This book challenges our age-old assumption that trust is merely a soft, social virtue, and instead demonstrates that it is a hard-edged, economic driver--a learnable and measurable skill that makes organizations more profitable, people more promotable, and relationships more energizing. CEO...

Der Balanced Scorecard wird von ihren Verfechtern ein hohes Potential zur Überwindung des tayloristischen Steuerungsmodells strategischer Unternehmensplanung zugeschrieben. Als umfassendes Managementkonzept auf der Basis organisationsweiter Zielvereinbarungen strebt dieser Ansatz vor allem...

The literature on top-down strategy implementation has overlooked social-emotional factors. The results of a three-year field study of a large technology firm show how top executives who favor an affect-neutral task approach can inadvertently activate middle managers’ organization-related...

The main aim of this dissertation is to shed light on the contextual aspects that intervene with achieving strategically key behavioral outcomes in decision-making. Each of the chapters constitutes an independent research study exploring one of the following behaviors which are of wide interest...