{"title":"Taking the Path Less Traveled: How Responsible Leadership Addresses a Grand Challenge in Public Health, a Case Study from China","authors":"Zhi-Xue Zhang, Xiwei Yi, Yuntao Dong","doi":"10.1017/mor.2022.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.54","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study unpacks how responsible leadership driven by a social mission can accomplish both social objectives and financial goals to support an organization's survival. We focus on a social enterprise in the healthcare industry in China and examine how it balances its social mission and economic goals by enlarging the capacity of medical institutions and providing high-quality services to a high number of patients. Through our analysis of the case firm, we reveal the motivation and actions of an entrepreneur in establishing a socially responsible firm and the social implications of responsible leadership in operating such an enterprise. We provide an important supplement and extension to the work of Smith and Besharov (2019) by demonstrating how a responsible leader in China manages the process of balancing social and economic goals. We further contribute to the understanding of how a socially responsible firm can improve the healthcare industry and the reform of China's healthcare.","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"838 - 855"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48080981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roles of Supply Networks and Board Interlocks in Firms’ Technological Entry and Exit: Evidence from the Chinese Automotive Industry","authors":"R. Aalbers, Rongkang Ma","doi":"10.1017/mor.2023.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.5","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this research, we explore how supply networks and board interlocks – as distinct, yet parallel interorganizational networks – jointly influence firms’ entry into new technology domains and exit from old technology domains. Drawing from the perspectives of social networks and organizational learning we highlight the relevance of the interdependency between these networks for a firm's technological entry and exit decisions. We argue that a firm that maintains a large number of supplier ties is more likely to enter new technology domains and exit from old technology domains instead. We further find empirical evidence that the degree centrality of a firm in its board interlock network strengthens these effects. Our theoretical arguments are supported through stochastic actor-based modeling analysis for the longitudinal and multilevel networks of 86 firms active in the Chinese automotive during 2011–2015. These findings inform the literature on interorganizational network dynamics as we insert relational pluralism to examine the complexities of organizational relationships as antecedents to a firms’ technological entry and exit. Finally, we imagine the implications of our analysis for management as they shed light on how multiple interorganizational relationships affect firms’ decisions on new technology entry and old technology exit. 摘要: 本研究探讨了供应网络和董事会连锁作为不同但平行的组织间网络是如何共同影响企业进入新技术领域和退出旧技术领域的。基于社会网络和组织学习视角,本文强调了这两类网络影响企业技术进入和退出决策的相互依赖性。本文认为保持大量供应商关系的企业更有可能进入新的技术领域以及退出旧的技术领域。同时,企业在董事会连锁网络中的中心度会增强这种效应。作者基于随机行动者模型,对2011-2015年间中国汽车行业86家公司的数据进行了多层次纵向网络实证分析,结果支持了本文的理论观点。本研究引入关系多元化视角,来揭示组织间网络关系复杂性对于企业技术进入和退出的影响,丰富了组织间网络动态相关文献。同时,对于企业通过管理多重组织间关系进而做出新技术进入和旧技术退出决策具有重要实践启示。","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"279 - 315"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47904689","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paula Margaretic, Diego Finchelstein, Agustín Sotelo
{"title":"Containment Measures and Business Confidence in COVID Times: A Global Study","authors":"Paula Margaretic, Diego Finchelstein, Agustín Sotelo","doi":"10.1017/mor.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, we take a global perspective to assess the impact of the exogenous COVID pandemic shock on business confidence. Through a quantitative analysis of 31 advanced and 12 emerging economies over the period from January 2018 to December 2020, we provide a novel investigation of a unique worldwide event, in contrast to the most frequent exogenous shocks, which typically have a more limited local or regional scope. We proxy business expectations with the business confidence indicator or BCI. First, we find that the containment measures for the COVID pandemic have negatively affected business confidence, with the compulsory policies having a greater negative effect on BCI than the voluntary ones. Second, we find positive spillover effects on the local BCIs from the containment measures implemented in neighboring countries. This suggests that business people are not against compulsory measures per se, but rather that they are less inclined to assume the costs of these. Third, we find that while the severity of containment measures has been greater in emerging countries, the negative impact on BCI of these containment measures has been larger in advanced economies. 摘要: 本文采用全球视角来评估新冠疫情带来的外源性休克给企业家经商信心带来的影响。通过对31个发达经济体和12个发展中经济体从2018年1月至2020年12月数据的量化分析,我们对该全球性事件进行了调研。使用企业家的 “商业期待” 来代表其经商信心,我们发现了几个重要结果。首先,新冠防疫措施挫伤了经商信心,措施越严厉,负面效应越大。其次,邻国由于疫情措施对经商信心的挫伤会产生溢出效应,而影响本地企业家的经商信心。第三,虽然发展中经济体的防疫措施更加严厉,但其负面影响却在发达经济体中更大。","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"372 - 413"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46353458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter from the Editor","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/mor.2023.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.8","url":null,"abstract":"An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135573864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill","authors":"Yi Chen, W. Boh, Sze‐Sze Wong, Jun Shao","doi":"10.1017/mor.2023.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2023.6","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Existing research examining the curvilinear relationship between network centrality and performance tends to focus on the information recipients’ perspective. Focusing on the information providers’ perspective, our study draws upon social exchange theory to demonstrate that the advice-giving centrality-performance relationship for information providers has an inverse U-shape due to decreasing benefits and increasing costs of maintaining more advice-giving ties. We further show that increasing advice-giving centrality increases the likelihood that individuals would become a hindrance to coworkers, as they become bottlenecks impeding efficient workflow. However, our study demonstrates that political skill enables them to overcome the interpersonal challenges associated with high advice-giving centrality. Specifically, individuals with high political skills can better convert advice-giving ties to resources that could assist their cooperation with coworkers, reducing the hindrance they impose. Overall, we provide insights into the trade-off between the benefits and costs of advice-giving ties from a social exchange perspective and examine political skill as an important mitigator of the downsides of large advice-giving networks – a key area that has been hitherto largely unexplored. 摘要: 现有文献在考察个体社交网络中心度和工作绩效之间的曲线关系时,往往聚焦于信息接收者的视角。本研究站在信息/建议提供者的角度,基于社会交换理论来推断:其建议的网络中心度与其工作绩效呈现倒U型的关系,因为维护与建议接受者的关系,会出现收益递减而成本递增的趋势。此外,建议提供者过高的网络中心度,会使他们成为高效工作流程的瓶颈,从而成为同事工作中的阻碍。我们的研究结果支持上述推论,同时表明,建议提供者的政治技能有助于克服其网络中心度带来的人际挑战。那些政治技能高的个体可以更好地将与建议接收者的关系,转化为有助于和同事开展合作的资源,从而减少同事设置的障碍。总的来说,我们从社会交换的视角解读了建议提供者与接受者关系中的利弊权衡,并考察了政治技能对建议网络的负面影响产生的重要缓解作用。","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"316 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41720499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Group Polarization in Board Decisions about Strategic Change: Evidence from Chinese Publicly Listed Companies (2008–2018)","authors":"Ming Zhang, Xufei Ma, Weihong Chen, Hailin Lan","doi":"10.1017/mor.2022.58","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.58","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Strategic management scholars have shown increasing interest in explaining strategic change from the perspective of cognitive bias. However, most studies focus on individual cognitive bias but pay little attention to group cognitive bias. This study introduces a typical group cognitive bias (group polarization) to explain strategic change decisions made by the board of directors. Following the theory of group polarization, we argue that, when the average prior strategic change experienced in performance decline by board directors is relatively high (or low), the focal strategic change in performance decline will become even higher (or lower). We further contend that the proportion of female directors and board versus CEO power as the contingencies can mitigate this group polarization effect. Our hypotheses were strongly supported by a longitudinal sample of Chinese publicly listed companies during 2008–2018. The study's framework and findings contribute to the contextualization of social psychology research on group polarization in the study of board's strategic decision-making.","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"201 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48778395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploration–Exploitation Duality with Both Tradeoff and Synergy: The Curvilinear Interaction Effects of Learning Modes on Innovation Types","authors":"P. Li, Heng Liu, Yuan Li, Haifeng Wang","doi":"10.1017/mor.2022.49","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.49","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How can a firm apply the appropriate interaction between exploration and exploitation with the goal of either radical or incremental innovation? In this study, we seek to answer this puzzling question by reframing exploitation and exploration as a duality of learning (i.e., two modes that are partial complementary for synergy as well as partial conflicting for tradeoff). Specifically, rather than assuming either a positive or negative interaction between exploration and exploitation as prior literature has done, our study highlights a novel pattern of inverted U-shaped interaction between exploration and exploitation for both radical and incremental innovations. With a Chinese sample of 508 firms, our empirical evidence supports our prediction of two patterns of inverted U-shaped interaction of exploration and exploitation. Such unique findings showcase the unique value of reframing paradox into duality from the meta-perspective of yin-yang balancing to shed new light on organizational ambidexterity and innovation management.","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"498 - 532"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44529610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Board Interlock Tenure and Firm Internationalization","authors":"Ziyan Zhu, Ziliang Deng","doi":"10.1017/mor.2022.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.45","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT To overcome liabilities of foreignness and outsidership during internationalization, board interlock is an effective conduit of foreign knowledge inflows and organizational learning that firms require. We focus on the time dimension of such influence and hypothesize that the tenure of board interlocks with firms with experience in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in a country promotes the OFDI decision of the focal firm to that particular country. However, such an effect diminishes as the tenure of interlock ties increases. Moreover, as an alternative knowledge source, OFDI knowledge from the focal firm's neighboring region may weaken the baseline effect. Based on longitudinal data of listed firms in China, our empirical results support the hypotheses. This study enriches the literature on social network learning by identifying its temporal nature and the substitution between different knowledge sources. It also demonstrates the importance of rotating a firm's board members, so that knowledge acquisition and learning remain fresh. 摘要 为了克服企业在国际化过程中遇到的外来者劣势或局外人劣势,企业常常通过建立连锁董事进行组织学习并获取国际知识。本研究关注连锁董事任职时间长短的效应,假设虽然与其他拥有对某一国家的对外直接投资经验企业建立连锁董事会促进本企业对同一国家的对外直接投资决策,但这种影响会随着连锁董事任期的增长而减弱。与此同时,企业拥有的对所在区域的对外直接投资知识可以削弱连锁董事任期对企业国际化决策的影响。本研究采用中国上市公司的面板数据进行了回归分析,结果证实了所提假设。本研究表明,企业在社会网络中学习的时间维度和不同知识来源之间的替代都会影响企业的决策,因此丰富了社会网络学习的相关文献。同时,本研究也阐述了企业董事会成员轮换的重要性,因为只有这样才能获取知识并保持习得知识的新颖性。","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"256 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49326456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shalini Jain, Naman Desai, Viswanath Pingali, Arindam Tripathy
{"title":"Choosing Beyond Compliance Over Dormancy: Corporate Response to India's Mandatory CSR Expenditure Law","authors":"Shalini Jain, Naman Desai, Viswanath Pingali, Arindam Tripathy","doi":"10.1017/mor.2022.57","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/mor.2022.57","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines whether firms engaged in high levels of voluntary CSR (corporate social responsibility) alter their strategic choices in response to detrimental public policy – specifically India's Companies Act (2013) that mandates qualifying firms to spend 2% of their three-year average net profits on CSR. Drawing on the concept of organizational dormancy, we argue that firm capabilities, political awareness, exposure to political pluralism, and ownership identity may explain choice heterogeneity among these firms. Our key and non-intuitive finding is that even in the absence of discretionary choice in determining optimal CSR expenditure, firms are less likely to choose dormancy and instead embrace and even surpass the stipulations of the law in their CSR contributions. Also, politically aware firms are more likely to opt for dormancy over compliance. Managerial and policy implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":47798,"journal":{"name":"Management and Organization Review","volume":"19 1","pages":"594 - 623"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48685348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}