Showing papers in "European Management Journal in 2015"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a contingency model of open business models by systematically linking open innovation strategies to core business model dimensions, notably the content, structure, and governance of transactions.

TL;DR: A comprehensive survey of empirical evidence in the literature regarding the relation between reputation damaging events, corporate reputation, and corporate financial performance is provided in this article, which takes into account stakeholder behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of management innovations (MI) on performance at par with that of technological innovations (TI), and quantitatively integrated the empirical findings using 52 independent samples from 44 articles published in peer-reviewed journals via two different procedures, support score and meta-analysis.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the Mondragon case study showing the main drivers for developing innovation networks and highlight the role of both context dependent intermediaries and social capital systemic dynamics in the development of a shared innovation strategy.

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework that links the spatial constitution of relationships to the creation of both resilient and fragile trust in project work is presented. But, the complexity of initial and gradual trust creation and the interplay between personality traits, group-based similarities, situational and institutional factors, reputational inference, and personal interaction are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the impact of CEOs' experience, personality, and network on dynamic capabilities in marketing, R&D, and production capabilities, and find an inverted U-shaped relationship between CEO age and dynamic capabilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take the concept of effectuation from the individual level to the firm level, and describe, develop, and validate a multidimensional measure of effectual orientation based on an extensive literature review, a series of pre-tests, and two large survey-based studies of German companies.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors argue that both surface-level demographic diversity and deep-level trait diversity of team members are negatively related to team helping behavior and further argue that team cohesion and cooperation will mediate the effects of team member's demographic characteristics and trait diversity on team helping.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the mediator role of two relevant cognitive factors: entrepreneurial attitudes and self-efficacy, and found that these factors play significant mediator roles in promoting academic interest in new business ventures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate whether and how major shareholders influence M&A wealth effects for listed acquirers in Europe and find no robust support for the idea that major owners are less likely to pursue private benefits through M&As in countries with stronger investor protection.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored new causal relations that influence firm performance that can therefore help managers to adopt the best decision-making strategies, and shed light on the inconsistent and inconclusive results derived from the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a holistic conceptual model of these managerial challenges in a way that cuts across the different categories of players (advertisers, traditional and digital agencies, media centres and publishers/broadcasters).

TL;DR: The authors argued that differences in the way the political role of corporations are understood can at least, in part, be explained by the distinct nature of European/North American management scholarship as well as by the political environment in both regions.

TL;DR: This paper proposed a new model consisting of seven quality tests to assess whether proper selectivity is being applied when "importing" concepts from other fields of scholarly inquiry than management, as the foundation of empirical work.

TL;DR: This paper explored how Islamic values influence management and business practice in Morocco with a view to a new understanding of how one of the global, socio-political tides of the early twenty-first century is now beginning to make itself felt commercially.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how coercive, normative and mimetic pressures on employers encourage the adoption and use of work-life balance in Spanish private firms, and find that the diffusion of work life practices may be explained as an isomorphic process in which particular normative pressure significantly influences the adoption of worklife programs, while mimetic pressure only affects the level of use.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of various knowledge-acquisition strategies on market knowledge is investigated and four knowledge acquisition strategies are identified based on the utilization of knowledge sources and the results show that firms with a passive strategy have less market knowledge.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider differences in conceptions held by academics involved in research methodology teaching and reflect on the associated implications, and argue that the academic community involved in management research methods and methodology teaching need to adopt a pluralist stance in which the legitimacy of different methodologies is recognized and actively acknowledged.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between the number of espoused values and financial performance of a company and its financial performance, and provided interpretations about why it matters not just what companies do but also what they say.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the research gap concerning country-of-origin (COO) effects in the context of functional foods and functional ingredients and examine the effectiveness of COO-positioning as an alternative managerial strategy for promoting functional foods with a COOappeal.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the effect of different types of cooperation partners on product innovation in new ventures and in established companies and argued that the effectiveness of interorganizational cooperation depends on how the resources or capabilities the partners provide match the different characteristics of new ventures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an alternate templates analysis of Honda's entry into the US market, showing that serendipity can be interpreted as the synthesis of preparation and openness to novelty, articulated through generative doubt.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the economic benefits of a firm's corporate reputation by investigating the association between its media reputation and properties of trade payables in a sample of listed UK firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how three critical team level variables are related to team members' individual project learning and found that team meta-knowledge, team creativity, and team external cooperation are all positively related to individuals' project learning.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored links among firms' cooperation strategies, the complexity of their alliance portfolios, and their innovativeness in the context of the ICT industry in emerging markets.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model that examines how network centrality and learning speed shape the relationship between technological diversity and market performance was proposed, which revealed that the degree of technological diversity between alliance partners exhibits an inverted U-shaped relationship with firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw upon interdisciplinary studies of cultural competences and the theory of basic human values to conceptualise an individual's "multiculturality" as a value reprioritisation process towards a multicultural orientation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors introduce paradox and poetics as a means of revisiting the established problem of implementation failure, and by identifying differences in the styles or orientations of individual strategists, they advance thinking on the issue of emergent strategy.

TL;DR: Attempts to eliminate the influence of trust by introducing impersonal rule systems may increase rather than reduce the risk posed to systemic stability, according to this theoretical outline.