60th birthday of 'A Behavioral Theory of the Firm': a review of the relational concepts and recommendations for future research

M Hagen, W Su, S Junge - Management Review Quarterly, 2023‏ - Springer
This year, we celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of 'A Behavioral Theory of the
Firm'(BTF)(Cyert and March in A behavioral theory of the firm, Prentice Hall, Englewood …

The corporate opportunity structure for shareholder activism: How activist hedge funds exploit board demographic diversity

MR DesJardine, W Shi, E Marti - Organization Science, 2024‏ - pubsonline.informs.org
Inspired by research on social movements, we extend the idea that activists look for
opportunities to target firms to the realm of financially motivated shareholder activists …

A Stakeholder Perspective on Diversity Within Organizations

P Dwivedi, Y Basuthakur, S Polineni… - Journal of …, 2025‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Research on the influence of internal and external stakeholders on diversity outcomes within
organizations has grown in the past decade. Across multiple macro and micro theoretical …

New quality productivity and environmental innovation: The hostile moderating roles of managerial empowerment and board centralization

S Yue, NH Bajuri, SFA Khatib, Y Lee - Journal of Environmental …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
As new quality productivity (NQP) emerges as a rising star of productivity that can effectively
leverage technological innovation and sustainability, this study aims to explore the …

Reducing bias through board decision-making: An information-processing model of board decision synergy

R Krause, MC Withers, MMJ Waller - Academy of Management …, 2024‏ - journals.aom.org
The board of directors is the highest decision-making group in the organizational hierarchy.
Yet, there remains considerable ambiguity as to what constitutes effective board decision …

Women directors and board dynamics: qualitative insights from the boardroom

MF Wiersema, ML Mors - Journal of Management, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Despite increasing attention to gender diversity on corporate boards, we have only limited
understanding of what occurs within the boardroom when women are present. Prior …

Innovation performance feedback and inter-organization knowledge search in high-tech firms: The moderating role of technical knowledge complexity

M Tian, J Yao, J **e, C Hu - Journal of Business Research, 2024‏ - Elsevier
Building on the knowledge search behaviors exhibited by high-tech firms, this study
develops a contingency model to explore the relationship between innovation performance …

On or off: The triggering effect of underperformance duration on cooperative innovation

T Su, Y Yu, Y Chen, W Hou - Technovation, 2023‏ - Elsevier
By complementing performance feedback theory with organizational pressure, we argue that
underperformance duration breaks the balance between growth pressure and survival …

“Carrot and stick”: Green fiscal policy, upper echelons expertise, and the green mergers and acquisitions

L Yang, L Liu, K Yan, C Cai, Y Geng - Finance Research Letters, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Green fiscal policy has played the role of “carrots”(incentives) and “sticks”(penalties) in
stimulating firms' green transitions. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm and the …

Dynamics of founding team diversity and venture outcomes: A simulation approach

VK Sundriyal, M Lévesque… - Strategic …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research summary Entrepreneurship research overlooks the dynamics of changing
diversity in founding teams. Our simulations calibrated from existing studies suggest that …