Michael Zhang

• BSc, MA, PhD
• Nottingham Trent University

Trust and distrust can play an important role in a healthy supply chain collaborative relationship, and both carry potential shortcomings. Little attention has been paid to understanding and explaining the development process of trust and distrust in supply chain collaborations, especially in an international context. Using the Transaction Cost Eco...

The Volkswagen emissions cheating scandal, known as “Dieselgate,” demonstrates that businesses can safeguard corporate social responsibility objectives and prevent or repair damage from corporate social irresponsibility by involving the stakeholder ecosystem in positive value co‐creation. There is a lack of strategic management research offering a...

In this era of social media, products and services are sold globally using a few simple clicks online. In such online purchases, trust and familiarity are considered two important driving forces of consumer decision making. While online sales advocate high levels of flexibility and choices for consumers, they also hold the online service provider r...

J.of Int. Bus and Entrep Development------- The nomological validity of the entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct is reexamined as the current conceptualization lacks precise articulation of the construct and its measurement. The validity concern is caused primarily by the innovation dimension. We adopt a critical lens to evaluate the dimensio...

The nomological validity of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) construct is re-examined as the current conceptualization lacks precise articulation of the construct and its measurement. The validity concern is caused primarily by the innovation dimension. We adopt a critical lens to evaluate the dimensions and associated measures of EO and contribute...

I Have Recently Observed an Interesting link between two seemingly unrelated innovative projects. One is the design and manufacture of electric vehicles (EVs) and the other is the planning and provision of Last Mile Delivery services. What do they have in common? In essence, from the perspective of sustainable mobility, the ultimate outcomes of the...

A New Multimodal Transport Paradigm is emerging in Germany and potentially in other countries such as France, the US and China, in which sharing rather than owning automotive vehicles or bikes forms an increasing part of the urban transport system (Schade et al., 2014). Multimodal transport is a system in which the transportation of goods or people...

A New Multimodal Transport Paradigm is emerging in Germany and potentially in other countries such as France, the US and China, in which sharing rather than owning automotive vehicles or bikes forms an increasing part of the urban transport system (Schade et al., 2014). Multimodal transport is a system in which the transportation of goods or people...

International joint ventures (IJVs) are defined by Chenet al. (2009, p. 1133) as “legally independent entities formed by two or more parent firms from different countries that share equity investments and consequent returns.” The basis of most IJV structures involves a multinational enterprise (MNE) and a local partner pooling their respective comp...

Driven By Rapid Economic Growth and urbanisation, China's transport sector underwent profound changes over recent years, with mass motorisation as one of its major characteristics. China's vehicle stock grew from 16 million in 2000 to 154 million in 2014, implying an annual growth rate of 17.5%, which is comparable to the highest growth rates of de...

Reading The Newly Published Synthesis Report (SYR) on Climate Change 2014 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 2015), it becomes clear that there is increasing scientific evidence of anthropogenic impact, i.e. influence of human activities, on global climate change. Of particular concern are the continued increases of CO2 emissio...

Boundary spanners play a critical yet unspecified role in managing multinational corporations and their foreign subunits. One of the boundary spanning functions is to build cross-border trust relationships, at both interpersonal and interorganizational levels. Previous research has primarily focused on dyadic exchange relationships either between M...

In the inaugural issue of the Journal of Sustainable Mobility (JSM) we argued that a growing world population would increase the demand for mobility in its various modes (Zhang and Yazdani, 2014). Despite the fact that some researchers have questioned the concept of travel as a derived demand in developed economies such as the UK (Banister, 2008),...

Abstract: Developing countries often have ambitions to become major players in the commercial aerospace industry, but it remains effectively a duopoly dominated by Boeing of the USA and Europe’s Airbus. China is no exception and the projects designed to bring this about have taken a number of forms. Adopting the sectoral system of innovation (SSI)...

This Editorial welcomes the inaugural issue and gives an overview of the content.

This research investigates patterns of sensemaking across a broad sample of SMEs. We hypothesise that managers make sense of, as well as shape, their world through a variety of mediating mechanisms. To identify patterns of organizational 'knowing' we utilise the term 'industry recipe' (Spender, 1989; Schutz,1976) and adopt an approach based on acti...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the processes of knowing and sense‐making in small client‐based firms. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a qualitative approach to the case studies of two small firms in the public relations sector located in the North West of England. The paper also assumes that the firms are “activity sy...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published in Industry and Higher Education, published by and copyright I P Publishing Ltd. This paper examines the potential and actual contributions to regional development and growth that UK higher education institutions can make through their 'third...

Most attempts to model the process of organizational learning (OL) are based on large organizations. This article represents an attempt to better understand the unique learning processes in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Such firms are generally limited in both their managerial capabilities and mechanisms for accessing knowledge from ex...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in International journal of technology management, published by and copyright Inderscience Publishers. This paper examines the process of technological and organisational innovation within a SME (small and medium-sized en...

Macpherson, A. et al. Evolution or revolution? Dynamic capabilities in a knowledge-dependent firm. 2004, vol. 34, no. 2, 161-177. Published by and copyright Wiley-Blackwell Publishing. The definitive version of this article is available from http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/ In this paper we examine the technological and organizational innovations...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was published by and copyright Manchester Metropolitan University Business School.

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in the Journal of Workplace Learning, published by and copyright Emerald Publishing Group Ltd. Examines the process of managerial learning in a relatively remote rural small-sized firm. Relational competences and organisa...

This paper examines the process of learning, both technological and organizational, which has taken place in this small-sized firm located in a relatively remote area of northwest England. With relations to supply chain management and innovation network theory, it is argued that it is the relational elements of inter-firm transactions and interacti...

Based on an empirical study of twenty-six small and medium-sized enterprises we examined the ways in which owner managers of small firms manage organizational knowledge and learning process. The authors are particularly interested in practice-based perspectives on knowing and learning. In this paper we focus primarily on one aspect of learning: lea...