{"title":"Blessing or blight? How corporate venture units affect the survival of internal new ventures","authors":"Gundula Lücke, Eve-Michelle Basu, Ivo Zander","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.010","url":null,"abstract":"The literature on structurally separate corporate venture units (CVUs) has suggested how these units may improve but also to some extent attenuate the survival chances of new ventures that are launched within the host corporation. Yet, there has been little empirical knowledge about the extent to which these units affect the survival of internal new ventures. We draw upon a dataset of 80 internal new ventures to assess if the survival of internal new ventures depends on their placement inside or outside CVUs. Controlling for a set of factors that may affect internal new venture survival, we find that placement in CVUs has a statistically significant and substantial effect on the chances of survival within the host corporation, and conclude that this is not due to characteristics that are associated with the internal new ventures as such. We discuss the implications of these findings for the literature on CVUs, and suggest the importance of further investigations into CVU boundaries, legitimacy, and the selection of internal new ventures from these units.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141769581","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":"Flexible working and employee well-being: Why does the difference between formal FWAs and informal flexibility I-deals matter?","authors":"Argyro Avgoustaki, Almudena Cañibano","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.006","url":null,"abstract":"Relying on conservation of resources theory, this study investigates whether the association between flexible working and employee well-being differs according to the formal or informal nature of arrangements. We claim that informal flexibility i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than do formal flexible working arrangements. We further explore (1) how work effort mediates the link between the two types of flexible working and well-being; and (2) whether the existence of a gap between informal flexibility i-deals and formal flexible working arrangements (for example, when informal exceeds formal flexibility) relates to well-being. Using data from a consultancy firm in Spain, results show a positive and significant association between informal flexibility i-deals and employee well-being and that informal i-deals have a stronger association with well-being than formal flexible working arrangements. Further, we find that work effort acts as a mediating mechanism to this relationship and that individuals take formal flexible working arrangements as a baseline to contrast their informal deals, revealing that having more informal than formal flexibility improves employee well-being compared to having more formal flexibility than informal flexibility.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140617590","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":"Citizens’ legitimacy judgements on multi-stakeholder governance models: The spillover effects of corporate political activity and social trust.","authors":"V. Tortosa-Edo, M.Á. López-Navarro","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.004","url":null,"abstract":"Recent years have witnessed increasing corporate participation in multi-stakeholder governance models to decide on social issues. Insufficient academic attention has been paid to how citizens legitimise this alternative, which has no democratic endorsement. Citizens do not know enough about these governance models and use heuristics, which produce spillover effects, to form legitimacy judgements about them. Based on institutional and sensemaking theories and with insights from the social psychology literature, we provide empirical evidence for the possible spillover effects derived from a similarity-based heuristic, from citizens’ perceptions of corporate political activity (CPA) tactics, and from a trust heuristic, represented by social trust.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140613868","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}
Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Qaisar Iqbal, Vishal Dagar, Sanjeet Singh
{"title":"Employees’ eco-friendly innovative behaviors: Examining the role of individual and situational factors","authors":"Katarzyna Piwowar-Sulej, Qaisar Iqbal, Vishal Dagar, Sanjeet Singh","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.005","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the indirect effect of sustainability-oriented leadership (SOL) on eco-friendly innovative behaviors (EFIBs) through environmental awareness (EA) based on social exchange theory. Additionally, it investigates the conditional role of proactive personality (PP) on the “SOL-EA” relationship. The authors collected data from 284 manufacturing SMEs in Poland using a time-lagged two-stage design, and employed partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to test the proposed hypotheses. The empirical findings reveal that SOL impact employees’ EFIBs significantly indirectly (through EA), and PP amplifies the impact of SOL on EA. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to empirically test the integrated relationships among SOL, EFIBs, EA, and PP. This study contributes theoretically to the literature on leadership, innovation management, and employee behaviors from the perspective of a developed country.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140614391","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":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.04.003","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-03","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}
Josep Garcia-Blandon , Argilés-Bosch Josep Maria , Ravenda Diego
{"title":"Female directors and the firm's cost of debt: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment","authors":"Josep Garcia-Blandon , Argilés-Bosch Josep Maria , Ravenda Diego","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Whereas in 2001 women held around 5% of board seats in Norway, in 2007 their representation increased to more than 40%. This extraordinary change was the result of a board-gender quota regulation enacted in 2006. This study leverages this unique research setting and implements difference-in-differences estimations to investigate whether the appointment of female directors affects the firm's cost of debt. The treated group in the empirical analysis consists of Norwegian public companies affected by the new regulation, while the control group includes similar firms from neighboring Scandinavian countries that were not affected by any gender quota. If, as most previous-related studies conclude, female directors contribute to reduce the cost of debt, such an effect should necessarily be observed in our research setting. However, the results of the empirical analysis show no significant differences in the cost of debt before and after the appointment of a large number of female directors. This result appears robust as it holds across several sensitivity analyses. The implications of this finding for the corporate governance literature are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 224-232"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46812606","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":"Letter from the incoming Editor-in-Chief: Increasing the positive societal impact of the journal","authors":"Maral Muratbekova-Touron","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 147-148"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140405509","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":"Pride cometh before a fall: The incongruence of status and resource commitment signals in the video game industry","authors":"Balazs Szatmari","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"This study extends the burgeoning literature on social evaluations by investigating the incongruence between two quality signals in the video game industry: resource commitment and organizational status. It is hypothesized that while having one of the signals leads to higher product recognition and, hence, allows firms to capture more value from a product and its demonstrated quality, having both signals can be problematic due to the incongruence of these signals. This is because, in creative industry settings, the occurrence of both signals might send an incongruent message to external audiences (i.e., consumers and industry experts), leading to lower than expected results. My empirical analysis using historical data from the video game industry showed that organizations which featured a status a resource commitment signal were able to capture more value from their product quality than organizations that feature of these signals. In an additional survey study, I found tentative evidence for my theoretical explanations of these findings.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140595926","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":"Linking psychological and social capital to organizational performance: A moderated mediation of organizational trust and proactive behavior","authors":"Aviv Kidron , Hedva Vinarski-Peretz","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.11.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Managing employees’ personal, psychological, and social capital is now considered key to sustained public sector organizational success. This study draws on Conservation of Resources (COR) theory to suggest the mechanisms and processes by which psychological capital and social capital are likely to influence such organizational performance. A phased, time-lagged online survey was conducted among 298 Israeli public servants at the managerial level working in government agencies. The theoretical model provides a novel, holistic perspective suggesting that stimulating personal and social resources will be fruitful, leading to improved organizational performance through organizational trust as a mediator and proactive behavior as a moderator. The result supports important insights from COR theory and its tenets, bearing on the under-researched public sector context. Practically, this study underlines how socio-psychological factors support the entire process of improving the human capital in the managerial level within the public sector.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 245-254"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49443032","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":"Ups and downs in transformational leadership: A weekly diary study","authors":"Manuela Morf , Arnold B. Bakker","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We link job design and leadership literature to advance our understanding of the dynamics in transformational leadership. We tested the idea that motivating work characteristics can release positive energy (i.e., vigor) and help leaders who care about others (i.e., high in prosocial motivation) to realize their transformational leadership potential. We conducted a weekly diary study and collected data from leaders of organizations in Switzerland over five weeks (<em>k</em> = 100, <em>N</em> = 500). Multilevel analyses supported our hypotheses: When leaders were exposed to more motivating work characteristics (i.e., task significance, skill variety, and cooperation), they felt more vigorous. When leaders felt more vigorous, they showed more transformational leadership, although this finding was only observed in leaders with high (vs. low) prosocial motivation. Findings provide insights into when and for whom we can observe fluctuations in transformational leadership to guide organizations on supporting leaders to unleash their leadership potential.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 2","pages":"Pages 200-210"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322001736/pdfft?md5=bd1af07c77163d674950f7b8a686a964&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322001736-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45173087","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}