Capture how managers describe their positions, qualifications, and experiences
The Managerial Background analysis tool enables researchers to examine how top managers and directors present their backgrounds to organizational stakeholders. The rich representation of the specific information in each sentence of a manager's background enables comparisons to be made on theoretically meaningful dimensions of the text.
Integrating research on managerial backgrounds with work on impression management and corporate disclosures
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Overview
While essentially every sentence in managerial backgrounds is unique - managers have worked for different firms, have different job titles, and have different employment dates - there is a substantial similarity in the dimensions of the underlying material discussed. Capturing the representation Through substantial qualitative consideration of the text, identifying themes and similarities between the sentences, we developed data-structures that represent essentially everything that is discussed, reflecting the underlying material, with surface-level variations removed. For managerial backgrounds, we enable each sentence to be captured in five primary data structures, each detailed further below:
By consistently capturing the underlying information, we aim to make it as easy to make comparisons between desired dimensions of texts, as comparisons between financial information. |
Making it easy to compare specific dimensions of interest
Possibilities enabled include:
- Changing Characterizations: Which experiences and positions are omitted, or how the characterization of employers
- Field/societal trends: Evolution in the experiences discussed; how external shock influence characterization trends
- Reciprocal relationship between characterization and behavior: How i) the characterization in managerial backgrounds influence managerial behaviors, and ii) how these behaviors influence firm actions
- Influence patterns: How re-characterization of experiences diffuse across the interlock network
Positions
{
"ORIGINAL_SENTENCE":"From October 2001 to November 2004, she served as Vice President of Operations and a
director for QRS Corp., a gold mining company, and between March 1996 and May 2001 was the
CEO of Vaynol Clothing, a leading US retailer of women's clothing",
"POSITIONS":[
{ "ORIGINAL":"From October 2001 to November 2004, she served as Vice President of Operations and a director of
QRS Corp., a retail supply chain software and services company",
"START_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"October 2001","YEAR":2001,"MONTH":10},
"END_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"November 2004","YEAR":2004,"MONTH":11},
"JOB_TITLES":[{"ORIGINAL":"Vice President of Operations","LEVEL":"VICE_PRESIDENT","AREA":["OPERATIONS"]},
{"ORIGINAL":"Director","LEVEL":"DIRECTOR"}],
"COMPANY":{"ORIGINAL":"QRS Corp.","CLEANED":"QRS"},
"COMPANY_DESCRIPTION":{"ORIGINAL":"NYSE-listed gold mining company",
"LISTING-OWNERSHIP":{"OWNERSHIP_TYPE":"PUBLICALLY_LISTED",
"EXCHANGE":[{"EXCHANGE_NAME":"NYSE","COUNTRY":"USA"}]},
"INDUSTRY":{"NAICS_3_DIGIT":212,
"NAICS_3_DESCRIPTION":"Mining (except oil and gas)"}}},
{ "ORIGINAL":"between March 1996 and May 2001 was the CEO of Vaynol Clothing, a leading US retailer of women's
clothing",
"START_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"March 1996","YEAR":1996,"MONTH":3},
"END_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"May 2001","YEAR":2001,"MONTH":5},
"JOB_TITLES":[{"ORIGINAL":"CEO","LEVEL":"CEO"}],
"COMPANY":{"ORIGINAL":"VAYNOL Clothing","CLEANED":"VAYNOL COTHING"},
"COMPANY_DESCRIPTION":{"ORIGINAL":"leading US retailer of women's clothing",
"INDUSTRY":{"NAICS_3_DIGIT":448,
"NAICS_3_DESCRIPTION":"Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores"},
"REGION":[{"COUNTRY":"USA"}],
"CHARACTERIZATION":[{"TERM":"leading","AREA":"LEADING"}]}
}
Qualifications
{
"ORIGINAL_SENTENCE":"Mr. Doe earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of
Michigan in 1980 and a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business in 1985.",
"QUALIFICATIONS":[
{
"EDUCATION_INSTITUTION":{"ORIGINAL":"University of Michigan","UNIVERSITY":"UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN"},
"DEGREE":{"ORIGINAL":"Bachelor of Science in engineering",
"LEVEL":"UNDERGRADUATE/BACHELORS","SUBJECTS":["ENGINEERING"]},
"GRADUATION_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"1980","YEAR": 1980}
},
{
"EDUCATION_INSTITUTION":{"ORIGINAL":"Stanford Graduate School of Business",
"UNIVERSITY":"STANFORD UNIVERSITY","DEPARTMENT":"Graduate School of Business"},
"DEGREE":{"ORIGINAL":"Master of Business Administration",
"LEVEL":"GRADUATE/MASTERS","SUBJECTS":["BUSINESS"]},
"GRADUATION_DATE":{"ORIGINAL":"1985","YEAR": 1985}
}
]
}
Experiences
{
"ORIGINAL_SENTENCE":"Jone Doe has spent 5 years working in the automotive industry",
"BACKGROUND":{"PERSON_NAME":{"ORIGINAL":"Mr. Doe","NAME_TITLE":"MR","LAST_NAME":"DOE"},
"EXPERIENCE":[{"ORIGINAL":"worked in the automotive industry for 5 years",
"LENGTH_OF_TIME":{"ORIGINAL":"5 years","UNIT":"YEAR","QUANTITY":5},
"AREAS":{"ORIGINAL":"automotive industry","NAICS_3_DIGIT":336,
"NAICS_3_DESCRIPTION":"Transportation Equipment Manufacturing"},
"EXPERIENCE_TYPE":{"ORIGINAL":"worked","TYPE":"WORK"}
}
Professional Licenses
{
"ORIGINAL_SENTENCE":"Mr. Doe is licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan",
"BACKGROUND":{"PERSON_NAME":{"ORIGINAL":"Mr. Doe","NAME_TITLE":"MR","LAST_NAME":"DOE"},
"PROFESSIONAL_LICENSE":[
{
"ORIGINAL":"licensed to practice law in the State of Michigan",
"AREA":"LAW",
"REGIONS":[{"COUNTRY":"USA","STATE":"MI"}]
}]
}
Background information
{
"ORIGINAL_TEXT":"Mr. John Doe, PhD, (age 64)",
"PERSON_NAME":{"ORIGINAL_TEXT":"Mr. John Doe","TITLE":"MR","FIRST_NAME":"JOHN","LAST_NAME":"DOE"},
"POST_NOMINAL_LETTERS":[{"ORIGINAL_TEXT":"PhD","TYPE":"QUALIFICATION",
"LEVEL":"POST_GRADUATE/DOCTORATE"}],
"AGE":{"ORIGINAL_TEXT":"(age 64)", "AGE":64 }
}
