{"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":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"81 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","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}
Serhan Kotiloglu , Daniela Blettner , Thomas G. Lechler
{"title":"Integrating national culture into the organizational performance feedback theory","authors":"Serhan Kotiloglu , Daniela Blettner , Thomas G. Lechler","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The organizational response to performance feedback is a collective process in which groups of decision-makers face uncertainty about the future when making organizational decisions based on past performance feedback. Culture is an important variable to explain the context of collective decision processes, but it is not well understood by Organizational Performance Feedback Theory (PFT) research. The current internationalization trend of PFT research poses the question if empirical results are comparable across different cultural settings, and whether culture is a general condition of organizational performance feedback. We analyze the role of national culture as a proxy for collective interpretive processes that influence the organizational decision-making process in response to performance feedback, and we resolve some of the unexplained variances in the empirical results. We use a meta-analysis to understand if national culture poses a general condition for the organizational performance feedback process. We analyze the empirical results of 153 PFT studies covering organizations from 16 countries, and we examine the impact of four dimensions of national culture: uncertainty avoidance, performance orientation, future orientation, and institutional collectivism. We demonstrate that national culture is an important concept for PFT development.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 327-347"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237323000038/pdfft?md5=4e5ad6a95a2ed8fb175cd7bb40c7988f&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237323000038-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43003419","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":"Bureaucracy under pressure: New(s) management practices in central government agencies","authors":"Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist , Josef Pallas","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How various central government agencies (CGAs) in Sweden respond to the contemporary and highly digitalized media landscape and explore intricate patterns of the ambiguity in organizational and media relations are discussed in this study. Organizational responses caused by the perceptions of the media landscape on governmental agencies are analyzed as a process of bureaucratization. This study suggests that the agencies do not attempt to defend themselves; their efforts are directed toward maintaining internal trust and trust of the public. The studied responses turned out to result in decision-making aspects as preemptive measures, casting light on the significances of the ideal <em>hierarchical authority</em>. Furthermore, the extent of openness in relation to the communication showed <em>rule-based actions</em>. Additionally, the consequences of the media pressure for the more general codes of conduct among the bureaucrats led to the ideal of <em>professional staffing</em>. Our contribution is twofold. First, we argue that the contemporary media landscape – including all institutionalized (i.e., both digital and conventional) forms, structures, platforms, and interfaces – has led to an increased self-control in CGAs; and secondly, that the bureaucratization turns professional employees into “passionate bureaucrats.”</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 295-304"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42234719","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":"Unequal implies success? How initial ownership split impacts team entry and new venture performance","authors":"Elisabeth Mueller , Maria Hennicke","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When launching a new venture, the new venture team (NVT) determines the ownership split, a decision which has implications for the venture's performance. We develop a novel theoretical framework by extending the relational-models theory to the type of ownership split chosen and explaining the choice of an equal or unequal split with the preferred model of social interaction. The models differ in terms of contribution organization and valuation, as well as the primary motivations of NVT members. We hypothesize that NVTs with unequal splits perform better and are more open to NVT entry. Furthermore, NVT entry is hypothesized to act as a partial mediator in the ownership split–performance relationship. We find support for our hypotheses using mediation analysis on a large sample of 24,194 German start-ups. Our research contributes to a better understanding of the performance implications of NVT's internal organization. Our findings, however, do not imply that all NVTs should choose an unequal split. Importantly, our research demonstrates that, depending on owners' preferences, both equal and unequal splits are distinct and viable models for organizing NVTs, even though performance differences should be taken into consideration.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 305-315"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48860341","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":"Building organizational commitment through cognitive and relational job crafting","authors":"Mette Strange Noesgaard , Frances Jørgensen","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we investigate the process by which organizational commitment is influenced by job crafting among knowledge workers. To address this aim, we conducted a longitudinal qualitative case study in a software solutions development firm in Denmark. The findings from the study suggest that relational and cognitive job crafting encourage affective, normative, and continuous commitment among knowledge workers, which ultimately has a positive influence on retention. The study also highlights the considerable overlap between different types of job crafting, with task job crafting appearing to be a precursor to relational and cognitive job crafting. This paper contributes to the job crafting literature by providing a process-focused account of how it engenders knowledge workers’ organizational commitment and to practice by suggesting how managers can support job crafting efforts to increase knowledge worker retention.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 348-357"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237323000026/pdfft?md5=df5f9a5148f9dd88f7707bfd76b9d150&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237323000026-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294607","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":"When and how to engage with employee environmental activism: Lessons learned from a global service firm","authors":"Katharina Hug , Ling Eleanor Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Employee activism, in which employees collectively press an organisation on societal issues, is a growing phenomenon. Many employees have been motivated by the climate crisis to demand more sustainable business practices and insist that employers tackle the issue. Ignoring such activism can have negative reputational effects. This paper examines two employee initiatives that tackled climate change in a global professional service firm and sheds light on how organisations can influence employee-driven undertakings and integrate them with more sustainable business models. Reflecting on best practices, but also on lessons learned from the cases, the article also suggests how organisations can help employee activists stay motivated and pursue their passion sustainably.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 288-294"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141046846","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}
Fabrizio Zerbini , Gaetano “Nino” Miceli , Manuela De Carlo
{"title":"Better to be the same or different? Paired customer and selling orientations and their impact on the exploitation of relationship-specific investments (RSIs) in dyads","authors":"Fabrizio Zerbini , Gaetano “Nino” Miceli , Manuela De Carlo","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.10.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2022.10.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study investigates whether and how pairing two firms with the same priority – either a customer or a selling orientation – affects the two sides of the dyad's ability to ensure firm-level outcomes from Relationship-Specific Investments (RSIs). We find that pairing firms with a customer orientation positively moderates the effects of RSIs on the firm's performance of both the buyer and the seller. Conversely, pairing firms with a selling orientation has negative influence on RSIs effects, but only for the seller's performance. We discuss this study's contributions to the body of research on RSIs and strategic orientations and, specifically, to literature that focuses on the joint effect of strategic orientations across firms. Additionally, we highlight the implications of our findings for research on inter-organizational relationship development and, particularly, for the task-contingent interpretation of the homophily effect.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 385-396"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294606","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":"Dealing with the downsides of new work: The reactions of middle managers to the decline in middle management","authors":"Marcel Maurer , Norbert Bach , Simon Oertel","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>When an organization implements practices within the context of new work, individual actors must translate and adapt them to their local context. These change agents thereby often encounter the paradox of being both translators and targets of change. However, how they react to such a situation, which strategies they use, and whether their reactions legitimize the implementation of new work attempts in their organization have hardly been considered so far. We filled this gap by studying middle managers translating organizational change toward more self-managing structures and other procedures that empower employees. At the same time, however, these changes make the institution of middle management redundant. Findings of a qualitative 32-month single-case study at a medium-sized firm showed that middle managers reacted with five distinct reactions. Informed by translation and institutional theory, we showed that middle managers’ intraorganizational social positions determined their reactions over time, making them either victims or phoenixes of the change process toward new forms of work. Our findings contribute to contemporary research on the implementation of self-managing organizations and help to better understand how such concepts are translated within an organization.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 358-370"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237323000014/pdfft?md5=80977378af1066da0a88ef2b579ee226&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237323000014-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48730738","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}
María José Ruiz-Ortega , Job Rodrigo-Alarcón , Gloria Parra-Requena
{"title":"New directions to create dynamic capabilities: The role of pioneering orientation and interorganizational relationships","authors":"María José Ruiz-Ortega , Job Rodrigo-Alarcón , Gloria Parra-Requena","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2023.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study delves into the gap in the literature on the analysis of the antecedents/microfoundations of dynamic capabilities. Thus, the main aim of this study is to analyse how pioneering orientation influences the generation of dynamic capabilities. To do so, it explores how two key facets of interorganizational relationships moderate this relationship—cognitive proximity with firm's contacts and bridging ties. The study is based on a sample of 292 Spanish agri-food companies. The ordinary least-squares (OLS) approach was used to analyse the survey data. Our findings show the positive effect of pioneering orientation on dynamic capabilities. This effect is reduced when companies have high cognitive proximity and is reinforced when companies have bridging ties. Therefore, companies should conduct their networks of relationships in such a way as to avoid high cognitive proximity with their contacts and seek out contacts that are unconnected to their main network of contacts.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 371-384"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237323000051/pdfft?md5=a26037573a20ca4d08818eaebe8847e7&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237323000051-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42436983","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":"Supply chain integration and novelty-centered business model design: An organizational learning perspective","authors":"Taiwen Feng , Shan Yang , Hongyan Sheng","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2022.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although novelty-centered business model design (NBMD) has attracted much attention, how it is affected by supply chain integration (SCI) is still inconclusive. Based on organizational learning theory, this study investigates how three dimensions of SCI (i.e., information integration, operational integration, and relational integration) affect NBMD via inter-organizational learning and the moderating role of big data analytics skills. We test hypotheses by utilizing survey data from 277 Chinese manufacturing firms. Our results indicate that both information integration and operational integration have positive impacts on NBMD. In addition, inter-organizational learning partially mediates the impacts of information integration and operational integration on NBMD. Our research also reveals that big data analytics skills strengthen the positive impact of relational integration on inter-organizational learning. This study provides theoretical and managerial insights for NBMD.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 3","pages":"Pages 414-424"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141294605","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}