STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP EFFECTIVENESS: EXPLORING INSTITUTIONAL ONTINGENCIES

 

Time：April. 24th (Thursday) 10am -12noon

Location: Zhifuxuan, National School of Development, Peking U.

Speaker: Zhang YanLong, Assistant Professor, Guanghua School of Managment

 

 

Abstract：

Research highlights the need to explore institutional contingencies that impact stakeholder management practices. Using a policy-capturing methodology we presented Chinese executives experimentally designed scenarios describing the importance 30 CEO’s place on 12 stakeholder management practices and asked them to assess the effectiveness of the leadership of each CEO. We find that although Chinese executives believe that satisfying the claims of all stakeholders (e.g., shareholders, customers, employees, governments, suppliers, and society) is important for CEO effectiveness, we find that the maximization of shareholders’ interests is still the strongest predictor of Chinese executives’ perceptions of leadership effectiveness. However, institutional influences, which vary at individual, organizational, industrial, and regional levels, moderate the perceived effects of these stakeholder management practices on assessments of CEOs’ leadership effectiveness. 
 

 

Dr. Yanlong Zhang is an Assistant Professor at Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Duke University. His research interests include economic sociology, organization studies, social networks, and social capital. He currently studies entrepreneurs' social networks, local business associations, and corporate social capital.