Corporate Governance in Microfinance Institutions: Board Composition and the...
Manuscript Type: Empirical Research Question/Issue: We utilize institutional theory to examine corporate governance in microfinance institutions (MFIs). Many MFIs operate at the bottom of the economic...
View ArticleThe Ethnographic Method in CSR Research: The Role and Importance of...
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) research has burgeoned in the past several decades. Despite significant advances, our review of the literature reveals a problematic gap: We know little about how...
View ArticleThe Nostalgia Effect: A Field Investigation of Satisfaction among IS/IT...
Satisfaction is a key indicator of system success, and so it has been the subject of much Information System (IS) research. The nostalgia effect, whereby individuals feel satisfied or dissatisfied...
View ArticleCo-creation of Value: Creating New Products through Social Media
Co-creation of value with consumers is an emerging marketing paradigm for the firms. One way to understand co-creation of value is to examine co-creation of value at the new product development (NPD)...
View ArticleInstitutional Theory and the Evolution of Marketing Channels in Emerging...
The story of the growth of emerging economies is about the growth of their marketing institutions. Marketing channels are the key marketing institution in enabling the flow of goods and services....
View ArticleThe Business Incubator: A Rural Economic Development Tool
In the 1980s universities and economic development agencies encouraged the establishment of business incubators to bolster economic development. Business incubators are designed to cultivate the...
View ArticleBuilding Relationships between Business Schools and Students: An Empirical...
This study uses the relationship marketing theory of commitment and trust as a framework to investigate the issue of student retention in business schools. Structural equation modeling was used to...
View ArticleIdentity Discovery and Verification in Artist- Entrepreneurs: An Active...
Entrepreneurship curricula are becoming increasingly more interdisciplinary, with higher education institutions offering a variety of “entrepreneurship and” courses that cross the boundaries into...
View ArticleThe Ethical Implications of Using Genetic Information in Personnel Selection
Biology, during the last decade in particular, is making substantial headway into our social theories of business and behavior. While the social sciences rush to keep up with the advancement of...
View ArticleThe Technology Effect: How Perceptions of Technology Drive Excessive Optimism
Purpose: We propose that constant exposure to advances in technology has resulted in an implicit association between technology and success that has conditioned decision makers to be overly optimistic...
View ArticleUncertainty Types and Transitions in the Entrepreneurial Process
While judgment has hitherto typically been viewed as a discrete decision process, we propose that it be conceptualized instead as a continuous and dynamic process of reassessment and revision....
View ArticleRevisiting Weber’s charismatic leadership: Learning from the past and looking...
Purpose – Weber emphasized the informal structure, followers' power, and time in charismatic leadership; yet the extant literature either overlooks or underplays the significance of each of these...
View ArticleLeveraging Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) in Crisis: A Multiphase...
Despite recent advancements in understanding of leadership in context, there is surprisingly little insight into leadership in crisis – a context that is both pervasive and particularly challenging....
View ArticleEncouraging Entrepreneurship: Microfinance, Knowledge Support, and the Costs...
This study focuses on the supplemented strategies of microfinance institutions (MFIs), in which the MFI offers nonfinancial services, such as entrepreneurship related knowledge, in addition to...
View ArticleRegulatory and Governance Impacts on Bank Risk-Taking
Risk in financial institutions is vitally important to regulators, policy makers, investors, and the stability of the financial system, yet some critical aspects of that risk remain poorly understood....
View ArticleProbability Logic Fails in Immitigable Uncertainty, but Strategic Logic Does Not
We are grateful to Professor Arend (2020) for his engagement with our work on uncertainty and the choice of strategic logics (Packard & Clark, in press). We easily acknowledge that there are...
View ArticleOn Mitigability of Uncertainty and the Choice Between Predictive and...
Managers face a critical issue in deciding when to employ a predictive planning approach versus a more adaptive and flexible strategic approach.We suggest that determiningwhich approach is ideal for a...
View ArticleMitigating versus Managing Epistemic and Aleatory Uncertainty
We are grateful for Holmes and Westgren’s (2020) thoughtful response to our recent article (Packard & 872 Academy of Management Review October Clark, 2020a). In it, they argued that “a...
View ArticleInfluence of Job-Dedicated Social Media on Employer Reputation
The popularity and value of social media sites has stretched beyond its initial social connection purposes; today, they represent critical tools for individual and firm visibility. This paper compares...
View ArticleThe Technology Bias in Entrepreneur-Investor Negotiations
Entrepreneur-investor negotiations are pivotal for ventures in need of funding. Yet, to date, little is known about the dynamics of these negotiations. We investigate a critical feature of this...
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