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作者：Bruns, Hille C.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：This study develops theory on how coordination occurs in collaboration across multiple expert domains. Ethnographic fieldwork at two top U.S. universities explored the emerging field of systems biology cancer research, an extreme case of cross-functional work. Scientists make diverse contributions compatible by engaging in the coordination practices of joint assessment and consultation and in the collaborative practices of counterprojection and alignment. The study advances a process model of ...
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作者：Klarner, Patricia; Raisch, Sebastian
作者单位：University of Munich; University of Geneva
摘要：This study examines how different rhythms of change relate to firm performance. An explorative analysis of 67 European insurance companies between 1995 and 2004 reveals that corporate strategic changes occur in four distinct rhythms, which are classified as either regular or irregular (focused, punctuated, and temporarily switching). Subsequent quantitative analysis shows that companies that change regularly outperform those that change irregularly. This finding prevails under different intern...
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作者：Lok, Jaco; de Rond, Mark
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Cambridge
摘要：Using a 199-day ethnography of Cambridge's 2007 season preparations for the annual University Boat Race, we explore the microprocesses through which highly institutionalized practices are maintained by examining how institutional inhabitants collectively restore breakdowns in institutionalized practice. Our analysis reveals how institutions can be inoculated against such breakdowns through maintenance work. We find that the salience and importance of different forms of maintenance work vary wi...
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作者：Bresman, Henrik
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Prior research has indicated that groups frequently change their routines drawing on the experience of others and that this has significant performance effects. But how group routine change occurs through this process of vicarious learning is not clear. Using a qualitative field study of drug development teams in one pharmaceutical firm, I examine how groups change routines drawing on the prior related experience of other groups. An inductive analysis suggests that this process does not follow...
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作者：Monin, Philippe; Noorderhaven, Niels; Vaara, Eero; Kroon, David
作者单位：emlyon business school; Tilburg University; Hanken School of Economics; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：The objective of this article is to elucidate how justice in general and distributive justice in particular are given sense to and made sense of in postmerger integration. Drawing on a longitudinal real-time analysis of a recent merger, we identify a pattern in which focus moved from equality to equity to less emphasis on distributive justice. To understand the dynamics involved, we develop a process model that explains how actors reconcile pressures of value creation and sociopolitical concer...
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作者：van Oorschot, Kim E.; Akkermans, Henk; Sengupta, Kishore; Van Wassenhove, Luk N.
作者单位：BI Norwegian Business School; Tilburg University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We conducted a longitudinal process study of one firm's failed attempt to develop a new product. Our extensive data analysis suggests that teams in complex dynamic environments characterized by delays are subject to multiple information filters that blur their perception of actual project performance. Consequently, teams do not realize their projects are in trouble and repeatedly fall into a decision trap in which they stretch current project stages at the expense of future stages. This slowly...
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作者：Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Metzger, Matthew L.; Meyer, Alan D.
作者单位：University of Oregon; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado at Colorado Springs; University of Oregon
摘要：We build theory on the process of collective identity resurrection through a qualitative study investigating how community members reenergized a valued community identity following years of decline. Our findings suggest a recursive model of identity resurrection, in which community leaders marshal tangible resources such as money and human talent to orchestrate experiences and community members authenticate the experiences by judging them resonant with memories and existing identity symbols. T...
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作者：Bingham, Christopher B.; Kahl, Steven J.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Dartmouth College
摘要：Schemas are a central concept in strategy and organization theory. Yet, despite the importance of schemas, little is known about how they emerge. Our in-depth historical analysis of how groups in the life insurance industry developed their schema for the computer from 1945-1975 addresses this gap. We identify three key processes assimilation, deconstruction, and unitization-that collectively explain and resolve an inherent tension related to schema emergence: how to make the unfamiliar familia...
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作者：Gehman, Joel; Trevino, Linda K.; Garud, Raghu
作者单位：University of Alberta; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Existing cognitive and cultural perspectives on values have undertheorized the processes whereby values come to be practiced in organizations. We address this lacuna by studying the emergence and performance of what we call values practices. Drawing on an analysis of the development of an honor code within a large business school, we theorize the multiple kinds of values work involved in dealing with pockets of concern, knotting local concerns into action networks, performing values practices,...
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作者：Wright, April L.; Zammuto, Raymond F.
作者单位：University of Queensland
摘要：We examine institutional change processes through a longitudinal archival study of First-Class County Cricket in England. We find that institutional change occurs in mature organizational fields when organizations located at the field center, periphery, and in between trigger different multilevel processes. Our results show that when society-level evolutionary change created organization-level resource pressures that undermined the central values of a mature field, the group of actors between ...
