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Upper echelons (Hambrick & Mason, 1984) - Weekend Classics
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English Podcast starts at 00:00:00 Bengali Podcast Starts at 00:56:52 Hindi Podcast Starts at 01:21:30 Danish Podcast Starts at 01:45:01 Reference Hambrick, D. C., & Mason, P. A. (1984). Upper echelons: The organization as a reflection of its top managers. Academy of Management Review, 9: 193–206. https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1984.4277628 Youtube channel link https://www.youtube.com/@weekendresearcher Podcast Website https://mayukhmukhopadhyay.com/reviseandresubmit/ Welcome to Revise and Resubmit 🎙️✨ and to another episode of Weekend Classics 📚 Sometimes I come across a paper that does not simply explain organizations, but explains people. And once it explains people, everything else begins to make a different kind of sense. That is how I feel about today’s classic, Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers , written by Donald C. Hambrick and Phyllis A. Mason, and published on 1 April 1984 in the Academy of Management Review 🏛️, one of the most prestigious FT50 listed journals in management research. What makes this paper endure, I think, is its refusal to pretend that organizations are machines running on cold logic alone. It reminds me that behind every strategy memo, every merger, every ambitious leap, every cautious retreat, there are human beings sitting in rooms, carrying their histories with them. Their educations. Their ambitions. Their fears. Their habits of seeing. Their private ways of deciding what matters and what can be ignored. 👀🧠 Hambrick and Mason gave us a sentence so powerful that it still echoes through management scholarship today: organizations are, in part, reflections of their top managers. And when I sit with that idea, it feels at once obvious and quietly profound. Of course companies do not emerge from nowhere.…