Pub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1177/03128962231222802
Lu Jiao, Graeme Harrison, Jinhua Chen
Using survey and archival data, we investigate the relations between organizational culture and revenue-raising strategies of diversification and concentration in not-for-profit organizations (NFPs). We find that both a respect for people culture and a stability culture positively influence diversification, while an outcome orientation culture positively influences concentration. An innovation culture is not associated with either strategy. We confirm prior findings that governance factors of board size and gender diversity influence NFPs’ revenue strategies, and extend this research by incorporating board expertise, finding business expertise is positively associated with revenue concentration, whereas legal expertise is positively associated with diversification.JEL Classification: L31 Nonprofit Institutions
{"title":"Organizational culture and revenue-raising strategies in social service not-for-profits","authors":"Lu Jiao, Graeme Harrison, Jinhua Chen","doi":"10.1177/03128962231222802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231222802","url":null,"abstract":"Using survey and archival data, we investigate the relations between organizational culture and revenue-raising strategies of diversification and concentration in not-for-profit organizations (NFPs). We find that both a respect for people culture and a stability culture positively influence diversification, while an outcome orientation culture positively influences concentration. An innovation culture is not associated with either strategy. We confirm prior findings that governance factors of board size and gender diversity influence NFPs’ revenue strategies, and extend this research by incorporating board expertise, finding business expertise is positively associated with revenue concentration, whereas legal expertise is positively associated with diversification.JEL Classification: L31 Nonprofit Institutions","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139956807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1177/03128962231222842
M. Evans, Helena Liu, Victor Sojo, Mariano Heyden
{"title":"Anti-racism as an organising principle: Racial inequality in and around organisations","authors":"M. Evans, Helena Liu, Victor Sojo, Mariano Heyden","doi":"10.1177/03128962231222842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231222842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"5 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139439219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-12-18DOI: 10.1177/03128962231214798
Chang He, Junzhi Zhang, Liukai Wang, Weiqing Wang, Fei Li
As an emerging way for firms to fulfil social responsibility in China, targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) helps the Chinese government to achieve its sustainable development goals. Although the effect of TPA on poor areas has been deeply explored, the influence of firms’ participation in TPA on themselves and its mechanism is unclear. We analyse the performance of listed firms which engaged in TPA from 2016 to 2021 by adopting a causal steps approach model, which indicate that firm engagement in TPA has a significant positive effect on corporate finance performance (CFP), and the mediating effect of financing constraints and media attention is verified. Our findings contribute to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices from the new strategy perspective of TPA. JEL Classification: G18, M14, M41
{"title":"Targeted poverty alleviation and corporate financial performance: The CSR strategy perspective","authors":"Chang He, Junzhi Zhang, Liukai Wang, Weiqing Wang, Fei Li","doi":"10.1177/03128962231214798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231214798","url":null,"abstract":"As an emerging way for firms to fulfil social responsibility in China, targeted poverty alleviation (TPA) helps the Chinese government to achieve its sustainable development goals. Although the effect of TPA on poor areas has been deeply explored, the influence of firms’ participation in TPA on themselves and its mechanism is unclear. We analyse the performance of listed firms which engaged in TPA from 2016 to 2021 by adopting a causal steps approach model, which indicate that firm engagement in TPA has a significant positive effect on corporate finance performance (CFP), and the mediating effect of financing constraints and media attention is verified. Our findings contribute to corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices from the new strategy perspective of TPA. JEL Classification: G18, M14, M41","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"8 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139173546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1177/03128962231211173
Hannah Kunst, Helena Nguyen, Anya Johnson, Shenjiang Mo, Carolyn MacCann
In Australia and worldwide, healthcare is experiencing a workforce crisis, making the maintenance or improvement of job satisfaction a critical focus for healthcare leaders. This study examines how healthcare leaders influence followers’ affective experience by regulating their followers’ emotions. Building on Affective Events Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, we investigate the influence of leaders’ use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression strategies on follower affect and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 337 healthcare workers and 54 leaders over two timepoints. Leaders’ reappraisal increased followers’ job satisfaction whereas suppression decreased job satisfaction (controlling for followers’ own emotion regulation strategies). These effects were mediated by followers’ affect and moderated by followers’ capacity to cope with change. Our results provide new theoretical and practical insights into how healthcare leaders regulate followers’ emotions. JEL Classification: D23, J24, M50
{"title":"Who cares for those who care? The role of healthcare leaders’ regulation of followers’ emotions on follower job satisfaction","authors":"Hannah Kunst, Helena Nguyen, Anya Johnson, Shenjiang Mo, Carolyn MacCann","doi":"10.1177/03128962231211173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231211173","url":null,"abstract":"In Australia and worldwide, healthcare is experiencing a workforce crisis, making the maintenance or improvement of job satisfaction a critical focus for healthcare leaders. This study examines how healthcare leaders influence followers’ affective experience by regulating their followers’ emotions. Building on Affective Events Theory and Conservation of Resources Theory, we investigate the influence of leaders’ use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression strategies on follower affect and job satisfaction. Data were collected from 337 healthcare workers and 54 leaders over two timepoints. Leaders’ reappraisal increased followers’ job satisfaction whereas suppression decreased job satisfaction (controlling for followers’ own emotion regulation strategies). These effects were mediated by followers’ affect and moderated by followers’ capacity to cope with change. Our results provide new theoretical and practical insights into how healthcare leaders regulate followers’ emotions. JEL Classification: D23, J24, M50","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139217720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1177/03128962231211174
Min-Kyu Joo, Jia Yu, Leanne Atwater
When an abusive supervisor exhibits goal-focused leadership, does goal-focused leadership buffer or deteriorate the impact of abusive supervision on subordinates? Although leaders normally exhibit different leadership styles at the same time, little effort has been made to examine how different leadership styles affect subordinates. We also investigate the three-way interaction among abusive supervision, goal-focused leadership, and conscientiousness on counterproductive work behavior (CWB). With two multinational samples, our findings consistently indicate that subordinates exposed to more goal-focused leadership along with abusive supervision are significantly more likely to engage in CWB. In addition, we find a three-way interaction such that the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates’ CWB is the strongest among subordinates who have low conscientiousness when leaders exhibit a high level of goal-focused leadership. JEL Classification: D23
{"title":"Goal-focused abusive leaders: The mitigating role of conscientiousness in subordinates’ counterproductive work behavior","authors":"Min-Kyu Joo, Jia Yu, Leanne Atwater","doi":"10.1177/03128962231211174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231211174","url":null,"abstract":"When an abusive supervisor exhibits goal-focused leadership, does goal-focused leadership buffer or deteriorate the impact of abusive supervision on subordinates? Although leaders normally exhibit different leadership styles at the same time, little effort has been made to examine how different leadership styles affect subordinates. We also investigate the three-way interaction among abusive supervision, goal-focused leadership, and conscientiousness on counterproductive work behavior (CWB). With two multinational samples, our findings consistently indicate that subordinates exposed to more goal-focused leadership along with abusive supervision are significantly more likely to engage in CWB. In addition, we find a three-way interaction such that the relationship between abusive supervision and subordinates’ CWB is the strongest among subordinates who have low conscientiousness when leaders exhibit a high level of goal-focused leadership. JEL Classification: D23","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139251810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-11-08DOI: 10.1177/03128962231205461
Yohan Choi, Jeffrey Barden, Jonathan Arthurs, Sam Yul Cho
Using a difference-in-differences method, this study examines the effect of a competitor’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy on a firm’s risk-taking. The contingent nature of a competitor’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which protects the competitor from creditors’ demands during financial reorganization, may increase uncertainty in the industry. Consequently, the study tests the hypothesis that other firms in the industry respond to a competitor’s bankruptcy by decreasing risky investments in research and development (R&D), capital expenditures and acquisitions. To validate and extend this hypothesis, the study also hypothesizes that a firm’s strong financial standing—low leverage and good performance—and the firm’s diversification reduce the negative effect of the competitor’s bankruptcy on firm risk-taking. Findings from a study of US public firms suggest that, after controlling for industry conditions, firms indeed reduce their risk-taking when a competitor declares bankruptcy and that lower firm leverage, stronger firm performance, and greater firm diversification mitigate this effect. Together, these findings shed light on the literatures on bankruptcy and firm risk-taking. JEL Classification: L22, M10, D81, D25
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Pub Date : 2023-11-05DOI: 10.1177/03128962231201497
Sasanka Sekhar Chanda, Sougata Ray
Extant research provides incongruous answers to the question whether higher comprehensiveness in making strategic decisions is always desirable. To motivate a resolution, we study outcomes of decision-comprehensiveness by modeling strategic decision-making as an emergent process, accomplished through learning by managers over time for organizations focusing on exploration or exploitation, over short or long time horizons, in stable and changing environments. Three out of the eight resultant scenarios favor higher comprehensiveness, and two favor lower comprehensiveness. The remaining three scenarios call for a more nuanced consideration of the comprehensiveness construct. Our research enriches managerial decision-making by highlighting circumstances where higher comprehensiveness is beneficial or detrimental to the quality of a strategic decision. JEL Classification: D70, D81, D91
{"title":"Is comprehensiveness in making strategic decisions always helpful?","authors":"Sasanka Sekhar Chanda, Sougata Ray","doi":"10.1177/03128962231201497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231201497","url":null,"abstract":"Extant research provides incongruous answers to the question whether higher comprehensiveness in making strategic decisions is always desirable. To motivate a resolution, we study outcomes of decision-comprehensiveness by modeling strategic decision-making as an emergent process, accomplished through learning by managers over time for organizations focusing on exploration or exploitation, over short or long time horizons, in stable and changing environments. Three out of the eight resultant scenarios favor higher comprehensiveness, and two favor lower comprehensiveness. The remaining three scenarios call for a more nuanced consideration of the comprehensiveness construct. Our research enriches managerial decision-making by highlighting circumstances where higher comprehensiveness is beneficial or detrimental to the quality of a strategic decision. JEL Classification: D70, D81, D91","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"49 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135726481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-24DOI: 10.1177/03128962231201525
Omar Al-Tabbaa
While interest in nonprofit-business collaboration (NBC) has grown rapidly in the past decades, literature has underexposed the peculiarities of nonprofit organizations (NPOs), compared to the ample attention on the perspective of the firm and the implications for society. In specific, we lack clarity on how NPOs can deliberately seek collaboration with the business sector to foster their organizational viability and economic interests, in addition to their traditional focus on delivering social value and meaningfulness. This active approach has become imperative given the growing uncertainty of government funding and budgetary constraints. However, the proactive involvement in NBC is complex and risky. In this study, we address this dilemma by investigating several NPOs that are active in NBC. Based on the analysis and findings, we developed an empirical-based framework that explains the essence of NPOs’ proactive engagement with the business sector. More specifically, we offer subtle theoretical and empirical investigations of various internal and external contingencies that explain the effectiveness of NPOs in establishing collaboration with firms for value creation. Moreover, we advance the current debate concerning the need to establish a clear distinction between value creation for society (conceived as the sum of benevolent benefits obtained from the collaboration) and for the partners. As such, we showed that the active-in-collaboration NPOs distinguish between different NBC values that include economic benefits (for survival), institutional development (for organizational effectiveness), and transformational for changing business practice (for the fulfillment of mission). Therefore, we shift the focus from the predominating perspectives of society and business to consider NPOs as an active component of this relationship. Together, these findings offer a robust nonprofit-centric foundation that is necessary for NBC practice and theory development. JEL Classification: M1 Business Administration
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Pub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1177/03128962231196322
Zhijian Zhang, Zhenwu Chen, Miyu Wan, Shuai Qiu
Product quality has become an important factor affecting consumer demand and the sustainable and stable development of the live-streaming e-commerce supply chain. In this article, two types of Stackelberg game of manufacturer-led or streamer-led and centralized decision game models are constructed to explore the impact of streamer commission proportion and different power structures on product quality decision-making of live-streaming e-commerce supply chain. The results show that (1) product quality decreases with the increase of streamer commission proportion under streamer’s dominant power structure and manufacturer’s dominant power structure, and product quality is not affected by streamer commission proportion under a centralized decision-making mode; (2) the product quality under the three power structures increases with the increase of quality sensitivity coefficient and decreases with the increase of quality-improvement cost coefficient; (3) comparatively speaking, the live-streaming under centralized decision-making mode has lower price and higher product quality, while the power structure dominated by manufacturers is unfavorable to the improvement of product quality. JEL Classification: C72, D21
{"title":"Choice of product quality in supply chain of live-streaming e-commerce under different power structures","authors":"Zhijian Zhang, Zhenwu Chen, Miyu Wan, Shuai Qiu","doi":"10.1177/03128962231196322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03128962231196322","url":null,"abstract":"Product quality has become an important factor affecting consumer demand and the sustainable and stable development of the live-streaming e-commerce supply chain. In this article, two types of Stackelberg game of manufacturer-led or streamer-led and centralized decision game models are constructed to explore the impact of streamer commission proportion and different power structures on product quality decision-making of live-streaming e-commerce supply chain. The results show that (1) product quality decreases with the increase of streamer commission proportion under streamer’s dominant power structure and manufacturer’s dominant power structure, and product quality is not affected by streamer commission proportion under a centralized decision-making mode; (2) the product quality under the three power structures increases with the increase of quality sensitivity coefficient and decreases with the increase of quality-improvement cost coefficient; (3) comparatively speaking, the live-streaming under centralized decision-making mode has lower price and higher product quality, while the power structure dominated by manufacturers is unfavorable to the improvement of product quality. JEL Classification: C72, D21","PeriodicalId":47209,"journal":{"name":"Australian Journal of Management","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135967775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1177/03128962231199356
Harish Kumar, Madhushree Nanda Agarwal
The study aims to investigate the effect of augmented reality (AR)-based filters on social media users’ self-concept and well-being. While much research has explored consumer use of AR filters and their effect on buying behaviour, few studies have examined how such filters affect self-concept, especially in the context of social media use (rather than retailing). We used the inductive qualitative method and grounded theory to analyse 18 AR filter users’ in-depth interviews. We found that using AR filters broadens the gap between the actual self and the ideal self, intensifying the social comparison process. On the positive side, some users may get inspired to reduce the ideal-actual gap through the creative use of the AR tools available. However, on the negative side, other users may feel negative emotions like envy. These positive and negative feelings may affect the user’s body satisfaction and self-confidence, ultimately changing their usage intention. JEL Classification: M31
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