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作者：Zajac, EJ; Westphal, JD
摘要：This study shows how social psychological and sociopolitical factors can create divergence in the preferences of an incumbent CEO and existing board regarding the desired characteristics of a new CEO, and how relative CEO/board power can predict whose preferences are realized. Using extensive longitudinal data, we found that more powerful boards are more likely to change CEO characteristics in the direction of their own demographic profile. Outside successors are also typically demographically...
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作者：Amason, AC
摘要：Top management teams make strategic decisions, and the products of their decision making influence organizational performance, However, a subtle paradox is embedded in this relationship. This study focuses on conflict as the crux of this paradox and provides evidence from two different samples of conflict's consistent yet contradictory effects on decision quality, consensus, and affective acceptance.
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作者：Rajagopalan, N; Datta, DK
作者单位：University of Kansas
摘要：This study examined the relationships between a comprehensive set of industry conditions and CEO characteristics utilizing data from a broad range of U.S. manufacturing industries. Pooled cross-sectional time series analyses indicated that industry conditions played a limited role in explaining variations in CEO firm tenure, educational level, functional background, and functional heterogeneity. Results of subgroup regression analyses indicated that although high performers appeared to align t...
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作者：Ashforth, BE; Saks, AM
摘要：In this longitudinal field study, we used self-report data provided by business school graduates after four months and ten months on. new jobs to assess (1) the effects of the six socialization tactics from Van Maanen and Schein's (1979) typology on newcomer adjustment and (2) refinements of existing measures of the investiture tactic and role innovation. Results indicate that the tactics, clustered into an institutionalized (vs. individualized) approach, were negatively related to attempted a...
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作者：Miller, KD; Leiblein, MJ
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This study tested a model of firm risk-return relations in which risk was conceptualized in terms of downside outcomes. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, we developed a set of hypotheses involving downside risk, return, and organizational slack, The hypothesized risk and return relations were tested using both downside risk and the conventional standard deviation of returns. The results indicate downside risk results in improved subsequent performance, Performance shows a negative ...
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作者：Tallman, S; Li, JT
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa
摘要：This study examined the relationships among international diversity, product diversity, and firm performance. For a sample of large American industrial multinational enterprises (MNEs), it showed a consistent quadratic relationship between product diversification and MNE performance but minimal performance differences across different measures of international diversity. Analysis of the interactions of international diversity and product diversity indicates a weak effect from increasing intern...
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作者：Frese, M; Kring, W; Soose, A; Zempel, J
作者单位：Justus Liebig University Giessen; Tulane University
摘要：Personal initiative, a concept akin to entrepreneurship and organizational spontaneity, was compared in East and West Germany, Differences were hypothesized to be the results of occupational socialization, particularly of work control and complexity, rather than of a selection effect. A representative longitudinal study was conducted in the East and a cross-sectional study in the West. Lower initiative at work was found in the East; control and complexity affected changes in initiative, The re...
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作者：Shane, SA
摘要：This study proposes that hybrid organizational forms provide a way to overcome the agency problems of adverse selection and moral hazard in selecting, assimilating, and monitoring new managers. Consequently, hybrid forms allow firms to overcome managerial limits to firm growth and therefore grow faster. Specifically, the study shows empirically that the degree to which a firm emphasizes franchising as its expansion strategy has a significant, positive effect on its growth and survival.
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作者：Lee, TW; Mitchell, TR; Wise, L; Fireman, S
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford Medicine
摘要：We report a test of Lee and Mitchell's model of voluntary employee departure from an organization. Data gathered from interviews with nurses who had recently quit their jobs and a mailed survey were analyzed qualitatively via pattern matching and quantitatively through correlations, analysis of medians, log linear modeling, and contingency tables. Although the data generally supported the theory, several nonconfirming cases revealed ambiguities in the model and therefore opportunities for impr...
