1st Edition

Current Topics in Management Volume 14, Organizational Behavior, Performance, and Effectiveness

Edited By M. Afzalur Rahim Copyright 2010
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

As the series editor, M. Afzalur Rahim points out with justifiable pride, for the past fourteen years Current Topics in Management has provided high quality research and theory on management concerns at the international as well as national levels, and done so through with respect for the universality, collegiality and need for broad involvement. The present volume continues and expands on that... Read more

Preface
M. Afzalur Rahim

1. Managing Learning and Change for Organizational Effectiveness
M. Afzalur Rahim

Part I: Organizational Behavior and Performance
2. Behind the Music: Conflict, Performance, Longevity, and Turnover in Punk and New Wave Rock Bands
Donald E. Conlon and Karen A. Jehn

3. Social Support and Turnover: Review and Recommendations
Jeffrey W. Lucas, Yuko Whitestone, David R. Segal, Mady W. Segal, Michael A. White, and Jacqueline A. Mottern

Part II: Strategy, Structure, and Performance
4. Adaptation to Competence-Destroying Change: A Real Options Perspective
Mujtaba Ahsan

5. Cognitive Complexity of the Top Management Team: The Impact of Team Differentiation and Integration Processes on Firm Performance
Susan M. Houghton, Alice C. Stewart, and Pamela S. Barr

6. Origins and Development of the Cellular Organization
Don G. Schley

Part III: Cognition, Common Sense, and Effectiveness
7. Incorporating Embodied Cognition into Sensemaking Theory: A Theoretical Examination of Embodied Processes in a Leadership Context
Alison L. O'Malley, Samantha A. Ritchie, Robert G. Lord, Jane Brodie Gregory, and Candice M. Young

8. Distributed Cognition: A Research Agenda for Management
Emanuele Bardone and Davide Secchi

9. Common Sense, Practical Judgment and Decision-Making: An Application of Virtue Ethics
Surendra Arjoon

Part IV: Entrepreneurship
10. A Cross-Cultural Model of Emotional Intelligence and Corporate Entrepreneurship
M. Afzalur Rahim and Matthew R. Marvel

11. Tell Us Your Story: The Use of Role Model Narratives in Entrepreneurship Education
Monica L. Godsey and Terrence C. Sebora

About the Contributors

Biography

M. Afzalur Rahim