Die vorliegende, drei Beiträge umfassende Doktorarbeit untersucht, welche Rolle Persönlichkeitseigenschaften und Kompetenzen von Geschäftsführern (CEOs) bei der Exploration, Exploitation und Performance von Klein- und Mittelunternehmen (KMU) spielen. Der Fokus liegt auf der...

Middle managers are believed to play most crucial part in strategic change that in consequence leads to organizational success. The present study seeks to identify the underlying success factors for effective strategic change and, to investigate the relationship between middle management...

We study whether investors' demographic similarity to CEOs affects their investment decisions. Mutual fund managers are found to overweight firms led by CEOs who resemble them in terms of age, ethnicity and gender. This finding is robust to excluding educational and local ties and is supported...

Managers are supervising more and more workers, and firms are getting flatter. However, not all firms have been keen on increasing the number of subordinates that their bosses manage (referred to as the “span of control” in human resource management), contending that there are limits to...

Die Arbeit untersucht Grundlagen effektiver Kooperation von Entscheidungsträgern an der Unternehmensspitze und deren Bedeutung für gute Unternehmensführung und langfristigen wirtschaftlichen Erfolg. Basierend auf moderner Managementforschung sowie sozial-psychologischer Theorien wird im...

This study was inspired by the desire to contribute to literature on performance management from the context of a developing country. The guiding research questions were: How do managers use performance information in decision making? Why do managers use performance information the way they do?...

This article addresses how top management leadership behaviors matter in innovative interventions in organizations. A comparison of six cases of artistic interventions in four countries reveals that lack of visible top management support and sense-making orientation during and after the process...

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

We test the hypothesis, based on popular and theoretical perspectives, that entrepreneurs are more action-oriented than other occupational groups. We compare their playing strategies in an optimal stopping game using a randomized online experiment among 100s of entrepreneurs, managers and...

Die Durchsetzung von Innovationen verlangt das Engagement von Promotoren. Arbeitsteilung zwischen Macht-, Prozess- und Fachpromotoren ist dabei am erfolgreichsten. Diese Erkenntnisse sind vielfach gesichert. Offen ist aber bisher, wie diese Promotorenstrukturen entstehen und sich während des...

Auch nach Einführung von dezentralisierten Unternehmen mit Strategischen Geschäftseinheiten als Profit-Center, deren Leiter erfolgsabhängig entlohnt werden, dafür aber auch beträchtliche Entscheidungsautonomie zugebilligt bekommen haben, beobachtet man, daß Manager kein wertsteigerndes...

Grenzüberschreitende Aufsichts- und Verwaltungsratsverflechtungen zwischen Unternehmen in verschiedenen Ländern haben zugenommen, es ist allerdings nur sehr wenig bekannt über die Art dieser Vernetzungspraxis über den Einfluss der Globalisierung hinweg. Der Zweck dieses Forschungsprojekts...

This letter discusses the application of a pitch using Faff (2015a) pitching template, with intention to refine my idea and develop it in a systematic fashion. I find the pitching research template interesting; by applying it to my study that enhances the thought process and helps in precisely...

Nowadays, the accountant’s and business manager’s image in society is an increasingly debated subject in the literature. The existing stereotypes in accounting developed in relation with the national context affect the students’ attitude towards accounting (Albu et al., 2012). This study...

We analyze what a second business degree reveals about the investment behavior of mutual fund managers. Specifically, we compare investment risk and style of managers with both a CFA designation and an MBA degree to managers with only one of these qualifications. We document that managers with...