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A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on HRM and ethical behaviour. Ethical leadership influences workplace engagement as well as misbehaviour Ozgur Demirtas notes that while a number of studies are being done on ethical leadership, little is known about the role of ethical ideology and organisational justice in the relationship between ethical leadership behaviour and individual behaviours such as work engagement and organisational misbehaviour, which has tended to be neglected in [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on entrepreneurial decision making. What do we know about entrepreneurial decision making? Dean Shepherd and his colleagues point out that judgment and decision-making research has a long tradition in management and represents a substantial stream of research in entrepreneurship. Despite numerous reviews of this topic in the organisational behaviour, psychology, and marketing fields, reviews in the field of entrepreneurship are lacking. This absence is surprising [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on SMEs and Sustainable Leadership practices. Social and environmental performance in SMEs Richard Arend analysed survey data of US small- and medium-sized enterprises, asking how these entrepreneurial ventures can build a competitive advantage with their social and environmental practices. He focused on several firm characteristics and choices involving motivations and capabilities. Arend found that an orientation to, commitments to, and dynamic flexibility in, the firm’s CSR [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on executive compensation issues. Do CEO incentives drive corporate social responsibility (CSR)? Yes, according to Michele Fabrizi, Christine Mallin and Giovanna Michelon. These researchers explored the role of CEO incentives on CSR. Incentives were monetary (based on both bonus compensation and changes in the value of the CEO’s portfolio of stocks and options) and non-monetary (career concerns, incoming/departing CEOs, and power and entrenchment). In 597 US [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on workplace ethics and codes of conduct. Does the quality of a firm’s code of ethics make a difference? Many studies have investigated the content of codes of ethics, as well as their capacity to condition the behaviour of people within organisations. However, few studies have considered the intrinsic quality of codes of ethics. This study aims to investigate the impact that specific factors—firm size, [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on Corporate Social Responsibility. Does corporate social responsibility enhance access to finance? Apparently so, according to Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim, who hypothesised that better access to finance can be attributed to (1) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and (2) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section of firms, Cheng et al. found that firms with [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on innovation and creativity. Core values and beliefs in leading innovative organisations Innovation is a key driving force for sustainability and growth even in the current economic global slowdown. At present hardly any studies show why innovation is successful at some organizations and yet fails to achieve the desired results at others. Sai Manohar and Shiv Pandit investigated the role of “core values and beliefs” [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on HRM and Sustainable Performance. Is sustainable human resource management next? Yes, according to Robin Kramar. She notes that strategic human resource management (SHRM) emerged as a dominant approach to human resource management (HRM) policy during the past 30 years. However, during the last decade, a new approach to HRM has evolved. This approach has been labelled sustainable human resource management (sustainable HRM). It is [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently on corporate governance & CSR/environmental disclosure. Motivations for initiating disclosure of environmental liability information Jennifer Chen, Charles Cho and Dennis Patten examined potential motivations for late adopting US companies to begin disclosing environmental liability amounts in their financial statements. After reviewing 10-K reports filed from 1998 through to 2012, they identified 55 firms initiating environmental liability disclosure over the period, with all but three doing [...]

A selection of interesting research and articles we found recently. What do private family firms do about paying out dividends? Sigrid Vandemaele and Mark Vancauteren applied behavioral economics to explain dividend policy in private family firms. Based on a sample of 501 Belgian firms, their results indicate that dividend payout is low when a family chief executive officer (CEO) leads the business and in the presence of a family-dominated board. The tendency of a family [...]