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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"upper echelon theory"”.
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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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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… Integrating an economic perspective (agency 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: …
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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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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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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
… the innovation 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 …
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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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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
… in the literature and contributes to Signalling Theory, 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 …
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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, …