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Managerial Discretion and Performance in China
Hagen Wulferth
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Hardcover. Using a representative sample of double-blind interviews with managers of more than 450 firms in China, this book examines the contradictory impacts of managerial discretion on performance. It offers key advice on how to manage managers. Series: Contributions to Management Science. Num Pages: 534 pages, 50 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; KJC; KJMV2; KJSM; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 974.
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 organizational 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 ... Read more
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 organizational 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
660
Condition
New
Series
Contributions to Management Science
Number of Pages
534
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783642358364
SKU
V9783642358364
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About Hagen Wulferth
Dr. Hagen Wülferth is a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in China. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese, his main expertise and research interests are strategic management and key success factors of multinationals and Chinese companies. Dr. Wülferth studied economics and management on a scholarship from the University of Oxford, where he won numerous awards and prizes.
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