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The third article “Goal Consensus, Subordinates’ Prior Performances, and
Supervisors’ Resource Allocation Preferences” in the field of accounting by Liu, Chu,
and Liu uses field data from a realty company in Taiwan to investigate the individual
relationship between goal consensus and supervisors’ resource allocation preferences
and the individual relationship between subordinates’ prior performance and supervisors’
resource allocation preferences. Furthermore, they explore whether subordinates’ prior
performance acts as a moderator and affects the relationship between goal consensus
and supervisors’ resource allocation preferences. The results show that the greater the
goal consensus between regional and branch managers, the more likely a branch office
is to receive advertising funding; the better the previous sales performance of a branch
office, the more likely a regional manager deploys senior sales agents to the branch
office. However, they do not observe a moderating effect of the branch offices’ prior sales
performance on the goal consensus–resource allocation preference relation. Overall, their
results suggest that regional managers’ resource allocation preferences vary with the level
of goal consensus and with subordinates’ prior performance.
The fourth article “Understanding People’s Switching Intentions of Health Apps
from Exterior and Interior Drivers” in the field of production and operations management
by Huang, Chen, and Chen empirically investigates the reasons behind health apps users’
switching intentions. Applying the Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM) theory originating from
human migration literature, they propose a research model in which positive drivers
(exterior power) include attractive alternatives, social influence and dissatisfaction with
the current health app, and negative drivers (interior power) include procedural switching
costs and habits. After analyzing 218 qualified samples through structural equation
modeling (SEM), they find that their model can explain 57% of the variance.
The last article “Shrewd Calculation or Beautiful Illusion? Exploring the Relationship
between Abusive Supervision, Follower Perceived Leadership Effectiveness, and
Supervisor-Directed Citizenship Behaviors: The Moderating Roles of Supervisor Political
Skills and Physical Attractiveness” in the field of organization and human resources”
by Chi, Chien, Fang, Chien, and Chen proposes an integrative model to investigate
whether the leaders’ political skills and physical attractiveness moderate the relationship
between abusive supervision and followers’ perceived leader effectiveness, which in turn
influences supervisor-directed citizenship behaviors. Based on the perspective of “abusive
supervision as political activity”, they collect data from 113 leaders and 367 followers at
two different time points, bringing 367 valid paired responses. The results of multilevel