Purpose – Increasingly, reports of consumers are witnessed expressing their concerns regarding corporate practices through behaviours of boycotting, buycotting and voice. The theory of consumer votes suggests that such consumers may view their purchases as “votes” in the marketplace. The...

Structured Abstract Purpose of this paper This paper explores the practicalities of organizational change in complex settings where much change has already occurred. It therefore offers insights into tackling and overcoming change fatigue. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses a...

Research has consistently revealed an increasing demand for “ethical” choices in the global marketplace. However, very little has been published about the decision-making processes of these “ethical” consumers and the implications for marketing. Given the shortfall in research that...

This paper reports the results of a replication study designed to re-examine the relationship between managerial perceptions of elements of the performance measurement evaluation and reward system (PMERS) and managers’ motivation. Using data from a survey of 256 middle-level managers in a...

Employer branding is becoming an increasingly important topic for research and practice in multinational enterprises (MNEs) because it plays directly into their corporate reputation, talent management and employee engagement agendas. In this paper, we argue that the potential effects of employer...

Firm internationalisation has long been regarded as an incremental process, wherein firms gravitate towards lsquopsychologically closersquo markets and increase commitment to international markets in a gradual, step-wise, manner through a series of evolutionary lsquostagesrsquo. However, much of...

Research has supported the addition of ethical obligation and self-identity to models of consumer decision-making in ‘ethical’ contexts. The particular placement of ethical obligation and self-identity within a model of ethical consumer decision-making remains unclear. Are these measures an...

This paper aims to enable the operations management community to engage with concepts from the field of complexity theory and apply them to the issue of organisational transformation. It begins by reviewing existing work on strategic change, then provides an overview of complexity theory to show...

THE EMPIRICAL MODEL An empirical analysis applied the algebraic econometric model using RICS regional monthly data on unsold houses and rate of sales in the last three months to calculate the implied time on the market T2. Quarterly regional price data was taken from the Nationwide. The...

This issue follows on from the previous special issue of the Journal of Business Research (Vol. 47, No. 1), containing a selection of papers from the Second Conference on the Dynamics of Strategy devoted to strategy under dynamic change. This special issue presents a selection of papers from the...