Edward J. Zajac

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Edward J. Zajac is affiliated with the following schools: La Salle University, Northwestern University

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According to Wikipedia, Edward J. Zajac is James F. Beré Distinguished Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. In 2012 the Free University of Berlin gave him an honorary doctorate "for his pioneering work in the areas of corporate governance and strategic alliances".

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Edward J. Zajac's Published Works

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The effect of digoxin on mortality and morbidity in patients with heart failure. (1997) (2495)
FROM TRANSACTION COST TO TRANSACTIONAL VALUE ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF INTERORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGIES* (1993) (1287)
Who Shall Govern? CEO/Board Power, Demographic Similarity, and New Director Selection (1995) (1069)
Managerial Incentives, Monitoring, and Risk Bearing: A Study of Executive Compensation, Ownership, and Board Structure in Initial Public Offerings (1994) (1019)
Modeling the dynamics of strategic fit: a normative approach to strategic change (2000) (895)
The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The (Non)adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation among German Firms (2004) (813)
The Symbolic Management of Strategic Change: Sensegiving Via Framing and Decoupling (2006) (798)
Substance and Symbolism in CEOs' Long-Term Incentive Plans (1994) (780)
Made to Fit: How Practices Vary as They Diffuse (2014) (758)
Exploring the Limits of the New Institutionalism: The Causes and Consequences of Illegitimate Organizational Change (1996) (740)
The symbolic management of stockholders: Corporate governance reforms and shareholder reactions (1998) (722)
How Organizational Resources Affect Strategic Change and Performance in Turbulent Environments (2001) (698)
Perceptual and archival measures of Miles and Snow's strategic types: a comprehensive assessment of reliability and validity. (1990) (692)
Decoupling Policy from Practice: The Case of Stock Repurchase Programs (2001) (676)
When will boards influence strategy? Inclination × power = strategic change (2001) (610)
Status Evolution and Competition: Theory and Evidence (2005) (543)
BLIND SPOTS IN INDUSTRY AND COMPETITOR ANALYSIS: IMPLICATIONS OF INTERFIRM (MIS)PERCEPTIONS FOR STRATEGIC DECISIONS (1991) (536)
The Costs and Benefits of Managerial Incentives and Monitoring in Large U.S. Corporations: When is More not Better? (1994) (530)
Changing generic strategies: Likelihood, direction, and performance implications (1989) (508)
Who Shall Succeed? How CEO/Board Preferences and Power Affect the Choice of New CEOs (1996) (498)
Director reputation, CEO-board power, and the dynamics of board interlocks (1996) (488)
The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions (2004) (474)
Accounting for the Explanations of CEO Compensation: Substance and Symbolism (1995) (469)
Corporate Elites and Corporate Strategy: How Demographic Preferences and Structural Position Shape the Scope of the Firm (2004) (449)
Ceo selection, succession, compensation and firm performance: A theoretical integration and empirical analysis (1990) (444)
Competitive Organizational Behavior: Toward an Organizationally‐Based Theory of Competitive Advantage (1994) (430)
Alliance or acquisition? A dyadic perspective on interfirm resource combinations (2007) (418)
Defections from the Inner Circle: Social Exchange, Reciprocity, and the Diffusion of Board Independence in U.S. Corporations (1995) (393)
New Directions in Corporate Governance Research (2008) (380)
A Behavioral Theory of Corporate Governance: Explicating the Mechanisms of Socially Situated and Socially Constituted Agency (2013) (299)
A diametric forces model of strategic change: Assessing the antecedents and consequences of restructuring in the higher education industry (1993) (293)
THE STRATEGY/GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE FIT RELATIONSHIP: THEORY AND EVIDENCE IN FRANCHISING ARRANGEMENTS (2004) (288)
Ceo change and firm performance in large corporations: Succession effects and manager effects (1987) (265)
Where can capabilities come from? network ties and capability acquisition in business groups (2011) (235)
New Organizational Forms for Enhancing Innovation: The Case of Internal Corporate Joint Ventures (1991) (226)
Interlocking Directorates as An Interorganizational Strategy: A Test of Critical Assumptions (1988) (194)
Ethnic diversity deflates price bubbles (2014) (179)
On the duality of political and economic stakeholder influence on firm innovation performance: Theory and evidence from Chinese firms (2018) (167)
Unmixed signals: How reputation and status affect alliance formation (2014) (154)
Control, Collaboration, and Productivity in International Joint Ventures: Theory and Evidence (2009) (150)
Structural and Perceptual Influences on Intraindustry Stratification (1987) (148)
Rationale, design, implementation, and baseline characteristics of patients in the DIG trial: a large, simple, long-term trial to evaluate the effect of digitalis on mortality in heart failure. (1996) (125)
Strategic Alliance Structures (2016) (123)
Beyond Dyadic Exchange: Functional Interdependence and Sub-unit Power (1990) (117)
Intraorganizational Power and Organizational Design: Reconciling Rational and Coalitional Models of Organization (1991) (112)
SUBSTANCE AND SYMBOLISM IN CEOS' LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLANS. (1993) (107)
When do firms change technology-sourcing vehicles? The role of poor innovative performance and financial slack (2016) (91)
When Do Outsider CEOs Generate Strategic Change? The Enabling Role of Corporate Stability (2013) (87)
How exploitation impedes and impels exploration: Theory and evidence (2016) (73)
Under Construction: How Commensuration and Management Fashion Affect Corporate Reputation Rankings (2014) (71)
The Effect of Agents and Mediators on Negotiation Outcomes (1992) (68)
Internal corporate joint ventures: Development processes and performance outcomes (1988) (63)
Commentary on ‘alliances and networks’ by R. Gulati (1998) (60)
TOP MANAGEMENT INCENTIVES, MONITORING, AND RISK-BEARING: A STUDY OF EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, OWNERSHIP, AND BOARD STRUCTURE IN INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS. (1990) (59)
Where Can Capabilities Come From? How the Content of Network Ties Affects Capability Acquisition (2008) (59)
Strategic Adaptation in Health Care Organizations: Implications for Theory and Research (1985) (59)
Venture Capital Ownership as a Contingent Resource: How Owner–Firm Fit Influences IPO Outcomes (2016) (36)
Reflections on the Study of Strategic Alliances (2000) (30)
Health Care Organizations and the Development of the Strategic Management Perspective (1990) (29)
The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions (2004) (29)
A Case of Evolutionary Mismatch? Why Facial Width-to-Height Ratio May Not Predict Behavioral Tendencies (2019) (28)
Relating Economic and Behavioral Perspectives in Strategy Research (1992) (27)
Multimarket coopetition: How the interplay of competition and cooperation affects entry into shared markets (2020) (27)
Power and Paradigms: The Dutch Response to Pressures for Shareholder Value (2015) (23)
Managing Strategic Alliances (1988) (23)
Postabsorption Concentration Peaks with Brand‐Name and Generic Verapamil: A Double‐Blind, Crossover Study in Elderly Hypertensive Patients (1997) (22)
Tailoring incentive systems to a strategic context (1984) (21)
MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES, MONITORING, AND RISK BEARING IN INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING FIRMS (1995) (20)
Last to Come and Last to Go? The Complex Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Reputational Penalties for Directors Linked to Corporate Fraud (2020) (19)
The Institutional Nature of Price Bubbles (2007) (19)
When is an outsider CEO a good choice (2012) (18)
The Dynamics of CEO/Board Relationships (1988) (18)
Blind Spots in Strategic Decision Making: The Case of Competitor Analysis (1991) (18)
Toward a Behavioral Theory of the CEO/Board Relationship: How Research Can Enhance Our Understanding of Corporate Governance Practices (1998) (15)
Organizational decision making: Managerial incentives in organizations: Economic, political, and symbolic perspectives (1996) (14)
Thinking Broad and Deep: Why Some Directors Exert an Outsized Influence on Strategic Change (2018) (14)
SMJ 1994 best paper prize to Birger Wernerfelt (1995) (13)
Alliance or Acquisition? A Mechanisms‐Based, Policy‐Capturing Analysis (2017) (13)
Reply to Zuckerman: Should Sociological Theories Venture into “Economic Territory?” Yes! (2004) (12)
When Is a Governmental Mandate not a Mandate? Predicting Organizational Compliance Under Semicoercive Conditions (2020) (12)
THE DARK SIDE OF EMBEDDEDNESS : AN EXAMINATION OF THE INFLUENCE OF DIRECT AND INDIRECT (2000) (10)
Erratum: The social construction of market value: Institutionalization and learning perspectives on stock market reactions (American Sociological Review 2004 (69) (433-57)) (2004) (9)
Taking chances? The effect of CEO risk propensity on firms’ risky internationalization decisions (2021) (8)
Accounting for the Explanations of CEO Connpensation: Substance and Synnbolisnn (1995) (7)
Collaborative by Design? How Matrix Organizations See/Do Alliances (2018) (6)
How Inductive and Deductive Generalization Shape the Guilt by Association Phenomenon Among Firms: Theory and Evidence (2020) (6)
The S Social C Construction o of M Market V Value: I Institutionalization a and Learning P Perspectives o on S Stock M Market R Reactions (2004) (5)
The Cost of Status: When Social and Economic Interests Collide (2019) (5)
DO MARKETS LEARN? INSTITUTIONAL VS. MARKET LEARNING PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAMS. (2001) (5)
CEO PREFERENCES FOR INCENTIVE COMPENSATION: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS. (1992) (5)
THE SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT OF CEO COMPENSATION: AGENCY VS. HUMAN RESOURCE JUSTIFICATIONS. (1994) (5)
"The Emergence and Persistence of Institutional Dissonance at the New York Philharmonic, 1842-1928" (2013) (5)
Unpacking the dynamics of a contested practice: the case of executive compensation and the shareholder value orientation in the USA (2021) (4)
RICH LANGUAGE FOR POOR FIRMS: THE SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT OF BANKRUPTCY (2011) (4)
Venture Capital Ownership as a Contingent Resource: How Owner/Firm Fit Influences IPO Outcomes (2014) (4)
Strength and Weakness in Numbers? Unpacking the Role of Prevalence in the Diffusion of Reverse Mergers (2020) (3)
Principal Costs: Reversing the Polarity of the Principal-Agent Dyad (2015) (3)
Diffusion of corporate governance practices: The Dutch response to pressures for shareholder value (2011) (3)
Last to Come and Last to Go? On the Complex Role of Gender and Ethnicity in the Reputational Penalties for Directors Linked to Corporate Fraud (2020) (2)
The influence of trichlorofon, an organophosphorus insectide, on sce and dynamics of in vitro human lymphocyte divisions (1991) (2)
A Case of Stock Market Prejudice? Evidence from the Chinese (Reverse Merger) Bubble (2013) (2)
Time Is Money: Save It (1989) (2)
Institutionalization in Efficient Markets: The Case of Price Bubbles (2008) (2)
How U.S. Corporations Changed Executive Compensation after Enron: Substance and Symbol (2017) (1)
Interorganizational Dynamics and Their Impact on Alliance Performance and Stability (2011) (1)
Unsettling Settling-Up? Corporate Fraud and Heterogeneity in the Reputational Penalties to Directors (2017) (1)
When and Where Can Institutionalization Occur? The Case of Price Bubbles in Financial Markets (2009) (1)
The Fitful Diffusion of a Mandated Policy: Antecedents and Consequences of No Child Left Behind (2019) (1)
When Practices Diffuse in a Bubble: Reverse Mergers and the Internet Wave (2012) (1)
Innovation in Internal Corporate Joint Ventures. (1988) (1)
Lost and Found in Translation: How firms use anisomorphism to manage the institutional complexity of CSR (2022) (1)
Prospectives section of Strategic Management Journal (2012) (1)
My Once & Future Partner or Acquiree? Unpacking the Impact of Partner-Specific Alliance Experience (2012) (1)
Well-matched: Ownership experience and IPO success (2012) (1)
ORGANIZATIONS, ENVIRONMENTS, AND PERFORMANCE: A STUDY OF CONTRACT MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS (CORPORATE, INTERORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY) (1986) (1)
Dominant Choices? How CEO/Board Power Predicts Compensation Consulting Firm Relationships (2019) (0)
Dissonance as a Source of Change at the New York Philharmonic, 1842–1928 (2011) (0)
"Who gets burned when the books are cooked? Investor reactions to managerial/corporate misbehavior" (2013) (0)
Opening Governance: The Question of Shareholder Empowerment (2015) (0)
The Effects of Agents and Mediators on Negotiation Behavior (1996) (0)
How Cognitive Congruence Drives Innovation in Interfirm Collaborations (2018) (0)
Collaborative by Design?How Matrix Organizations See/Do Alliances (2016) (0)
Who wants to talk politics? How multi-mechanisms affect firms' disclosure of political orientation (2021) (0)
The Power of the Ambidextrous Director: Theory and Evidence from Newly Public Firms (2016) (0)
When Mitigating the Liability of Foreignness Is Liable to Backfire: The Case of Cross-listed Firms (2018) (0)
Strategic Circumlocution in Financial Markets:How/Why Firms Vaguely Quantify Earnings Forecasts (2014) (0)
Shareholder Influence in Governance: The Role of Institutional Investors and Shareholder Activism (2019) (0)
Director Expertise and its Influence on Firm Strategy: Theory/Evidence from Firms after their IP (2014) (0)
SMJ 1993 best paper award to Phahalad and Bettis (1995) (0)
Bayer and Millennium Pharmaceuticals: Success Based on Perfect Interaction (2017) (0)
The Other Invisible Hand: How Markets Can Propagate Errors (2021) (0)
Gets and Gives: The Double-Edged Role of Political Ties in Firm Innovation (2009) (0)
Have a go or lay low? Predicting firms’ rhetorical commitment versus avoidance in response to polylithic governmental pressures (2022) (0)
Frontiers of Behavioral Strategy: From Models to Experiments (2018) (0)
Too Legit to Quit? How Shareholder Activism Differentially Affects Outside Directors (2020) (0)
Managing Audience Evaluations in Financial Markets: The Role of Strategic Communication (2016) (0)
When Do Language Wrappers Matter? Market Reactions to Language Use in Earnings Announcements (2014) (0)
Transaction Cost Economics (2015) (0)
Challenges in Managing Interorganizational Relationships (2020) (0)
The Other Invisible Hand: How Markets - As Institutions - Propagate Conformity and Valuation Errors (2023) (0)
When does CEO outsiderness generate strategic change? When paradox and irony meet (2009) (0)
Confessions of a Behavioral Strategist! (2018) (0)
A Case of Stock Market Prejudice? Guilt by Categorization in the Reverse Merger (Chinese) Bubble (2014) (0)
See(k)ing a Strong Leader? How Evolutionary Biases Affect CEO Selection Decisions and the CEO/Board (2021) (0)

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