Daniel W. Greening

University of Missouri | Mizzou · Department of Management

The equilibrium-based approaches that dominate entrepreneurship research offer useful insights into some aspects of entrepreneurship, but they ignore or downplay many fundamental entrepreneurial phenomena such as individuals' creative imaginations, firms' resource (re)combinations, and markets' disequilibrating tendencies—and the genuine uncertaint...

We develop a new perspective on entrepreneurship as a dynamic, complex, subjective process of creative organizing. Our approach, which we call 'dynamic creation', synthesizes core ideas from Austrian 'radical subjectivism' with complementary ideas from psychology (empathy), strategy and organization theory (modularity), and complexity theory (self-...

This study in progress addresses the question of how market competition affects corporate social performance. An empirical analysis is described to shed light on recent theoretical developments on the relation between market structure and stakeholder responsiveness and to inform on the old debate between Friedman and Corporate Social Responsibility...

Several researchers have suggested that a talented, quality workforce will become a more important source of competitive advantage for firms in the future. Drawing on social identity theory and signaling theory, the authors hypothesize that firms can use their corporate social performance (CSP) activities to attract job applicants. Specifically, si...

The Effects of institutional investor types and governance devices on two dimensions of corporate social performance (CSP) were examined. Pension fund equity was positively related to both a people (women and minorities, community, and employee relations) and a product quality (product and environment) dimension of CSP, but mutual and investment ba...

Although the small business sector as a whole is achieving phenomenal growth, an important concern in the field has been identifying the problems, challenges, and success characteristics associated with the prudent growth of individual firms. A strategy utilized by many small firms to achieve their growth objectives is one of geographic expansion....

This study examines firms that have experienced an industrial and/or environ-mental crisis and proposes that top management team (TMT) characteristics will affect a firm's ability to minimize the severity of these crisis events. Specifically, heterogeneity in the TMT will exhibit a curvilinear (U-shaped) relationship with the severity of firm crise...

Drawing on propositions from social identity theory and signaling theory, we hypothesized that firms' corporate social performance (CSP) is related positively to their reputations and to their attractiveness as employers. Results indicate that independent ratings of CSP are related to firms' reputations and attractiveness as employers, suggesting t...

Geographic expansion is a common growth strategy used by small, entrepreneurial firms. Yet, despite the importance of geographic expansion as a growth strategy, it is a neglected area of small business research. To date, research in the area of small business growth has focused on broad issues, such as the common “obstacles” to firm growth and the...

Highly interactive, tightly coupled, high-risk technological systems have introduced the potential for catastrophic events. Although many people consider crises and disasters to be inevitable, our results suggest that firms that are better able to avoid crisis events have top-management teams with a higher level of functional team heterogeneity, hi...

This study investigates relationships between two factors of corporate social performance (CSP) using the KLD database, specific types of institutional investors, top management team equity, board composition, and financial performance. Results indicate the importance of institutional investor type, board composition, and top management equity on b...

This study developed and tested a conceptual model explaining variability in the organizational structures firms develop to identify, analyze, and respond to their social and political environments. Institutional and resource dependence theories offer plausible explanations for these structural differences; we tested both, finding that those explan...

Grounded in agency theory and upper echelon theory, this study investigates the relationship between firm governance, top management team characteristics, and the subsequent severity of organization crises. Results indicate Chat top management team age, tenure, education, and greater outsider representation on the board and outsider director equity...

A study of 41 firms in the utility industry was conducted to investigate the relationship between environmental and organizational factors and variability in firm structures to address social issues. Results indicated that crises, media exposure, and interest group pressure were related to the development of issues management structure. Top managem...