Journal of Management articles from January 1999

Journal of Management archives from January 1999

Testing factorial invariance across groups: a reconceptualization and proposed new method.(includes appendices)
January 1, 1999... This paper attempts to advance cross-cultural management research by proposing a more rigorous technique for finding out if members of different cultures ascribe the same meanings to survey items (or similar measures). When they do, then data...

Programmable automation and the locus of decision-making power.
January 1, 1999... New manufacturing technologies are often credited with making possible decentralized organization structures, which enable firms to respond rapidly to changing market conditions with high quality products (Quinn & Paquette, 1990). While it is...

Top management turnover in related M&A's: an additional test of the theory of relative standing.(includes appendix)(mergers and acquisitions)
January 1, 1999... The turnover of executives has important influences on the postacquisition productivity and employee morale at the acquired firm (Buono & Bowditch, 1989; Schweiger & DeNisi, 1991; Schweiger & Walsh, 1990) and on its postacquisition...

Efficiency motives and normative forces: combining transactions costs and institutional logic.
January 1, 1999... During the last two decades organizational researchers have paid significant attention to the study of organizational action from several perspectives. The dominant perspectives include contingency theory (Child, 1972; Miller & Friesen, 1984;...

Strategic responses to three kinds of uncertainty: product line simplicity at the Hollywood film studios.
January 1, 1999... Although there has been a great deal of research into strategic responses to uncertainty, much of the literature and many of the findings are contradictory. Some scholars claim that strategy becomes more complex and multifaceted to cope with...