Management Research: Volume 1 Issue 2

The Cross‐Border Merger and Acquisition Strategy: A Research Perspective

Michael A. Hitt, Vincenzo Pisano

Cross‐border mergers and acquisitions present significant opportunities for firms wishing to diversify their activities geographically, learn new knowledge, and gain access to…

Decisional and Interactional Fairness: Supervisor Influence on Merit Pay Satisfaction: Construct Proposals and Confirmatory Factor Analyses with American and Venezuelan Samples

Edilberto F. Montemayor

Employee dissatisfaction with merit pay is a long‐standing problem. This study introduces four explanatory constructs, based on decisional and interactional fairness notions, that…

Romantic Relationships in Organizations: A Test of a Model of Formation and Impact Factors

Charles A. Pierce, Herman Aguinis

We obtained questionnaire data from 465 employees to test a model containing hypothesized formation and impact factors from Pierce, Byrne, and Aguinis’s (1996) conceptual model of…

The Transformation Into Entrepreneurial Firms: Examining the Context of Privatization

Julio O. De Castro, Klaus Uhlenbruck

This paper builds upon the growing research on both privatization and entrepreneurship and provides a model to predict outcomes of privatization of state‐owned enterprises…

The Determinants of Training in Spanish Manufacturing Firms

Alberto Bayo‐Moriones, Martín Larraza‐Kintana, Javier Merino‐Díez de Cerio

Using data collected from a sample of 661 Spanish manufacturing plants, each with a minimum workforce of 50 employees, and representing all the manufacturing industries, this…

Operations Strategy and New Venture Formation: A Conceptual Synthesis

Christopher M. McDermott, Gideon D. Markman, David B. Balkin

This paper presents a theoretical framework that extends the benefits of some core elements of operations strategy to the field of entrepreneurship. We show that the field of…