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作者：CHATTERJEE, S; BLOCHER, JD
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：This study investigated the convergent validity of Rumelt's categorical classification of types of business diversification across different data sources and variations from Rumelt's method. The study also assessed convergent and predictive validity of Rumelt's classification and continuous measures of diversification. It also investigates the ability of continuous measures to discriminate between Rumelt's categories. The results suggest weak convergent validity for Rumelt's measures but good ...
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作者：GOLDEN, BR
摘要：This study challenges the common assumption that retrospective accounts of business strategy are reliable and valid. Chief executives reported their firms' current strategies, and two years later, they reported their firms' strategies of two years earlier. Of these retrospective accounts, 58 percent did not agree with the previous and validated reports of past strategy. Retrospective errors appear to occur systematically and may be attributable to faulty memory or to attempts to cast past beha...
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作者：BECKER, TE
摘要：This study examined the contribution of two concepts to the conventional view of commitment: foci of commitment, the individuals and groups to whom an employee is attached, and bases of commitment, the motives engendering attachment. Commitment to top management, supervisor, and work group were important determinants of job satisfaction, intent to quit, and prosocial organizational behaviors over and above commitment to an organization. Compliance, identification, and internalization as bases ...
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作者：FALBE, CM; YUKL, G
摘要：The study involved analyses of incidents described from the perspective of the targets of influence attempts. We coded influence behavior in the incidents into nine tactics and classified outcomes as commitment, compliance, or resistance. Hypotheses were developed to explain the outcome of each tactic used alone and in combination. The findings supported most of the hypotheses. The most effective tactics were inspirational appeals and consultation. The least effective were pressure, legitimati...
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作者：NAYYAR, PR
摘要：Service businesses are often urged to focus because otherwise they will falter. In effect, the focus or falter argument suggests that focus by service firms is likely to result in superior performance. Service firms might focus on serving selected customer segments, capitalizing on distinctive internal capabilities, and serving particular geographic regions. Each focus offers certain potential benefits. This study collected data from the chief executives of 198 service firms to develop systema...
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作者：CONNOR, PE
摘要：Patterns of employees' participation in a number of specific decisions were studied in 101 Oregon nursing homes. The inquiry concerned whether such patterns vary according to the contextual properties of facility size, skill level, and profit-making orientation. Although interaction effects varied, main-effect results were strong.
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作者：SHERIDAN, JE
摘要：This study investigated the retention rates of 904 college graduates hired in six public accounting firms over a six-year period. organizational culture values varied significantly among the firms. The variation in cultural values had a significant effect on the rates at which the newly hired employees voluntarily terminated employment. The relationship between the employees' job performance and their retention also varied significantly with organizational culture values. The cultural effects ...
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作者：PIERCE, JL; DUNHAM, RB
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This investigation examined police officers' responses to a change from a forward rotating 8-hour-shift schedule to a 12-hour compressed shift schedule. As predicted, significant improvements were observed in the areas of schedule-related interference with personal activities, work-schedule attitudes, general affect, and stress and fatigue. In addition, organizational effectiveness improved, but general work attitudes remained unchanged.
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作者：GREGERSEN, HB; BLACK, JS
作者单位：University of Turku
摘要：This study of 321 American managers on international assignment in Pacific Rim or European countries assessed theoretically and empirically the extent to which various personal, job, organizational, and nonjob factors accounted for commitment to their parent companies and foreign operations. Regression analyses found both common and unique antecedent variables related to each target of organizational commitment; furthermore, discriminant analysis revealed patterns of dual and unilateral commit...
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作者：WIERSEMA, MF; BANTEL, KA
作者单位：Wayne State University
摘要：This study examined the relationship between the demography of top management teams and corporate strategic change, measured as absolute change in diversification level, within a sample of Fortune 500 companies. Controlling for prior firm performance, organizational size, top team size, and industry structure, we found that the firms most likely to undergo changes in corporate strategy had top management teams characterized by lower average age, shorter organizational tenure, higher team tenur...
