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作者：GEPHART, RP
摘要：This article presents and illustrates the textual approach to qualitative research. In this approach, ethnography is used to observe organizational events and to gain access to related textual or documentary data for subsequent analysis. The documents are then analyzed via an integrated combination of methods: theoretical sampling, computer-facilitated qualitative data analysis, and expansion analysis. I illustrate the approach with an ethnographic study of ''sensemaking'' during a public inqu...
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作者：BARTUNEK, JM; BOBKO, P; VENKATRAMAN, N
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Drawing on a content analysis of all the articles submitted to the 1993 Special Research Forum on Methodology and their reviews, we identify and discuss three requirements for methodological contributions: importance and significance, adequate conceptual grounding, and adherence to methodologically sound and accurate strategies. We also discuss innovative methodological directions suggested by the submissions related to the meaning of data and measurement, the role of time in management resear...
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作者：KUMAR, N; STERN, LW; ANDERSON, JC
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：In this article, we examine the use of the key informant methodology by researchers investigating interorganizational relationships. Authors have advocated the use of multiple informants to increase the reliability and validity of informant reports. However, interorganizational research still tends to rely on single informants. We investigated informant selection and obtaining perceptual agreement among multiple informants, two problems that may have inhibited widespread use of multiple inform...
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作者：DOTY, DH; GLICK, WH; HUBER, GP
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Mintzberg's and Miles and Snow's configurational theories have both received widespread attention. Most researchers, however, have interpreted these theories in terms of categories of organizations rather than organizational configurations based on ideal types. We explicated the logical structure of configurational theories and developed a set of configurational fit models that are congruent with alternative assumptions of equifinality, which is the premise that multiple organizational forms a...
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作者：KETCHEN, DJ; THOMAS, JB; SNOW, CC
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Two major approaches to examining the relationship between organizational configurations and performance are found in the strategic management literature. The first, rooted in the concept of strategic groups, is inductive and focuses on a posteriori examinations of industry-specific configurations and their relative performance. The second, a deductive approach, focuses on theory-based predictions. We compared the two approaches using a single set of organizations. The two approaches generated...
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作者：PRASAD, P
摘要：This study examined the symbolic processes involved in the computerization of work in a health maintenance organization. Guided by symbolic interaction as a methodological framework, this inductive study used the methods of participant observation and in-depth interviewing for gathering data. It documents the multiple symbols associated with computerization in the organization and discusses local interpretations of those symbolic realities. It also explores the influence of this symbolism on t...
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作者：PHILLIPS, N; BROWN, JL
作者单位：University of Alberta
摘要：One of the most interesting potential contributions of culture research lies at the intersection of the study of culture and the study of power. At this intersection lies a process of communication in which interested actors present particular understandings of the world in the hope of creating of sustaining preferred patterns of social relations. In this process, group and individuals struggle to create and disseminate cultural forms that support preferred patterns of power and dominance. Thi...
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作者：OSTROFF, C; SCHMITT, N
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：This study examined the relationship between various characteristics of organizations-including resource inputs, context, rules and regulations, goals, climate, and informal systems-and the effectiveness and efficiency of organizations. Data were collected from 172 secondary schools Discriminant analyses of the data with the organizations categorized along effectiveness and efficiency domains revealed that different sets or configurations of organizational characteristics were meaningfully rel...
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作者：MORITA, JG; LEE, TW; MOWDAY, RT
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：The broad applicability of the regression-analog to survival analysis to the study of time-dependent relationships is described and empirically illustrated. Our presentation extends prior work focusing on life table analysis and the ANOVA-analog. In particular, we discuss decisions that researchers should make prior to calculating survival equations, subsequent estimation and interpretation of empirical results, graphical data analysis, and the treatment of time-dependent covariates. Our goal ...
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作者：KECK, SL; TUSHMAN, ML
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This research investigated the configurational relationship between executive team context and executive team structure as measured by team demographics. We hypothesized and found that multiple organizational ''clocks,'' each driven by different aspects of an executive team's environment, have distinct effects on inertia and change. The longer the period of stability in a team's environment, the less change in members, the greater the mean tenure, and the greater the homogeneity. Reorientation...
