Chinese Management Studies: Volume 18 Issue 2

Co-creating values for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements: research on the structural hole filling behavior of stakeholders

Jiayuan Liu

This study aims to explore how stakeholders leverage their guanxi and structural holes to promote knowledge mobilization to increase the performance of sci-tech achievement…

What happens when leader is ambivalent and employee is indifferent? A moderated mediation model of LMX ambivalence and employee creativity

Xinyue Lin, Juan Du

Leader–member exchange (LMX) relationship is a crucial context for individuals’ generation of creative ideas. Unlike the fruit research between LMX quality and employee…

Abusive supervision and employee unethical pro-organizational behavior: a moderated mediation model of moral disengagement and traditionality

Wei Yan, Huan Chen, Yan He, Cuilian Zhang

This study aims to understand how abusive supervision influences employees’ unethical pro-organizational behavior (UPB). In particular, the mediating effect of moral disengagement…

Do repeated alliances within patent pools encourage enterprise innovation? Evidence from MPEG LA

Liubin Lai, Yunsheng Zhang

The purpose of this study is to investigate whether repeated alliances between two members of a patent pool boost enterprise innovation. Furthermore, this paper intends to…

Influence of substantive corporate social responsibility attribution on salespeople’s value-based selling: a resource perspective

Aimin Yan, Biyun Jiang, Zhimei Zang

Drawing upon the conservation of resources theory, this study aims to investigate whether, how and when salespeople’s substantive attribution of the organization’s corporate…

Returnee entrepreneurs’ effects on external and internal CSR in China: the moderating role of market embeddedness and government endorsement

Lun Li, Jiguo Qi, Jizhen Li

Little attention has been given to the effects of returnee entrepreneurs on external and internal corporate social responsibility (CSR). This study aims to investigate whether…

Stay ahead: CEO education and entry timing within industry merger waves

Meiling Tang, Xi Zhao, Xiangyu Li, Xiaotong Niu

This study aims to explore the effect of chief executive officer education on firms’ action timing and acquisition performance in industry merger waves. In addition, this study…

Impact of corporate social responsibility on carbon emission reduction in supply chains

Weijie Zhou, Jianhua Zhu, Ce Zhang

This paper aims to introduce corporate social responsibility into the green supply chain and analyse the impact of different decision makers’ decision-making schemes on carbon…

Enterprise digitalization, employee digital literacy and R&D cooperation: the moderating role of organizational inertia

Hui Lei, Shiyi Tang, Yuxin Zhao, Shou Chen

This study aims to explore the effect of digitalization on the promotion of enterprise R&D cooperation, and it analyzes the microimpact mechanism and boundary conditions of…

Emerging IT investments and firm performance: a perspective of the digital options

Jie Sun, Hao Jiao

This study aims to explore the mediating effect of digital options on the relationship between emerging information technology investments (ITIs) and firm performance (FP). In…

Financial performance feedback, institutional ownership and green innovation: evidence from China

Jiayi Yang, Xiafei Chen

The purpose of this study is to examine whether and how financial performance feedback influences green innovation performance by drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm…

Getting organizational adaptability in the context of digital transformation

Xinbo Sun, Zhiwei He, Yu Qian

The purpose of this paper is to explore what organizational adaptability means in the digitized context and to discuss how manufacturing companies achieve organizational…

Effects of work-to-family conflict on job satisfaction and reparative behaviors

Niannian Dong, Mian Zhang, Beth A. Livingston

This study aims to investigate the indirect impact of work-to-family conflict (WFC) on job satisfaction and reparative behaviors toward family members through work-to-family guilt…