Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between market competition and distribution strategy for logistics service providers (LSPs), including freight price, service level (delivery speed), and service coverage. Design/methodology/approach: The authors consider two...

Purpose: This study aims to propose a new decision-making method by integrating case-based decision theory and the Dempster–Shafer theory of evidence. Design/methodology/approach: The study developed the entire computational procedures for the proposed method and used a numerical example to...

While the construct of Narcissism has existed for well over a hundred years, it has become the most discussed personality disorder of recent times and has the potential to influence organizational culture and control systems. Although systematic research on narcissism has been conducted at the...

This study investigates how adopting new performance measures affects the decision process through which supervisors make subjective adjustments. In our setting, the Chinese government substituted economic value added (EVA) for return on equity (ROE) in the performance score formula it uses to...

This study finds that Chinese firms that issue high-quality corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports are perceived as having greater legitimacy (operationalized by government endorsement and media endorsement) by the Chinese government and media. Chinese firms that issue higher quality CSR...

Women are underrepresented in leadership positions despite outperforming men in monitoring tasks—an ordinary but critical work activity for most managerial positions. Using a unique data set on internal resource requests from a large Asian property management firm, we examine whether this...

In real managerial decisions, situations frequently occur when the decisionmakers need to estimate the optimal production scale (the amount of input and output) for a strongly context-dependent decision-making unit (SCD-DMU) for decision support. While for the SCD-DMU, the obvious feature is...