Purpose: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) co-exist within many firms. Yet, without understanding how CSR and CSIR are related, our knowledge of these concepts is incomplete. This study initiatively explores four relationships between prior...

Purpose: This study concerns two aspects of the integration process critical for the success of acquisitions: (1) levels of human integration and task integration and (2) speeds of human integration and task integration. The purpose of this study is to examine the interaction effects of...

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to study the moderating effect of absorptive capacity, defined as the set of organizational routines and processes through which companies acquire, assimilate, transform and exploit knowledge to produce a dynamic organizational capacity (Zahra and George,...

Purpose: The study aims to explore the unexplored domain by examining the impact of risk disclosure on corporate reputation in an emerging economy, like India, characterized by huge information asymmetry and uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach: In total two measures of corporate...

Purpose: Despite the burgeoning stream of research on the relationship between entrepreneurial behavior (EB) and performance, the linkage between entrepreneurial behaviour, international mindset and performance is still underexplored. Therefore, this study investigates how the international...

Purpose: This study examines employees' learning preferences in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) at different life-cycle stages. Design/methodology/approach: The study has two phases. Phase I classified a sample of 30 Hong Kong SMEs into three different life-cycle stages (inception,...

Purpose: The goal of this study is to examine the association between managers' sexually-oriented behavior in publicly traded firms and subsequent stock market reactions. Both sexual harassment and nonharassing sexually-oriented behavior (i.e. workplace romance) are associated with negative...

Purpose: While advances in big data analytics (BDA) provide valuable business insights and immense business value, many firms find it difficult to gain advantage from their BDA initiatives. Noting the strategic role of firm-specific knowledge, we develop a framework examining the relation...

Purpose: This study strives to improve one’s understanding of tailored messaging as an organizational communication strategy that amplifies processes of organizational change at an individual level of personality traits. Design/methodology/approach: A scientific experiment was conducted to...

Purpose: This paper examines how the inferred motives for corporate philanthropy relate to the types of charitable causes supported. Design/methodology/approach: Published data were obtained for 256 publicly traded and private corporations from a variety of sources. Findings: The results...