Management Research: Volume 2 Issue 3

Organizational Commitment: Toward a Different Understanding of the Ways People Feel Attached to Their Organizations

Arménio Rego, Regina Leite, Teresa Carvalho, Carla Freire, Armando Vieira

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the three‐dimensional model of organizational commitment proposed by Meyer and Allen (e.g., 1991). It focuses on whether…

Choices in Joint Venture and Acquisition Negotiation Behavior: The Power‐Dependence Relationship

Ma Carmen Saorín Iborra

This paper tries to provide a theoretical explanation from case studies in which I analyzed the impact of firms’ behavior on negotiation processes. Particularly, it concentrates…

The Influence of Personal Values on Feedback‐Seeking Behaviors

Stéphane Brutus, Elizabeth F. Cabrera

This study investigates the relationship between personal values and feedback‐seeking behaviors. Feedbackseeking behaviors, or the way by which individuals in organizations…

Competitive Strategies and Firm Performance

Fernando J. Garrigós‐Simón, Daniel Palacios Marqués

Our paper contrasts and validates the relevance of Miles and Snow (1978) and Robinson and Pearce (1988) strategic models, and their causal relationships with performance. The…

Design Combination Potential and Get it Done: An Analysis of the Drivers of Technological Performance in Mergers and Acquisitions

Giovanni Valentini, Maria Chiara Di Guardo

The paper explores the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on technological performance. We posit that the post‐acquisition technological performance is positively related…