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作者：Agarwal, R; Sarkar, M; Echamebadi, R
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida
摘要：Man effort to reconcile theoretical blind spots, we integrated research in technology management, organizational ecology, and evolutionary economics. The central premise underlying the resultant model is that time conditions the effects of age, contemporaneous size, order of entry, and contemporaneous density on mortality rates. We tested our hypotheses using a life cycle approach and data on 33 product innovations that span most of the 20th century. Results resoundingly support our central th...
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作者：Farjoun, M
作者单位：Tel Aviv University
摘要：Through an analysis of an entire institutional history of pricing on-line database field during 1971-94, this study documents and explains institutional development in emerging and turbulent fields. The dialectic process model developed and illustrated here suggests - that inherent contradictions and. opposition, generated and reinforced by institutionalization, serve as internal sources of continuous dialectic contest. Fused with external developments, the process by which these. endogenous p...
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作者：Wade-Benzoni, KA
作者单位：New York University
摘要：In this article, I offer theoretical and empirical groundwork for the study of intergenerational issues and highlight the relevance of,intergenlerational behavior to organizations. I focus on situations involving conflict between generations in which a present generation must give up benefits or take on burdens to act on the behalf of future generations. I introduce the notion of intergenerational reciprocity and, in four studies, found that the behavior of previous generations influences how ...
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作者：Okhuysen, GA; Waller, MJ
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Tulane University
摘要：Extending understanding of time as a metric and a punctuation device for the work of groups, we conceptualize time pacing as a semistructure, a structure that increases flexibility for addressing ambiguous tasks. Semistructures enable group members to interrupt their work to stop and think, evaluate the work, and develop alternative work strategies. Using data from 80 experimental groups, we found that midpoint transitions and time pacing emerged under various, although not all, conditions. Fa...
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作者：McAllister, DJ; Bigley, GA
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：We investigated how work context leads to employee self-definition. We propose that the employees of organizations whose values and organizing principles center on fulfilling employees' needs and acting in their best interests will report higher levels of organization-based self-esteem. Further, we argue that perceptions of organizational fairness and job authority mediate this relationship through the social-psychological process of reflected appraisal. Results based on analyses of data from ...
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作者：Katila, R
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This 'study is an investigation of how the age of the knowledge that firms search affects how innovative they are. Two seemingly contradictory propositions are examined: (1) old knowledge hurts by making innovation activities obsolete and (2) old knowledge helps because its reliability and legitimacy promote innovation. Results based on longitudinal data on 131 robotics firms reconcile the contradictory propositions: while old intraindustry knowledge hurts, old extraindustry knowledge promotes...
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作者：Barkema, HG; Baum, JAC; Mannix, EA
作者单位：Tilburg University; Tilburg University; University of Toronto
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作者：Perlow, LA; Okhuysen, GA; Repenning, NP
作者单位：Harvard University; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Despite a growing sense that speed is critical to organizational success, how an emphasis on speed affects organizational processes remains unclear. We explored the connection between speed and decision making in a 19-month ethnographic study of an Internet start-up. Distilling our data using causal loop diagrams, we identified a potential pathology for organizations attempting to make fast decisions the speed, trap. A need for fast action, traditionally conceptualized, as an exogenous feature...
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作者：Lam, SSK; Chen, XP; Schaubroeck, J
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：The relationship between perceived participative decision making and employee performance was examined in matched samples of employees-from the Hong Kong and U.S. branches of one organization. Self-efficacy in regard to participating in decisions and idiocentrism, moderated the relationship between perceived participative decision-making opportunity and individual performance. Perceptions of the participation efficacy of a work unit and allocentrism moderated the relationship between participa...
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作者：Waller, MJ; Zellmer-Bruhn, ME; Giambatista, RC
作者单位：Tulane University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：Attention to time is generally regarded as the catalyst that motivates groups to pace work under deadlines. We tested this assumption in 38 groups, some working under stable deadlines and others working under changed deadlines. Our results indicate that groups steadily increase attention to time as deadlines near, rather than sharply increasing such attention at the midpoint, but they engage in task transitions at or near the midpoint of allotted time.
