Spirituality in organizational leaders – Ways to Inner, Ways to Wisdom Andreia Magalhães Azevedo, Carlos Manuel Gonçalves, Patrício Costa Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Work is central to human life. It requires high mental and emotional involvement from organizational leaders, whose decisions have far-reaching impacts. Currently, industrial and technological societies struggle with growing problems of trust in leadership, mental health, feelings of emptiness and the search for relevant meaning, which highlights the importance of ..read more

Impact of digital transformation on supply chain efficiency: a parallel mediation model Jingmin Wang, Ligang Cui, Maozeng Xu Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- It becomes a strategic option for enterprises to upgrade and improve supply chain efficiency (SCE) by promoting the digital transformation (DT). This study formulated a parallel mediation model to analyze the relationships among DT, supply chain transparency (SCT), supply chain agility (SCA) and SCE to reveal how DT affects SCE through the mediation of SCT and SCA. Three ..read more

Action-oriented entrepreneurial training and career resilience: a serial mediation model Tehreem Fatima, Ahmad Raza Bilal, Muhammad Kashif Imran, Ambreen Sarwar Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The combination of action and process has remained the attention of the psychology of entrepreneurship research. Moreover, special attention has also been paid to the whens and hows of entrepreneurial psychological training. Keeping this in view the current study has tested the impact of individual entrepreneurial orientation (IEO) training ..read more

Why does leadership non-contingent punishment lead to bystander workplace deviance behavior? – Dual path perspective of cognition and affection Liang Wang, Hao Chen Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Based on the cognition-affection personality system theory, this study constructs and tests a mediation model of leadership non-contingent punishment on bystander workplace deviance behavior through bystander affective rumination and bystander psychological contract violation, as well as a chain mediation effect of bystander affective ruminat ..read more

Rethinking ethical climate: conjoint elevation of life satisfaction and customer-orientation through a stronger inner life Elif Baykal, Omar Bhatti, Muhammad Irfan, Nor Balkish Zakaria Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- In this study, to empirically test the relationship between ethical organizational climate, inner life (IL) and life satisfaction (LS) of employees, a field study was conducted on white-collar personnel working in the service sector in the Istanbul region. The main purpose was to extract an approach that could be applied t ..read more

Managerial rationality, dysfunctional cognition and organizational decision comprehensiveness Christian Scholtes, Sabina Trif, Petru Lucian Curseu Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Our study aims to explore the interplay between dysfunctional cognitive schemas and rationality for decision comprehensiveness in organizational strategic decisions. We used a cross-sectional design in which we evaluated individual decision rationality using an objective decision competence test and dysfunctional cognitive schemas in a sample of 270 managers ..read more

When do we think farther and deeper? Interacting impacts of accountability focus and organizational learning on proactive policy orientation Junesoo Lee, Heungsuk Choi Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- This study attempts to answer the question: “how are the two drivers, accountability focus and organizational learning, independently and interactively associated with public agencies’ proactive policy orientation?” The first driver is the multiple accountabilities that public agencies pursue: (1) bureaucratic, (2) legal, (3) professi ..read more

Streamlining the self-correction process: a review of the use of replication research by organizational scholars Przemysław G. Hensel, Agnieszka Kacprzak Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Replication is a primary self-correction device in science. In this paper, we have two aims: to examine how and when the results of replications are used in management and organization research and to use the results of this examination to offer guidelines for improving the self-correction process. Study 1 analyzes co-citation patterns for 135 original ..read more

Tropicália: a paradigm shift in organizing Anderson de Souza Sant'Anna Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- The article aims to elucidate how embracing Tropicália's conceptual framework can foster a more fluid and adaptive approach to organizing, transcending traditional boundaries and embracing diversity, innovation and creativity. The analysis encompasses various facets of organizational dynamics, including holdership, professional praxis, organizational ambiance, knowledge dissemination and diversity promotion. By examining Tropicália's ..read more

Dysfunctional behaviours in the Ghanaian public service: can spirituality and ethics offer solutions? Anthony Sumnaya Kumasey, Farhad Hossain, Aminu Mamman, Eric Delle Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.- Concerns regarding the dysfunctional behaviours of public officials have sparked renewed interest in public service ethics and spirituality. While national and organizational systems have been established to eliminate dysfunctional behaviours such as corruption, sexual harassment and misuse of confidential information, the p ..read more