Haris Aslam, Constantin Blome, Martin C. Schleper, Asher Ramish, Samiullah Bajwa
{"title":"Investigating the supply chain agility–Innovation link: The role of organizational context","authors":"Haris Aslam, Constantin Blome, Martin C. Schleper, Asher Ramish, Samiullah Bajwa","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.006","url":null,"abstract":"Previous literature provides ample analyses of the antecedents of supply chain agility, but the organizational context has generally been neglected. Setting up the right organizational context is important for dynamic capabilities such as supply chain agility, especially in turbulent times. In this research, we study organizational context from two aspects as antecedents of supply chain agility, i.e., a firm’s performance orientation context and its social orientation context. Based on the dynamic capabilities view, the literature on organizational context, supply chain agility, and innovation, we develop our hypotheses. We investigate the previously overlooked impact of supply chain agility on innovation performance, as we find that supply chain agility not only helps to prevent and repair short-term damage but also promotes innovation in the long term. We also consider the moderating role of the organization’s complementarity with its key suppliers in this relationship. Structural equation modeling is applied to investigate the proposed research hypotheses using lagged survey data with multiple respondents from the manufacturing sector in Pakistan.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"82 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003311","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}
Meysam Salimi, Maria Laura Frigotto, Enrico Zaninotto, Massimiliano Vatiero
{"title":"The fast-track ascent to the top: The role of human capital in European listed firms","authors":"Meysam Salimi, Maria Laura Frigotto, Enrico Zaninotto, Massimiliano Vatiero","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emj.2024.02.002","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on human capital theory, this study examines the role of different components of human capital—education (level and type), tenure, and career variety (functional, industry, firm, and country variety)—in the rapid or “fast-track” career ascent of individuals to their first top management position (highest level of organisational hierarchy) as chief executive officer (CEO) or non-CEO Senior Manager (SM). Using a retrospective approach to the career trajectories of over 7500 CEOs and non-CEO SMs s in European listed firms, we show the commonalities and differences in the composition of human capital in the career progressions of both groups. The results reveal that the human capital that accelerates CEOs’ careers include an MBA degree and long tenure, especially when combined with firm variety. In contrast, for non-CEO SMs, a high level of education and low functional variety accelerated their career ascent. For non-CEO SMs, tenure has a negative effect that is alleviated by career variety. By explicating the components of human capital, we suggest that many forms of career variety, such as experience acquired across countries, industries, or firms, are not valued in a fast-track career, and hardly create valuable human capital for top positions. Our study paves the way for exploring the composition of human capital not only for different organisational roles, but also for different hierarchical levels.","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140003090","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}
Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska , Wojciech Czakon , Till Marius Gantert
{"title":"Old guards or new friends? Relational awareness and motivation in opportunities seizing","authors":"Agnieszka Zakrzewska-Bielawska , Wojciech Czakon , Till Marius Gantert","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.06.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.06.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study uses behavioral drivers to examine the variation in managerial cognition impact on opportunities seizing. Behavioral drivers of firms’ actions have so far been focused on rivalry, leaving relational modes of interaction relatively unattended. In this study, we fill this gap by introducing relational awareness and relational motivation of managers toward their environment. Our study of 400 Polish firms indicates that relational awareness and motivation are significantly associated with the durability and heterogeneity of inter-organizational relationships (IORs) that managers establish to seize market opportunities. However, relationship heterogeneity is focused on the supply chain, while the broader value network is not relevant to managers.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 76-88"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49118553","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":"Dominant logic – Cognitive and practiced facets and their relationships to strategic renewal and performance","authors":"Ari Jantunen, Anni Tuppura, Satu Pätäri","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.07.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.07.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we distinguish two facets of dominant logic and assess empirically their relationships to strategic renewal and firm performance. In a sample of 156 Finnish small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the forestry and forest products sector, we find that cognitive and practiced dominant logics have divergent relationships with outcomes. Practiced dominant logic is more strongly related to a recognized need for capability development and performance than cognitive dominant logic is. These effects appear regardless of whether the practiced dominant logic is efficiency- or proactivity-oriented. Further, the results suggest that the differences in practiced dominant logic may reflect future investment plans, especially in terms of investment in research and development and new markets. We contribute to the literature by examining with survey-based data the relationship that dominant logic has with strategic renewal and performance. The practiced and cognitive dominant logics are measured separately, and we present a novel operationalization of cognitive dominant logic.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 108-118"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322000913/pdfft?md5=bca7e202beb265dc84502aa158af6aee&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322000913-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49551260","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":"The impact of brand equity on employee attitudes","authors":"Myriam Ertz , Dominique Rouziès , Emine Sarigöllü","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.009","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.09.009","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using data from a large, cross-industry sample, this paper examines the impact of brand equity (BE) on employee attitudes. Stronger brands have both positive and negative effects on employee attitudes, contingent on organizational hierarchy. Specifically, the impact of stronger brands on employee attitudes is positive for lower-level employees, negative for mid-level executives, and not significant for top managers. This paper further details the extent to which alignment between top and mid-level executives ' attitudes affects lower-ranking employees' attitudes. Because firms’ management of the impact of BE on employee attitudes has important implications, this article recommends an approach that enables firms to regulate work relationships by investing in strong brands. Given that such investments are less beneficial in certain circumstances, this study provides useful guidelines for enhancing their effects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 119-129"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46134102","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":"Following the chain of command? How managers balance benefits and risks in granting autonomy to employees","authors":"Sander van Triest , Christopher Williams","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.08.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.08.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We investigate how managers trade off the benefits of delegating authority to their employees with the risk of loss of control. Organizational economics theory identifies specific knowledge of subordinates and monitoring possibilities for the manager as determinants of delegation. Social learning theory predicts that when unit managers are themselves granted more authority, they will pass this on to their employees. This cascading of authority reduces the fear of loss of control associated with delegation. Using a survey among 215 unit managers in professional services firms, we find that managers delegate more authority to employees in their unit when those employees have more specific knowledge, when there are more exceptions in employee tasks, and when monitoring costs are lower. We also find support for the cascading effect: decentralization to the manager is positively related to autonomy granted to employees, while it moderates the effects of specific knowledge and monitoring costs.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 89-97"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322001141/pdfft?md5=5fb1724ccfd872359c2637409523de44&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322001141-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45754145","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":"Unveiled confidence: Exploring how institutional support enhances the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and performance of female entrepreneurs in constrained contexts","authors":"Nastaran Simarasl , Pooya Tabesh , Timothy P. Munyon , Zahra Marzban","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.07.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.07.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The challenges of female entrepreneurship are magnified in constrained contexts where they lack the same rights and resources as men. Although past research suggests that institutional support may help contribute to female entrepreneurs’ success, it is still unclear how this support affects post-founding entrepreneurial processes and outcomes in constrained contexts. Using a unique sample of Iranian female entrepreneurs, our moderated mediation analysis shows that institutional support moderates the effect of entrepreneurial actions on new venture performance through entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Thus, even though female entrepreneurs face significant challenges in constrained contexts, institutional support can enable them to translate their entrepreneurial action into higher self-confidence and better venture outcomes. Post-hoc comparisons with an American sample of female entrepreneurs suggest that institutional support varies between constrained and less constrained contexts. In sum, these results indicate that institutional support helps female entrepreneurs succeed after the venture founding stage by strengthening the entrepreneurial action – self-efficacy relationship. We discuss theoretical contributions and elaborate on practical implications for a broader investigation of minority entrepreneurship in constrained environments.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 33-45"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237322000901/pdfft?md5=f4765676c9064f8b0d711bddbb4dcad3&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237322000901-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48939965","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}
Maha Rafi Atal , Kathleen Riach , Craig Smith , Robert McMaster
{"title":"Adam Smith: His continuing relevance for contemporary management thought","authors":"Maha Rafi Atal , Kathleen Riach , Craig Smith , Robert McMaster","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2024.01.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This “Reflections on Europe” marks the end of the tercentenary of Adam Smith's birth as an opportunity to consider the relevance of his work beyond the epithet of “founding father of Economics.” Recognising the limited attribution his analysis has had thus far – at least explicitly – in modern management commentary, we discuss three themes in his work – labour relations, business ethics, and inequality – that are also germane to contemporary organizational thinking. In exploring how a Smithian lens affords a generative opportunity for advancing insight and debate around European management thought, we invite future scholars and practitioners to further engage with his ideas as a means of understanding business as inextricably economic, social, political, and moral.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 4-10"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0263237324000057/pdfft?md5=122cf64f09d673e885b6f0c796d40a76&pid=1-s2.0-S0263237324000057-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139508480","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}
Dr Reihaneh Bidar , Dr Mohammad Jabbari , Dr Edwina Luck
{"title":"Value co-destruction in online collaborative networks","authors":"Dr Reihaneh Bidar , Dr Mohammad Jabbari , Dr Edwina Luck","doi":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.08.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.emj.2022.08.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper explores the underlying reasons for and develops a richer understanding of how value may be co-destructed within online collaborative networks (OCNs). Drawing on 36 semistructured interviews with members of two OCNs, Stack Overflow and GitHub, we outline 11 themes, categorized into three sets—pre-existing themes, themes that occur during the collaboration process, and postprocess themes—which lead to value co-destruction (VCD). Our research contributes to the co-destruction literature and illustrates co-destruction perspectives on OCNs. Our findings provide practical implications through raising awareness of the negative facets of actors' collaboration and help to increase value formation by addressing sources of co-destruction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48290,"journal":{"name":"European Management Journal","volume":"42 1","pages":"Pages 98-107"},"PeriodicalIF":7.5,"publicationDate":"2024-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47944028","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}