{"title":"Lonely@Work@Home? The impact of work/home demands and support on workplace loneliness during remote work","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.05.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.05.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Workplace loneliness is becoming increasingly prevalent in the fast-growing remote work environment. Remote work exposes employees to different demands and support not only at work but also at home—yet, the influences of demands and support from both work and home have not yet been investigated simultaneously in the workplace loneliness literature. In this study, we examine the role of job <em>and</em> home demands as antecedents of workplace loneliness. Based on employee wellbeing theories and social exchange theory, we predict that work/home demands will create work <em>and</em> home interference, with both mediators then increasing workplace loneliness. Moreover, we assume that both job and home support act as potential moderators to mitigate the negative effects of workplace loneliness. Using a two-wave survey of 232 remote-working employees during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, we found that job demands increased workplace loneliness through heightened work-to-home interference and that this relationship was buffered by job support. Home demands increased workplace loneliness through heightened home-to-work interference, but this relationship was not buffered by home support. Our findings contribute to research and practice by identifying important drivers and remedies for loneliness in the remote workplace during the pandemic and beyond.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 767-778"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49211283","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Management research on the war in Ukraine: Building theory and supporting practitioners","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The war in Ukraine has left thousands dead, disrupted businesses in Ukraine and around the world, and created enormous practical challenges for managers of Ukrainian organizations. We submit that management scholars can and should conduct new research to generate insights which help Ukrainian practitioners address the problems they are experiencing. However, the focus of our essay is on how this can be done in ways where such new research projects also help to advance management theory more broadly. In this way, we propose that studying the context of the war in Ukraine can enrich scholarly understanding of management in ways that help those in Ukraine and elsewhere in the modern world. We reflect on the multiple ways that management scholars can conduct such projects in practice.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 647-652"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139830513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The need to belong: Relational coping strategies in the face of coworker envy","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We develop a theoretical framework delineating employees' relational coping strategies in the face of co-worker envy. Drawing upon belongingness<span> theory, we explicate why and how the perception of being envied prompts employees to engage in social reconnection behaviors inside and outside of their work teams. We propose that in-group versus out-group targeted relational coping strategies are linked to different foci of proactivity. In particular, prosocial helping in the face of co-worker envy increases team-oriented proactivity, whereas network extension leads to career-oriented proactivity. We further posit that social integration in the team moderates envied employees’ relational coping strategies and subsequent proactivity. We test these hypotheses in a multi-source survey among teams in various industries and firm sizes and find support for the mediating mechanism. Furthermore, the results of a multilevel analysis suggest that high social integration in the team strengthens the indirect effect of being envied on team-oriented proactivity via prosocial helping behaviors.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 791-799"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41457444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning by giving-and-taking: Two-way knowledge transfer between core and periphery","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to identify which factors and multifaceted relationships may influence the tendency for the newly created innovative knowledge of foreign subsidiaries in Korea, as the periphery, to be transferred to headquarters or peer subsidiaries in developed countries at the core. Based on survey data from 279 foreign subsidiaries in Korea, our empirical results reveal that the positive effect of knowledge from the headquarters at the core on the innovation performance of the focal subsidiary at the periphery is positively moderated when the subsidiary’s entry objective is knowledge seeking (i.e., research and development). Our findings indicate that when the status of subsidiaries rises throughout the network, knowledge transfer from the periphery to the core becomes more active.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 685-697"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140275306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of peripheral vendors in enhancing the absorptive capacity of offshore software development teams in challenging institutional environments","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to elucidate how vendors located at the periphery facilitate the advancement of offshore software development (OSD) teams' absorptive capacity (AC) despite the unfavourable skill environment prevalent in their home country. Current research does not explain whether and how vendor teams located at the periphery respond to adverse skill environments and contribute towards OSD teams’ AC in spatially distant linkages with international clients at the core. Using an inductive approach, this study developed a conceptual framework that outlines how vendor teams at the periphery acquire the “need knowledge” embedded in the context of clientele teams and subsequently transfer “solution knowledge” to international clients. Our findings highlight the importance of recursive interaction between the periphery vendor team, client teams, external agents, global experts, consultants, and incubators that facilitate this process. All these actors co-drive the AC process whereby periphery vendor teams are not just recipients of knowledge but also contributors of knowledge towards international clients in core regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 658-669"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140403307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leader's relational power and follower creativity: The mediating role of follower relational identification and the moderating role of perceived organizational support for creativity","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Power is an essential part of an organization's functioning. It is important to investigate how a leader's power shapes follower creativity. However, few studies have explored the impact of a leader's power on creativity from a leader–follower dyadic perspective. Simultaneously, the influence of a leader's relational power on followers is worthy of further investigation. From an interpersonal perspective, this study sheds light on relational power to explore how and when a leader's relational power affects follower creativity. Specifically, drawing on the conservation of resources (COR) theory and relational identification theory, we argue that a leader's relational power stimulates follower creativity, and this positive relationship is mediated by the follower's relational identification with the leader. Meanwhile, the indirect effect of a leader's relational power on follower creativity is moderated by perceived organizational support for creativity. Multitime and multisource data were collected to test our hypotheses. We found that a leader's relational power is positively related to follower creativity. The mediating role of the follower's identification with the leader and the moderating role of perceived organizational support for creativity are also supported. Therefore, our study illuminates how and when leaders can promote follower creativity by constructing relational power. Simultaneously, our study deepens our understanding of a leader's relational power in the workplace.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 757-766"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48123908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In the “Crossfire” of the acquisition process: Exploring middle managers’ unfolding mediation dynamics","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study addresses middle managers, a relatively unexplored actor type in the merger and acquisition literature. Building on the mediation metaphor, we explore both acquired and acquiring middle managers throughout the acquisition process. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews, we advance our knowledge of the dynamics of the mediation roles of acquired and acquiring middle managers in the unfolding stages of the acquisition process. Notably, middle managers engage in mediation at three levels—self-mediation, interfirm mediation and stakeholder mediation—which, when combined, create specific mediation dynamics during each acquisition stage. Consequently, the pre-acquisition stage is characterised by cold mediation, the approval stage by informal mediation, the first post-acquisition phase by disrupted mediation and a potential second post-acquisition phase by joint mediation. The main contribution of the paper is in conceptualising middle managers’ mediation roles and the resulting mediation dynamics throughout the acquisition process. Essentially, middle managers are not only intermediaries transferring meanings across organisations but also mediators transforming and adapting the meanings that flow between both organisations, thereby shaping the course of the acquisition process. The paper thus sheds light on the important role of middle managers in facilitating the acquisition process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 800-812"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49019529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charismatic leadership, intra-team communication quality, and team performance: The role of average leadership perceptions and their homogeneity","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This team-level study investigated whether team members’ perceptions of charismatic leadership are related to team performance via team communication quality. We differentiated between average perceptions of charismatic leadership (APCL) and within-team homogeneity in team members' perceptions of charismatic leadership (HPCL). We hypothesized that APCL and HPCL would be positively related to team performance via intra-team communication quality. In addition, we hypothesized that the positive indirect effect of APCL on team performance would be moderated by HPCL. Our mediation and conditional mediation hypotheses were tested using data collected at two time points in a sample of 54 work teams. The results showed that the indirect effect of HPCL on team performance via intra-team communication quality was statistically significant, whereas the indirect effect of APCL was moderated by HPCL (the indirect effect of APCL was significant only at medium and high levels of HPCL).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 735-744"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48394196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership identity construction in a hybrid medical context: ‘Claimed’ but not ‘granted’","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.04.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the United Kingdom National Health Service (NHS), the growing number of hybrid clinical leaders has given rise to professional practice and identity struggles. Co-construction theories of leadership point to a need for leaders to engage in significant ‘identity work’ to construct themselves as leaders and to make legitimate claims for a leadership identity to potential followers. Our research aimed to contribute to the leader-follower literature by examining how medical leaders deal with professional identity struggles and changes to traditional work identities. We draw on data from a study of senior hospital doctors (consultant-level doctors from a variety of medical specialties in Health Boards in NHS Scotland). Our findings suggest that most senior hospital doctors in our study struggle to grant leadership identities to their medical leaders who claim such leadership identities, although they seek to see more doctors engaging in leadership. This article contributes to extant research on the influence of medical leadership roles on leader-follower identity construction.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 745-756"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43013701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Casting a wide net in familiar vs. unfamiliar waters: Impact of types of alliance partner diversity on level and reliability of firm performance","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.06.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>Management researchers emphasize the prevalence and importance of firms’ strategic alliance portfolios in determining various firm outcomes. We extend this literature by empirically testing how two aspects of alliance portfolio partner diversity (industry and organizational type diversity) affect both the level and reliability of firm performance. Using the multiplicative heteroscedasticity estimation technique on a sample of 178 of the largest multinational firms in the automobile and </span>telecommunications industries<span> across the twenty-year time period (1995 to 2014), we demonstrate that firms with greater partner industry diversity in their strategic alliance portfolios enjoy greater performance coupled with greater reliability of performance. In contrast, firms with greater partner organizational type diversity in their strategic alliance portfolios have lower performance coupled with lower reliability of performance.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 5","pages":"Pages 824-833"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136161996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}