Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 2004"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors systematically review and integrate empirical research that has examined the personal and contextual characteristics that enhance or stifle employee creativity in the workplace, and discuss possible determinants of employee creativity that have received little research attention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review recent research building on Hambrick and Mason's upper echelons perspective with the aim of identifying challenges and opportunities for future UE-based organizations research.

TL;DR: An integrative definition is proposed that suggests that all teams may be defined in terms of their extent of virtualness, and avenues for future research are suggested, including methodological and theoretical considerations that are important to advancing understanding of virtual teams.

TL;DR: Corporate political activities, or corporate attempts to shape government policy in ways favorable to the firm, are commonly employed by firms across countries as discussed by the authors, which are referred to as corporate political activities (CPA).

TL;DR: Burnout is a psychological response to work stress that is characterized by emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced feelings of personal accomplishment as discussed by the authors, and it can be defined as a mental health disorder.

TL;DR: In this paper, it has been suggested that an individual's self-esteem, formed around work and organizational experiences, plays a significant role in determining employee motivation, work-related attitudes and behaviors.

TL;DR: A recent systematic review of performance appraisal research as mentioned in this paper suggests that as a field we have become much more cognizant of the importance of the social context within which the performance appraisal process operates, and that the influence that the feedback environment or feedback culture has on performance appraisal outcomes is an especially recent focus that seems to have both theoretical and applied implications.

TL;DR: This paper examined teams' engagement in creative processes and found that the more creative teams were those that perceived that their tasks required high levels of creativity, were working on jobs with high task interdependence, were high on shared goals, valued participative problem-solving, and had a climate supportive of creativity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the decisions of entrepreneurs to exploit business opportunities from a resource-based view, finding that entrepreneurs are more likely to exploit opportunities when they perceive more knowledge of customer demand for the new product, more fully developed necessary technologies, greater managerial capability, and greater stakeholder support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the Pygmalion process for creativity among 140 R&D employees and found that supervisors holding higher expectations for employee creativity were perceived by employees as behaving more supportively of creativity.

TL;DR: The authors synthesize, from attitude and turnover literatures, a framework of eight distinctive motives, or "Forces", for turnover, and illustrate how the "8 Forces" framework can be utilized by turnover researchers as clarification of reported reasons for turnover and as causal mediators of turnover predictors.

TL;DR: An overview of the contingent work literature can be found in this paper, where the authors identify topical themes and research questions which have been the primary focus of attention, as well as the possible causal interrelationships among the diverse constructs examined.

TL;DR: This article examined factors that led nascent organizations to write business plans, following 396 entrepreneurs during a two-year period, and found that institutional variables, such as coercion and mimetic forces, are important predictors influencing the propensity of new organizations to develop business plans.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conceptualized both contractual safeguards and trust as important control mechanisms in non-equity alliances, and developed a model that relates the relationship between the two mechanisms and cooperative outcomes.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of leader political skill in the performance of casework teams in a large state child welfare system was examined, where team performance was operationalized as the successful placement of children into legally final living arrangements (i.e., adoption, successor guardianship, or return to natural parents).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw together much of this research by juxtaposing the two key theories used to explain franchising, resource scarcity and agency theory, with the empirical findings regarding three key franchising constructs (franchise initiation, subsequent propensity to franchise, and franchise performance).

TL;DR: The authors examined a multidimensional measure of perceived organizational support (adjustment POS, career POS, and financial POS) within an integtrative stress model of expatriate success.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multilevel model among 23 intact work groups comprised of 168 employees representing two organizations was used to investigate social loafing and found that increased group size and decreased cohesiveness were associated with increased levels of social loathing.

TL;DR: In this article, the antecedents of victim willingness to reconcile a professional relationship following an incident involving a broken promise were examined in terms of offender tactics (i.e., nature of apology, timeliness of reparative act, sincerity) and relationship characteristics using a within and between-subjects policy-capturing design.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent developments in six research streams relevant to competitive dynamics: competitive action and response, first-mover advantage, co-opetition, multipoint competition, strategic groups, and regional clusters.

TL;DR: The authors examine relationships among top management team (TMT) compensation, a firm's degree of internationalization (DOI), and its subsequent levels of market and accounting performance, and find that non-CEO total pay and the use of long-term incentive pay are positively associated with subsequent performance, whereas the CEO-TMT total pay gap has negative effects on firm performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how alliances of e-commerce firms affect firm value in an emerging business sector using an event study method, and found that marketing alliances generate significantly higher firm value than technology alliances.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between top management team duality and the decision to release false financial information and found that this form of illegal corporate behavior is more likely to occur when there is a concentration of power in the hands of insiders.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine three key questions raised by the advent of e-business: (1) will the strategy types found among e-Business firms resemble Porter's (1980) generic strategies? (2) will performance differences among ebusiness firms pursuing different types of strategies? and (3) will they find differences in the strategy-performance relationships of pure online firms (pure plays) and firms with both online and offline operations (clicks-and-bricks).

TL;DR: It is found that a previous alliance between an acquirer and a target correlates positively with acquisition performance and target-specific learning effects are strongest and most beneficial to acquisition performance in acquirers’ previous technology transfer and manufacturing alliances with targets.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a model that explicates how job seekers interact with and respond to web site characteristics to predict various job seeker attitudes and behaviors, and suggest that job seekers are initially affected by the facade of a web site.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship of the interaction between emotional exhaustion and conscientiousness with objectively measured call volume performance and subjectively-measured service quality ratings among 92 call center customer service representatives (CSR's) of a financial services institution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a framework to examine signaling mechanisms firms can use to effectively signal the value of their knowledge to two key stakeholder groups, the capital and labor markets, while avoiding associated transfer problems.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the factors that affect venture survival in a transitional economy through a two-stage study of private ventures in Hungary and find that ventures survive under uncertainty, even without significant government support.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the extent to which patent citations and claims capture, respectively, inimitability and non-substitutability, focusing on 85 publicly traded pharmaceutical firms (SIC 2834).