John F. Veiga

University of Connecticut | UConn · Department of Management

Perhaps because self-estrangement is inherently dysfunctional, empirical research has primarily sought to understand its antecedents but not its consequences. As a result, despite its ubiquity in the workplace, self-estrangement’s insidious effects are not well understood. In this paper, because coworkers frequently bear the brunt of interactions w...

Although self-estrangement has been viewed as ubiquitous and dysfunctional in the workplace, extant research has focused primarily on its antecedents but not on how it impacts job performance and, in particular, its dysfunctional influence on workplace relationships. To that end, we extended social exchange theory to identify three attributes of es...

Despite the fact that envy is widely viewed as one of the most pernicious and dysfunctional workplace emotions, research has ignored its longer term consequences. This oversight can largely be attributed to over reliance on the relatively static affective events framework that does not account for how envy-eliciting events can threaten an individua...

Although enterprise systems (ES) are ubiquitous, many firms report less than stellar payoffs from these costly investments, with underutilization often attrib-uted to failures in the implementation process. Unfortunately, research has not provided sufficient insights into these failures, in part because it has focused on actual usage, as opposed to...

Despite the increasing sophistication of the literature on strategic consensus and the compelling arguments linking it to organizational performance, empirical research has produced mixed findings. To address this conundrum, we examine the contingent role of strategic alignment — i.e., to what extent decision makers place importance on strategic pr...

Although managers and professionals still compete in a career tournament for advancement and pay, the career boundaries that they cross in order to compete have changed. Traditionally, such individuals came up through the ranks within the same company by specializing in one functional area and changing, as needed, the geographic location of work in...

Whether one calls it cyberveillance, cybermonitoring, cybersnooping, or cyberspying, one thing is clear, the computer activities of employees are increasingly being monitored by their companies. Some reports suggest that up to 17% of the Fortune 1,000 companies now utilize some form of computer monitoring software and the predictions are that this...

Although career research contends that women managers and professionals are less willing than men to relocate, much of the previous research has been either limited by comparative sampling issues, or has not fully accounted for the role of family. To address these issues we gathered survey data from managers and professionals in 102 large companies...

Although much has been attributed to a CEO's personality, one particularly intriguing, and as yet unexplored, investigation is its impact on the firm's entrepreneurial orientation. Additionally, despite calls from the upper-echelon literature, CEO personality research has been hobbled by the absence of a unifying construct that captures core dimens...

The literature has suggested that an entrepreneurially alert information system may be a salient driver of corporate entrepreneurship, even though this role has been neither theoretically articulated nor empirically substantiated. Building upon the organizational learning, information orientation, and entrepreneurial awareness literatures we identi...

We take stock of the current body of knowledge and understanding on organizational ambidexterity to further specify the construct and develop a typology to focus this line of research. To that end, we first synthesize the various insights on ambidexterity's conceptualization in extant research. We then develop a parsimonious, yet coherent typology...

Although the teleworking literature continues to raise concerns regarding the adverse consequences of professional isolation, researchers have not examined its impact on work outcomes. Consequently, the authors first examine professional isolation's direct impact on job performance and turnover intentions among teleworkers and then investigate the...

Although theory suggests that CEOs who engage in transformational leadership should have a positive effect on firm performance, most empirical examinations using data drawn from larger firms have failed to find support for this linkage. Given that the organizational complexity associated with larger firms has been viewed as a central obstacle to es...

Research about transformational CEOs' impact on firm-level outcomes, particularly corporate entrepreneurship, has been equivocal, partially because the underlying mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Given that the individuals most closely influenced by a firm's CEO are its top management team (TMT) members, we focus on the CEO-TMT interface as a...

While superior–subordinate relationships are expected to have a salient impact on individual work outcomes, the extant research has primarily focused on individuals working in a traditional work mode. Given the increasing popularity of virtual work arrangements, especially among professional-level employees, we examine the extent to which working i...

This study seeks to further delineate how a firm's competitive environment influences the firm's pursuit of entrepreneurial activities. To do so, we develop and test a parsimonious model that establishes the role of discretionary slack as a salient mediating mechanism through which managerial environmental perceptions influence corporate entreprene...

The literature on the impact of telecommuting on work-family conflict has been equivocal, asserting that telecommuting enhances work-life balance and reduces conflict, or countering that it increases conflict as more time and emotional energy are allocated to family. Surveying 454 professional-level employees who split their work time between an of...

While a firm’s ability to jointly pursue both an exploitative and exploratory orientation has been posited as having positive performance effects, little is currently known about the antecedents and consequences of such ambidexterity in small-to medium-sized firms (SMEs). To that end, this study focuses on the pivotal role of top management team (T...

Using survey data from 400 managers, the authors examined whether gender self-schema would explain sex differences in preferences for status-based and socioemotional career satisfiers. Female gender self-schema, represented by femininity and family role salience, completely mediated the relationship between managers' sex and preferences for socioem...

The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) has not achieved its potential, in part, because those it sought to help have shown a reluctance to request accommodations. Using survey data from 229 hearing-impaired employees and an expert panel, logistic regression confirmed that monetary costs and impositions on others negatively influence the...

While it is generally believed that superior-subordinate relationships play a salient role in determining individual work outcomes, given the increasing popularity of virtual work arrangements, we examine how this role is impacted by the degree to which individuals engage in virtual work. We posit that when individuals work extensively in a virtual...

Given the ubiquity of Internet access in the business world, the question for strategy researchers is no longer over whether or not Internet surveys are viable, but rather over the comparative advantages and disadvantages of this modality. To address this question, we provide guidelines for researchers to help minimize the challenges while still re...

The importance and benefits of team boundary spanning and the emerging global and multicultural workplace highlight the need to understand the ways in which national culture affects this important team process. After integrating extant theory and research from the national culture and team boundary spanning literatures, we propose a conceptual fram...

Although popular management wisdom has suggested that telecommuting enhances job satisfaction, research has found both positive and negative relationships. In this study, the authors attempt to resolve these inconsistent findings by hypothesizing a curvilinear, inverted U-shaped relationship between the extent of telecommuting and job satisfaction....

Extending Hambrick's (1994) concept of behavioral integration, a meta-construct of top management team process, we theorized on the extent to which CEO-, team-, and firm-level determinants shape behavioral integration. Using survey data from 402 firms, we developed a reliable measure of the construct and found strong support for our structural mode...

Despite the fact that many organizations have implemented family-friendly programs to meet the needs of today's diverse workforce, employees have been reluctant to use them. Drawing on the theories of planned behavior, help-seeking, and distributive justice, we propose a framework that focuses initially on the more proximal factors that influence a...

Although research has uncovered important predictors of managerial career success, the causal relationships between these predictors has not been fully explored. Accordingly, we propose and test a model that establishes a link between individual differences, salient career-related beliefs, career enhancing outcomes and managerial career success. Us...

Executive Overview Most managers live by a personal code of conduct that includes certain principles about integrity, regard for others, and keeping commitments. They refrain from engaging in actions that might compromise their reputations, careers, or organizations; they comply with regulations and are law-abiding. Most also believe they are ethic...

Most managers live by a personal code of conducf that includes certain principles about integrity, regard for others, and keeping commitments. They refrain from engaging in actions that might compromise their reputations, careers, or organizations; they comply with regulations and are law-abiding. Most also believe they are ethical, and that is pre...

Accommodation benefits employers and helps create equal opportunity for people with disabilities. Yet while there is evidence of reluctance to ask, little is known about requesters' decisions to ask, or not ask, supervisors for needed accommodation. Cognizant of the impact of the ADA-prescribed accommodation characteristics, we propose and test a m...

In this study, we examined the moderating effects of individual differences and sources of support on the negative relationship between work-family conflict and career satisfaction. Data from 975 managers indicated that the relationship was significant for women irrespective of age but was significant for men only in later career. Moreover, the rel...

Two of the most significant forces shaping organizations are globalization and the continued, rapid and, some would say, radical changes taking place in information technology (IT). To date, the extant literature has centred on the technology acceptance model (TAM) because it is arguably one of the most widely cited and influential models used for...

With so many individuals linked to the Internet and so many possible ways to reach them, the debate for organizational scholars is no longer over whether Internet self-administered surveys are possible but rather over the comparative understanding and the relative advantages and disadvantages of these surveys. Because relevant research has generall...

Although the Americans with Disabilities Act requires most employers to provide reasonable accommodation, there is reason to believe that people with disabilities are often unwilling to make such requests. We therefore focus on factors influencing the requester's likelihood of seeking an accommodation. By drawing upon the theories of planned behavi...

The primary objective of this paper is to demonstrate the usefulness of an artificial intelligence technique known as neural network analysis as an aid to uncovering the underlying patterns, or trace effects, of national culture. To make our case, we provide an application of the technique's pattern recognition capability utilizing survey data from...

Editor's Note As part of this special issue on executive health, our consulting editor, Jack Veiga, was asked to poll AME's executive advisory panel. Out of the full panel, 50 executives responded—giving us a glimpse into their firms' health practices and their own health maintenance practices. What follows is a mock panel interview, a hypothetical...

Though the concept of `culture clash' has been widely discussed and written about in the context of mergers and acquisitions, the literature has been relatively silent about how to empirically measure this phenomenon. Given the difficulties associated with developing and testing such a measure - especially gaining access to sufficient numbers of fi...

Though the concept of 'culture clash' has been widely discussed and written about in the context of mergers and acquisitions, the literature has been relatively silent about how to empirically measure this phenomenon. Given the difficulties associated with developing and testing such a measure - especially gaining access to sufficient numbers of fi...

Even though e-mail is the most widely used computer-mediated communication medium, its considerable potential as a survey technique has received little attention from management scholars. Using a three-dimensional framework focused on sampling issues, nonsampling errors, and comparative performance, the authors review and integrate previous researc...

The application of Western management techniques to countries in the very early stages of economic development remains a subject of debate. Building on the works of Montgomery in the Southern African Development Coordination Conference countries and of Vengroff in the Central African Republic, the authors examine the skill requirements among Senega...

Workplace accommodation plays a critical role in the successful inclusion of people with disabilities. While past studies have examined reactions to workplace accommodation, none have explored the willingness of people with disabilities to request accommodation. In this paper, we first integrate the literature on people with disabilities with the t...

There's a disturbing disconnect in organizational management. Research, experience, and common sense all increasingly point to a direct relationship between a company's financial success and its commitment to management practices that treat people as assets. Yet trends in management practice are actually moving away from these very principles. Why...

Over the past several years, the authors of this article have been gathering real-life stories that reflect the difficulties of managing a diverse workforce. What follows is one of those stories-about a manager, who after the ordeal of brain tumor surgery, was fired for poor performance. To provide insights for effective management of such situatio...

Top managers of British and French firms, which were recently acquired by either British or French firms, were surveyed as to their perceptions of the administrative approach-reflected in integrating mechanisms-used by the acquiring firms to establish headquarters-subsidiary control. Four types of integrative mechanisms were examined: structural, s...

Social role theory suggests that how managers respond to employees seeking help depends on the manager's gender. Consistent with social role theory, we found that women managers tended to use significantly more gender-consistent helping behaviors, such as understanding, and less masculine-related behaviors, such as evaluating, than their male count...

Various determinants have been proposed to explain the persistence of nationally-bound administrative heritages. In this paper, we propose an overall model that integrates these contingent determinants. Our model is based on historical analysis, a method of theory building that first conceptualizes a model and then utilizes it as an exploratory len...

This study draws on the concepts of relative standing to explain the post-merger performance of recently acquired European firms. We used a 2 × 3 sampling design where we surveyed top managers of British and French firms that were acquired by British, French, and U.S. firms as to their perceptions of cultural compatibility with the buying firms, th...

Our annual survey of members of the Executive's Advisory Board reveals a good deal of information-technology-related angst. To be sure, of the 350 executives who accepted our invitation to vent, many still felt that information technology had a very strong upside and urged their colleagues to be patient. Having said that, as you will see, the execu...

The relationship between job control and job strain is examined. Three models of that relationship provide a framework for the study hypotheses: (H1) Control is inversely related to job strain, (H2) job demands interact with job control such that job strain will be highest when job demands are high and job control is low, and (H3) strain increases...

This study draws on the concepts of relative standing to explain the post-merger performance of recently acquired European firms. We used a 2 × 3 sampling design where we surveyed top managers of British and French firms that were acquired by British, French, and U.S. firms as to their perceptions of cultural compatibility with the buying firms, th...

It has been said that over half fhe decisions reached by teams never get carried out and of the rest only half should have been. Whether or not this old saw is accurate is not the point. Managers today are more than a little cynical when it comes to their participation in decision-making teams. While many feel compelled to sit through endless meeti...

The acculturation process involved when one organization is acquired by another, and the two organizational cultures merge, has not been adequately conceptualized in the strategic management literature. It is argued here that the acculturation process can be more fully understood by utilizing Lewin's (1951) force-field approach. In addition, major...

This study sought to develop a valid and reliable measure of the frequency with which individuals choose to engage in self-limiting behavior in groups, i.e., behavior that reduces the individual's influence on or contribution to the performance of a work group's task. In addition, this study explored under what general conditions managers perceive...

This study seeks to explain under what conditions managers tend to give up control in decision-making groups and to what extent the impact of these condi tions differs between U.S. and Greek managers. Contrary to expectations, the results show that Greek managers give up control in decision-making groups less frequently than U.S. managers. The resu...

This study compared the Career Orientations of male and female managers. The findings suggest that women differ from men in their career perspectives. Women managers were much more inclined to be ambivalent about their careers in all age groupings than men. On the other hand, male managers by midcareer showed an inclination toward a downward orient...

This study used detailed career histories to explore the differences in career patterns between mobile and immobile managers. The timing of mobility events was examined along with movement direction and type. In addition, the study explored to what degree contextual factors associated with the career path, influenced such career patterns. Analysis...

Much of the research on managerial decision making in cross-cultural settings has relied heavily on overall differences in values to help explain variance in decision preferences. Although the research has been valuable in identifying cultural differences, it has not focused enough on the similarities among cultures, especially in occupational subg...

Personal value profiles constructed through the use of a cluster analytic technique successfully indentified similar managerial subgroups in India and the United States. The value profiles, "Pragmatic" and "Attruistic", were partially successful in predicting managerial policy decisions in a cross-cultural setting.

Tested the effectiveness of 3 methods most often used for returned mail questionnaires, in terms of the rate of return and respondent bias in each method. 100 managers received a questionnaire which was to be returned by either a stamped envelope, a business reply envelope, or their firm's interplant mail system. The interplant mail system provided...