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作者:Offermann, LR; Spiros, RK
作者单位:George Washington University
摘要:Qualitative and quantitative data from team development practitioners were used to examine the Link between the science and the practice of team development. Differences between academic and full-time practitioners were found in the value placed on empirical knowledge sources. Familiarity with recent relevant literature was associated with better intervention outcomes, and practitioners who valued empirical outlets reported greater short-term success than those who did not. Suggestions for imp...
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作者:Spencer, JW
作者单位:George Washington University
摘要:This cross-national study explores the relative contributions of academic and corporate research to subsequent industrial R&D activities within one industry. Japanese university research emerged as less influential than Japanese corporate research. The difference between the relevance of U.S. university and U.S. corporate research was only marginally significant. In both countries, university research appeared to contribute most to domestic firms. These findings accentuate the role that nation...
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作者:Sparrowe, RT; Liden, RC; Wayne, SJ; Kraimer, ML
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要:A field study involving 190 employees in 38 work groups representing five diverse organizations provided evidence that social networks, as defined in terms of both positive and negative relations, are related to both individual and group performance. As hypothesized, individual job performance was positively related to centrality in advice networks and negatively related to centrality in hindrance networks composed of relationships tending to thwart task behaviors. Hindrance network density wa...
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作者:Steensma, HK; Corley, KG
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:Three research theories used to explain firm boundaries are transaction cost economics, an options perspective, and a resource-based view of the firm. Our integrated model addresses the degree to which each of these three perspectives explains firm boundaries for technology sourcing is contingent on managerial risk taking, which is partly determined by organizational context. Our results suggest that, in general, management stockholdings, firm risk orientation, and slack resource availability ...