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Effects of Executive Characteristics and Venture Capital Involvement on Board Composition and Share Ownership in IPO Firms

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Cognitive capacity, non-executive director incentives, and board independence are negatively related with power and experience of executive directors, while large-block share ownership is positively related to the diversity and intensity of non-executive experience. Implications for research on threshold-firm board development processes are discussed.

Management dynamics, Management, Influence, Venture capital, Company business management, Boards of directors

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More than a metaphor: organizational identity makes organizational life possible

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The authors examine the importance of organizational identity in the interrelationship between socially structured organizational member psychology and the social facts of organizational structure. Studying organizational identity as both a theoretical and applied construct is key to understanding organizational behavior.

Netherlands, Company Identity PR, Corporate culture, Corporate image

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Sustained monopolistic business relationships: an interdisciplinarity case

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A monopolistic environment is examined through the framework of transaction cost economics, relationship marketing, and supply-chain management theories, applied to the United Kingdom's defense program procurement process. Key factors in monopolistic relationship dynamics are identified and discussed.

National Security, Defense Procurement, Methods, Military procurement, Monopolistic competition, Defence buying

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