Strategic Leadership & Governance IG

Flammer & Bansal, Does a Long-Term Orientation Create Value?

This paper shows that corporate short-termism is hampering business success. We show clear, causal evidence that imposing long-term incentives on executives—in the form of long-term executive compensation—improves business performance. Long-term…

Political ideology of board and CEO dismissal following financial misconduct

Despite criticism from stakeholders, the public, media, and policy makers, many firms do not take serious action against CEOs who have committed financial misconduct. Past studies have suggested that this…

Hill, Recendes, Anridge

We articulate how CEOs posses-sing certain psychological, behavioral, and social charac-teristics may unknowingly precipitate competitive attackson their firms. Our explanation integrates insights fromvictimology which explain how individuals are subject tomore…

Right on the Money?

We study how the optimal configuration of the overall pay system differs between firms that pursue growth‐oriented and efficiency‐oriented strategies. Our results show that growth‐oriented firms (prospectors) benefit from pay…

Connelly, Ketchen, Gangloff, & Shook on investor reactions to firing CEOs

Business headlines regularly feature episodes of organizational misconduct, such as product safety problems, environmental violations, employee mistreatment, and securities lawsuits, and their aftermath. In such scenarios, shareholders demand answers from…

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.…

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…

On the effects of authority on peer motivation

Video abstract for the Strategic Management Journal article “On the effects of authority on peer motivation: Learning from Wikipedia” by Helge Klapper and Markus Reitzig. Click here to read the…

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…

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