Robertson, W.A. (Winslow Ariel)
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- A means of managerial expression: Why ideology matters for management(2024-10-15) Robertson, W.A. (Winslow Ariel); Rodríguez-Lluesma, C. (Carlos)In this dissertation, I outline the intellectual history of ideology research within management and organizational studies then attempt to integrate previous theorizing around group interests to explore the effects of owner ideology on organizations around issues of race. The first chapter is a combination integrative review an hermeneutic study of the current dominant research stream on ideology In the second chapter, using an institutionally-created position from the National Basketball Association (NBA) – the “14th/15th player” slots that derive from requirements that all teams have no more than 15 players on their rosters but can only play 13 of them per game – my coauthors and I examinee how owner political ideology of privately held organizations interacts with race to yield preferential hiring/retention. Utilizing daily game data from NBA players from the 2000-2001 through 2019-2020 seasons, we find that White U.S. players face a hazard over 120 times greater than non-White U.S. players of being acquired as “14th/15th players” when the acquiring team’s owner is maximally conservative and that those same players face a hazard 96% lower when the owner is maximally liberal. We contend that these 14th/15th players can serve as sinecures for conservatives – i.e., “flexible offices with pay but few if any fixed duties” – allowing for differential hiring/retention treatment of White players based on ideology. The last chapter attempts to restore the occasionally dormant theoretical conservation between ideology and social movements by looking at the role of mega-threats in motivating platform activist responses to organizational owner actions. Using (née) Twitter data from National Basketball Association (NBA) and Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) players, we find utilizing a triple-difference estimator that a strategic, solitary tweet by a WNBA player had a 72% impact on in-state versus out-of-state political donations, offering a quantifiable estimate of how platform activists oppose certain organizational owners as a product of conflicting ideologies. Rather than treating ideology as separate from activism, we hope that these findings will push management and organizational scholars to understand how group attributes such as class that might inspire Top Management Team (TMT) ideological action going forward.