Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Strategic Options for Managing Intellectual Asset Flows in the Information Sector*

Information and knowledge management play an increasingly important role in the development of sustainable competitive advantage. This study examines the challenges posed by advances in communication and information technology to the value appropriation strategies of information firms. This study conceptualizes information products as flows of intellectual assets and argues that the scarcity, and hence the value, of information products can be maximized by intervening in these intellectual as...

Commitment On the Board: A Model of Volunteer Directors' Levels of Organizational Commitment and Self-Reported Performance

This article proposes and tests a model that examines the relationships between an individual's experience and role as a member of the board of directors for a non-profit organization, the director's level of commitment to the board, and the director's self-reported performance. Results indicate that directors having leadership roles show higher levels of continuance commitment, affective commitment and better performance than directors who have not served in a leadership role. Greater tenure...

An Examination of the Dysfunctional Consequences of Organizational Injustice and Escapist Coping

This field study examined the role of procedural justice on escapist coping at work, affective outcomes, and intentions to quit. Results indicated that even after controlling for problem-solving coping, escapist coping mediated the effects of procedural justice on job satisfaction. Further, lower job satisfaction and higher strain mediated the effects of escapist coping on intentions to turnover. Managerial implications and suggestions for future research are offered.

A Transformational Model of Legal-Claiming*

This paper proposes a model of legal-claiming based on the transformational approach to disputes detailed by Felstiner et al. The model suggest disputes evolve, with a number of areas of organizational behavior providing explanations for individual disputant actions at specific points in time, including self-categorization theory, attribution theory, social accounts, organizational justice, conflict escalation, and social information processing. Multiple propositions relating to legal-claimin...

Mediators of the Relationship Between Race and Organizational Citizenship Behavior*

This paper examines alternative explanations for relationships between employees' race and self- and supervisor ratings of their organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). Job satisfaction of non-white employees was significantly lower than that of white employees. Findings from LISREL and logistic regression analyses indicated that employee race affected self-rated OCB directly and indirectly through the mediating influences of negative affectivity, co-worker social support, and job satisfac...

Managerial Discretion in the Use of Self-Ratings in an Appraisal System: The Antecedents and Consequences

Self-evaluations of performance have elicited the interests of researchers over the last four decades. Supporters attest to the importance of employee involvement in the appraisal process while detractors raise issues concerning leniency, validity and purpose. This study examines the circumstances under which superiors have discretion to ask subordinates to self-evaluate their performance in an ongoing appraisal system. Three primary issues are investigated: 1. the conditions under which supe...

Perceived Organizational Family Support: A Longitudinal and Multilevel Analysis*

This study investigated relationships between perceptions of organizational and supervisory family support and organizational commitment, work-family conflict, and job search behavior. As research to date has largely been based on individual-level data collected at one point in time, this study examined both individual and group-level data, and collected longitudinal data after 18 months. It was found that perceptions of organizational family support were significantly related to affective co...