Influence of Informal Relationships on Expatriate Career Performance in China: The Moderating Role of Cultural Intelligence

Ren, Shuang; Chadee, Doren; Presbitero, Alfred

doi:10.1017/mor.2020.16

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“…They put out a theory known as the "multilevel perspective", which takes into account how societal and personal factors interact to shape behavior. Similar to this, recent studies have looked into how organizational factors, including green OCB, might help promote environmental behavior (Han and Kim, 2020;Ren et al, 2020).…”

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Drivers of sustainability: technological and relational factors influencing young consumers’ green buying intentions and green actual consumption behavior

Khan

Hassan

Pravdina

et al. 2023

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Purpose This study aims to explore the factors that influence young green actual consumption behavior (GACB) by examining the relational and technological aspects that are dependent on technology and youth green buying intention (GBI). Additionally, this study endeavors to examine the moderating effect of adolescent green organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) on the association between young consumer GBI and young GACB. Design/methodology/approach The data for this study was collected from a sample of 282 university students located in the southern region of China. A time lag approach was used in this study, with data being gathered during two separate intervals spaced apart by duration of two months. Findings The findings of this study demonstrate that both technological and relational factors play a significant role in predicting young consumer GBI, which in turn predicts young GACB. Additionally, the results indicate that GBI is a crucial facilitator in the investigation. Furthermore, the results reveal that young green OCB serves as a significant moderator, enhancing the association between young consumer GBI and young consumer GACB. Originality/value The present study provides a novel perspective on the examination of how technology and relational factors impact young consumers, offering a deeper understanding of their intentions and actual consumption behavior. The findings of this study offer both theoretical and practical implications for academics, policymakers, senior managers and practitioners, providing valuable insights into the field.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 86%

Drivers of sustainability: technological and relational factors influencing young consumers’ green buying intentions and green actual consumption behavior

Khan

Hassan

Pravdina

et al. 2023

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“…Individuals often need to rely on coworkers’ support and assistance (Ren, Chadee, & Presbitero, 2020), as they may, from time to time, be required to undertake multiple tasks, take on highly demanding tasks, or complete tasks within significant time constraints. Individuals who are central in advice-giving networks can count on strong support from coworkers because their coworkers are indebted to the providers for the advice they receive.…”

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Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

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Existing research examining the curvilinear relationship between network centrality and performance tends to focus on the information recipients’ perspective. Focusing on the information providers’ perspective, our study draws upon social exchange theory to demonstrate that the advice-giving centrality-performance relationship for information providers has an inverse U-shape due to decreasing benefits and increasing costs of maintaining more advice-giving ties. We further show that increasing advice-giving centrality increases the likelihood that individuals would become a hindrance to coworkers, as they become bottlenecks impeding efficient workflow. However, our study demonstrates that political skill enables them to overcome the interpersonal challenges associated with high advice-giving centrality. Specifically, individuals with high political skills can better convert advice-giving ties to resources that could assist their cooperation with coworkers, reducing the hindrance they impose. Overall, we provide insights into the trade-off between the benefits and costs of advice-giving ties from a social exchange perspective and examine political skill as an important mitigator of the downsides of large advice-giving networks – a key area that has been hitherto largely unexplored.

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“…In addition, this study controlled for expatriate assignment duration to rule out the potential influences of time in the host country (e.g. Chen et al, 2011;Ren et al, 2020).…”

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How cultural intelligence affects expatriate effectiveness in international construction projects

Chen

Yang

Liu

et al. 2023

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PurposeThis study aims to investigate the influence mechanism of expatriates' cultural intelligence (CQ) on expatriate effectiveness (task performance and premature return intention), identifying work engagement as a mediator and cultural distance as a boundary condition.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on the conservation of resource theory and the person–environment fit (P–E fit) theory, a moderated mediation model is built. Working with a sample of 303 international construction expatriates collected by snowball sampling, the hypotheses are tested by using the structural equation model analysis.FindingsWork engagement partially mediates the relationship between expatriates' CQ and task performance, as well as fully mediates the relationship between expatriates' CQ and premature return intention. Cultural distance moderates the positive relationship between CQ and work engagement, as well as moderates the mediating effects of work engagement.Research limitations/implicationsThe impacts of potential moderators (e.g. work–family conflict and organizational culture) on the relationship between CQ and expatriate effectiveness have not been considered in this study.Practical implicationsThis study is useful for international construction firms to optimize the allocation of human resources.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the expatriate literature by adding empirical evidence to explain the influence mechanism of expatriates' CQ on expatriate effectiveness.

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Influence of Informal Relationships on Expatriate Career Performance in China: The Moderating Role of Cultural Intelligence

Cited by 13 publications

References 118 publications

Drivers of sustainability: technological and relational factors influencing young consumers’ green buying intentions and green actual consumption behavior

Drivers of sustainability: technological and relational factors influencing young consumers’ green buying intentions and green actual consumption behavior

Too Much of a Good Thing: Downsides of a Large Social Network and Moderating Effects of Political Skill

How cultural intelligence affects expatriate effectiveness in international construction projects

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