Journal of Managerial Issues

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Human resource safety practices and employee injuries.
Workplace safety continues to be a high operational priority facing many organizations across all types of industries. And, as Ruth (2004) notes, injuries oftentimes result from managerial issues, r . . .

Shareholder value ideology, reciprocity and decision making in moral dilemmas.
Recent large-scale corporate scandals have turned business ethics and corporate moral responsibility into a major concern of managers, business schools, and the general public. Companies such as Tyc . . .

Employment capital, board control, and the problem of misleading disclosures *.
Recent years have witnessed unprecedented levels of accounting irregularities and scandals, leading to a thorough re-examination of governance practices and the institutionalization of mandated gove . . .

Intraindustry executive succession, competitive dynamics, and firm performance: through the knowledge transfer lens.
A substantial body of research has documented the role of human resource flows in the diffusion of innovation across organizations (Almeida and Kogut, 1999; Baty et al., 1971; Boeker, 1997; Ettlie, . . .

Attitude toward the customer: a study of product returns episodes.
Past research in the retailing and services marketing literatures has focused on the importance of creating and maintaining customer satisfaction (Anderson and Mittal, 2000; Berry and Bendapudi, 200 . . .

The effects of work environment on the personality-performance relationship: an exploratory study.
"When in Rome, live as the Romans do: when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere." ~St. Ambrose (c. 339-97) The advice, given by the Bishop of Milan to St. Augustine in the 4th Century, may see . . .

An analysis of Saudi Arabian and U.S. managerial coaching behaviors.
The use of coaching as a way to enhance performance and hone leadership skills is a popular and growing management development strategy (Goldsmith and Lyons, 2005). As with any emerging field, there . . .

The value of corporate financial measures in monitoring downturn and managing turnaround: an exploratory study.
Corporate turnaround became a topic for strategy research four decades ago, when investigators studied firms that experienced severely declining financial performance. They researched firms that wer . . .

Organizational size and CEO compensation: the moderating effect of diversification in downscoping organizations.(Author abstract
The topic of CEO compensation has received a great deal of attention in the literature (Coombs and Gilley, 2005; Gomez-Mejia and Wiseman, 1997). For example, Kristie (1998) reported that the average . . .

Equifinality and the strategic groups--performance relationship.(Author abstract)
Strategic groups are clusters or sets of firms that pursue similar competitive approaches within an industry (Porter, 1979). For example, in the pharmaceutical industry, one strategic group consists . . .

Organizational commitment, human resource practices, and organizational characteristics.
Organizational commitment persists as a primary variable of interest in studies of employment, organizations, and allied fields. The Article-First database reveals 202 article and abstract titles re . . .

Integrating employment contracts and comparisons: what one can teach us about the other.(Author abstract)
Psychological contract (PC) theory has been the topic of considerable conceptual and empirical research for over two decades. Some researchers, however, have questioned its value-added contribution . . .

An exploratory examination of voice behavior from an impression management perspective.
In order to cope with dynamic and competitive environments, organizations are pushing their employees to work harder and to seek out opportunities for constructive change. In fact, initiative is see . . .

Knowledge type and communication media choice in the knowledge transfer process.
Many researchers have written that knowledge is the key ingredient in gaining a competitive advantage (e.g., Gnyawali et al., 1997; Kogut and Zander, 1992) and that knowledge is a firm's main inimit . . .

Overreward and the impostor phenomenon.
Overreward in the selection process potentially carries serious implications for organizations. Equity theory (Adams, 1963, 1965) proposes that individuals who feel underrewarded or overrewarded wil . . .

An examination of the role of emotional intelligence in work and family conflict *.
Employers need to recognize the constant challenge many employees face in balancing work and family. Recruiting and retaining top workers is essential to the success of the organization; thus, it be . . .

An empirical examination of the role of social exchanges in alliance performance.
Strategic alliances have become a major corporate strategy in many high-tech industries such as electronics, telecommunication, pharmaceutical, and machine tools industries (Gulati et al., 2000; Yos . . .

An examination of the antecedents and consequences of the use of family-friendly benefits.(Author abstract)
Over the last 30 years, there has been an increase in the number of dual-career couples, single parent families, and workers with eldercare responsibility (Eby et al., 2005). Given these changes hav . . .

Examining the impact of organizational value dissimilarity in top management teams.
The chief executive officer (CEO) of an organization is generally held accountable for the firm's performance. However, the actual management of the firm is often shared among the top management tea . . .

An agency theory investigation of medical contractors versus member physicians *.
Professional organizations increasingly utilize contingent labor such as independent contractors and employees of contract companies to provide professional services to clients (Matusik and Hill, 19 . . .

Fuel for litigation? Links between procedural justice and multisource feedback.
Approximately 40 percent of organizations use multisource feedback (MSF) in some capacity (Bracken et al., 2001). Flatter organizations, formalized leadership development efforts, and cross-function . . .

Affective commitment and intent to quit: the impact of work and non-work related issues.
Organizational commitment is recognized as a key factor in the employment relationship. Similarly, it also is widely accepted that one way to reduce voluntary turnover is by strengthening employee c . . .

Performance payoffs from manufacturing flexibility: the impact of market-driven mobility.
The capabilities needed to achieve excellent manufacturing performance have changed in recent years (Hayes, 2000). Global competitive pressures have stimulated the need for rapid organizational chan . . .

Balanced management control systems as a mechanism for achieving corporate entrepreneurship.
Over twenty years ago, Peters and Waterman posited that the best-run companies had simultaneous "loose-tight" properties, where the organization is "rigidly controlled, yet at the same time autonomy . . .

The effect of framing and compensation structure on seller's negotiated transfer price.
The outcomes of negotiated transfer prices affect profit for the managers involved and can also impact company profit when quantity, as well as price, is an element of the negotiation. Thus, it is i . . .

Integrating the unfolding model and job embeddedness model to better understand voluntary turnover *.
Though varying in intensity with the ups and downs of economic cycles, voluntary turnover persists as an important concern for managers. One academic study reported that the total cost of employee w . . .

Has strategic management shed the normal science straightjacket?: Revisiting Bettis' (1991) critiques.
The purpose of strategic management research is to learn why some organizations outperform others and then convey this knowledge to managers (Rumelt et al., 1994; Summer et al., 1990). Although stra . . .

Attributional comparisons across biases and leader-member exchange status.
Leadership is a phenomenon involving a leader, a follower, and the relationship between the two (Graen and Uhl-Bien, 1995). Two theories that address the relational nature of leadership in organizat . . .

What is the relationship between organizational slack and innovation? *.
Innovation is generally viewed as critical to the competitive health of organizations, industries, and nations. As such, how, why, when, and which organizations innovate has been a subject of intere . . .

The influence of organizational diversity orientation and leader attitude on diversity activities.
The U.S. population is becoming increasingly diverse (U.S. Census Bureau, 2003). Many multinational companies recognize the need to manage their diverse workforces as evidenced by the proliferation . . .

Subordinate self-esteem and abusive supervision *.
While physical acts of workplace violence have received much attention in the popular press in recent years, academic researchers have begun investigating lesser forms of workplace mistreatment (e.g . . .

The relationship between firm strategic profile and alliance partners' characteristics.
Rapidly changing competition, continuing technological innovation, shortening product life cycles, rising internationalization of markets and evolving customer preferences have led to greater number . . .

Decision processes during crisis response: an exploratory investigation.
The importance of effective crisis management has never been greater (Argenti, 2002; Day et al., 2004). Unfortunately, current research, replete with speculative prescriptions offered without the be . . .

Business strategy types and innovative practices.
This study explores how firms with different strategic orientations manage innovative practices. Specifically, we examine differences in how firms with contrasting strategic orientations view the en . . .

Relationship between entrepreneurs' psychological capital and their authentic leadership.
What is required to create and sustain a successful new business venture? A long list of necessary elements has been suggested and explored, including financial resources (e.g., Cooper et al, 1994), . . .

A multilevel examination of work-life practices: is more always better?
During the past decade, researchers have begun to analyze the combined effects of multiple human resource practices (or bundles), sometimes under the rubrics of high-performance work systems or stra . . .

A contingency theory of CEO successor choice and post-bankruptcy strategic change.
While there is a wealth of research on strategic leadership, the findings are often contradictory (e.g., Carey and Ogden, 2000; Dawley et al., 2003; Hambrick and Mason, 1984; Thomas, 1988). These co . . .

Toward a multidimensional theory of person-environment fit.
Studies of person-environment (PE) fit have been prevalent in the management literature for almost 100 years (e.g., Parsons, 1909; Pervin, 1968; Schneider, 1987). With this interest in fit has come . . .

Perceived and actual organizational fit: multiple influences on attitudes.
Recent widespread concern with the changing composition of the American workforce has led to a strong interest in person-organization fit on the part of both researchers and practitioners (e.g., Bow . . .

Managerial accounting and continuous improvement initiatives: a retrospective and framework.
With the explosion of new continuous improvement initiatives in the last three decades, the role of the accountant has evolved from measuring and reporting business activities to working on teams wi . . .

Predicting workplace deviance from the interaction between organizational justice and personality *.
Workplace deviance refers to voluntary behaviors by employees that violate significant company norms, policies, or rules and threaten the well-being of the organization and/or its members (Robinson . . .

The distributive side of interactional justice: the effects of interpersonal treatment on emotional arousal.
The importance of reactions to perceptions of unfair treatment in the workplace cannot be understated. As predicted by Adams' (1963, 1965) equity theory, which has increased in importance over the l . . .

The impact of aging on self-efficacy and computer skill acquisition.
Based on current trends, U.S. demographics reflect rapid growth of the "older" segment of the workforce. Workers more than 50 years old represent the largest growing labor force segment in America. . . .

Creditors' use of operating cash flows: an experimental study *.
Financial decision-making research contains a vast array of studies that focus on investors and analysts, though relatively few examine creditors' decision making (Billings and Morton, 2002). Our re . . .

Spanning boundaries and borders: toward understanding the cultural dimensions of team boundary spanning.
Boundary spanning may be quickly becoming the nexus of competition for multicultural teams in our globalized economy. Team boundary spanning involves a deliberate strategy by a team to communicate f . . .

The "what" in top management group conflict: the effects of organizational issue interpretation on conflict among hospital decis
Organizational issues play a particularly important role in the top management group decision-making process by affecting information processing and, ultimately, the decisions made by the team (Dutt . . .

Business unit manager influence on corporate-level strategy formulation.
The distinction between corporate-and business-level strategy is a distinction as old, and as durable, as the field of strategic management itself (Bowman and Helfat, 2001; Hofer and Schendel, 1978) . . .

A multi-level model of group cognitive style in strategic decision making.
Management teams and other groups play a key role in strategic decision making. These groups include top management teams (Hambrick and Mason, 1984), boards of directors (Forbes, 1999; Pettigrew, 19 . . .

Antecedents to internal auditor burnout *.
Over the last ten years, the literature on accounting practice has evidenced a persistent number of articles that draw attention to the existence and consequence of work-related stress. Typified by . . .

Implementing JIT purchasing: does the level of technical complexity in the production process make a difference? *.(just-in-time
Over the last two decades, an increasing number of companies have implemented just-in-time purchasing (JITP) techniques in an effort to sharpen their competitive edge (definitions of abbreviations a . . .