UNPACKING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY: CEO SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC IDEOLOGIES, STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES, AND CORPORATE ENTREPRENEURSHIP

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chin, M. K.; Zhang, Stephen X.; Jahanshahi, Asghar Afshar; Nadkarni, Sucheta
• 署名单位: Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; University of Adelaide; Southwestern University of Finance & Economics - China; Universidad Americas Puebla (UDLAP); University of Cambridge
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• DOI: 10.5465/amj.2019.1228
• 发表日期: 2021
• 页码: 1213-1235
• 关键词: COGNITIVE-STYLE; management; performance; conservatism; opportunity; IMPACT; need; determinants; personality; leadership

摘要

We integrate political psychology and upper echelons research to introduce an alternative conceptualization of executive political ideology by separating the two distinct ideologies: social and economic. We theorize and test how the two ideologies exert distinct effects on a critical strategic outcome: corporate entrepreneurship. We examine this contention in Iran, a political context that sharply deviates from the exclusively studied U.S. context. We find that social and economic conservatism exert opposing effects on corporate entrepreneurship through distinct strategic decision-making processes; CEO social conservatism positively affects corporate entrepreneurship by promoting intuitive strategic decision-making, whereas CEO economic conservatism negatively affects corporate entrepreneurship by impairing cooperative strategic decision-making. These results highlight the need to separate social and economic ideologies, especially in non-U.S. contexts, and inform the underlying strategic decision-making processes through which executive ideology shapes strategic behaviors. The promising results also underscore the importance of examining the strategic implications of executive political ideology in diverse political contexts that differ from the U.S. context.