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ABSTRACTTaking agency theory and stakeholder theory as points of departure, this article proposes a paradigm that helps explain the following: (1) certain aspects of a firm's strategic behaviour; (2) the structure of management‐stakeholder contracts; (3) the form taken by the institutional structures that monitor and enforce contracts between managers and other stakeholders; and (4) the evolutionary process that shapes both management‐stakeholder contracts and the institutional structures that police those contra

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00657.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe cognitive aspects of strategic management and organizational learning have been receiving increasing interest from researchers (Fahey and Narayanan, 1986; Prahalad and Bettis, 1986). Researchers have called for more detailed descriptions of the ways that individual‐level cognitions contribute to organizational‐level strategies (Daft and Weick, 1984; Smircich and Stubbart, 1985). In this article, a theory of organizational knowledge structures which include core and peripheral features is presented. From this theory propositions are suggested to guide future research on organizational learn

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00658.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article examines how organizations participate in shaping the cultural environments of the nations that they inhabit. Cultural environments, we argue, emerge in a primarily unintended fashion as a consequence of routine, network interactions among organizations in four overlapping yet analytically distinct sectors: government, the mass media, educational institutions, and the business community. Differences in the structure of these national networks condition dynamic patterns of change in nations’cultural environments. In highly centric national networks, government will tend to dominate the production of cultural environments. In less centric networks, other institutional sectors play more commanding role

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00659.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTSince 1983 expenditure on acquisitions in the UK has more than doubled in real terms, despite the fact that the consensus of opinion in the academic literature is that acquisitions are not, on average, performance enhancing for the acquiring firm. Such literature, however, relates mainly to the acquisition of large, public companies. Drawing on survey evidence from 146 of the UK's top 500 companies, this article reports the results from a survey which encompasses all takeovers. The study revealed that is the expected reward of increased profitabililty which is used inex‐postevaluation. The major finding of the study is, however, that managers firmly perceive that their takeover activity has been performance enhancing for their company. The evidence presented does suggest that the integration of small acquisitions into an existing organizational structure may be achieved without severe problems of loss of control, and the subsequent decline in performance which beset large acquisitio

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00660.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00661.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThis article seeks to exsplore the ways in which profit sharing is used by employers as a means of securing more employoee involvement. Although this is the main reason employeras have gilven for introducing profit sharing, and has been a principal objective of the government's recent initiative over profitrelated pay, the evidence suggests that little so far has been achieved. By examining employers’deeep seated concerns about some of the implications of profit sharing, particularly those that involve disclosure of information, this article argues that employers are reluctant to pursue such a strategy of involvement because of the risk of stimulating employees to demand greater influence in how the enterprise is managed. This prompts a consideration of the conceptual ambiguity surrounding the notion of employee involvement, and the article concludes that the contradicatory implications this entails for employers renders it largely impotent except at the level of rhetor

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00662.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this articles.Rubin, Paul H. Managing Business Transactions: Controlling the Cost of Coordinating, Communicating, and Decision Making.Lawry, P. Employment Disputes and the Third Party.Porter, Michael. The Competitive Advantage of Nations.Robert G. Dyson. Strategic Planning: Models and Analytical Techniques.De Woot, Phillipe. High Technology Europe: Strategic Issues for Global Competitiveness.

ISSN:0022-2380    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6486.1992.tb00663.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY