Purpose: This study aims to provide empirical evidence of how supervisors' positive feedback plays a crucial role in newcomers' task performance in the first 90 days of their employment. Design/methodology/approach: Data for this study were collected from newcomers and their immediate...

State violence inflicts obvious direct costs on citizens, but its more significant consequences may be indirect. Building on the literature on agency problems in authoritarian regimes, we argue that coercion against bureaucrats motivates them to pursue over-zealous goals at the expense of wider...

Purpose: The requirements for high quality and diversification aquatic products are increasing with the improvement of Chinese living standard. However, the distribution between the place of production and the place of consumption are uneven, which results in large cold-chain logistics demand...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to fill important gaps by using the attachment theory and examining the effects of supervisors’ early family environment on their behaviors toward subordinates and subordinates’ responses. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used samples of 334...

Purpose: The requirements for high quality and diversification aquatic products are increasing with the improvement of Chinese living standard. However, the distribution between the place of production and the place of consumption are uneven, which results in large cold-chain logistics demand...