Of all actors involved in managing an organizational crisis, strategic leaders play a
particularly central role. However, the growing scholarship on the impact of strategic leaders …

Wrongdoing, and specifically that which is committed by top executives, has attracted
scholars for decades for a number of reasons. Among them, the consequences of …

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

Environmental protection is widely perceived as a state responsibility, but market-based
solutions such as green investing have emerged in the financial sector. Little research has …

Although increased board independence is a commonly offered solution to curbing
corporate misconduct, scholars have expressed skepticism about its effectiveness, and …

We integrate political psychology and upper echelons research to introduce an alternative
conceptualization of executive political ideology by separating the two distinct ideologies …

We develop a new explanation for why some organizations are relatively evenhanded, while
others are more disparate, in allocating resources to subunits. Recognizing the central role …

Research summary: Past inquiry has found that implementing complex competitive
repertoires (ie, diverse and dynamic arrays of actions) is challenging, but firms benefit from …

Research summary: We use a variance decomposition methodology to assess the degree to
which board chairs may influence their companies' performance. To isolate the board chair …

Despite scholars' admonitions regarding the use of ratios in statistical analyses, the practice
is common in management research. This is particularly true in the area of strategic …