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The past several decades have seen great advances in the field of organizational politics. At the individual level, political skill has garnered the majority of the scholarly focus, whereas it's motivational counterpart, political will, ...
Scholars have given considerable attention to how activists influence social change in organizations. These studies have primarily examined how external pressures (e.g., protests, boycotts) affect the likelihood of firm concessions to...
Franchising is an important organizational form, but extant theory explaining firms' use of franchising is at best incomplete. Research has primarily used agency and resource-scarcity theory to explain firms' propensity to franchise, and...
This dissertation involves an exploratory investigation that examined the antecedents and consequences of personal reputation in organizations. Using existing scales, this examination inspected personality, social effectiveness, ...
This dissertation focuses on corporate contributions to state-level politicians. Scholars have devoted significant attention to the antecedents of corporate political activity, often invoking resource dependence logic to explain...
Previously a narrowly researched phenomenon (Fine & Nevo, 2008), interest in underemployment is gaining momentum and current research (Erdogan, Bauer, Peiro, & Truxillo, 2011a; 2011b; Feldman & Maynard, 2011) in the area has provided...
Research on cultural distance normally assumes corporate homogeneity within a country, which makes the untenable assumption that all firms within the country are culturally homogeneous. In addition, research on cultural distance has only...
A continued focus in organizational research has been on career development, and mentoring has been continually identified as a key determinant of career success. Research has identified the phases and initiation processes of mentoring...
This dissertation brings together two independent studies that examine marginalized groups of entrepreneurs being affected by different types of external shocks. In this work, I define as marginalized groups individuals that are socially...
Social class is an important construct throughout the social sciences but has not received nearly as much attention in the management literature as it has in other fields. As a result, there is relatively little information regarding the...
This dissertation expands the logic underlying Weiner's (1985a) achievement-motivation model, and applies this logic to the justification of unethical behavior. A conceptual model is developed in which causal attributions linked to anger...
This dissertation integrated the role of emotions into the ethical decision-making process, which traditionally has been conceptualized as an exclusively logical process. The study examined the process by which the arousal of emotion...
Although there are millions of Veterans of the United States military (i.e., Veterans) currently working in civilian organizations, and millions of unemployed Veterans seeking jobs in civilian organizations, little research has examined...
Building on resource dependence theory, this dissertation seeks to explain why target firm directors are retained from the target organization and if this retention has an effect on post-acquisition performance. Both acquisition level...
The saliency of politics in organizational settings makes perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) an impactful organizational factor capable of eliciting psychosocial, psychological, attitudinal, and behavioral outcomes for...
Emotion regulation at work has been receiving an increasing amount of research attention in the literature over the past two decades. The management literature has focused primarily on emotion regulation in the service sector, with...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend the research surrounding the impact of leaders' political skill on the valuable outcomes experienced by their followers at work through the high-quality relationships developed between...
Self-regulation involves individuals altering their behavior in order to achieve desired goals, act in accordance with certain ideals or beliefs, and generally to follow the rules governing appropriate behavior in society (Bauer &...
This study explores the roles of subordinates' individual differences in predicting their perceptions of abusive supervision. Supervisor behavior was controlled via a video vignette to assess if subjects perceived the same supervisor...
This dissertation discusses hybrid venture firm performance. The predictors include the complementary and competitive institutional logics of social impact accelerators (SIAs) and hybrid ventures, as well as country-level institutional...
Firm Communication, Environmental Spill Severity, and Firm Financial Performance: Was Interessiert Mich Mein Geschwätz von Gestern? (What Do We Care About Yesterday's Chatter?)
This dissertation investigates the effect of environmental emergency spill severity on firm financial performance and the effect of firm communication prior to the environmental emergency on the spill severity firm financial performance...
Accountability is an important organizational phenomenon that has been recognized by both academicians and practitioners as a fundamental element in the successful operation of organizations (Tetlock, 1985; 1992; Ettore, 1992). However, ...
The success of organizations rests largely on their ability to coordinate with the external environment. At the foundation of this external coordination are the interpersonal work relationships that enable organizations to gather...
A foothold is a business unit within a diversified firm that possesses a very small market share. How a foothold behaves and whether a foothold stays small or grows has implications for competitive dynamics within its industry and for...
Research has examined the experiences of women in the workplace, yet women's experiences during pregnancy have been neglected to a large extent. Stress during pregnancy has consistently been shown to lead to detrimental consequences for...
Although much research related to deceptive behavior and its detection has been conducted in the last several years, little of it has focused on deception outside of a North American context. Similarly, most deceptive research has...
Many researchers within the organizational sciences have considered the influence of personality and learned behavior differences between individuals, and some have given thought to how the political landscape of the organization shapes...
A noteworthy disconnect may exist between how researchers conceptualize and measure host country institutional variables and how executives of multinational enterprises (MNEs) evaluate host countries when making international investment...
The purpose of this study was to examine ways to improve marketing efforts to virtual world participants on the part of brands. In addressing this issue, this study built and tested a full model of flow, separating the perceptions...
Leaders' actions often speak louder than words, and when a pattern of incongruity between leaders' espoused values and their actions is perceived by subordinates, the individual and organizational consequences can be significant....
In information systems development, end-users have shifted in their role: from consumers of information to informants for requirements to developers of systems. This shift in the role of users has also changed how information systems are...
The focus of this dissertation is on innovation through the lens of knowledge transfer and knowledge creation, and as such, begins to integrate the literature between these two relatively disparate streams of research. Because...
Although behavioral consistency provides a theoretical basis for a variety of personnel selection procedures, this concept is not well defined and is operationalized differently across selection procedures. This lack of clarity limits...
This dissertation focuses on CEO and BOD power relationships, examining individual and organizational antecedent and outcome factors impacted by CEO and BOD powers. Four primary research questions are explored, specifically 1) What is...
The primary purpose of this research is to examine a model of leadership that includes leader political skill, leader-member-exchange (LMX), follower motivation, followers' trust in their leaders, follower organizational commitment, ...
Only in the last couple of decades have scientists begun to delineate the nomological web of constructs that relate to the entrepreneurial process. The task is far from complete. In fact, many of the most exciting individual-level...
A virtual community is a focused gathering of people who interact with others through the Internet. To virtual community platform organizations, encouraging user participation is essential for profitability. Recent empirical studies have...
The purpose of this dissertation was to extend research that examines the overlap between leadership and human resource management (HRM). Specifically, it sought to understand the leadership factors that would predict HRM system strength...
The purpose of this dissertation is to develop and validate a new measure of identity. Based on the research on collective identity (Ashmore, Deaux, and McLaughlin-Volpe, 2004), the Collective Identity Scale (CIS) developed in this...
This dissertation attempts to provide a better understanding of how employees develop a positive personal reputation in a work environment. Drawing from expectancy and social exchange theories, it is proposed that politically skilled...
As researchers today seek to understand how virtual worlds may be effectively leveraged for collaborative purposes, exploring the role of leadership in virtual world teams may help shed light on how to manage synchronous and highly...
Organizational politics long has been considered a negative phenomenon, but scholars have noted it is an unavoidable part of organizational life. As such, much research has been devoted to exploring its nature, as well as its antecedents...
What traits and conditions are related to political behaviors in the workplace? Do diverse role stressors, such as overload, ambiguity, and conflict, relate to divergent protective reactions in an effort to fight, flee, or seek social...
How do market and nonmarket environmental factors affect firm investment decisions and subsequent performance? Economic Institutional Change Theory is extended to the product market-firm level of analysis to develop a model of dynamic...
The primary purpose of this dissertation is to provide an empirical test of the proposed theoretical link between the construct of celebrity, in an organizational context, and firm performance. The model proposed in this dissertation...
This dissertation research will bring together two streams of research. One stream examines the effect of regional-level community social capital (CSC) on entrepreneurial social networks. The other examines the effect of the individual...
Even though firms that are first to market often maintain a performance advantage over later entrants, this is not always the case. There are important contingencies upon which a first move may or may not be successful. One such...
Rising income inequality, generally defined as the unequal dispersion of income between individuals or households, has been labeled one of the grandest challenges of our time and among the most pernicious threats to society. It has been...
The research on the relationship between perceptions of organizational politics (POPs) and various outcomes has been continuously popular for the last 30 years since the first POPs model was introduced in 1989. Recent examinations of the...
The global purpose of this research is to further the study of leader-member exchange (LMX) by using a new, and primarily unused multidimensional measure. The large majority of prior work on LMX has examined the construct using...
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