Purpose: Previous research on influence strategies has almost exclusively indicated negative relationships between assertive influence and employee work outcomes; the purpose of this study is to argue that an assertive influence strategy can also lead to both positive and negative work...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the existence of relational power which is derived from an indigenous Chinese construct – guanxi . The authors also test the hypotheses of relational power with two well established power sources (position and personal power) and their...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which societal culture has a moderating effect on the business benefits of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Design/methodology/approach – A cross-national research design was conducted using survey data collected from...