JEEMS Journal of East European Management Studies

Firms in emerging countries often face different sets of challenges in developing their brand management strategies. Drawing on the dynamic capabilities view, the present study examines brand management practices among firms in an emerging country....

In light of the currently limited understanding of the role of cultural issues that may hamper firm success in cross-border activities, particularly in the context of Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries, the purpose of this paper is to...

This paper investigates the relation between greening in global companies and the upgrading of manufacturing subsidiaries’ technological capabilities. Drawing on a proprietary database of secondary source information about greening-related product...

This study explores the mediation effect of transformational leadership in the relationship between leaders’ personality characteristics and effectiveness. Data from 210 students in a managerial role, and from 3,766 students in a subordinate role,...

Globalization has caused consumer behavior to transcend country borders, leading to often larger within-market consumer differences than between-market consumer differences. Yet, this is not at all the case among young-adult consumers (in their 20s)...

The number of studies investigating the concept of entrepreneurship has increased in recent years, with efforts now focusing on using different disciplines and models to gain an understanding of its characteristics such as personality, psychology,...

The paper aims to analyse how formalisation, as a key component of organisational structure, influences entrepreneurial orientation and how this relationship is moderated by the industry life cycle. The hypothesised relationships are tested on a...

This paper examines the area of business ethics in subsidiaries of multinational companies operating in the Czech Republic. The empirical investigation involved 335 subsidiaries from sectors in which business activities in the Czech Republic...

The paper explores recent change dynamics of human resource management (HRM) practices by examining underlying reasons why these changes have occurred within large-sized Croatian organizations. In Study 1, for hypotheses development purposes, we...

This study expands the limited research on the influence of organizational culture on employee perceptions of their workworld. It focuses on the explicit meaning of employee responses to in-depth, open-ended questions about their lived experiences...

The literature points to the positive role of Human Resource Management (HRM) best practices affecting organizational innovation. However, it is still insufficiently clear which mechanisms produce this outcome. In this study, we focus on Human...

There is general agreement on the differences between managers and entrepreneurs. The current research explores how an entrepreneur’s self-concept differs from a manager’s self-concept and aims to make a contribution concerning comparison of...

The paper investigates the role of corporate governance institutions at the subsidiary level in conglomerates in emerging markets. The literature typically highlights that these institutions are necessary to reassure minority shareholders and thus...

A psychological contract is an unwritten agreement between an employee and the employer, an idiosyncratic set of mutual promises, expectations and undertakings to which an employee and the organisation are committed (Rousseau 1989). In...

The role and influence of the function of marketing within the organization has been the focus of scholarly research and practitioners’ attention in the business literature. Despite its central role and locus in business organizations, concerns...

Tech entrepreneurship grows at a time the notion of work is accentuating its structural shift towards increased precariousness. This research interviewed 53 young people from Romania who received national or international prizes for technical...

The paper aims to contribute to the body of knowledge on environmental strategy, its motives and results in a post-transition context. A conceptual model is developed in which environmental motives are linked to a corporate environmental strategy,...

In addition to generating economic growth and competitiveness, companies are expected to integrate concerns about society and the environment into ongoing operations. Corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are advocated in order to affect...

Interlocking directorates enable exchange of information and resources between two or more firms that are linked by a director who participates in their boards. The relationships of multiple firms linked by interlocking directors are among classic...

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the antecedents of managerial support for privatisation of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs). The results of the study, based on 134 Polish SOEs, reveal that managerial autonomy (conceptualized as the...