Journal of Managerial Issues; JMI

Employee Alignment with Strategic Change: A Study of Strategy-Supportive Behavior Among Blue-Collar Employees

Research on strategic alignment argues that employees play a key role in the implementation of a strategic venture. This study examines the relationship between employee strategic knowledge, commitment, and ultimate strategy-supportive behavior. Longitudinal results from blue-collar employees involved in the implementation of a lean manufacturing strategy indicate that knowledge of the strategy predicts commitment to it. Further, strategic commitment is positively related to employees' engage...

The Role of Subordinates' Trust in a Social Exchange-Driven Psychological Empowerment Process

Considerable management literature has acknowledged the benefits of social structural interventions undertaken by managers to empower their employees. However, very little is known about the impact of such interventions on employees' perception of trust directed towards their supervisors, on psychological empowerment and on the work performance-related behaviors. This study proposes a holistic social exchange-driven nomological network model to examine the role of subordinates' trust as the p...

Understanding Criterion Choice in Hiring Decisions From a Prescriptive Gender Bias Perspective

Researchers have been investigating the insidious and covert effects of gender bias on important organizational outcomes (e.g., Gill, 2004; Heilman et al., 2004; Uhlmann and Cohen, 2005). Although previous research has shown gender stereotypes and job sex-typing impact employee selection decision-making processes (Eagly and Karau, 2002), few studies, if any, have linked these two constructs with prescriptive gender bias. The current study investigated the hiring process by manipulating two co...

The Complex Contribution of Information Technology Capability to Business Performance*

Businesses spend billions of dollars annually on information technology (G?) capability, or computer hardware, software, and related devices. Increasingly, however, managers are ask- ing what contribution IT capability makes to business per- formance. Past research has provided mixed evidence of a simple direct contribution. We thus propose a more complex relationship in which It capability indirectly (via customer orientation) and interactively (with intra-organizational trust and informatio...

A Knowledge-Based View of Ipo Success: Superior Knowledge, Isolating Mechanisms, and the Creation of Market Value

Initial public offerings (IPOs) are theoretically-interesting and economically-important organizational events. Unfortunately, there is little agreement by organizational scholars about what determines IPO success. Using the knowledge-based view of the firm, we frame the IPO as a culminating event in which the market value created by the venture becomes evident and indicates the magnitude of its success. We theorize that IPO success is predicted by: (1) superior knowledge possessed by the top...

Supply Chain Orientation and Balanced Scorecard Performance

Supply chains are thought to be important weapons in the firm's competitive arsenals. To date, however, scant research attention has been devoted to uncovering how and to what extent supply chain characteristics shape important firm outcomes. Drawing on the resource-based view, this study examines the links between a higher-order latent construct we label supply chain orientation and four Balanced Scorecard outcomes: customer performance, financial performance, internal process performance, a...

The Role of Dispositions in Politics Perception Formation: The Predictive Capacity of Negative and Positive Affectivity, Equity Sensitivity, and Self-Efficacy

Few studies in organizational politics literature have examined the role that dispositions play as antecedents to perceptions of politics. Much of the existing work that has examined the relationship between dispositions and perceptions of politics has modeled dispositional traits as moderating variables between perceived politics and work-related outcomes such as tension and job satisfaction. Utilizing dispositional factors as antecedents to perceptions of politics, the current study evaluat...