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Administrative Succession and Organizational Performance: How Administrator Experience Mediates the Succession Effect
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In this paper, an analysis of data for 22 teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) indicated that succession has no effect on subsequent team performance when prior performance is controlled, a result conAbstract:
Analysis of data for 22 teams in the National Basketball Association (NBA) indicated that succession has no effect on subsequent team performance when prior performance is controlled, a result cons...read more
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy is described, and a partial report, to be followed by another, is given.
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Managerial Leadership: A Review of Theory and Research
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and evaluated major theories of leadership and summarized findings from empirical research on leadership and presented an integrating conceptual framework to show how the different theories and lines of research fit together to improve managerial practice.
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On the Efficiency of Internal and External Corporate Control Mechanisms
James P. Walsh,James K. Seward +1 more
TL;DR: Fama and Jensen as discussed by the authors argued that the individual owner has little interest in conducting, or even closely monitoring, the day-to-day activities in all of the firms in which he or she has a financial interest.
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Learning curves in manufacturing.
Linda Argote,Dennis Epple +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that organizations vary considerably in the rates at which they learn and that the reasons for the variation observed in organizational learning curves include organizational forgetting, employee turnover, transfer of knowledge from other products and other organizations, and economies of scale.
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Learning Curves In Manufacturing
Linda Argote,Dennis Epple +1 more
TL;DR: Organizations vary considerably in the rates at which they learn, and reasons for the variation observed in organizational learning curves include organizational "forgetting," employee turnover, transfer of knowledge from other products and other organizations, and economies of scale.
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Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy.
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy is described, and a partial report, to be followed by another, is given.
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Patterns of industrial bureaucracy
TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of singel factory seen in the light of Max Weber's theory of bureacracy is described, and a partial report, to be followed by another, is given.
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The Ambiguity of Leadership
TL;DR: In this article, the ambiguity of the concept of leadership and its definition and measurement, the issue of whether leadership affects organizational performance, and the process of selecting leaders are addressed, which frequently emphasizes organizationally-irrelevant criteria.
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Leadership and organizational performance: a study of large corporations
TL;DR: It appears that the importance of external restrictions, and hence the maximum possible leadership influence, may range widely between specific performance criteria, which suggests a perspective on organization performance that may be applied to the leadership influence in other large organizations and political bodies.
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Managerial Succession and Organizational Effectiveness
TL;DR: A negative correlation was found between rates of managerial succession and effectiveness and change in succession rate and organizational effectiveness among sixteen professional baseball teams examined over two time periods, 1921-41 and 1951-58 as discussed by the authors.