Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (171)

A Framework for Understanding Institutional Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Offshoring Models in India (2019)
Journal Article
Shukla, M., Pal, K., & Tiwari, M. (2020). A Framework for Understanding Institutional Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Offshoring Models in India. International Journal of Production Research, 58(19), 5911-5928. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2019.1661533

The objective of this paper is to identify and analyse the factors that influence offshore location decisions from an institutional theory perspective. In the years, emerging economies have shown great growth potential and have attracted significant... Read More about A Framework for Understanding Institutional Factors Affecting the Success and Failure of Offshoring Models in India.

If you do not know who knows what: Advice seeking under changing conditions of uncertainty after an acquisition. (2019)
Journal Article
Mirc, N., & Parker, A. (2020). If you do not know who knows what: Advice seeking under changing conditions of uncertainty after an acquisition. Social Networks, 61, 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.006

In this study we develop a model to explain the dynamics of advice seeking after an acquisition. We build on a theory of advice seeking that draws from prospect theory and expectancy theory. We theorize that immediately after an acquisition there is... Read More about If you do not know who knows what: Advice seeking under changing conditions of uncertainty after an acquisition..

The impact of high-speed railway on tourism spatial structures between two adjoining metropolitan cities in China: Beijing and Tianjin (2019)
Journal Article
Yin, P., Lin, Z., & Prideaux, B. (2019). The impact of high-speed railway on tourism spatial structures between two adjoining metropolitan cities in China: Beijing and Tianjin. Journal of Transport Geography, 80, Article 102495. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2019.102495

This study examines the impact of HSR services on the tourism spatial interactions between Beijing and Tianjin in China. Data were collected from official statistical reports. A method of derivation was developed and several indexes, such as tourism... Read More about The impact of high-speed railway on tourism spatial structures between two adjoining metropolitan cities in China: Beijing and Tianjin.

Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market (2019)
Journal Article
Scott, S., Hughes, P., Hodgkinson, I., & Kraus, S. (2019). Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 148, Article 119717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119717

This study explores the psychological factors that influence market diffusion of popular culture digital services. Digital service websites have been diffusing through global markets with relative ease, but the factors influencing this are not well u... Read More about Technology Adoption Factors in the Digitization of Popular Culture: Analyzing the Online Gambling Market.

A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management's bottom-line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors (2019)
Journal Article
Babalola, M., Greenbaum, R., Armanani, R., Shoss, M., Deng, Y., Garba, O., & Guo, L. (2020). A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management's bottom-line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors. Personnel Psychology, 73(1), 19-41. https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12355

Emerging research suggests that bottom-line mentalities (BLMs) (i.e., a sole focus on bottom-line outcomes to the exclusion of other considerations) can have dysfunctional consequences within the workplace. However, research has yet to consider how a... Read More about A business frame perspective on why perceptions of top management's bottom-line mentality result in employees’ good and bad behaviors.

Grey zones in leadership and safety. Comment on Katz-Navon, Kark and Delegach (2019) (2019)
Journal Article
Epitropaki, O., & Turner, N. (2020). Grey zones in leadership and safety. Comment on Katz-Navon, Kark and Delegach (2019). Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(1), 142-145. https://doi.org/10.5465/amd.2019.0119

The paper provides a commentary on Katz-Navon, Kark, and Delegach's (2019: in press) Academy of Management Discoveries paper titled: "Trapped in the middle: Challenging the linear approach to the relationship between leadership and safety".

Growth Options and Related Stock Market Anomalies: Profitability, Distress, Lotteryness, and Volatility (2019)
Journal Article
Bali, T. G., Del Viva, L., Lambertides, N., & Trigeorgis, L. (2020). Growth Options and Related Stock Market Anomalies: Profitability, Distress, Lotteryness, and Volatility. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 55(7), 2150-2180. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022109019000619

We provide new evidence on the economic role of growth options behind the profitability, distress, lotteryness, and volatility anomalies. We use idiosyncratic skewness to measure growth options and estimate expected idiosyncratic skewness capturing i... Read More about Growth Options and Related Stock Market Anomalies: Profitability, Distress, Lotteryness, and Volatility.

Challenges for foreign companies in China: Implications for research and practice (2019)
Journal Article
Froese, F., Sutherland, D., Lee, J., Liu, Y., & Pan, Y. (2019). Challenges for foreign companies in China: Implications for research and practice. Asian Business and Management, 18(4), 249-262. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41291-019-00084-0

As a large country with great development potential, China has been one of the most popular foreign direct investment destinations. However, foreign companies increasingly face a variety of challenges especially during the “soft-landing” of the Chine... Read More about Challenges for foreign companies in China: Implications for research and practice.

Customer service at altitude: Effects of empowering leadership (2019)
Journal Article
Aryee, S., Kim, T., Zhou, Q., & Ryu, S. (2019). Customer service at altitude: Effects of empowering leadership. International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 31(9), 3722-3741. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijchm-11-2018-0900

Purpose: This paper aims to examine how team-level empowering leadership related to service performance through thriving at work and how shared organizational social exchange and customer orientation moderated the latter relationships. Design/methodo... Read More about Customer service at altitude: Effects of empowering leadership.

Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process (2019)
Journal Article
Toth-Bos, A., Wisse, B., & Farago, K. (2019). Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 73, 25-42. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijintrel.2019.07.008

Migration poses a strong contextual change for individuals and it necessitates the adjustment of goals and aspirations. Although goal-related processes seem highly relevant to migration success (e.g., migrant well-being and adjustment), existing rese... Read More about Goal pursuit during the three stages of the migration process.

From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China (2019)
Journal Article
Yu, Q., Yen, D., Cappellini, B., & Wang, C. (2021). From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China. International Marketing Review, 38(4), 671-689. https://doi.org/10.1108/imr-12-2018-0362

Purpose: Previous literature has often focused on Asian migrants’ acculturation to Western cultures with data collected in the Western contexts. This study will explore Western consumers’ acculturation to East Asian cultures and their consumption beh... Read More about From West to East: British Sojourners’ acculturation in China.

Mapping themes in the study of new work practices (2019)
Journal Article
Aroles, J., Mitev, N., & de Vaujany, F. (2019). Mapping themes in the study of new work practices. New Technology, Work and Employment, 34(3), 285-299. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12146

Both shaping and shaped by technological, economic and social facets, the world of work has witnessed a wide array of changes. This review article sets out to provide a synthesis of some of the main directions and insights of existing research connec... Read More about Mapping themes in the study of new work practices.

The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence (2019)
Journal Article
Zheng, Y., Graham, L., Farh, J., & Huang, X. (2021). The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence. Journal of Business Ethics, 170(1), 133-146. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-019-04261-1

In a sample of 522 police officers and staff in an English police force, we investigated the role of authoritarian leadership in reducing the levels of employee ethical voice (i.e., employees discussing and speaking out opinions against unethical iss... Read More about The Impact of Authoritarian Leadership on Ethical Voice: A Moderated Mediation Model of Felt Uncertainty and Leader Benevolence.

Technology readiness: a meta-analysis of conceptualizations of the construct and its impact on technology usage (2019)
Journal Article
Blut, M., & Wang, C. (2020). Technology readiness: a meta-analysis of conceptualizations of the construct and its impact on technology usage. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 48(4), 649-669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11747-019-00680-8

The technology readiness (TR) index aims to better understand people’s propensity to embrace and use cutting-edge technologies. The initial TR construct considers four dimensions—innovativeness, optimism, insecurity, and discomfort—that collectively... Read More about Technology readiness: a meta-analysis of conceptualizations of the construct and its impact on technology usage.

Assembly systems in Industry 4.0 era: a road map to understand Assembly 4.0 (2019)
Journal Article
Cohen, Y., Naseraldin, H., Chaudhuri, A., & Pilati, F. (2019). Assembly systems in Industry 4.0 era: a road map to understand Assembly 4.0. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 105, 4037–4054. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-019-04203-1

The 4th industrial revolution (Industry 4.0, I4.0) is based upon the penetration of many new technologies to the industrial world. These technologies are posed to fundamentally change assembly lines around the world. Assembly systems transformed by I... Read More about Assembly systems in Industry 4.0 era: a road map to understand Assembly 4.0.