Tapping Networks to Hire Executives: A Case of Playing Follow the Leader?
基于制度理论和社会传染，研究公司如何跟随大公司的招聘模式，且财务表现影响招聘来源选择，连锁董事会公司常从网络内公司招募高管。
The article reports on research—by Ian O. Williamson of the University of Maryland and Daniel Cable of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill—concerning executive hiring patterns and interlocking directorates. A framework, which was based on institutional theory and social contagion, suggests that companies follow the hiring patterns of larger firms, decisions about a particular hiring source are influenced by the firms' financial performance, and executives for senior management teams in corporations with interlocking boards are often recruited among the networked companies.