Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences-Revue Canadienne Des Sciences De L Administration最新文献

Despite the importance of networks in entrepreneurship, their affective dimension has still been neglected by existing research studies. Meanwhile, organizational scholars investigating the role of affect in network theory do not solve the theoretical and practical challenge of understanding affect as a distributed, emergent, multiple and complex phenomenon. Drawing from affective practice theory and a multi-sited ethnography, we explain how dimensions of affective practices structure entrepreneurial networking. The analysis of empirical material highlighted three dimensions of affective practices: immersing, imagining, and tensioning. These practices engage and sustain entrepreneurial networking by evoking a sense of enthusiasm, excitement, anxiety and alertness that instigates interactions, support and cooperation from various actors (family, customers, suppliers, and other entrepreneurs). Our findings contribute to (a) the entrepreneurial networking perspective by focusing on affective practices as sites of entrepreneurial networking, (b) deepening our understanding of the combined role of affect and imagining in entrepreneurial networking and (c) theorizing the important but overlooked role of material objects and artefacts in the unfolding of entrepreneurial networking.

Cost of capital plays a critical role in shaping business growth, influencing firms' investment decisions, financing strategies and overall market performance. The study applied the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) theory to examine the influence of the cost of capital on business growth. This research used data from 227 nonfinancial entities listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange between 2005 and 2022 from Thomson Reuter Eikon DataStream. The study employed three estimation methods: the Common Shock Autoregressive Distributed Lag (CS-ARDL), Common Correlated Effects Mean Group (CCEMG) and a two-step difference generalized method of moments (GMM) to analyse the impact of the cost of capital on revenue, assets and income growth. The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) was found to have a positive and significant effect on income and asset growth in both short- and long-run periods. In contrast, a positive and significant impact on sales growth was observed in both the short- and long-run periods. The moderating relationship between WACC and market size had both a short- and long-run positive and significant effect on income and revenue growth. In contrast, a negative and significant impact on asset growth was observed in both the short- and long-run periods. The results suggest that financing costs and market size jointly influence firm growth, underscoring the importance of efficient capital management and strategic market expansion to enhance investor confidence and valuation.

Recognizing the growing interest in bricolage as an organizational capability that helps overcome resource constraints, this study adopts a resource management perspective to explore the relationship between learning orientation and bricolage, focusing on the moderating effects of resource constraints and environmental turbulence. It first reviews literature related to learning, bricolage and environmental turbulence to develop hypotheses, then tests these hypotheses by analysing responses from a sample of 229 small and medium-sized enterprises in South Korea. Identifying learning orientation as a driver of bricolage, the empirical analysis reveals that resource constraints and market turbulence significantly moderate the relationship between learning orientation and bricolage. These findings contribute to scholarly understanding of the role of organizational learning orientation as an antecedent of bricolage when accounting for internal and external environments. They also advance bricolage-related theory by taking the view that firms' perceptions of their own resource poverty levels may vary.

Mobile devices have become gradually pervasive in our surroundings, and the urge to stay connected with others via phone calls is progressively typical for many employees during the workday. This study investigated how receiving calls at the workplace as an external interruption influences perceptions of work-family conflicts and procrastination at work. Receiving calls as a workplace external interruption delays the attentional and behavioural focus of employees on the main tasks. Based on action regulation theory and empirical evidence, it is proposed that time pressure positively mediated the relationship between receiving calls as a source of workplace external interruption and performance outcome (procrastination) and well-being outcome (work-family conflicts). Data were gathered from 218 employees through a 10-consecutive-day diary study (four measurements taken daily: one during noon, one during the afternoon and two in the evening). Multilevel analyses exhibited that the time pressure mediation effects were supported for procrastination at work and work-family conflicts. These outcomes revealed that receiving calls is the source of workplace external interruption that increases time pressure and has a significant impact on work-family conflicts and procrastination at work.

This research aims to gain a deeper understanding of the role of the project implementation context in the multidimensional success of international development projects (IDP). More specifically, it examines how the project implementation context influences both project management success and project impact while considering the mediating role of stakeholder engagement. To achieve this, the research relies on primary data collected from 342 stakeholders in Senegal. The findings indicate that the project context exerts a positive influence on both project management success and its impact. Additionally, the results highlight the mediating role of stakeholder engagement in the relationship between the project context and its multidimensional success. Finally, the article presents several managerial implications and suggests directions for future research.

This paper critically examines traditional utilitarian models of ethical decision-making rooted in rational choice theory. It highlights their limitations as we address ethical dilemmas' complexity, context-specificity, and nonlinearity. We argue that the foundational axioms of rationality—transitivity, dominance, and invariance—often fail in real-world ethical contexts. Ethical decisions are rarely dictated by purely rational deliberation; instead, they unfold through intuitive, affective, and culturally influenced judgements. As an alternative to utilitarian and process models, bridging rationalist and phenomenological perspectives, we underscore the need for context-sensitive, nonlinear approaches to ethics, especially in an era marked by dilemmas in artificial intelligence, climate ethics, and global inequality. We propose that moral intuitionism, which emphasizes intuitive affective judgements drawn from personal and cultural experiences, provides a more realistic framework as an essential tool for understanding the evolving ethical landscape. Intuitionism recognizes ethical behaviour's nonlinear and emergent nature as central to understanding and resolving moral conflicts. Ultimately, the authors invite readers to rethink the dominant rationalist paradigm and consider how intuition, shaped by cultural and emotional contexts, can better navigate the moral challenges of contemporary life.