Organizational Goals and Environment: Goal-Setting as an Interaction Process

Thompson, James D.; McEwen, William J.

doi:10.2307/2088620

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“…Besides the inherent value of being integrated into a friendship network, friendship has been suggested to be instrumental in obtaining other relevant resources such as important information and may also be the basis for forming coalitions (Baldwin, Bedell, andJohnson 1997, Brass 1992). This is in line with resource dependence theory that predicts that managers will attempt to increase the availability of needed resources by establishing ties to the resource provider (Pfeffer andSalancik 1978, Thompson andMcEwen 1958).…”

Section: Conceptual Foundations and Research Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 76%

Perceived Influence and Friendship as Antecedents of Cooperation in Top Management Teams: A Network Approach

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Tuschke²

2010

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Using the relational dyad as unit of analysis this study examines the effects of perceived influence and friendship ties on the formation and maintenance of cooperative relationships between corporate top executives. Specifically, it is argued that perceived influence as well as friendship ties between any two managers will enhance the likelihood that these managers collaborate with each other. Additionally, a negative interaction effect between perceived influence and friendship on cooperation is proposed. The empirical analyses draw on network data that have been collected among all members of the top two organizational levels for the strategy-making process in two multinational firms headquartered in Germany. Applying logistic regression based on QAP the empirical results support our hypotheses on the direct effects between perceived influence, friendship ties, and cooperative relationships in both companies. In addition, we find at least partial support for our assumption that perceived influence and friendship interact negatively with respect to their effect on cooperation. Seemingly, perceived influence is partially substituted by managerial friendship ties.

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Section: Conceptual Foundations and Research Hypothesessupporting

confidence: 76%

Perceived Influence and Friendship as Antecedents of Cooperation in Top Management Teams: A Network Approach

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2010

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“…Research on goal setting in organizations has a long history in the psychological and business literature (57,62). Much of this research, however, has focused on enhancing the productivity of individual members of an organization as opposed to identifying the cognitive determinates that underlie the formation of a general or abstract intention for a particular organization (63). Nonetheless, the ability to generate semantic or strategic intentions is considered to be an important aspect of running a successful business (64).…”

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confidence: 99%

A taxonomy of prospection: Introducing an organizational framework for future-oriented cognition

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Spreng

Schacter

2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Prospection-the ability to represent what might happen in the future-is a broad concept that has been used to characterize a wide variety of future-oriented cognitions, including affective forecasting, prospective memory, temporal discounting, episodic simulation, and autobiographical planning. In this article, we propose a taxonomy of prospection to initiate the important and necessary process of teasing apart the various forms of future thinking that constitute the landscape of prospective cognition. The organizational framework that we propose delineates episodic and semantic forms of four modes of future thinking: simulation, prediction, intention, and planning. We show how this framework can be used to draw attention to the ways in which various modes of future thinking interact with one another, generate new questions about prospective cognition, and illuminate our understanding of disorders of future thinking. We conclude by considering basic cognitive processes that give rise to prospective cognitions, cognitive operations and emotional/motivational states relevant to future-oriented cognition, and the possible role of procedural or motor systems in future-oriented behavior.prospection | simulation | prediction | intention | planning

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“…It implies that the self-interested behavior of powerful fi rms necessitates that entrepreneurs guard against dependence on external parties (Thompson and McEwen, 1958). Negotiating resource transactions is viewed as an awkward, calculative, instrumental game.…”

Section: Exchange and Resource Dependence Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%