Strategic Leadership & Governance IG

Government’s Green Grip: State Influence on Corporate Environmental Actions in China

As China’s environmental awareness is growing, the country’s government is increasingly concerned with the question as to how it can improve the environmental performance of the firms it controls. Our…

Weiting Zheng on Buffering and Enabling: Political Ties in China

Several studies suggest that political ties help firms survive or perform but do not examine the boundary conditions concerning which types of firms and which type of ties help firms.…

Stefano Elia with Federico Caniato, Davide Luzzine, & Lucia Piscitello

This article deals with the performance implications of the governance mode (captive offshoring versus outsourcing) selected when companies offshore service activities, which is still quite controversial in the literature. After…

Directors Want to Collaborate With Managers But Not Control Them

by Steve Boivie, Mike Withers, Scott Graffin, and Kevin Corley A new study in the Strategic Management Journal coauthored by Steve Boivie, Mike Withers, Scott Graffin, and Kevin Corley, helps…

Family CEOs May Get Paid Less in the US; New Study Suggests the Opposite is True for India

originally published by SMS Journals Press Releases Few topics in organization studies have received as much attention from scholars as CEO compensation. Two key questions are why some CEOs are…

“Becoming a Scholar” with 2020 SMS Emerging Scholar Ryan Krause

Ryan Krause, associate professor of strategy in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University, is the 2020 recipient of the SMS Emerging Scholar Award. On November 17, 2020,…

How do CEO Emotions Impact Firm Value?

By Paul P. Momtaz (momtaz@ucla.edu) based on https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/smj.3235 Why are CEOs coached for many hours in preparation for important public announcements, such as their presentations at annual meetings? The extensive preparation…

Do Owners Pressure for More or Less Corporate Social Performance?

by Kurt Desender and Mircea Epure This year marks the 50th anniversary of Milton Friedman’s influential New York Times piece, which argued that corporations should pursue value maximization while other…

Strategic Responses to Crisis

A Virtual Special Issue edited by Matthias Wenzel, Sarah Stanske, and Marvin Lieberman Currently, the pandemic crisis is affecting the lives of people and organizations around the world. As the…

Just How Stigmatized are Dismissed CEOs?

by Kisha Lashley Stigma is a strange thing—the very attributes that can result in stigma for some, may not be nearly as damaging to others. A new study entitled “How…

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