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Stewardship or Agency? A Social Embeddedness Reconciliation of Conduct and Performance in Public Family Businesses by Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Miller, Danny, Lester, Richard H.

“…Two contradictory perspectives of family business conduct and performance are prominent in the literature. The stewardship perspective argues that family…”
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Family ownership and acquisition behavior in publicly-traded companies by Miller, Danny, Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Lester, Richard H.

“…Much of the literature on corporate acquisitions has focused on managerial incentives for making acquisitions but has underemphasized the role played by the…”
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Former Government Officials as outside Directors: The Role of Human and Social Capital by Lester, Richard H., Hillman, Amy, Zardkoohi, Asghar, Cannella, Albert A.

“…The resources that individual directors bring to corporate boards are largely a function of their human and social capital. Although research has explored the…”
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Misery Loves Company: The Spread of Negative Impacts Resulting from an Organizational Crisis by Yu, Tieying, Sengul, Metin, Lester, Richard H.

“…We describe how negative impacts emanating from an organizational crisis that initially strikes only one organization can overflow the boundaries of that…”
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Top Management Teams, Strategy and Financial Performance: A Meta-Analytic Examination by Certo, S. Trevis, Lester, Richard H., Dalton, Catherine M., Dalton, Dan R.

“…A considerable amount of research has investigated the linkage between top management team (TMT) characteristics and firm financial performance. Much of this…”
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Family Firm Governance, Strategic Conformity, and Performance: Institutional vs. Strategic Perspectives by Miller, Danny, Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Lester, Richard H.

“…A fundamental schism divides the family firm and strategy literatures, on the one hand, and the institutional literature, on the other, regarding both the…”
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Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behaviour: Social Context, Identity, and Institutional Logics by Miller, Danny, Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Lester, Richard H.

“…There is controversy in the literature about the effects of ownership on strategy and performance. Some scholars have taken agency explanations as definitive,…”
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Are family firms really superior performers? by Miller, Danny, Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Lester, Richard H., Cannella, Albert A.

“…Although international evidence suggests that families may be unhelpful to firm performance, recent analyses of U.S. public companies indicate that family…”
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Interorganizational Familiness: How Family Firms Use Interlocking Directorates to Build Community-Level Social Capital by Lester, Richard H., Cannella Jr, Albert A.

“…We draw on the concept of community–level social capital and apply it to the situation of a family–controlled public corporation. While traditional agency…”
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Learning by doing: Cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Collins, Jamie D., Holcomb, Tim R., Certo, S. Trevis, Hitt, Michael A., Lester, Richard H.

“…We rely on organizational learning theory and strategic momentum research to examine the international merger and acquisition (M&A) activities of a sample of…”
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Moving Beyond Firm Boundaries: A Social Network Perspective on Reputation Spillover by Yu, Tieying, Lester, Richard H

“…A change in an organization's reputation has consequences and implications that may go beyond that organization's boundaries. Drawing on social network and…”
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Boards of Directors' Self Interest: Expanding for Pay in Corporate Acquisitions? by Certo, S. Trevis, Dalton, Catherine M., Dalton, Dan R., Lester, Richard H.

“…Director compensation can potentially represent an ethical minefield. When faced with supporting strategic decisions that can lead to an increase in director…”
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Interorganizational Familiness: How Family Firms Use Interlocking Directorates to Build Community–Level Social Capital1 by Lester, Richard H., Cannella, Albert A.

“…We draw on the concept of community–level social capital and apply it to the situation of a family–controlled public corporation. While traditional agency…”
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Family and Lone Founder Ownership and Strategic Behaviour: Social Context, Identity, and Institutional Logics: Firm Ownership and Strategic Behaviour by Miller, Danny, Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle, Lester, Richard H.

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A road less traveled: Investigating the outside directors of America's corporate boards by Lester, Richard H

“…Using human capital theory and social capital theory, I develop a model to explain the circumstances surrounding outside director appointments, patterns of…”
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