Toward a stewardship theory of management

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Davis, JH; Schoorman, FD; Donaldson, L
• 署名单位: Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of New South Wales Sydney
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.2307/259223
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 20-47
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; CEO DUALITY; BEHAVIOR; identification; leadership; COMMITMENT; ECONOMICS; OWNERSHIP; models; POWER

摘要

Recent thinking about top management has been influenced by alternative models of man.(1) Economic approaches to governance such as agency theory tend to assume some form of homo-economicus, which depict subordinates as individualistic. opportunistic, and self-serving. Alternatively, sociological and psychological approaches to governance such as stewardship theory depict subordinates as collectivists, pro-organizational. and trustworthy. Through this research, we attempt to reconcile the differences between these assumptions by proposing a: model based upon the subordinate's psychological attributes and the organization's situational characteristics.