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Wissenschaftliche Konzepte und Methoden im Management: Behavioral Foundations of Management

(WiSe 2024/25)

TypForschungsseminar
Dozent/inProf. Flickinger
SemesterWintersemester 2024/25
Veranstaltungsumfang3 SWS
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl20
Anmeldemodalität
  • Das Seminar ist auf 20 Teilnehmer*innen begrenzt.
  • Regelmäßige Anwesenheit ist verpflichtend. Bitte prüfen Sie vor Ihrer Anmeldung, ob Sie die Termine wahrnehmen können.
  • Sie können sich ab sofort per E-Mail an ruidong.zhu@fu-berlin.de um einen Platz im Seminar bewerben. Verwenden Sie dazu unbedingt das vorgeschriebene Formular und legen Sie ein kurzes Motivationsschreiben und eine Bescheinigung der bisher erbrachten Prüfungsleistungen bei. Bewerbungsfrist: Sonntag, 13.10.2024.
  • Platzzusagen werden bis Mittwoch, 16.10.2024 per E-Mail mitgeteilt. Bei einer Zusage haben Sie bis Montag, 21.10.2024 Zeit, Ihre Teilnahme zu bestätigen oder vom Seminar zurückzutreten. Ihre Anmeldung ist nach Ihrer Bestätigung verbindlich! Nicht in Anspruch genommene Plätze werden weiter vergeben an Bewerber*innen auf der Warteliste.

Bitte beachten Sie, dass dieser Kurs ausschließlich Studierenden des Bachelorstudiengangs Betriebswirtschaftslehre angeboten wird.

Please note that this course is offered exclusively to students of the Bachelor's program in Business Administration.


Course Contents

This research seminar will address a number of different behavioral issues that concern firms’ upper echelons. Throughout the course, we will study the socio-psychological mechanisms of top managers and board members that influence behavior relevant to the leadership of firms. Topics will include personalities and values of top managers, composition of top management teams, executive compensation, the interplay between boards and top managers, legitimacy and institutional logics, social learning, reciprocity and social exchange, status and power.

 

Agenda

23.10.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Foundations: The Upper Echelons Perspective
  • Hambrick, D. C., & Mason, P. A. (1984). Upper echelons: The organization as a reflection of its top managers. Academy of Management Review, 9(2), 193-206.
  • Finkelstein, S., Cannella, S. F. B., Hambrick, D. C., & Cannella, A. A. (2009). Strategic leadership: Theory and research on executives, top management teams, and boards. Oxford University Press, USA. Chapter 1.

30.10.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Do Managers Matter?
  • Quigley, T. J., & Hambrick, D. C. (2015). Has the “CEO effect” increased in recent decades? A new explanation for the great rise in America's attention to corporate leaders. Strategic Management Journal, 36(6), 821-830.
  • Meindl, J. R., Ehrlich, S. B., & Dukerich, J. M. (1985). The romance of leadership. Administrative Science Quarterly, 30(1), 78-102.

06.11.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Personalities and Values of Top Managers
  • König, A., Graf-Vlachy, L., Bundy, J., & Little, L. M. (2020). A blessing and a curse: How CEOs’ trait empathy affects their management of organizational crises. Academy of Management Review, 45(1), 130-153.
  • Harrison, J., Thurgood, G. R., Boivie, S., & Pfarrer, M. (2020). Perception is reality: How CEOs’ observed personality influences market perceptions of firm risk and shareholder returns. Academy of Management Journal, 63(4), 1166-1195.

07.11.

09:00-16:00

TBD

Morning: Workshop Behavioral Corporate Governance
  • Jensen, M. C. & Meckling, W. H. (1976). Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs, and ownership structure. Journal of Financial Economics, 3(4), 305-360.
  • Westphal, J. D. & Zajac, E. J. (2013). A behavioral theory of corporate governance: Explicating the mechanisms of socially situated and socially constituted agency. Academy of Management Annals, 7(1), 605-659.

 

 

TBD

Afternoon: Workshop Scientific Work and Writing

 

13.11.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Attention of Top Managers
  • Ocasio, W. (1997). Towards an attention‐based view of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, 18(1), 187-206.
  • Gamache, D. L., & McNamara, G. (2019). Responding to bad press: How CEO temporal focus influences the sensitivity to negative media coverage of acquisitions. Academy of Management Journal, 62(3), 918-943.

20.11.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Boards and Governance
  • Hillman, A. J., & Dalziel, T. (2003). Boards of directors and firm performance: Integrating agency and resource dependence perspectives. Academy of Management Review, 28(3), 383-396.
  • Zhu, D. H. (2013). Group polarization on corporate boards: Theory and evidence on board decisions about acquisition premiums. Strategic Management Journal, 34(7), 800-822.

21.11.

09:00-16:00

Online
(WebEx)

Individual Discussions of Seminar Paper Topics

 

27.11.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Dynamics between Boards and CEOs
  • Zajac, E. J., & Westphal, J. D. (1996). Who shall succeed? How CEO/board preferences and power affect the choice of new CEOs. Academy of Management Journal, 39(1), 64-90.
  • Oliver, A. G., Krause, R., Busenbark, J. R., & Kalm, M. (2018). BS in the boardroom: Benevolent sexism and board chair orientations. Strategic Management Journal, 39(1), 113-130.

04.12.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Composition of Top Management Teams
  • Hambrick, D. C., Cho, T. S., & Chen, M. J. (1996). The influence of top management team heterogeneity on firms' competitive moves. Administrative Science Quarterly, 41(4), 659-684.
  • Jeong, S. H., & Harrison, D. A. (2017). Glass breaking, strategy making, and value creating: Meta-analytic outcomes of women as CEOs and TMT members. Academy of Management Journal, 60(4), 1219-1252.

11.12.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Executive Compensation and Incentives: Determinants
  • O'Reilly III, C. A., Main, B. G., & Crystal, G. S. (1988). CEO compensation as tournament and social comparison: A tale of two theories. Administrative Science Quarterly, 33(2), 257-274.
  • Devers, C. E., Cannella Jr, A. A., Reilly, G. P., & Yoder, M. E. (2007). Executive compensation: A multidisciplinary review of recent developments. Journal of Management, 33(6), 1016-1072.

18.12.

09:00-10:00

Online (WebEx)

Executive Compensation and Incentives: Consequences
  • Schulz, A. C., & Flickinger, M. (2020). Does CEO (over) compensation influence corporate reputation? Review of Managerial Science, 14(4), 903-927.
  • Aime, F., Hill, A. D., & Ridge, J. W. (in press) Looking for respect? How prior TMT social comparisons affect executives' new TMT engagements. Strategic Management Journal.

08.01.

09:00-10:00

TBD

The Company You Keep: Legitimacy, Institutional Logic, Social Learning, and Symbolic Management
  • Sanders, W. G., & Tuschke, A. (2007). The adoption of institutionally contested organizational practices: The emergence of stock option pay in Germany. Academy of Management Journal, 50(1), 33-56.
  • Bednar, M. K. (2012). Watchdog or lapdog? A behavioral view of the media as a corporate governance mechanism. Academy of Management Journal, 55(1), 131-150.

15.01.

09:00-10:00

TBD

Basking in Reflected Glory: Status, Reputation, and Power
  • Flickinger, M., Wrage, M., Tuschke, A., & Bresser, R. (2016). How CEOs protect themselves against dismissal: A social status perspective. Strategic Management Journal, 37(6), 1107-1117.
  • Chatterjee, A., & Pollock, T. G. (2017). Master of puppets: How narcissistic CEOs construct their professional worlds. Academy of Management Review, 42(4), 703-725.

22.01.

09:00-10:00

TBD

It's a Small World After All: Reciprocity and Social Exchange in the Corporate Elite
  • Stern, I., & Westphal, J. D. (2010). Stealthy footsteps to the boardroom: Executives' backgrounds, sophisticated interpersonal influence behavior, and board appointments. Administrative Science Quarterly, 55(2), 278-319.
  • McDonald, M. L., & Westphal, J. D. (2011). My brother's keeper? CEO identification with the corporate elite, social support among CEOs, and leader effectiveness. Academy of Management Journal, 54(4), 661-693.

06.02.

09:00-16:00

TBD

Student Presentation of Seminar Papers

  

07.02.

09:00-16:00

TBD

Student Presentation of Seminar Papers

  

 

Teaching Schedule and Attendance

The seminar will consist of a weekly one-hour lecture class as well as four full-day seminar sessions. For the best learning results, it is recommended that you read the mandatory readings prior to the lecture. The full day sessions (9 am to 6 pm) will take place on Nov 7, Nov 21, Feb 6 and Feb 7.

Attendance is mandatory. The class will be taught in English.

 

Application

The module requires a prior application.

In order to apply for the module, please send:

  1. Bewerbungsformular/ Application form
  2. Kurzes Motivationsschreiben/ Brief motivational letter
  3. Leistungsübersicht/ Transcript of records

to Dr. Ruidong Zhu (ruidong.zhu@fu-berlin.de) by Sunday, 13.10.2024. You will be notified about the success of your application no later than Wednesday, 16.10.2024.

In the winter semester 24/25, Prof. Dr. Anja Kirsch will offer a similar seminar on "Scientific Concepts and Methods in Management: Digitalization and the Future of Work." Please note that each person can only participate in one of these two seminars. Send your application only to the lecturer who is ranked as your first priority on your application form (that is, we will only process applications where Prof. Dr. Miriam Flickinger is listed as the first priority). Please do not apply multiple times. After the application deadline, we will coordinate internally with Prof. Dr. Anja Kirsch based on the number of applications. You may be assigned to her seminar.

 

Examination:

Class participants must hand in their seminar papers prior to the final presentations by February 3, 2025, 6 pm at the latest. I will not accept any late hand-ins. You must hand in two copies (one printed and one electronic copy, the printed copy can be sent via landmail after the deadline).

The seminar papers will be written in groups of two. Individual authorship needs to be clearly stated on the pages of the handed-in paper.

The text should not exceed a word count of 5.000 words per student (excluding title page, table of contents, indices, appendix, reference list). For further guidelines on how to write a seminar paper, please refer to our guidelines for writing scientific papers: https://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/fachbereich/bwl/management/flickinger/lehre/leitfaden/index.html

The seminar papers can be written in English or German.