Purpose: This paper aims to use the social impact hypothesis and the shift of focus hypothesis to examine what drives controversial industries to make philanthropic donations: sustainable development, which can in turn lead to higher firm performance or a better corporate image....

Purpose: To analyze the influence of emotional intelligence on team performance, knowledge sharing, team conflict, and the structure mechanism, the influence of knowledge sharing, team conflict, the structure mechanism, and emotional intelligence on team performance, and the influence of...

Purpose: Complex organizations increasingly rely on middle managers as strategic linking-pins between the top and bottom levels of the organization. Using social identity theory and commitment theory as the foundation, this study evaluates a management and leadership development program (MLDP)...

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effects of transformational and transactional leaders’ behaviors on employees’ affective commitment and organizational citizenship behavior in the context of nonprofit organizations (NPOs). Additionally, this study attempts to examine the role of...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the influence of one personal variable (locus of control) and two relationship variables (leader-member exchange and co-worker cooperation) on perceptions of organizational politics in Lebanese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)....

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate how a key meeting design characteristic, meeting size, affects the relationship between meeting effectiveness and task performance through employee engagement. Design/methodology/approach: A three-wave time-lagged survey design was used to...

There is abundant evidence that RME is (so far) a largely unfulfilled promise. While business schools have been active in adding organizational ""bells and whistles"" (dedicated courses, institutes/centres), the core of their research and teaching activities still appears largely immune to the...

Purpose The fast pace of innovation and disruption in business processes and technology today requires employees of organizations to be continuously up-skilled and be able to adapt to changing practices. Training needs are becoming more personalized. Micro-learning and byte-sized training...

Purpose: Out of 24 public business schools in Egypt, the purpose of this paper is to focus on three in order to investigate how responsible management education is perceived and exercised by academics there. Design/methodology/approach: A total of 168 academics were contacted and interviewed in...