Companies are increasingly asked to provide innovative solutions deep-seated problems of human misery, even as economic theory instructs managers focus on maximizing their shareholders' wealth. In this paper, we assess how organization and empirical research have thus far responded tension over corporate involvement in wider social life. Organizational scholarship has typically sought reconcile initiatives with seemingly inhospitable logic. Depicting the hold that economics had relationship...

The study of cognition in organizations has burgeoned recent years. Top-down information processing theory suggests that individuals create knowledge structures to help them process and make decisions. While the benefits employing such are widely noted, there is a growing concern they can limit decision makers’ abilities understand their environments thus, compromise making. This issue captured imagination managerial organizational researchers. To date, inquiry been eclectic focus method....

In an era of rising concern about financial performance and social ills, companies' economic achievements negative externalities prompt a common question: Does it pay to be good? For thirty-five years, researchers have been investigating the empirical link between corporate (CSP) (CFP). most comprehensive review this research date, we conduct meta-analysis 251 studies presented in 214 manuscripts. The overall effect is positive but small (mean r = .13, median .09, weighted .11), results for...

Managers of contemporary publicly held organisations typically are not the owners. Rather, a specialisation responsibilities has evolved whereby managers coordinate activities within firm and position it appropriately in its competitive environment; owners bear financial risk hope retaining difference between firm’s productive cash-flows outflows promised payments (Fama Jensen 1983a, 1983b). As would suffer tremendous losses if failed, they tend to diversify their holdings across variety...

The Academy of Management (AOM) was founded to help meet society's social and economic objectives in so doing, serve the public interest. However, scholarship our field has pursued much more than it its ones. Surveying supply demand for all empirical research published by AOM between 1958 2000 1972 2001 that attempts link a firm's performance, we provide evidence this claim. We then propose reasons why imbalance exists conclude foreshadowing agenda honors field's historic values.

Abstract Little is known about the effects of a merger or an acquisition on acquired company's management team. This research follows employment status target companies' top managers for 5 years from date acquisition. Results indicate that turnover rates in teams are significantly higher than ‘normal’ rates, and visible, very senior executives likely to turn over sooner their less‐visible colleagues. Variations however, not accounted by type (i.e. related unrelated).

Dearborn and Simon's evidence of departmental bias in problem identification has prompted a scholarly concern about managers' information-processing capabilities. Through measures entire work histories, their belief structures, three indexes information processing an ill-structured decision situation, the present research conceptually replicated extended early work.’ Contrary to prevailing limitations, managers this investigation did not emerge as simple-minded processors.

What is the purpose of business? While most agree that business minimally involves creation value, a blurred double image value haunts our discussion purpose. The what counts as for single firm laid atop an in general. These two images cannot match. Indeed, resulting conceptual blurriness classic example composition fallacy. We should never mistake properties part whole. A theory ill equipped to handle many expectations we hold practice. As such, seek establish beginnings business, one both...

Abstract This research investigates the effects of merger and acquisition negotiations on subsequent target company top management turnover. Three attributes companies seven transactions are examined. The results indicate that primary impact is evident in fourth year after a settlement date. When buyer approaches an unrelated has been subject to previous takeover interest with proposal, agreement reached, target'S team likely experience abnormally high turnover 4 years later. Additional...

Abstract This research investigates the role that mergers and acquisitions may play in disciplining of entrenched inefficient managers. The relationship between a company's performance history its subsequent top management turnover is assessed for sample target companies, their parents, control group companies not involved merger acquisition activity. results reveal company higher than ‘normal’ 2 years immediately following or acquisition, but there no previous turnover. Further analyses...

The article reviews several books, including "Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach," by Edward Freeman, "Redefining the Corporation: Management and Organizational Wealth," James E. Post, Lee Preston Sybil Sachs, "Stakeholder Theory Ethics," Robert Phillips.

This article introduces the concept of a negotiated belief structure to help analyze how political and information-processing forces work create decision premises within strategy-making group. Negotiated structures are defined as beliefs or assumptions that underscore strategic decision, enacted reflect politics decision-making. may be limited, contested, contextual, dialectical in nature. These types their implications for making discussed prescription managing strategymaking process is suggested.

This study investigated the effect of commitment propensity (a summary concept comprising personal characteristics and experiences that individuals bring to organization) on development subsequent organizational voluntary turnover In a field setting where situational influences attitudes behaviors were very strong, propensity, measured prior individual 's entry into organization, predicted commitment, at five points in time after entry. Moreover; initial entry, across 4-year period. The...

A model of the relationship between feedback obstruction and employee turnover intent is proposed tested. Eighty-nine pharmaceutical sales representatives completed questionnaires measuring value feedback, across five sources information, anxiety, (dis)satisfaction, intent. Results demonstrate that several significantly correlated with intentions. regression analysis reveals self- supervisory bear strongest relationships to Interestingly, self-feedback not in predicted direction.

We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are “in irons”—stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations their place in our lives. first attempt to diagnose maladies then, this light, offer three broad research questions just might reinvigorate work: First, how can understand today’s changing organizations? Second, live these And third, best with them? close by calling attention familiar approaches building testing hamper any...

Answering calls for deeper consideration of the relationship between moral panics and emergent media systems, this exploratory article assesses effects social – web-based venues that enable encourage production exchange user-generated content. Contra claims their empowering deflationary consequences, it finds that, on balance, recent technological transformations unleash intensify collective alarm. Whether generating fear about change, sharpening distance, or offering new opportunities...