Kenneth R. Brousseau

International growth through cooperation: Brand-driven strategies, leadership, and career development in Sweden

Corporate growth is often viewed as being either internally generated or externally achieved through mergers and acquisitions (M&As). During the last decade, strategic alliances have become an ...

Building motivational capital through career concept and culture fit

Purpose – The purpose of the present paper is to offer a career concept and culture framework for measuring and managing the alignment between people, strategy and culture and especially the motivational capital as the fit between peoples motives and the organizations reward and appraisal systems.Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 312 respondents in a multinational manufacturing firm using two questionnaires about their individual career concepts, motives, and their views about the organizational strategy and culture.Findings – The results suggest that the career‐ and culture‐based motivational capital is positively associated with how effective the people view the strategy, how well‐functioning the structure is experienced, how relevant the performance appraisal is considered, how satisfied the people feel, and how long they stay in the organization.Research limitations/implications – Future research should add more multi‐item‐dependent variables, use more translated questionnaires into the resp...