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Firm performance in challenging business climates: does managerial work engagement make a difference?

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posted on 2017-04-27, 10:23 authored by Klaus Friesenbichler, Eva SelenkoEva Selenko
Do more highly work-engaged managers contribute to firm performance? Leaning on the resource-based view, we propose managerial work engagement as a resource relevant to firm performance. Data from a representative survey of managers in Bangladesh support this and illuminate the role of the wider context in predicting work engagement. In less-corrupt environments with a more humane leadership culture, work engagement is more prevalent. In addition, individual work engagement is driven by firm-level factors and contributes independently to firm performance. This illustrates the mutual dependency between an individual manager’s work engagement and microeconomic determinants of firm performance.

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School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Asian Business and Management

Citation

FRIESENBICHLER, K. and SELENKO, E., 2017. Firm performance in challenging business climates: does managerial work engagement make a difference? Asian Business and Management, 16 (1), pp.25-49.

Publisher

© Palgrave Macmillan

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-02-05

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Asian Business and Management. The definitive publisher-authenticated version FRIESENBICHLER, K. and SELENKO, E., 2017. Firm performance in challenging business climates: does managerial work engagement make a difference? Asian Business and Management, 16 (1), pp.25-49 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41291-017-0016-4.

ISSN

1472-4782

eISSN

1476-9328

Language

  • en