This paper investigates how an organization’s formal hierarchy affects the gender diversity in its applicant pool. One perspective based on theories of gendered organizations suggests that, because women may perceive “flat” organizational structures with few hierarchical levels as...

Anchoring affects our investment decisions. Anchoring involves comparing only one piece of information heavily over others. Raj is in transport business. Raj wants to buy a truck which otherwise he rents for transporting building material. He initially compares only fuel costs with truck rentals...

We empirically validate a model primarily based on Resource Dependence Theory. Our model links task characteristics and various subordinate characteristics that represent sources of managerial dependence to the adoption of the four archetypical combinations of formal and informal control...

What is a disruptive innovation? This study confronts this question here by presenting different approaches, which endeavor to explain the dynamic behavior of disruptive technologies in competitive markets. Firstly, this study introduces destructive technology as a radical innovation, based on...

Effectuation was first proposed as an expert entrepreneur's decision-making framework under uncertainty, but the applications of effectuation beyond the condition of uncertainty have seen less attention. Using an agent-based simulation model, this paper investigates the effectiveness of...

Forecasting is a necessary and efficient tool that can give a company plenty of competitive advantage. Traditional methods of sales forecasting focused primarily on roll up of committed sales deals display intrinsic weakness due to their monotony of strategy across agreed sales period. This...

The performance of organizations depends partly on the reputations of their industries. Such reputations are “intangible commons.” Interest in protecting mutual welfare motivates members of an industry to engage in self-regulation. However, the current literature tends to have a pessimistic...

Based on arguments about long-term orientation and corporate reputation, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility. Using Bayesian analysis, we then show that family and founder ownership are associated with a lower level of...

Based on socioemotional wealth theory, we argue that family and founder firms differ from other firms with regard to corporate social responsibility concerns. We further argue that the ownership and management dimensions of founder firms have opposite effects. Using a dataset of large public US...

With increased technology and access to information, corporations have evolved in order to reflect the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their global business strategies. Some companies, such as Starbucks Corporation, have taken this concept a step further and chose to...