This study develops a model in which transformational leadership affects team coordination and performance through the conflict management approaches adopted by team members. Data were collected from three different sources in a lagged design from 108 teams in a large enterprise in China....

Nowadays, technology-intensive industries are permeated with partnerships between young/small ventures and large/established firms, where the ventures make technology commitments to the established firms. The partners involved in these partnerships are extremely asymmetric in a variety of...

The successful diffusion of innovations in rapidly changing supply chain technological environments is essential to support operations and supply chain management functions. In this paper we conceptualize and develop a framework for research into the diffusion of innovations in organizations...

Prior reviews of the CEO turnover and succession literature suggest that empirical findings on organizational implications continue to be equivocal. In this paper, we develop a conceptual framework for examining the impact of CEO turnover and succession on organizational capabilities. Using the...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to broaden the current understanding of the relationship between top leadership characteristics and Six Sigma success. Design/methodology/approach:The research used a cross-sectional survey methodology where 212 companies from six different industries...

The rise of social media technology has led to new customer relationship management tools that engage customers more easily and directly (social customer relationship management, SCRM). However, the usefulness of SCRM is contingent upon a successful adoption by an organization. Various...

The successful diffusion of innovations in rapidly changing supply chain technological environments is essential to support operations and supply chain management functions. In this paper we conceptualize and develop a framework for research into the diffusion of innovations in organizations...

In this study, we use geographic proximity as a measure of private information and examine the informational role of social media in stock markets. Using a large sample of individual messages (tweets) collected from Twitter during the period July 2011–March 2012, we find that local Twitter...

This paper is dedicated to find the appropriate approach to adopt a new “shareholder proposal rule” for the improvement of the corporate governance of Chinese public companies. This paper argues that the current Chinese shareholder proposal rule is primitive and not practical and it does not...

An innovative direct vapor generation (DVG) power system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle (SORC) and two-stage accumulators is proposed. It offers a significantly enlarged storage capacity due to a unique discharge operation mode. Synthetic oil Therminol® VP-1 is used as the heat...