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36
Citations
16627
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2005
National Ranking
815

Overview

Margarethe F. Wiersema is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domain of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a focused contribution across various subfields including Accounting, Strategy and Management, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Gender Studies, and Finance.

The research topics addressed by Wiersema include Corporate Finance and Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Family Business Performance and Succession, Corporate Identity and Reputation, Sustainable Finance and Green Bonds, and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

The scholar has published extensively, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Journal of Management
  • Strategic Organization
  • Strategic Management Journal
  • Organization Science

Selected recent papers by Margarethe F. Wiersema include:

  • "Activist hedge fund success: The role of reputation," 2020, Strategic Management Journal
  • "Women Directors and Board Dynamics: Qualitative Insights from the Boardroom," 2023, Journal of Management
  • "Corporate governance in today's world: Looking back and an agenda for the future," 2022, Strategic Organization
  • "Corporate Short-Termism: A Review and Research Agenda," 2025, Journal of Management

Wiersema frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Haeyoung Koo, Ruth V. Aguilera, Oliver Alexy, Charlotte Cloutier, and Caterina Moschieri. These collaborations indicate a networked approach to research within their areas of expertise.

Best Publications

  • Top Management Team Demography and Corporate Strategic Change

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Karen A. Bantel

  • TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM DEMOGRAPHY AND CORPORATE STRATEGIC CHANGE.

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  • A resource‐based approach to the multibusiness firm: Empirical analysis of portfolio interrelationships and corporate financial performance

    James Arthur Robins;Margarethe Wiersema

  • Strategic Flexibility in Information Technology Alliances: the Influence of Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory

    Candace Young-Ybarra;Margarethe Wiersema

  • Top management team turnover as an adaptation mechanism: The role of the environment

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Karen A. Bantel

  • ORGANIZATIONAL DEMOGRAPHY IN JAPANESE FIRMS: GROUP HETEROGENEITY, INDIVIDUAL DISSIMILARITY, AND TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM TURNOVER

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Allan Bird

  • The use of limited dependent variable techniques in strategy research: issues and methods

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Harry P. Bowen

  • Stock market reaction to CEO certification: the signaling role of CEO background

    Yan Zhang;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • Corporate diversification: the impact of foreign competition, industry globalization, and product diversification

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Harry P. Bowen

  • CEO Dismissal: The role of investment analysts

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Yan Zhang

  • Matching method to paradigm in strategy research: limitations of cross‐sectional analysis and some methodological alternatives

    Harry P. Bowen;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • New CEOs and Corporate Strategic Refocusing: How Experience as Heir Apparent Influences the Use of Power

    Gregory A. Bigley;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • Firm Performance, Rent Appropriation, and the Strategic Resource Divestment Capability

    Thomas P. Moliterno;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • Foreign-based competition and corporate diversification strategy

    Harry P. Bowen;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • The measurement of corporate portfolio strategy: analysis of the content validity of related diversification indexes

    James Arthur Robins;Margarethe Wiersema

  • STRATEGIC CONSEQUENCES OF EXECUTIVE SUCCESSION WITHIN DIVERSIFIED FIRMS

    Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • Holes at the top. Why CEO firings backfire.

    Margarethe Wiersema

  • Changing of the Guard: the Influence of CEO Socialization on Strategic Change

    Nanette Fondas;Margarethe Wiersema

  • Executive succession as an antecedent to corporate restructuring

    Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • Gaining Strategic and Organizational Capability in a Turbulent Business Environment

    David Ulrich;Margarethe F. Wiersema

  • The relationship between international diversification and firm performance: Why it remains a puzzle

    Margarethe F. Wiersema;Harry P. Bowen

Frequent Co-Authors

Geoffrey Wood
Geoffrey Wood University of Western Ontario
Phillip H. Phan
Phillip H. Phan Johns Hopkins University
Gideon D. Markman
Gideon D. Markman Colorado State University

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