Michael C White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana Tech University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences
Over the past two decades, several new perspectives have emerged in the physical and natural sciences and are collectively referred to as the complexity sciences. Insights from these emerging perspectives have implications that merit consideration for developments and extensions of existing work at the metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological levels in organization theory. The purpose of this manuscript is to: (a) provide an overview of t…
Association of Indicators and Predictors of TIE Strength
Arguments deriving from the importance of the strength of social ties between individuals are being applied in social and organizational analysis; however, lack of empirical verification of the components of the construct and lack of consistency in the use of proxy measures have made difficult the resolution of controversies surrounding the relative merits of strong and weak ties. This study examined the relations between predictors and indicator…
CEO Succession
Population ecologists suggest that inertial pressures make it difficult for organizations to adapt their strategies and structures in response to environmental changes. One way in which organizations may attempt to overcome these inertial tendencies is by selecting executive successors with different career specializations than their predecessors, which may enable them to better cope with changing environmental contingencies. The present study ex…
The Evolution of Organizations
There has been much debate in the management literature between neo-Darwinists (who believe in the natural selection of populations of organizations) and adaptationists (who contend that changes in organization structure and behavior occur in response to the environment). The general thesis of neo-Darwinism is that species are blindly selected for survival by the environment. The latest empirical support for the dominant neo-Darwinism perspective…
A Typology of Executive Career Specialization
This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of c…
Environmental Turbulence
It is a generally accepted proposition in the literature on organizations that there is a monotonic relationship among increasing environmental complexity, organizational interdependence, and increasing environmental turbulence. Moreover, this proposition also assumes that increasing environmental complexity for the organization and increasing organizational interdependencies lead to increased uncertainty for organizational growth and survival. T…
Data on the Marlowe-Crowne and Edwards Social Desirability Scales
Data bearing on various psychometric issues are reported for the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and for Edwards' Social Desirability Schedule. Coefficients of stability, coefficients alpha, as well as both confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses for both scales are reported and discussed
Satisfaction in Communication
First-line supervisors from five textile mills located in the southeast completed the eight-scale Downs-Hazen measure of satisfaction in communication. These data were examined to determine the dimensional stability and the intrascale internal consistency of the measure. The results indicate that, although an eight-factor solution is reasonable, only in a few instances is the generated subscale structure as originally hypothesized. Further, the s…
Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences
Over the past two decades, several new perspectives have emerged in the physical and natural sciences and are collectively referred to as the complexity sciences. Insights from these emerging perspectives have implications that merit consideration for developments and extensions of existing work at the metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological levels in organization theory. The purpose of this manuscript is to: (a) provide an overview of t…
The Evolution of Organizations
There has been much debate in the management literature between neo-Darwinists (who believe in the natural selection of populations of organizations) and adaptationists (who contend that changes in organization structure and behavior occur in response to the environment). The general thesis of neo-Darwinism is that species are blindly selected for survival by the environment. The latest empirical support for the dominant neo-Darwinism perspective…
CEO Succession
Population ecologists suggest that inertial pressures make it difficult for organizations to adapt their strategies and structures in response to environmental changes. One way in which organizations may attempt to overcome these inertial tendencies is by selecting executive successors with different career specializations than their predecessors, which may enable them to better cope with changing environmental contingencies. The present study ex…
A Typology of Executive Career Specialization
This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of c…
Environmental Turbulence
It is a generally accepted proposition in the literature on organizations that there is a monotonic relationship among increasing environmental complexity, organizational interdependence, and increasing environmental turbulence. Moreover, this proposition also assumes that increasing environmental complexity for the organization and increasing organizational interdependencies lead to increased uncertainty for organizational growth and survival. T…
Satisfaction in Communication
First-line supervisors from five textile mills located in the southeast completed the eight-scale Downs-Hazen measure of satisfaction in communication. These data were examined to determine the dimensional stability and the intrascale internal consistency of the measure. The results indicate that, although an eight-factor solution is reasonable, only in a few instances is the generated subscale structure as originally hypothesized. Further, the s…
Data on the Marlowe-Crowne and Edwards Social Desirability Scales
Data bearing on various psychometric issues are reported for the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale and for Edwards' Social Desirability Schedule. Coefficients of stability, coefficients alpha, as well as both confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses for both scales are reported and discussed
Environmental Turbulence
It is a generally accepted proposition in the literature on organizations that there is a monotonic relationship among increasing environmental complexity, organizational interdependence, and increasing environmental turbulence. Moreover, this proposition also assumes that increasing environmental complexity for the organization and increasing organizational interdependencies lead to increased uncertainty for organizational growth and survival. T…
A Typology of Executive Career Specialization
This paper presents a career specialization typology that is specifically designed to assess a CEO's career specialization, but more generally can be used to assess other top executives' career specialization as well. The typology is based on the results of a study involving 544 chief executive officers of Fortune 1000 companies. The typology integrates the functional and institutional specializations of the executives into a single typology of c…
CEO Succession
Population ecologists suggest that inertial pressures make it difficult for organizations to adapt their strategies and structures in response to environmental changes. One way in which organizations may attempt to overcome these inertial tendencies is by selecting executive successors with different career specializations than their predecessors, which may enable them to better cope with changing environmental contingencies. The present study ex…
The Evolution of Organizations
There has been much debate in the management literature between neo-Darwinists (who believe in the natural selection of populations of organizations) and adaptationists (who contend that changes in organization structure and behavior occur in response to the environment). The general thesis of neo-Darwinism is that species are blindly selected for survival by the environment. The latest empirical support for the dominant neo-Darwinism perspective…
Association of Indicators and Predictors of TIE Strength
Arguments deriving from the importance of the strength of social ties between individuals are being applied in social and organizational analysis; however, lack of empirical verification of the components of the construct and lack of consistency in the use of proxy measures have made difficult the resolution of controversies surrounding the relative merits of strong and weak ties. This study examined the relations between predictors and indicator…
Why Study the Complexity Sciences in the Social Sciences
Over the past two decades, several new perspectives have emerged in the physical and natural sciences and are collectively referred to as the complexity sciences. Insights from these emerging perspectives have implications that merit consideration for developments and extensions of existing work at the metatheoretical, theoretical, and methodological levels in organization theory. The purpose of this manuscript is to: (a) provide an overview of t…
Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Management (3 works) · Psychometrics (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)