Performance In Chinese Context Research Articles

Supply chain digitalization and sports industry performance in Chinese context: a mediated moderated model

PurposeIn era of industry 4.0 all the organizations are investing their resources so they can adopt the latest technologies with no exception of supply chain. Accordingly, the present study attempted to examine the influence of digitalization of supply chain and performance in context of Chinese sports industry. Additionally, it has considered the supply chain integration and time management as a mechanism along with boundary condition of supply chain resilience.Design/methodology/approachThe study followed positivism philosophy and adopted quantitative methods. The data were collected by using the questionnaire from the Chinese sport industry organizations’ professionals related to logistics and supply chain. A total 746 questionnaires were distributed and 570 of them subjected to SPSS and Smart PLS for data analysis. Hypotheses were tested using PLS-SEM through the Smart-PLS 4.FindingsThe results of the study revealed that supply chain digitalization positively influences the both internal and external supply chain integration. Moreover, supply chain planning and scheduling influenced by both internal and external supply chain integration lead by supply chain digitalization. Ultimately resulting in improved sports industry performance. However, the supply chain resilience did not found as a significant moderator.Originality/valueThe study is few of the attempts that have tested a comprehensive mechanism through which the supply chain digitalization lead towards the higher performance. Also, the study results signify that the digitization can help the organizations to accomplish superior performance specifically in sports industry.

The influence of telecommuting intensity on employee individual performance in the Chinese context: the mediating role of job crafting and the moderating role of e-leadership

ABSTRACT As the digital economy and internet information surge forward, telecommuting has become a pivotal element in corporate digital transformation. This shift is revolutionising traditional management styles, altering employees’ work dynamics, compelling managers to adapt, and transforming the behaviour and outcomes of enterprise workforces. However, research on the impact of telecommuting intensity on employees’ personal performance in Chinese context is seldom studied at present. In order to explore the ways and effects of telecommuting intensity on employees’ personal performance, based on the theory of resource preservation, combined with the JDC model, this paper examines the effects of telecommuting intensity on employees’ personal performance with job crafting as the mediating variable and e-leadership as the moderating variable. Empirical analysis driven by 1012 validated questionnaires indicates a significant negative correlation between telecommuting intensity and individual performance, with approach-oriented and avoidance-oriented job crafting partially mediating this relationship. E-leadership negatively moderates the impact of telecommuting intensity on job crafting. This research intends to offer valuable insights to managers for enhancing the effective implementation of online telecommuting models and management practices.

A Study on the Relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment and English Learning Performance in Chinese Context: the Mediating Role of L2 Grit

A Study on the Relationship between Foreign Language Enjoyment and English Learning Performance in Chinese Context: the Mediating Role of L2 Grit

Flexible human resource management systems and employee innovation performance in China – based on the moderated mediation effect

PurposeThis paper aims to explore the impact of flexible human resource management system (FHRMS) on employee innovation performance in Chinese context. The boundary conditions of employability and organizational identity are also discussed.Design/methodology/approachThis study is based on 322 questionnaire survey from employees in China. The questionnaires were collected at two time points. This study used the method of multi-level linear model analysis for empirical test.FindingsThis study has three conclusions. First, FHRMS have a significant positive impact on employee innovation performance, with employability playing a mediating role. Second, organizational identity plays a moderating role between employability and employee innovation performance. Third, organizational identity moderates the mediating effect of a human source management systems on employee innovation performance through employability.Originality/valueThe results are helpful to open the “black box” of the influence of FHRMS on employees’ individual innovation performance. This study provides a reference for enterprises to establish flexible human source management system to improve employee innovation performance.

A Study on the Relationship Between Group Citizenship Behavior and Service Innovation Performance

Service innovation is a fundamental method for service enterprises to enhance dynamic capability in building core competitive advantage and achieving sustained growth as well. The improvement of service innovation performance requires enterprises to have more open cooperation vision, and flexible coordination mechanism as well. More focuses have steadily changed from the traditional machine-driven standardized process to flexible talent development of work teams, especially the improvement of their service innovation performance. It requires groups to show more team spirit, as well as mutual sharing behavior, which is beyond duty and not for the purpose of commendation. Based on the mediating effect of organizational commitment and knowledge sharing, this paper explored the effect of group citizenship behavior on service innovation performance in Chinese context. With a sample of 498 employees of enterprises in China, this paper explored the relationship between group citizenship behavior, service innovation performance, organizational commitment and knowledge sharing by constructing a structural equation model. The results showed that organizational commitment and knowledge sharing played a partial mediating role between group citizenship behavior and service innovation performance. It is recommended to establish the employee centered enterprise culture and regulations; foster an open atmosphere which is conducive to communication and innovation; establish a fair and effective incentive distribution system; establish a diversified knowledge sharing effective incentive system and give full play to the role of learning organization.

The role of memorization in students’ self-reported mathematics learning: a large-scale study of Chinese eighth-grade students

This study examined over 48,000 eighth-grade Chinese students’ mathematics performance and use of learning strategies. In particular, this study explored how the use of learning strategies and their combinations are related to students’ mathematics performance in Chinese context. This study examined three kinds of learning strategies derived from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012: memorization, elaboration, and control. The findings indicate that few students chose the memorization strategy as their predominant way of learning mathematics. Instead, students usually chose a combination of learning strategies. The choice of combinations of learning strategies was highly correlated with students’ mathematics performance. Students who chose control strategies outperformed those who chose memorization strategies or elaboration strategies. This study also examined the relationship between learning strategy use and mathematics performance of students who were only children (students with no siblings, born under the “one child” policy) and students living in nonagricultural residential locations (hukou status), both of which are background variables unique to Chinese context. The findings indicate that only-child and nonagricultural students outperformed non-only-child and agricultural students when choosing the same learning strategies. However, those who chose control-dominant strategies performed better than those who chose memorization-dominant strategies, regardless of their background. This study provides a new lens for considering the relationship between learning strategy use and mathematics performance, demonstrating that various learning strategies should be considered together rather than separately.

Exploring the knowledge-focused role of interdependent members on team creative performance

This study developed a model to investigate the relationship between transactive memory system (TMS) and team creative performance in Chinese context. The hypothesized relationships link task interdependence, TMS, and transformational leadership with team creative performance. The results derived from data collected from 58 knowledge work teams present a full mediation effect of TMS between task interdependence and team creative performance. Moreover, transformational leadership has a significant positive moderation effect between TMS and team creative performance. The findings provide a number of useful implications for research and industry.

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Mediate the Relation between Boardroom Gender Diversity and Firm Performance of Chinese Listed Companies?

Although the relationship between board gender diversity and a firm’s financial performance has been investigated before, the current study provides a valuable contribution by exploring the complex phenomenon of the mediating impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance on a firm’s financial performance. The current study aims to explore whether corporate social responsibility (represented by the proxy variable of CSR reporting) mediates the relationship between boardroom gender diversity and firm performance. We use the pooled ordinary least square (OLS) regression to examine the above relationship by using data from 2008 to 2015. To control the likelihood of endogeneity we also use one-year lagged and two-stage least square (2SLS) regression models. Our results show that boardroom gender diversity is significant, positively correlated with firm performance, and CSR fully mediates the relationship between boardroom gender diversity and firm performance. In addition, four control variables (independent director, Chief executive officer (CEO power), board member meeting frequency, Big4, and leverage) have some influence on firm performance. These findings hold for a set of robustness tests. Our findings have the implication for the investors and regulators. For investors, our results show that the existence of female directors on the board can improve the firm performance. For regulators, our results advise the worldwide policy maker to give the importance to boardroom gender diversity. The paper contributes to the existing studies, by pioneering the investigations of the mediating role of CSR in the relation between boardroom gender diversity and firm performance in Chinese context.

The Dimensions of Organizational Character and Its Impacts on Organizational Performance in Chinese Context.

As an organic entity, organizations are similar to humans, having unique organizational character which constitutes a source of competitive differentiation. This study aimed to explore the dimensions of organizational character and measure its impacts on organizational performance in a Chinese context. Since several previous studies have developed the definition and constitutions of organizational character in the context of developed countries such as America and England, this indigenous study provides new evidence from the perspective of an emerging economy. A research model using a qualitative analysis method was proposed to define the dimensions of organizational character. The connection between organizational character and organizational performance was empirically tested by a multi-ordered logit regression analysis with a survey of 205 observations in Chinese enterprises. The dimension of organizational character was finally extracted and summarized as six aspects including enterprise, conscientiousness, innovation, agreeableness, democracy, and Boy Scout. The results of the empirical analysis showed that the formation and cultivation of organizational character would directly improve an organizations' business performance as well as their growth potential. It is worth noting that a special part of organizational character, which may depend more on national culture or institutional background than organizational individuals, also has an impact on organizational performance. The findings can provide practical implications for Chinese companies and multinational companies that do or plan to do business in China. Entrepreneurs are suggested to make effective decisions on the cultivation of organizational character, since different types and specific levels of organizational character may have significantly different effects on organizational performance. This paper explored a novel theory to explain the antecedents of organizational performance, and could inspire scholars to expand the sources of organizational competitive advantage in the future.

CEO golden‐mean thinking, ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance in Chinese context

PurposePrevious research on the relationship between cheif executive officer (CEO) and organizational performance focused primarily on behavior and demographic variables, but was seldom based on the CEO cognition perspective. To fill this gap, the purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between CEO cognition and organizational performance.Design/methodology/approachTaking CEO golden‐mean thinking as an independent variable, organizational performance as dependent variable, ambidextrous orientation as a mediating variable, interdependence and connectedness as moderating variables, and using a multi‐source data collection approach, data were collected from 193 Chinese firms to test the hypothesis by adopting hierarchical regression model.FindingsCEO golden‐mean thinking is found to have significantly positive impacts on ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance. Ambidextrous orientation plays a partial mediating role between golden‐mean thinking and organizational performance, while independence and connectedness play joint moderating roles between ambidextrous orientation and organizational performance. The three‐way interaction among ambidextrous orientation, connectedness, and interdependence has a significantly positive effect on organizational performance.Research limitations/implicationsCEOs should not only improve organizational performance through diversified, harmonious, and integrative thinking, but also enhance the ambidextrous ability by building ambidextrous orientation, connectedness, and interdependence mechanism in order to promote organizational performance.Originality/valueAs one of the most salient thinking characteristics in Chinese traditional culture, golden‐mean thinking increasingly has attracted scholars' attention. However, no previous scholar has applied this construct into leadership theory.