作者:Cannella, Albert A., Jr.; Jones, Carla D.; Withers, Michael C.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Texas State University System; Sam Houston State University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要:We distinguish between family companies, involving multiple family members as owners and/or managers, and lone-founder companies, involving only the founder and no other family members. We apply social identity theory and organizational identification to elucidate the differences between these two types of firms, and how their differing organizational identities reflect unique desires for control and influence. We then consider how these differences are reflected in a firm's board structure (i...
作者:Cole, Benjamin M.
作者单位:Fordham University
摘要:Rather than treat the context of communication as an exogenously determined factor, I investigate the extent to which communicators actively utilize context as a vehicle of communication. Focusing on three cases of physicality norm violations observed during a five-year ethnographic study of a Japanese martial arts dojo, I document the use of specific context management and content management practices on the part of the instructors to reconcile the situations in which they found themselves. T...
作者:Dodgson, Mark; Gann, David; Wladawsky-Berger, Irving; Sultan, Naveed; George, Gerard
作者单位:University of Queensland; Imperial College London; International Business Machines (IBM); IBM USA; Singapore Management University