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作者：Garud, R; Jain, S; Kumaraswamy, A
作者单位：New York University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Camden
摘要：The institutional entrepreneurship implicit in a firm's sponsorship of its technology as a common standard is beset by several challenges. These challenges arise from a standard's property to enable and constrain even as potential competitors agree to cooperate on its creation. Our exploration of Sun Microsystems's sponsorship of its Java technology suggests that standards in the making generate seeds of self-destruction. Our study also identifies the social and political skills that a sponsor...
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作者：Glynn, MA; Abzug, R
作者单位：Emory University; The New School
摘要：An organization's identity, symbolized by its corporate name, is rooted in institutional fields. We advance the construct of symbolic isomorphism, or the resemblance of an organization's symbolic attributes to those of others within its institutional field, and examine its effects on the homogenization of names and legitimacy. We review historical naming patterns and present two studies that examine the antecedents and outcomes of name conformity: The first analyzes 1,600 name changes to demon...
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作者：Lawrence, TB; Hardy, C; Phillips, N
作者单位：University of Victoria; University of Melbourne; University of Cambridge
摘要：We argue that collaboration can act as a source of change in institutional fields through the generation of proto-institutions: new practices, rules, and technologies that transcend a particular collaborative relationship and may become new institutions if they diffuse sufficiently. A four-year study of the collaborative activities of a small nongovernmental organization in Palestine suggests that collaborations that are both highly embedded and have highly involved partners are the most likel...
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作者：Lee, K; Pennings, JM
作者单位：Seoul National University (SNU); University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This article examines the diffusion of a novel governance structure, the so-called partner-associate structure, among a population of Dutch professional services firms during the period 1925-90. An institutional change emerged out of an interaction between selection at the level of sector and imitative adoption at the firm level. We argue that market feedback regarding the novel structure fostered its legitimacy. Furthermore, the effect of market feedback is conditional upon three diffusion fi...
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作者：Bloom, M; Michel, JG
作者单位：University of Notre Dame
摘要：Relatively little research explores observed differences in pay dispersion across organizations and whether those observed differences have consequences for employee behaviors. Using data from two managerial compensation samples, we found that an organization's context-its environment and diversification strategy-is related to differences in pay dispersion across firms. We also found that pay dispersion within an organization is related to the tenure of managers and the likelihood of their lea...
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作者：Sherer, PD; Lee, K
作者单位：University of Oregon; Seoul National University (SNU)
摘要：We integrate resource dependency and institutional theory to argue that resource scarcity drives, and legitimacy enables, institutional change. Building on a historical account, we examine the sources and timing of innovation departing from standard human resource practices using event history analysis of over 200 principal offices of large law firms. Offices with human resource scarcity innovated to acquire alternative resources; highly prestigious offices had the legitimacy to be first or ea...
