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Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2004-06)
This study combines elements of the upper echelons and agency perspectives to resolve some of the ambiguity surrounding how corporate elites affect corporate strategy. We propose and test the notion that while differences ...
Cyberterrorism and its Dramatic Impact on Insurance and Security Companies
(Scientific Press International Limited, 2019-11-01)
Cyberterrorism has come to be one of the most threatening forms of terrorism in
2019. In the face of the negative implications cyberattacks can have on affected
firms and consumers, this article focuses on the flip side ...
HR professional development: creating the future creators at the University of Michigan Business School
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1999)
This article focuses on the development of mid- to senior-level HR professionals through a public program offered at the University of Michigan Business School. We suggest that developing HR professionals requires a theory ...
Strategic Reviews
(2020)
The impact of product reviews on consumer purchasing behavior is empirically well documented. This can create perverse incentives for firms to offer reviewers side payments ("bribes") in exchange for biased reviews for ...
Structuring for high reliability: HR practices and mindful processes in reliability-seeking organizations
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2003-11)
This paper theoretically and empirically connects the literature on high-reliability organizations (HROs) to a broader set of organizations, which we call reliability-seeking organizations. Unlike HROs, which operate ...
When is Society Susceptible to Manipulation?
(2019)
We consider a social learning model where agents learn about an underlying state of the world from individual observations as well as from exchanging information with each other. A principal (e.g. a firm or a government) ...
Firm and industry as determinants of executive perceptions of the environment
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1998-08)
This study examines variation in top executives’ environmental perceptions within firms and within industries. More specifically, we investigate how industry and organizational membership affect top executives’ perceptions ...
Academic application is not an oxymoron
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
Commentary on “A Performance-Based, Minimalist Human Resource Management Approach in Business Schools”
The institutionalization of unethical behavior
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-08)
There is a possibility that the ethical problems that have recently surfaced at General Electric, E. F. Hutton and General Dynamics are not simple anomalies, but the direct result of corporate pressures on individual ...
Adding value through human resources: Reorienting human resource measurement to drive business performance
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
Building upon the balanced scorecard framework, this article addresses three central issues of human resource (HR) measurement: (1) Do HR practices impact business results? (2) How can HR practices add value to business ...