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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"top managers"”.
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(International) top managers – Strategic implications for innovativeness, risk and digital transformation
… investigates the role and implications of top managers in firms. By building on two influential contemporary phenomena – internationalization and digitalization – and by examining top managers from a multitude of conceptional and methodological angles, the dissertation provides novel …
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The relationship between top managers' environmental attitudes and environmental management in hotel companies
… study also determined a relationship between top managers' personal environmental attitudes and organizational involvement in environmental management practices. To achieve the purpose of this study, this study examined currently adopted green practices, top managers' environmental attitudes, …
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Discursive resources, the identities of top managers and the long term sustainability of their organizations
… identity work in the context of the challenges top managers have to address. Managers’ discursive resources influence what they notice and also the interpretation of what is noticed. Their ability to understand and challenge their discursive resources is crucial because the persistence of …
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Acquisition performance: The effect of the extent and speed of integration, and the contribution of the acquired units' top management
… that a higher proportion of acquired units top managers were retained, and they were for longer periods in units with high preacquisition performance than in units with low preacquisition performance. It was also found that retained top managers in units with high preacquisition performance …
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Do executives get more pay prior to deteriorations of firm performance?
… data from S&P 1500 firms, I find that top managers receive more direct compensation in anticipation of the next year’s poor performance. The negative association between compensation and future performance is most significant in firm-years in which insiders sell large amounts of stock, …
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Is your strategy working out now? : strategic inquiry as leadership
… (Strategy as an impact) Similarly, many top managers expend a great deal of efforts getting the right strategy (Strategy as a product.) or ensuring an organization has the right strategizing practice (Strategy as a practice), but they typically are less mindful about how they lead the …
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The Internationalization of Emerging Economy Firms: The Impact of Corporate Governance and Political Connections
… echelons perspective to study the impact of top managers political connections on the firms degree of internationalization. I differentiate between two types of political connections by the top manager: executive connections established through current or past working experience in the …
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Strategic Management and Financial Performance in South Korean Apparel Retail Stores
… the stores have implemented. Four hundred top managers of Korean apparel stores in Seoul, Busan, Suwon, Daejeon, and Daegu completed a questionnaire. A structural equations model was used to test the hypotheses concerning relationships between the research variables. The exogenous variables …
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Strategic orientations in practice:Exploring the strategic belief structures of line-managers embedded in practice
… cognitive strategic orientations of individual top managers and have pointed out these may be key in determining the direction and success of their organizations in terms of performance, but they have been unable to effectively operationalize this notion in empirical research and this is holding …
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The Effect of Categorization on Investment Decisions: Three Essays in the Fintech Industry
… actors, such as venture founders, incumbent managers, and third parties, respectively shape categories to influence investors’ perceptions of the nascent markets and related firms. Yet we know less about the idiosyncratic role that producers and third parties play in the investment process. …
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Business stategy and organisational performance: an analysis of the Portuguese mould industry
… including in-depth, face-to-face interviews with top managers, and the development of a highly detailed questionnaire survey instrument conducted in 63 Portuguese mould manufacturing fines. The firms contacted represented 70% of all firms in the sector. The current research reveals that the …
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Middle managers in ambidextrous organizations : the challenges of being led, leading others and obtaining personal support
Purpose – Middle managers play a central role in the strategic process and current understanding of their role in ambidextrous organisational contexts is limited and does not capture the nuances and distinctions experienced by this level of management. The purpose of this paper is to examine the …
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Understanding high-powered incentives in organizations
I study how the compensation structure of top managers from US public companies changes in recent years and the effect of these incentives on firm performance. I first explore the trend of executive compensation structure and performance metrics used in executive compensation over the years. I also …
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A study of pay for performance in China's non-public sector knowledge-intensive industries
… functions of performance appraisal (PA) and line managers' involvement in PFP. A qualitative milti-case study apprach was applied to 12 non-public enterprises from investment, IT and pharmaceutical industries based in Shanghai consisting of more than 62 interviews with top managers, HR and line …
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Employee Ownership and Moral Hazard: How Broad-Based Equity Sharing Can Lower Agency Costs and Reduce Inequality
<p>Providing incentives to top managers by offering equity has become the norm; this practice, however, does not hold for all levels of employees. After tax incentives for employee ownership were introduced through the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, there has been little …
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A hypothesized, general causal model of a gainsharing program
… works to affect organizational performance. Six top managers at Commonwealth Paper (a pseudonym) described how they believe their gainsharing program works to affect company operations and performance. From their verbal descriptions, a site-specific causal model was created. This site-specific …
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Influences of the use of management systems on the moral attitudes and behaviours of small and medium sized enterprises : measuring the dynamic interplay of morality, environment and managing systems
… (moral) attitudes and behaviours of owners or top managers and employees. But SMEs with standardised (especially environmental) management systems generally demonstrate more outcomes towards embedded morality, circularity and integration as well as effectiveness and sustainable performance. …
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CEO Extraversion and Management Earnings Forecasts
… decision, reflects the personalities of top managers.
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Management capacity development to support business growth. A Grounded Theory Study in German SMEs
… with key informants: 12 founders/CEOs and 2 top managers of German SMEs (and former SMEs). Data analysis was performed by using the qualitative data analysis software ATLAS.ti. The major findings of the study are that, contrary to previous SME HR research, most companies in this study had …
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Framing the future : cognitive frames, strategic choice and firm response to the fiber-optic revolution
… the period 1982-2001) testing the effect of top managers' frames about the importance of optical technologies on strategic action (in the form of patenting in the optical arena) shows that, even when controlling for a number of plausible alternative explanations, there is a strongly positive …
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