Liqing Tang , Tienan Wang , Feiyang Guan , Linbing Sun
{"title":"Don't ignore either side: The differential impact of ego-network density of the focal firm and partner on technological invasion","authors":"Liqing Tang , Tienan Wang , Feiyang Guan , Linbing Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study investigated the differential effects of the ego-network density (i.e., ego-density) of the focal firm and its partner on the focal firm's competitive behavior toward its partner in technological areas, as well as the moderating role of relative structural holes in the whole alliance network. The empirical findings indicate that the ego-density of the focal firm has an inverted U-shaped relationship with technological invasion, whereas the ego-density of the partner firm has a negative effect. Relative structural holes also appear to strengthen the inverted U-shaped relationship between the focal firm's ego-density and technological invasion while attenuating the negative effect of the partner firm's ego-density on technological invasion. By concurrently considering both participants in this allying relationship and the synergistic interaction of the ego and whole alliance network, these results add to our understanding of the coopetition relationship within such networks.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 4","pages":"Pages 628-639"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141144574","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}
Amitabh Anand , Rita Tóth , Jessica L. Doll , Sanjay Kumar Singh
{"title":"Wake up and get some sleep: Reviewing workplace napping and charting future directions","authors":"Amitabh Anand , Rita Tóth , Jessica L. Doll , Sanjay Kumar Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although research demonstrates the importance of napping for health and well-being within work settings, the topic has resulted in limited empirical investigations, fragmented literary results, and an elusive understanding of whether napping should be normalized in the workplace. Also, what needs to be clarified are the benefits of workplace napping (WN) and the role of human resource managers in promoting the practice of WN. A systematic, narrative synthesis approach is used to review the existing WN literature, conceptualize WN, and discuss its benefits for employee relations, productivity, and the role of human resource managers on WN. Finally, based on this conceptual backdrop, future research questions are proposed that help pave the way for the normalization of WN.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 4","pages":"Pages 561-572"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140596263","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}
Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro , Laura Di Chiacchio , Clara Cubillas-Para
{"title":"Enhancing green process innovation performance: The role of regenerative unlearning and knowledge base management","authors":"Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro , Laura Di Chiacchio , Clara Cubillas-Para","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Spanish manufacturing companies are urged to adopt greener practices to mitigate their environmental footprint. However, they often lack the knowledge to do so. Following a knowledge-based approach, this study analyzes the role of strategic knowledge management in enhancing organizational green performance. It introduces the concept of regenerative unlearning, defining it as the result of an organizational change that has consequences at the organizational level. Specifically, it tests the direct influence of regenerative unlearning on green process innovation performance and its indirect influence through knowledge breadth and depth. By analyzing 310 Spanish medium-sized manufacturing companies, results show that updating and managing the knowledge base positively impacts the company's green process innovation performance. This implies that leveraging regenerative unlearning as part of companies' knowledge management strategy is part of the solution to achieving ecological efficiency in the manufacturing industry. Finally, actionable recommendations for industry leaders to improve their green performance are provided.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 4","pages":"Pages 617-627"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141132966","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":"Leveraging employee green entrepreneurial orientation for enhancing environmental performance: The multi-level role of green creativity and green decision comprehensiveness","authors":"Colin C.J. Cheng , Eric C. Shiu","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.06.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In view of increasing demands for employees engaging in environmental sustainability, the authors suggest firms can use employee green entrepreneurial orientation (eGEO) to enhance their environmental performance. Relying on the natural resource-based view as the underlying theoretical foundation and the source–position–performance model as the overarching framework, the authors propose a theoretical model across employee and firm levels to examine how eGEO promotes employee and firm environmental performance. Using multi-source surveys and secondary proxy data through multiple waves of data collection from 246 firms, the results indicate that eGEO has a positive indirect effect on employee environmental performance through employee green creativity and a positive indirect effect on firm environmental performance through firm green creativity. The results further indicate that green decision comprehensiveness strengthens these effects. This study contributes to research on green entrepreneurship by focusing on a novel characteristic of eGEO and by underscoring the necessity of treating green creativity as separate dimensions, employee and firm, that relate eGEO and environmental performance. It also contributes to research on strategic decision-making by revealing which strategic decision processes encourage eGEO in both employee and firm green creativity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 4","pages":"Pages 650-663"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141503581","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 gender pay gap at the top floor: A multilevel analysis of Spanish listed companies","authors":"C. José García , Begoña Herrero , Luis E. Vila","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.06.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.06.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The gender pay gap, including at the top management level, is a socially relevant issue; however, it remains controversial. This study explores the distribution of pay by gender for executive directors of Spanish listed companies over the period 2012 to 2021. The analysis is based on multilevel regression. Three-level models with a fixed slope for gender show that female directors face an average 45% pay penalty relative to their male peers after controlling for time-varying individual and board/firm variables, time-invariant firm characteristics, and year of observation. A three-level model including all control variables and a random slope for gender shows that the gender pay penalty varies significantly across boards/firms (from 18% to 78%), with an average value of 46%. This finding suggests that unobservable heterogeneity among firms is a primary source of the observed gender pay gap.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 4","pages":"Pages 573-583"},"PeriodicalIF":7.3,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141550346","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":"Values in public management: Privatization and the public–private divide","authors":"Sorin Dan , Tom S. Karlsson , David E. Mills","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 3","pages":"Pages 341-343"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144230141","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":"Time banditry behavior in China: Dimension exploration and scale development","authors":"Xiaoyue Niu (牛笑悦) , Guilan Yu (于桂兰) , Weihang Cao (曹伟航)","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.04.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.04.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Time banditry behavior (TBB) refers to employees participating in nonwork-related activities during work hours while still being compensated by the company for that time. Although there are existing scales to measure this behavior, their relevance in the Chinese context is constrained by the cultural and workplace differences between China and Western countries. Understanding employees’ TBB in China can help Chinese and global cross-cultural managers (e.g., European expatriate managers in China) achieve a more inclusive and efficient management style. Therefore, the researchers investigate the Chinese context’s structural dimensions and measurement of TBB. Study 1 used a qualitative approach to analyze primary data and identify four structural dimensions of TBB in China: Relaxation, Socialization, Private Affairs, and Self-Improvement. Study 2 developed and tested a four-dimensional scale of TBB using a quantitative method and five empirical samples, including one sample of subject matter experts and four samples of employed adults. This study provides evidence of reliability, content, convergent, and discriminant validity with constructs in TBB’s nomological network and incremental predictive ability of expected outcomes. This paper discusses the implications of the findings for both theoretical and practical applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 3","pages":"Pages 527-537"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144230147","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}
Patricia Elgoibar , Pablo Ruiz-Palomino , Santiago Gutierrez-Broncano
{"title":"Laissez-faire leadership, trust in subordinates and problem-solving conflict management: A multigroup analysis across family and non-family businesses","authors":"Patricia Elgoibar , Pablo Ruiz-Palomino , Santiago Gutierrez-Broncano","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Laissez faire leadership (LFL) has been linked to non-constructive approaches to conflict management, yet <em>if</em> and <em>how</em> LFL can explain the use of more constructive approaches (e.g., problem-solving) has not been studied. This is surprising given that <em>trust in subordinates</em> is characteristic of LFL, which is also key to cooperative relationships where the use of problem-solving is involved. Furthermore, compared to non-family businesses (NFBs), the socioemotional wealth that governs family businesses' (FBs) decision-making should make LFL, the trust placed in subordinates and the use of problem-solving more likely among the latter. In this study, we compare the use of LFL in FBs versus NFBs and analyze whether trust in subordinates lies behind a positive link between LFL and the use of this approach, and whether the distinctive socioemotional wealth of FBs accounts for differences in this relationship. Using a sample of 326 general managers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Ecuador, two complementary methods, partial least squares (PLS) and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fs/QCA), yielded robust findings. As expected, differences in the strength of this relationship were found across FBs and NFBs, with LFL and both affective and cognitive trust being critical for the use of problem-solving in FBs but with cognitive trust playing this principal role in NFBs. Our findings link the largely separate FB literature on leadership and conflict management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 3","pages":"Pages 466-480"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140833506","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}
Jill A. Gould , Carol T. Kulik , Ashley L.M. Platt
{"title":"A scoping review of gendered academic career outcomes: An ecosystem perspective","authors":"Jill A. Gould , Carol T. Kulik , Ashley L.M. Platt","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.02.006","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2025.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A robust body of research demonstrates that women experience poorer career outcomes than men in academia. We conduct a scoping review of research investigating career outcome differences between female and male academics and find that research on this topic has increased over time. However, we also find that research examines a limited number of career outcomes (authorship and leadership) and overlooks the interconnections between academic career outcomes that accumulate gender disadvantage over an entire career. Using an ecosystem perspective, we lay the foundation for an academic career framework that aligns a causal chain of career outcomes with influential organisational actors best positioned to implement corrective interventions. Our review identifies empty spaces in the empirical database: researchers are focussing on gender differences in career outcomes that occur late in the causal chain (e.g., authorship), with less attention to gender disadvantage early in the causal chain (e.g., workloads). We encourage researchers to investigate gender differences in an expanded portfolio of career outcomes. We call on academic institutions to support research on outcome interconnections, so that their interventions can target gender bias at the earliest links in a causal chain. Finally, we highlight the value of engaging a diverse set of actors (academic institutions, professional associations, journals and funding agencies) to make academia more gender-inclusive.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 3","pages":"Pages 371-382"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144230145","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":"Communities of practice as hybrids: Delving into the hybridization work of community leaders","authors":"Isabelle Corbett-Etchevers, Sabine Carton, Sandrine Falcy, Armelle Farastier","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span><span>In this paper, we consider communities of practice (CoP) as hybrid organizational forms where two institutional logics coexist. They carry elements of a social logic, which highlights the importance of social ties in the sharing of knowledge between members. At the same time, they also bear elements of a business logic, which considers knowledge as an asset to be captured, diffused, controlled and aligned with company strategy. Through a </span>case study of 15 CoP in a </span>multinational company, we explore how community leaders make do with the hybrid nature of their community. We take an institutional work lens to unpack their micro actions. This research contributes to the literature on responses to hybrid forms of organizations. Our results show three different types of hybridization work carried out by CoP leaders: meaning, boundary and identity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"43 3","pages":"Pages 454-465"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140768090","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}