This study investigates the sources of organizational stress a.rnong information systems (IS) managers, the resulting symptoms of strain, and whether social support can reduce symptoms of strain. A field study comprised of a survey questionnaire was chosen as the most appropriate design for this investigation. The respondents were IS managers, ranging in the organizational hierarchy from vice p...

Using a large-scale, multilevel data set, this study introduces to the sales management literature the concept of sales representatives’ headquarters stereotypes as a negative outcome of social identification. The results suggest that work team identification fosters headquarters stereotyping more strongly when organizational identification is low than when it is high. Salespeople’s physical di...

Climate change presents potential risks to forests and challenges for forest managers. Adaptation to climate change involves monitoring and anticipating change and undertaking actions to avoid the negative consequences and take advantage of potential benefits of those changes. Forest managers are accustomed to considering the long-term implications of their decisions. However, many are now resp...

This paper reviews the conventional studies of Executive Information Systems (EIS) and related research areas. It is found that conventional EIS studies contribute little insights to the success development and adoption on EIS. Notably, there is a need for revitalising EIS design and development. A focus group study is conducted to explore and identify challenges faced by current managers’ info...

We examine the relationship between the employment and compensation of managers and CEOs and the presence of a unionized workforce. We develop a simple effciency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more monitoring, which requires more managers. The model also assumes rent sharing between workers, managers and the owners of the firm. Unions, by redistributing rents t...

In no country in the world today, women’s wages equal men’s. Scientists who investigated mechanism for the gender pay-gap have focused mainly on macro-level factors such as the over-representation of women in lowpaying jobs and different training of men and women. However, models attempting to explain the gender paygap with such factors reveal that a large proportion of the gap remains unexplai...