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作者：ROSS, J; STAW, BM
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Although there is a relatively large literature on escalating commitment, almost all the research it describes has concerned individuals rather than organizations. Therefore, to provide additional grounding for an organizational theory of escalation, we examined the Long Island Lighting Company's decision to build and operate the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant. Shoreham's cost, estimated to be $75 million when the project was announced in 1966, rose over the next 23 years to over $5 billion. A n...
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作者：COLLINS, JM; MUCHINSKY, PM
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
摘要：Federal statutes recommend the analysis of four job attributes as measures of job worth, and the National Academy of Sciences recommends using one job evaluation method across classifications in an organization. The results of this construct validity study showed that the correctness of evaluations based on the four factors is questionable, as is the use of a single method across classifications.
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作者：HAVEMAN, HA
摘要：This study investigated the effects of managerial succession on organizational mortality, applying dynamic models to longitudinal data and exploring the impact of succession over time. The model included the succession of managers and firm presidents. Small organizations, which are likely to be homogeneous in their response to succession, were studied, Succession increased organizational mortality. These effects diminished as time passed and were stronger in younger organizations. Presidential...
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作者：SCHNEER, JA; REITMAN, F
作者单位：Pace University
摘要：The number of ''traditional'' families, those with an employed father and a not-employed mother, has been decreasing. This article presents an expanded typology of family structure that includes spousal employment status. The effects on managerial career paths of a ''post-traditional'' family structure, in which both parents are employed, is explored. The results from a survey of M.B.A. degree holders show such a family structure to be related to income and career satisfaction for men and wome...
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作者：CANNELLA, AA; LUBATKIN, M
作者单位：University of Connecticut
摘要：Although traditional adaptive theory implies that poor organizational performance will directly increase the likelihood that an outsider will be selected to succeed a firm's chief executive, we develop theory to suggest that sociopolitical forces, such as the presence or absence of an heir apparent and the incumbent's ability to influence the selection decision, will decouple the performance-selection relationship. We predict that poor performance will lead to outsider selection only when soci...
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作者：HOWARD, LW; MILLER, JL
作者单位：Clemson University
摘要：Data envelopment analysis shows promise for generating objective estimates of pay equity. Applied to performance and salary data for 433 professional baseball players, data envelopment analysis identified objectively underpaid, equitably paid, and overpaid players. The output also identified relevant referents for each player and quantified the relative influences of referents and all variables.
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作者：HALEBLIAN, J; FINKELSTEIN, S
摘要：Adopting an information-processing perspective and drawing on work in social psychology, this study examined the effects of top management team size and chief executive officer (CEO) dominance on firm performance in different environments. Data from 47 organizations revealed that firms with large teams performed better and firms with dominant CEOs performed worse in a turbulent environment than in a stable one. In addition, the association between team size and CEO dominance, and firm performa...
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作者：PARKHE, A
摘要：Maintaining robust cooperation in interfirm strategic alliances poses special problems. Such relationships have received growing attention in recent research grounded in game theory, which has suggested that some alliance structures are inherently more likely than others to be associated with high opportunity to cheat, high behavioral uncertainty, and poor stability, longevity, and performance. The present study merged these theoretical insights with the logic of transaction cost economics in ...
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作者：HAMBRICK, DC; CANNELLA, AA
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：Prior attempts to explain the departure rates of the executives of acquired firms, primarily through strategic and economic logics, have yielded limited results. This study drew on the concept of relative standing, or local social status, to explain why some acquired executives depart. Using a dynamic modeling methodology to study 430 executives in 97 acquired firms, we present evidence to support this new perspective on executive departure. Implications and directions for future research on p...
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作者：WALSH, JP; KOSNIK, RD
作者单位：Trinity University
摘要：Little research examines the supposed disciplinary effect of the market for corporate control on entrenched and ineffective management teams. Our analysis of the relationships between firm performance and both officer and director turnover in three groups of companies-those targeted by corporate raiders, their nearest competitors, and a control group-provided little support for this hypothesized discipline. There was only evidence of market discipline among target firms and competitors with su...
