About MQBS ISE

The Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneruship (ISE) Research Group at Macquarie University Business School (MQBS) comprises scholars from Management, Marketing, Accounting, and Finance.

The ISE Research Group consolidates and leverages its members’ heterogeneous, yet complementary capabilities in ISE and related fields to conduct world-class inter-disciplinary research addressing the future of organisations, management practice, and society. The ISE Research Group encourages and supports the development and dissemination of knowledge relevant to managers, innovators, and entrepreneurs, and those who study, shape, or influence the strategy of organisations.

It covers topics associated with strategic, entrepreneurial, and innovation-related decision making, their antecedents, context, and consequences. Main research areas evolve around innovation (e.g., product & service; business model; organisational; managerial; collaborative), strategy (e.g., performance, leadership, M&A, exit, resources, and capabilities) and entrepreneurship (e.g., new venture creation, entrepreneurial orientation, wellbeing, resilience). We conduct research in contexts such as B2B, family firms, SMEs, corporations, healthcare, government, non-profit organisations, and multinational organisations.

We seek interdisciplinary dialogue on the above topics from a variety of perspectives, including strategic, managerial, behavioural, and operational. We take on a multi-level approach to theorizing and empirically investigate phenomena at the individual, family, firm, and macro levels (i.e., country, region, industry), as well as combinations of these.

The ISE Research Network will create alignment between external stakeholders’ needs and university, faculty, and members’ objectives by providing:

inter-disciplinary capabilities to inform innovative practices, decision making, and policy in business, government, and society;
a pivot network for MQBS to gain critical mass and national and international recognition;
high level research input and output at the business school level that will also inform teaching;
opportunities for academics to engage in exciting and challenging cross-discipline projects and maximise research input and output.

In sum, our objectives are 1) to develop research excellence by publishing cutting-edge research combining rigor and relevance; and 2) to translate our research into practice in our education and relationships with relevant stakeholders.

Representative Sample of Publications from ISE Scholars at Macquarie Business School

2024 and Forthcoming

Chirico F, Eddleston K, Patel, P. (forthcoming). Does it Pay to Patent Green Innovations? Stock Market Reactions to Family and Nonfamily Firms’ Green Patents. Journal of Business Ethics.

Daymond, J., Meisiek, S., & Knight, E. (2024). Into the Customers’ Shoes: Multimodal practices for customer-centric strategizing. Organization Studies, 01708406241273792.

Ganzin M., Chirico F., Kroezen J., Dacin T., Sirmon D., Suddaby R. (forthcoming). Craft and Strategic Entrepreneurship: Exploring and Exploiting Materiality, Authenticity and Tradition in Craft-based Ventures. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Huang, K. G., Li, M. X., Shen, C. H. H., & Wang, Y. 2024. Escaping the patent trolls: The impact of non-practicing entity litigation on firm innovation strategies, Strategic Management Journal.

Ivanycheva, D., Schulze, W. S., Lundmark, E., & Chirico, F. 2024, Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Literature Review and Future Research Agenda, Journal of Management Studies, 61 (5): 2251-2286.

Ji, E., Rahman, S., Wilden, R., Lin, N., & Harrison, N. 2024, Leveraging Customer Knowledge Obtained through Social Media: The Roles of R&D Intensity and Absorptive Capacity, Journal of Business Research, 182.

Jung, C, Mallon, MR & Wilden, R. 2024, Strategy by Doing and Product-Market Performance: A Contingency View, Journal of Management 50 (5): 1684-1713.

Knight, E., Lok, J., Jarzabkowski, P., & Wenzel, M. 2024. Sensing the room: the role of atmosphere in collective sensemaking. Academy of Management Journal.

Maghzi, A, Lin, N, Pfarrer, M, Gudergan, SP & Wilden, R 2024. Creating Opportunities: Heuristic Reasoning in Proactive Dynamic Capability Deployment, Academy of Management Review 49 (3): 514-535.

Miao, S., Tian, G. G., Wen, F., & Xiao, J. (2024). The independence of judges and corporate social responsibility. Journal of Business Ethics, 193(3), 633-653.

Pan, P., & Patel, C. (2024). Do Internal Auditors Make Consistent Ethical Judgments in English and Chinese in Reporting Wrongdoing?. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-21.

Pinelli, M., Chirico, F., De Massis, A., & Zattoni, A. (2024). Acquisition relatedness in family firms: Do the environment and the institutional context matter?. Journal of Management Studies, 61(4), 1562-1589.

Winkler, D. M., & Krzeminska, A. (2024). How Context Matters in Non‐market Strategies: Exploring Variations in Corporate Social Responsibility‐Political Activity Relationships. Journal of Management Studies.

Yang, M. M. (2024). Stretch goals, factual/counterfactual reflection strategies, and firm performance. Journal of Management Studies, 61(1), 141-177.

Yin, Y., Wang, Y., & Lu, Y. (2024). How to Design Green Compensation to Promote Managers’ Pro-Environmental Behavior? A Goal-Framing Perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 1-13.

2023

Alam, M. A., Rooney, D., Lundmark, E., & Taylor, M. (2023). The Ethics of Sharing: Does Generosity Erode the Competitive Advantage of an Ecosystem Firm?. Journal of Business Ethics, 187(4), 821-839.

Boisvert, I, Dunn, AG, Lundmark, E, Smith-Merry, J, Lipworth, W, Willink, A & Calvert, M 2023. Disruptions to the hearing health sector. Nature Medicine.

Cai, W., Quan, X., & Tian, G. G. (2023). Local corruption and trade credit: Evidence from an emerging market. Journal of Business Ethics, 185(3), 563-594.

Cheng, L, Wang, Y, Zhang, X & Zhu, D 2023. Double-Edged Sword of Global Demand Heterogeneity: How Service Multinationals Capture the Benefits and Mitigate the Costs of Managing Customer Knowledge, Journal of Business Research 154.

Chirico, F., Naldi, L., Hitt, M. A., Sieger, P., Sirmon, D. G., & Xu, K. (2023). Orchestrating resources with suppliers for product innovation.
Journal of Product Innovation Management, 41(4), 735-767.

Daymond, J, Knight, E, Rumyantseva, M & Maguire, S 2023 Managing Ecosystem Emergence and Evolution: Strategies for Ecosystem Architects, Strategic Management Journal, 44 (4): 01-27.

Gao, H., Ren, M., & Shih, T. Y. 2023. Co-evolutions in global decoupling: Learning from the global semiconductor industry. International Business Review.

Gómez-Mejia, LR, Chirico, F, Martin, G, & Baù, M 2023. Best among the worst or worst among the best? Socioemotional wealth and risk-performance returns for family and non-family firms under financial distress. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 47 (4): 1031-1058.

Knight, E., & Jarzabkowski, P. (2023). Presenting as a chief strategy officer: A discourse-analytical study of elite subjectivities and vulnerabilities. Human Relations, 76(9), 1414-1440.

Seigner, B. D. C., Milanov, H., Lundmark, E., & Shepherd, D. A. (2023). Tweeting like Elon? Provocative language, new-venture status, and audience engagement on social media. Journal of Business Venturing, 38(2), 106282.

Wang, W., Eddleston, K. A., Chirico, F., Zhang, S. X., Liang, Q., & Deng, W. (2023). Family diversity and business start-up: Do family meals feed the fire of entrepreneurship?. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 47(4), 1265-1297.

Wilden, R, Lin, N, Hohberger, J & Randhawa, K 2023. Selecting Innovation Projects: Do Middle and Senior Managers Differ When It Comes to Radical Innovation?, Journal of Management Studies 60 (7): 1720-1751.

Zhao, L., Yang, M. M., Wang, Z., & Michelson, G. (2023). Trends in the dynamic evolution of corporate social responsibility and leadership: A literature review and bibliometric analysis. Journal of Business Ethics, 182(1), 135-157.

2022

Adeel, N., Patel, C., Martinov-Bennie, N., & Ying, S. X. (2022). Islamic religiosity and auditors’ judgements: Evidence from Pakistan. Journal of Business Ethics, 179(2), 551-572.

Chavan, DM, Chirico, F, Taksa, PL & Alam, DMA 2022. How Do Immigrant Family Businesses Achieve Global Expansion? An Embeddedness Perspective, Academy of Management Discoveries.

Chirico, F., Ireland, R. D., Pittino, D., & Sanchez-Famoso, V. (2022). Radical innovation in (multi) family owned firms. Journal of Business Venturing, 37(3), 106194.

De Rond, Md, Lok, J & Marrison, A 2022. To Catch a Predator: The Lived Experience of Extreme Practices, Academy of Management Journal 65 (3): 870-902.

Haski-Leventhal, D., Pournader, M., & Leigh, J. S. (2022). Responsible management education as socialization: Business students’ values, attitudes and intentions. Journal of Business Ethics, 176(1), 17-35.

Hayward, M, Cheng, Z & Zhe Wang, B 2022. Disrupted Education, Underdogs and the Propensity for Entrepreneurship: Evidence from China’s Sent-Down Youth Program, Journal of Business Research 151 33-39.

Heyden, MLM, Gu, J, Wechtler, HM & Ekanayake, UIK 2022. The Face of Wrongdoing? An Expectancy Violations Perspective on CEO Facial Characteristics and Media Coverage of Misconducting Firms, The Leadership Quarterly 101671.

Li, X, Wang, Y, Yang, MM & Tang, Y 2022. Does Owner CEO Narcissism Promote Exporting SMEs' Market Spreading Strategy? Joint Effects of Asset-Specific Investments and Firm Exporting Experience, Journal of International Management 28 (3): 100923.

Liang, W, Gu, J & Nyland, C 2022. China's New Research Evaluation Policy: Evidence from Economics Faculty of Elite Chinese Universities, Research Policy 51 (1): 104407.

Lin, N, Wilden, R, Chirico, F, Ghasrodashti, E & DeTienne, DR 2022. Persist or Let It Go: Do Rational Entrepreneurs Make Decisions Rationally?, Journal of Business Venturing 37 (4): 106210.

Lundmark, E, Coad, A, Frankish, JS & Storey, DJ 2020. The liability of volatility and how it changes over time among new ventures. Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice, 44(5), 933-963.

Padigar, M., Pupovac, L., Sinha, A. & Srivastava, R., 2022. The Effect of Marketing Department Power on Investor Responses to Announcements of AI-embedded New Product Innovations. Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 50(6), 1277-1298.

Qiu, B., Tian, G. G., & Zeng, H. (2022). How Does Deleveraging Affect Funding Market Liquidity?. Management Science, 68(6), 4568-4601.

Traeger, C., Haski-Leventhal, D., & Alfes, K. (2022). Extending organizational socialization theory: Empirical evidence from volunteer work for refugees in France and Australia. Human Relations, 75(6), 1140-1166.

Yu, C, Wang, Y, Li, T & Lin, C 2022. Do Top Management Teams’ Expectations and Support Drive Management Innovation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises?, Journal of Business Research 142: 88-99.

2021

Arregle, JL, Chirico, F, Kano, L, Kundu, SK, Majocchi, A & Schulze, WS 2021. Family firm internationalization: Past research and an agenda for the future. Journal of International Business Studies, 52(6), 1159-1198.

Cheng, Z, Guo, W, Hayward, M, Smyth, R & Wang, H 2021. Childhood Adversity and the Propensity for Entrepreneurship: A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Great Chinese Famine, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (1).

Cheng, Z., Wang, B. Z., & Taksa, L. (2021). Labour force participation and employment of humanitarian migrants: Evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal data. Journal of Business Ethics, 168, 697-720.

Chirico, F, Welsh, DH, Ireland, RD & Sieger, P. 2021. Family versus non‐family firm franchisors: Behavioural and performance Differences. Journal of Management Studies, 58(1), 165-200.

Garbuio, M., & Lin, N. 2021. Innovative idea generation in problem finding: Abductive reasoning, cognitive impediments, and the promise of artificial intelligence. Journal of Product Innovation Management, 38(6), 701-725.

Hahn, T & Knight, E 2021. The Ontology of Organizational Paradox: A Quantum Approach, Academy of Management Review 46 (2): 362-384.

Krzeminska, A, Lundmark, E & Härtel, CEJ 2021. Legitimation of a Heterogeneous Market Category through Covert Prototype Differentiation, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (2).

Mafico, N, Krzeminska, A, Härtel, C & Keller, J 2021. The Mirroring of Intercultural and Hybridity Experiences: A Study of African Immigrant Social Entrepreneurs, Journal of Business Venturing 36 (3).

2020 and earlier

Akhter, N., Sieger, P., & Chirico, F. (2016). If we can't have it, then no one should: Shutting down versus selling in family business portfolios. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 10(4), 371-394.

Baù, M., Chirico, F., Pittino, D., Backman, M., & Klaesson, J. (2019). Roots to grow: Family firms and local embeddedness in rural and urban contexts. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 43(2), 360-385.

Baù, M., Sieger, P., Eddleston, K. A., & Chirico, F. (2017). Fail but try again? The effects of age, gender, and multiple–owner experience on failed entrepreneurs’ reentry. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 41(6), 909-941.

Cao, X., Lemmon, M., Pan, X., Qian, M., & Tian, G. (2019). Political promotion, CEO incentives, and the relationship between pay and performance. Management Science, 65(7), 2947-2965.

Cheng, Z., Smyth, R., & Guo, F. (2015). The impact of China’s new Labour Contract Law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers. Human Relations, 68(3), 329-352.

Chirico, F, Gómez-Mejia, LR, Hellerstedt, K, Withers, M & Nordqvist, M 2020. To Merge, Sell, or Liquidate? Socioemotional Wealth, Family Control, and the Choice of Business Exit, Journal of Management 46 (8): 1342-1379.

Chirico, F., & Salvato, C. (2016). Knowledge internalization and product development in family firms: When relational and affective factors matter. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 40(1), 201-229.

Chirico, F., Criaco, G., Baù, M., Naldi, L., Gomez-Mejia, L. R., & Kotlar, J. (2020). To patent or not to patent: That is the question. Intellectual property protection in family firms. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 44(2), 339-367.

Chirico, F., Ireland, R. D., & Sirmon, D. G. (2011). Franchising and the family firm: Creating unique sources of advantage through “familiness”. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 35(3), 483-501.

Chirico, F., Sirmon, D. G., Sciascia, S., & Mazzola, P. (2011). Resource orchestration in family firms: Investigating how entrepreneurial orientation, generational involvement, and participative strategy affect performance. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 5(4), 307-326.

Creed, W. D., DeJordy, R., & Lok, J. (2010). Being the change: Resolving institutional contradiction through identity work. Academy of Management Journal, 53(6), 1336-1364.

Dawson, A., Sharma, P., Irving, P. G., Marcus, J., & Chirico, F. (2015). Predictors of later–generation family members’ commitment to family enterprises. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 39(3), 545-569.

DeTienne, D. R., & Chirico, F. (2013). Exit strategies in family firms: How socioemotional wealth drives the threshold of performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(6), 1297-1318.

Gary, MS, Yang, MM, Yetton, PW & Sterman, JD 2017. Stretch Goals and the Distribution of Organizational Performance, Organization Science 28 (3): 395-410.

Haski-Leventhal, D., & Bargal, D. (2008). The volunteer stages and transitions model: Organizational socialization of volunteers. Human Relations, 61(1), 67-102.

Haski-Leventhal, D., Pournader, M., & McKinnon, A. (2017). The role of gender and age in business students’ values, CSR attitudes, and responsible management education: Learnings from the PRME international survey. Journal of Business Ethics, 146, 219-239.

Haski-Leventhal, D., Roza, L., & Meijs, L. C. (2017). Congruence in corporate social responsibility: Connecting the identity and behavior of employers and employees. Journal of Business Ethics, 143, 35-51.

Herdhayinta, H, Lau, J & Shen, CH-h 2021. Family Female Directors Versus Non-Family Female Directors: Effects on Firm Value and Dividend Payouts in an Extreme Institutional Environment, British Journal of Management 32 (4): 969-987.

Heyden, MLM, Wilden, R & Wise, C 2020. Navigating Crisis from the Backseat? How Top Managers Can Support Radical Change Initiatives by Middle Managers, Industrial Marketing Management 88 305-313.

Hideg, I., Krstic, A., Trau, R. N., & Zarina, T. (2018). The unintended consequences of maternity leaves: How agency interventions mitigate the negative effects of longer legislated maternity leaves. Journal of Applied Psychology, 103(10), 1155.

Hoskisson, RE, Chirico, F, Zyung, J & Gambeta, E 2017. Managerial Risk Taking: A Multitheoretical Review and Future Research Agenda, Journal of Management 43 (1): 137-169.

Knight, E, Daymond, J & Paroutis, S 2020. Design-Led Strategy: How to Bring Design Thinking into the Art of Strategic Management, California Management Review 62 (2): 30-52.

Knight, E., & Cuganesan, S. (2020). Enabling organizational ambidexterity: Valuation practices and the senior-leadership team. Human Relations, 73(2), 190-214.

Knight, E., & Paroutis, S. (2017). Becoming salient: The TMT leader’s role in shaping the interpretive context of paradoxical tensions. Organization Studies, 38(3-4), 403-432.

Knight, E., & Tsoukas, H. (2019). When Fiction Trumps Truth: What ‘post-truth’and ‘alternative facts’ mean for management studies. Organization Studies, 40(2), 183-197.

Knight, E., Paroutis, S., & Heracleous, L. (2018). The power of PowerPoint: A visual perspective on meaning making in strategy. Strategic Management Journal, 39(3), 894-921.

Krzeminska, A., Hoetker, G., & Mellewigt, T. (2013). Reconceptualizing plural sourcing. Strategic Management Journal, 34(13), 1614-1627.

Li, J., Sun, G., & Cheng, Z. (2017). The influence of political skill on salespersons’ work outcomes: A resource perspective. Journal of Business Ethics, 141, 551-562.

Lok, J & Willmott, H 2019. Embedded Agency in Institutional Theory: Problem or Paradox?, Academy of Management Review 44 (2): 470-473.

Lok, J., & De Rond, M. (2013). On the plasticity of institutions: Containing and restoring practice breakdowns at the Cambridge University Boat Club. Academy of Management Journal, 56(1), 185-207.

Lok, J., & Willmott, H. (2006). Institutional theory, language, and discourse analysis: a comment on Philips, Lawrence, and Hardy. Academy of Management Review, 31(2), 477-480.

Lundmark, E & Westelius, A 2019. Antisocial Entrepreneurship: Conceptual Foundations and a Research Agenda, Journal of Business Venturing Insights 11.

Lundmark, E, Krzeminska, A & Shepherd, DA 2019. Images of Entrepreneurship: Exploring Root Metaphors and Expanding Upon Them, Entrepreneurship, Theory and Practice 43 (1): 138-170.

Lundmark, E., & Westelius, A. (2014). Entrepreneurship as elixir and mutagen. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 38(3), 575-600.

Pan, P., & Patel, C. (2018). The influence of native versus foreign language on Chinese subjects’ aggressive financial reporting judgments. Journal of Business Ethics, 150, 863-878.

Randhawa, K, Wilden, R & Gudergan, S 2018. Open Service Innovation: The Role of Intermediary Capabilities, Journal of Product Innovation Management 35 (5): 808-838.

Ren, M, Manning, S., & Vavilov, S 2019. Does state ownership really matter? The dynamic alignment of China's resource environment and firm internationalization strategies. Journal of International Management, 25(3).

Rond, Md & Lok, J 2016. Some Things Can Never Be Unseen: The Role of Context in Psychological Injury at War, Academy of Management Journal 59 (6): 1965-1993.

Rosengren, S., Eisend, M., Koslow, S., & Dahlen, M. (2020). A meta-analysis of when and how advertising creativity works. Journal of Marketing, 84(6), 39-56.

Salvato, C., Chirico, F., Melin, L., & Seidl, D. (2019). Coupling family business research with organization studies: Interpretations, issues and insights. Organization Studies, 40(6), 775-791.

Sanchez-Famoso, V., Akhter, N., Iturralde, T., Chirico, F., & Maseda, A. (2015). Is non-family social capital also (or especially) important for family firm performance?. Human Relations, 68(11), 1713-1743.

Sciascia, S., Mazzola, P., & Chirico, F. (2013). Generational involvement in the top management team of family firms: Exploring nonlinear effects on entrepreneurial orientation. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(1), 69-85.

Tse, H., To, M., Gu, J., Lam, C. K., & Lin, X. (2020). Why Worse-off Employees Like Affiliating with Better-off Coworkers in Teams? The Role of Machiavellianism in the Leader-member Exchange Social Comparison Process. Journal of Applied Psychology.

Wilden, R, Gudergan, S, Akaka, MA, Averdung, A & Teichert, T 2019. The Role of Cocreation and Dynamic Capabilities in Service Provision and Performance: A Configurational Study, Industrial Marketing Management 78 43-57.

Wilden, R, Hohberger, J, Devinney, TM & Lumineau, F 2019. 60 Years of March and Simon's Organizations: An Empirical Examination of Its Impact and Influence on Subsequent Research, Journal of Management Studies 56 (8): 1570-1604.

Yang, MM, Li, T & Wang, Y 2020. What Explains the Degree of Internationalization of Early-Stage Entrepreneurial Firms? A Multilevel Study on the Joint Effects of Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, Opportunity-Motivated Entrepreneurship, and Home-Country Institutions, Journal of World Business 55 (6).

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Wallumattagal Campus
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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Macquarie University stands - the Wallumattagal Clan of the Dharug Nation - whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land since time immemorial. We pay our respects to the Elders, past and present.