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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"upper echelons"”.
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Microfoundations of Strategy: Enriching the Psychological Underpinnings of Upper Echelons
… to the microfoundations of strategy and the upper echelons perspective in particular. The first essay (Chapter 2) unpacks the psychological mechanism through which top management team (TMT) gender diversity lends strategic advantages to firms. The findings reveal a unique interpersonal …
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Resource Deployment Strategies Following Initial Public Offering: Connecting Resource -Based, Upper Echelons, and Agency Perspectives
This dissertation has posed two research questions: why do firms differ in resource deployment strategies and what are the performance outcomes of different resource deployment strategies? Using a longitudinal (1990--1998) data set of high-tech, entrepreneurial firms in the medical and surgical …
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Exploring the Belief Systems of Senior Managers: Antecedents of Managerial Discretion
Upper-echelons theory has been an extremely active stream of research for over two-decades and, as a counterbalance to the population ecology perspective, has provided evidence to support the position that managers influence firm outcomes. Upper-echelons theory posits that, as managers are …
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The Strategic Fit Between Board of Directors Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation
This study integrates upper echelons and contingency perspectives in examining the effects of boards of directors on firm reputation. First, using upper echelons theory, I derive hypotheses about how the human and social capital, and the demographic characteristics of the board affect corporate …
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Antecedents and Consequences of Top Management Team Characteristics
… CEOs. This study also finds the support for the upper echelons perspective that TMT characteristics are significantly associated with firm performance, even after adjusting for endogeneity. Specifically, TMT average tenure is positively associated with firm performance whereas TMT tenure …
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The Effect of Hegemonic Masculinity in the Proportion of Women in Post-Communist Parliaments: A Case Study of Estonia and Poland
… continue to be grossly underrepresented in the upper echelons of power by employing R.W. Connell's concept of hegemonic masculinity. Hegemonic masculinity explicates the cultural force that both dominates and subordinates femininity as well as other masculinities, thus resulting in low …
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Bridging the gender gap: factors enabling female directors to affect the appointment of female CEOs
… opportunity to observe or work with women in the upper echelons of other firms through board interlock ties and (2) when the organization or industry has a higher-level of female-friendliness. I test this argument by analyzing 1,096 CEO succession events in large United States firms from 1998 to …
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TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM HETEROGENEITIES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE MODERATING ROLE OF BOARD COMPOSITION
… team heterogeneities and firm performance. The upper echelons theory would contend that outside directors with their valuable resources (information, skills, and network) and the tendency to challenge and initiate cognitive conflicts with top management teams can improve the quality of strategic …
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(International) top managers – Strategic implications for innovativeness, risk and digital transformation
… the dissertation provides novel insights to upper echelons research. The first study examines the association between top management team (TMT) internationalization and firm innovativeness and argues that the accumulation of international knowledge and resources in the TMT benefits firm …
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FAMILY FIRM INNOVATION: THE ROLE OF LEADER DARK TRIAD PERSONALITY AND SOCIOEMOTIONAL WEALTH IMPORTANCE
… on firm innovativeness. </p> <p>Drawing on Upper Echelons Theory, this research contends that the dark personality traits (i.e., narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy) of these leaders relate to various socioemotional wealth importance dimensions (SEWi), including family prominence, …
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Nursing personnel administration within a hospital
… and levels of nursing. It is the role of the upper echelons of Nurse Administrators (Matrons) in large, general teaching hospitals that this thesis will be focused on.
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Using Financial and Accounting Analytics for a Multi-faceted Assessment of Board Age Diversity and Its Impact on Firm Performance
… uniformly distributed across age groups. Using upper echelons theory, agency theory, and the resource-based view, this study makes the case that board age diversity can impact board effectiveness, and influence firm performance. Using rigorous analyses on 10 years of listed firms’ archival data, …
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Restructuring in corporate law firms : implications of a changing division of labor for organizational inequality
… and utilize valuable social relationships in the upper echelons of firm hierarchy - all shown to be crucial for advancement within firms and the profession. In the context of corporate law, these outcomes are associated with the sorting of lawyers into hierarchal strata of associateships based on …
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From Cyprus to Venice: Art, Exchange and Exile across the Renaissance Mediterranean
… where they strove to be associated with the upper echelons of patrician society, the Cypriot elite followed the latest metropolitan trends, while on the island, where they were subject to a different set of social pressures, they opted for works in the traditional Byzantine style. At the …
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"Rocky Top, Rocky Road, Solid Rock: Thirty Years of Intellectual History at the Federal Executive Institute"
… center for advanced study for executives in the upper echelons of the Civil Service." It was common in the early years for FEI to provide life changing, "rocky top" experiences. Since that time, the FEI has traveled down a rocky road, through efforts to disband, attempts to privatize, and …
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THE IMPACT OF EXECUTIVES WITH SUPPLY CHAIN AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE ON THE FIRM’S SUPPLY PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT AND INVENTORY INVESTMENTS
… Essay 1 of the dissertation is grounded in upper echelons theory (UET) and analyzes how differences in the supply chain and operations managers on the firm’s top management team (TMT) impact the firm’s strategic supplier portfolio management (SPM). Strategic SPM requires the firm to set up …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
Both elite deviance, committed by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in …
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CEO Extraversion and Management Earnings Forecasts
… earnings forecasts. My study also extends the Upper Echelons Theory (Hambrick and Mason 1984; Hambrick 2007) by showing that management forecasting, a complex and important corporate decision, reflects the personalities of top managers.
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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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Leadership Vacillation as a Pattern of CEO Succession: Existence, Antecedents, Boundary Conditions, and Performance Implications
… (Nickerson and Zenger, 2002) with insights from upper echelons research (Hambrick and Mason, 1984) and studies on expert performance (Bereiter and Scardamalia, 1993). The study argues that some organizations dynamically balance exploration and exploitation by switching leaders between output and …
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