Management Research: Volume 1 Issue 3

Characteristics and Outcomes of Entrepreneurial Collaborations

Dennis M. Garvis, R. Duane Ireland, Shaker A. Zahra

Increasingly, companies are using alliances and joint ventures to pursue entrepreneurial opportunities. These collaborations are voluntary arrangements between two or more firms…

Paternalism as a Positive Form of Leader – Subordinate Exchange: Evidence from Mexico

Patricia G. Martínez

Despite its persistence as a form of leadership, paternalism has received limited attention within organizational studies. In order to develop a construct definition of…

A Test of Control – Alienation Theory Among Cuban Workers

Moshe Banai, William D. Reisel

This study tests the relationships between control mechanisms such as leadership, job design, performance appraisal, and workers’ alienation in Cuba. Beyond internal Cuban…

Individual, Group, and Organizational Learning Levels and Their Interactions: An Integrative Framework

Francisco Balbastre, Victor Oltra, Juan F. Martinez, Maria Moreno

Most academic work usually explains organizational learning as a simple translation of individual learning. To fill this gap, this article focuses on the analysis of…

Waging Politics: A Case Study of Change in Incentive Compensation

Marta M. Elvira

This case study examines how incentive pay programs are designed and changed over time in a financial organization that has typically relied on fixed salary compensation. Once…

Online Disintermediation: Differences in the Behavior of Traditional Retailers in Adopting E‐Commerce

Veneta Andonova

This paper builds a theoretical argument of how the Internet increases the scope for disintermediation and analyzes the changes in the structure of transaction costs in the case…