Corporate Strategy
Toyota’s strategic use of historical values to safeguard its distinctiveness offers profound insights for contemporary corporations navigating the digital age.
Walk into any corporate boardroom and you’ll hear the same debate: How should we organize our management team to achieve multiple, often competing objectives?
Authors from a recently published SMJ article show that firms led by more narcissistic CEOs tend to pursue more acquisitions when performance is high.
A study published in Strategic Management Journal investigates the relationship between political visibility and corporate political connections (CPCs)—and finds that institutional transparency doesn’t always take political influence out of the equation.
When a departing family CEO actively mentors a younger family leader, that leader is more likely to keep the business financially successful, especially if non-family advisors also weigh in.
A new study finds high-status music producers have the necessary support to help their artists try new things.
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Do those organizations positioned close to the boundaries of a tier—relatively high or low within a tier—behave differently from those positioned in the middle of the same tier?
While research has shown that people prefer brands that align with their values — often illustrated through corporate social responsibility reports — it wasn’t clear how people were responding to firms taking political stances.
There’s clearly no ‘safe’ public position to take on such a visible and contentious topic, but is corporate neutrality on social issues possible?