Danny Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3609085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danny Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danny |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | HEC Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8428-7640 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 25 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The social justice core practices of Dane County, Wisconsin educators
CSR and Founder Legacy Dynamics Around Succession
There is much debate as to whether family firms are socially responsible. Leveraging behavioral theories of intertemporal choice, we argue that CSR practices evolve across different stages of succession. As founders approach the later stages of their careers and identify successors, their desire to enhance their legacy becomes more pronounced, leading to an increase in CSR. Founders during this stage benefit from the socioemotional satisfaction t…
The Best of Firms, the Worst of Firms
The role of culture in family firms
CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility
Studies linking religion to CSR have produced conflicting findings due to a failure to draw distinctions among religious influences and different CSR practices, and to theorize their connection. Drawing on social identity theory and the theory of planned behavior, we first argue that religion will influence CSR when ethical values from a CEO’s religious social identification resonate with an aspect of CSR. Second, CEO attitudes congruent with tho…
Are Socially Responsible Firms Associated with Socially Responsible Citizens? A Study of Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Conditioning competitive risk
Optimal distinctiveness
Research summary : A ttaining optimal distinctiveness—positive stakeholder perceptions about a firm's strategic position that reconciles competing demands for differentiation and conformity—has been an important focal point for scholarship at the interface of strategic management and institutional theory. We provide a comprehensive review of this literature and situate studies on optimal distinctiveness in the broader scholarly effort to integrat…
The perils of success, or failure, where is thy sting? A comment on Whyte, Saks and Hook
Nonconformity in Competitive Repertoires
A sociological framework is proposed for studying nonconformity in competitive repertoires. We argue that the extensiveness and continuity of a company's market interactions very much influence its level of nonconformity. Market-level factors that might influence nonconformity include customer and competitor diversity and the continuity of traditions; and firm-level factors include the size, resources, and industry experience of an organization. …
"For a Living Dog Is Better than a Dead Lion"
Managing Under Deadly Conditions
This exploratory study looks at the behavior of a number of CEOs (mostly owner-managers) who kept their companies running during a situation of great stress. Interviews were conducted with 13 Lebanese CEOs to investigate what kind of impact the Lebanese war had on their behavior and emotional well-being and on the functioning of their organizations. Postulations are made about a number of personal and social factors that could explain the resilie…
Understanding the Leader-Strategy Interface
The argument that leaders substantially affect organizational outcome is presented. In order to better understand the leader/strategy/environment interface, however, the question of what leaders do has to be supplemented with why they are doing it. It is argued that the assessment of a leader's preoccupations will make for more effective human resource planning by facilitating the match between leader and organization. Unfortunately, the accurate…
Organizational Configurations
Recent studies have argued that the variety of organizational forms is limited and that certain common organizational configurations-alignments among strategy, structure and environment-occur with remarkable frequency and account-for a very significant fraction of organizations. This has been demonstrated empirically. The purpose of this paper is to probe into the cohesion, dynamics, and predictive implications of configurations. Ten propositions…
Matching Strategies and Strategy Making
The relationships between Porter's (1980) business strategies and the process of strategy making are investigated. The complexity of a strategy is shown to be associated with the intensity of information processing and managerial interaction used in its development and implementation. Porter's strategy of innovative differentiation related significantly to information processing, interaction, and assertiveness in strategy making, especially among…
A previously unreported bronze kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Narcissism and Leadership
Having been largely unknown as a clinical entity, the narcissistic personality has recently come into the limelight. It is argued that one critical component in the orientation of leaders is the quality and intensity of their narcissistic development. In this paper, the relationship between narcissism and leadership is explored. Using concepts taken from psychoanalytic object relations theory, three narcissistic configurations found among leaders…
A Longitudinal Study of the Corporate Life Cycle
A review of recent literature on the corporate life cycle disclosed five common stages: birth, growth, maturity, revival, and decline. Theorists predicted that each stage would manifest integral complementarities among variables of environment (“situation”), strategy, structure and decision making methods; that organizational growth and increasing environmental complexity would cause each stage to exhibit certain significant differences from all …
Group Fantasies and Organizational Functioning
Using the framework of Bion, this paper will argue that groups in organizations are often likely to demonstrate one of three predominant shared fantasies or basic assumptions that determine organizational culture. It will postulate how these different cultures may vitally influence organizational climate, decision-making, strategy, and structure. Our theme is that it may sometimes be useful to discover the fantasies of the organization's dominant…
Strategy‐making and environment
Whereas much is known about the relationships between strategy and structure, and between environment and structure, too little is known about a third link—the relationship between strategy‐making and environment. An empirical study was conducted upon two distinct samples of firms. We hypothesized that increases in environmental dynamism, hostility and heterogeneity should be related to specific changes in the amount of analysis and innovation wh…
Innovation in conservative and entrepreneurial firms
Two very different models of product innovation are postulated and tested. The conservative model assumes that innovation is performed reluctantly, mainly in response to serious challenges. It therefore predicts that innovation will correlate positively with environmental, information processing, structural and decision making variables that represent, or help to recognize and cope with these challenges. In contrast, the entrepreneurial model sup…
A Melus Interview
Journal Article A MELUS Interview: Harriette Arnow Get access Danny Miller Danny Miller University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 1982, Pages 83–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/466965 Published: 01 June 1982
A Melus Interview
Journal Article A MELUS Interview: Wilma Dykeman Get access Danny Miller Danny Miller University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 9, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 45–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/467284 Published: 01 December 1982
Income Distribution in Canada
Donald E. Armstrong, Peter H. Friesen, Danny Miller, Income Distribution in Canada: A Reply to Needleman and Shedd, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 510-517
The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada
Donald E. Armstrong, Peter H. Friesen, Danny Miller, The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada: Some Problems and Some Tentative Data, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 479-488
Narcissism and Leadership
Having been largely unknown as a clinical entity, the narcissistic personality has recently come into the limelight. It is argued that one critical component in the orientation of leaders is the quality and intensity of their narcissistic development. In this paper, the relationship between narcissism and leadership is explored. Using concepts taken from psychoanalytic object relations theory, three narcissistic configurations found among leaders…
Organizational Configurations
Recent studies have argued that the variety of organizational forms is limited and that certain common organizational configurations-alignments among strategy, structure and environment-occur with remarkable frequency and account-for a very significant fraction of organizations. This has been demonstrated empirically. The purpose of this paper is to probe into the cohesion, dynamics, and predictive implications of configurations. Ten propositions…
Nonconformity in Competitive Repertoires
A sociological framework is proposed for studying nonconformity in competitive repertoires. We argue that the extensiveness and continuity of a company's market interactions very much influence its level of nonconformity. Market-level factors that might influence nonconformity include customer and competitor diversity and the continuity of traditions; and firm-level factors include the size, resources, and industry experience of an organization. …
Understanding the Leader-Strategy Interface
The argument that leaders substantially affect organizational outcome is presented. In order to better understand the leader/strategy/environment interface, however, the question of what leaders do has to be supplemented with why they are doing it. It is argued that the assessment of a leader's preoccupations will make for more effective human resource planning by facilitating the match between leader and organization. Unfortunately, the accurate…
Group Fantasies and Organizational Functioning
Using the framework of Bion, this paper will argue that groups in organizations are often likely to demonstrate one of three predominant shared fantasies or basic assumptions that determine organizational culture. It will postulate how these different cultures may vitally influence organizational climate, decision-making, strategy, and structure. Our theme is that it may sometimes be useful to discover the fantasies of the organization's dominant…
The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada
Donald E. Armstrong, Peter H. Friesen, Danny Miller, The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada: Some Problems and Some Tentative Data, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 479-488
Conditioning competitive risk
Matching Strategies and Strategy Making
The relationships between Porter's (1980) business strategies and the process of strategy making are investigated. The complexity of a strategy is shown to be associated with the intensity of information processing and managerial interaction used in its development and implementation. Porter's strategy of innovative differentiation related significantly to information processing, interaction, and assertiveness in strategy making, especially among…
A previously unreported bronze kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia
The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada
Donald E. Armstrong, Peter H. Friesen, Danny Miller, The Measurement of Income Distribution in Canada: Some Problems and Some Tentative Data, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Autumn, 1977), pp. 479-488
Income Distribution in Canada
Donald E. Armstrong, Peter H. Friesen, Danny Miller, Income Distribution in Canada: A Reply to Needleman and Shedd, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Autumn, 1979), pp. 510-517
Innovation in conservative and entrepreneurial firms
Two very different models of product innovation are postulated and tested. The conservative model assumes that innovation is performed reluctantly, mainly in response to serious challenges. It therefore predicts that innovation will correlate positively with environmental, information processing, structural and decision making variables that represent, or help to recognize and cope with these challenges. In contrast, the entrepreneurial model sup…
A Melus Interview
Journal Article A MELUS Interview: Harriette Arnow Get access Danny Miller Danny Miller University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 9, Issue 2, June 1982, Pages 83–97, https://doi.org/10.2307/466965 Published: 01 June 1982
A Melus Interview
Journal Article A MELUS Interview: Wilma Dykeman Get access Danny Miller Danny Miller University of Cincinnati Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 9, Issue 3, December 1982, Pages 45–59, https://doi.org/10.2307/467284 Published: 01 December 1982
Strategy‐making and environment
Whereas much is known about the relationships between strategy and structure, and between environment and structure, too little is known about a third link—the relationship between strategy‐making and environment. An empirical study was conducted upon two distinct samples of firms. We hypothesized that increases in environmental dynamism, hostility and heterogeneity should be related to specific changes in the amount of analysis and innovation wh…
A Longitudinal Study of the Corporate Life Cycle
A review of recent literature on the corporate life cycle disclosed five common stages: birth, growth, maturity, revival, and decline. Theorists predicted that each stage would manifest integral complementarities among variables of environment (“situation”), strategy, structure and decision making methods; that organizational growth and increasing environmental complexity would cause each stage to exhibit certain significant differences from all …
Group Fantasies and Organizational Functioning
Using the framework of Bion, this paper will argue that groups in organizations are often likely to demonstrate one of three predominant shared fantasies or basic assumptions that determine organizational culture. It will postulate how these different cultures may vitally influence organizational climate, decision-making, strategy, and structure. Our theme is that it may sometimes be useful to discover the fantasies of the organization's dominant…
Narcissism and Leadership
Having been largely unknown as a clinical entity, the narcissistic personality has recently come into the limelight. It is argued that one critical component in the orientation of leaders is the quality and intensity of their narcissistic development. In this paper, the relationship between narcissism and leadership is explored. Using concepts taken from psychoanalytic object relations theory, three narcissistic configurations found among leaders…
A previously unreported bronze kettledrum from the Kai Islands, Eastern Indonesia
Matching Strategies and Strategy Making
The relationships between Porter's (1980) business strategies and the process of strategy making are investigated. The complexity of a strategy is shown to be associated with the intensity of information processing and managerial interaction used in its development and implementation. Porter's strategy of innovative differentiation related significantly to information processing, interaction, and assertiveness in strategy making, especially among…
Organizational Configurations
Recent studies have argued that the variety of organizational forms is limited and that certain common organizational configurations-alignments among strategy, structure and environment-occur with remarkable frequency and account-for a very significant fraction of organizations. This has been demonstrated empirically. The purpose of this paper is to probe into the cohesion, dynamics, and predictive implications of configurations. Ten propositions…
Understanding the Leader-Strategy Interface
The argument that leaders substantially affect organizational outcome is presented. In order to better understand the leader/strategy/environment interface, however, the question of what leaders do has to be supplemented with why they are doing it. It is argued that the assessment of a leader's preoccupations will make for more effective human resource planning by facilitating the match between leader and organization. Unfortunately, the accurate…
"For a Living Dog Is Better than a Dead Lion"
Managing Under Deadly Conditions
This exploratory study looks at the behavior of a number of CEOs (mostly owner-managers) who kept their companies running during a situation of great stress. Interviews were conducted with 13 Lebanese CEOs to investigate what kind of impact the Lebanese war had on their behavior and emotional well-being and on the functioning of their organizations. Postulations are made about a number of personal and social factors that could explain the resilie…
Nonconformity in Competitive Repertoires
A sociological framework is proposed for studying nonconformity in competitive repertoires. We argue that the extensiveness and continuity of a company's market interactions very much influence its level of nonconformity. Market-level factors that might influence nonconformity include customer and competitor diversity and the continuity of traditions; and firm-level factors include the size, resources, and industry experience of an organization. …
The perils of success, or failure, where is thy sting? A comment on Whyte, Saks and Hook
Optimal distinctiveness
Research summary : A ttaining optimal distinctiveness—positive stakeholder perceptions about a firm's strategic position that reconciles competing demands for differentiation and conformity—has been an important focal point for scholarship at the interface of strategic management and institutional theory. We provide a comprehensive review of this literature and situate studies on optimal distinctiveness in the broader scholarly effort to integrat…
Conditioning competitive risk
Are Socially Responsible Firms Associated with Socially Responsible Citizens? A Study of Social Distancing During the Covid-19 Pandemic
CEO Religion and Corporate Social Responsibility
Studies linking religion to CSR have produced conflicting findings due to a failure to draw distinctions among religious influences and different CSR practices, and to theorize their connection. Drawing on social identity theory and the theory of planned behavior, we first argue that religion will influence CSR when ethical values from a CEO’s religious social identification resonate with an aspect of CSR. Second, CEO attitudes congruent with tho…
The Best of Firms, the Worst of Firms
The role of culture in family firms
The social justice core practices of Dane County, Wisconsin educators
CSR and Founder Legacy Dynamics Around Succession
There is much debate as to whether family firms are socially responsible. Leveraging behavioral theories of intertemporal choice, we argue that CSR practices evolve across different stages of succession. As founders approach the later stages of their careers and identify successors, their desire to enhance their legacy becomes more pronounced, leading to an increase in CSR. Founders during this stage benefit from the socioemotional satisfaction t…
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