Asia Pacific Journal of Management

1991 - 2026

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Volume 43, issue 3, 2026

CEO organizational identification and firm strategic change: an AMC framework pp. 1275-1308

Weiwen Li, Xiwen Kang, Ai He and Meihua Zhou

Military CEOs and corporate downsizing pp. 1309-1337

Shi Yi, Jiang Xu and He Gang

Family CEOs versus nonfamily CEOs in family firms: Who perform better in ESG practices? pp. 1339-1368

Jin-hui Luo, Yilong Wu and Jason Zezhong Xiao

Generation of family CEO and outward FDI: an examination of Indian family firms pp. 1369-1399

Arindam Mondal, Somnath Lahiri and Sougata Ray

The effects of ceos’ personality traits on firm’s internationalization rhythm pp. 1401-1443

Bin Liu, Gongming Qian, Lee Li and Qi Wu

How does CEO career horizon drive corporate venture capital investments? The moderating role of CEO power pp. 1445-1475

Liangyong Wan and Xin Sui

Are all ravens black? How does corporate governance in US and Chinese firms rein in excessive CEO pay? pp. 1477-1505

Rui Jiang and Zhiang J. Lin

Lifting the veil of competitive awareness of multinationals pp. 1507-1537

Canan C. Mutlu, Mike W. Peng, Sheen S. Levine, Sergey Lebedev and Craig Macaulay

Poverty alleviation of multinational enterprises in home country: symbolic or substantive? pp. 1539-1576

Chengcheng Xia, Longwei Tian, Yanling Lian and Hengyuan Zhang

All relationships are not created equal: the effects of inter-organizational relationships on subsidiary’s value at the onset of corporate crises pp. 1577-1609

Jiuchang Wei, Zhi Li, Alexander H. Ziegler and Haipeng Allan Chen

Corporate language and knowledge transfer in MNE subsidiaries: A relevance lens pp. 1611-1646

Audra I. Mockaitis, Jiahui Tan, Jinwei Zhu, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu and Ziran Chen

Collaboration across boundaries: an active trust management perspective pp. 1647-1676

Hua Li, Fuli Li, Hong Deng and Jingyu Dong

Entrepreneurial socialist imprints and the philanthropy of privately-owned firms pp. 1677-1712

Weiqi Dai, Felix Arndt and Mingqing Liao

Institutional complexity and entrepreneurial work in grassroots cultural heritage: Evidence from Hanfu entrepreneurship in China pp. 1713-1743

Chen Fan, Bin Wang, Zhuyun Song and Xiaoyu Yu

Correction to: Institutional complexity and entrepreneurial work in grassroots cultural heritage: Evidence from Hanfu entrepreneurship in China pp. 1745-1746

Chen Fan, Bin Wang, Zhuyun Song and Xiaoyu Yu

Can the improvement of institutional environment promote corporate social responsibility in the context of information technology? ——An exploratory study pp. 1747-1783

Rong Ran, Di Dong, Hetong Jia and Yi Xie

Mitigating or aggravating muck: investigating the double-edged impact of greenwashing on employee green behavior pp. 1785-1818

Xuefei Wang, Yun Chen, Yuxin Liu and Rongrong Zhang

Pollution control and credit access: the case of small and medium-sized enterprises in China pp. 1819-1847

Lina Shi

Revisiting the board structure: how staggered board mitigates minority shareholders expropriation pp. 1849-1888

Shihua Chen, Luhan Wang and Khalil Jebran

The effect of multi-governance mechanisms on industrial cluster network effectiveness: an integrated perspective of external and internal network levels pp. 1889-1924

Jiaxin Wang, Shaohan Cai and Qinghong Xie

The bricoleur organization – exploring the identity dimension of bricolage in cultural organizations pp. 1925-1958

Kanika Khurana and Atanu Ghosh

Volume 43, issue 2, 2026

The dynamic evolution and paradox management of niche leaders: T-Model as an effective strategic option pp. 681-692

Peter Ping Li, Ziliang Deng, Steven Shijin Zhou and Mooweon Rhee

Laggards go beyond catching up to become niche champions: a longitudinal case study in China pp. 693-723

Xinmin Peng, Abby Jingzi Zhou, Xiaomeng Liu and Dianguang Liu

The impact of long-term orientation on the resilience of niche leaders pp. 725-750

Yiyun Luo, Aiqi Wu, Yihui Liu and Di Song

Discrepancy is not always evil: The effect of inconsistency between strategic cognition and action on SADI firms’ performance in China pp. 751-784

Linan Lei, Yichu Zhang, Ziyan Tan and Yeqi Wang

Niche champions under environmental distress: an organizational resilience perspective pp. 785-811

Lucas Liang Wang

Scaling up into a niche leader in an emerging economy through continuous business model innovation: an effectuation perspective pp. 813-842

Luning Shao, Shengce Ren, Jinmin Wang and Jianxin You

Corporate misconduct in Japan: a view from comparative corporate governance pp. 843-867

Weichieh Su, Hidetaka Aoki, Junichi Yamanoi and Eric W. K. Tsang

Promote the digital transformation of traditional enterprise by resetting organizational identification pp. 869-895

Xinbo Sun, Hongwei Wang and Yu Qian

Does executive equity incentive boost up enterprise digital transformation? -The moderating role of strategic decision-making situation pp. 897-932

Bei Lyu, Haojun Wang, Yan Zhou and Chen Wang

How does board social capital affect ambidextrous innovation? pp. 933-988

Han Wang, Dahui Li and Lidong Wu

Can restricted stock incentives foster corporate innovation? Insights from core employees’ firm-specific knowledge investments pp. 989-1016

Yan Li, Jiaxing You and Rui Chen

Rectifying guanxi favoritism: towards a theory of guanxi inclusive leadership pp. 1017-1043

Depeng Liu and Chao C. Chen

Navigating the balance: how congruence between authoritative and benevolent leadership enhances employee thriving via relational identification pp. 1045-1069

Liqian Yang, Qian Zhang, Hao Gong and Qi Zhang

Bad supervisors destroy good practices: abusive supervision undermines the effect of socially responsible human resource management on employees’ volunteering pp. 1071-1093

Yidong Tu, Yajun Fan, Shuoli Wang, Silu Chen and Wei He

The linkage of “family” and “business”: the dual socialization growth path of successors——A multi-case analysis based on the adjustment and adaptation of familiness dynamic capability pp. 1095-1126

Jiong Wu and Ziyu Zhou

Making the debt paid off: the effect of work contact during family time on unethical pro-family behavior pp. 1127-1159

Ken Cheng, Yifei Wang and Chenqi Cai

Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: The joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation pp. 1161-1192

Xingwen Chen, Yijiao Ye, Zheng Zhu, Qi Cui and Jun Liu

Correction to: Fostering employee service performance and customer-oriented organizational citizenship behavior: the joint effect of customer empowering behaviors and employee core self-evaluation pp. 1193-1194

Xingwen Chen, Yijiao Ye, Zheng Zhu, Qi Cui and Jun Liu

The implications of COVID-19 for employee health: the moderating roles of perceived government benevolence, leader empathy, and family centrality pp. 1195-1223

Kong Zhou and Jia Hu

The dual-edged sword effect of team task-related faultlines on team creativity pp. 1225-1247

Cunhu Xi, Xiaoqian Qu and Yingqin Zhang

Role of homesickness among expatriates in creativity at work: mediating role of online leisure crafting moderated by technology self-efficacy pp. 1249-1274

I-Shuo Chen

Volume 43, issue 1, 2026

One shero and/or a group of sheroes? Top executive gender and innovation in tech-based new venture pp. 1-27

Li-Qun Wei

Gendered leadership and market reactions to corporate environmental strategies: differentiation vs. conformity in emerging markets pp. 29-72

Jie Wu, Luman Yu, Zaheer Khan and Zefu Wu

A from-the-top view of strategic flexibility: a study of CEO social class, TMT regulatory focus, and environment uncertainty pp. 73-111

Man Yang, Heng Liu, Hanqing Zhao and Joakim Wincent

When shared leadership backfires in new venture teams: the roles of power struggles and functional background diversity pp. 113-136

Hao Ji, Suqing Wu and Xiao-Yun Xie

With higher leverage comes greater responsibility? Excess leverage and corporate social responsibility in China: the moderating role of CEO characteristics pp. 137-170

Guangyu Huang, Jinhua Li and Liqiong Shen

Unpacking the specialization paradox: the impact of founder’s industry experience on becoming a niche leader pp. 171-205

Yingya Jia, Xiaoyu Yu, Shuping Yue and Bolun Li

Overwhelmed by expectations? Exploring the curvilinear effects of leaders’ creativity expectations? pp. 207-238

Haoding Wang, Haixiao Chen, Ji Tao, Youping Zhu and Lifang Gao

Under the spotlight: contextualizing the firm vs. industry debate through the introduction of neighborhood effects pp. 239-268

Siddharth Vedula, Markus Fitza, Anish Purkayastha and Florian Ellsaesser

Cross-border investments and fundraising communication in entrepreneurship-through-acquisition: exploratory evidence from search fund entrepreneurs in Asia pp. 269-301

Alexander Pöschl and Isabella Manh Quynh Mai

Back to the roots: The homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China pp. 303-345

Jasenko Ljubica, Romie Frederick Littrell, Charles Chen and Shuiquan Jiang

Correction to: Back to the roots: the homogenization of intra-national differences in societal culture and preferred managerial leader behaviors in China pp. 347-347

Jasenko Ljubica, Romie Frederick Littrell, Charles Chen and Shuiquan Jiang

Financial slack and corporate social performance of Asian multinational corporations: An institutional difference hypothesis perspective pp. 349-394

Irene Margaret, Ernst Verwaal and Frederiek Schoubben

Doing good by doing differently? Assessing the impact of internal and external CSR deviations on firm performance in extreme contexts pp. 395-442

Yang Li, Rui Shen and Hai Guo

The influence of innovation performance deficit and CSR as a nonmarket strategy: The contingent role of competitive strategy pp. 443-472

Xi Zhong and Ge Ren

Protector or violator: Employees’ reactions to leader unethical pro-group behavior pp. 473-502

Mo Chen, Iris D. Zhang and Ge Zhang

Ashamed of conducting UPB: how ethical leadership influences employees’ reactions to prior UPB pp. 503-530

Yirong Guo, Limei Chen, Tao Wang and Xiaojun Zhan

The way, way back? workplace deviance and its subsequent reparative behaviors over time pp. 531-564

Fan Luo, Wenjuan Mei, Tung Ng, Yu Zhu and Yanfei Wang

How and when does family motivation decrease job performance through work-family conflict? The functions of role integration and segmentation preference pp. 565-587

Hao Ji, Jin Yan and Qingyan Ye

Impact of the usage of robots on employee workplace objectification and helping behavior: the moderating role of collectivism pp. 589-611

Ning Yang

Are resources always beneficial? The three-way interaction between slashies’ role stress, self-efficacy and job autonomy pp. 613-643

Wen-Yan Duan, Tung-Ju Wu and Yuan Liang

Feeling proud but losing control: investigating Supervisor’s responses toward subordinate bootlegging pp. 645-679

Yuming Wang, Jinlian Luo, Xiaoyu Wang, Linlin Cao and Ming Yi