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The Conjoint Influence of Top and Middle Management Characteristics on Management Innovation
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In this article, the authors draw on relational demography theory to elucidate how behavioral dispositions stemming from top management and middle management similarity in professional characteristics (functional background and educational level) and biodemographic characteristics (age and gender) may facilitate management innovation.About:
This article is published in Journal of Management.The article was published on 2018-04-01. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Middle management & Enterprise relationship management.read more
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Rethinking ‘Top-Down’ and ‘Bottom-Up’ Roles of Top and Middle Managers in Organizational Change: Implications for Employee Support
TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrate insights from "top-down" and "bottom-up" traditions in organizational change research to understand employees' varying dispositions to support change, and identify four possible role configurations in which top managers and middle managers can feature in change.
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Four decades of CEO–TMT interface research: A review inspired by role theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the role-theory specifications of the CEO-TMT interface and provide a critique of the strengths and boundaries of each, and chart directions toward an integrated multi-role understanding of the TMT interface in strategic leadership.
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Boards of directors and organizational ambidexterity in knowledge-intensive firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the relation between boards of directors' knowledge heterogeneity and organizational ambidexterity (i.e., simultaneous exploration and exploitation) in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs).
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Unpacking Functional Experience Complementarities in Senior Leaders’ Influences on CSR Strategy: A CEO–Top Management Team Approach
TL;DR: In this article, the influence of senior leadership on firms' corporate social responsibility (CSR) is examined, and it is found that when CEOs who have predominant experience in output functions are complemented by TMTs with a lower proportion of members who have experience in outputs, there is a pronounced effect on the community, product, and diversity dimensions of CSR.
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Customer Co-Creation and Exploration of Emerging Technologies: The Mediating Role of Managerial Attention and Initiatives
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop and test a theoretical argument in which they emphasize an indirect link between customer involvement in innovation processes and exploratory behavior in emerging technology fields and provide empirical support for their related theoretical framework by means of six case studies and a survey among 131 companies that were adopting a similar emerging technology; i.e., cloud computing.
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Content analysis: an introduction to its methodology
TL;DR: History Conceptual Foundations Uses and Kinds of Inference The Logic of Content Analysis Designs Unitizing Sampling Recording Data Languages Constructs for Inference Analytical Techniques The Use of Computers Reliability Validity A Practical Guide
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The social identity theory of intergroup behavior
Henri Tajfel,John C. Turner +1 more
TL;DR: A theory of intergroup conflict and some preliminary data relating to the theory is presented in this article. But the analysis is limited to the case where the salient dimensions of the intergroup differentiation are those involving scarce resources.
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Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers
TL;DR: In this article, the authors synthesize these previously fragmented literatures around a more general "upper echelons perspective" and claim that organizational outcomes (strategic choices and performance levels) are partially predicted by managerial background characteristics.
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Social Identity Theory and the Organization
Blake E. Ashforth,Fred A. Mael +1 more
TL;DR: This article argued that social identification is a perception of oneness with a group of persons, and social identification stems from the categorization of individuals, the distinctiveness and prestige of the group, the salience of outgroups, and the factors that traditionally are associated with group formation.
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Social Identity and Self-Categorization Processes in Organizational Contexts
Michael A. Hogg,Deborah I. Terry +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss cohesion and deviance, leadership, subgroup and sociodemographic structure, and mergers and acquisitions in organizational psychology, and show how these developments can address a range of organizational phenomena.