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

The concept of value-based purchasing aims to move away from the logic of price reduction in purchasing to integrate other dimensions that support the acquisition of innovations in healthcare institutions. As with other fundamental transformations in supply management, a series of obstacles hinder the implementation of this concept. A case study, conducted with a Canadian healthcare purchasing group as part of collaborative research, captures the relationships between the barriers identified in the literature. We discuss the potential efforts public policymakers should put in place to deploy this concept while identifying some relevant research questions.

The link between the board of directors and innovation has received increasing interest from scholars, executives, and policymakers in recent years. Nevertheless, it remains somewhat cryptic, mainly due to limitations in terms of analytical frameworks, theoretical constructs, and methodological designs, as well as the absence of an approach that integrates the importance of contingencies. Thus, a systematic literature review at the junction of the highest strategic body (i.e., board of directors) and one of the most strategic organizational outcomes (i.e., innovation) proves to be an opportune exercise both from a scientific and practical perspective. Ultimately, the approach adopted in this study has led to the emergence of an integrative conceptual framework from a contingency perspective and various observations that dissect the impact of the board of directors on innovation based on a corpus of 114 articles published over a period of 33 years. Also, a research agenda and some key recommendations are derived from the in-depth analysis conducted and constitute solid foundations on which to build tomorrow's studies in this research field.

This study explores the impact of intellectual capital (IC) on solvency risk and examines the moderating effect of the board of directors. This study used fixed-effect analysis and hierarchical regression models to test the research hypotheses. The results reveal that IC composition significantly impacts insurers' solvency risk. Additionally, independent directors of life insurers have a positive impact on solvency, and non-life insurers' board size has a positive impact on solvency. Moreover, we find that the board of directors has a moderating effect on IC and solvency risks in life insurance. Fundamentally, the results provide valuable implications for insurers in improving their solvency and supervision bases for the competent authorities.

With the rapid development of delivery services, online-to-offline food delivery systems provide merchants the traffic support and marketing efforts to reach potential customers. Monitoring customer behavior allows us to measure conversion rates and analyze the relationship between marketing performance and the efforts of platforms or merchants. This study investigates the impact of incentives, including coupons from platforms and discounts from merchants, on exposure and conversion rates for different merchants. Besides, the dynamic analysis demonstrates significant adverse effects of lagged incentives on exposure and click rate. Platforms and merchants of online food delivery services stand to benefit from these insights.

Multinational Enterprises expect to retain repatriates (i.e., returning employees from international assignments) and to gain from the new knowledge and experience they bring back from international assignments. Drawing insights from social exchange theory and using the perspective of psychological contracts, our study findings demonstrate that repatriate perception of recognition of foreign experience influences their job satisfaction, and this influence is mediated by perceived growth opportunities in the organization. Further, this mediation is nuanced in that it is stronger when there is an organization repatriation plan in place. The study contributes to the theoretical underpinnings of the antecedents of repatriate job satisfaction. Moreover, it demonstrates the need to have a strong repatriation plan in place along with growth opportunities within the organization to heighten job satisfaction of these highly valued employees upon their return from an international assignment.

Uncertainty caused by environmental disruptions and unexpected institutional changes critically affect R&D and innovation systems. Motivated by the recent rise of populist political parties worldwide, this study investigates the influence of country-level populism on firm-level innovation. Building on institutional theory, we find evidence that higher levels of populism impairs firms' innovation performance by generating institutional volatility. Moreover, this relationship weakens when a firm exports more, and strengthens when a firm is located in a right-leaning country. We find empirical support for our hypotheses drawing on data from the Global Populism Database and the World Bank Enterprise Survey (24,375 firms from 38 countries). Our findings provide new insights for corporate strategy and R&D activities in unstable and disruptive political contexts.

The technology sector is one of the most popular sectors for entrepreneurship. This paper investigates the success factors of fundraising in the technology sector. We argue that text elements of the project's description have a significant effect of the project success. We used text mining to extract and analyze 17,733 crowdfunding projects over an 11-year period between 2009 and 2019 from the Kickstarter platform. We identified 28 textual elements and examined whether they affect project success as measured by three different operationalizations. Most of the textual elements were found to have a significant effect on the project's success. The findings provide valuable insights and highlight substantial opportunities for crowdfunding in the context of technology.

This study investigates how a manufacturing supplier's market-related capabilities (marketing and market-linking capabilities) affect market-oriented codevelopment (buyer oriented and competitor oriented) and, in turn, its competitive advantage. A manufacturing supplier with high levels of marketing and market-linking capabilities has positive effects on buyer-oriented codevelopment; however, only high levels of marketing capabilities lead to competitor-oriented codevelopment with local partners. In addition, both types of market-oriented codevelopment have positive effects on manufacturing suppliers' competitive advantage, namely, innovation, location and internalization. The central theme of this paper is that applied knowledge and collaboration in local markets based on market-related capabilities are key characteristics that enable manufacturing suppliers to compete both locally and globally.

Human resource management (HRM) practices and their associations with employees' job attitudes and behaviors are well-established, although the psychological mechanisms underlying these associations remain unclear. Based on the ability-motivation-opportunity framework, we propose that employees' HRM values play a key role in these associations. Specifically, we propose that employees' perceptions of the HRM practices present in their organization will predict their HRM value profiles which, in turn, will predict their levels of commitment. Latent profile analyses revealed four profiles characterized by very low, low, moderate, and high levels of HRM values. Our results suggest that ability-enhancing practices play an active role in employees' organizational commitment by shaping their HRM values.