Pub Date : 2018-02-28DOI: 10.1186/s11782-018-0025-y
Chunling Zhu, Anqi Liu, Guoling Chen
This study investigates the functioning mechanisms of how high performance work systems (HPWS) affect organizational performance. We propose that (HPWS) can positively affect organizational performance through the mediating role of entrepreneurial orientation. An organization with high performance work systems can perform better if it enjoys high level of organizational learning. We design and administer a survey questionnaire to high-level executives or founders of companies from manufacturing and service industries and receive 176 valid responses. The results of the empirical data indicate that the relationship between high performance work systems and corporate performance is more positive when organizational learning is stronger. Entrepreneurial orientation partially mediates the relationship between high performance work systems and organizational performance. This study opens new research avenues by extending and incorporating explanations and predictions of HPWS and entrepreneurial orientation, two areas that largely have been considered independently of each other. Implications for practice and directions for future research are provided.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-14DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0022-6
Abteen Ijadi Maghsoodi, Gelayol Abouhamzeh, Mohammad Khalilzadeh, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas
The selection process of appropriate Performance Appraisal (PA) methods for organizations in today’s dynamic and agile environments along with its funding scales is a complex problem. Performance appraisal in modern organizations has become a part of the strategic approach toward integrating business policies and human resource activities. The existence of multiple criteria in the decision-making procedure makes finding the optimal PA method more challenging. The current study tackles a PA method assessment by applying a multiple criteria decision analysis method i.e., MULTIMOORA integrated Shannon’s entropy significance coefficient. A case study on the optimal PA method selection is analyzed by identifying the criteria and alternatives based on the literature and expert comments of the case-study employing two approaches, that is, MULTIMOORA and Entropy MULTIMOORA. The final rankings of the suggested methods are compared to TOPSIS and TOPSIS integrated Shannon’s entropy methods utilizing correlation coefficients of the final ranks. Eventually, by identifying the optimal PA approach i.e., 360-degree feedback, the selected optimal method employed in the case study and results are demonstrated and described with a comprehensive example.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-12DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0023-5
Zi Wang, Guiquan Li
{"title":"You don’t actually want to get closer to the star: How LMX leads to workplace ostracism","authors":"Zi Wang, Guiquan Li","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0023-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0023-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0023-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0017-3
Mingming Shi, Xiao Yan
This paper proposes a model featuring the heterogeneity of consumer preferences and analyzes the multiple equilibrium of retail formats by building a map of the relationships between consumer heterogeneity and retail formats. The key questions analyzed in this paper are how the retailer adjusts its combination of marketing elements through repositioning and how innovation in retail formats is implemented to match consumers’ heterogeneous preferences in a market with consumer search costs. Unlike recent research, our model, by taking different consumer preference structures into account, introduces consumer psychological costs into the Ehrlich-Fisher model and deduces the existence of different retail formats and their multiple equilibriums. We find that consumer heterogeneity, retailers’ diversified transfer costs and economies of scale are endogenous drivers of prosperous retail formats. Accordingly, diversified retail formats with complementary functions and differentiated services can be described as the horizontal extensions and interface changes of the retailing industry.
{"title":"Heterogeneous consumers, search and retail formats","authors":"Mingming Shi, Xiao Yan","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0017-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0017-3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a model featuring the heterogeneity of consumer preferences and analyzes the multiple equilibrium of retail formats by building a map of the relationships between consumer heterogeneity and retail formats. The key questions analyzed in this paper are how the retailer adjusts its combination of marketing elements through repositioning and how innovation in retail formats is implemented to match consumers’ heterogeneous preferences in a market with consumer search costs. Unlike recent research, our model, by taking different consumer preference structures into account, introduces consumer psychological costs into the Ehrlich-Fisher model and deduces the existence of different retail formats and their multiple equilibriums. We find that consumer heterogeneity, retailers’ diversified transfer costs and economies of scale are endogenous drivers of prosperous retail formats. Accordingly, diversified retail formats with complementary functions and differentiated services can be described as the horizontal extensions and interface changes of the retailing industry.","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"3 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138509063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0019-1
Yibiao Chen, Steven Shuye Wang, W. Tong, Hui Zhu
{"title":"Economic freedom and IPO underpricing","authors":"Yibiao Chen, Steven Shuye Wang, W. Tong, Hui Zhu","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0019-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0019-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0019-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-30DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0013-7
Xiao Deng, Zhishuang Guan
{"title":"Creative leaders create ‘unsung heroes’: leader creativity and subordinate organizational citizenship behavior","authors":"Xiao Deng, Zhishuang Guan","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0013-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0013-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0013-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-09DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0004-8
Wenjie Li, W. Du, Jiamin Yin
{"title":"Digital entrepreneurship ecosystem as a new form of organizing: the case of Zhongguancun","authors":"Wenjie Li, W. Du, Jiamin Yin","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0004-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0004-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0004-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-08DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0009-3
Bo Zhang, Hongliu Yuan, Xiaoqiang Zhi
{"title":"ROE as a performance measure in performance-vested stock option contracts in China","authors":"Bo Zhang, Hongliu Yuan, Xiaoqiang Zhi","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0009-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0009-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0009-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65919014","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-05DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0006-6
Hai-jun Wang, Sardar Islam
{"title":"Construction of an open innovation network and its mechanism design for manufacturing enterprises: a resource-based perspective","authors":"Hai-jun Wang, Sardar Islam","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0006-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0006-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0006-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-06-05DOI: 10.1186/s11782-017-0007-5
Fang Lou, Qian Sun, Hongqi Yuan
{"title":"Voluntary disclosure of internal control and auditor’s attestation: evidence from China","authors":"Fang Lou, Qian Sun, Hongqi Yuan","doi":"10.1186/s11782-017-0007-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s11782-017-0007-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54175,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers of Business Research in China","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2017-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1186/s11782-017-0007-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"65918955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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