On the Meaning and Measurement of Inequality
Via Acta Sociologica
Abstract
This article offers a defence of the methods and findings of what some critics have referred to as the “Nuffield school of class analysis”. In particular, we respond to the critique mounted by Hellevik [...]
Are company founders underpaid?
Via Applied Economics
By Konstantinos Tzioumis
Abstract
This article examines the relation between founder status and CEO compensation in publicly listed US firms. The results suggest that CEO/founders receive lower cash pay and total compensation [...]
What Noah’s Ark Can Teach Managers About Recruiting by Phineas Upham
From contributor Phineas Upham
Abstract
In this essay we examine some effects of recruiting broadly or narrowly on organizations and on those who are recruited. Much HR literature has argued firms should work to keep turnover low and hire the [...]
Are all dynamic capabilities of central importance?
From contributor Phineas Upham
Dynamic capabilities focuses on, according to Teece, Pisano and Shuen (1997), the firm’s ability to achieve success by being responsive to change, building organizational mechanisms to encourage rapid and flexible [...]
Forest Fire Investing
By contributor Phineas Upham
When looking at investing from a global perspective, sometimes it helps to see the forest rather than the trees. It is necessary to blend together different lenses to see what others are not seeing. If, for example, [...]
Search vs. Exploit, by Phineas Upham
By contributor Phineas Upham
In Opportunity and Constraint, Paul Ingram and Joel Baum explore how organizations learn from experience and what sorts of experience they learn from. Their results are counterintuitive and initially confusing – [...]
Fire your CEO? Variables in CEO Longevity, Part 3
By Phineas Upham
Lastly, Bowman, Dingh, Useem, and Bhadury (1999) hint at another view of CEO importance. CEO’s might be less powerful (have less managerial discression) most of the time than common perception would imply but there are rare [...]
Fire your CEO? Variables in CEO Longevity, Part 2
By Phineas Upham
His results come up with the very elegant conclusion that circulation of power logic is dominant during the first decade of tenure, but that beyond that the CEO begins to cement his position in a way similar to that described [...]
Fire your CEO? Variables in CEO Longevity, Part 1
By Phineas Upham
CEOs Warren Buffett, Sandy Weill, and Maurice Greenberg accumulated power during their long tenures as CEO. For each the market was or is fearful of their demise or retirement, each had a reluctance to name a successor, and [...]
Relationships Matter
By contributor Phineas Upham
In Specialized Supplier Networks as a Source of Competitive Advantage: Evidence from the Auto Industry, Jeffrey Dyer presents a compelling and interesting case for the interrelation of inter-firm specificity and [...]