The Genesis of Top Management Team Diversity: Selective Turnover Among Top Management Teams in Dutch Newspaper Publishing, 1970-94.

Boone, Christophe; Olffen, W. van; Witteloostuijn, A. van; Brabander, Bert De

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“…Homosocial reproduction has been identified as an important phenomenon in research on a diverse range of topics including academic competition (D'Aveni, 1996;Dressel et al, 1994), executive turnover and diversity (Boone et al, 2004), race, gender and authority in the work place (Smith, 2002;Baldi and McBrier, 1997), and in particular women in management and leadership (Kanter, 1977;Corsun and Coston, 2001;Newman, 1994;Arfken, Bellar and Helms, 2004) and corporate board appointments (Dugger, 1981). It is also more pervasive when there is greater perceived role incongruence.…”

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Where Are All the Women? Institutional Context and the Prevalence of Women on the Corporate Board of Directors

Grosvold

2011

Business & Society

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This dissertation abstract and the reflection commentary present the work of Dr. Johanne Grosvold. The dissertation addresses the influence of institutional context on the prevalence of women on corporate boards of directors. The dissertation abstract explains the research questions, setting, and methods.The reflection commentary discusses the author’s views of research process as a junior scholar.

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Where Are All the Women? Institutional Context and the Prevalence of Women on the Corporate Board of Directors

Grosvold

2011

Business & Society

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“…In an extensive empirical study Boone et al (2004) find that top executive management teams in the newspaper-publisher industry tended to hire more 'similar' team members and fire more 'dissimilar' team members when they had more power vis-à-vis the board of directors and competition from alternative media (particularly television) was strong (interaction effect). Similarity in their study is not related to sex or race, but rather to other demographic characteristics, namely age, career path, industry experience and academic status.…”

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“…Rising competition in the product market may have a comparable effect. Boone et al (2004) describe how in the newspaper-publisher industry powerful top-management teams become more homogeneous with respect to demographic characteristics when competition in the product market strengthens-by hiring demographically similar and firing dissimilar team members.…”

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Identification, screening and stereotyping in labour market discrimination

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2009

J. Econ.

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According to social-psychological research, feelings of uncertainty in decision-making evoke two opposite responses: (i) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii) social identification with an ingroup, inducing more reliance on stereotypic perceptions and prejudices, and hence more discrimination against an outgroup. We integrate both responses in a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer. Increasing competition in the product market makes the employer feel more uncertain about his profits, but also raises the opportunity cost of screening expenditures. This elicits substitution of ingroup identification for screening expenditures, and hence enhances discrimination.

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“…4 This relates to group selection and sorting theories that emphasize that (clusters within) organizations evolve toward increasing group composition homogeneity because group members are inclined to stay in those (entities within) organizations that suit their attitudes, beliefs, personalities and preferences (e.g. Boone et al 2004). Being part of a congenial group reinforces people to be convinced of being right, hence sticking to their point of view.…”

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Works Councils and Organizational Performance

2011

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Most studies on the effects of works councils simply analyze whether their mere presence contributes to firm performance. This study seeks to offer a contribution to the literature by adding, to date, largely unexplored potential contingencies: the attitudes of Dutch top managers and works councils as to the functioning of the latter, in bad vis-à-vis good times. The overall conclusion from our probit analyses is that the way in which management and works councils interact, and hence the way in which codetermination is implemented, makes all the difference to the firm's economic position. Our most compelling finding relates to the role of management: a positive attitude of managers toward the works council is positively associated with organizational performance, both in the private and the public sector. In the private sector, this result is even reinforced in times of reorganization.

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The Genesis of Top Management Team Diversity: Selective Turnover Among Top Management Teams in Dutch Newspaper Publishing, 1970-94.

Cited by 136 publications

References 62 publications

Where Are All the Women? Institutional Context and the Prevalence of Women on the Corporate Board of Directors

Where Are All the Women? Institutional Context and the Prevalence of Women on the Corporate Board of Directors

Identification, screening and stereotyping in labour market discrimination

Works Councils and Organizational Performance

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