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Understanding and Assessing the Correlation between Organizational Culture and Knowledge Management
Authors: Husain Riyasat , Khan Sanan H.
Published: February 2024

Organizational culture is one of the fundamental factors in transformation and development of knowledge sharing. This study aims to understand and determine the correlation between organizational culture and knowledge management. A descriptive correlational study design was adopted to analyze the relationship and effect of organizational culture on knowledge management, respectively. A self-structured questionnaire, comprising two major sections, was used as the study's instrument. The structural equation modeling was applied through SPSS-AMOS. The results show a significant and positive impact of dominant characteristics on knowledge creation. Organizational leadership exhibited a positive and significant relationship with knowledge management. Furthermore, employee management showed positive relationship to knowledge management. The organizational glue has been found as statistically significant and positively related to knowledge creation. The findings have suggested that knowledge sharing plays a vital role in the utilization of knowledge; hence, organizations in UAE should endorse the employees for capturing new knowledge and create and disseminate it in the organization, enabling them freedom of action and stimulating them to initiate. Based on the findings, the study has concluded a lack of interest and motivation of employees to spread and implement knowledge management in public government organizations.
Management Development Practices in Family and Non-family Small and Medium-sized Enterprises with Business Growth
Authors: Martin Francis J.
Published: February 2024

This study aims to examine how management development practices in family and non-family small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) change with business growth. The data employed to address the research question are drawn from the Business Longitudinal Survey (BLS). There is a statistically significant decline across the SME growth development pathways in the proportion of SMEs which are family-owned. There are also significant positive relationships between working owners and business growth, with an increase in other full-time managers across the growth development pathways. In contrast, family SMEs employ significantly more new managers than moderate and low growth firms, and moderate growth nonfamily SMEs employed significantly more managers than low growth enterprises. This transition towards more professional management appears to begin early in the growth process, as evidenced by a greater significant increase between low and moderate than moderate growth firms. In this context, a strategic approach to manage-ment development is characterized by an increasing degree of commitment of resources to the management development initiatives.
Management Practices in Nonprofit Organizations: Organizational Performance Evaluation
Authors: Brat Gram , Stangel Luisa
Published: February 2024

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine whether an NPO's management practices were related to their economic performance defined as increases/decreases in the number of employees and describe which specific management practices were utilized by those organizations experiencing the highest increases in employees. A survey composed of general organizational identifier questions and management practices was sent to the chief executive officers of qualified NPOs. The management practices receiving the highest average scores were: Reasons for Using Modern Performance Techniques; Goal Balance; Corporate Performance Dialogue; and Consequences of Management Decisions. The results of this study clearly indicate that agencies whose leadership have learned and utilize contemporary management practices produce positive results. The results also indicated five optimal management practices of the highest performing not-for-profit organizations: Targets are ambitious, Attracting Talent, Retaining Talent, and Rewarding High Performers.
A Comparative Analysis of Some Multiple Intelligences of IT Students
Authors: Huang Qiang , Davis Matthew M. , Harris Roger T.
Published: February 2024

Information management (IM) is a vital skill set in the area of knowledge and capability that should be possessed by IT professionals. However, the existing educational programs in academic institutions tend to overlook this aspect of training but focus instead on IT capabilities. This study aims at performing a comparative analysis on some multiple intelligences (emotional intelligence, social intelligence and cultural intelligence) of IT/IM students in international scale. The evaluative instrument was reviewed by the scholars in information management research domain and further examined in pre-test interviews prior to the formal administering of the questionnaires to students in the three countries. According to the results of analysis, the differences in emotional intelligence and social intelligence of subjects are significant. However, there is no significant difference in cultural intelligence and emotional intelligence. The findings of this investigation will contribute toward the formulation of future educational programs and selection of IT personnel by corporations when dealing with cross-cultural education and employment.
In-depth Understanding of the Way Top-managers Identify and Manage Their Organizations
Authors: Parente Marco F.R. , Garrido Augusto
Published: February 2024

The purpose of this study is to gain an in-depth contextualized understanding of how top-managers enact the long-term survival of their organizations. This research uses a case study approach to gain an in-depth contextualized understanding of how top managers make sense of who they are and their environment. Data was collected through semi structured interviews and was coded and analyzed through a grounded approach. The questioning will focus on the effects of the discursive resources. The research shows that identity construction and plausibility are more central than other properties of the sensemaking process in the sense they are primary influences on responses to the challenges we face. This research also supports the idea that when managers' identities are based upon routines and scripts, they may not be suitable for the present challenges.
A Conceptual Framework for Human Resource Management: An Application to the Organizational Culture
Authors: Chatterjee Nirbhik , Swaminathan Muthukarupan , Ratanaporn Yuangsawad
Published: February 2024

Human resource management (HRM) is a practice that aims to foster the link between human resource and organizational outcomes through employee outcomes and organizational culture. The present article focuses on the antecedents of HRM practices designed to suit each stage of an employee life cycle and proposes a new conceptual framework for HRM. The research attempts to focus on some elements that play an arbitration role among human resource management practices and organizational performance. The proposed conceptual framework is based on the HRM theories and practices that have been supported by theoretical perspectives. The conceptual framework prioritizes the links between HRM and organizational outcome through employee outcome and organization culture, outlined by the kind of HR practices implemented throughout the stages of an employees' life cycle. The theoretical perspectives of the present article contribute significantly to the existing body of knowledge and it seeks to draw the attention of corporate practitioners, academicians, and stakeholders toward the significance of implementing and following strategic HRM policies within organizations in developing economies.
Analysis of Organizational Change Management Climate during Knowledge Management Processes Implementation
Authors: Rohani Asghar , Ghasemi Farzaneh
Published: February 2024

To achieve the advantage of organizational knowledge in terms of competitiveness requires an accurate management of that knowledge, so-called knowledge management (KM), which is currently an important position in organizational leadership and management, and researchers have given particular attention to it. KM is the process of managing knowledge and expertise in the organization in a way that facilitates identification, capture, codification, storage and sharing the knowledge which accelerates knowledge creation towards the strategies of the organization. This research was designed in order to analyze change management during knowledge management establishment. Based on literature review, the authors' recent researches on KM and applying some statistical methods, the research structure of this study has been developed on five main stages according to methodology that have been described in authors recent research. The study used factor analysis to extract three critical factors. The results showed significant effects on change program for KM adoption. The results of factor analysis and multiple regression analysis confirmed the proofs for the three hypotheses.
The Influence of Corporate Values on Employee Branding: A Qualitative Study
Authors: Saqqaf Mohamed
Published: February 2024

The increasing research on corporate brand and corporate reputation shows that employees can relate to external stakeholders' delivery of corporate brand promises and to the organization's success. This article discusses the differential influence of core values that internally focused programs have on the employees of a company and its consequent effects on the organization's brand. The researcher conducted an in-depth review to determine the qualitative aspects of corporate values in the companies and the employees' perception of the values. Thematic analysis was conducted to analyze the present study's data sources, as it provided some consistency in the methodology while examining qualitative data. The results show that the core value of employee branding has the most significant impact on employees' attitudes and behavior in the workplace. The research reveals there is an ambiguity and unclear understanding about corporate and workplace cultures, and their value-interrelation. In addition, a study on the influence of the employer brand on potential employee identification considers the long-term effects.
The Road to Prosperity: A Study on the Efficiency of Resource Allocation in China’s Expressway Construction
Authors: Bu Xue Na , Zhang Tian Hong , Zhang Shou Hong
Published: February 2024

This paper presents a new multi-objective mixed integer programming model to prioritize seven highway infrastructure projects. The proposed model explicitly incorporates socio-economics, uncertainty, resource constraints, and interdependencies to deal with the optimal transportation infrastructure project selection problem. Next, project prioritization is determined based on the ANP results, which reflect the interdependency between criteria and a set of feasible candidate projects. Finally, an empirical study of eastwest highway improvement program is conducted to illustrate how the modeling process proceeds. The results show that the proposed model can effectively support a transportation investment policy that best suits the goal of urban land redevelopment for highly urbanized settings. As such, the model can be generalized for other human settlement studies and illustrate the spatially complex characteristics of transportation networks as well as some of the difficulties raised with respect to priority of national capital improvement projects. The research will provide a useful reference for the study of the relationship between highways and regional economic development.
The Influence of Cultural Factors on Leadership Perceptions
Authors: Daruwalla Vistasp , Chandok Gurbaag , Jeong Wonyoung
Published: February 2024

The purpose of the study was set as to explore cultural influence on leadership perceptions in South Korean organizations in India. The results indicated that South Korean leadership style is perceived as task oriented, while Indian leadership as relationship oriented. Significant factors which made Indian respondents prefer to relationship-oriented leadership were a leader's concern for subordinates, general supervision, two-way communication, delegation, which related to the leader-leaders' concern for individual growth of subordinate. The findings also imply two distinct subcultures, which are one of Indian and the other of South Korean within the South Korean organization in India, in addition to common practices between Indian and South Korean. Therefore, the present study contributes to practicing researchers, managers, professionals, and management practitioners who are concerned with business in India or business with Indians as providing the information with respect to Indian or South Korean cultures, particularly their working cultures.
The Role of External Advice in Forming Individuals and Groups Decision-making Process
Authors: Ryang Yong-suk , Whang Dae-sung
Published: February 2024

People often receive advice from others when making decisions, which is an effective way of improving the quality of decision-making results by integrating external information into decisions. In decision-making literature, the number of participants in decision-making can be divided into two categories: individual and group decisions. In this study we investigated group advice-taking behavior compared with individual's in the task of making judgmental forecasts for varying advice quality and feedback conditions. Individuals took advice significantly more than groups did in both the reasonable and unreasonable advice treatments, and the WOA mediated the relationship between a group condition and forecast accuracy. When the advice presented was unreasonable, the mean WOA score in the individual treatment exceeded the mean, and the difference was significant. When unreasonable advice was given, individuals were more receptive to advice than groups. When reasonable advice was provided, individuals accepted it more than the groups in both reasonable and unreasonable advice treatments. There was a significant positive correlation between the perceived disagreement level and the standard deviation of three group members' initial forecasts. There was no statistically significant difference in advice taking behavior across the different time series models in either individual or group treatments. We found that both individuals and groups accept less advice regardless of quality than indi-viduals and are better able to discriminate between unreasonable and reasonable advice.
Role Clarity and Job-related Information as the Linkage between Planning Implementation Processes and Individual-level Performance
Authors: Henderson Marry , Douglas Roger S.
Published: February 2024

The purpose of this study is to investigate how role clarity and job-relevant information serve as the linkage between planning imple-mentation processes and individual-level performance. We hypothesize that participative budgeting and strategic performance measurement systems serve as inputs into the social system of an organization that allow managers to understand their roles, thus enabling them to implement the plans of the organization. We then apply a role theory lens to further examine the mechanisms underlying the relationship between organizational planning and managerial performance. Specifically, we explore the role-related relationships among the constructs involved by performing Hunter-Schmidt meta-analyses and meta-analytic structural equation modeling (MASEM) to examine causal paths among constructs that have been hypothesized in the literature. Further tests utilizing MASEM found positive relationships among participative budgeting, strategic performance measuring systems, job-related information, role clarity, and job performance. In conclusion, our findings indicate the importance of clarifying roles in determining the degree to which managers have the information needed to perform their jobs.
Empowerment in the Management of Business Units
Authors: Wood Robert R. , Miles Luisa S.
Published: February 2024

This study examines the mediating role of performance appraisal quality on the association between lower level manager's employee empowerment and their performance, which is assessed in respect to the performance of the business unit that they are held responsible for. Specifically, we address the conjecture concerning whether real autonomy is provided by focusing on the extent to which empowerment extends to another aspect of employees' organisational experience, i.e. their performance appraisal system, and also examine the subsequent impact that the level of employee empowerment has on lower level managers' performance. Covariance Based Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) was used to examine the relationship between employee empowerment, the quality of the performance appraisal systems, and business unit performance. The results reveal that employee empowerment exhibits a direct influence on non-financial performance and an indirect influence on financial performance through trust. In addition, trust is found to be significantly positively associated with both financial and non-financial performance. The findings provide managers with an insight into the important role of employee empowered in enhancing business unit performances, and the effectiveness of the performance appraisal system.
A Model Analysis of Continuous Auditing in the Era of Big Data: A Case Study
Authors: Meng Lingjei , Shao Shuhui
Published: February 2024

In today's dynamic operating environment, continuous auditing (CA) can greatly improve the risk management, control and audit activities of business enterprises. However, relatively few enterprises have realised their full potentials because a clear, strong business case for establishing an effective CA system in their enterprises is lacking. The main objective of this study is to uncover the key decision-making factors of the CA strategy in the era of big data and to develop an evaluation model for the CA system when evaluation criteria conflict with one another. This study provides a model analysis of CA engagement and details the methodological issues in how to effectively construct a tailored-made CA mode for an enterprise. The MCGDM model consists of decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL), analytic network process (ANP), and zero-one goal programming (ZOGP) to simulate the practical problem of choosing the appropriate CA system to help decision-makers find the optimal solution, which incorporates both considerations of experts' opinions and resource constraints within an organisation. The findings of this paper would help business professionals in assessing the current status of their CA system and provide important managerial implications for continually reviewing business process to achieve their intended levels of performance and effectiveness.
Organizational Commitment after a Rapid and Pervasive Organizational Change Process: Results of a Pilot Study
Authors: Busignani Matteo , Venerucci Stefano
Published: February 2024

In today's competitive environment, effective management of organizational change requires a comprehensive understanding of the concepts and processes of change management and the associated drivers behind them. This article presents the results and analysis of the levels of organizational commitment of social workers after a rapid and pervasive organizational change process and includes an analysis of differences in responses by participants who had experienced the organization change process versus those who had not experienced the organizational change. In addition, in-person interviews were conducted with six social workers who had been part of a change process. The results indicated that there was a significant positive correlation between normative and affective commitment, while there was no significant correlation between affective and continuance commitment. The findings also indicated that older employees were significantly more committed to the former than to the current organization.
The Impact of Unit Membership, Discipline, and Age on Team Effectiveness
Authors: Bradley Elizabeth I. , Hudson Benjamin A. , Welch Scott M.
Published: February 2024

The research on the idea of teams as dynamic systems that transcend boundaries is increasingly attempting to better understand how changes in team members (i.e., team members joining and/or leaving) shape organizational team performance and operation. The purpose of this study was to determine the impact that unit membership, discipline and various demographic characteristics such as age and gender have on levels of stress, coping, self-esteem and estimates of team effectiveness. Stress from patient behaviors was influenced by team and the psychiatric and Alzheimer's units had the highest levels and the lowest levels were in the geriatric and nursing home units. The amount of emotion related coping was significantly affected by age and the youngest participants had the greatest amount. Unit membership and discipline have a significant impact on the level of stress and coping.
Review and Discussion on the Application of HeXie Management Theory
Authors: Xi Yu Min , Xiong Chen , Liu Peng
Published: February 2024

The HeXie Management Theory (HXMT) is a new management theory that integrates eastern and western wisdom to develop a robust model of organizational management capable of rising to the challenges of uncertainty, ambiguity, complexity and change. In this study, we use case study to explore the meaning of the core components of HXMT in the real world, and to validate the value of this emerging management theory on practice. In addition, we examine the components of organizational systems and managerial activities in dealing with specific HTs in each case. The results show that the congruence of the status of harmony has a positive relationship with organizational performance. Further, the evolution of HT can help nurture the dynamic capabilities of an organization by applying different configurations of harmony in front of varied organizational tasks and allocating resources to coordinate implementing activities guided by HP and XP mechanisms. The proposed methodology could also be applied to organizational design and offer guidelines for detecting organizational evolution.
On the Paradigm Commitment of Socialist Economics with Chinese Characteristics
Authors: Zhang Yan
Published: February 2024

The economic development of New China with unique attributes has changed not only the old image of China but also the world. The two miracles of China's economic development remain to be the mysteries that cannot be solved with the micro-macro paradigm of the Western mainstream economic theories. This paper analyzes the historical and cultural traits formed in the past thousands of years and the extraordinary practice of exploring the socialist development path over the past more than 70 years in the Chinese economy, focusing on the phenomenon of economic development with Chinese characteristics in the context of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Then, the realm attribute of socialism with Chinese character is analyzed, and the specific role of local governments in regional economic development is discussed.
How is Big Data Changing Economic Research Paradigms?
Authors: Hong Yoon Mi , Wang Sheng Yu
Published: February 2024

Technological aspect of Big Data is the domain of computer science. Managers and economists are interested, however, not in the methods of implementation of the systems, but in possibilities what such technology allows. For several years, the research has confirmed that Big Data have positive effect on companies' performance. This paper proposes a novel Big Data architecture designed for nowcasting and forecasting social and economic changes. The main contribution of the paper is the proposal of a new data lifecycle model that encompasses all the processes related to working with Big Data, and an architecture for a Big Data system able to integrate, process and analyze data from different sources with the objective to forecast economic and social changes. In order to frame the data analysis in an organizational perspective and allow its management in a robust and flexible architecture, a Data Lifecycle approach for the management of data in the organization has been taken. Economic and social aspects were presented as a complement to the technological aspect, which is usually cited as the primary one in the context of Big Data.
Investigating Some Factors Affecting Relationship between the Level of Cohesiveness and Team Performance: Short Survey
Authors: Rahmawati Fadhlan
Published: February 2024

The purpose of this research is to perform an empirical testing on the influence of positive group affective tone and task complexity as moderating variables on the curvilinear relationship between team cohesiveness and team performance. The results of the testing on empirical data confirm that the relationship between the two is an inverted U-shaped relationship. The implication of the research findings is that team performance is positively related to the three factors. The findings of this study suggest that in the event that work teams have become highly cohesive, which is manifested in collective-oriented behavior and the maintaining of personal relationships, managers should develop some interventions. The purpose is to decrease the level of cohesiveness in order for the group to be able to maintain its positive contributions to the organizations as well as to prevent negative consequences of high cohesiveness.
The Information Content of Alternative Data: Evidence from E-commerce Sales
Authors: Liao Ling , Sun Qing
Published: February 2024

Whether it is making more informed decisions, achieving scale, streamlining processes, improving operational efficiency or offering better products and services, businesses are embracing digital transformation as the way forward. Alternative data takes an extremely important place in investment and commodities market analysis. In this paper we make an attempt to analyze the effect of alternative data on the informativeness of financial forecasts. In our case study the manufacturers predict uncertain demand and decide independently whether to share direct retail prices. Information sharing strategies and e-commerce sales mode selection strategies are discussed in detail. The value of information exchange and the impact of forecast accuracy on profits are further examined. In addition, we analyze the value and optimal strategy of information exchange. The results indicate that manufacturers are affected by the accuracy of predictions in different information sharing strategies. Furthermore, manufacturer optimal future profits are strongly influenced by investment efficiency. The results also show that the manufacturers have a significant impact on the optimal decision of the supplier. The findings yield important implications both for decision-makers and future academic research.
China's Rural Areas toward 2035: Vision, Challenges and Strategies
Authors: Ye Xiao Qing
Published: February 2024

Rural revitalization and development are mainly based on the urban-rural integration, which can be regarded as a key factor for China's rural land-use policy reform. This paper focuses on the research of the theory, technology, and management of rural revitalization from the perspective of the human-earth areal system. Firstly, this paper constructs the regional digital economy development evaluation index system according to the three-step selection process of indicators. Secondly, this research uses land engineering for land capacity building as the technical support to solve rural issues and constructs a framework of rural land management policy reform in China. Finally, the research results show that the consolidation of hollowed villages as well as gullied, degraded, and sandy land for highstandard farmland has been implemented, providing an important approach in improving land productivity. Collaboration among policymakers, multilateral organizations, and the private sector is crucial in filling gaps in solving the current problems.
How Does Government Accounting Supervision Affect Earnings Management?
Authors: Liu Guo Qun , Wang Dongbo
Published: February 2024

This paper explores the effectiveness of supervision in curbing local firms' earnings management and its underlying mechanism. It was found that the impact is particularly pronounced in provinces with severe GDP exacerbation, provincial governors facing impending promotion, firms controlled by the government, and firms with weak external monitoring. The findings of this study highlight the importance of addressing the agency problem between the central and local governments in authoritarian regimes in the context of curbing firms’ earnings manipulation to improve capital market efficiency. We recommend the implementation of a more comprehensive strategy to improve the reliability of firms' financial reporting quality with the aim of improving the efficiency of capital markets in the long run. On the other hand, since external monitoring plays a significant role in preventing local firms from engaging in earnings management, we recommend that new policies be introduced to encourage more institutional investment in listed firms.
Value-added Tax Neutrality, Corporate Investment and Valuation: Evidence from the Reform of Uncredited VAT Refund
Authors: Wu Yue Liang , Lu Chao Jing , Chen Chi Ken
Published: February 2024

In recent years, the value-added tax (VAT) has been widely adopted as a tax vehicle in developing countries. In the context of national tax reforms, VAT was often adopted to replace the more complicated tax systems for selling goods and services. Given the growing interest in VAT, it is necessary to evaluate issues and principles that are relevant to developing countries. The main objective is to evaluate the experience of developed and developing countries adopting this tax and to collect useful lessons from these experiences to guide tax reform in developing countries. The research provides a cross section of the questions and describes the state of knowledge on VAT. Thus, researchers and policy-makers can assess the direct relevance of VAT to developing countries with different levels of administrative capacity. The collected funds are expected to contribute to improving taxation and promoting effective resource allocation in developing countries. The work provides broad guidelines for improving the design and administration of VAT refund mechanisms across various areas of VAT management, reflecting international good practices. Firstly, it analyzes the results of a brief survey of tax refund practices in selected countries at various income levels, and reflects its advice. Secondly, it provides recommendations for countries to improve VAT refund management. Thirdly, it offers suggestions for countries that should develop strategies to tackle VAT refund fraud and improve tax revenue forecasts and strengthen treasury cash management.
Pair Support Mechanism with Chinese Characteristics: Achievement, Experience and Value
Authors: Wang Hu
Published: February 2024

The Paired Assistance Program to Disaster-Affected Areas (PADAA) in China has demonstrated its efficiency after the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in restoring and reconstructing the affected regions. PADAA gradually was implemented into national policy and became a part of political mobilization in the Chinese emergency management system. This study aims to find out how PADAA works in the Chinese public administration system. In order to achieve this goal, the expert interviews, secondary data and documents were processed. We discuss the phases of the reconstruction process and analyse the factors, which enabled the influence of the PADAA programme on economic sustainability growth. The findings of this research will be helpful to humanitarian practitioners and policy-makers for their better understanding of the disaster challenges and relief operations arrangement that should lead to improvement of regulations, policies and logistics strategies in this direction. Finally, some recommendations for local governments and international organizations will be suggested.
Loosely-coupled Collaboration of Policy Implementation in China: A Case Study on the Governance Policy of S River Basin
Authors: Cui Jing
Published: February 2024

Successful river basin governance is challenged by actor engagement in the various stages of planning and management. Water governance has been handled as a critical national issue in China since ancient times. Over thousands of years, water governance in China has evolved from flood control, irrigation, and navigation to modern large-scale water supply, water pollution control, and ecological protection, with sustainable water resources management being the major challenge today. Although these issues vary significantly across the country, China has adopted a national, unified approach to manage water resources in a river basin context. In particular, over the last 70 years, China’s water governance has experienced fundamental changes. These commonalities show that designs are fundamental to tackle geographic and sectoral fragmentation of complex systems and catalyze the emergence of adaptive water governance. This study comparatively analyses the advantages of the policy in basin environmental governance, such as clear government responsibility, enhanced coordination among government departments, the accountability mechanism of the one-vote veto system, and the disadvantages of the policy in terms of high costs, information asymmetry, and lack of public participation. Furthermore, this study proposes suggestions on the sustainable development of watershed environmental governance from three aspects: regional characteristics, investment, and institutional innovation of policy implementation. Hence, this research is an important scientific foundation for the authorities to build cooperative water resource management programs in transboundary river basins. In future research, the availability of a more detailed dataset will enable the construction of a more comprehensive water resource management plan for different phases.
Work-Family Facilitation Effect: A Structural Approach to Work Engagement Process
Authors: Nwadike Saidat , Yesufu Chimezie
Published: February 2024

Work-family facilitation is an important aspect of many employees' life which is that employees take up work and eventually end up in families. It has flow-on benefits in the person's family life. It is likely to have an enduring effect on workers' engagement. The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesized structural model by predicting work engagement. The participants of this research were selected using random sampling technique from the corporate workforce within two sample industries. The results of the zero-order correlation analysis findings suggest that a significant positive correlation exists between family work-facilitation and work engagement among employees. The findings support theories of expansionist and positive spill over. Understanding how to effectively manage work roles such that it enables facilitation of family roles in a way that they synergize would be beneficial to the organization through increased work engagement in the future.
Ecosystem of Doing Business, Total Factor Productivity and Multiple Patterns of High-quality Development of Chinese Cities: A Configurational Research based on Complex System View
Authors: Du Yu Zhang , Liu Qi Chao , Chen Kwok Wai , Xiao Rui Qing , Li Shu Shen
Published: February 2024

Urban economic development, undoubtfully, is crucial to regional economy and quality of life, and enhancing the efficiency of urban economic development is of particular importance to boost sustainable and healthy economic and social development. Improving green total factor productivity (GTFP) is the inherent requirement for implementation of green development approach and significant achieving regional high-quality development. During recent years China has witnessed an unprecedented improvement in its business environment as measured by doing business. Therefore, for our study we selected to explore the urban sustainable development in the context of China, as this experience is of great theoretical and practical value for developing countries. We use 264 Chinese cities in the period from 2003 to 2018 as a case study to examine their GTFP for further evaluation of urban sustainable development. The spatial panel data regression results demonstrate that the scale impact of city size on urban productivity appears to have an inverted U shape. This effect will grow when the cities’ industrial structure becomes more dominated by the service sector. The suggested framework as well as the results may provide important guidance for future urban productivity improvement and sustainable city development.
Can Market-oriented Reform Improve Pricing Efficiency in China? Evidence from Registration-based IPO System
Authors: Lai Liao , Lan Cheng Dao , Qin Mao Chang
Published: February 2024

Registration-based IPO system has been regarded as the most important financial reform of China in recent years, and is expected to mitigate the severe IPO underpricing in Chinese market. Despite its importance, the impacts of the reform still remain unexplored. This paper examines the institutional investors, information disclosure, and IPO inquiry process as causes of the reduction in efficiency and makes recommendations. Our findings indicate that the reform improves price efficiency in the short and long term. After the implementation of registration-based system, the delisting of poorly performing companies is more efficient. The market-oriented reform shows its ability to improve the inclusiveness and opening-up of the A-share market, give full play to the power of the capital market in driving innovation, better serve the real economy, and contribute to state economic transformation and upgrade. At the same time, registration-based IPO system may amplify the aggressive speculation on the newly listed stocks, which blows up the aftermarket prices.
Corporate Governance Research in the Digital Economy: New Paradigms and Frontiers of Practice
Authors: Deqiu Chen , Qing Heng
Published: February 2024

Digital technologies are increasingly changing the nature of competition and generating externalities that impact society. While the growth of a digital and sustainable economy may increase firm performance, these new trends also raise potential challenges for companies pertaining to corporate governance structures. In this paper, the impact of digitalization on corporate governance practices is discussed from the perspective of developing technologies and institutionalization, revealing potential effects, transformations, and steps to take. Our findings indicate that the development of the digital economy can facilitate enterprise digital transformation, enhance agency efficiency, and increase online media attention, thereby significantly promoting CSR performance for local firms. Digital transformation has an effect on the information quality and corporate governance, reducing agency costs, improving internal control, and attracting more analysts’ tracking, so as to build an effective trust mechanism between firms and the external market. The research conclusion of this article is helpful in analyzing the policy effectiveness of current corporate information disclosure regulations, and also provides a basis for the subsequent formulation of relevant disclosure policies. In addition to its theoretical significance, this paper also has important policy implications.
Review and Prospect of Neuromarketing ERP Research
Authors: Shi Zedong , Zhang Shihan
Published: February 2024

Neuromarketing (NM) uses neuroscience tools, for example, but not limited to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG) to study, explore, analyze, and explain the neural correlates of consumer’s behavior (i.e., decision-making processes), the cognitive processes (i.e., attention and memory) and emotional processes (i.e., emotion) of interest for marketing research (e.g., advertising, brand, product, price). In the last decades, NM studies appear more often because the researchers are looking for understanding the mechanisms of decision-making in the consumer's brain toward marketing stimuli. This document aims to conduct a systematic review in order to identify evolution and research trends in the area of NM. Besides, on the basis of collating and reviewing the relevant literatures on ERP empirical research in the past 20 years, this paper sorts out and summarizes the neural mechanism of consumer purchase decision and the commonly used ERP components, providing a reference for corresponding brain activity areas for marketing scholars to study consumer purchase decision applying ERP neural technology, which helps marketing scholars better use ERP technology to guide and develop existing marketing management theories and practices. It became evident that NM is still an immature and incipient area with a low degree of theoretical consensus. Additionally, we established corresponding analysis between NM perspective and traditional marketing perspectives.
The Analysis of Factors Contributing to the Success or Failure of New Product Development
Authors: Mosca Francesco , Salvaderi Roberto , Hasselström Thomas
Published: February 2024

Developing new products and staying ahead of the competition is critical for the survival of companies in a competitive environment. There are many factors affecting a product's chance of success in these environments, such as the company business model, the product type, the company's organisational structure and so on. The objective of this study was to define the relative importance (weights) of 19 factors that FMM companies can use to measure the success or failure of the new product development (NPD) they launch. We used group decision-making with the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and considered three methods of handling the responses of outliers (DMs whose opinions differed from the majority). The results showed that customer satisfaction, proportion of total sales by new products, influence on the overall profit of the company, and growth of demand for the company products were the most important factors for measuring the success of innovation. However, it can happen that weight assignment methods produce very different rankings of factors and this situation can be challenging for the decision analyst.
Perspective Projects Screening Model for Decision-makers at Administrative Level
Authors: Uzel Hasan , Seyhan Khayal , Erkan Ahsen , Yasin Syed
Published: February 2024

The field of social innovation is developing rapidly all over the world, with new institutions, methods and activities. More systematic innovation methods are being applied to some of the most challenging social problems of our times. The main purpose of this paper is to present the designed decision-making model as a support for evaluation of social innovation projects using multiple criteria decision-making methods. First, the theoretical background and foundations of social innovation are described. The essence of evaluation approaches that can be used in this field as well as multi-stage evaluation processes have been discussed. This information is the basis for presenting the model for screening of social innovation projects. The considerations are completed with an indication of possible directions for further research on new instruments useful in evaluation processes of such projects. The logic and process of the decision-making model elaboration as well as the decision model itself can be used as a framework for managers facing decision-making problems with similar nature as innovation management concepts.
Transformational Leadership as an Effective Strategy to Improve Team Performance Excellence through Behavioural Integration
Authors: Wucai Ryo , Guolin Yu-Ting , Dou Chia-Hao
Published: February 2024

Transformational leadership (TL) has become an important research topic in the field of business and management and is demonstrated as an important variable affecting how organizational members interact and function. TL method encourages and motivates employees to create and bring about the change necessary for the future success of the company. Accumulated literatures have evidenced the causal linkage between TL and team performance (TP). However, in spite of growing research on the significance of TL as a key contextual factor that determines innovative behavior, recent studies have not investigated the psychological mechanisms that link TL to employees’ innovative behavior throughout learning orientation thoroughly. Only limited research has disentangled how transformational leaders enhance managers’ teamwork (e.g. behavioral integration). Therefore, this article uses TL as the theoretical foundation and conducts a synthesized review to sort out evidence integrating teams engagement in team learning behaviours in the existing literature. The study suggests that cohesive teams can be developed by leaders who support an environment for learning or promote proactive learning behaviour and the behavioural integration of teams in the workplace. The findings show that TL has a positive moderating effect between external team learning and both TP outcomes. Results obtained also confirm that TL works through support for innovation, which in its turn interacts with climate for excellence. The moderating effect of organizational status was identified as well. In conclusion, the findings offer theoreti-cal and empirical valuable insights into how TL impacts TP through various mediating variables. Overall, our results demonstrate the importance of integrating dispersion and contextual variables into research models, in particular, previous performance and leadership consensus. This paper can be differentiated from past studies, as it thinks over an ensemble of TL style as an essential antecedent of TP and also enhances the knowledge of the researchers and practitioners about the leadership style that upshot to the TP. This will help the managers, researchers, organizational development specialists and employees who are seeking effective ways to support struggling employees in context to their team performance.
A Four-Step Method for the Selection of CRM Software Packages
Authors: Barbato Salvatore , Fortino Fabio , Genovese Daniele , Mercatelli Serena
Published: February 2024

Customer relationship management (CRM) systems are growing in importance as essential tools to exploit such data, enhancing sales, productivity, and customer satisfaction, becoming the foundation of contemporary marketing strategy. Its purpose is to personalize a business relationship, whether it’s B2B or B2C, in hopes that this personalized and strategic touch will result in more business. However, existing CRM selection methods suffer from several limitations, which make their actual implementation often impractical. Therefore, this article proposes a novel method to support firms in the selection of the most appropriate CRM according to their needs. The proposed method resorts to the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to classify the most relevant criteria for the focal firm's needs and to fuzzy AHP (FAHP) to identify the most suitable alternative. An illustrative implementation of the method is also presented in the article as the case study. Furthermore, we show how the method can be straightforwardly adapted to various circumstances and discuss its implementation in SME.