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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 ...
Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
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 ...
Work–family conflicts of women in the Air Force: their influence on mental health and functioning
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1999-11)
This paper examined the effects of work and family stressors and conflicts on Air Force women's mental health and functioning. We analyzed data from a 1993 survey of representative stratified samples of 525 Air Force women ...
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 ...
Cultural clashes in a “merger of equals”: The case of high‐tech start‐ups
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2011-09)
Mergers of equals are often considered simply symbolic. Whereas existing literature on the topic views equality as underscoring the importance of distributive justice, power, or identity, the role of culture remains ...
The impact of breastfeeding patterns on regional differences in infant mortality in Germany, 1910
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1988-05)
This paper examines the impact of breastfeeding practices on the large regional differences in infant mortality in Germany around 1910. Breastfeeding is strongly negatively associated with infant mortality and remains so ...
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 ...
An impression management perspective on job design: The case of corporate directors
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2010-02)
In this essay I introduce a sociopolitical perspective on job design. In particular, I suggest how job design may be the subject of impression management, and illustrate this idea in the context of a specific corporate ...