Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) offer new promising opportunities to research virtual organizations and teams. The characteristics of MMOGs allow researchers to obtain objective data from a large and multi-national population. Lasting over months or even years, MMOGs facilitate...

Although trust is widely acknowledged as critical in virtual settings, little is known regarding the antecedents and consequences of trust in leaders of virtual groups. Adopting a multi-level perspective, we propose the leadership’s communication behavior and the broader cultural context in...

Because scholarly performance is multidimensional, many different criteria may influence appointment decisions. Previous studies on appointment preferences do not reveal the underlying process on how appointment committee members consider and weigh up different criteria when they evaluate...

Research has shown that the use of digital technologies in the personnel selection process can have both positive and negative effects on applicants' attraction to an organization. We explain this contradiction by specifying its underlying mechanisms. Drawing on signaling theory, we build a...

Unternehmensgründungen wird meist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung eines Landes zugeschrieben (u.a. Bhawe/Zahra 2017; Kollmann et al. 2017). Gemessen an traditionellen Kennzahlen fällt dieser Beitrag jedoch sehr gering aus. Darüber hinaus zeichnet sich eine...

Companies regularly have to address opposing interests from their shareholding and non-shareholding stakeholder groups. Consequently, a wealth of previous research has focused on how CEOs decide which stakeholder management activities to pursue and prioritize. In contrast, however, surprisingly...

This study derives a conceptual framework for examining parallel and differential influences of organizational pride in employees' efforts versus abilities on proactivity. Data from a field survey (N = 1218) confirm our theoretical model. Organizational pride in employees' efforts and...

Across industries, firms face the need to digitalize their service processes, i.e., transform the service delivery from a physical into a digital form or enhance it through digital technologies. Therefore, one important challenge can arise due to the inseparability of service processes, which...