Addressing the call for a deeper understanding of ambidexterity at the individual level, we propose that managers’ networks are an important yet understudied factor in the ability to balance the trade-off between exploring for new business and exploiting existing business. Analyses of 1449 ties in the internal and external networks of 79 senior managers in a management consulting firm revealed ...

This article proposes that venture capitalists adds value within portfolio firms by transferring information about senior managers across firms — A valuable feature since it is difficult to transfer information about senior managers in small firms in a systematic fashion. This transfer occurs on a significant scale because venture capitalists operate a network, within which they are involved in...

In a world of ongoing organisational transformation, the psychological contract between the employer and the employee is open to violation. It is imperative that senior managers, as change agents, have a good understanding of the psychological contract and how it influences employee behaviour and attitudes towards their job and their organisation. This paper explains the concept of psychologica...

the present study evaluates effects of organizational culture on organizational commitment with emphasis on the role of mediator entrepreneurial orientation departments within the material procurement management at national iranian south oil company. statistic population included of 470 experts and managers, 23 departments within the material procurement management that using stratified random ...

The escalation of commitment to a failing course of action is a well-known phenomenon in IT project management. Much work has been done in researching why managers continue to commit resources in the face of negative signals about the status of projects (Keil 1995; Keil 2000; Keil et al. 2000; Keil et al. 2003; Staw 1976). Information systems project failures typically exhibit ample warning sig...

Although the escalation literature has grown steadily over the past 20 years, there has been very little research bridging the gap between laboratory experiments and qualitative field studies on escalation. What has been missing are quantitative tests of escalation hypotheses in their natural context. This study helps fill such a gap by testing the responsibility hypothesis within the banking i...

Senior managers can have a strong influence on organisational safety. But little is known about which of their personal attributes support their impact on safety. In this paper, we introduce the concept of 'safety intelligence' as related to senior managers' ability to develop and enact safety policies and explore possible characteristics related to it in two studies. Study 1 (N = 76) involved ...

Information s>Stems plans traditionallyhave been conceived as a Ineatis of recogilizing opportunities and problems where information technology might be used, identifying the resources needed to support the application of information technology, and developing strategies and procedures to allow information technology to be applied successfully. Prom an agency theory and transaction cost theory ...