... to integrate upper echelon research with research on impression management
Menai Insight's Managerial Background analysis tool allows researchers to examine how top managers and directors present their backgrounds to organizational stakeholders, integrating upper echelons research with the impression management perspective.
By capturing a rich representation of the specific information in each sentence of a manager's background, we allow researchers to make theoretically meaningful comparisons on dimensions of interest, enabling consideration of:
By capturing a rich representation of the specific information in each sentence of a manager's background, we allow researchers to make theoretically meaningful comparisons on dimensions of interest, enabling consideration of:
- Changing characterizations of managers backgrounds over time
- Causes and consequence of changing managerial characterizations
- Overall evolution of the characterization of the experiences of corporate leaders
Focus Area 1: Characterizing the Managerial Backgrounds
Our tools enable you to characterize every sentence in managerial backgrounds with:
- Positions: Positions that a manager has had (including firm characterizations, positions, dates)
- Qualifications: Educational achievements
- Experiences: Qualitative description of experiences
- Professional licenses: Legal licenses, such as professional
- Backgrounds information: Such as a manager's name, to allow you to integrate with other data-sources
Focus Area 2: Committee Activities
Consistent representation of all components of committee activites:
- Board Oversight: How committee oversees firm managers
- Selection decision: Examine the role of the committee in selecting executives
- Justification: Why committees decide particular activities
Focus Area 3: Performance Evaluations (launching late 2018)
Combine our managerial background and committee activities tools with performance evaluations:
- Evaluation of managerial performance : Explore the impact of managerial portrayals on performance evaluations
- Justification of decision: How performance is evaluate and communicated
- Justification: Why committees decide particular activities
Integrate new textual variable into your research
- Changing Characterizations: Which experiences and positions are omitted, or how the characterization of employers
- Field/societal trends: Evolution in the discussion; how external shock influence characterization trends
- Reciprocal relationship between characterization and behavior: How characterization influence managerial behaviors, and these behaviors influence characterizations
- Influence patterns: How characterization diffuse across the interlock network
