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Corporate Governance And Organizational Survival Under Punctuational Change: The Case Of China's Burgeoning Banking Industry, 1897-1927, Sunny Li Sun, Yanli Zhang
Corporate Governance And Organizational Survival Under Punctuational Change: The Case Of China's Burgeoning Banking Industry, 1897-1927, Sunny Li Sun, Yanli Zhang
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
How do different corporate governance structures fare under conditions of fundamental environmental transformations? Treating governance structure as a knowledge distribution mechanism embedded in institutional frameworks, the paper aims to propose that the efficiency of this knowledge diffusing process will increase organizational survival under a punctuational change. Using the case of Chinese banking industry during 1897-1927, a period of rapid technological, economic, and regulatory shifts. Money shops (qianzhuang) with decentralized, open and extended governance structure were better able to adapt to rapid changes in the environment and had a higher survival chance than ticket stores (piaohao) with centralized, closed and internalized …
Informational Diversity And Entrepreneurial Team Performance: Moderating Effect Of Shared Leadership, Wencang Zhou, Donald Vredenburgh, Edward G. Rogoff
Informational Diversity And Entrepreneurial Team Performance: Moderating Effect Of Shared Leadership, Wencang Zhou, Donald Vredenburgh, Edward G. Rogoff
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
A research need exists regarding the relationship between entrepreneurial team informational diversity and team performance, including the conditions under which such diversity might benefit performance. This study explores the moderating effect of shared leadership on the relationship between informational diversity and entrepreneurial team performance. Four dimensions are used to measure informational diversity: functional specialty, educational specialty, educational level, and managerial skills. The results show that functional specialty diversity can improve entrepreneurial team performance. Managerial skill diversity can improve entrepreneurial team performance when leadership is shared among team members. These findings advance the understanding of entrepreneurial team performance and provide practical …
Determining The Optimal Values Of Exponential Smoothing Constants--Does Solver Really Work?, Handanhal Ravinder
Determining The Optimal Values Of Exponential Smoothing Constants--Does Solver Really Work?, Handanhal Ravinder
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
A key issue in exponential smoothing is the choice of the values of the smoothing constants used. One approach that is becoming increasingly popular in introductory management science and operations management textbooks is the use of Solver, an Excel-based non-linear optimizer, to identify values of the smoothing constants that minimize a measure of forecast error like Mean Absolute Deviation (MAD) or Mean Squared Error (MSE). We point out some difficulties with this approach and suggest an easy fix. We examine the impact of initial forecasts on the smoothing constants and the idea of optimizing the initial forecast along with the …
Shared Leadership In Teams: An Empirical Study Of Dispositional Antecedents, Wencang Zhou
Shared Leadership In Teams: An Empirical Study Of Dispositional Antecedents, Wencang Zhou
Department of Management Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
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