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

To unpack the link between employees' relationship conflict and helping behaviours, this study postulates a mediating role of the extent to which employees exhibit low goodwill trust in co-workers and a moderating role of their innovation propensity. As the findings confirm, emotion-laden conflict compromises employees' propensities to assist co-workers because they believe that they cannot count on co-workers’ goodwill, which, as we theorize, is informed by their desire to protect their self-esteem. The extent to which employees derive joy from generating novel ideas subdues this process. This study points to a notable mechanism (low goodwill trust) by which emotion-based tensions translate into low voluntarism and how this process is disrupted by an intrinsic motivation for innovation.

We examine the impact of group attractiveness on the relationship between workplace ostracism and organizational citizenship behaviours directed toward the group (OCBG). Research has long overlooked contextual features of ostracism at work. Using an experimental vignette methodology (N = 312), we found that physical attractiveness was critical in determining the mechanism by which ostracism influenced OCBG. The victims' social anxiety served as a mediator through which ostracism influenced OCBG when the ostracizing group was deemed to be low on attractiveness. However, the negative direct effect between ostracism and OCBG was observed only when group attractiveness was high. Our findings have implications for understanding the interplay between victims' individual differences and the context in which workplace ostracism is manifested.

Drawing on in-depth interview data from an Islamic orthodox social movement in Pakistan, we investigate how participants invoke religious ideology to forge anti-consumption behaviour in opposition to prevailing cultural norms. We identify anti-consumption behaviour fuelled by foreign values, foreign lifestyles, Islamic values, and Islamic lifestyles. Coloured by a value system that steers them toward a distinct Islamic lifestyle and away from alternatives, our religious participants effuse sensibilities of spiritual propriety into their (anti-)consumption choices. Our study contributes to the understanding of how religious anti-consumption, in the face of countervailing alternatives, reinforces a specific religious identity in consumers.

For several years, the North American manufacturing sector has been facing several labour issues that undermine productivity. To address these issues and remain competitive, manufacturing firms must implement measures to promote overall worker performance. This study presents an integrative to understand the differentiated impact of empowering leadership (EL) on four dimensions of performance (task, citizenship, innovation, deviance) through two mediators (psychological empowerment (PE) and affective organizational commitment). Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from 250 employee–supervisor dyads in the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, our results reveal that EL exerts a positive influence on citizenship and innovative behavior through increased PE. On the other hand, it is negatively associated to deviance behaviors through heightened levels of affective organizational commitment. This study allows us to better understand how EL enhances multiple performance dimensions necessary to organizations' competitiveness in manufacturing and other sectors.

For several years, the North American manufacturing sector has been facing several labour issues that undermine productivity. To address these issues and remain competitive, manufacturing firms must implement measures to promote overall worker performance. This study presents an integrative to understand the differentiated impact of empowering leadership (EL) on four dimensions of performance (task, citizenship, innovation, deviance) through two mediators (psychological empowerment (PE) and affective organizational commitment). Structural equation modeling was used to analyze data from 250 employee-supervisor dyads in the manufacturing industry. On the one hand, our results reveal that EL exerts a positive influence on citizenship and innovative behavior through increased PE. On the other hand, it is negatively associated to deviance behaviors through heightened levels of affective organizational commitment. This study allows us to better understand how EL enhances multiple performance dimensions necessary to organizations’ competitiveness in the manufacturing and other sector.

This paper introduces a special issue on government accounting in Canada. Accounting for the public sector has undergone a significant change over the past 2 decades, much of which can be attributed to the rise of New Public Management (NPM). In the post-NPM era, research on the role of accounting in the management of public sector organizations and the delivery of government programs and services is essential to understanding and improving government accounting practices and reports. This collection of articles illustrates the richness of this area of study and highlights the need for further research.

Recently, two reviews of the internal auditing literature identify only about 6% of published articles in the public sector context. Drawing on my own experience as an internal audit researcher and on these two literature reviews, I identify several research avenues specific to the practice of internal auditing in this sector. Notably, the impacts of the governance structure and the level of maturity of the organizations in which internal audit operates and of the external publication of internal audit reports remain insufficiently documented. I also debunk two persistent prejudices about internal audit and public sector research and discuss related methodological challenges that must be met to establish the relevance of studies.

The purpose of this study is to identify the relationships between knowledge creation capability and innovation performance in multinational consulting organizations. We introduce two important but conceptually distinct, intellectual attribute constructs—human and social capital—as mechanisms that moderate the relationship. Survey data from 172 professional consultants in subsidiaries of multinational management consulting firms was empirically analyzed. This study confirms the importance of tacit knowledge creation capability for innovation and finds that explicit knowledge creation does not have substantial effects on innovation performance. Human capital has negative moderating effects on how tacit knowledge creation influences innovation performance, but it has a positive moderating effect on the relationship between explicit knowledge creation and innovation. The negative moderating effect of human capital appears stronger in the senior consultant groups. On the other hand, social capital has no moderating effects on knowledge creation capability and innovation. These results provide managerial implications for global subsidiaries' knowledge-creating capabilities as drivers of successful, innovative change.