Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Lange, Donald; Boivie, Steven; Westphal, James D.
• 署名单位: Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/smj.2283
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1224-1244
• 关键词: ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTIFICATION; UPPER ECHELONS; corporate governance; CEO psychological orientation; Agency theory

摘要

To develop further insight into antecedents of the CEO's psychological orientation toward the firm, we investigate what might lead CEOs to identify with their firms. Although research suggests that CEO organizational identification can be quite consequential for the firm, little research attention has been paid to its determinants. To predict how the special context of the CEO position might lead to identification, we consider a set of motives that members have for identifying with their organizations and consider how unique features of the CEO position might be relevant to those motives. Our theory and supportive findings help explain how the context of the CEO position, including variables often conceptualized as control mechanisms in agency theory research, can have important effects on subsequent CEO organizational identification. Copyright (c) 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.