Three Essays on Managerial Competence and Organizational Growth

• Main Authors: Lin-Yu Kung, 孔令玉
• Other Authors: Ji-Ren Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2019
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5wtv5c

博士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 國際企業學研究所 === 107 === The nature of managerial competence has been studied for decades. However, different frameworks of developing managerial competences make research propositions divergent and practitioners confused when applying these concepts in creating organizational growth. Furthermore, managerial competences and environmental opportunities interact to support firms to pursue continuous growth, which necessitates the importance of managerial competences in organizational growth. In light of the research needs, this dissertation proposes the fundamental outcomes of managerial competences and their impact on organizational growth. The first essay clarifies the nature of competence and resources. It recognizes the fundamental managerial outcomes and their relations to corporate growth and the principal dimensions of managerial teams. The next essay adopts the stated arguments to explore the relationship between managerial outcomes and the Penrose effect. The influence of collective managerial characteristics on organizational growth is then explicated. Finally, the last study focuses on spin-offs, a special mode of corporate divestiture and growth. The roles of external opportunities and internal supportive endowments in determining the spun-off firm’s performance are investigated. The first essay provides new insight about the nature of managerial competence and its outcomes, and the managerial factors that increase the fundamental managerial outcome. It also suggests a positive relationship between the fundamental outcomes and organizational growth. By manifesting the role of entrepreneurial visions, which are the crucial outcome of managerial competences for corporate growth, the second essay sheds light on the debate of the existence of the Penrose effect and indicates a novel direction of elaborating the random rate of organizational growth. The last essay suggests that the evaluation of spin-offs requires consideration of the overall performance including the spun-off firm and the divesting firm from the internal and external perspectives when the firm intends to undertake spin-off approaches for restructuring its business or pursuing organizational growth.