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作者:DELACROIX, J; SWAMINATHAN, A
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:In this longitudinal study of the California Wine industry between 1946 and 1984, we used event-history analysis to examine the joint effect of organizational characteristics and of environmental variation on organizational change. Organizational change was assessed with two forms of diversification and with land acquisition and divestment. We then examined the joint effects of organizational characteristics and of organizational change on the probability of disbanding to see if either predict...
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作者:DAVIS, GF
摘要:This study compares the agency theory of the firm with interorganizational theory in examining the factors associated with the adoption of the poison pill-a takeover defense issued by a firm's board of directors that can dramatically increase the cost that a hostile buyer would have to pay to acquire the firm-by a panel of Fortune 500 firms between July 1984 and August 1989. The pill's rapid spread is traced to a combination of ownership structure and other firm-level factors and an interlock ...
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作者:RAFAELI, A
作者单位:Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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作者:CHEN, CC; MEINDL, JR
摘要:To explore the social construction of the concept of leadership, we studied the rise and fall of Donald Burr and People Express, one of the most celebrated sagas of business management and entrepreneurial spirit of the last decade. We examined the image of Donald Burr projected for readers by the popular press throughout the changing fortunes of People Express. Content analyses of image descriptions and metaphors revealed that the image of Burr was reconstructed so as to account for the dramat...
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作者:RAFAELI, A
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作者:SHAPIRO, DL
摘要:This study examined a model of the relative mitigating effects of three types of explanations on the negative reactions of subjects who had been told that they had been deceived. Explanations were found to mitigate differentially feelings of disapproval, injustice, punitiveness, and unforgiveness, depending on the type of explanation, the severity of the outcome the subjects experienced, how adequate they judged the explanation to be, and how honest they felt the explainer was. The perceived a...