Showing papers in "Journal of Management in 2010"

TL;DR: The dynamic capabilities view, by addressing the question of how firms can cope with changing environments, has gained increasing attention in the management literature in recent years, not only in the concept's original domain (strategic management) but also in many other areas within business administration as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has been around for over 20 years as mentioned in this paper, during which time it has been both widely taken up and subjected to considerable criticism.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a range of proactive goals that individuals can pursue in organizations, which vary on two dimensions: the future they aim to bring about (achieving a better personal fit within one's work environment, improving the organization's internal functioning, or enhancing the organisation's strategic fit with its environment) and whether the self or situation is being changed.

TL;DR: The authors examined the work values of a nationally representative sample of U.S. high school seniors in 1976, 1991, and 2006 (N = 16,507) representing Baby Boomers, Generation X (GenX), and Generation Me (GenMe), also known as GenY, or Millennials).

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis of 89 empirical studies that explore the impact of predictive factors (e.g., trainee characteristics, work environment, training interventions) on the transfer of training to different tasks and contexts was presented.

TL;DR: The trade-offs among analytic strategies (repeated measures general linear model, random coefficient modeling, and latent growth modeling), circumstances in which such methods are most appropriate, and ways to analyze data when one is using each approach are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors summarize the literature and advance research and theory by focusing on leadership processes within a team and describing how team leadership can arise from four distinct sources inside and outside a team.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the literature on the role of users during innovation, critique it and develop some of the research questions that could be explored to contribute to this literature and to the theoretical perspectives that underpin the literature.

TL;DR: Opportunity is a central concept within the entrepreneurship field and there is now a critical mass of literature centered on the concept as discussed by the authors, and the authors seek to make two main contributions to this literature.

TL;DR: Team Mental Models (TMMs) are organized mental representations of the key elements within a team's relevant environment that are shared across team members as discussed by the authors, representing one type of team cognition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a summary of key theoretical and empirical developments in employee retirement research since Beehr in 1986 and highlight inconsistent findings revealed by studies that were designed to answer the same research questions.

TL;DR: For example, this paper found that psychological capital was positively related to extrarole organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) and negatively to organizational cynicism, intentions to quit, and counterproductive workplace behaviors, with one exception, psychological capital also predicted unique variance in these outcomes beyond demographics, self-evaluation, personality, and person.

TL;DR: Situational strength pertains to the idea that various characteristics of situations have the ability to restrict the expression and, therefore, the criterion-related validity of individual differences as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: A review of the existing literature on alliance portfolio literature can be found in this paper, where the authors highlight existing gaps in the present understanding of alliance portfolios and outline a research agenda by identifying key research questions and issues in the areas where further research is needed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and discuss theoretical and methodological concerns related to the extant literature and provide recommendations for future research aimed at developing a better understanding of employee downsizing, and develop an integrative framework that incorporates environmental and organizational antecedents as well as the implications of downsizing.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the literature related to expertise-based intuition in decision-making, and propose a set of descriptive developmental and performance mechanisms of expertise based intuition.

TL;DR: A critical review of the expatriate adjustment literature that focuses on studies that have considered other stakeholders in addition to expatriates themselves is presented in this paper, where the most important, implicit assumptions that scholars seem to have made and that may have restricted the theoretical and empirical advancement of the literature are delineated.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis on the relationships between organizational tenure and three broad classes of job behaviors, including core-task behaviors, citizenship behaviors, and counterproductive behaviors, was conducted by.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the relationship between institutional endorsements and repudiation of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and firm financial performance and find that institutional intermediaries influence market assessments of a firm's social responsibility and highlight the importance of the legitimacy-conferring function of expert bodies.

TL;DR: The authors found that customer incivility toward employees is related to employee incivism toward customers through job demands first and then emotional exhaustion, and they discuss the implications of these results and highlight directions for future research.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualized and operationalized alliance management capability and developed a second-order construct to capture the degree to which organizations possess relevant management routines that enable them to effectively manage their portfolio of strategic alliances.

TL;DR: A taxonomy of team boundary spanning actions can be found in this article, where the authors present a stream of boundary spanning literature across multiple levels of analysis, and integrate this body of work with findings and perspectives from other boundary spanning research areas.

TL;DR: The concept of complementarity denotes the beneficial interplay of the elements of a system where the presence of one element increases the value of others as discussed by the authors. But the conceptual work on complementarity to date has not progressed sufficiently to constitute a theory that would offer specific predictions regarding the nature of elements that form complementary relationships or the conditions for their emergence.

TL;DR: This paper proposed an alternative approach that draws on the resource-based view (RBV) wherein reputation is an intangible asset that is composed of complementary and reinforcing relationships whose synergies create causal ambiguities that have positive performance implications.

TL;DR: The authors provide a review and analysis of institutional entrepreneurship research with a focus on the emergence of this literature within two largely divergent streams: sociology-based institutional theory and economics based institutional economics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed and validated a multidimensional measure of feedback orientation to understand individual differences in how people respond to feedback, a construct proposed by London and Smither, is an individual's overall receptivity to feedback.

TL;DR: In this article, a meta-analysis investigates gender differences in mentor- and protege-reported experience in mentorships as well as career and psychosocial benefits, finding that male proteges report receiving less psychosococial support than female proteges.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of existing research in this vital area, provide a model for understanding and integrating this work, and propose themes for future research, combining a psychological perspective of anger as an episodic process with an organizational perspective emphasizing contextual effects and norms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the influence of family-domain factors on work-domain decisions and their linkages to sex and gender, and they offer a model of the linkages among sex, family domain factors, and work domain decisions that incorporates constructs from theories of the psychology of gender (femininity) and identity theories (family role salience).

TL;DR: This article investigated the psychological climate of gender inequity as a way to understand how token women experience their work environments and found that women tend to perceive their organizational climates to be inequitable for women.