PurposeThe corporate atmosphere in recent times speaks volumes about the crises of confidence and credibility brewing among professionals due to the rising incidences of unethical pro-organizational ...behavior (UPB). The study developed a model to demonstrate the underlying mechanisms through which unethical organizational culture (UOC) influences UPB through the mediating roles of idealism and relativism.Design/methodology/approachUsing a cross-sectional approach, data were collected through questionnaires that were distributed to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in the Plateau state in Nigeria. A total of 269 responses were obtained and analyzed using the partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) technique via Smart-PLS software.FindingsThe results revealed that the relationship between UOC and UPB was significant. The indirect predictive role of UOC on UPB was established via relativism but not through idealism. The results indicate that the preponderance of UPB among SMEs is a product of UOC which breeds a relativist ideology that ultimately promotes UPB. Finally, implications and suggestions for further research are discussed.Originality/valueThis study contributes to UPB in two unique ways. First, the authors bring to the fore the critical role of UOC in the debate on UPB which has been under-explored. Second, the study also established the mediating role of relativism in the relationship between UOC and UPB.
Purpose
Building supply chain (SC) resilience is crucial for business continuity given the ever-changing environmental conditions. Based on the resource orchestration and organizational culture ...theories, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the business value of SC resilience with the consideration of the roles of internal integration (II) and external integration (EI), risk management culture (RMC) and SC flexibility (SCF).
Design/methodology/approach
This study investigates how RMC, SCF and intra and interorganizational integration affect the performance of SC resilience. It collects primary and secondary data from 194 manufacturing firms listed in the Taiwan Stock Exchange and Taipei Exchange.
Findings
Results validate the authors’ hypothesis that RMC, SCF and II improve the financial performance of firms through SC resilience efforts.
Research limitations/implications
This study uses firms from Taiwan manufacturing industry, which might introduce country and industry bias.
Practical implications
This study helps managers improve the financial performance of their SC resilience efforts by developing RMC, SCF, II and IE across functions and partner firms.
Originality/value
This study contributes to the literature by empirically testing the relationship between SC resilience and financial performance, and how the relationship is moderated by RMC, SCF, II and EI based on the theories of organizational culture and resource orchestration.
This study investigated team innovation as a process phenomenon by differentiating the creativity stage from the implementation stage. Based on the interactional approach, the authors argue that team ...composition (aggregated individual creative personality and functional heterogeneity) affects team creativity, which in turn promotes innovation implementation depending on the team’s climate for innovation. Results from a study of 96 primary care teams confirmed that aggregated individual creative personality, as well as functional heterogeneity, promotes team creativity, which in turn interacts with climate for innovation such that team creativity enhances innovation implementation only when climate for innovation is high.
Belirsizliğin yüksek olduğu iş çevresinde yenilik yapmak işletmeler için bir zorunluluk haline gelmiştir. Çevresel belirsizliklere yenilik yaparak karşılık vermek işletmelerin çevik olmasına ...bağlıdır. Bu araştırma, çevresel belirsizliğin yenilik performansı üzerindeki etkisini incelerken belirsizliğin üç ana yönünü test etmeyi ve belirsiz ortamlarda örgütsel çevikliğin düzenleyici rolünü belirlemeyi amaçlamıştır. Veriler Nevşehir Merkez, Ürgüp, Göreme ve Avanos’ta bulunan otellerdeki 310 çalışandan elde edilmiştir. Verilere ilişkin güvenilirlik ve geçerlilik analizleri yapıldıktan sonra hipotezler test edilmiştir. Bulguların sonucunda çevresel belirsizliğin ve alt boyutlarından dinamiklik ve heterojenlik ile yenilik performansı arasında anlamlı ilişki bulunurken, olumsuzluk ile yenilik performansı arasında anlamlı ilişki bulunamamıştır. Ayrıca örgütsel çevikliğin, çevresel belirsizliğin alt boyutlarından dinamiklik ve heterojenliğin yenilik performansı üzerindeki etkisinde düzenleyici rol oynadığı tespit edilmiştir. Bu çalışma ile konaklama endüstrisinde çevresel belirsizlik, yenilik performansı ve örgütsel çeviklik arasındaki ilişkiye yeni bakış açıları sunulmuştur. Ancak araştırmanın sadece Nevşehir’e özel olması, çalışmanın genellenebilirliğini sınırlamıştır.
Innovating in the business environment where uncertainty is high has become a necessity for businesses. Responding to environmental uncertainties by innovating depends on businesses being agile. This research aimed to test three main aspects of uncertainty and to determine the moderator role of organizational agility in uncertain environments, while examining the effect of environmental uncertainty on innovation performance. Data covers from 310 employees in hotels located in Nevsehir Merkez, Urgup, Goreme and Avanos. After the reliability and validity analyzes of the data were made, the hypotheses were tested. As a result of the findings, a significant relationship was found between environmental dynamism and innovation performance, and between environmental heterogeneity and innovation performance. However, it was determined that the relationship between environmental hostility and innovation performance was not significant. Organizational agility played a moderator role in the relationship between environmental dynamism and innovation performance. In addition, organizational agility played a moderator role in the relationship between environmental heterogeneity and innovation performance. This study presents new perspectives on the relationship among environmental uncertainty, innovation performance and organizational agility in the hospitality industry. However, conducting the research only in Nevşehir limited the generalizability of the study.
The research conducted in this study focuses on the role of a company's innovation culture in linking economic and social responsibilities with financial performance. Specifically, our study ...addresses the following two questions: Does innovation trigger the simultaneous development of both economic and social dimensions of corporate social responsibility? Does the simultaneous pursuit of economic and social responsibilities result in a higher financial performance? These questions are examined through an empirical investigation of 133 companies, belonging to the Spanish Social Environmental Agreement, using structural equation modelling validated by factor analysis. The results indicate that, although companies are using innovation outcomes to support both economic and social achievements, they are only taking advantage effectively of economic achievements to obtain a higher financial performance.
One of the world’s largest sellers of footwear, the Bata Company of Zlín, Moravia has a remarkable history that touches on crucial aspects of what made the world modern. In the twilight of the ...Habsburg Empire, the company Americanized its production model while also trying to Americanize its workforce. It promised a technocratic form of governance in the chaos of postwar Czechoslovakia, and during the Roaring Twenties, it became synonymous with rationalization across Europe and thus a flashpoint for a continent-wide debate. While other companies contracted in response to the Great Depression, Bata did the opposite, becoming the first shoe company to unlock the potential of globalization.
As Bata expanded worldwide, it became an example of corporate national indifference, where company personnel were trained to be able to slip into and out of national identifications with ease. Such indifference, however, was seriously challenged by the geopolitical crisis of the 1930s, and by the cusp of the Second World War, Bata management had turned nationalist, even fascist.
In the Kingdom of Shoes unravels the way the Bata project swept away tradition and enmeshed the lives of thousands of people around the world in the industrial production of shoes. Using a rich array of archival materials from two continents, the book answers how Bata’s rise to the world’s largest producer of shoes challenged the nation-state, democracy, and Americanization.
When organizations strategically adopt cultural elements—such as a name, a color, or a style—to create their products, they make crucial choices that position them in markets vis-à-vis competitors, ...audiences, and other stakeholders. However, although it is well understood how one specific cultural element gets adopted by actors and diffuses, it is not yet clear how elements fare when considered within an industry choice-set of elements. Their popularity depends on idiosyncratic features (such as the category they belong to), or on structural factors such as their embeddedness (through connections to producers, audiences, or even other cultural elements). We develop an integrated perspective on the popularity of cultural elements in markets. We use a network perspective to show that the popularity of elements is fostered by being structurally embedded among many unconnected elements, in addition to not being affiliated to actors widely exposed in the media. We develop our study by using a unique data set of fashion stylistic elements in the global high-end fashion industry from 1998 to 2010.
Using Glassdoor's list of “Top CEOs by Employees' Choice,” we adopt a regression discontinuity (RD) specification to establish a causal link between the employee approval of CEOs and firm value. ...Having a CEO included in the top list results in an increase in firm performance in both stock returns and return on assets. Having a top CEO significantly increases a firm's employee efficiency, attraction to future employees, hiring of high-quality laborers such as inventors, and attraction to the customers. Our findings establish that the CEO-employee relationship is an important, though intangible, component of a corporation, and we emphasize the critical role of perceived corporate culture in the spirit of Guiso et al. (2015).
I analyze the informational value of corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosures in the presence of bad news (i.e., financial restatements). I do so by examining the link between CSR and (a) ...restatement likelihood and the (b) market-based consequences of restatement announcements. I find that restatements are lower (higher) for firms that are more (less) CSR responsible, consistent with the view that CSR-conscious firms adhere to a corporate culture that promotes ethical practices. In analyzing the market effects of restatements, I find that investors respond less (more) negatively to restatements by firms that exhibit strong (weak) CSR performance. This is consistent with the notion that investors perceive positive CSR performance to be in line with managers’ incentives to promote corporate ethical values than with their incentives to cover up corporate misconduct. In addition, I find that restating firms that are less CSR conscious are more likely to be named as defendants in class actions following restatements. Although I do not find that the likelihood of litigation dismissal is associated with CSR performance, I find that among the cases settled, the amount of settlements is inversely associated with better CSR performance. Collectively, the evidence suggests that firms can effectively use CSR to hedge against potential risk stemming from adverse corporate events.
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