Pub Date : 2024-05-01DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.004
J. Cegarra-Navarro, Laura Di Chiacchio, C. Cubillas‐Para
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Pub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.009
Patricia Elgoibar, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Santiago Gutierrez-Broncano
Laissez faire leadership (LFL) has been linked to non-constructive approaches to conflict management, yet and LFL can explain the use of more constructive approaches (e.g., problem-solving) has not been studied. This is surprising given that is characteristic of LFL, which is also key to cooperative relationships where the use of problem-solving is involved. Furthermore, compared to non-family businesses (NFBs), the socioemotional wealth that governs family businesses' (FBs) decision-making should make LFL, the trust placed in subordinates and the use of problem-solving more likely among the latter. In this study, we compare the use of LFL in FBs versus NFBs and analyze whether trust in subordinates lies behind a positive link between LFL and the use of this approach, and whether the distinctive socioemotional wealth of FBs accounts for differences in this relationship. Using a sample of 326 general managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ecuador, two complementary methods, partial least squares (PLS) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA), yielded robust findings. As expected, differences in the strength of this relationship were found across FBs and NFBs, with LFL and both affective and cognitive trust being critical for the use of problem-solving in FBs but with cognitive trust playing this principal role in NFBs. Our findings link the largely separate FB literature on leadership and conflict management.
{"title":"Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses","authors":"Patricia Elgoibar, Pablo Ruiz-Palomino, Santiago Gutierrez-Broncano","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"Laissez faire leadership (LFL) has been linked to non-constructive approaches to conflict management, yet and LFL can explain the use of more constructive approaches (e.g., problem-solving) has not been studied. This is surprising given that is characteristic of LFL, which is also key to cooperative relationships where the use of problem-solving is involved. Furthermore, compared to non-family businesses (NFBs), the socioemotional wealth that governs family businesses' (FBs) decision-making should make LFL, the trust placed in subordinates and the use of problem-solving more likely among the latter. In this study, we compare the use of LFL in FBs versus NFBs and analyze whether trust in subordinates lies behind a positive link between LFL and the use of this approach, and whether the distinctive socioemotional wealth of FBs accounts for differences in this relationship. Using a sample of 326 general managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ecuador, two complementary methods, partial least squares (PLS) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA), yielded robust findings. As expected, differences in the strength of this relationship were found across FBs and NFBs, with LFL and both affective and cognitive trust being critical for the use of problem-solving in FBs but with cognitive trust playing this principal role in NFBs. Our findings link the largely separate FB literature on leadership and conflict management.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140833506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-27DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.010
Gundula Lücke, Eve-Michelle Basu, Ivo Zander
The literature on structurally separate corporate venture units (CVUs) has suggested how these units may improve but also to some extent attenuate the survival chances of new ventures that are launched within the host corporation. Yet, there has been little empirical knowledge about the extent to which these units affect the survival of internal new ventures. We draw upon a dataset of 80 internal new ventures to assess if the survival of internal new ventures depends on their placement inside or outside CVUs. Controlling for a set of factors that may affect internal new venture survival, we find that placement in CVUs has a statistically significant and substantial effect on the chances of survival within the host corporation, and conclude that this is not due to characteristics that are associated with the internal new ventures as such. We discuss the implications of these findings for the literature on CVUs, and suggest the importance of further investigations into CVU boundaries, legitimacy, and the selection of internal new ventures from these units.
{"title":"Blessing or blight? How corporate venture units affect the survival of internal new ventures","authors":"Gundula Lücke, Eve-Michelle Basu, Ivo Zander","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on structurally separate corporate venture units (CVUs) has suggested how these units may improve but also to some extent attenuate the survival chances of new ventures that are launched within the host corporation. Yet, there has been little empirical knowledge about the extent to which these units affect the survival of internal new ventures. We draw upon a dataset of 80 internal new ventures to assess if the survival of internal new ventures depends on their placement inside or outside CVUs. Controlling for a set of factors that may affect internal new venture survival, we find that placement in CVUs has a statistically significant and substantial effect on the chances of survival within the host corporation, and conclude that this is not due to characteristics that are associated with the internal new ventures as such. We discuss the implications of these findings for the literature on CVUs, and suggest the importance of further investigations into CVU boundaries, legitimacy, and the selection of internal new ventures from these units.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-13DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.006
Argyro Avgoustaki, Almudena Cañibano
Relying on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates whether the association between flexible working and employee well-being differs according to the formal or informal nature of arrangements. We claim that informal flexibility i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than do formal flexible working arrangements. We further explore (1) how work effort mediates the link between the two types of flexible working and well-being; and (2) whether the existence of a gap between informal flexibility i-deals and formal flexible working arrangements (for example, when informal exceeds formal flexibility) relates to well-being. Using data from a consultancy firm in Spain, results show a positive and significant association between informal flexibility i-deals and employee well-being and that informal i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than formal flexible working arrangements. Further, we find that work effort acts as a mediating mechanism to this relationship and that individuals take formal flexible working arrangements as a baseline to contrast their informal deals, revealing that having more informal than formal flexibility improves employee well-being compared to having more formal flexibility than informal flexibility.
{"title":"Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?","authors":"Argyro Avgoustaki, Almudena Cañibano","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"Relying on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates whether the association between flexible working and employee well-being differs according to the formal or informal nature of arrangements. We claim that informal flexibility i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than do formal flexible working arrangements. We further explore (1) how work effort mediates the link between the two types of flexible working and well-being; and (2) whether the existence of a gap between informal flexibility i-deals and formal flexible working arrangements (for example, when informal exceeds formal flexibility) relates to well-being. Using data from a consultancy firm in Spain, results show a positive and significant association between informal flexibility i-deals and employee well-being and that informal i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than formal flexible working arrangements. Further, we find that work effort acts as a mediating mechanism to this relationship and that individuals take formal flexible working arrangements as a baseline to contrast their informal deals, revealing that having more informal than formal flexibility improves employee well-being compared to having more formal flexibility than informal flexibility.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140617590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-10DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.004
V. Tortosa-Edo, M.Á. López-Navarro
Recent years have witnessed increasing corporate participation in multi-stakeholder governance models to decide on social issues. Insufficient academic attention has been paid to how citizens legitimise this alternative, which has no democratic endorsement. Citizens do not know enough about these governance models and use heuristics, which produce spillover effects, to form legitimacy judgements about them. Based on institutional and sensemaking theories and with insights from the social psychology literature, we provide empirical evidence for the possible spillover effects derived from a similarity-based heuristic, from citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity (CPA) tactics, and from a trust heuristic, represented by social trust.
{"title":"Citizens’ legitimacy judgements on multi-stakeholder governance models: The spillover effects of corporate political activity and social trust.","authors":"V. Tortosa-Edo, M.Á. López-Navarro","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed increasing corporate participation in multi-stakeholder governance models to decide on social issues. Insufficient academic attention has been paid to how citizens legitimise this alternative, which has no democratic endorsement. Citizens do not know enough about these governance models and use heuristics, which produce spillover effects, to form legitimacy judgements about them. Based on institutional and sensemaking theories and with insights from the social psychology literature, we provide empirical evidence for the possible spillover effects derived from a similarity-based heuristic, from citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity (CPA) tactics, and from a trust heuristic, represented by social trust.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140613868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-06DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.005
Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Qaisar Iqbal, Vishal Dagar, Sanjeet Singh
This study examines the indirect effect of sustainability-oriented leadership (SOL) on eco-friendly innovative behaviors (EFIBs) through environmental awareness (EA) based on social exchange theory. Additionally, it investigates the conditional role of proactive personality (PP) on the “SOL-EA” relationship. The authors collected data from 284 manufacturing SMEs in Poland using a time-lagged two-stage design, and employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the proposed hypotheses. The empirical findings reveal that SOL impact employees’ EFIBs significantly indirectly (through EA), and PP amplifies the impact of SOL on EA. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to empirically test the integrated relationships among SOL, EFIBs, EA, and PP. This study contributes theoretically to the literature on leadership, innovation management, and employee behaviors from the perspective of a developed country.
本研究以社会交换理论为基础，探讨了可持续发展导向型领导力（SOL）通过环境意识（EA）对生态友好型创新行为（EFIBs）的间接影响。此外，研究还探讨了积极主动型人格（PP）对 "SOL-EA "关系的条件作用。作者采用时滞两阶段设计收集了波兰 284 家制造业中小型企业的数据，并采用偏最小二乘结构方程模型（PLS-SEM）对提出的假设进行了检验。实证研究结果表明，SOL 间接（通过 EA）影响了员工的 EFIBs，而 PP 放大了 SOL 对 EA 的影响。据我们所知，本研究是首次对 SOL、EFIBs、EA 和 PP 之间的综合关系进行实证检验的研究。本研究从发达国家的视角出发，对有关领导力、创新管理和员工行为的文献做出了理论上的贡献。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003
Amitabh Anand, Rita Tóth, Jessica L. Doll, Sanjay Kumar Singh
Although research demonstrates the importance of napping for health and well-being within work settings, the topic has resulted in limited empirical investigations, fragmented literary results, and an elusive understanding of whether napping should be normalized in the workplace. Also, what needs to be clarified are the benefits of workplace napping (WN) and the role of human resource managers in promoting the practice of WN. A systematic, narrative synthesis approach is used to review the existing WN literature, conceptualize WN, and discuss its benefits for employee relations, productivity, and the role of human resource managers on WN. Finally, based on this conceptual backdrop, future research questions are proposed that help pave the way for the normalization of WN.
{"title":"Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions","authors":"Amitabh Anand, Rita Tóth, Jessica L. Doll, Sanjay Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"Although research demonstrates the importance of napping for health and well-being within work settings, the topic has resulted in limited empirical investigations, fragmented literary results, and an elusive understanding of whether napping should be normalized in the workplace. Also, what needs to be clarified are the benefits of workplace napping (WN) and the role of human resource managers in promoting the practice of WN. A systematic, narrative synthesis approach is used to review the existing WN literature, conceptualize WN, and discuss its benefits for employee relations, productivity, and the role of human resource managers on WN. Finally, based on this conceptual backdrop, future research questions are proposed that help pave the way for the normalization of WN.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140596263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-04-02DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.002
Thanh Tiep Le, Enrico Battisti, Thanh Lan Mai
The study aims to explore the mechanisms by which peripheral-based subsidiaries not only enhance financial and non-financial performance (i.e., business performance) but also contribute to creating value for Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Consequently, this research assesses how Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drives Absorptive Capability (AC) and Knowledge Ecosystems (KE), ultimately leading to Business Performance (BP). The present framework integrates Relational Strategy (RS) to examine whether it moderates the link between CSR and KE. Using a database of MNE subsidiaries in Vietnam, this study applies a Partial Least Square approach to Structural Equation Modeling. Our research highlights a significantly positive relationship between CSR and AC, KE, and BP. This result suggests that the better CSR is implemented, the higher the AC, the stronger the KE, and, finally, the better the BP. Additionally, the results confirm that RS moderates the influence of CSR on KE. This finding implies that the impact of CSR on KE varies depending on the extent of RS. Overall, this study contributes to bridging the current gap in International Business literature where little attention has been paid to periphery–core relations concerning knowledge interactions.
本研究旨在探索外围子公司不仅能提高财务和非财务绩效（即业务绩效），还能为跨国企业创造价值的机制。因此，本研究评估了企业社会责任（CSR）如何推动吸收能力（AC）和知识生态系统（KE），并最终导致业务绩效（BP）。本框架整合了关系战略（RS），以研究它是否能调节企业社会责任与知识生态系统之间的联系。本研究利用跨国企业在越南子公司的数据库，采用部分最小二乘法进行结构方程建模。研究结果表明，企业社会责任与 AC、KE 和 BP 之间存在明显的正相关关系。这一结果表明，企业社会责任落实得越好，AC 值就越高，KE 值就越强，BP 值也就越高。此外，研究结果还证实，RS 对企业社会责任对 KE 的影响具有调节作用。这一发现意味着，企业社会责任对企业价值链的影响因企业社会责任的程度而异。总之，本研究有助于弥补目前国际商务文献中对知识互动的外围-核心关系关注较少的空白。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.007
Josep Garcia-Blandon , Argilés-Bosch Josep Maria , Ravenda Diego
Whereas in 2001 women held around 5% of board seats in Norway, in 2007 their representation increased to more than 40%. This extraordinary change was the result of a board-gender quota regulation enacted in 2006. This study leverages this unique research setting and implements difference-in-differences estimations to investigate whether the appointment of female directors affects the firm's cost of debt. The treated group in the empirical analysis consists of Norwegian public companies affected by the new regulation, while the control group includes similar firms from neighboring Scandinavian countries that were not affected by any gender quota. If, as most previous-related studies conclude, female directors contribute to reduce the cost of debt, such an effect should necessarily be observed in our research setting. However, the results of the empirical analysis show no significant differences in the cost of debt before and after the appointment of a large number of female directors. This result appears robust as it holds across several sensitivity analyses. The implications of this finding for the corporate governance literature are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-01DOI: 10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.003
Balazs Szatmari
This study extends the burgeoning literature on social evaluations by investigating the incongruence between two quality signals in the video game industry: resource commitment and organizational status. It is hypothesized that while having one of the signals leads to higher product recognition and, hence, allows firms to capture more value from a product and its demonstrated quality, having both signals can be problematic due to the incongruence of these signals. This is because, in creative industry settings, the occurrence of both signals might send an incongruent message to external audiences (i.e., consumers and industry experts), leading to lower than expected results. My empirical analysis using historical data from the video game industry showed that organizations which featured a status a resource commitment signal were able to capture more value from their product quality than organizations that feature of these signals. In an additional survey study, I found tentative evidence for my theoretical explanations of these findings.
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