{"title":"Obituary","authors":"Jean J. Boddewyn","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2022.2038499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2022.2038499","url":null,"abstract":"(2022). Obituary. International Studies of Management & Organization: Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 1-1.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138532819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Adomako, J. Amankwah‐Amoah, K. Kesse, Ernestine Ning
{"title":"Where do they go for advice? Entrepreneurs’ advice-seeking behavior in Africa","authors":"Samuel Adomako, J. Amankwah‐Amoah, K. Kesse, Ernestine Ning","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.2023441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023441","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Using time-lagged primary data from entrepreneurs in two developing countries (Ghana, N = 261 and Ethiopia, N = 166), we examine how institutional voids drive entrepreneurs’ advice seeking behavior. Our findings show that higher levels of institutional voids in these developing countries are negatively related to internal advice-seeking but positively associated with external advice-seeking. The results also show that a heightened perception of environmental dynamism negatively moderates the relationship between institutional voids and internal advice-seeking but positively moderates the effect of institutional voids and external advice-seeking. Furthermore, we find that the negative relationship between institutional voids and internal advice-seeking is positive when entrepreneurs develop ties with politicians. The positive relationship between institutional voids and external advice-seeking is amplified when political network connections are stronger. Implications and direction for future research are discussed.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79618992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An examination of antecedents and performance outcomes of corporate social responsibility: evidence from the petroleum industry","authors":"Mahour Mellat Parast","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.2023443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023443","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study examines the antecedents and performance outcomes of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a quality management framework, using data from organizations in the oil and gas industry in Iran. Building upon the stakeholder theory of the firm, this study examines the relative importance of top management support and supplier quality in leading CSR. This study also examines whether CSR mediates the effect of top management support on internal quality results. Data were collected by administrating a survey to managers in the petroleum industry in Iran. We use structural equation modeling to examine our research questions. The findings show that both top management support and supplier quality drive CSR. The results present a new direction to how quality management and CSR can promote organizational quality, and the study provides a practical framework that shows how managers can design, develop, and maintain sustainable quality systems through emphasizing CSR.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75808335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward a general theory of expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment","authors":"M. Banai","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.2023444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023444","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This study employs a dynamic rather than a static and contextual rather than cultural conceptual framework for expatriate managers’ cross-cultural adjustment. It applies theories of learning-unlearning and of role behavior to explain what expatriates’ values, attitudes and behavior are being adjusted, how they are being adjusted and why they are being adjusted. A dynamic and contextual conceptualization of the process of cross-cultural adjustment refines theory by presenting adjustment as a continuous rather than as sporadic process; by providing a framework for identifying and prioritizing sources of the “push” and “pull” to adjust; and by generalizing theory of cross-cultural adjustment to include sojourners other than expatriates. Data were collected using an intensive literature search of publications in the English language. The study’s conceptual framework has the potential to enhance the development of a general theory of cross-cultural adjustment and to provide organizations with knowledge of how to define, measure and manage expatriate-managers’ adjustment, and, therefore, the ability to develop and employ tools to assist in the selection, training, performance management and evaluation and compensation of expatriates.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79026288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISMO: identifying and mapping the past, present and future","authors":"V. Pereira","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.2024119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.2024119","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract As the new incoming editor-in-chief (EIC) for this prestigious journal, I pen my opening editorial, through this piece. Here I lay out the fascinating and impressive journey of the journal till date, and plans to lead it into the future.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72509184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Executive environmental scanning and strategic uncertainty: the impact of institutional context","authors":"Olukemi O. Sawyerr, B. Ebrahimi","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.2023442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.2023442","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We examined perceived strategic uncertainty (PSU) and environmental scanning among Hong Kong, Nigerian, and U.S. executives. We posit that PSU and scanning will vary in ways that can be explained by the different institutional contexts, that is, the national environment, within which the decision-makers are embedded. We found that Nigerian decision-makers perceived greater strategic uncertainty in the political/legal, economic, and sources of resources sectors. Hong Kong and U.S. executives, however, perceived greater levels of uncertainty in the technology sector. Furthermore, U.S. decision-makers perceived greater strategic uncertainty in the socio-cultural sector. We discuss the research and managerial implications of the results.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78471918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From family commitment to entrepreneurial orientation: exploring the role of cultural mechanisms in mature family firms","authors":"C. Arz","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.1969137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969137","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At a stage of life cycle maturity, the unique advantages of family influence are often outweighed by organizational conditions of conflict, risk-aversion, and inertia which makes it difficult to exploit entrepreneurial opportunities. Guided by the proposition that a positive culture enables the entrepreneurial spirit to be preserved over time, this study focuses on examining the cultural dynamics between family and business social systems to advance our understanding of the heterogeneity of mature family firms in terms of entrepreneurial orientation (EO). Specifically, it bridges the link between family commitment and firm-level EO by considering long-term orientation and stewardship climate to operate as organizational culture mechanisms. From a quantitative study of 208 family firms, the findings provide evidence for EO to be supported by the proposed serial mediation process. A family’s strong commitment toward the business thus seems to stimulate EO only when passing through long-term-oriented priorities among the firm’s dominant coalition and an organizational environment characterized by collective stewardship.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84052060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring influencers of strategic change processes: evidence from five government businesses in the Omani context","authors":"Misida Al Jahwari, P. Budhwar","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.1969134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969134","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article presents an exploratory multiple case study conducted on five different government businesses in Oman with the aim of developing a comprehensive framework of strategic change influencers and showing their impact on change implementation and change outcomes. Data was collected via in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews with forty-two managers from the top, middle and lower levels and staff from different divisions. The study utilizes the process approach and the contingency perspective to highlight the main influencers of multiple strategic change processes. The data was analyzed via thematic analysis. The findings revealed four main influencers across the five cases one of which was found to moderate the effects of the remaining influencers. This study contributes to the fields of organizational change, strategy, leadership and HRM. It offers new and compelling context-specific insights based on a deep understanding of practice. Implications for theory and practice are discussed.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83407352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Who am I?’ Self-identity conflict and franchisor exit","authors":"Faith Jeremiah, Colleen E. Mills, R. Hamilton","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.1969135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.1969135","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Franchising is a popular business growth strategy, yet many franchisors choose to exit early. This exploratory study seeks to understand why this is the case, while also responding to the call for a more individual focus in franchise research. We analyze the narrative accounts of 53 franchisors—surviving, exited and nascent—all of whom transitioned to franchising in the previous 10 years. We find all these individuals experienced a tension between their original business-owner occupational self-concept and their self-identity as a franchisor. Those still operating as franchisors after five years were able to resolve this conflict by crafting a viable hybrid identity for themselves. Those who chose to exit franchising in earlier years were unable to do this, experiencing an unresolved misfit between a self-identity shaped by their previous entrepreneurial role and the franchisor identity. Similar tensions are revealed within the group of nascent franchisors in the initial stages of this transition. These findings and the conceptual model that emerged from them extend the sparse literature on franchisor experience by revealing a relationship between franchisor startup experience, self-identity and franchise continuity that has important implications, both theoretical and practical.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72988151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. El-Kassar, M. Yunis, Abdullah Alsagheer, A. Tarhini, A. Ishizaka
{"title":"Effect of corporate ethics and social responsibility on OCB: the role of employee identification and perceived CSR significance","authors":"A. El-Kassar, M. Yunis, Abdullah Alsagheer, A. Tarhini, A. Ishizaka","doi":"10.1080/00208825.2021.1959880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00208825.2021.1959880","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the nature of the association that corporate ethics and CSR have with the two dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior (OCB), OCB toward other individuals in the company (OCBI) and OCB toward the organization’s strategies and objectives (OCBO). Based on a framework involving the resource-based view of the firm and the social identity theory, the CSR-OCB relationship is investigated with regard to employees’ perceived significance of CSR practices as well as their identification (association level) with the organization. The proposed model depicting the relationships is tested empirically based on data collected from a survey instrument distributed to alumni from one of the leading universities in Lebanon employed in various companies belonging to different sectors in Lebanon and the region. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) is used to analyze the data and multi-group analysis is conducted to investigate the role of perceived CSR significance. Based on the data analysis results, the model is validated and the stated hypotheses are supported. Moreover, the moderating role of the perceived CSR significance in the relationship between CSR and OCB is highlighted. Theoretical and practical implications, study limitations, and further research recommendations are provided.","PeriodicalId":55644,"journal":{"name":"INTERNATIONAL STUDIES OF MANAGEMENT & ORGANIZATION","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80708634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}