is to investigate a conceptualized moderated mediation model for examining the effects of top management team (TMT…

Sleep late? Pre-reform institutional embeddedness and entrepreneurial reinvestment of private firms in China’s transition economy

Di Song, Aiqi Wu, Xiaotong Zhong, Shufan Yu

This study aims to introduce an important temporal dimension to the research on institution and entrepreneurship in the transition period. This study develops the concept of…

Experiencing tensions, regulatory focus and employee creativity: the moderating role of hierarchical level

Zhiqiang Liu, Xi Ouyang, Xiaoqing Pan

This study aims to explore how employees respond to tensions in groups and whether experiencing tensions could spur on their creativity (including radical and incremental…

Value co-creation and new product development success: the moderating effect of structural empowerment

Dong Wu, Tanfei Liu, Fei Wu, Wenxiao Bai, Xinyi Lin

This paper aims to represent an empirical study of what role does structural empowerment play in the relationship between multi-stakeholder value co-creation (VCC) and the success…

Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: a two-path mediating role of trust

Lisan Fan, Cailing Feng, Mulyadi Robin, Xiaoyu Huang

Transformational leadership and service performance of civil servants greatly affect the government’s administrative effectiveness. However, there are few studies on the influence…