Download or read book Essays on Top Management and Corporate Behavior written by Hui-Ting Wu and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays on Management and Organization written by Bryan Hong and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines how managers influence firm behavior and performance. Managers play an important role in the performance and activities of firms, given their decision-making role within organizations. I conduct three separate empirical analyses examining specific factors that influence the impact that managers have on firm behavior and performance. The first chapter investigates the following question: How does the performance impact of supervisor changes differ across levels in a hierarchy? In my results, I find that supervisor changes at higher levels result in more severe performance declines relative to lower levels in the hierarchy, even when accounting for differences in span of control. The findings suggest that reassignment and turnover of managers at higher levels may be more costly for firms, independent of their ability and other individual characteristics. The second chapter examines the following: What is the effect of replacing experienced managers with rookie managers on firm performance? And, how does this change if they are instead replaced with experienced managers? At the individual store level, I observe the behavior and performance effects of management changes when successors are newly promoted store managers, and compare this to changes where successors are experienced store managers that are reassigned. In my results, newly promoted store managers systematically cut costs that briefly lead to profit increases, but ultimately result in profit declines in subsequent months. By contrast, successors that have prior experience as a manager do not make any changes observable in my data, and I find no evidence of performance changes. These findings suggest that inexperienced managers within firms may engage in well-intentioned behavior that may be costly for firms, at least in the short run. However, managerial experience may reduce the likelihood that the same costly behavior is repeated. The results shed additional insight into how managerial experience may matter for performance, and provide a tangible estimate of the performance costs of being a rookie manager. In the final essay, I investigate the influence of top managers on corporate social responsibility (CSR). A growing body of literature suggests that individual managers may play a critical role in determining corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. However, attempts to quantitatively measure the individual influence managers have on CSR face significant empirical challenges. Estimation methods unable to adequately control for firm-specific factors influencing CSR are likely to overstate the importance of individual managers in their findings. To address these concerns, I use an identification approach allowing for the simultaneous estimation of manager and firm fixed effects, and provide quantitative estimates of the degree to which individual managers might influence CSR. The results suggest that managers do exert some degree of individual influence on CSR outside of firm-specific factors, but that the magnitude of their effect is relatively small. Also, when managers switch firms, I find no evidence of a relationship between their influence on CSR in their first and second firm, suggesting that managers do not exert a persistent influence on CSR independent of the firm where they are employed.

Download or read book How to Write Successful Business and Management Essays written by Patrick Tissington and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electronic Inspection Copy available for instructors here How to Write Successful Business and Management Essays is a systematic guide to successfully producing written work for business and management degrees. The authors address the all too common pitfalls of essay assignments, as well as providing students with a step-by-step programme to approach essay questions, both in coursework and exam contexts. Starting with the basics this book helps develop skills through the use of examples, exercises and checklists. Helpful features include: Annotated essay examples, showing both good and bad points Tips on time management and motivation, note taking and effective reading Final checklists to use before you hand in Explanation of what the markers are looking for – and how to give it to them. Many students find referencing particularly confusing so the book provides detailed but easy-to-use information on what referencing is and how to do it properly. SAGE Study Skills are essential study guides for students of all levels. From how to write great essays and succeeding at university, to writing your undergraduate dissertation and doing postgraduate research, SAGE Study Skills help you get the best from your time at university. Visit the SAGE Study Skills website for tips, quizzes and videos on study success!

Download or read book Three Essays on Ethical Corporate Behavior written by Sonal Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first essay extends the literature on how social and organizational discrimination in the form of glass ceiling, interact with managerial traits in shaping observed leadership effectiveness. We show that when the population of CEOs is stratified by ethnicity and gender, the colored female CEO emerges as the best performing while the white male CEO is consigned among the worst performers. Additionally, the transition from male to female CEOs seems to follow corporate down- turn and precede an upturn. Furthermore, the upswing is strongest following a transition from white male to colored female CEO. We attribute these observed differences between the groups to the existence of the glass ceiling. Discriminatory selection and promotion process potentially imposes much higher demands on candidates belonging to the discriminated group. Thus, the level of ability of the successful average colored female is much higher than those of the average white male CEO. These results potentially have important implications for both policy and research. The second essay examines whether gender discrimination after women are elevated to positions of power impacts financial reporting quality. Specifically, we extend the literature by using role congruity theory and glass cliff hypothesis to examine the earnings management behavior of female chief executive officers (CEOs) conditional on the power they hold. We find that female CEOs do not necessarily reduce earnings management. For CEOs holding less power, women CEOs demonstrate lower earnings management relative to their male counterparts. However with increased power, we find women and male CEOs to exhibit similar earnings management behaviors. Thus, the earnings management behaviors of women CEOs are not solely dictated by their risk-taking and ethical attitudes, but by the existence of glass cliffs which imposes high demands on women CEOs to conform to their gender roles. The final essay examines the stock price changes to the firm's strategic choice towards symbolic and substantive CSR. Our results indicate that stock prices react differently to symbolic and substantive CSR. Symbolic CSR is used as a means to repair reputational damage following a corporate controversy and attracts a positive stock price change consistent with stakeholder wealth maximization theory. In contrast, substantive CSR, undertaken to conform long-term commitment towards CSR is perceived as over-investment by managers in the manifestation of agency leading to a negative stock return-substantive CSR relation. However, no such negative relation between stock returns and substantive CSR is found for a subset of family firms, where the controlling families have a personal interest in the long-term performance of the firm. Overall, the results indicate that the stock market responds to the nature of CSR activities.

Download or read book Education Leadership and Business Ethics written by Ronald F. Duska and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education, Leadership and Business Ethics: New Essays on the Work of Clarence Walton includes a history and anecdotes of Clarence Walton's professional and personal life; a discussion of the controversial introduction of ethics into the field of management studies; contributions on a variety of subjects connected to leadership and business ethics from experts in the field; and critical essays reviewing Clarence's most recent work in social criticism. The book gives a history of the rise of the fields of business and society and business ethics, details the events leading to its acceptance in academic circles and gives personal accounts by Clarence Walton, one of the people most responsible for its creation. Intended target groups are students, former academic peers, and friends of Clarence Walton, as well as anyone interested in the history of business ethics or connected to Columbia University of America, or The American College.

Download or read book On Good Management written by Burkhard Schwenker and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change or die! With this stark claim begins the journey through the corporate lifecycle. Why do so many companies fail? Why do managers struggle to recognize change early or hesitate to take vigorous action? Why – and how – must the traditional lifecycle concept be modernized if it is still to provide valid orientation? In this essay, Roland Berger CEO Burkhard Schwenker analyzes the challenges facing managers today and explores their implications for good management. Corporate management, he argues, must once again become more direct, more personal, more entrepreneurial. His experienced and thoughtful analysis is complemented by insightful, candid interviews with renowned entrepreneurs and business leaders, conducted by journalist Mario Müller-Dofel. Finally, Schwenker outlines an agenda calling for action in six specific areas.

Download or read book Research in Organizational Behavior written by Barry M. Staw and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1994 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 16th volume in an annual series of reviews of research in organizational behaviour. This volume covers such topics as the physical environment of work setting; genetics, twins and organizational behaviour; and top management groups.

Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Corporate Finance written by Hui Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the extent to which managerial overconfidence affects corporate decisions. This analysis includes three essays, which address a wide range of corporate decisions including financing, investment, acquisition, innovation, liquidity management and advertising decisions. The first essay introduces a fine-tuned test of the relationship between managerial overconfidence and corporate decisions by taking the chief financial officer (CFO) overconfidence effect into account. Ex-ante, I identify financial policies and non-financial policies such as investment, innovation and acquisition as the primary managerial duties of CFOs and chief executive officers (CEOs) respectively. I construct overconfidence measures for both CEOs and CFOs and test the impact of CEO and CFO overconfidence, both on financial decisions and on nonfinancial decisions. Based on a sample of 1,173 S & P 1500 firms, I find that financial policies are primarily affected by CFO overconfidence while only CEO overconfidence affects nonfinancial decisions. My findings demonstrate that managerial biases affect corporate decisions and managerial duties shape the ways in which top managers influence corporate policies. The second essay investigates how overconfident CEOs allocate resources toward innovation activities. It argues that overconfident CEOs tend to have greater innovation input. To finance innovation, they save more cash out of the cash flow and spend more on innovation when the cash flow is high. Results from an empirical analysis of 1,015 S & P 1500 firms support this argument. Moreover, based on a series of financial constraint measurements, the effect of CEO overconfidence on liquidity management is found to be more pronounced in financially constrained firms and in highly innovative firms, but not in firms without financial constraints. With regards to innovation performance, overconfident CEOs tend to have more patents, but the overall quality of their patents is not significantly better than that of rational CEOs. The third essay introduces a simple model of firm advertising behavior in monopolistic competition industries and applies it to the situation of managerial overconfidence. The model shows that the optimal advertising to sales ratio is determined by both firm advertising competency and consumer preference. Overconfident CEOs are more willing to use advertising as a means to convey the quality of their firms and products. Such overestimation of the effects of advertising by overconfident CEOs will result in overspending on advertising. When financially constrained, an overconfident CEO's tendency to overspend will be curbed to some extent, but his amount of advertising will increase with cash flows. An empirical analysis of 654 S & P 1500 firms supports these predictions. The distorted effect of managerial overconfidence is more prominent when firms are financially constrained and when the overconfidence measure is continuous.

Download or read book Management Laureates written by H. Igor Ansoff and published by JAI Press(NY). This book was released on 1992 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series which provides autobiographical studies by individuals who are among contemporary leaders in the management discipline. Essays explore their experiences, and the factors and forces influencing their professional and personal development. Bibliographies of their work are included.

Download or read book Inducements in Organizations written by Nicolas Tichy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Executive compensation has inspired controversial debate in both academia and the general public, and many voices criticize that executive compensation designs fail to deliver desired outcomes. Although much research has been devoted to understanding the antecedents and consequences of executive compensation design, important questions remain unanswered. This dissertation contributes to the field by exploring a previously neglected aspect: executive compensation complexity. Given the absence of an established measure of executive compensation complexity, there is an incomplete understanding of how complexity enters executive compensation contracts and what the consequences are for managers and corporations. The essays of this dissertation aim to narrow this gap. The first study presents a novel measure of executive compensation complexity, which is validated and utilized to examine the antecedents of executive compensation complexity. The second study explores the consequences of executive compensation complexity and finds that complexity impairs firm performance, regardless of the performance metric chosen (accounting-based, market-based, or ESG-based performance metrics). The third study explores the link between compensation design dispersion and executive turnover and reveals that executives with riskier compensation packages and fewer performance goals are more likely to move. The fourth study provides experimental evidence on the effect of CSR Fit dimensions and organizational reputation. Taken together, the essays of this dissertation make a significant and valuable contribution to the scholarly discourse on executive compensation. By shedding light on the complex nature of executive compensation and its implications for managers and corporations, this dissertation advances the current understanding of executive compensation and provides insights for policymakers, managers, and investors.

Download or read book Redefining the Corporation written by James E. Post and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how the modern corporation must meet the expectations of diverse constiutents who contribute to its existence and success, the stakeholders: resource providers, customers, suppliers, alliance partners, and social and political actors. It argues that the corporation must be seen as an institution engaged in mobilizing resources to create wealth and benefits for all its stakeholders.

Download or read book Organizational Behaviour Google Corporate Culture in Perspective written by Stephan Weber and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2007 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1,3, Heilbronn Business School, 16 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Google is a high tech company with amazing growth rates. Inherent with its growth Google has to face challenges. In the following essay the personality of the founders of Google and the company is highlighted. Consequently the required personality of the candidates for employment at Google is explored. Furthermore the present selection process so far is in focus. This research results in the answer of a best case selection process. Besides these themes the future development of Googles Corporate Culture and Structure affected by the enormous growth of the company is brought forward. The essay ends with a comparison of Google with the German High Tech company SAP which had a similar development 20 years earlier. Thereby the structure of the work is divided into a theoretical part, in which the up to date theories are applied onto Google. In the practical part a forecast of the Google development for the future is made.

Download or read book Essays on Top Management Teams and Chief Strategy Officers written by Christine Scheef and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an upper echelons perspective, it is central to study top management teams (TMTs) and their senior executives' behavior to understand how and why organizations vary in their strategic choices and performance. While the body of knowledge about TMTs is already substantial, this dissertation shifts the focus of TMT research towards behavioral perspectives and identifies three shortcomings in the current TMT research, which warrant more research attention. Each article of this dissertation aims at advancing the limited knowledge about one or more of the following shortcomings: (1) the TMT's cognitive and social processes, (2) the TMT's structure and particularly, senior executives' varying power in strategic decision-making, and (3) the Chief Strategy Officer's (CSO's) behavior. Article one focuses on understanding the TMT's structure and particularly, power variation among TMT members across strategic decision domains. Using survey data from 70 TMTs of European firms, the article examines the effects of TMT power variation on strategic decision-making and explores the role of the TMT's actual information processing behavior in explaining these relationships. Article two focuses on understanding the CSO's behavior. Using survey data from 116 CSOs of European firms, the article explores what affects CSOs' perception of their discretion to influence the firm's strategic decisions and its implications for the firm's strategy. Moreover, the article takes into account the TMT's structure and examines interactions between the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and the CSO as two leading strategists in the firm. Article three examines CSOs' cognition in anticipating future developments and conducting long-term planning, particularly when the future does not mirror the past. This deductive theory-building paper explores the causes and consequences of differences in CSOs' mental representations of future developments and the resulting.

Download or read book How Managers accomplish Domination over Colleagues while delegating Responsibility written by Caroline Mutuku and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: Research on dominance (control) versus submissiveness (agency) dimension of social relationships in organizations illustrate that most of the individuals prefer coordinating with each other when one of these individuals is dominant while the other is submissive in a task-oriented context. On that note, it is surprising that submissive individuals prefer working with dominant partners compared to submissive partners. A dominant individual in a task-oriented context directs submissive individuals hence assisting groups to achieve their goals. Power is, therefore, the core dimension of hierarchical differentiation. Research shows that hierarchical rank in any organization predicts motivational, cognitive, and behavioral variables such as job satisfaction and goal setting. However, the way power holders including managers make decisions, approach goals, and how they process information helps them increase their domination over colleagues and control over resources. It is, therefore, important to understand how dominion by managers affects task performance.

Download or read book Stochastic dominance in portfolio analysis and asset pricing written by Andrey M. Lizyayev and published by Rozenberg Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discourse Three Organizational Leadership An Essay On The Key Components For The Integration Of Technology While Leading In Increasingly Technologically Based Organizations written by Yannique Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay will attempt to investigate and analyze existing literature on integration of technology as it applies to organizational leadership and present key components that leaders will need to understand and embrace in order to "lead" in increasingly technologically based organization. Proceeds Go To "It's Achievable Foundation", A Non-Profit Founded To Stop Juvenile And Adult Illiteracy.

Download or read book Nobody in Charge written by Harlan Cleveland and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-07-10 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most renowned thinkers and insightful writers on leadership of our time, Harlan Cleveland has seen numerous trends come and go and weathered many drastic changes in leadership and management-from the rise of the "company man" to the advent of the leaderless, self-managed organization. In this collection of essays-the newest addition to the Warren Bennis Signature Series--he draws on his vast experience to apply his thoughts to leadership. In each essay, Cleveland focuses on an intriguing insight about leadership-illustrated by stories from his own experience --offering thoughtful perspective on what 21st century leaders will face in the new knowledge environment.