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- ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE INTERESTING.
- Creator
- Kloepfer, Kathryn, Neubaum, Donald, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Management, College of Business
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The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the contingencies that alter the link between entrepreneurial orientation (“EO”; a strategic posture characterized by behaviors and attitudes that display innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) and firm outcomes. While conceptual claims unite on the belief that firms largely benefit from emphasizing innovation through proactive and risky initiatives, the empirical findings on a positive link between EO and performance are inconclusive....
Show moreThe purpose of this dissertation is to explore the contingencies that alter the link between entrepreneurial orientation (“EO”; a strategic posture characterized by behaviors and attitudes that display innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking) and firm outcomes. While conceptual claims unite on the belief that firms largely benefit from emphasizing innovation through proactive and risky initiatives, the empirical findings on a positive link between EO and performance are inconclusive. As such, several scholars have explored the contingencies that illuminate the boundary conditions to EO, however, most of this research has focused on external contingencies, i.e. those connected to the environment, while internal contingencies, i.e. those connected to the firm, have been fairly disregarded. Not only will the industry and market play a significant role in a firm’s ability to effectively carry out their desired strategic initiatives, so too will firm characteristics, such as communication and culture, as these internal factors are directly related to the level of value created from strategic actions. Therefore, this dissertation is an attempt to further clarify the boundary conditions of EO by focusing on these firm specific attributes. Chapter two, titled “Family communication patterns and entrepreneurial orientation in family firms” exposes the impact of specific family communication patterns on the performance outcomes from an entrepreneurial orientation. This chapter contributes to the corporate entrepreneurship literature, by confining the positive effects of EO to certain firm specific characteristic, as well as to the family business literature by further demonstrating the heterogeneity between family firms. Thereafter, chapter three, titled “Entrepreneurial orientation, organizational culture, and firm performance: The importance of a balanced approach”, argues and tests the importance of organizational culture, as defined by the competing values framework, as a contingency variable of the EO-performance relationship. This empirical chapter exploits a configurational approach, using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (“fs/QCA”) to analyze the arrangements of different entrepreneurial orientation and organizational cultures that yield superior performance. Through this exploration, I advance research on the EO-performance relationship by integrating the firm’s corporate culture as a means of alleviating concerns with resistance by certain stakeholders to the ambiguity associated with entrepreneurial ventures.
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- 2020
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013455
- Subject Headings
- Entrepreneurship, Corporate culture, Performance
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- Document (PDF)
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- ESSAYS ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND CORPORATE POLICIES.
- Creator
- Akter, Maimuna, Cumming, Douglas, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Finance, College of Business
- Abstract/Description
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The recent increase in common ownership makes it imperative to study the impact of common ownership on corporate policies. In this two-essay study, I examine how common owners interact with firms to make decisions and how they moderate the impact of market manipulation on corporate culture. In the first essay, I examine whether firms in the same industry make similar investment and financial policies when their large institutional owners overlap. This relationship is important given the...
Show moreThe recent increase in common ownership makes it imperative to study the impact of common ownership on corporate policies. In this two-essay study, I examine how common owners interact with firms to make decisions and how they moderate the impact of market manipulation on corporate culture. In the first essay, I examine whether firms in the same industry make similar investment and financial policies when their large institutional owners overlap. This relationship is important given the tremendous rise of common institutional owners and their significance on their portfolio firms’ policies. I hypothesize that common institutional owners cause their portfolio firms in the same industry to make similar policies by creating anti-competitive incentives, reducing information asymmetry, and influencing governance.
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- 2023
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00014168
- Subject Headings
- Finance, Corporations—Finance, Corporate culture
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- Document (PDF)
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- TRANSITIONAL TURBULENCE: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE, POWER, AND AN INCOMING PRINCIPAL.
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- Varo-Haub, Amy L., Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia, Florida Atlantic University, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology, College of Education
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This qualitative case study explored the changing relationships and cultural evolution that occurred over the course of the initial year of a principal transition within a private upper school. Collected data included interviews, observations, and documents. All data were reviewed and analyzed in order to understand the experience that the transitioning principal, administrators, faculty, college counselors, and staff encountered during the course of the transition. The conceptual framework...
Show moreThis qualitative case study explored the changing relationships and cultural evolution that occurred over the course of the initial year of a principal transition within a private upper school. Collected data included interviews, observations, and documents. All data were reviewed and analyzed in order to understand the experience that the transitioning principal, administrators, faculty, college counselors, and staff encountered during the course of the transition. The conceptual framework of this study was based on a social constructivist mindset and was ethnographic in nature: the researcher understood and defined the culture and transition experience through data synthesis, revealing varied interpretations of the culture and transition on the place and self.
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- 2019
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00013424
- Subject Headings
- Corporate culture, School principals, Educational leadership
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- Document (PDF)
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- Identification strategies and unobtrusive control in organizational change initiatives: A textual analysis of corporate newsletters.
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- Glover, Laurie A., Florida Atlantic University, Darlington, Patricia
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To be successful, organizations that undertake a large-scale planned change initiative must maintain employee commitment and loyalty to the organization. Identification with the organization can support that objective and is crucial in changing organizations when managers often introduce different cultural assumptions, values, and norms than those held by the organization's members. Employee identification with the organization is also pivotal in the employee's decision making process. This...
Show moreTo be successful, organizations that undertake a large-scale planned change initiative must maintain employee commitment and loyalty to the organization. Identification with the organization can support that objective and is crucial in changing organizations when managers often introduce different cultural assumptions, values, and norms than those held by the organization's members. Employee identification with the organization is also pivotal in the employee's decision making process. This study analyses a representative sample of an organization's newsletter published during a reengineering project. Identification strategies of common ground, the assumed we, antithesis and unifying symbols are used as the foundation for analysis. Results show that identification strategies are consistently used in this genre of organizational communication to maintain employee commitment during a change initiative. In addition, three additional tactics of the common ground strategy were uncovered: enlistment, self-congratulation and knowledge-sharing. The implications of these results are discussed.
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- 2001
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12837
- Subject Headings
- Organizational change., Newsletters., Communication in organizations., Corporate culture.
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- Document (PDF)
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- Corporate strategic reorientation and adjustment: A longitudinal analysis of the effects of top management teams.
- Creator
- Peyrefitte, Joseph Armand, Florida Atlantic University, Golden, Peggy A.
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The impact of executive cognitive bases and values on corporate strategic change was examined in a longitudinal study of the computer hardware industry. Corporate strategic change was separated into pattern and magnitude dimensions as suggested by Ginsberg (1988). These dimensions complement the logic of Tushman and Romanelli (1985) who suggest that organizations proceed through long periods of stability or adjustment, punctuated by periods of metamorphic change or reorientation. I proposed...
Show moreThe impact of executive cognitive bases and values on corporate strategic change was examined in a longitudinal study of the computer hardware industry. Corporate strategic change was separated into pattern and magnitude dimensions as suggested by Ginsberg (1988). These dimensions complement the logic of Tushman and Romanelli (1985) who suggest that organizations proceed through long periods of stability or adjustment, punctuated by periods of metamorphic change or reorientation. I proposed that executive cognitive bases and values would be associated with strategic reorientation but not strategic adjustment since executive perceptions and responses are the internal driving forces that direct and redirect organizations (Romanelli & Tushman, 1988). Panel data analysis techniques were used to test the hypotheses developed in this study. Corporate strategic reorientation and adjustment were operationalized by changes in unrelated and related diversification, and changes in between-stage and within-stage vertical integration, respectively. The mean organization tenure and functional background heterogeneity of top management teams were used as proxies for executive cognitive bases and values. Results provided overall support for the hypotheses. Mean organization tenure was negatively related to unrelated diversification change, while neither mean organization tenure nor functional background heterogeneity were associated with related diversification change. Functional background heterogeneity was positively related to between-stage vertical integration change, however, contrary to expectations, it was negatively related to within-stage vertical integration change. These findings confirm and extend the literature which relates managerial characteristics to strategic change.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1996
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/12449
- Subject Headings
- Executives, Chief Executive Officers, Strategic Planning, Organizational Change, Organizational Behavior, Corporate Culture, Corporate Reorganizations
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- Document (PDF)
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- Global warming in the microblog era: a rhetorical analysis of Twitter dialogue between ExxonMobil and Greenpeace USA.
- Creator
- Kattoura, Mark A., School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
- Abstract/Description
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This qualitative study examines whether microblogging illustrates or contradicts the longstanding notion that the Internet allows for greater public participation in important issues, thus potentially expanding public sphere. The study analyzes 5 years of tweets about climate change between ExxonMobil and Greenpeace USA using a new hybrid, or blended methodology that combines Kenneth Burke's rhetorical analysis of cluster-agons with eight physical attributes of the Internet that Marshall Poe...
Show moreThis qualitative study examines whether microblogging illustrates or contradicts the longstanding notion that the Internet allows for greater public participation in important issues, thus potentially expanding public sphere. The study analyzes 5 years of tweets about climate change between ExxonMobil and Greenpeace USA using a new hybrid, or blended methodology that combines Kenneth Burke's rhetorical analysis of cluster-agons with eight physical attributes of the Internet that Marshall Poe identified as influential in pushing societies and ideas in new directions. Clusters are also examined using Grace Poh Lyn's reflexive analysis. Additionally, the analysis also considers the use of agitative and control strategies, discursive tensions between freedom and domination, and the rhetorical use of public vernaculars. Analysis of the tweets reveals that business organizations that at first glance or in theory seem to be at odds actually share common discursive practices. They communicate about the same issues at the same or similar times using the same language for the same primary purpose-survival of the organization-while giving the impression that they are working for the good of their respective publics for environmental causes or the bottom line, or even both. The researcher concludes that although there are specific cases of microblogging in which the public benefits to some extent, those gains are either very short-lived or are more likely to exist in theory rather than practice due to the fluid nature of microblogging as well as continued organizational missteps which I call "corporate ejacking."
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- 2013
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3360800
- Subject Headings
- Influence, Global warming, Mass media and culture, Social responsibility of business
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- Document (PDF)
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- The Role of Interorganizational Trust in the Merger and Acquisition Process.
- Creator
- Parola, Heather R., Ellis, Kimberly M., Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
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Although recognized as an important stage of the merger and acquisition (M&A) process, little is understood about the processes that unfold during deal negotiations. In line with recent qualitative research highlighting the role of interorganizational trust, I examine the role of acquirer trust during M&A negotiations. Specifically, through two essays, I consider the effects of acquirer trust on two outcome variables: the acquisition premium and target executive retention. In Essay One, I...
Show moreAlthough recognized as an important stage of the merger and acquisition (M&A) process, little is understood about the processes that unfold during deal negotiations. In line with recent qualitative research highlighting the role of interorganizational trust, I examine the role of acquirer trust during M&A negotiations. Specifically, through two essays, I consider the effects of acquirer trust on two outcome variables: the acquisition premium and target executive retention. In Essay One, I integrate the social embeddedness theory and agency theory and find that acquirer trust leads to higher premiums. In Essay Two, I integrate the social embeddedness perspective with justice theory and find that the positive relationship between acquirer trust and target executive retention is mediated by justice. Boundary conditions are also considered in each essay. These two essay provide contributions to the nascent literature on M&A negotiations and the complex role of trust in M&A negotiations.
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- 2015
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004532, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004532
- Subject Headings
- Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Psychological aspects, Consolidation and merger of corporations -- Social aspects, Corporate culture, Group decision making, Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects
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- Document (PDF)
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- Improving methods of communication based on culture in the business environment.
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- Burton, Walter N., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication and Multimedia Studies
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The ability to understand the individuals that we deal with on a daily basis can give anyone who focuses on this knowledge a competitive advantage in today's business world. In today's fast paced and globally expanding business world, it is critical to explore innovative approaches that will facilitate the process and time it typically takes to establish business relationships. When it is imperative to quickly create a business relationship between individuals that are unknown to each other,...
Show moreThe ability to understand the individuals that we deal with on a daily basis can give anyone who focuses on this knowledge a competitive advantage in today's business world. In today's fast paced and globally expanding business world, it is critical to explore innovative approaches that will facilitate the process and time it typically takes to establish business relationships. When it is imperative to quickly create a business relationship between individuals that are unknown to each other, identifying the city or region of the individual with whom a relationship is being formed and understanding that culture will help build a common ground which will facilitate and enhance the newly established working relationship. This paper shows how this can be achieved.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/165671
- Subject Headings
- Business communication, Communication in management, Organizational effectiveness, Interpersonal relations, Relationship marketing, Corporate culture
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- Document (PDF)
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- Employees' perception of employers' response after workplace injury.
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- Patrick, Nancy S., College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
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The purpose of this study was to (a) explore the lived experiences of school district employees who have sustained on-the-job injuries with specific attention to employee perceptions of employer response after injury and (b) examine whether purposeful empathetic response from the employer after workplace injury was related to changes in employee perceptions of employer response. This study included both qualitative and quantitative methods. In Phase 1, the sample for the interviews included...
Show moreThe purpose of this study was to (a) explore the lived experiences of school district employees who have sustained on-the-job injuries with specific attention to employee perceptions of employer response after injury and (b) examine whether purposeful empathetic response from the employer after workplace injury was related to changes in employee perceptions of employer response. This study included both qualitative and quantitative methods. In Phase 1, the sample for the interviews included nine workers from a large school district in South Florida who had active injury claims within two years before the study began. The Phase 1 findings were that the level of assistance and type of support received after reporting an injury varied among participants, despite working for the same employer; that the perceived response from the employer was more influential in affecting the participants' experience of workplace injury than participants' perception of the response of their coworkers; t hat the reaction from a majority of the school district employees (6 of 9) who were injured at work mirrored perceived employer response; and that more than half of the nine participants had unmet expectations of their employer with respect to how they were treated after experiencing workplace injury. In Phase 2, the 91 subjects that participated in the organizational response survey (See Appendix E and Appendix F) were employees from the same school district who were injured during an eight-week period. Data from three subscales (organizational support, return-to-work policies, and post-injury job satisfaction) on the survey instrument were compared between two groups., An experimental group received purposeful empathetic response from both the employer at the local school or department level as well as contact from the employer's Risk Management department. Analysis of variance was used to compare responses of the groups. A Bonferroni adjustment of .05/3 or .017 was applied: the result was non-significant. This finding suggests that purposeful, empathetic contact alone was not enough to significantly affect the participants' scores.
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- 2010
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2978950
- Subject Headings
- Workers' compensation, Personnel management, Job security, Social aspects, Corporate culture, DIsability insurance claimants, Employment, Industrial accidents, Psychological aspects
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- Document (PDF)
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- Moving Mountains: Animal Rights Organizations, Emotion, and Autodidactic Frame Alignment.
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- Jarvis, Lee Charles Jr., Goodrick, Elizabeth, Florida Atlantic University, College of Business, Department of Management
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Animal rights organizations, in attempting to affect institutional change in industrial animal agriculture, face an institutional mountain. I show how these organizations, though contesting institutions which are highly reified, tacitly endorsed, and historically inertial, leverage emotional experiences and regulation to incrementally move this mountain. Using a grounded qualitative study of interview data from animal rights advocates and archival data generated by animal rights organizations...
Show moreAnimal rights organizations, in attempting to affect institutional change in industrial animal agriculture, face an institutional mountain. I show how these organizations, though contesting institutions which are highly reified, tacitly endorsed, and historically inertial, leverage emotional experiences and regulation to incrementally move this mountain. Using a grounded qualitative study of interview data from animal rights advocates and archival data generated by animal rights organizations, this study finds that animal rights organizations have encoded both response- and antecedent-focused emotion regulation into two distinct strategies used to garner support for their institutional change project: transgression mining and seed planting. Furthermore, this study expounds upon the role of moral emotional experiences in the individual-level process by which persons alternate into support for animal rights organizations and their goals, here labeled autodidactic frame alignment. Drawing on Goffman’s backstage/frontstage distinction, this study illustrates how emotion’s role in institutional change efforts varies across both level of analysis and areas of interactive life. In doing so, this research adds empirical weight to and extends recent theoretical work expounding upon the emotionally-charged nature of the lived experience of institutions.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004645, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004645
- Subject Headings
- Communication in organizations, Corporate culture, Grounded theory, Management -- Psychological aspects, Operations research, Organizational behavior, Organizational change, Psychology, Industrial
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- Document (PDF)
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- Moving Towards Fairness and Diversity? An Analysis of Perceptions from Employees Working in the United States Department of the Interior.
- Creator
- Beals, Stacey Lisbeth, Sapat, Alka K., Florida Atlantic University, College for Design and Social Inquiry, School of Public Administration
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This dissertation examines how different United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) employees’ perceive fairness and support for diversity. The USDOI is an agency with numerous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employees who have the opportunity to influence future generations through their STEM internship. Specifically, this dissertation examines the relationship between: (1) the perceived fairness of performance appraisals and the empowerment index, demographic...
Show moreThis dissertation examines how different United States Department of the Interior (USDOI) employees’ perceive fairness and support for diversity. The USDOI is an agency with numerous STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) employees who have the opportunity to influence future generations through their STEM internship. Specifically, this dissertation examines the relationship between: (1) the perceived fairness of performance appraisals and the empowerment index, demographic characteristics, satisfaction, accountability and recognition; and (2) the perceived support (or lack thereof) of departmental programs and supervisors to foster diversity in the workforce and the empowerment index and demographic characteristics. This dissertation accomplishes several things. First, it provides a review of literature relating to gender diversity. Second, it provides a brief history of organizations that were created and acts/executive orders that were passed in order to support women in their fight against gender discrimination. Fourth, it provides a review of the USDOI’s recruitment, promotion, and employment policies. Finally, it presents an analysis of how USDOI employees’ perceptions of diversity differ by gender. This inquiry utilizes a theoretical framework based on Thomas and Ely’s (1996) and Selden and Selden’s (2001) four diversity paradigms; “discrimination and fairness,” “access and legitimacy,” “learning and effectiveness,” and “valuing and integrating.” These paradigms suggest that the true benefits of diversity can only be realized in the valuing and integrating paradigm where employees’ individual differences are used for the betterment of the organization. It is found that women tend not to perceive that their organization supports diversity. It is also found that the empowerment index, federal tenure, pay category, satisfaction, accountability and recognition are important in explaining employees’ perceptions of fairness and that the empowerment index, federal tenure, supervisory status, gender, and minority status are important in explaining employees’ perceptions of support for diversity.
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- 2016
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004754, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004754
- Subject Headings
- Employee motivation., Personnel management., Diversity in the workplace., Organizational justice., Organizational behavior--Social aspects., Corporate culture.
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Rhetoric of Federal Mission Statements: Power, Values, and Audience.
- Creator
- Donohue, John J., Patterson, Patricia M., Florida Atlantic University
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Mission statements are an important part of the strategic planning process. In the federal government they are required for cabinet departments. Research about publicsector mission statements has been limited, compared to research on private-sector mission statements. Mission statements are important as artifacts of organizational culture. They introduce and reinforce important organizational values and can be part of a system of control. Within organizational culture and as part of a system...
Show moreMission statements are an important part of the strategic planning process. In the federal government they are required for cabinet departments. Research about publicsector mission statements has been limited, compared to research on private-sector mission statements. Mission statements are important as artifacts of organizational culture. They introduce and reinforce important organizational values and can be part of a system of control. Within organizational culture and as part of a system of control, mission statements may play a role in creating and maintaining certain power relationships. In this research I examine manifestations of organizational culture and power in cabinet-level federal agencies as expressed in the content and rhetoric of their mission statements. The research presented here examines the mission statements of federal departments and their affiliated agencies and offices. It seeks to identify the importance of mission statements outside of their role in the strategic planning process. The methodology used is Ethnographic Content Analysis (ECA). ECA allows for numerical and descriptive data. Numerically, the researcher creates and counts occurrences of relevant categories of analysis and then uses examples as descriptors. This dissertation describes the content of mission statements and compares it to features other researchers have identified as important for mission statements. In general, the federal mission statements studied here do not include many of the elements that previous research has identified as important for mission statements. Second, the research examines the presence in mission statements of values in general and, in particular, two specific groups of values: New Public Management and Democratic Constitutional values. Both types of values are found in federal mission statements, and the research shows that authors of mission statements are making a choice between the New Public and Democratic Constitutional sets of values. Next, this research looks for evidence of statements of power that are included within the mission statements. Borrowing French and Raven's five bases of interpersonal power for its rubric, this research finds evidence of all five bases of power in these organizational mission statements. Finally, this research looks for the intended audiences of the mission statements and finds that it is often unclear.
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- 2008
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00000606
- Subject Headings
- Mission statements, Strategic planning--United States--21st century, Benchmarking (Management), Organizational effectiveness, Corporate culture, Administrative agencies--United States--Planning
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- Document (PDF)