NEOMA Business School

Age diversity, human capital and social enterprise performance: a neuroscience perspective

Purpose Often, entrepreneurs of different ages team up for a social impact; yet, current literature is evasive of how age diversity impacts social venture performance (financial performance and social mission breadth). This work dives deeper into the cognitive realm of entreprene...

Trust, intangible assets, and productivity

Abstract Business environments dominated by information flows and autonomous tasks, typical of knowledge‐intensive industries, are likely to require enough social trust to be viable and productive. In this paper, we use new EUKLEMS & INTANProd industry‐level data covering a panel...

Energy transition and corporate geographic expansion

Accelerating the energy transition is pivotal to achieving sustainable economic development, yet localized environmental policies can profoundly reshape the spatial allocation of corporate capital. The impact of place-based energy transition policies on firms' cross-regional inve...

Fostering employees’ pro-environmental behavior through environmentally specific servant leadership, harmonious environmental passion, and environmental locus of control

Environmental sustainability increasingly relies on employees’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB), especially through leadership style under distinct contexts. Drawing on Affective Events Theory (AET), this study tested whether harmonious environmental passion (HEP) mediated the re...

Can the use of recycled powders reduce AM spare parts costs?

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has attracted growing interest for spare parts production, yet its industrial adoption remains limited. A key barrier is cost, particularly the high cost of raw materials. Prior research suggests that replacing virgin powders with recycled powders coul...

Innovating from within: How does intrapreneurship influence the performance of public institution employees?

Purpose This study aims to analyze how intrapreneurship influences commitment to work, employee satisfaction, innovative behaviour and employee performance in public organizations. Design/methodology/approach To develop this study, a structured questionnaire was applied to a samp...

Does cross-border regulatory cooperation reduce excessive risk-taking?

This study investigates how heightened regulatory scrutiny by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), caused by the passage of the Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MMoU), affects excessive risk-taking by U.S. listed foreign firms. Using data from 37 countries...

Speed of external technology transfer and SME resilience during crisis

Purpose Research on how quickly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) source and integrate new technology during crises is scant, despite an assumption that speed is important for an SME's ability to cope. Rapid technology transfer may be subject to time compression diseconom...

Consumer responses to industrially processed food in hospitality: Is an authenticity crisis looming?

Hospitality establishments increasingly use industrially processed foods that customers assume are prepared from scratch. Although an open secret in the industry, consumer responses to this practice remain unexplored. Drawing on psychological contract theory, we examine whether i...

Imitation of regional location choices for foreign investments: The role of home-country collectivism

Firms investing in a foreign country tend to imitate their compatriots’ most common regional location choices. We argue that this tendency is stronger among firms from more collectivistic cultures, since such firms are more inclined to view prior compatriot investors in the targe...