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    An Investigation of The Nomological Network of Enterprise Risk Management Effectiveness: The Roles of Transformational Leadership and Organizational Culture
    (2025-01-06) Ogunsanya, Adedayo Samuel; Ogunfowora, Babatunde; Kleffner, Anne; Halek, Martin; Turner, Nick; Pilbeam, Colin
    Finance and accounting scholars have largely relied on quantitative models based on archival data to study enterprise risk management (ERM) implementation, frequently neglecting key dimensions of organizational behaviour. To address this gap, this dissertation applies a transdisciplinary approach to investigate how the transformational leadership of the chief risk officer (CRO), the consistency of the risk management culture, and the group potency of the risk management team (i.e., whether members collectively believe that their team can be effective) contribute to ERM effectiveness. Based on survey responses from 449 risk managers and executives across financial institutions in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia, covariance-based structural equation modelling was applied to assess the effects of the independent variables on both subjective and objective measures of effective ERM. The results indicate that the chief risk officer’s transformational leadership, the consistency of the risk management culture, and the group potency of the risk management team have positive direct effects on subjective indicators of an organization’s ERM effectiveness. While the direct effect of the group potency of the risk management team on objective indicators of ERM effectiveness is significant, the direct effect of the chief risk officer’s transformational leadership is positive but not significant. Mediation analysis reveals that the consistency of the risk management culture and the group potency of the risk management team significantly positively and sequentially mediate the relationships between the chief risk officer’s transformational leadership and effective ERM. In other words, organizations with transformational CROs are more likely to have effective ERM programs because they positively influence consistent risk management cultures and the group potency of their risk management teams. These insights contribute to the theoretical understanding of ERM and offer practical guidance for enhancing its implementation in financial institutions.
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    Antecedents and Consequences of MBA Program Rankings
    (2024-09-13) Heggerud, Catherine Louise; Osiyevskyy, Oleksiy; Dewald, Jim; Jones, Vernon; Kleffner, Anne; Watson, Lisa
    The impact of MBA program rankings on business schools has been profound and multifaceted, influencing the strategic actions of deans and shaping the perceptions of various stakeholders. This thesis investigates the antecedents and consequences of these rankings through a comprehensive analysis comprising a case study and an empirical study. The case study delves into how Canadian business school deans make sense of and respond to rankings, as the rankings have been institutionalized within the business school ecosystem, revealing the paradoxes they navigate in their strategic decision-making processes. Employing sensemaking and sensegiving frameworks, the study highlights how rankings have become entrenched, creating tensions between deans' identities as academics and administrators. The empirical study examines the drivers of full-time MBA program rankings using a corporate reputational model. By analyzing publicly available data, the study identifies factors such as in-region competition and product differentiation that are positively connected to a program’s ranking. This dual approach not only uncovers the internal and external pressures faced by business schools but also provides actionable insights for deans aiming to enhance their programs’ standings. The findings contribute to the broader understanding of how rankings affect higher education institutions and offer practical implications for strategic management in business schools. This research underscores the complexity of navigating rankings and highlights the need for continuous adaptation and balanced strategic actions to maintain and improve MBA program rankings. This research extends our understanding of rankings as a reputational construct, opens avenues for longitudinal or cross-program studies, and has the potential to shape higher education administrative practice.
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    Applying Dynamic Capabilities in Business Model Innovation: An Exploratory Case Study in a Self-Managing Organization
    (2025-01-07) Mayer, Matthew; Osiyevskyy, Oleksiy; Woiceshyn, Jaana; Suddaby, Roy; Saunders, Chad; Mihalache, Oli
    Despite a significant amount of literature on business model innovation (BMI) suggesting the importance of organizational design as a firm-level moderator for successful BMI outcomes, few studies have addressed it directly. Self-managing organizations (SMO) are a type of less-hierarchical organization that aims to redefine hierarchical structures, especially the role of traditional managers. Like any firm, SMOs that innovate well may enjoy Schumpeterian entrepreneurial rents and, if effective at continually reconfiguring their resources, may sustain a competitive advantage in line with the dynamic capabilities (DCs) theoretical perspective. Despite practitioners suggesting that SMOs are better at adapting and responding to environmental conditions, few public-facing examples of BMI in these organizations exist in either popular management literature or scholarship. This intensive, exploratory case study researched an SMO that transformed its resources several times to pursue an array of BMIs over time. Interviews, observation and archival data were collected over 18 months. The study results showed that balancing hierarchical tensions, enacting collaborative routines for knowledge creation and configuring a community of leaders are foundational DCs when BMI is practiced in an SMO. In addition to outlining the routines and practices for DCs for BMI in an SMO, the study also proposed a model for how these DCs are applied. For scholars and practitioners, the study discusses the role of a manager, innovation champion and network for SMOs engaging in BMI. In practice, identifiable organizational routines and processes are present, and practices can be strategically selected to enact multiple DCs simultaneously. The exploratory nature of this case study elucidated future research to advance the field of BMI and SMOs.
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    Essays on Corporate Strategic Adaptation
    (2024-11-22) Simoes, Sean Cyril Neil; Petricevic, Olga; Verbeke, Alain; Jones, Vernon; Kano, Liena; Moran, Pablo; Bu, Maoliang
    The essays in this dissertation utilize transaction cost theory (TCT) and complementary frameworks, namely the resource-based view and dynamic capabilities to explore how firms adapt to their business environment. In Chapter 1, I challenge the prevailing notion that multinational enterprises (MNEs) must adapt to conditions in ‘Bottom of the Pyramid’ (BOP) markets by creating informal institutions. Rather, using the case of India’s digital and financial initiatives, I argue that MNEs should work with governments to develop formal institutions, and leverage these institutions to accurately assess the reliability of BOP customers. In Chapter 2, I explore how MNEs have adapted their international strategies in response to vulnerability created by macro-level decoupling between the U.S. and China. Utilizing elements of the Profiting from Innovation (PFI) framework, I find that the framework helps explain the MNE’s position in the China market. This position along with elements of the PFI framework in turn helps explain firm responses. The remaining chapters explore cases of how firms have adapted in different ways. In Chapter 3, I discuss how Volkswagen failed to adapt its products to the U.S. market which put in place stringent emissions standards, with bounded reliability coupled with a disconnect between headquarters and U.S. personnel, and a lack of controls, contributing to a sustainability crisis. In Chapter 4, I explore how MNE Cummins adapted its global diversity and inclusion strategy and mandated the use of English as a common language in its Indian subsidiaries and joint ventures, including on the shop floor, with benefits for individuals as well as the Indian entities. And in Chapter 5, I explore how Corning, another large MNE, built and leveraged its resources and capabilities to adapt to changing markets, by launching and growing new product families. Using a sample of 23 product families, I find two combinations of causal conditions that help explain this capability to reconfigure Corning’s business. In summary, this dissertation utilizes TCT thinking and associated frameworks to contribute to an enhanced understanding of strategic adaptation by large firms.