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A diffusion model for service products. (2014)
Journal Article
Shi, L., & Fernandes, K. (2014). A diffusion model for service products. Journal of Services Marketing, 28(4), 331-341. https://doi.org/10.1108/jsm-11-2012-0224

Purpose – This paper aims to develop a diffusion model that can be used to understand and forecast the market growth of service products in a competitive environment. Despite the fast growth of the service sector, the existing literature has dedicate... Read More about A diffusion model for service products..

Davids Against Goliath? Collective Identities and the Market Success of Peripheral Organizations During Resource Partitioning (2014)
Journal Article
Liu, M., & Wezel, F. (2015). Davids Against Goliath? Collective Identities and the Market Success of Peripheral Organizations During Resource Partitioning. Organization Science, 26(1), 293-309. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0914

This paper contributes to the sociology of markets literature by arguing that collective identities sustain the market success of peripheral producers during the process of resource partitioning. Two conditions underlie the positive returns obtained... Read More about Davids Against Goliath? Collective Identities and the Market Success of Peripheral Organizations During Resource Partitioning.

The Relationship Between Resource Acquisition Methods and Firm Performance in Chinese New Ventures: The Intermediate Effect of Learning Capability (2014)
Journal Article
Li, C., Hughes, M., & Yin, M. (2014). The Relationship Between Resource Acquisition Methods and Firm Performance in Chinese New Ventures: The Intermediate Effect of Learning Capability. Journal of Small Business Management, 52(3), 365-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/jsbm.12039

Despite the omnipresent popularity of the resource-based view of the firm, our understanding of how firms convert resource acquisition into performance returns remains something of a black box. We seek to unpack this problem in this study. Building o... Read More about The Relationship Between Resource Acquisition Methods and Firm Performance in Chinese New Ventures: The Intermediate Effect of Learning Capability.

The international business of higher education – A managerial perspective on the internationalisation of UK universities (2014)
Journal Article
Warwick, P. (2014). The international business of higher education – A managerial perspective on the internationalisation of UK universities. International Journal of Management Education, 12(2), 91-103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijme.2014.02.003

This paper employs a managerial perspective to examine the internationalisation of higher education (HE). Using four case studies of United Kingdom (UK) universities, the research identifies the differences between organisations that are making good... Read More about The international business of higher education – A managerial perspective on the internationalisation of UK universities.

Behavioural psychology, marketing and consumer behaviour: a literature review and future research agenda (2014)
Journal Article
Wells, V. (2014). Behavioural psychology, marketing and consumer behaviour: a literature review and future research agenda. Journal of Marketing Management, 30(11-12), 1119-1158. https://doi.org/10.1080/0267257x.2014.929161

Psychology, along with a wide range of other academic disciplines, has influenced research in both consumer behaviour and marketing. However, the influence of one area of psychology – namely, behaviourism – on research on consumers and marketing has... Read More about Behavioural psychology, marketing and consumer behaviour: a literature review and future research agenda.

What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations? (2014)
Journal Article
Lord, R., & Dinh, J. (2014). What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?. Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, 7(2), 158-177. https://doi.org/10.1111/iops.12127

In this article, we provide a brief review of the current and past research on leadership perceptions and performance. We then describe four principles that have emerged from many decades of research, which can provide new directions for future leade... Read More about What have we learned that is critical in understanding leadership perceptions and leader performance relations?.

Publicidad conjunta marca-causa: el papel de la implicación del individuo hacia la publicidad en la comprensión y evaluación del mensaje. = Brand/cause advertising: The role of the individual's involvement toward the understanding and evaluation of the ad message (2014)
Journal Article
Huertas-García, R., Gázquez-Abad, J., & Lengler, J. (2014). Publicidad conjunta marca-causa: el papel de la implicación del individuo hacia la publicidad en la comprensión y evaluación del mensaje. = Brand/cause advertising: The role of the individual's involvement toward the understanding and evaluation of the ad message. Revista europea de dirección y economía de la empresa, 23(3), 147-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.redee.2014.03.003

El efecto que tienen los anuncios que incorporan mensajes de marketing con causa (MCC) sobre el comportamiento del consumidor es uno de los aspectos que mayor interés ha despertado en la literatura reciente. La implicación hacia la marca o la causa e... Read More about Publicidad conjunta marca-causa: el papel de la implicación del individuo hacia la publicidad en la comprensión y evaluación del mensaje. = Brand/cause advertising: The role of the individual's involvement toward the understanding and evaluation of the ad message.

Exploring inter-generational influence on entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility (2014)
Journal Article
Saeed, S., Muffatto, M., & Yousafzai, S. (2014). Exploring inter-generational influence on entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 18(2/3), 134-153. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijeim.2014.062877

Children of self-employed parents are twice as likely as other children to become self-employed themselves, as family background exerts a significant influence on the values, attitudes, and behaviour one adopts. This study explores how entrepreneuria... Read More about Exploring inter-generational influence on entrepreneurial intention: the mediating role of perceived desirability and perceived feasibility.

Entrepreneurial Capacities as Antecedents of Business Performance in Brazilian Firms. (2014)
Journal Article
Sampaio, C., Perin, M., Lengler, J., Cegarra, J., & Jimenez, D. (2014). Entrepreneurial Capacities as Antecedents of Business Performance in Brazilian Firms. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 31(2), 90-103. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1281

We investigate the relationship between entrepreneurial capacities and firm performance. More specifically, we investigate the effects of radical innovation and learning orientation on business performance. We test the effects of entrepreneurial orie... Read More about Entrepreneurial Capacities as Antecedents of Business Performance in Brazilian Firms..

Can critical management studies ever be ‘practical’? A case study in engaged scholarship (2014)
Journal Article
King, D., & Learmonth, M. (2015). Can critical management studies ever be ‘practical’? A case study in engaged scholarship. Human Relations, 68(3), 353-375. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726714528254

What happens when you try to engage with management practice as a critical management scholar by actually doing management? Although there have been calls for critical scholars to attempt such engagement, little is known about the practical challenge... Read More about Can critical management studies ever be ‘practical’? A case study in engaged scholarship.

Cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral variables as predictors of energy saving behavior among employees (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Manika, D., Gregory-Smith, D., Wells, V., & Graham, S. (2014, June). Cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral variables as predictors of energy saving behavior among employees. Paper presented at 43rd EMAC Annual Conference, Valencia, Spain

This paper responds to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) literature’s calls for further research at the micro level by studying the effects of attitudes, norms and subjective knowledge on employees’ energy saving behaviors at the workplace. A... Read More about Cognitive, attitudinal and behavioral variables as predictors of energy saving behavior among employees.

The influence of distributor support and price adaptation on the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises (2014)
Journal Article
Sousa, C. M., & Novello, S. (2014). The influence of distributor support and price adaptation on the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises. International Small Business Journal, 32(4), 359-385. https://doi.org/10.1177/0266242612466876

Although a number of studies have examined the antecedents of export performance, little empirical attention has been given to the influence of distribution support and price adaptation on this issue. To address this gap in the literature, this artic... Read More about The influence of distributor support and price adaptation on the export performance of small and medium-sized enterprises.

Public leadership development facilitation and the crossroads blues (2014)
Journal Article
Smolović Jones, O., Grint, K., & Cammock, P. (2015). Public leadership development facilitation and the crossroads blues. Management Learning, 46(4), 391-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350507614537020

The article seeks to make sense of the choices facing the public leadership development facilitator, in design and in-the-moment programme decisions. The challenge is posited as one of situating knowledge of facilitation practices in a critical relat... Read More about Public leadership development facilitation and the crossroads blues.

Leadership: Influencing what matters (2014)
Newspaper / Magazine
Smolovic Jones, O. (2014). Leadership: Influencing what matters. [HR Magazine]

The impact of service characteristics on the switching costs–customer loyalty link (2014)
Journal Article
Blut, M., Beatty, S., Evanschitzky, H., & Brock, C. (2014). The impact of service characteristics on the switching costs–customer loyalty link. Journal of Retailing, 90(2), 275-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretai.2014.04.003

This research investigates the interrelationship between service characteristics and switching costs and makes two contributions to the service retailing literature: (1) As a means of better understanding the effectiveness of switching costs, the stu... Read More about The impact of service characteristics on the switching costs–customer loyalty link.

Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context. (2014)
Journal Article
Liu, L., Bond, M., Guan, Y., Cai, Z., Sun, J., Yu, Q., …Wang, Z. (2015). Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context. Psychology of Music, 43(5), 661-674. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735614532703

The current research examined Chinese parents’ motivation regarding music training for their children, and its relationships with their children’s learning outcomes (N = 269). Results of principal component analysis showed that Chinese parents had bo... Read More about Parents’ music training motivation and children’s music learning achievement: An investigation in the Chinese context..

Organizational Obsolescence, Drifting Tastes and Age Dependence in Organizational Life Chances (2014)
Journal Article
Le Mens, G., Hannan, M., & Polos, L. (2015). Organizational Obsolescence, Drifting Tastes and Age Dependence in Organizational Life Chances. Organization Science, 26(2), 550-570. https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2014.0910

Various patterns of age dependence in hazards of organizational failure have been documented: liabilities of newness, adolescence, and obsolescence. Prior efforts at providing a unified theory that can accommodate these patterns as special cases have... Read More about Organizational Obsolescence, Drifting Tastes and Age Dependence in Organizational Life Chances.

Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, "A Certain Experience of the Impossible"? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida (2014)
Journal Article
Griffin, M., Humphreys, M., & Learmonth, M. (2015). Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, "A Certain Experience of the Impossible"? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida. Journal of Management Inquiry, 24(1), 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1177/1056492614532316

Many scholars have attempted to make jazz relevant to an organizational audience. We seek to extend this literature by considering a more radical version of improvisation associated with the jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Inspired by an encounter bet... Read More about Doing Free Jazz and Free Organizations, "A Certain Experience of the Impossible"? Ornette Coleman Encounters Jacques Derrida.

New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models. (2014)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Guo, Y., Bond, M., Cai, Z., Zhou, X., Xu, J., …Ye, L. (2014). New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85(1), 136-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvb.2014.05.003

Based on career construction theory and the model of proactive motivation, the current research examined the mediating and moderating models for the relations among future work self, career adaptability, job search self-efficacy and employment status... Read More about New job market entrants’ future work self, career adaptability and job search outcomes: Examining mediating and moderating models..

Rising powers from emerging markets—The changing face of international business (2014)
Journal Article
Sinkovics, R. R., Yamin, M., Nadvi, K., & Zhang, Y. Z. (2014). Rising powers from emerging markets—The changing face of international business. International Business Review, 23(4), 675-679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ibusrev.2014.04.001

There is recognition that some emerging economies, in particular China, India and Brazil and their economic dynamism have the potential to change the face of international business (IB). Both in terms of theory but also in terms of the amount of empi... Read More about Rising powers from emerging markets—The changing face of international business.