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作者：Spreitzer, GM
摘要：A set of hypotheses based on emerging theory on high-involvement systems describes expected relationships between social structural characteristics at the level of the work unit (perceptions of role ambiguity, span of control, sociopolitical support, access to information and resources, and work unit climate) and feelings of empowerment. The hypotheses are examined with data on a sample of middle managers from diverse units of a Fortune 50 organization, A work unit with little role ambiguity, ...
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作者：Markides, CC; Williamson, PJ
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：We argue that related diversification enhances performance only when it allows a business to obtain preferential access to strategic assets-those that are valuable, rare, imperfectly tradable, and costly to imitate. As the advantage this access affords will decay as a result of asset erosion and imitation by single business rivals, in the long run only competences that enable a firm to build new strategic assets more quickly and efficiently than competitors will allow it to sustain supernormal...
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作者：Becker, TE; Billings, RS; Eveleth, DM; Gilbert, NL
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Washington State University
摘要：Previous research has found that employee commitment and job performance are largely unrelated. However, prior work has not distinguished among individual foci (targets) and bases (motives) of commitment. We found, as expected, that commitment to supervisors was positively related to performance and was more strongly associated with performance than was commitment to organizations. Further, internalization of supervisors' and organizations' values was associated with performance but identifica...
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作者：Edwards, JR
摘要：This study examined two versions of the person-environment (P-E) fit approach to stress, one representing the fit between environmental supplies and employee values [S-V fit], and another the fit between environmental demands and employee abilities (D-A fit). Hypotheses based on three competing models derived from the P-E fit literature were tested with a procedure that overcomes problems with the measurement and analysis of fit. Results indicated that the relationships of S-V and D-A fit with...
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作者：Dean, JW; Sharfman, MP
作者单位：University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：This study examined whether strategic decision-making processes are related to decision effectiveness, using a longitudinal field study design. We studied 52 decisions in 24 companies to determine if procedural rationality and political behavior influence decision success, controlling for the favorability of the environment and decision implementation. Our results indicate that decision making processes are indeed related to decision success. Results are discussed in terms of the importance of...
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作者：Baum, JAC; Korn, HJ
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：In this study, we examined how firm-specific competitive conditions influence firms' patterns of market entry and exit, focusing on two features of firms' competitive conditions: market domain overlap, which measures the potential for competition, and multimarket contact, which measures the potential for mutual forbearance. A dynamic analysis of California commuter airlines from 1979 through 1984 showed that increases in market domain overlap raised airlines' rates of market entry and exit, bu...
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作者：Carroll, GR; Teo, AC
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：Using data from the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Survey, we compared the organizational membership networks and core discussion networks of managers and nonmanagers. For the two groups, the networks differed on a variety of characteristics, including ties to outside organizations and to co-workers, network size, and closeness of ties. We also found preliminary evidence that network differences were associated with income differences for nonmanagers.
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作者：Robson, GS; Wholey, DR; Barefield, RM
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：In this research, we developed and tested a theory of institutional effects on the timing of resignation in accounting. The institutional effects examined are credentialing processes. We found that the interaction of certification requirements and job duties affected early-career resignation rates of accounting firm employees. Auditors in all certification jurisdictions studied and nonauditors in jurisdictions with broadly focused experience requirements postponed resignation until after the c...
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作者：Wright, P; Ferris, SP; Sarin, A; Awasthi, V
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; Santa Clara University
摘要：The nature of a firm's risk-taking behavior can significantly affect corporate performance, In an agency context, we examined the influence of equity ownership structure upon corporate risk taking. Results support our premise that the wealth portfolios of corporate insiders may influence firm risk taking, They also support our analysis of entrenchment theory and our presumption that financial and nonfinancial benefits or costs may, at high levels of stock ownership, induce executive decisions ...
