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作者:Pearson, CM; Clair, JA
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Boston College
摘要:The impact of organizational crises has never been stronger. Yet previous research on crisis management lacks adequate integration. In this article we attempt to integrate and build upon current knowledge to create a: multidisciplinary approach to crisis management research, using psychological, social-political, and technological-structural research perspectives. We offer definitions of organizational crisis and crisis management, as well as a framework that depicts the crisis management proc...
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作者:Locke, EA; Becker, TE
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Delaware
摘要:In their critique of Becker's article on integrity in organizations, Barry and Stephens argue that the Objectivist approach is illegitimate, inferior to subjectivist perspectives of business ethics, and unmindful of the role of social power in organizations. We respond to these criticisms by demonstrating that Barry and Stephens' critique rests upon the fallacious argument from authority, a misunderstanding of altruism and egoism, and a failure to distinguish between economic and social power....
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作者:Wright, TA; Larwood, L
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作者:Barry, B; Stephens, CU
作者单位:Vanderbilt University; Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要:This article challenges Becker's objectivist account of integrity in organizations. Although existing approaches to workplace integrity are flawed by conceptual and methodological inconsistencies, an objectivist analysis is unable to resolve these problems and raises new concerns. We develop three lines of argument. First, we critique objectivism as a philosophical system of questionable legitimacy and coherence. Second, we argue that the fundamental objectivist principle of rational egoism is...
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作者:Crocitto, M
作者单位:State University of New York (SUNY) System; SUNY Old Westbury
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作者:Wiseman, RM; Gomez-Mejia, LR
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要:Building on agency and prospect theory views, we construct, in this article, a behavioral agency model of executive risk taking. In the model we combine elements of internal corporate governance with problem framing to explain executive risk-taking behavior. The model suggests that executive risk taking varies across and within different forms of monitoring and that agents may exhibit risk-seeking as well as risk-averse behaviors. We develop specific propositions that combine monitoring with p...
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作者:Nehrt, C
作者单位:Quinnipiac University
摘要:Companies in many countries complain of the unfairness of having to compete against foreign rivals facing more lenient environmental regulations. In this article I examine the competitive conditions for firms in such a position. I outline the development of ct new pollution-reduction paradigm centered on lowering costs by reducing pollution and, using twelve scenarios of international differences in environmental regulatory regimes faced by first movers and imitators, make propositions on whic...