Journal of Management articles from September 1996

Journal of Management archives from September 1996

Grievance procedure research: a review and theoretical recommendations.
September 22, 1996... A common criticism of grievance procedure research is the lack of theoretical grounding for much of the research done prior to 1985. Several earlier reviews of the grievance literature raised the challenge of improving on the theoretical...

The nature, antecedents and consequences of underemployment.
September 22, 1996... While the topic of unemployment has regained the attention of organizational scholars over the past decade (cf. Leana & Feldman, 1992; Liem & Liem, 1988; Warr, Jackson & Banks, 1988), the issue of underemployment has remained largely ignored....

Boards of directors: a review and research agenda.
September 22, 1996... Boards of directors have generated considerable attention in recent years, as evidenced by their consistent coverage in both the business and academic press. The prevalence of boards of directors research, however, has not yet resulted in...

Antecedents and outcomes of corporate refocusing.
September 22, 1996... The decade of the 1980s is well known for the amount and nature of restructuring among large corporations (e.g., 1,200 divestitures worth $59.9 billion in 1986 alone; 2,540 leveraged buyouts (LBOs) worth $297 billion between 1981 and 1989; and...

A preliminary typology of organizational learning: synthesizing the literature.
September 22, 1996... Organizational learning processes are being explored with increasing interest and vigour. But it remains unclear just what learning is, how it takes place, and when, where and why it occurs. Part of the problem is that learning, as portrayed in...

Whistle-blowing: myth and reality.
September 22, 1996... Because the incidence of whistle-blowing has been increasing (Vinten, 1994), the phenomenon is seen as increasingly important. Whether the upswing is due to increased willingness to dissent from the actions of one's employer (Ewing, 1983) or...

Workplace characteristics and health care cost containment practices.
September 1, 1996... An issue that concerns employers on both the micro and macro levels is the provision of health care insurance benefits to their employees. Concurrently, a pressing domestic issue facing the United States society as a whole is the financing and...

Differences in achieving person-organization fit among diverse groups of managers.
September 1, 1996... "Person-organization fit," or the match between individuals and the organizations in which they work, has been the focus of much recent research (e.g., Chatman, 1991). However, most person-organization fit studies, like most organizational...

Acquisition decision-making processes: the central role of risk.
September 1, 1996... Since the mid-1980's, scholarly attention has increasingly focused on the process by which acquisitions are planned, negotiated, and integrated. While this work has varied in terms of its specific focus, a unifying thread can be seen in the...

Explaining variation in rates of entrepreneurship in the United States: 1899-1988.
September 1, 1996... Entrepreneurship is becoming an increasingly important phenomenon for researchers and policy makers to understand. It is important to job growth, accounting for eighty percent of new jobs created in the United States (Birley, 1986; Reynolds,...

Governance antecedents of board entrenchment: the case of classified board provisions.
September 1, 1996... The abuses resulting from managerial entrenchment and the concomitant need for effective governance of corporate management actions have triggered significant research attention from multiple disciplines including sociology, organizational...