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  • 6 Aug 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes
Keywords: Contingency Planning; Risk Management
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

A Contingency Theory of Leadership

By: Jay W. Lorsch
The idea of a contingency theory of leadership is not novel. In the 1960s several scholars conducted research and proposed such an approach arguing that the style of leadership that would be most effective depended upon the situation (Fiedler, Tannenbaum and Schmidt,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Style; Situation or Environment; Behavior; Theory
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  • spring 1972
  • Article

An Organizational Contingency Theory for Education

By: Brooklyn C. Derr and John J. Gabarro
Keywords: Theory; Education
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  • April 2012
  • Article

Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change

By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Theory; Organizations; Change
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  • 11 Jan 2014
  • Conference Presentation

Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes
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  • 27 Nov 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes
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  • 27 Sep 2013
  • Conference Presentation

Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management.

By: Anette Mikes
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  • 1976
  • Working Paper

Continuous-Time Portfolio Theory and the Pricing of Contingent Claims

By: Robert C. Merton
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  • Winter 2015
  • Article

When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms, with an abundance of principles, guidelines, and standards. This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline and presents empirical findings on its current... View Details
Keywords: Contingency Theory; Grounded Research; Risk Management; Customization and Personalization
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  • 26 Oct 1997 - 29 Oct 1997
  • Conference Presentation

Different Strokes for Different Folks: Towards a Contingent Theory of Network Effects

By: Ranjay Gulati
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  • Fourth Quarter 2007
  • Article

Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk

By: Dale . F. Gray, Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie
This paper proposes a new approach to measure, analyze, and manage sovereign risk based on the theory and practice of modern contingent claims analysis (CCA). The paper provides a new framework for adapting the CCA model to the sovereign balance sheet in a way that can... View Details
Keywords: Credit; Investment; Sovereign Finance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Market Transactions; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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  • 09 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan
  • 2010
  • Chapter

When Does Leadership Matter? A Contingent Opportunities View of CEO Leadership

By: Noam Wasserman, Nitin Nohria and Bharat Anand
There is by now a long-standing debate on the impact that CEOs have on company performance. Studies of leadership describe how CEOs can significantly impact company performance, while the "constraints" perspective argues that leaders are sufficiently constrained by... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Leadership; Performance Improvement; Research; Opportunities
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  • March 1979
  • Article

Determinants of Subunit Communication Structure: A Contingency Analysis

By: Michael Tushman
Keywords: Communication; Theory
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

The Contingent Effect of Absorptive Capacity: An Open Innovation Analysis

By: Andrew A. King and Karim R. Lakhani
Technological advancement and innovation requires the integration of both external knowledge and internal inventiveness. In this paper, we unpack the concept of absorptive capacity and separately explore the effect of different types of prior experience on the capacity... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Capacity; Technology Adoption
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      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Paul R. Lawrence: A Career of Rigor, Relevance, and Passion

    By: Michael Tushman
    Paul R. Lawrence was one of the earliest and most influential figures in the emergence of organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors.... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Design; Contingency Theory; Public And Private Organizations; Rigor And Relevance; Biography; Organizational Design; Leadership; Learning; Leading Change
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    • 01 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

    Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Zhi Huang; Banking
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    Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship

    By: Laura Huang and Andrew P. Knight
    We develop a theoretical model, grounded in exchange theory, about the process through which relationships between entrepreneurs and investors develop and influence the growth of new ventures. Our theory highlights the multifaceted relationships that entrepreneurs and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Theory
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    Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

    Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 1992. Merton, Robert C. "Continuous-Time Portfolio Theory and the Pricing of Contingent Claims." MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper (November 1976). Merton, Robert C.... View Details