{"title":"The paradox of research and development productivity and firm growth: Empirical evidence from publicly listed firms in the United Kingdom","authors":"Alaa Abed","doi":"10.1111/emre.12647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12647","url":null,"abstract":"This research aims to investigate the intricate association between research and development (R&D) productivity, specifically assessed through Total Factor Productivity (TFP), and various dimensions of firm growth. Our analysis provides a comprehensive examination of different aspects of growth, including sales, productivity, and employment growth. In addition, we investigate the role of R&D investment in conjunction with R&D productivity to provide clear insights into this multifaceted relationship. Although conventional wisdom suggests a positive relationship between R&D and firm growth, our empirical exploration reveals a more intricate reality. Using 164 non‐financial firms listed on the FTSE 350, our findings indicate that while R&D indeed contributes significantly to firm growth, the nature of this influence is contingent upon the specific dimension of growth under consideration and the adopted empirical models. For example, our baseline model shows a positive relationship between R&D productivity and sales and productivity growth. However, this result does not hold for employment growth. This study makes a substantial contribution to the existing body of research on R&D by illuminating the indirect intricacies of this relationship, offering practical insights for both scholars and industry professionals navigating the complex landscape of R&D‐induced growth within the economic milieu.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140594204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Gligor, Ismail Gölgeci, Vipul Garg, Yavuz Idug, Uchenna Ekezie, Javad Feiz Abadi, Ferhat Caliskan
{"title":"Exploring the impact of punishments on employee effort and performance in the workplace: Insights from England's premier league","authors":"David Gligor, Ismail Gölgeci, Vipul Garg, Yavuz Idug, Uchenna Ekezie, Javad Feiz Abadi, Ferhat Caliskan","doi":"10.1111/emre.12643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12643","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the prevalence of punishment as a method of enforcing organizational policies, management literature provides little guidance on the impact of punishment on individuals' work performance. A sample of 412 professional soccer players in England's Premier League was utilized to collect unobtrusive, longitudinal data to better understand how individuals react to punishments in their workplace. Our findings indicate that individuals deploy significantly more effort (run more kilometers) following a punishment. However, the findings also indicate that individuals do not perform better following the administration of punishment. In fact, their performance is significantly lower than before the punishment. Although individuals work harder, they actually perform weaker. Further, we found that, when punished more than their team members, individuals deploy significantly more effort than individuals who get punished less than their team members but perform significantly weaker than those individuals.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140322457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Endogeneity and causal attributions in management research: Some reflections and proposals","authors":"Marco S. Giarratana","doi":"10.1111/emre.12642","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emre.12642","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores the pivotal role of causal identification in the domain of management research and its alignment with theory creation. It seeks to stimulate thought about how researchers can approach theories and their causal identification with a review of the canonical methods. The article first addresses the intricacies of identification and the principal methodologies that researchers have recently employed in their investigations. Subsequently, it delves into the inherent costs associated with identification, specifically the need for additional assumptions, and the potential constraints on generalizability. It also promotes a more thoroughly examination of the nature of endogeneity. Finally, it explores how the link between causal identification and theory legitimacy could generate superstitious trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"21 1","pages":"3-8"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140129428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marian Garcia Martinez, Ferdaous Zouaghi, Mercedes Sánchez García
{"title":"Geographical and cognitive proximity effects on innovation performance: Which types of proximity for which types of innovation?","authors":"Marian Garcia Martinez, Ferdaous Zouaghi, Mercedes Sánchez García","doi":"10.1111/emre.12641","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12641","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of the paper is to explore the multi‐dimensional and intersecting nature of proximity to drive innovation performance. Applying a multi‐dimensional proximity framework, the study provides a deeper understanding of the importance of substitution and overlap mechanisms in the relation between geographical and cognitive proximity dimensions in innovation performance. The paper further analyses the moderation effect of organisational innovation in this relationship. Multivariate analysis proves the interaction effects between geographical and cognitive proximity, where cognitive proximity both substitutes and complements geographical proximity. However, external knowledge search for innovation along proximity dimensions differs depending on the type of innovation. Our findings corroborate the proximity paradox caused by lock‐in effects with the optimal level of proximity influenced by the interdependencies between proximity dimensions. This inverse U‐shaped relationship is flatter for firms that have adopted organisational innovation. External knowledge linkages should be tailored to the favourable characteristic of proximity to enhance firm innovation performance.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alain Neher, Jane Maley, Lucia Wuersch, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko
{"title":"Improving employee acceptability of performance management across borders: A reciprocity perspective","authors":"Alain Neher, Jane Maley, Lucia Wuersch, Branka Krivokapic-Skoko","doi":"10.1111/emre.12639","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emre.12639","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This conceptual work critically examines how employees in multinational corporations (MNCs) receive performance management (PM) systems. Employee acceptance of the PM system across MNCs' subsidiaries is critical for PM effectiveness. Furthermore, the context plays a significant role in determining employee acceptance of the PM, and this varies widely across borders. The paper uses the lens of reciprocity theory to propose a conceptual PM framework to advance employee acceptability of PM. Four key steps in the framework assess the acceptability of PM at different stages, ensuring the PM system evolves and improves with each stage. These steps include analysing the context of the subsidiary, developing and applying management actions that reflect the goals of the MNC, its subsidiaries and individual employees and embedding the customised PM process across the MNC to foster trust and the perception of fairness. The framework's value for practitioners is to increase employees' probability of accepting the PM. We conclude that multinationals must pay more attention to the PM context across their borders, particularly the cultural context.</p>","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"21 4","pages":"871-886"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emre.12639","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140025174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maximilian H. Theissen, Hubertus H. Theissen, Ali A. Gümüsay
{"title":"Self-transcendent leadership: A meta-perspective","authors":"Maximilian H. Theissen, Hubertus H. Theissen, Ali A. Gümüsay","doi":"10.1111/emre.12640","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emre.12640","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Self-transcendence as a concept is increasingly found in leadership literature—yet in diverse ways. It is this diversity that serves as the motivation for the current article in which we develop a comprehensive and coherent conceptualization of self-transcendence for leadership research. We demonstrate that self-transcendence is the cognitive orientation of accepting something other than one's self to be of highest worth. We show that this something, which is greater than the self, may take four different forms: other people, social collectives, moral principles and ideals, or metaphysical beings. We contribute to leadership research by linking each greater something to one theory: servant, transformational, moral, and spiritual leadership. Our conceptualization of self-transcendence allows us to integrate different leadership theories into a meta-perspective of self-transcendent leadership. We conclude with implications for leadership research as well as practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"21 4","pages":"854-870"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-02-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/emre.12640","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139952360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of workplace diversity climate on the career satisfaction of skilled migrant employees","authors":"Ali Farashah, Tomas Blomquist, Almina Bešić","doi":"10.1111/emre.12635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12635","url":null,"abstract":"Skilled migrant workers often experience downward career mobility post-migration. We investigate how diversity climate as an organizational response to support migrants affects the career satisfaction of migrant employees. Survey data from 179 skilled migrants working in Sweden reveal that perceived diversity climate impacts career satisfaction through a dual-path model. It negatively affects perceived overqualification, which correlates with lower career satisfaction, while positively relating to perceived organizational justice, which correlates with higher career satisfaction. These effects are contingent on individual factors. Lower career adaptability amplifies the negative impact of perceived overqualification, and higher career adaptability strengthens the positive influence of perceived organizational justice. The findings highlight the boundary conditions of workplace diversity climate–career outcome relationships and underscore the interaction of organizational and individual factors and, in particular, the agency and proactivity of skilled migrants through career adaptability.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Björn Claes, Sonia S. Siraz, Julio de Castro, Eléanor Maéva Lapeyre
{"title":"What is the quack about? Legitimation strategies and their perceived appropriateness in the foie gras industry","authors":"Björn Claes, Sonia S. Siraz, Julio de Castro, Eléanor Maéva Lapeyre","doi":"10.1111/emre.12634","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12634","url":null,"abstract":"This study contributes to the legitimacy literature by investigating the perceived appropriateness of legitimation strategies used by controversial organizations. Through a mixed-method approach comprising interviews and conjoint experiments, we shed light on how evaluators perceive the appropriateness of five legitimation strategies used by the foie gras industry in France and how evaluators' environmentalism and media skepticism influence their perceptions. Some strategies favored by the industry are perceived as inappropriate by evaluators and thus may obstruct or, worse, counter the intended goal of legitimacy enhancement. Moreover, we observe that evaluators' high environmentalism and high media skepticism affect the perceived appropriateness of the strategies, albeit not of all five. Evaluators with high media skepticism favor explanation discourses and strategies that establish a common identity of the industry. Evaluators with high environmentalism favor the use of recognizable quality standards and labels, yet they are wary of high levels of organization through structured representation of industry interests.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139515186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prioritizing beliefs and the formation of expectations","authors":"Timo Ehrig","doi":"10.1111/emre.12602","DOIUrl":"10.1111/emre.12602","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How do expectations for novel opportunities—like Amazon from the perspective of 1998—come about? To form such expectations, decision-makers need to derive plausible conclusions that go beyond the available information by interpreting it with the help of theories. I explain why asymmetric expectations among rational individuals can exist, even when information is symmetric: Differences in the willingness to question of (defined as “a preference ordering over”) elementary theoretical explanations of the novelty bring about heterogeneity in final expectations. I further argue that one source of better expectations is the skill to choose the relative willingness to question beliefs and thus the skill to integrate theories. I identify the skills of decision-makers to detect and resolve inconsistencies and to decide when to give up beliefs again as sources of advantages in forming expectations.</p>","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"20 4","pages":"651-664"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139499126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competitive advantage through general and mobile human capital. A study on Italian “Serie A” football","authors":"Andrea Lanza, Giuseppina Simone","doi":"10.1111/emre.12633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/emre.12633","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we examine the contribution of, respectively, general and mobile human capital to organizational competitive advantage. Our findings suggest that general human capital and mobile human capital positively affect organizational results under recurrent human capital mobility. Thus, our study revises and extends the conceptual domain of the Resource-based View (RBV) of the firm, because it emphasizes the relevance of general human capital in the quest for competitive advantage and underscores that, in the presence of human capital recurrent mobility, organizations can take advantage of this contingency, instead of being hindered by it. Also, our study sheds new light on the complementarity between novel and existing human capital, because we empirically observe that the interplay between the former and the latter contributes to organizational advantage. Our research setting is the Italian Serie A professional football, from the 2017–2018 through the 2021–2022 season.","PeriodicalId":47372,"journal":{"name":"European Management Review","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2024-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139464819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}