Jibao Gu

Jibao Gu
University of Science and Technology of China | USTC · Department of Business Management

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Purpose How does business model design play a role in enabling manufacturing firms’ services? This study aims to investigate the impact of two distinct types of business model design, namely, efficiency-centered business model design (EBMD) and novelty-centered business model design (NBMD), and their effects in balanced and imbalanced configuration...
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How do top management teams (TMTs) play a role in new ventures’ business model implementation? Drawing on group process theory and the organizational culture literature, this study investigates the impact of TMT processes on new ventures’ business model implementation and how organizational culture moderates such relationships. We propose a positiv...
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Despite the growing interest in the role of chief executive officers' (CEOs') environmental awareness in enhancing performance, its impact on new product development (NPD) performance, as well as the underlying mechanisms and contextual bounds of the impact, remains unexplored. Based on upper echelons theory, we suggest that CEO environmental aware...
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Most previous researches have only examined the linear and direct relationship between relationship conflict and team creativity. Drawing on the threat regulation theory, this paper aims to investigate the curvilinear relationship between relationship conflict and team creativity, as well as the mediating role of team learning and the moderating ro...
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While prior studies indicate that business model design (BMD) can affect innovation performance, empirical evidence on how and when BMD drives innovation performance is still limited. By integrating dynamic capability theory into business model research, we empirically investigate the influence of BMD on innovation performance. Based on the matched...
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Despite the increasing attention on the role of the business model in affecting firm performance , knowledge of how to leverage the influence of business models remains scarce. Drawing on resource orchestration theory, we theorize how firm capabilities, such as technology capability and marketing capability, moderate the relationship between the bu...
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Despite the increasing interest in the role of business model design (BMD) in improving performance, its influence on operational performance remains unexplored, as do the underlying mechanisms of such effects. Drawing on dynamic capability theory, we propose that supply chain integration (SCI), including external integration and internal integrati...
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This study builds on self-determination theory to examine the factors that impact the effects that servant leadership has on employee creativity. An observation of 460 employees from 11 banks in China revealed that (1) servant leadership is positively related to employee creativity, (2) follower psychological empowerment partially mediates the rela...
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Purpose This paper aims to put forth a model that accounts for the effect of servant leadership on employee creativity from a social identity perspective. Specifically, this paper aims to examine team identification as the mediating mechanism by which servant leadership influence employee creativity. This paper also intends to investigate the moder...
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Internet of things (IoT) is a current trend that reveals the next generation Internet-based information architecture, the convergence of social networks and IoT solutions is helpful to optimize relationships among objects. In order for IoT to take off in the IT sector, providers and other stakeholders must integrate knowledge successfully. In this...
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Drawing on socio-cultural theory, this paper investigates the effects of different sources of social capital on student creativity. A sample of 216 graduate students from a leading Chinese research university were surveyed regarding their social capital and creativity. Our results indicated that the peer, advisor, and expert social capital of gradu...
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Social media has deeply penetrated workplace, which has affected multiple aspects of employees' lives. This paper aims to investigate the influence of social media on employees' work performance and the underlying mechanism for how they create value at work. Based on media synchronicity and social capital theories, we propose that social media can...
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In the first decade of the 21st century, China’s Research Community (CRC) is struggling to achieve better performance by increasing growth in knowledge quantity (e.g., publications), but has failed to generate sound growth in knowledge quality (e.g., citations). An innovative E-government project, Internet-based Science Information System (ISIS), w...
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Knowledge sharing is recognised as one of the most critical components of knowledge management. Successful and efficient knowledge sharing could directly facilitate knowledge creation and so help a firm to maintain its competitive advantage. Consequently, identifying which factors could encourage or inhibit people to share knowledge is potentially...
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Doctoral graduate research performance (DRP) is recognized as one of the most critical indices for evaluation of the success of doctoral education. Doctoral graduates with high research performance directly reflect a higher ability in academic research and academic achievement. Consequently, identifying which factors influence DRP is potentially of...
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In the first decade of the 21st century, China’s Research Community (CRC) is struggling to achieve better performance by increasing growth in knowledge quantity (e.g., publications), but has failed to generate sound growth in knowledge quality (e.g., citations). An innovative E-government project, Internet-based Science Information System (ISIS),...
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Drawing upon organizational culture and institutional theory, this study investigates how institutional pressures motivate the firm to adopt Internet-enabled Supply Chain Management systems (eSCM) and how such effects are moderated by organizational culture. The results of a survey of 131 firms suggest that the dimensions of institutional pressures...
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In the strategic management theory, the structure-based view holds that the structural characteristic of industry is the main determinant of firm performance; while the resource-based view claims that the competitive advantage is driven by firm's resource and capacity. In this paper, the authors carry out an empirical research on 1070 listed compan...
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Building on multiple theoretical perspectives, we examined how organizational culture moderates the association of different dimensions of Internet-enabled Supply Chain Integration (i.e., online information integration and operational coordination) and firm performance (i.e., customer service and financial performance). We tested hypotheses using s...
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Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behavior of contemporary organizations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much less well understood in developing economies, notably those that are characterized by different social and cultural traditions to the mainstream of Western societies. This is notably t...
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Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behavior of contemporary organizations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much less well understood in developing economies, notably those that are characterized by different social and cultural traditions to the mainstream of Western societies. This is notably t...
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Electronic Supply Chain Management systems (eSCMS), as instances of information technologies spanning organizational boundaries, have the potential to provide operational and strategic benefits. However, the high uncertainty of adoption consequences impedes firms from adopting eSCMS. Research on how to facilitate eSCMS adoption is of significance....
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While information technologies have been taken as the competitive tool in improving supply chain performance, its investment cannot guarantee to meet firms' performance expectations. Our understanding about the mechanisms by which IT affects supply chain performance remains unclear. Based on the perspective of dynamic capabilities theory, we derive...
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Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behavior of contemporary organizations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much less well understood in developing economies—notably, those that are characterized by different social and cultural traditions to the mainstream of Western societies; this is the cas...
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Two methods are given about where to find new business opportunity in this paper, one is based on environment analysis and the other one is based on resource and competence analysis. These two methods are needed to be combined, We should cope with the problems the field of opportunities is too small or too large. In this study we use the concept of...
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Knowledge sharing has been the focus of research for more than a decade and it is widely recognized that it can contribute to the success of an organisation. However, in comparison with other countries, relatively little work on this topic has been done in the Chinese context. Knowledge sharing is particularly interesting to study in the Chinese co...
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Through the aegis of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), China has embarked on an ambitious effort to regain prominence in innovation and academic contribution to knowledge after decades of relative neglect precipitated by the "cultural revolution." Unfortunately, initial efforts made during the last decade of the 20th century...
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Based on the phenomena related with"power-orientated"culture,a hypothesis that a scientist would receive more scientific resources after his academic status raised is made.The information about the academicians of Chinese Academy of Sci- ences who represented the highest academic status in science community of China is collected,and also the scient...
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While IT infrastructures integration (ITII) along supply chains helps enhance chains’ efficiency and effectiveness, the lack of ITII is still one of the critical failure factors for supply chain management. As such, it is imperative to understand the drivers for ITII adoption. Based on the perspective of social network, we derive a model to examine...
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Drawing upon relational exchange theory, institutional theory, organizational culture and IS theories, we derive a model to study factors affecting firms’ electronic supply chain management adoption. In particular, we examine the effect of trust, normative, mimetic and coercive pressures on eSCM adoption. Also, we assess the moderating role played...
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Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behaviour of contemporary organisations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much less well understood in developing economies, notably those that are characterised by different social and cultural traditions to the mainstream of Western societies. This is notably...
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In the strategic management theory, the structure-based view holds that the structural characteristic of the industry is the main determinant of the performance; while the resource-based view claims that the competitive advantage is driven by the resource and capacity of an enterprise. In this paper, we carry out an empirical research on 945 Chines...

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