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Antecedents and Outcomes of Supplier Innovativeness in International Customer-Supplier Relationships: The Role of Knowledge Distance (2016)
Journal Article
Jean, R.-J. B., Sinkovics, R. R., & Kim, D. (2017). Antecedents and Outcomes of Supplier Innovativeness in International Customer-Supplier Relationships: The Role of Knowledge Distance. Management International Review, 57(1), 121-151. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11575-016-0291-x

The increasing competitive pressures and speed of R&D and product innovation is prompting many multinational enterprise customers to outsource their core activities to suppliers. Despite organizational challenges due to cultural and physical separati... Read More about Antecedents and Outcomes of Supplier Innovativeness in International Customer-Supplier Relationships: The Role of Knowledge Distance.

Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gali, N., Hughes, M., Mallet, O., Karam, A., Domenech, J., Mas-Tur, A., Roig-Tierno, N., & Vicente, M. (2016, July). Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory. Presented at CARMA 2016 1st International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics., Valencia, Spain

Entrepreneurial Orientation (EO) is a firm-level phenomenon, which involves the firm’s prospects to take risks, be proactive, and be innovative. Most of the research assumes a positive EO-performance relationship adopting the EO-as-advantage perspect... Read More about Entrepreneurial Orientation and Firm Performance in the Context of Upper Echelon Theory.

Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation (2016)
Journal Article
Guan, Y., Jiang, P., Wang, Z., Mo, Z., & Zhu, F. (2017). Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation. Journal of Career Development, 44(5), 379-393. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894845316657181

Based on the social comparison theory, this research examined how self-referent and other-referent career successes predict career satisfaction and turnover intention among a sample of Chinese employees (N = 299). It was found that both self-referent... Read More about Self-referent and Other-referent Career Successes, Career Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Chinese Employees: The Role of Achievement Motivation.

Interpartner learning, dependence asymmetry and radical innovation in customer-supplier relationships (2016)
Journal Article
Jean, R.-J. B., Chiou, J.-S., & Sinkovics, R. R. (2016). Interpartner learning, dependence asymmetry and radical innovation in customer-supplier relationships. Journal of Business & Industrial Marketing, 31(6), 732-742. https://doi.org/10.1108/JBIM-10-2012-0185

Purpose: This study aims to explore how absorptive and joint learning can foster radical innovation. Furthermore, dependence asymmetry is investigated as a moderator of the effects of these factors on radical innovation. Radical innovation is an impo... Read More about Interpartner learning, dependence asymmetry and radical innovation in customer-supplier relationships.

Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change (2016)
Journal Article
Zhang, R., Noels, K., Guan, Y., & Weng, L. (2017). Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change. European Journal of Social Psychology, 47(1), 36-52. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2214

Recent research points to Chinese people's elevated tendency to make positive self-evaluations, despite the general claim that East Asians do not self-enhance. We present three studies in support of a novel prediction that sociocultural change in Chi... Read More about Making sense of positive self-evaluations in China: The role of sociocultural change.

Revisiting the standing of International Business journals in the competitive landscape (2016)
Journal Article
Tüselmann, H., Sinkovics, R. R., & Pishchulov, G. (2016). Revisiting the standing of International Business journals in the competitive landscape. Journal of World Business, 51(4), 487-498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwb.2016.01.006

Journal rankings are contentious, proliferating and bring about a significant change to research productivity and quality assessment. This paper sets out to overcome methodological limitations of previous journal rankings and adopts a novel approach... Read More about Revisiting the standing of International Business journals in the competitive landscape.

When is personalisation considered a form of co-production? The case of Personal Budgets reform in English social care (2016)
Book Chapter
Bracci, E., & Chow, D. (2016). When is personalisation considered a form of co-production? The case of Personal Budgets reform in English social care. In M. Fugini, E. Bracci, & M. Sicilla (Eds.), Co-production in the public sector : experiences and challenges (41-57). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30558-5_4

In recent times, co-production has become an all-embracing term applied in different contexts and with several meanings. Broadly speaking, co-production can be considered any “regular, long-term relationships between professionalized service provider... Read More about When is personalisation considered a form of co-production? The case of Personal Budgets reform in English social care.

Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities (2016)
Journal Article
Urbano, D., Aparicio, S., Guerrero, M., Noguera, M., & Torrent-Sellens, J. (2017). Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 123, 271-282. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2016.06.021

This article investigates the influence of informal and formal institutions on the university students' decision of becoming employer entrepreneurs (university students that create a new firm with employees) in the context of Catalonia. A sample of 1... Read More about Institutional determinants of student employer entrepreneurs at Catalan universities.

The State of Online Impulse-Buying Research: A Literature Analysis (2016)
Journal Article
Chan, T., Cheung, C., & Lee, Z. (2017). The State of Online Impulse-Buying Research: A Literature Analysis. Information and Management, 54(2), 204-217. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2016.06.001

Online impulse buying has drawn increasing scholarly attention across disciplines. However, little effort has been made to evaluate the status of research and consolidate the findings in the literature. To address this research gap, we conducted a sy... Read More about The State of Online Impulse-Buying Research: A Literature Analysis.

Perception-induced effects of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSiR) for Stereotypical and Admired Firms (2016)
Journal Article
Voliotis, S., Vlachos, P., & Epitropaki, O. (2016). Perception-induced effects of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSiR) for Stereotypical and Admired Firms. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, Article 970. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00970

How do stakeholders react to Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSiR)? What are the emotional mechanisms and behavioral outcomes following CSiR perception? The psychology of CSR literature has yet to address these important questions and has largely... Read More about Perception-induced effects of Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSiR) for Stereotypical and Admired Firms.

Disaggregating and reaggregating work: Workers, management and the struggle over creating coherency and purpose in a context of work degradation (2016)
Journal Article
McBride, J., & Martínez Lucio, M. (2016). Disaggregating and reaggregating work: Workers, management and the struggle over creating coherency and purpose in a context of work degradation. Human Resource Management Journal, 26(4), 490-504. https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12118

The article argues that whilst there is a growing sense of degradation and worsening conditions (disaggregation) of work in the cleaning sector in general, there are some important contradictions which require complex organisational responses. In the... Read More about Disaggregating and reaggregating work: Workers, management and the struggle over creating coherency and purpose in a context of work degradation.

A decision framework to mitigate supply chain risks: an application in the offshore-wind industry (2016)
Journal Article
Mogre, R., Talluri, S., & D’Amico, F. (2016). A decision framework to mitigate supply chain risks: an application in the offshore-wind industry. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 63(3), 316-325. https://doi.org/10.1109/tem.2016.2567539

Decision support systems (DSSs) for supply chain risk management benefit from a holistic approach for mitigating risks, which include identification and assessment of risks and evaluation and selection of measures to appease risks. However, previous... Read More about A decision framework to mitigate supply chain risks: an application in the offshore-wind industry.

The Relational Complexities of Open Innovation Networks: Mapping The Social Capital within University and Business Research Collaborations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, S., Hughes, M., Hughes, P., & Burrows, P. (2016, June). The Relational Complexities of Open Innovation Networks: Mapping The Social Capital within University and Business Research Collaborations. Presented at 23rd Innovation and Product Development Management Conference (IPDMC) : Crossing Borders and Boundaries: The Changing Role of Innovation/Entrepreneurship., Glasgow, UK

Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness (2016)
Journal Article
Chen, L. H., Wu, C.-H., & Chang, J.-H. (2017). Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 18(4), 1147-1159. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9764-7

Life satisfaction is a critical index of well-being and is well documented in the literature as a means of protecting athletes from stress. However, minimal research has focused on the factors that contribute to life satisfaction in sports. According... Read More about Gratitude and Athletes’ Life Satisfaction: The Moderating Role of Mindfulness.

Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals (2016)
Journal Article
Li, F., Deng, H., & Leung, K. (2017). Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals. Human Resource Management, 56(4), 693-709. https://doi.org/10.1002/hrm.21795

To address the complex effect of perceived reward for creativity on creative performance, we examined the role of cognitive appraisal as an individual difference variable. An individual's appraisal of reward for creativity, including challenge apprai... Read More about Is Perceived Creativity-reward Contingency Good for Creativity? The Role of Challenge and Threat Appraisals.

Social Capital’s Role for Value Creation in Open Innovation Networks (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Scott, S., Hughes, M., & Hughes, P. (2016, June). Social Capital’s Role for Value Creation in Open Innovation Networks. Presented at The Strategic Management Society Special Conference. Strategy Challenges in the 21st Century: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Coopetition., Rome, Italy

This study aims to understand how various types of social capital and relational exchanges effect flows of knowledge resources within open innovation networks, particularly within the context of University and Business collaborations. Generally, univ... Read More about Social Capital’s Role for Value Creation in Open Innovation Networks.

Analyzing the external social capital of family firms (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Herrero, I., Hughes, M., & Larrañeta, B. (2016, June). Analyzing the external social capital of family firms. Presented at EURAM 2016 - European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference., Paris, France

We examine an important yet overlooked aspect in research on social capital: the familial bonding that interorganizational relations may hold. We argue that the social identity of a family member is likely to reframe how they behave within social rel... Read More about Analyzing the external social capital of family firms.

Exploring the link between management communication and emotions in mergers and acquisitions (2016)
Journal Article
Zagelmeyer, S., Sinkovics, R. R., Sinkovics, N., & Kusstatscher, V. (2018). Exploring the link between management communication and emotions in mergers and acquisitions. Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 35(1), 93-106. https://doi.org/10.1002/cjas.1382

News on merger and acquisition (M&A) activities frequently dominate the popular business press. While the announcement of an M&A usually elicits enthusiasm in the business community, it also results in increased levels of uncertainty, stress, and anx... Read More about Exploring the link between management communication and emotions in mergers and acquisitions.

Understanding Individual User Resistance and Workarounds of Enterprise Social Networks: The Case of Service Ltd (2016)
Journal Article
Choudrie, J., & Zamani, E. D. (2016). Understanding Individual User Resistance and Workarounds of Enterprise Social Networks: The Case of Service Ltd. Journal of Information Technology, 31(2), 130-151. https://doi.org/10.1057/jit.2016.9

The purpose of this study is to explore the use of Enterprise Social Networks (ESN), namely, Yammer and Chatter, using the lens of resistance and deployment of workarounds among individuals employed in a large, service sector organization. By doing s... Read More about Understanding Individual User Resistance and Workarounds of Enterprise Social Networks: The Case of Service Ltd.