The Influence of Four‑Box Business Model on Employee Engagement in Post‑COVID‑19: Company Performance as the Moderator

This research investigates the influence of four-box business model and its components on employee engagement, in accordance with the theoretical foundation of organizational commitment theory. The moderating effect of company performance on the relationship between four-box business model and emplo...

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Autores: Zi Ning, Zhu, Ramendran SPR, Charles, Lai Soon, Wong, Fernández-Alcalá, Rosa, Garcia-Marti, Elia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/1671
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-023-01636-8
https://hdl.handle.net/10953/1671
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:four-box business model
employee engagement
company performance
organizational commitment theory
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Sumario:This research investigates the influence of four-box business model and its components on employee engagement, in accordance with the theoretical foundation of organizational commitment theory. The moderating effect of company performance on the relationship between four-box business model and employee engagement was also determined. This study employed quantitative methodology by gathering data from targeted Chinese SMEs via questionnaire during the post-COVID-19 period. Descriptive study and structural equation modelling were performed on 238 qualified data by using SPSS and AMOS software. This research reveals that employee engagement is highly impacted by four-box business model and its components. The components of four-box business model, i.e. customer value proposition, profit formula, key resources and key processes all show significant effect on employee engagement. Besides, company performance positively moderates the impact of four-box business model on employee engagement. However, on single factor level, the company performance only moderate on the relationship between key resources, key processes and employee engagement. As a conclusion, this research recommended that company management to employ the four-box business model on its operation and extensively pay attention to the impact of model on varying company performance.