Who's the Boss at the Top? A Micro-Level Analysis of Director Expertise, Status and Conformity Within Boards
| Autor: | Hans van Ees, Eric Molleman, Dennis Veltrop, Reggy Hooghiemstra |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Research programme OB, Research programme I&O, Research programme GEM |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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SOCIAL-INFLUENCE
Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject Audit committee 050109 social psychology Conformity Archival research non-executive directors Management of Technology and Innovation CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 0502 economics and business 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences FACE GROUPS Business and International Management individual performance orientation GOAL ORIENTATION ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS Social influence media_common conformity Goal orientation business.industry Corporate governance 05 social sciences Public relations NETWORK TIES AUDIT COMMITTEES Management social status INFLUENCE TACTICS Boss INTERRATER RELIABILITY expertise STRATEGIC DECISION-MAKING Psychology business 050203 business & management Social status FINANCIAL-REPORTING QUALITY |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Management Studies, 54(7), 1079-1110. Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 0022-2380 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/joms.12276 |
| Popis: | In this paper we address how director expertise impacts a director's social status and conformity within the board. Our results, derived from two unique multi-source datasets of peer ratings on director status and conformity of non-executive directors from Dutch organizations, indicate that industry-specific expertise and financial expertise differently impact directors' social status and influence within the board. We find that directors' individual performance orientation - the motivation to demonstrate expertise - acts as an important contingency for expertise to increase directors' status within the board. Additional analyses using archival data and interviews with non-executive directors substantiate our findings and provide additional insight into the dynamics operating within boards. This study extends existing research on boards of directors and provides unique micro-level insights into the boardroom dynamics that connect director expertise to director status and conformity within boards. |
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