MSOL-5104 v2

Menter, M., Göcke, L., & Zeeb, C. (2024). The organizational impact of business model innovation: assessing the person‐organization fit. Journal of Management Studies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 61(3), 926–967.
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of organizational change, more specifically business model change, on corporate employees’ motivation and, consequently, performance.

Ghorbanzadeh, D., Chandra, T., Akhmadeev, R., Yurievna Aleynikova, M., & Muda, I. (2023). Enhancing emotional culture through internal communication: impact on employee-organization relationships and employee advocacy. International Journal of Strategic Communication, 17(5), 475–495.
This study aims to propose and test an integrative model that incorporates internal communication, positive emotional culture, and employee-organization relationships. Drawing from the relationship management theory in public relations and social exchange theory, the model specifically examines the role of employee-organization relationship quality (by considering the effect of internal communication) on employee advocacy, emphasizing the role of positive emotional culture.

Miao, B., Liang, Y., & Suo, Y. (2023). The influence of organizational social network on enterprise collaborative innovation—mediating role of knowledge sharing and moderating effect of digital construction. IEEE Access, Access, IEEE, 11, 5110–5122.
This paper mainly discusses the influence of organizational social network on enterprise collaborative innovation, as well as the intermediary role of knowledge sharing and the regulatory role of digital construction. Based on social exchange theory and social cognition theory, an integration model of organizational social network influencing enterprise collaborative innovation is constructed.

Fan, L., Feng, C., Robin, M., & Huang, X. (2023). Transformational leadership and service performance for civil servants of public organizations in China: A two-path mediating role of trust. Chinese Management Studies, 17(1), 215–230.
Transformational leadership and service performance of civil servants greatly affect the government's administrative effectiveness. However, there are few studies on the influence mechanism of transformational leadership on service performance in the context of public organizations. Based on the social exchange theory, this study aims to construct and examine the dual path mediating process of affective trust and cognitive trust for the effects of transformational leadership on service performance.

Men, L. R., & Yue, C. A. (2019). Creating a positive emotional culture: Effect of internal communication and impact on employee supportive behaviors. Public Relations Review, 45(3), 101764.
This particular study involved over 500 US employees to assess what effect, if any, internal communication as well as leadership communication style has on promoting a positive culture throughout the organization.

Men, L. R., Yue, C. A., & Liu, Y. (2020). “Vision, passion, and care:” The impact of charismatic executive leadership communication on employee trust and support for organizational change. Public Relations Review, 46(3), 1-17.
An interesting study that examines in what ways a charismatic communication style on the part of leadership in the organization can influence employee attitude toward a planned change. This study examines how leaders energize and enable employee behavior during the change process and how this results in employee's willingness to change.

Muthusamy, S. K. (2019). Power of positive words: Communication, cognition, and organizational transformation. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 32(1), 103-122.
From the communication and sense-making perspectives, this study discusses the role of positive communication involving stories, metaphors, or axioms in fostering socio-cognitive routines necessary for organizational change. The study further examines the empirical link between positive communication and organizational transformation with the survey data from professionals who have experienced the organizational change episode.

Yue, C. A., Men, L. R., & Ferguson, M. A. (2019). Bridging transformational leadership, transparent communication, and employee openness to change: The mediating role of trust. Public Relations Review, 45(3), 1-13.
In this study, you will see the effect that transformational leadership coupled with transparency in communication affects employee trust during a planned organizational change.