Power & Resource Dependence

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Pay Transparency Doesn’t Lower Productivity—But Individual Responses Illuminate Workers’ Sense of What’s Fair

When companies go public with salary information, the average productivity of their employees does not decline. But small shifts in work output are highly individualized, and they may reflect workers’ responses to how closely they feel their efforts align with the pay.

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Leveraging Social Capital in Low-Income Communities Has Benefits But Also Hidden Dangers

While social influence is a powerful, positive force for financial markets under most circumstances, under crisis conditions, it can have unanticipated, adverse consequences.

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Overconfident CEOs are more apt to pursue breakthrough innovations — but boards with expertise and power are necessary for project success

When both board power and expertise were present alongside an overconfident CEO, the results were remarkable…

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Strategic Management of Fault Lines, Contradictions, and Divergences

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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…

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