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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Upper Echelon"”.
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The Upper-Echelon Perspective of Firm Competitive Behavior: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
… outcomes, much less is understood on how the Upper-Echelon team drives the actual competitive behavior of the firm, which is manifested in the launching of observable and purposeful competitive actions within the marketplace. Considering that competitive behavior research tends to overlook the …
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The importance of aligning managerial characteristics to functional strategy in public sector organisations: An empirical study of Dubai government.
… sector setting and demonstrates that classical upper-echelon theory is also relevant when applied at the functional level of management. The Miles and Snow (1978) typology is applied to the functional strategy for Dubai government organisations, to investigate whether functional units pursuing …
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CEO narcissism and strategic entrepreneurial behaviors: the moderating role of industry environment
… one of the strategic outcomes of firms, and Upper echelon theory argues that executives’ characteristics and experience explain strategic actions. This dissertation draws from Upper echelon theory and argues that the psychological attributes of CEOs influence SEB. This dissertation focuses on …
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Multi-echelon inventory modeling and supply redesign
… time are important factors in determining the upper echelon for a company's internal distribution model. Potential safety stock reduction is 2%, which is mainly due to the improved coordination for materials flowing to the final echelon in the supply chain. However, pipeline inventory increases …
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: COMPANY CULTURE AS A REFLECTION OF FOUNDER PERSONALITY IN ENTREPRENEURIAL ORGANIZATIONS
… affects culture, it draws from the literature in upper echelon/top management teams, family business and organizational psychology – notably the Attraction-Selection-Attrition (ASA: Schneider, 1987) and Person-Organization fit (P-O: O'Reilly, Chatman, & Caldwell, 1991) theories. Using a …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… theory) with a socio-psychological perspective (upper echelon theory), this paper examines how outsiders' and insiders' power bases relate to pay-for-performance by proposing and empirically examining a multi-dimensional model of board power bases: ownership, prestige, and structural. I argue …
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Harmony, voice leading, and drama in three Sondheim musicals
… Sondheim’s work has been a fixture of the upper echelon of the Broadway musical for over half a century. Countless authors have devoted their time to Sondheim’s work, yet relatively few works of music scholarship are dedicated solely to Sondheim, and very little of this is strictly …
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Explaining strategic firm responsiveness to institutional processes in the evolution of corporate governance systems : the reform of director remuneration reporting in Germany
… resource dependence, social network, upper echelon, and organizational learning perspectives and portrays corporate governance reform as institutional change. I test hypotheses derived from this framework in the context of the issuance of the German corporate governance code. The code …
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Values and Success in Collegiate Athletics
… et al., 2015). Hambrick and Mason’s (1984) Upper Echelon Theory (UET) suggests that organizational outcomes are at the very least partially predicted by the personality characteristics of its leader. Researchers have since found, in comparison with leadership style, personality …
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In Search Of Marketing's Genie: Essays On The Impact Of Ceo And Corporate Governance Factors On Marketing Strategies
… R&D intensity as well as CSR. Based on upper echelon theory, the essay proposes that the higher the level of confidence, the more the investment in advertising, R&D and CSR. It also predicts that high confidence can increase the chances of product harm crisis, thus affecting the firm …
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Business sustainability: understanding the influence of managers and stakeholders on adopting sustainability practices in Nigerian SMEs
… analysed and thematically framed using the Upper Echelon and Stakeholder concepts. The findings were dimensionally extracted using Gioia's step/order analysis to develop a data structure for each research question. The findings for the current antecedence include the political and governance …
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Investigating the relationship between corporate tax avoidance and corporate culture in large South African companies
… culture), and CEO characteristics (informed by upper-echelon theory), are not yet fully understood. Much of previous research is conceptualised from theories such as principal-agent theory. This study investigates the influence of stakeholder orientation, using corporate culture, on corporate …
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The role of SEW and TMT behaviours in family business innovation: Evidence from China
… process. Drawing upon stewardship theory and upper echelon theory, this study investigates how socioemotional wealth (SEW) influences the innovation inputs, the relationship between innovation inputs and outputs, and the role of top management team (TMT) behaviours during the conversion from …
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4 Essays on Sustainable Development and Organizations’ Response to Stakeholder’s Expectations
… approaches such as institutional logics, upper echelon theory, and organizational transparency research in context of organizational legitimacy and demonstrates that a nuanced view is necessary to understand the concept of organizational legitimacy. This cumulative dissertation is …
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Industry, ideology, and social formation in British Columbia, 1849-1885
… were typified by split labour markets, with an upper echelon comprised of occupationally-mobile Euro-North American workers, and a lower echelon defined by race as well as skill, with little opportunity for mobility. In turn, this contributed to naturalizing ideology concerning race, class, and …
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Corporate Donations to Social Justice: The Influence of Board Diversity
… the fight against racism is scarce. Drawing on upper echelons theory, this dissertation considers the impact of managerial characteristics in determining corporate giving to social justice causes. The purpose of this dissertation is to extend current research on corporate giving by empirically …
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The influence of selected managerial quality and board composition variables on the performance of German cooperative banks – an analysis of age, gender, education and experience as well as board size and composition
… Screening Theory, Principal Agent Theory, Upper Echelon Theory and several managerial competencies theories. At the same time, the results provide a basis for formulating practical decision-making criteria for supervisory boards to consider when selecting new executive board members.
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An explanation for differential career progression for women in Nigerian banking industry.
… (including Nigeria) are underrepresented in the upper echelons in corporate settings. Several studies have previously been conducted to explain the underrepresentation of women in top-ranking positions based on the social exclusion and equality feminism theoretical framework. The social exclusion …
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The Influence of In-House Tax Expertise on Corporate Tax Avoidance
<p>Allegations of tax abuse at Enron, WorldCom, and others generated scrutiny from regulators, public markets, and the media. In response, accounting researchers have sought to understand factors that drive corporate tax avoidance. While historical research has focused on firm characteristics, …