Browsing by Author "Hughes, Paul"
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Affective Commitment within the Public Sector: Antecedents and Performance Outcomes between Ownership Types
Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul; Radnor, Zoe; Glennon, Russ (Article)How to generate affective commitment and realize its performance potential is deemed critical to public management. But in the context of service outsourcing, does ownership type influence its antecedents and performance ... -
Change Management in Indo-Japanese Cross-Cultural Collaborative Contexts: Parallels between Traditional Indian Philosophy and Contemporary Japanese Management
Ashok Ashta; Stokes, Peter; Hughes, Paul (Article)Abstract Purpose: Within the globalised commercial context, Japanese business activity in India has increased significantly. The purpose of this research paper is to highlight common attitudinal traits that would facilitate ... -
Collective Organisational Publicness versus Privateness in Community Sport: A National Panel Study of Local Authorities
Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul; Leone, Vitor (Article)Research Question: The role and merit of publicness versus privateness in community sport provision is hotly contested in the sport management field, but is there a relationship between ownership types in local authorities’ ... -
Creating Value – Value Co-Creation and Value Destruction
Stokes, Peter; Mahajan, Gautam; Lucas, Gerardus; Hughes, Paul (Article)Historically, value has been understood largely in economic terms centred on, for example, notions of price, cost, profits and shareholder wealth. However, contemporary understandings of value also point at value being ... -
A Diagnostic Tool to Determine a Strategic Improvisation Readiness Index Score (IRIS) to Survive, Adapt, and Thrive in a Crisis
Hughes, Paul; Morgan, Robert E.; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Kouropalatis, Yiannis; Lindgreen, Adam (Article)Crises for business-to-business (B2B) firms are characterized by unexpected or unanticipated severe threats that are highly uncertain where strategic response times are low in which executives are victim of overwhelming ... -
Does Improvisation Help or Hinder Planning in Determining Export Success? Decision Theory Applied to Exporting
Nemkova, Ekaterina; Souchon, Anne L.; Hughes, Paul; Micevski, Milena (Article)Exporting enables organizations to diversify risk and generate multiple income streams. In turn, the ability to make good export decisions is purported to be a main determinant of performance. Although substantive export ... -
Does Ownership Matter for Service Delivery Value? An Examination of Citizens’ Service Satisfaction
Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul; Hughes, Mathew; Glennon, Russ (Article)Governments across the world outsource service delivery to external agents, but does ownership matter for service delivery value? Though theory points to clear ownership differences on effectiveness, there remains limited ... -
Explaining the entrepreneurial orientation–performance relationship in emerging economies: The intermediate roles of absorptive capacity and improvisation
Hughes, Paul; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Mathew; Arshad, Darwina (Article)Research has established the relevance of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) to firm performance but skepticism remains because of the ambiguity surrounding how EO might improve firm performance. We examine the key concepts ... -
In Pursuit of a 'Whole Brain' Approach to Undergraduate Teaching: Implications of the Herrmann Brain Dominance Model
Hughes, Mathew; Hughes, Paul; Hodgkinson, Ian R. (Article)The question of ‘how we learn’ continues to direct scholarly debate, yet undergraduate teaching is typically designed to homogenise the learning environment. This is despite heterogeneous learning outcomes ensuing for ... -
Knowledge Management Activities and Strategic Planning Capability Development
Hughes, Paul; Hodgkinson, Ian R. (Article)While the strategic management literature extols the virtues of engaging in strategic planning for superior performance, how a dynamic strategic planning capability can be developed remains underexplored; a knowledge void ... -
Leveraging Dynamic Export Capabilities for Competitive Advantage and Performance Consequences: Evidence from China
As the business arena becomes more global and therefore dynamic, organizations must balance their capabilities with the demands and the conditions of the international marketplace. This leads firms to trade off the ... -
Marketing as an Investment in Shareholder Value
Hughes, Mathew; Hughes, Paul; Yan, Ji (Karena); Sousa, Carlos M. P. (Article)We present resource-based and capability-based arguments of marketing investment intensity to offer a strategic view of marketing as an investment in shareholder value. We find that marketing investment intensity has a ... -
The mediation between participative leadership and employee exploratory innovation: Examining intermediate knowledge mechanisms
Chang, Yi Ying; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul; Chang, Che-Yuan (Article)We examine mediation effects of coworker knowledge sharing and absorptive capacity on the participative leadership–employee exploratory innovation relationship in R&D units of Taiwanese technology firms. Deploying a ... -
Micro-foundations of Organizational Ambidexterity in the Context of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Hughes, Paul; Hughes, Mathew; Stokes, Peter; Lee, Hanna; Rodgers, Peter; Degbey, William (Article)Micro-foundational approaches can enable firms to develop organizational ambidexterity, which is critical to long-term prosperity. However, to date, few studies have examined how mergers and acquisitions (M&A)—processes ... -
The Multi-Level Effects of Corporate Entrepreneurial Orientation on Business Unit Radical Innovation and Financial Performance
Corporate enterprises must support its business units to adapt to changes that are increasingly dramatic and complex. In response, corporate entities must organize to embed a corporate entrepreneurial orientation (EO) that ... -
Planning to Improvise? The Role of Reasoning in the Strategy Process: Evidence from Malaysia
Hughes, Paul; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Arshad, Darwina; Hughes, Mathew; Leone, Vitor (Article)Planning and improvisation are depicted as alternate decision-making orientations in the strategy process literature, executed by two parallel cognitive contexts: rational or intuitive, but can rationality and intuition ... -
Public Service Performance: Exploring the Effects of Strategy Configurations Among Ownership Types
Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Hughes, Paul (Article)We focus on ownership as a critical issue for service delivery and examine under which strategy configurations ownership types realize performance. Examining different ownership types that coexist in service delivery ... -
Quadratic effects of dynamic decision-making capability on innovation orientation and performance: evidence from Chinese exporters
Hughes, Paul; Souchon, Anne L.; Nemkova, Ekaterina; Hodgkinson, Ian R.; Oliveira, Joao S.; Boso, Nathaniel; Hultman, Magnus; Banin, Abena Yeboah; Sy-Chango, Joseph (Article)This study examines quadratic effects of three export decision-making approaches (planning, creativity and spontaneity) on innovation orientation, and the direct effect of innovation orientation on export market performance. ... -
The Role of Marketing Resources in Radical Innovation Activity: Antecedents and Payoffs
Kyriakopoulos, Kyriakos; Hughes, Mathew; Hughes, Paul (Article)While radical product innovations represent significant engines of firm growth, questions remain over whether marketing helps or hurts (1) a firm’s radical product innovation activity and (2) its rewards from radical product ... -
The role of organizational citizenship behaviour and rewards in strategy effectiveness
Thomas, Lisa; Ambrosini, Veronique; Hughes, Paul (Article)In this paper we contribute to the strategy and OCB literature by empirically exploring how middle managers as strategic actors in product-market strategy making are enabled or constrained in the strategy process. We explore ...