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The performance impact of strategy - manager coalignment: an empirical examination
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A theoretical model is developed that explains the impact of the fit between top executive characteristics and strategic orientation on organizational performance and it was found that firms achieving a greater degree of alignment between their strategy and the profiles of top managers, generally realized superior performance outcomes.Abstract:
This paper develops a theoretical model that explains the impact of the fit between top executive characteristics and strategic orientation on organizational performance. Using the Miles and Snow typology as an integrative framework, the central propositions of the model were evaluated. The results of the empirical examination provided significant support for the administrative dimension, an aspect of the typology that has been largely overlooked thus far. Further, it was found that firms achieving a greater degree of alignment between their strategy and the profiles of top managers, generally realized superior performance outcomes.read more
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The Influence of Top Management Team Heterogeneity on Firms' Competitive Moves
TL;DR: Gannon et al. as discussed by the authors explored the executive origins of firms' competitive moves by focusing on top management team characteristics, specifically on team heterogeneity, rather than on the more often studied environmental and organizational determinants of such behaviors.
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CEO Characteristics and Firm R&D Spending
TL;DR: It is found that CEO characteristics explain a significant proportion of the sample variance in firm R&D spending even when corporate strategy, ownership structure, and other firm-level attributes are controlled, and that CEOs, over time, may mold R&d spending to suit their own preferences.
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Cognitive change, strategic action, and organizational renewal
TL;DR: In the successful company studied, organizational renewal is a continuous process of first and second order changes in cognitive maps, which contribute to long-term corporate strategy change.
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An Empirical Investigation of the Effect of Market Orientation and Entrepreneurship Orientation Alignment on Product Innovation
Kwaku Atuahene-Gima,Anthony Ko +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a concept of an alignment between market and entrepreneurship orientations and reported the results of a study designed to investigate its effect on a firm's product innovation, and found that these groups of firms significantly differ with respect to both subjective and objective measures of new product performance, and with product innovation strategies and activities pertaining to timing of market entry, product quality, marketing synergy, proficiency of market launch, and management support for innovation.
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What’s My Style? The Influence of Top Managers on Voluntary Corporate Financial Disclosure
TL;DR: The authors found that top executives exhibit unique individual-specific and economically significant disclosure styles, and that managers' unique fixed effects are associated with observable characteristics of their own personal backgrounds, such as career tracks, managers born before World War II, and MBAs.
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Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors
TL;DR: Porter as mentioned in this paper presents a comprehensive structural framework and analytical techniques to help a firm to analyze its industry and evolution, understand its competitors and its own position, and translate this understanding into a competitive strategy to allow the firm to compete more effectively to strengthen its market position.
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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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A Behavioral Theory of the Firm
Richard M. Cyert,James G. March +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of basic concepts in the Behavioral Theory of the Firm, and present a specific price and output model for a specific type of products. But they do not discuss the relationship between the two concepts.
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Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine available theoretical models which have been derived from statistically established patterns of association between contextual and organizational variables, and argue that available models in fact attempt to explain organization at one remove by ignoring the essentially political process, whereby power-holders within organizations decide upon courses of strategic action.
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Patterns in Strategy Formation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define a strategy as a pattern in a stream of decisions, and study the interplay between intended and realized strategies in a complex organizational process, with leadership mediating between the two forces.
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