Managerial Discretion and Performance in China Towards Resolving the Discretion Puzzle for Chinese Companies and Multinationals
The theoretical and empirical literature to date has fallen short of reaching a consensus as to whether granting more managerial discretion to managers tends to enhance, not alter or diminish organisational performance (the discretion puzzle). This book aims to build a bridge between these contradic...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2013. |
| Colección: | Contributions to Management Science,
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009469204106719 |
| Sumario: | The theoretical and empirical literature to date has fallen short of reaching a consensus as to whether granting more managerial discretion to managers tends to enhance, not alter or diminish organisational performance (the discretion puzzle). This book aims to build a bridge between these contradictory results by synthesising principal-agent theory, stewardship theory, and managerial discretion theory into a new empirically-validated model. Using a representative sample of 'double-blind' interviews with managers of 467 firms in China and applying partial least squares path modelling (PLS), the study identifies a potential cause of the discretion puzzle: the failure of the extant literature to account for granularity in the way that managers use their discretion. This generates far-reaching implications for theoretical and empirical research as well as practical recommendations for managing managers in multinationals and Chinese companies. |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (556 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783642358371 |
