Asia Pacific Journal of Management最新文献

Correction to: Institutional complexity and entrepreneurial work in grassroots cultural heritage: Evidence from Hanfu entrepreneurship in China 修正：制度复杂性与基层文化遗产中的创业工作：来自中国汉服创业的证据

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-09-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10175-0

Chen Fan, Bin Wang, Zhuyun Song, Xiaoyu Yu

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Lifting the veil of competitive awareness of multinationals 揭开跨国公司竞争意识的面纱

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-08-07 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10147-4

Canan C. Mutlu, Mike W. Peng, Sheen S. Levine, Sergey Lebedev, Craig Macaulay

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Institutional complexity and entrepreneurial work in grassroots cultural heritage: Evidence from Hanfu entrepreneurship in China 基层文化遗产中的制度复杂性与创业工作：来自中国汉服创业的证据

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-08-04 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10165-2

Chen Fan, Bin Wang, Zhuyun Song, Xiaoyu Yu

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Family CEOs versus nonfamily CEOs in family firms: Who perform better in ESG practices? 家族企业的家族ceo与非家族ceo：谁在ESG实践方面表现更好？

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-07-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10166-1

Jin-hui Luo, Yilong Wu, Jason Zezhong Xiao

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Collaboration across boundaries: an active trust management perspective 跨边界协作：主动信任管理的视角

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-07-24 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10162-5

Hua Li, Fuli Li, Hong Deng, Jingyu Dong

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The dynamic evolution and paradox management of niche leaders: T-Model as an effective strategic option 利基领导者的动态演化与悖论管理：作为有效战略选择的t模型

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-026-10148-3

Peter Ping Li, Ziliang Deng, Steven Shijin Zhou, Mooweon Rhee

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Correction to: Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation 更正：培养员工服务绩效与以顾客为导向的组织公民行为：顾客授权行为与员工核心自我评价的共同作用

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-02-05 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-025-10069-7

Xingwen Chen, Yijiao Ye, Zheng Zhu, Qi Cui, Jun Liu

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Corporate language and knowledge transfer in MNE subsidiaries: A relevance lens 跨国公司子公司的企业语言和知识转移：相关性视角

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2026-01-30 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-025-10063-z

Audra I. Mockaitis, Jiahui Tan, Jinwei Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, Ziran Chen

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Correction to: Back to the roots: the homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China 回到根源：中国社会文化内部差异的同质化和首选的管理领导者行为

IF 5.8 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-025-10066-w

Jasenko Ljubica, Romie Frederick Littrell, Charles Chen, Shuiquan Jiang

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All relationships are not created equal: the effects of inter-organizational relationships on subsidiary’s value at the onset of corporate crises 并非所有关系都是平等的：企业危机开始时组织间关系对子公司价值的影响

IF 9.7 2区管理学

Asia Pacific Journal of Management Pub Date : 2025-12-16 DOI: 10.1007/s10490-025-10060-2

Jiuchang Wei, Zhi Li, Alexander H. Ziegler, Haipeng (Allan) Chen

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