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作者：Aoki, Katsuki
作者单位：Meiji University
摘要：This paper aims to uncover the roles of material artifacts in managing the learning-performance paradox. It analyzes qualitative data on two transformation projects to implement kaizen (continuous improvement) collected from two manufacturing plants in a Chinese company. In both projects, material artifacts triggered social interaction, through which frontline employees were stimulated to focus on both performance and learning. However, in one project, the interplay of material artifacts that ...
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作者：Claus, Laura; Tracey, Paul
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; University of Melbourne
摘要：We examine how organizations can challenge institutions that are coercively protected by powerful elites-guarded institutions-when they are unable or unwilling to advocate publicly against them. To do so, we draw on an in-depth qualitative study of efforts to combat child marriage in Indonesia. We explore how an international children's rights organization worked alongside local nongovernmental organizations and activists to disrupt the institution of child marriage through two discrete strate...
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作者：Vanacker, Tom; Forbes, Daniel P.; Knockaert, Mirjam; Manigart, Sophie
作者单位：Ghent University; University of Exeter; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Ghent University; Technical University of Munich; Ghent University; Vlerick Business School
摘要：Past research has shown that new firms can facilitate resource mobilization by signaling their unobservable quality to prospective resource providers. However, we know less about situations in which firms convey multiple signals of different strengths-that is, signals that are more- or less-correlated with unobservable firm quality. Building on a sociocognitive perspective, we propose that prospective resource providers respond differently to signals of different strengths and that the effecti...
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作者：Rodner, Victoria; Roulet, Thomas J.; Kerrigan, Finola; vom Lehn, Dirk
作者单位：University of Stirling; University of Cambridge; University of Cambridge; University of Birmingham; University of London; King's College London
摘要：The physical and material aspects of space, such as geographical distance or boundaries, have social and symbolic consequences that impact how people influence and are influenced by institutions. Social actors can, however, contest how space is conceived, perceived, and lived, thus making space a crucial lever in the disruption and defense of institutions. However, we lack understanding of the spatial aspects of such institutional struggles. In exploring how space is leveraged in institutional...
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作者：McDonnell, Mary-Hunter; Cobb, J. Adam
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：While prior work has shown that a firm's market performance affects the loyalty of its board, little is known about how corporate social responsibility affects directors' willingness to serve. In this project, we shed light on this question by exploring how social movement boycotts that challenge a firm's social responsibility affect board turnover. We find that boycotts provoke a significant increase in turnover at targeted firms, and that directors are especially likely to leave after boycot...
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作者：Bourgoin, Alaric; Bencherki, Nicolas; Faraj, Samer
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Quebec; Universite TELUQ; McGill University
摘要：As work and organizational realities become increasingly post-bureaucratic, the conventional and stable bases of a person's authority-their position, their expertise, or the acquiescence of a subordinate-are eroding. This evolution calls us to revise our understanding of authority, and to consider more deeply how it is achieved in contexts that are both fluid and fragmented. Building on a six-month autoethnography of a consulting assignment, we show that authority is a practical, relational, a...
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作者：Chandler, David; Polidoro, Francisco, Jr.; Yang, Wei
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; George Mason University
摘要：We have long known that organizational reputation is consequential. While highlighting the effects of a reputation for good behavior, however, prior work has largely overlooked the possibility that a reputation for bad behavior is qualitatively distinct. In addition, we know that organizational reputation is multidimensional. Although this is conceptually intriguing only if different types of reputation produce different effects, concurrent tests of such differences are rare. In response, we s...
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作者：Nurmohamed, Samir
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Existing theory and research has documented the benefits of facing high expectations and the perils of encountering low expectations. This paper examines the performance effects of underdog expectations, defined as individuals' perceptions that others view them as unlikely to succeed. Integrating theory and research on self-enhancement with psychological reactance, I predict that underdog expectations have the potential to boost performance through the desire to prove others wrong when others'...
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作者：Harrison, Joseph S.; Thurgood, Gary R.; Boivie, Steven; Pfarrer, Michael D.
作者单位：Texas Christian University; Utah System of Higher Education; Utah State University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：We develop theory to explain how CEOs' observable personality traits influence market perceptions of firm risk and shareholder returns. Using a linguistic tool to measure nearly 3,000 CEOs' personality traits, we find that CEOs' observed levels of conscientiousness, neuroticism, and extraversion have important consequences for the perceived riskiness of the firm, as reflected in stock volatility. We also find that these traits alter the relationship between stock risk and returns. Whereas fina...
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作者：Raynard, Mia; Lu, Fangmei; Jing, Runtian
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Nanjing University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
摘要：This study builds theory on organizational change through a qualitative study investigating how a small state-run factory in China transformed into a global leader in power equipment manufacturing. Drawing on cross-level longitudinal data from the company's founding in 1966 to 2016, we unpack a process of organizational change that unfolded during China's transition away from a centrally planned economy. Our findings draw attention to the role of values work in facilitating and mitigating the ...
