The last decades have witnessed a growing interest in the corporate governance and authority structures in organizations, a field that spans several disciplines, including economics, management, finance, accounting, and sociology. Much of the theoretical and empirical work in this field relies...

I argue that research on organizational configurations has been limited by a mismatch between theory and methods. While configurational theory stresses nonlinearity, synergistic effects, and equifinality, empirical research has largely drawn on methods that assume linearity, additive effects,...

I extend existing theories of social influence effects on executive compensation while at the same time showing the context dependence of these effects. Using original data on German firms and a longitudinal design, results of this study suggest that the operating of social influence mechanisms...