The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship among the size, growth, and profitability of listed companies. The study sample comprised listed companies in the ASEAN-4 countries—Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand—over the period 1972-2014. The K-medoids algorithm was employed in a cluster analysis, and the generalized method of moments (GMM) was applied to examine the dynamic relationship. The empirical results reveal that smaller companies tend to have higher growth than larger companies. Moreover, the results indicate that persistence of growth and persistence of profitability do not exist. There is also evidence that profitability affects companies’ growth, but companies’ growth does not affect profitability. To cite this document: Phassawan Suntraruk, Kanix Bukkavesa, Nat Kulvanich, "The Dynamic Linkage among the Size, Growth and Profitability of Listed Companies in the ASEAN-4 Countries", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 293-310, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18579
{"title":"The Dynamic Linkage among the Size, Growth and Profitability of Listed Companies in the ASEAN-4 Countries","authors":"Phassawan Suntraruk, Kanix Bukkavesa, Nat Kulvanich","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18579","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18579","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to examine the dynamic relationship among the size, growth, and profitability of listed companies. The study sample comprised listed companies in the ASEAN-4 countries—Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand—over the period 1972-2014. The K-medoids algorithm was employed in a cluster analysis, and the generalized method of moments (GMM) was applied to examine the dynamic relationship. The empirical results reveal that smaller companies tend to have higher growth than larger companies. Moreover, the results indicate that persistence of growth and persistence of profitability do not exist. There is also evidence that profitability affects companies’ growth, but companies’ growth does not affect profitability. \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Phassawan Suntraruk, Kanix Bukkavesa, Nat Kulvanich, \"The Dynamic Linkage among the Size, Growth and Profitability of Listed Companies in the ASEAN-4 Countries\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 293-310, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18579","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43163678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this study is to develop a brand authenticity scale by reviewing the relevant literature to identify the factors important for brand authenticity, then developing and testing the discriminant and convergent validity of measurement scales for dimensions of brand authenticity. The research method adopted includes in-depth interview and focus group interview. The procedure for scale development was: item generation, scale purification, and scale validation. This research uses qualitative and empirical methods to identify the six key dimensions of brand authenticity and develop a brand authenticity scale. As a result, a six-dimensional scale containing seventeen items was developed representing distinctive dimensions of brand authenticity: virtue, connection, realism, aesthetics, control, and originality. This research contributes to the branding literature by identifying the dimensions of brand authenticity through the development of a brand authenticity scale. Moreover, the six dimensions represent the most comprehensive understanding of brand authenticity. The brand authenticity scale can be used with confidence to examine relationships with other important constructs of interest in the future. To cite this document: Van-Dat Tran, Ching-Jui Keng, "The Brand Authenticity Scale: Development and Validation", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 277-291, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18581
本研究的目的是通过回顾相关文献，找出影响品牌真实性的重要因素，然后开发和检验品牌真实性维度测量量表的判别效度和收敛效度。采用的研究方法包括深度访谈和焦点小组访谈。量表开发程序为:项目生成、量表纯化和量表验证。本研究采用定性与实证相结合的方法，确定品牌真实性的六个关键维度，并编制品牌真实性量表。因此，一个包含17个项目的六维量表被开发出来，代表了品牌真实性的不同维度:美德、联系、现实主义、美学、控制和原创性。本研究通过开发品牌真实性量表来识别品牌真实性的维度，从而为品牌文献做出贡献。而且，这六个维度代表了对品牌真实性最全面的理解。品牌真实性量表可以自信地用于检验未来与其他重要的兴趣结构的关系。引用本文:陈凡达，“品牌真实性量表的发展与验证”，《当代管理研究》，Vol.14, No.4, pp. 277-291, 2018。此文档的永久链接:http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18581
{"title":"The Brand Authenticity Scale: Development and Validation","authors":"V. Tran, Ching-Jui Keng","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18581","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study is to develop a brand authenticity scale by reviewing the relevant literature to identify the factors important for brand authenticity, then developing and testing the discriminant and convergent validity of measurement scales for dimensions of brand authenticity. The research method adopted includes in-depth interview and focus group interview. The procedure for scale development was: item generation, scale purification, and scale validation. This research uses qualitative and empirical methods to identify the six key dimensions of brand authenticity and develop a brand authenticity scale. As a result, a six-dimensional scale containing seventeen items was developed representing distinctive dimensions of brand authenticity: virtue, connection, realism, aesthetics, control, and originality. This research contributes to the branding literature by identifying the dimensions of brand authenticity through the development of a brand authenticity scale. Moreover, the six dimensions represent the most comprehensive understanding of brand authenticity. The brand authenticity scale can be used with confidence to examine relationships with other important constructs of interest in the future. \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Van-Dat Tran, Ching-Jui Keng, \"The Brand Authenticity Scale: Development and Validation\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.4, pp. 277-291, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18581","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45130246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper extends the legitimacy theory by empirically investigating the extent and context of social, environmental and total voluntary non-financial disclosures across industries. The study uses 312 annual reports of publicly listed Indian companies for the accounting years 2006, 2012 and 2014. We follow a Multivariate Ordinary Least Squares (MOLS) modelling framework to test the hypotheses. Our empirical results indicate that the decision to provide voluntary non-financial disclosure is positively related to a firm’s age, profitability, industrial category and leverage. Our results further indicate that, contrary to legitimacy theory, the decision to provide social and environmental non-financial disclosures by sampled publicly listed companies is found to correlate negatively with consumer proximity, leverage and industrial transport industry membership. Our results add new empirical evidence to support the view that non-financial disclosure by companies is influenced by country-specific characteristics within which the firm operates. Future research could extend the study to other emerging countries and include data from unlisted companies to validate our findings. To cite this document: Asit Bhattacharyya and Frank Wogbe Agbola, "Social and Environmental Reporting and the Co-creation of Corporate Legitimacy", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 191-223, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18247
{"title":"Social and Environmental Reporting and the Co-creation of Corporate Legitimacy","authors":"A. Bhattacharyya, F. W. Agbola","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18247","url":null,"abstract":"This paper extends the legitimacy theory by empirically investigating the extent and context of social, environmental and total voluntary non-financial disclosures across industries. The study uses 312 annual reports of publicly listed Indian companies for the accounting years 2006, 2012 and 2014. We follow a Multivariate Ordinary Least Squares (MOLS) modelling framework to test the hypotheses. Our empirical results indicate that the decision to provide voluntary non-financial disclosure is positively related to a firm’s age, profitability, industrial category and leverage. Our results further indicate that, contrary to legitimacy theory, the decision to provide social and environmental non-financial disclosures by sampled publicly listed companies is found to correlate negatively with consumer proximity, leverage and industrial transport industry membership. Our results add new empirical evidence to support the view that non-financial disclosure by companies is influenced by country-specific characteristics within which the firm operates. Future research could extend the study to other emerging countries and include data from unlisted companies to validate our findings. \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Asit Bhattacharyya and Frank Wogbe Agbola, \"Social and Environmental Reporting and the Co-creation of Corporate Legitimacy\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 191-223, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18247","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44868600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
We applied institutional theory to examine the effect of differences in institutional pressures on strategic decisions of a non-profit non-governmental organization, Greenpeace, in its fight to stop the use of genetically-modified organisms. The effects of differences in institutional pressures were examined through examining differences between the United States and the European Union as well as between two European nations, France and Spain, in Greenpeace’s strategy. We suggested that formal and informal institutional pressures influence strategic decision-making in Greenpeace’s independent national units. We proposed that the US differs from the EU in both formal and informal institutional environments, Spain and France differ in the informal dimension, and these differences are reflected in Greenpeace’s strategies. We also argued that Greenpeace exemplifies the successful use of a transnational strategy and discussed that non-profits may be better able to adopt a transnational strategy than do for-profits. To cite this document: Stephen R. Luxmore and Clyde Eirikur Hull, "Are Non-Profits Better at Adopting a Transnational Strategy Than For-Profits? How Environments Affect the Way Greenpeace Fights Genetically-Modified Organisms in Europe and the United States", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 225-252, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.17889
{"title":"How Formal and Informal Institutional Environments Affect The Way Greenpeace Fights Genetically-Modified Organisms in Europe and The United States","authors":"S. Luxmore, C. E. Hull","doi":"10.7903/CMR.17889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.17889","url":null,"abstract":"We applied institutional theory to examine the effect of differences in institutional pressures on strategic decisions of a non-profit non-governmental organization, Greenpeace, in its fight to stop the use of genetically-modified organisms. The effects of differences in institutional pressures were examined through examining differences between the United States and the European Union as well as between two European nations, France and Spain, in Greenpeace’s strategy. We suggested that formal and informal institutional pressures influence strategic decision-making in Greenpeace’s independent national units. We proposed that the US differs from the EU in both formal and informal institutional environments, Spain and France differ in the informal dimension, and these differences are reflected in Greenpeace’s strategies. We also argued that Greenpeace exemplifies the successful use of a transnational strategy and discussed that non-profits may be better able to adopt a transnational strategy than do for-profits. \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Stephen R. Luxmore and Clyde Eirikur Hull, \"Are Non-Profits Better at Adopting a Transnational Strategy Than For-Profits? How Environments Affect the Way Greenpeace Fights Genetically-Modified Organisms in Europe and the United States\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 225-252, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.17889","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46741389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper examines links between the cultural embeddedness and current managerial response to leadership excellence in a change environment in the context of Bangladesh. The study was performed for the years of 2009 and 2014. To explore the link between culture and managerial response, factor analysis, regression and structural modelling using SPSS V22 and AMOS V22 are employed to explain what constitutes managerial leadership excellence in Bangladesh. The results, based on the perceptions of 660 Bangladesh managers, suggest that managers are receptive to behavioural changes demanded by the environment. In particular, empathy has a negative relationship with the Excellent Leader response in 2014 compared to 2009, thus suggesting environmental changes influencing managerial behaviours. Future research should explore further the time and etic influences on leadership. Keywords: Managerial Leadership, Human Capacity Building Sufi Islam, Environment Sustainability, Empathy To cite this document: Christopher Selvarajah, Denny Meyer, and Tarun Kanti Bose, "Organisational Leadership in Bangladesh: An Investigation of Managerial Response to A Change Environment", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 21-52, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18341
本文探讨了文化嵌入性和当前管理响应卓越领导力在孟加拉国的背景下的变化环境之间的联系。这项研究在2009年和2014年进行。为了探索文化与管理反应之间的联系，采用SPSS V22和AMOS V22进行因素分析，回归和结构建模，以解释孟加拉国管理领导卓越的构成。基于对660名孟加拉国管理人员的看法得出的结果表明，管理人员能够接受环境所要求的行为改变。特别是，与2009年相比，2014年共情与优秀领导者的反应呈负相关，这表明环境变化影响了管理行为。未来的研究应进一步探讨时间和环境对领导力的影响。引用本文:Christopher Selvarajah, Denny Meyer和Tarun Kanti Bose，“孟加拉国的组织领导力:对变化环境的管理反应的调查”，当代管理研究，第14卷，第1期，第21-52页，2018年。此文档的永久链接:http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18341
{"title":"Organisational Leadership in Bangladesh: An Investigation of Managerial Response to A Change Environment","authors":"C. Selvarajah, D. Meyer, Tarun Kanti Bose","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18341","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18341","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines links between the cultural embeddedness and current managerial response to leadership excellence in a change environment in the context of Bangladesh. The study was performed for the years of 2009 and 2014. To explore the link between culture and managerial response, factor analysis, regression and structural modelling using SPSS V22 and AMOS V22 are employed to explain what constitutes managerial leadership excellence in Bangladesh. The results, based on the perceptions of 660 Bangladesh managers, suggest that managers are receptive to behavioural changes demanded by the environment. In particular, empathy has a negative relationship with the Excellent Leader response in 2014 compared to 2009, thus suggesting environmental changes influencing managerial behaviours. Future research should explore further the time and etic influences on leadership. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: Managerial Leadership, Human Capacity Building Sufi Islam, Environment Sustainability, Empathy \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Christopher Selvarajah, Denny Meyer, and Tarun Kanti Bose, \"Organisational Leadership in Bangladesh: An Investigation of Managerial Response to A Change Environment\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 21-52, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18341","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":"14 1","pages":"21-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45386244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The number of people using online communities is rising. The study found that more consumers find and evaluate goods through social media networks. At the same time, marketers continue to promote brand recognition, but more importantly, to increase user engagement. However, the link between the brand community and social media has become the focus of the marketing staff and the public. But the academic research of the brand community and the social media in the past focused on brand loyalty. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore how virtual brand communities could create social impacts on their customers. This study will use a web survey from customers from Insightxplorer’s Cyber Panel who intend to adopt a social network service. Factor analysis will be conducted to confirm the induced factors from literature review. Furthermore, PLS will be used to determine the variation in social networking sites’ quality, brand communities’ engagement, virtual community and equity. Finally, in-depth discussions and conclusions will be provided to inform research and practice. Keywords: Social Media Marketing, Virtual Brand Community, Brand Community Engagement To cite this document: I Ping Chiang, Shou En Tu, and Ling Hui Wang, "Exploring The Social Marketing Impacts of Virtual Brand Community Engagement", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 143-164, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18086
{"title":"Exploring The Social Marketing Impacts of Virtual Brand Community Engagement","authors":"I. Chiang, S. Tu, Lingfei Wang","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18086","url":null,"abstract":"The number of people using online communities is rising. The study found that more consumers find and evaluate goods through social media networks. At the same time, marketers continue to promote brand recognition, but more importantly, to increase user engagement. However, the link between the brand community and social media has become the focus of the marketing staff and the public. But the academic research of the brand community and the social media in the past focused on brand loyalty. Thus, the aim of this study was to explore how virtual brand communities could create social impacts on their customers. This study will use a web survey from customers from Insightxplorer’s Cyber Panel who intend to adopt a social network service. Factor analysis will be conducted to confirm the induced factors from literature review. Furthermore, PLS will be used to determine the variation in social networking sites’ quality, brand communities’ engagement, virtual community and equity. Finally, in-depth discussions and conclusions will be provided to inform research and practice. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: Social Media Marketing, Virtual Brand Community, Brand Community Engagement \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: I Ping Chiang, Shou En Tu, and Ling Hui Wang, \"Exploring The Social Marketing Impacts of Virtual Brand Community Engagement\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 143-164, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18086","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47601735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Given the rapid growth of the e-commerce market in China, there is a growing need to understand the characteristics of the search advertising strategy employed by dominant e-commerce firms in China. This paper presents a case study to understand the search advertising strategy employed by Taobao based on two sample data sets obtained from the online shopping site taobao.com operated under the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The first data set contains features about the advertisements displayed after the customer’s search using keyword(s). The second data set contains features about the advertisements clicked by customers. These features and the features specific to customers such as their location, time of search, and time of clicking an advertisement in the data sets are studied to reveal insights into the online advertising strategy employed by Taobao in response to customer searches. The results of data analysis show that there is often a relationship among the variables such as the number of advertisements displayed, prices of advertised products, whether a keyword was used in the search, the time elapsed between the start of search and when an advertisement was clicked, the number of keywords used in search, the likelihood of clicking on an advertisement, and price discounts of advertised products. Specific relationships between these variables are formulated as hypothesis and then tested. The insights gained from the test results can be used to develop better business models for sponsored search advertising. Keywords: Online Search, Sponsored Search, Online Advertising, Taobao To cite this document: Joseph Richards and Min Li, "The Chinese E-Commerce Search Advertising Business: A Case Study of Taobao", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 121-142, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18285
{"title":"The Chinese E-Commerce Search Advertising Business: A Case Study of Taobao","authors":"Joseph Richards, Min Li","doi":"10.7903/CMR.18285","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7903/CMR.18285","url":null,"abstract":"Given the rapid growth of the e-commerce market in China, there is a growing need to understand the characteristics of the search advertising strategy employed by dominant e-commerce firms in China. This paper presents a case study to understand the search advertising strategy employed by Taobao based on two sample data sets obtained from the online shopping site taobao.com operated under the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The first data set contains features about the advertisements displayed after the customer’s search using keyword(s). The second data set contains features about the advertisements clicked by customers. These features and the features specific to customers such as their location, time of search, and time of clicking an advertisement in the data sets are studied to reveal insights into the online advertising strategy employed by Taobao in response to customer searches. The results of data analysis show that there is often a relationship among the variables such as the number of advertisements displayed, prices of advertised products, whether a keyword was used in the search, the time elapsed between the start of search and when an advertisement was clicked, the number of keywords used in search, the likelihood of clicking on an advertisement, and price discounts of advertised products. Specific relationships between these variables are formulated as hypothesis and then tested. The insights gained from the test results can be used to develop better business models for sponsored search advertising. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: Online Search, Sponsored Search, Online Advertising, Taobao \u0000 \u0000To cite this document: Joseph Richards and Min Li, \"The Chinese E-Commerce Search Advertising Business: A Case Study of Taobao\", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 121-142, 2018. \u0000 \u0000Permanent link to this document: \u0000http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18285","PeriodicalId":36973,"journal":{"name":"Contemporary Management Research","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47427443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This paper extends Schama’s (1988) notion of moral geography where there is a determinacy link between an ecology and those managing organisations within it. We emphasise that the link is framed by its historical legacy of social ideals. This paper hypothesises that the egalitarian influence of the polder philosophy leads Dutch managers to value cooperative partnership based on consensus decision-making, in a symbiotic relationship between the manager and the community. Structural equation modelling of the data obtained from surveying 808 managers across occupational industry sectors in the Netherlands support this hypothesis. Results reveal that in the Netherlands (1) the external environment has an unique influence, through its impact on managerial behaviour; (2) the external environment has a profound influence on managers’ personal qualities underpinned by their feminine-value-oriented social roles; and (3) organisational prosperity and work orientations are driven by environmental uncertainty avoidance and managers’ feminine-valued social roles. Keywords: Uncertainty Avoidance, Social Roles, Organisation Prosperity, Work Orientation, Preferred Leadership Styles, Polder Philosophy To cite this document: Christopher Selvarajah, Denny Meyer, Andre de Waal, and Beatrice Van der Heijden, "Dutch Managerial Leadership Strategies: Managing Uncertainty Avoidance, Feminine-Related Social Roles, Organisation Prosperity Focus, and Work Orientation within A Polder Framework", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.2, pp. 87-120, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18279
本文扩展了Schama(1988)的道德地理学概念，其中生态与其中的管理组织之间存在确定性联系。我们强调，这种联系是由其社会理想的历史遗产所构成的。本文假设波兰哲学的平等主义影响导致荷兰管理者在管理者和社区之间的共生关系中重视基于共识决策的合作伙伴关系。结构方程模型的数据从调查808名经理跨职业行业部门在荷兰支持这一假设。结果表明，在荷兰(1)外部环境具有独特的影响，通过其对管理行为的影响;(2)外部环境对管理者的个人素质有深刻的影响，而管理者的社会角色以女性价值为导向;(3)组织繁荣和工作取向受环境不确定性规避和管理者女性化社会角色的驱动。引用本文:Christopher Selvarajah, Denny Meyer, Andre de Waal, Beatrice Van der Heijden，“荷兰管理领导策略:管理不确定性规避，女性相关社会角色，组织繁荣焦点和工作取向”，当代管理研究，第14卷，第2期，第87-120页，2018。此文档的永久链接:http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18279
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of key quality attributes in the audit context on supervisory directors’ assessment of audit quality. To this end, we identified, through survey questionnaires, audit quality attributes and dimensions (in terms of both their technical and service dimensions) based on the perception of supervisory board members in a sample of large and medium Dutch corporations. Factor analysis of the audit quality attributes produced four quality dimensions related to the core outcome of the audit service (auditor competence and independence) and five quality dimensions related to the relational (service) aspect. The paper, further, discusses the influence of these quality dimensions on the assessment of overall audit quality. The findings indicate that the technical and functional quality dimensions identified in this study do influence supervisory directors’ perception of overall audit quality. The findings have both theoretical and policy implications. Our emphasis on supervisory board members, as current de jure and de facto clients of auditors, is a unique contribution of this study. Keywords: Service Quality, Audit Quality, Supervisory Directors, Functional Quality, Technical Quality, Auditor Independence, The Netherlands To cite this document: Asmerom Atewebrhan Ghebremichael, "Determinants of Audit Service Quality Perceptions of Supervisory Directors in Dutch Corporations", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 53-84, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18037
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Hui-Chen Chang, Lin-Ju Cheng, Yi-Ching Tsai, Hung-Chun Lai
This study examines the impact of relationship investment on relationship quality in dental technology. In addition, it explores the moderating effects between relationship investment and relationship quality by using customer attachment to different dentists' styles. The study collects 202 questionnaires from dentists in Taiwan. This study uses hierarchy regression analysis to test hypotheses. The empirical results show that 1) relationship investment has a significantly positive effect on relationship quality; and 2) that customer attachment has a moderating effect on relationship investment and relationship quality. Both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance have significantly negative effects on relationship quality. However, only attachment anxiety has a significantly moderating effect on relationship investment and relationship quality. Keywords: Relationship Investment, Relationship Quality, Dental Technology, Attachment Style To cite this document: Hui-Chen Chang, Lin-Ju Cheng, Yi-Ching Tsai, and Hung-Chun Lai, "The Relationship between Relationship Investment, Relationship Quality, and Attachment Styles", Contemporary Management Research, Vol.14, No.1, pp. 3-20, 2018. Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.7903/cmr.18017
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