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Although many studies have explored the benefits of empowering leadership for followers, the beneficial effect of such behavior for actors who demonstrate empowering leadership has been overlooked. Applying conservation of resources theory, we propose and test a model that determines why and when empowering leadership benefits actors. We use an experience sampling survey to examine the effect of empowering leadership on actors’ daily work engagement. In particular, we focus on the moderating role of power distance orientation and the mediating roles of negative affect and sleep quality, which operate sequentially. The results based on responses from 160 supervisors in two Chinese organizations indicated that empowering leadership in the morning was negatively related to negative affect in the afternoon and positively related to sleep quality at night and next-day work engagement. The strength of this beneficial effect was moderated by power distance orientation, such that supervisors with a high degree of power distance orientation obtained fewer benefits from empowering leadership than those with a low degree of power distance orientation. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings for the leadership, affect, sleep, power distance, and conservation of resources literatures are discussed.

Entrepreneurial alertness (EA) research has made substantial progress in identifying the psychological and organizational antecedents and consequences of EA. However, the interactions between environmental factors and EA are understudied and it is unclear how alertness influences and is shaped by entrepreneurs’ local ecosystems. In this “perspectives” essay, we contend that EA and entrepreneurial ecosystems research could be enriched by greater cross-fertilization. We respond to calls for more focus on the microfoundations of entrepreneurship by exploring the opportunities in research at the interface of EA and entrepreneurial ecosystems. We develop a multi-level framework to explain how EA is not only influenced by entrepreneurial ecosystems but can collectively influence the system-level functioning and leadership of ecosystems. Our framework clarifies how EA is shaped by the social, cultural, and material attributes of ecosystems and, in turn, how EA influences ecosystem attributes (diversity and coherence) and outcomes (resilience and coordination). We explain why it is critical to treat the environment as more than simply a moderating influence on the effects of EA and why it is fruitful for entrepreneurship research to develop a fuller picture of EA’s contextual determinants and outcomes. We conclude by proposing a research agenda that explores the interplay between EA and entrepreneurial ecosystems.

In this study, we explore how chief executive officers (CEOs) with military experience affect the pre-shock risk taking of firms and thus their organizational resilience to exogenous shocks. We find that the military experience of a CEO is negatively related to the risk taking of a firm before a shock. Furthermore, we find that these pre-shock features promote organizational resilience to shocks, as firms led by CEOs with military experience are more robust and less vulnerable to shocks and can recover from shocks rapidly. This effect is partially mediated by the pre-shock risk taking of firms. We test our hypotheses in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic using a sample of 1,033 CEOs of Chinese listed firms from 2017 to 2020.

Synthesising insights from threat-rigidity theory, this study explores the impact of firms’ economic policy uncertainty (EPU) perceptions on their green technology innovation (GTI) performance. By regarding EPU as an individualised perception rather than the homogeneous and macro factor in previous studies, we theorise that an increase in EPU perception will trigger a threat-rigidity effect and drive the firm to avoid participating in GTI activities featured by technological and environmental externalities. Furthermore, we find that environmental governance performance and state ownership can mitigate the threat-rigidity effect of EPU perception on GTI. Using a sample of Chinese listed manufacturing firms during 2011–2021, this study measures firms’ EPU perceptions at the micro level based on textual analysis of Management Discussion and Analysis texts, and draws evidence in support of the arguments. These findings provide significant insights for executives and government agencies to govern firms’ GTI when perceiving a turbulent economic policy environment.

The rise of Chinese early internationalizing firms (CEIFs) has attracted increasing interest from international entrepreneurship scholars. However, a clear consolidation and integration of extant literature on CEIFs is missing. This article reviews scholarship on CEIFs and examines specific areas in need of further development. A systematic framework organizes the findings on the basis of a content analysis and identifies three thematic categories of inquiry, related to the antecedents, elements, and outcomes of CEIFs. Our review summarizes four major research streams and identifies future directions in each of these streams. The review offers insights for scholars devoted to the study of CEIFs and provides recommendations for international entrepreneurs.

Using social cognitive theory as a guide, this research seeks to explain the perceptions of current and aspiring Indian entrepreneurs. A multiple case study approach using 19 interviews with intellectuals provided qualitative data to conduct a cross-case analysis of the two groups with the qualitative analysis software NVivo. Rare insights from current and aspiring opportunity-motivated entrepreneurial Chevening Fellowships from a predominantly necessity-motivated context offer valuable insights into entrepreneurship in India. The findings reveal what entrepreneurship means to established entrepreneurs, their motivation for embarking on the entrepreneurial journey, the skills they require to be successful, the challenges they face and their strategies to sustain are mostly different to what aspiring entrepreneurs believe how it would be. Compiled recommendations may help strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem, particularly in developing economy contexts, to help improve the 10% startup success rate.

Globalization has encouraged the growth and popularity of recognizing opportunities worldwide. As such, entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence stand out as essential catalysts for innovation and creativity. Managers' ability to identify opportunities, navigate diverse cultural contexts, and unleash their creative potential is now recognized as a critical factor for business success. However, previous research has primarily examined the independent influence of entrepreneurial alertness and cultural intelligence on other entrepreneurial outcomes, leaving a significant gap in understanding their independent and combined impact on creative self-efficacy (CSE). In this study, we bridge this gap by investigating the interplay between entrepreneurial alertness, cultural intelligence, and CSE among managers. Drawing on schema theory and entrepreneurial alertness literature, we hypothesize that entrepreneurial alertness enhances CSE, with cultural intelligence moderating this relationship. Our three studies, involving student and non-student samples, provide empirical evidence to generally support these hypotheses. Our study contributes to the existing literature by integrating concepts from entrepreneurship, psychology, and cross-cultural management, enriching our understanding of how these constructs influence CSE. The findings also shed light on the teachability of entrepreneurial alertness and its role in fostering CSE, thus aiding in better preparing future entrepreneurs for the complexities of the global marketplace.

Institutional scholarship tends to emphasize the tendency of organizations to conform to prevailing practices, but this study investigates Chinese firms’ non-conformity behavior in terms of not participating in credit rating. State ownership and firm status (in terms of age, size, and human capital) are all found to be useful predictors of this non-conformity. Building on institutional theory and resource dependence theory in an emerging market context, this study proposes that non-conformity would be high for state owned enterprises (SOEs) and for both low- and high-status firms, based on their evaluations of the legitimacy of credit rating and the relative power balance between the government and themselves. In contrast, middle-status firms would be less likely to show non-conformity behaviors. Moreover, the influence of state ownership and firm status on non-conformity would be further moderated by the degree of government intervention. The results from an empirical study of 2,708 manufacturing firms in China largely support these hypotheses.

This study draws on conservation of resources theory to propose a moderated mediation model in which team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation affects medical service quality through emotional exhaustion. In addition, we identify patient’s identification with medical staff as a key first-stage moderator in shaping the mediation process. Based on survey data from 213 medical staff on 37 medical teams at two hospitals in China, our findings revealed that team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation led to high emotional exhaustion of medical staffs. Further, when the patient orientation of the medical staffs was higher than that of the team, medical staffs perceived higher emotional exhaustion, and the effect of the team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation on medical service quality was mediated by the emotional exhaustion of medical staffs. Finally, our results found that patient’s identification with medical staff moderates the indirectly relationship between team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation and medical service quality via emotional exhaustion. Our findings enrich the academic understanding of the team–medical staff incongruence in patient orientation and provide practical suggestions for hospital management.