John Bechara

Tilburg University | UVT · Department of Organization Studies

Choosing a career pathway in medicine is a high stakes decision for both medical students and the field of medicine as a whole. While past research has examined how characteristics of the medical student or specialties influence this decision, we introduce temporal elements as novel variables influencing career selection decisions in medicine. Spec...

Think tanks organize at the nexus of business, government, and academia to influence public policy. These organizations take three distinct working forms that utilize different research and communication styles to target different audiences as routes to influence. Traditionally they targeted elite actors such as legislators and executive branch age...

Think tanks organize at the nexus of business, government, and academia to influence public policy. Whether devising the concept for the Affordable Care Act, constructing lists of judicial appointments for President Trump, or creating the blueprint for the Green New Deal, think tank analysts have dramatically altered the course of U.S. policy over...

Cross‐unit ties – relationships that facilitate discretionary information sharing between individuals from different business units – offer a range of organizational benefits. Scholars argue that organizations can promote cross‐unit ties by: a) formally bringing together individuals from different business units into structural links (e.g., cross‐u...

The dominant model of behavioral learning may not apply to organizations because it assumes that the people involved agree in their outcome assessments of actions and have relatively equal power to engage in joint learning. We relax these assumptions of consensus and power balance in order to apply the model to organizational (as opposed to individ...

This symposium examines changes in the structure and content of power in contemporary American society by tracing the changes in the composition and activities of elites in the for-profit and non-for profit sectors. The first two papers in this symposium trace the changes in the structure of power relations among corporate American's board members,...

Despite the potentially significant economic value associated with cross-unit ties, many organizations struggle to foster effective informal collaboration across business units. Theory suggests that entrenched formal structures and social psychological preferences undermine the development of these important connections as informal ties tend to for...

Time is a ubiquitous but often omitted variable in career selection decisions. This study investigates the impact of temporal elements on career selection decisions, thus advancing our understanding of both career decision making and the impact of timing on decision making. We investigate the influence of timing and duration of experience with care...

This paper develops and tests a multilevel organizational contingency theory for designing headquarters—subsidiary relations. We use frontier analysis to overcome problems that have hampered advancements in organizational contingency theory in general and headquarters—subsidiary relationships in particular. Based on a longitudinal study of a large...

We propose that management scholars can improve their research by triangulating alternative philosophies of science to gain a richer and more holistic understanding of complex managerial problems. We illustrate the proposition by triangulating with three scientific philosophies – positivism, postmodernism, and critical realism – to design a study i...

This research examines how integrative methods of open communications, involvement, and conflict resolution in implementing an organizational change initiative moderate the relationship between cognitive diversity among employees and organization performance. In this longitudinal study of 37 medical clinics, we find that the interaction of integrat...

The relationship between theory and practice, research and action, is fundamental to all fields of applied social science. Should research findings and knowledge be useful for science, practice, and policy? If so, how should such research be designed, carried out and disseminated to achieve the twin goals of rigor and relevance? These challenges ar...