Choose to Fight or Choose to Flee? A Network Embeddedness Perspective of Executive Ship Jumping in Declining Firms

Research summary: Executives in declining firms may engage in ship‐jumping behavior (i.e., voluntarily move to new employers before the failure occurs) to avoid the stigma of failure. However, it is unclear how executives decide whether or not to jump ship. Building on a network embeddedness perspec...

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Published in:	Strategic management journal Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 2061 - 2079
Main Authors:	Jiang, Han, Cannella, Albert A., Xia, Jun, Semadeni, Matthew
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, UK Wiley 01.10.2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Wiley Periodicals Inc
Subjects:	alliance networks Alliances Companies Decision making Decisions declining firms Embeddedness Employers executive social capital Executives Job hunting Jumping jumping ship Networks Opportunity costs peer social capital Peers Resignations Ships Social capital Social networks Social values Stigma China
ISSN:	0143-2095, 1097-0266
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