Strategic Leadership & Governance IG

Innovation Language Pays Off for Women in Rewards-Based Crowdfunding Campaigns

A new study finds that women can benefit from making innovation claims, especially in male-typed contexts like technology. By Sarah Steimer Male entrepreneurs have traditionally had the upper hand over their…

Women Power! Family Women in Boards of Directors as a Stimulus to Innovation

by Jonathan Bauweraerts, Emanuela Rondi, Paola Rovelli, Alfredo De Massis & Salvatore Sciascia BEYOND PINK QUOTAS Over recent years, gender or ‘pink quotas’ have been introduced Europe-wide to encourage the inclusion…

Venture capital exit pressure and venture exit: A board perspective

Video abstract for “Venture capital exit pressure and venture exit: A board perspective” by Ting Yao and Hugh O’Neill published in the Strategic Management Journal (2022). Click here to read…

The Benefits of a Machiavellian CEO

By J Katherine Bahr CEOs have long been criticized for their tendency toward the dark triad of personality traits: narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism. Ample research shows that dark triad traits endanger…

Narcissism Harms Inter-Unit Knowledge Transfer

High inter-unit competition worsens the situation as narcissistic executives are concerned with their sense of superiority and uniqueness; however, high environmental complexity or dynamism can combat such negative effects as…

How Should Top Management Teams be Structured?

Read this post and learn: Three reasons for top management team (TMT) structure development: instrumental, institutional, and instructionalist The interplay of formal and informal structures: competing vs. complementary dynamics It…

Are Family Female Directors Catalysts of Innovation in Family Small and Medium Enterprises?

This video abstract is baded on the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal article “Are Family Female Directors Catalysts of Innovation in Family Small and Medium Enterprises?” authored by Jonathan Bauweraerts, Emanuela Rondi,…

SMS PhD Chats: Planning Your Dissertation

Release date: December 6, 2021 Speakers: Anita McGahan (University of Toronto), Phanish Puranam (INSEAD), Samina Karim (Northeastern University), and Aseem Kaul (University of Minnesota) Description: Following extensive discussions of job market issues, the SMS…

How Are Underwriters and IPO Firms Paired in a Nascent Stock Market?—Implications for Securities Regulators and Investors

By Yan “Anthea” Zhang (Rice University), Jin Chen (University of Nottingham Ningbo China), Haiyang Li (Rice University), Jing Jin (University of International Business and Economics, China) In a mature stock…

Impact? What’s That?

Donald C. Hambrick, recipient of the 2021 CK Prahalad Award for Scholarly Impact on Practice, was interviewed by Andreas König, University of Passau, in this webinar.