Managerial Aspirations and Suspect Leaders: The Effect of Relative Performance and Leader Succession on Organizational Misconduct
| Autor: | Mark A. Davis, Marcus Z. Cox, Melissa Baucus |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Economics and Econometrics
05 social sciences 06 humanities and the arts Ecological succession Football 0603 philosophy ethics and religion General Business Management and Accounting Organizational performance Misconduct Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) 0502 economics and business 060301 applied ethics Business and International Management Business ethics Suspect Psychology Law Social psychology 050203 business & management Quality of Life Research |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Business Ethics. 171:123-138 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0697 0167-4544 |
| Popis: | Explanations of organizational misconduct frequently point to declining firm performance and/or the actions of unethical or suspect leaders. Evidence that high-performing firms act illegally or unethically is an enigma. The purpose of this paper is to address these issues by exploring organizational performance using aspirational rather than absolute measures (i.e., social and self-referenced performance vs ROE or ROI) and examining the effect that suspect leader succession has on the increased probability of organizational misconduct. Our analysis of 128 collegiate football programs competing between 1953 and 2016 reveals an increased likelihood of misconduct among organizations with strong as well as weak performance, most notably in comparison to competitive peer programs. Social- and self-referenced aspirations produced distinct relationships between relative performance and misconduct. The impact of leader succession was conditional. The data revealed an increased likelihood of infraction episodes with the appointment of suspect leaders. In some instances, however, a reduced likelihood of misconduct accompanied succession events involving untainted leaders. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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