James D. Westphal
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- Customization or Conformity? An Institutional and Network Perspective on the Content and Consequences of TQM Adoption (1997) (1513)
- The Strategic Context Of External Network Ties: Examining The Impact Of Director Appointments On Board Involvement In Strategic Decision Making (2001) (1175)
- Who Shall Govern? CEO/Board Power, Demographic Similarity, and New Director Selection (1995) (1069)
- Collaboration in the Boardroom: Behavioral and Performance Consequences of CEO-Board Social Ties (1999) (1062)
- Substance and Symbolism in CEOs' Long-Term Incentive Plans (1994) (780)
- The symbolic management of stockholders: Corporate governance reforms and shareholder reactions (1998) (722)
- How Experience and Network Ties Affect the Influence of Demographic Minorities on Corporate Boards (2000) (683)
- Decoupling Policy from Practice: The Case of Stock Repurchase Programs (2001) (676)
- Who directs strategic change? Director experience, the selection of new CEOs, and change in corporate strategy (2001) (571)
- Cooperative or Controlling? The Effects of CEO-Board Relations and the Content of Interlocks on the Formation of Joint Ventures (1999) (530)
- The Costs and Benefits of Managerial Incentives and Monitoring in Large U.S. Corporations: When is More not Better? (1994) (530)
- 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)
- Getting by with the Advice of Their Friends: CEOs' Advice Networks and Firms' Strategic Responses to Poor Performance (2003) (438)
- Board Games: How CEOs Adapt to Increases in Structural Board Independence from Management (1998) (398)
- Defections from the Inner Circle: Social Exchange, Reciprocity, and the Diffusion of Board Independence in U.S. Corporations (1995) (393)
- Keeping Directors in Line: Social Distancing as a Control Mechanism in the Corporate Elite (2003) (330)
- Pluralistic Ignorance in Corporate Boards and Firms' Strategic Persistence in Response to Low Firm Performance (2005) (320)
- What do they know? The effects of outside director acquisition experience on firm acquisition performance (2008) (302)
- A Behavioral Theory of Corporate Governance: Explicating the Mechanisms of Socially Situated and Socially Constituted Agency (2013) (299)
- FLATTERY WILL GET YOU EVERYWHERE (ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE A MALE CAUCASIAN): HOW INGRATIATION, BOARDROOM BEHAVIOR, AND DEMOGRAPHIC MINORITY STATUS AFFECT ADDITIONAL BOARD APPOINTMENTS AT U.S. COMPANIES (2007) (295)
- Second-Order Imitation: Uncovering Latent Effects of Board Network Ties (2001) (293)
- The Other Pathway to the Boardroom: Interpersonal Influence Behavior as a Substitute for Elite Credentials and Majority Status in Obtaining Board Appointments (2006) (284)
- A MATTER OF APPEARANCES: HOW CORPORATE LEADERS MANAGE THE IMPRESSIONS OF FINANCIAL ANALYSTS ABOUT THE CONDUCT OF THEIR BOARDS (2010) (251)
- GETTING THEM TO THINK OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, CEOS' EXTERNAL ADVICE NETWORKS, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE (2008) (217)
- The strategic impetus for social network ties: reconstituting broken ceo friendship ties (2006) (214)
- Me or We: The Effects of CEO Organizational Identification on Agency Costs (2009) (186)
- Identity Confirmation Networks and Cooperation in Workgroups (2005) (176)
- Sociopolitical Dynamics In Relations Between Top Managers and Security Analysts: Favor Rendering, Reciprocity, and Analyst Stock Recommendations (2008) (166)
- Access denied: : low mentoring of women and minority first-time directors and its negative effects on appointments to additional boards. (2013) (162)
- Avoiding Bad Press: Interpersonal Influence in Relations between CEOs and Journalists and the Consequences for Press Reporting About Firms and Their Leadership (2010) (142)
- Stealthy Footsteps to the Boardroom: Executives' Backgrounds, Sophisticated Interpersonal Influence Behavior, and Board Appointments (2010) (137)
- The Pacification of Institutional Investors (2008) (119)
- SUBSTANCE AND SYMBOLISM IN CEOS' LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLANS. (1993) (107)
- Helping Other CEOs Avoid Bad Press (2012) (104)
- Set up for a Fall (2011) (98)
- A Little Help Here? Board Control, CEO Identification with the Corporate Elite, and Strategic Help Provided to CEOs at Other Firms (2010) (89)
- Social Discrimination in the Corporate Elite (2013) (85)
- How Directors’ Prior Experience with Other Demographically Similar CEOs Affects Their Appointments Onto Corporate Boards and the Consequences for CEO Compensation (2014) (82)
- Surveying the Corporate Elite: Theoretical and Practical Guidance on Improving Response Rates and Response Quality in Top Management Survey Questionnaires (2006) (63)
- Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level (2015) (61)
- My Brother's Keeper? CEO Identification with the Corporate Elite, Social Support among CEOS, and Leader Effectiveness (2011) (61)
- One Step Forward, One Step Back: White Male Top Manager Organizational Identification and Helping Behavior Toward Other Executives Following the Appointment of a Female or Racial Minority CEO (2017) (49)
- Research Impact: How Seemingly Innocuous Social Cues in a CEO Survey Can Lead to Change in Board of Director Network Ties (2004) (38)
- Misperceiving the Beliefs of Others: How Pluralistic Ignorance Contributes to the Persistence of Positive Security Analyst Reactions to the Adoption of Stock Repurchase Plans (2011) (35)
- The Other Pathway to the Boardroom: How Interpersonal Influence Behavior Can Substitute for Elite Credentials and Demographic Majority Status in Gaining Access to Board Appointments (2006) (34)
- Psyched-up to Suck-up: Self-regulated Cognition, Interpersonal Influence, and Recommendations for Board Appointments in the Corporate Elite (2016) (29)
- The Social Construction of Market Value: Institutionalization and Learning Perspectives on Stock Market Reactions (2004) (29)
- Those Closest Wield the Sharpest Knife: How Ingratiation Leads to Resentment and Social Undermining of the CEO (2017) (28)
- THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT: THE EMERGENCE OF NORMATIVE TQM ADOPTION AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL LEGITIMACY AND PERFORMANCE. (1996) (26)
- Symbolic Management (2020) (22)
- Under the radar: How firms manage competitive uncertainty by appointing friends of other chief executive officers to their boards (2018) (21)
- Persona Non Grata? Determinants and Consequences of Social Distancing from Journalists Who Engage in Negative Coverage of Firm Leadership (2015) (20)
- An impression management perspective on job design: The case of corporate directors (2010) (18)
- The Strategic Impetus for Social Network Ties: How Strategic Dependencies Affect the Likelihood of Reconstituting Broken CEO Friendship Ties to Executives of Other Firms (2006) (16)
- Capitalizing on Categories of Social Construction: A Review and Integration of Organizational Research on Symbolic Management Strategies (2019) (16)
- Toward a Behavioral Theory of the CEO/Board Relationship: How Research Can Enhance Our Understanding of Corporate Governance Practices (1998) (15)
- Unintended agency: Impression management support as a trigger of institutional change in corporate governance (2012) (14)
- Organizational decision making: Managerial incentives in organizations: Economic, political, and symbolic perspectives (1996) (14)
- Reply to Zuckerman: Should Sociological Theories Venture into “Economic Territory?” Yes! (2004) (12)
- Structural power, corporate strategy, and performance (2020) (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)
- Accounting for the Explanations of CEO Connpensation: Substance and Synnbolisnn (1995) (7)
- A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE ON HOW OUTSIDE DIRECTORS IMPACTSTRATEGIC DECISION MAKING. (1999) (6)
- From Help to Harm: Increases in Status, Perceived Under-Reciprocation, and the Consequences for Access to Strategic Help and Social Undermining Among Female, Racial Minority, and White Male Top Managers (2021) (6)
- THE SYMBOLIC MANAGEMENT OF CEO COMPENSATION: AGENCY VS. HUMAN RESOURCE JUSTIFICATIONS. (1994) (5)
- DO MARKETS LEARN? INSTITUTIONAL VS. MARKET LEARNING PERSPECTIVES ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF STOCK REPURCHASE PROGRAMS. (2001) (5)
- 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)
- FOR EVERY ACTION, A REACTION: HOW CEOS DEAL WITH THE LOSS OF POWER IN CEO/BOARD RELATIONSHIPS. (1997) (3)
- RESEARCH IMPACT: SOCIAL NETWORK RESEARCH, FRAMING, AND CHANGE IN BOARD NETWORK TIES. (2002) (3)
- SOCIOPOLITICAL DYNAMICS IN RELATIONS BETWEEN TOP MANAGERS AND SECURITY ANALYSTS. (2007) (3)
- Decoupling and Intergroup Dynamics in Behavioral Strategy, and a More Integrative Alternative (2018) (2)
- Pumping their Ego and Popping it Down: How Ingratiation Leads to Social Undermining by Top Managers (2014) (2)
- Corporate Leaders Set up for a Fall : The Insidious Effects of Flattery and Opinion Conformity toward (2011) (2)
- Social Distancing from Journalists Who Engage in Negative Coverage of Firm Leadership (2013) (1)
- "Self-regulated Cognition, Interpersonal Influence, and Recommendations for Board Appointments" (2013) (1)
- Corporate Governance and Knowledge Management: How Board Independence May Increase CEO Paranoia, and Lead to Increased Top Management Team Homophily (2010) (1)
- Seeking input when the train has left the station: The decoupling of participative strategic decision-making processes and the role of new technology in symbolic management (2021) (1)
- That Should Be Me: How Minority CEOs Get Blamed for Low Firm Performance by Other CEOs & Journalists (2013) (1)
- Who Will Support a CEO Like Me? Social inference processes in new director selections (2012) (1)
- PLURALISTIC IGNORANCE AND THE PERSISTENCE OF POSITIVE ANALYST REACTIONS TO REPURCHASE PLANS. (2010) (1)
- HOW TOP MANAGERS USE INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE TO NEUTRALIZE THE EFFECTS OF INSTITUTIONAL OWNERSHIP. (2006) (1)
- "A Structural Theory of Power, Strategy, and Performance" (2015) (1)
- THE OTHER PATHWAY TO THE BOARDROOM: INTERPERSONAL INFLUENCE BEHAVIOR AND BOARD APPOINTMENTS. (2005) (1)
- The Diffusion and Consequences of Coordinated Impression Management Support among Minority Leaders (2017) (0)
- job design: The case of corporate directors (2010) (0)
- Impression Management Support Provided Scale (2015) (0)
- HOW STRATEGIC DEPENDENCIES AFFECT THE LIKELIHOOD OF REBUILDING BROKEN FRIENDSHIP TIES BETWEEN CEOS. (2004) (0)
- HELPING OTHER CEOS AVOID BAD PRESS:IMPRESSION MANAGEMENT SUPPORT AMONG CEOS TOWARDS JOURNALISTS (2011) (0)
- The Social Psychological Dynamics of Symbolic Management (2020) (0)
- Systemic Symbolic Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Corporate Purpose: A Cautionary Tale (2023) (0)
- Sex in the Boardroom: Does Gender Really Matter in the Upper Echelons? - A Debate (2016) (0)
- Symbolic Management of Process (2020) (0)
- Office politics: When managers flatter the CEO, but undermine him with journalists (2017) (0)
- Making Sense of a Seemingly Random Walk (2021) (0)
- Symbolic Management of Policy and Structure (2020) (0)
- Social Network Ties and Symbolic Management (2020) (0)
- THE HIGHER THEY RISE, THE HARDER THEY FALL. (2010) (0)
- Conclusions, Future Research Directions, and Policy Implications (2020) (0)
- "Increases in Status, Perceived Under-Reciprocation, and Social Undermining Among Top Managers" (2015) (0)
- Introduction to the Symbolic Management Perspective (2020) (0)
- WHO SHALL GOVERN? THE ROLE OF DEMOGRAPHIC SIMILARITY IN NEW DIRECTOR SELECTION. (1994) (0)
- Social Influence Processes in Leader–Stakeholder Relations (2020) (0)
- Frontmatter (2006) (0)
- Shareholder Politics: The Influence of Investors’ Political Affiliations on Corporate Social Responsibility (2023) (0)
- The Power of Words in Capital Markets (2014) (0)
- Birds of a feather flock (even more) together: An intergroup relations perspective on how # MeToo ‐related media coverage affects the evaluation of prospective corporate directors (2022) (0)
- The Multi-Stage Social Influence Process in CEO–Board Relationships (2020) (0)
- Glass Ceilings, Walls, and Cliffs: Gender Biases in Academia and in Practice (2017) (0)
- What’s in the Black Box? A Dialogue Between Micro and Macro on Psychological Processes of Leaders (2019) (0)
- Index: Volume 58, 2013 (2013) (0)
- Group-Level Social and Psychological Processes that Support Symbolic Management (2020) (0)
- Symbolic Management beyond the Firm Level (2020) (0)
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