EVENHANDEDNESS IN RESOURCE ALLOCATION: ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CEO IDEOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRETION, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
EVENHANDEDNESS IN RESOURCE ALLOCATION: ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH CEO IDEOLOGY, ORGANIZATIONAL DISCRETION, AND FIRM PERFORMANCE
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DOI：
10.5465/amj.2016.1155
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发表时间：
2018-10-01
影响因子：
10.5
通讯作者：
Hambrick, Donald C.
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作者：
Gupta, Abhinav;Briscoe, Forrest;Hambrick, Donald C.
我们开发了一个新的解释，为什么有些组织是相对公平的，而其他人是更加不同的，在分配资源的子单位。认识到首席执行官（CEO）在资源配置中的核心作用，我们认为，CEO的个人价值观的平均主义，表现在他们的政治意识形态，将导致不同的分配风格。自由派的CEO们会倾向于公平，而保守派则会容忍更大的差异。把这个主要的期望在社会背景下，我们认为，CEO的价值观的影响被放大时，与组织成员之间的主流意识形态一致，相反，当不一致时被静音。然后，研究工具性激励如何调节首席执行官价值观的制定，我们将激励性认知想象为一个强大的心理过程，当首席执行官有更多的收益或损失时（当薪酬更多时），它会导致首席执行官“加倍”他们的个人价值观基于股权或首席执行官拥有更大的股权）。最后，我们认为，我们的价值观为基础的框架对企业绩效的影响，认为公平的分配是有益的，当组织的意识形态是自由的，但有害的，当组织倾向于保守。我们在一个多业务公司的样本上测试我们的想法，使用个人政治捐款来捕捉意识形态。我们的假设得到了很大的支持。
We develop a new explanation for why some organizations are relatively evenhanded, while others are more disparate, in allocating resources to subunits. Recognizing the central role of chief executive officers (CEOs) in resource allocation, we argue that CEOs' personal values regarding egalitarianism, as manifested in their political ideologies, will lead to different allocation styles. Liberal CEOs will favor evenhandedness, while conservatives will tolerate greater disparities. Placing this primary expectation in a social context, we then argue that the effects of a CEO's values are amplified when aligned with the prevailing ideology among organizational members, and conversely are muted when misaligned. Then, examining how instrumental incentives moderate the enactment of CEO values, we envision motivated cognition as a potent psychological process, which leads CEOs to "double down" on their personal values when they have more to gain or lose (when pay is more equity-based or the CEO has larger shareholdings). Finally, we consider the implications of our values-based framework for firm performance, arguing that evenhanded allocations are beneficial when organizational ideology is liberal, but harmful when the organization leans conservative. We test our ideas on a sample of multibusiness firms, using personal political donations to capture ideologies. We find considerable support for our hypotheses.