We investigate the governance sensitivity of foreign institutional investors’ (FII) ownership in a large emerging market setting of India, characterized by highly concentrated insider ownership. More specifically, we focus on the moderating role of firm size and price to book value (PB) in...

This paper examines the association between environmental uncertainty, accounting information relevance, and organizational performance. From a contingency approach, this paper attempts to contribute to a stream of research that investigates the relationship between accounting information...

Problem definition: Dual sourcing and contingent (or emergency) sourcing are important risk-mitigation strategies adopted by buying firms to manage supply-chain risks including transportation-related losses of in-bound orders from suppliers. Contingent sourcing as a means of managing...

While the study of human work and the workplace occupies a central place in scientific thought and discourse, less attention is given to the unemployment phenomenon and far less to the long term unemployment experience. Focusing on the latter, this paper offers a conceptual framework and a...

Abstract Cloud computing is a new technology that pushes all aspects of the business to rapid evolution, including performance measurement systems (PMSs). This paper develops a PMS, according to Contingency Theory, which includes five perspectives: cost effectiveness, productivity, flexibility,...

This study analyses how entrepreneurs adapt or change international control management and organisation structures in response to their resources and capabilities and the context of the situation, from the resource-based theory (RBT) and contingency and effectuation framework approaches, taking...

The purpose of this research is to verify interdependencies among service innovation, structural autonomy, performance measurement systems, and organizational outcomes in a new organizational context. The relationships between these variables that structure organizational design have been...

Purpose: The shop-floor organization under lean production (LP) has been hotly debated for about three decades. As this organization concept leaves considerable room for interpretation, the content of lean-inspired changes can vary widely. This paper pleads for a contingency view of how LP is...

The adoption and diffusion of balanced scorecard (BSC) has relatively been addressed in Western countries. Nonetheless, there is scant evidence on how BSC is received by organisations in developing countries. So, we are not sure how Non-Western countries are receiving BSC in practice and whether...

Drawing on social capital theory, this study explores how two types of guanxi – with business partners and with government officials – affect corporate capabilities differently, and examines their contingent value. The results from a survey of 409 firms in China indicate that the two guanxi...

The study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational environment antecedents and their impact on performance management among local government authorities and to further understand the role of the stakeholder and political support in the performance monitoring and review of...

This study examines contingencies written in firms’ material product market contracts, focusing on i) exogenous uncertainty as an ex-ante determinant, and ii) operating efficiency and market beta as ex-post consequences. We extract material contracts from firms’ public regulatory filings and...