Strategizing in a focused context: managerial discretion in the Arab world
| Autor: | I. Christodoulou, Moustafa Salman Haj Youssef |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
Uncertainty avoidance
business.industry Strategy and Management media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Collectivism Middle management 050109 social psychology Context (language use) Public relations Discretion 0502 economics and business Economics HD28 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory Business and International Management business Construct (philosophy) 050203 business & management Egalitarianism media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Strategy and Management. 10:430-452 |
| ISSN: | 1755-425X |
| DOI: | 10.1108/jsma-04-2016-0029 |
| Popis: | Purpose The purpose of this paper is to broaden the national-level construct of managerial discretion and to investigate the effect of cultural practices on executive discretion. Design/methodology/approach Based on a sample of six Arabian countries and using a panel of prominent cross-cultural scholars who provided 262 discretion scores for the sample countries, the authors replicate and extend the national framework of Crossland and Hambrick (2011) in a new cultural context. The cultural dimensions were measured using survey responses of middle managers based on House et al.’s (2004) cultural practices scale. Findings The authors extend the national-level framework of managerial discretion and find that an encompassing array of cultural practices plays a crucial role in shaping the degree of discretion provided to CEOs. The authors empirically demonstrate that power distance, future and performance orientation, along with gender egalitarianism and assertiveness have positive relationships with managerial discretion. However, institutional collectivism, uncertainty avoidance and humane orientation negatively affect the degree of discretion provided to CEOs. Originality/value The study fills a gap in the literature regarding the national-level framework of managerial discretion. The results indicate that executives can take idiosyncratic and bold actions to the extent to which the cultural environment allows them to do so. Also, the authors discover new national-level antecedents of managerial discretion that have not been considered in earlier studies and confirm the context dependency of this concept. |
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