Journal of Management articles from January 1998

Journal of Management archives from January 1998

Board characteristics, managerial controls and corporate strategy: a study of U.S. hospitals.
January 1, 1998... Recent governance research has been concerned with how boards of directors influence the strategic direction and performance of the corporations they govern. Within this line of inquiry, several researchers have found that board characteristics...

Resource and risk management in the strategic alliance making process.
January 1, 1998... Strategic alliances have emerged in recent years as a popular strategy in an environment in which fast access to up-to-date technology and emerging markets is more critical than ever (Deeds & Hill, 1996; Mitchell & Singh, 1996; Yoshino &...

Multidimensionality of Leader-Member Exchange: an empirical assessment through scale development.
January 1, 1998... Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) theory suggests that leaders do not use the same style in dealing with all subordinates, but rather develop a different type of relationship or exchange with each subordinate (Dansereau, Graen, & Haga, 1975; Graen &...

A field experiment on the effects of benchmarking and goal setting on company sales performance.
January 1, 1998... This paper reports on a unique field experiment in an organisational setting in which three strategies for creating improvement in company performance were compared. The three strategies are internal benchmarking, and two forms of goal-setting...

Response rates in HRM/OB survey research: norms and correlates, 1990-1994. (Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior)
January 1, 1998... Low response rates are a substantial problem to many survey researchers. Researchers find that the responses obtained from only a portion of their sample may not represent the full sample (Fowler, 1984; Viswesvaran, Barrick, & Ones, 1993) due...

The development of a systematic, aggregate measure of corporate social performance.
January 1, 1998... Introduction The issue of corporate social performance (CSP) has received considerable attention in the academic literature for several years. While CSP has been an ongoing topic of debate, Wood (1991a) states that research on the evaluation...