Franchise jobs are often described as representing the epitome of the quot;low roadquot; approach to managing employees - high turnover, little training, deskilled jobs, and little employee involvement, practices often seen as unsophisticated. Research on franchise operations suggests, however,...

An employee's attachment to their employer is one of the central topics across the social sciences. We examine an important aspect of attachment, job search, in the context of executive jobs using a unique data set from a prominent executive search firm that identifies whether executives have...

This paper examines the career moves of executives between two different organizations and looks at the characteristics of executives' employing organizations as a predictor of the success of the moves. The paper uses a proprietary data set of a retained executive search firm that contains...

The paper looks at the effect of six types of stigmatizing organizational events (criticism of the organization in the media, resignation of key individuals from the organization, downsizing, net income drop, lawsuits launched by the SEC, competitors and customers and lawsuits launched by...