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作者:Flynn, FJ; Chatman, JA; Spataro, SE
作者单位:Columbia University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Yale University
摘要:This paper extends social categorization theory to understand how personality traits related to information sharing may correspond with positive perceptions of demographically different people, thereby enhancing their experience and performance in organizations. We tested our hypotheses in a sample of MBA candidates and a sample of financial services firm officers and found that people who were more demographically different from their coworkers engendered more negative impressions than did mo...
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作者:Bartel, CA
作者单位:New York University
摘要:This research investigated how experiences in a particular boundary-spanning context (community outreach) affected members' organizational identity and identification. Multimethod panel data from 219 participants showed that intergroup comparisons with clients (emphasizing differences) and intragroup comparisons with other organization members (emphasizing similarities) changed how members construed their organization's defining qualities. Intergroup comparisons also enhanced the esteem member...
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作者:Henisz, WJ; Delios, A
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; National University of Singapore
摘要:In a study of a sample of 2,705 international plant location decisions by listed Japanese multinational corporations across a possible set of 155 countries in the 1990-1996 period, we use neoinstitutional theory and research on political institutions to explain organizational entry into new geographic markets. We extend neoinstitutional theory's proposition that prior decisions and actions by other organizations provide legitimization and information to a decision marked by uncertainty, showin...
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作者:Emrich, CG; Brower, HH; Feldman, JM; Garland, H
作者单位:Purdue University System; Purdue University; Butler University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Delaware
摘要:We analyzed two sets of U.S. presidents' speeches to determine whether their propensities to convey images in words were linked to perceptions of their charisma and greatness. As predicted, presidents who engaged in more image-based rhetoric in their inaugural addresses were rated higher in charisma (Study 1). Presidents who engaged in more image-based rhetoric in speeches that historians considered their most significant ones were rated higher in both charisma and greatness (Study 2). Togethe...
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作者:Rao, H; Greve, HR; Davis, GF
作者单位:Emory University; BI Norwegian Business School; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:This paper examines the dynamics of social influence in the choices of securities analysts to initiate and abandon coverage of firms listed on the NASDAQ national market. We show that social proof-using the actions of others to infer the value of a course of action-creates information cascades in which decision makers initiate coverage of a firm when peers have recently begun coverage. Analysts that initiate coverage of a firm in the wake of a cascade are particularly prone to overestimating t...