As visible and knowledgeable experts who constantly collect, analyze, and disseminate
information about the future prospects of publicly listed firms, financial analysts fulfill an …

Pluralistic ignorance occurs when group members mistakenly believe others' cognitions
and/or behaviors are systematically different from their own. More than 20 years have …

The distinction of macro-and microfoundations of institutions implies a multilevel
conceptualization of institutional processes. We adopt the evaluators' perspective on …

We conduct a comprehensive synthesis of the research on how female representation in the
upper echelons (ie, top management teams and chief executive officer positions) might …

R esearch summary: Agency theory suggests that external governance mechanisms (eg,
activist owners, the market for corporate control, securities analysts) can deter managers …

We propose a behavioral theory of corporate governance based on an ontological
foundation of socially situated and socially constituted agency. More specifically, we …

Politics in organizations is simply a fact of life. For years, personal experience, hunches, and
anecdotal evidence have supported a general belief that behavior in and of organizations is …

Recent research has conceptualized legitimacy as a multi‐level phenomenon comprising
propriety and validity. Propriety refers to an individual evaluator's belief that a legitimacy …

US corporations have shared members of their boards of directors since the early 1900s,
creating a dense interlock network in which nearly every major corporation was connected …

Research on organizational celebrity is in its nascence, and our understanding of the
process through which organizations gain, maintain, and lose this asset remains incomplete …