Chinese Management Studies: Volume 17 Issue 2

Gain or loss: the double-edged effect of empowering leadership on employees’ innovative behaviours

Zhengwei Li, Chenye Qiu, Kai Zeng, Feirong Wang

Empowering leadership is often considered unequivocally positive for employees, but recent studies have shown that this ostensibly straightforward effect is more complex. The dual…

Do corporate social responsibility reduce crash risk of stock price: evidence from China

Kun Su, Ziting Zhou

The 2008 global financial crisis stimulated the research interest in stock price crash risk. However, the determinants of stock price crash risk remain unclear, especially in…

The impact of green supply chain management on enterprise environmental performance: a meta-analysis

Lei Fu, Daojian Yang, Suxia Liu, Qiang Mei

The purpose of this study is to systematically analyze the relationships between green supply chain management (GSCM), enterprise environmental performance (EEP) and the…

The micromechanism of “co-beneficial” cooperation between government and business in the context of Chinese transition economy: the case of “Daqing–Geely mode”

Baoxin Qi, Mu Tian, Yajun Wu

This study aims to answer few questions, such as which factors influence the local government’s choice of private firm investments; what factors influence private firms’ choice of…

Strategic flexibility or persistence? Examining the survival path of export enterprises under COVID-19

Wanyi Chen, Rong Jin, Yuchuan Xie

The rising uncertainties in the macroeconomic environment exacerbate the challenges firms face in the export market. This study aims to explore which strategy is suitable for…

Government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity: empirical analysis in photovoltaic companies

Jing Chen, Tianchi Wang

This study aims to investigate the relationship between government subsidies, R&D expenditures and overcapacity, and to explore the heterogeneity effects in different time periods…

Belt and Road Initiative and OFDI from China: the paradox of home country institutional environment between state and local governments

Haitang Yao, Mengqing Zhong, Wei Liu, Bo Chen

This study aims to explore the effect of the home country institutional environment on firms’ outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and how it is affected by institutional…

Multigenerational product innovation process in electronic information industry: a qualitative study

Qingwen Bo, Bo Zou, Jinyu Guo

Developing multigenerational products through iteration helps enterprises cope with environmental uncertainty and maintain lasting competitive advantages in a globally competitive…

Formation of TMT strategic consensus: the effects of collective team identification and information elaboration

Yi Liu, Yaqun Yi

How is strategic consensus formed in top management team (TMT)? Prior literature provides inadequate evidence. A few scholars explore its antecedents from some perspectives (e.g…

Proto-institutional work: the “special treatments for special matters” in institutional transition

Zheng Joseph Yan, Jin Luo, Ziran Chen

This study aims to examine an important mechanism in the policy-led institutional transitions in China, namely, Te Shi Te Ban (Special Treatments for Special Matters) – an…

Influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance: a multilevel moderated mediation model

Tao Guo, Nan Yao, Lei Zhang

The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of self-serving leadership on employees’ organizational deviance and its internal mechanism.