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Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 1988"


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TL;DR: The contributions and shortcomings of past entrepreneurship research can be viewed within the context of six research design specifications: purpose, theoretical perspective, focus, level of analysis, time frame and methodology as discussed by the authors.

2,166 citations


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TL;DR: A review of social psychological and relevant management research on impression management can be found in this paper, where the authors provide evidence of the process through which organizational members create and maintain desired impressions.

588 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate changes in the importance of project critical success factors across four stages in the project life cycle and find that the relative importance of several of the critical factors change significantly based on life cycle stages.

586 citations


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Dennis W. Organ1•
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present evidence in support of Organ's (1977) argument that satisfaction more generally correlates with organizational prosocial or citizenship-type behaviors than with traditional productivity or in-role performance.

520 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the concept of time is introduced as a major topic for organizational and management research, including a discussion of differing times and temporalities, macro level research and theory are described that relate time to such substantive areas as organizational culture, strategic planning, and organizational contingency theory.

516 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate a model of the process by which work-related role stress and parental demands interact to influence job satisfaction and marital satisfaction and, ultimately, overall life satisfaction.

473 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that the question over whether top-level leadership significantly affects organizational performance can be clarified by properly interpreting the results of executive succession studies that have used economic aspects of organizational performance as criteria When several methodological concerns are addressed, it is evident that executive leadership can explain as much as 45% of an organization's performance.

355 citations


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TL;DR: Preston et al. as mentioned in this paper tried to specify some conditions affecting the efficacy of business efforts to influence political decision making in legislatures and regulatory agencies, and they integrated two streams of literature to provide a model of political decision-making from political economy and to draw on the strategic management literature to facilitate consideration of the implications of competition in the market.

197 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a theoretical model that explains how individuals perceive, react to, and cope with job loss, which is seen as a stressful event that evokes perceptual, emotional, and physiological changes.

159 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the management education and development area is presented, highlighting the call for accountability, an increase in experiental techniques, the availability of educational technology, and a recognition of the need for lifetime learning.

135 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that a variety of individual, job-related, and organizational factors influence whether employees reach career plateaus and discuss the importance of examining causes of career plateau.

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TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative model in which personality measures have interactive effects with ability tests in predicting per-formance provides a stronger theoretical rationale to support a rela-tionship between personality variables and performance.

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TL;DR: A 21/2-year study of the implementation of statistical process con-trol in one U.S. location of a large corporation in the automotive in-dustry uncovered cultural barriers to the innovation as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: The authors conducted a thematic review of the recent literature on women at work and found that women continue to fair more poorly than men in organizational reward decisions and that gender related differences are more prevalent than actual sex differences in many research contexts.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of two perceived organizational indicators-psychological climate and percep-tions of the management control system on the often-studied rela-tionships of role conflict and ambiguity with job satisfaction and intentions to change jobs.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors test whether measures of personality traits, widely recognized as poor predictors of job performance, might indeed serve as useful screening devices under certain circumstances and empirically test whether personality variables have utility when used in conjunction with aptitude tests.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the relationship between job performance and turnover decisions was tested in two settings within the context of an integrated model, and support was found for a curvilinear relationship and turnover intentions, and a satisfaction X performance interaction in predicting such intentions.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a descriptive review of research published in 1986 volumes offive organizational journals is presented to highlight eight topics in organizational research selected on the basis of their importance, dynamism and/or controversy.

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TL;DR: This article examined the compensation decision-making policies of 41 Japanese and 63 United States managers and found that U.S. managers were much more willing to give large or small increases, whereas Japanese managers had little variance in pay increases from employee to employee.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated an organizational restructuring attempt to achieve a first order (alpha) increase in cooperation and a second order (gamma) change in organization members' understanding of factors associated with importance in the organization.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and tested a new concept of conglomerate diversification that reflects afirm's sensitivity to the cyclical behavior and differential amplitude of economic sectors throughout the business cycle.

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TL;DR: In this article, a self-appraisal instrument completed prior to a participative performance discussion was used to assess the response of subordinate reactions to feedback given in four different ways: unilateral, top-down feedback, supervisory feedback with subordinate participation in the discussion, self-approach and self-assessment.

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Jean McGuire1•
TL;DR: In this article, a dialectical view of inter-organizational net-works is presented, viewing them as the outcome of the juxtaposition of the social paradigms of participants.

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TL;DR: An Integrative Model of Information Systems and Organizational Communication is set forth, based on which the communication implications offour computer-based systems: Electronic Messaging Systems (EMS), Executive Information Systems (EIS), Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS), and (d) Executive Presentation systems (EPS) are discussed.

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TL;DR: In this article, a simple scheme was devised incorporating the categories of (a) experience-based writings, (b) quasi-scientific research, and (c) scientific research.

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TL;DR: This article examined possible gender differences in psychological health during a facility closure and found that cognitive appraisals, administrative support and attachment were highly correlated with well-being, and there were some gender differences for these variables.

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David A. Cowan1•
TL;DR: This paper investigated executives' descriptions offour types of organizational problems that correspond to two dimensions (strategic versus operating, and human versus technical) commonly used by executives to interpret problems and repeatedly noted in organizational literature.

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TL;DR: In this article, participants used either a behaviorally anchored rating scale format or a mixed standard scale format in evaluating seven dimensions of interviewer performance as exhibited in videotapes of eight different managers.

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TL;DR: A reanalysis of the original research (Springbett, 1954; 1958) and cur-rent research findings suggest the need for a more cautious interpre-tation of the phenomenon of a "snap decision" in the interview as discussed by the authors.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and sociopolitical instability in South and Central American countries for the years 1950-1982 and concluded that no relationship was found between instability and FDI in these countries.