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Disentangling compensation and employment risks using the behavioral agency model
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2007-10)
Employing survey and archival data from a sample of IPO firms, and extending the ideas of the Behavioral Agency Model, this study examines the influence of various forms of risk bearing created within the compensation ...
To stay or to go: voluntary survivor turnover following an organizational downsizing
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-09)
This paper examines the relationship between survivor reactions to a downsizing and retention subsequent to a downsizing. We hypothesize that survivors who experience the downsizing as distributively, procedurally, and ...
The impact of socialist imprinting and search on resource change: a study of firms in lithuania
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006-07)
Firms in transition economies experienced a large exogenous shock in their external business environment in the late 1980s when these economies moved from a socialist-oriented economic environment to a more market-oriented ...
How much do your co-opetitors' capabilities matter in the face of technological change?
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2000-03)
Firms often lose their competitive advantage when a technological change renders their existing capabilities obsolete. An important question that has received little or no attention is, what happens to these firms’ competitive ...
The twenty-first-century HR organization
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2008)
Like any value-creating staff function, HR departments should operate as a business within a business. Others have focused on the strategy and direction of HR departments. This article examines the next evolution for how ...
The contours and consequences of compassion at work
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008-02)
This paper describes two studies that explore core questions about compassion at work. Findings from a pilot survey indicate that compassion occurs with relative frequency among a wide variety of individuals, suggesting a ...
The Intersection of Law and Ethics – at 600 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, PA: Is it Ethical to Assert a Legal Technicality to Avoid Liability for a Debt Created by Fraud?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2004-01)
A considerable literature exists regard-ing the moral obligation to keep one's promises. Several authors have focused on the exceptional circumstances which may or should excuse this moral duty. Less frequently discussed ...
The Amplifying and Buffering Effects of Virtuousness in Downsized Organizations
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2006-03)
Virtuousness refers to the pursuit of the highest aspirations in the human condition. It is characterized by human impact, moral goodness, and unconditional societal betterment. Several writers have recently argued that ...
Where do capabilities come from and how do they matter? A study in the software services industry
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-01)
Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in the notion of capabilities as an important source of competitive advantage. This recognition has, in turn, placed emphasis on the question of where and how these capabilities ...