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作者：Castilla, Emilio J.; Rissing, Ben A.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Cornell University
摘要：While scholars have shown that well-connected applicants are advantaged in selection processes, less understood is whether such applicants produce important returns to the organization when key decision makers favor them. We begin to address this gap by investigating whether and why application endorsements an informal practice whereby certain individuals (i.e., endorsers) advocate for particular applicants affect organizational selection during the screening of applicants. Through the analysi...
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作者：Jung, Jiwook; Shin, Taekjin
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; California State University System; San Diego State University
摘要：Once a preferred strategy, corporate diversification into disparate lines of business has gradually declined in the U.S. over the past several decades. We argue that changes that occurred in a closely related domain-graduate business education-are important in understanding variation in de-diversification across firms. Building on a historical account of the transformation of business education, we explain how the rise of financial economics and agency-theoretic logic in business education cha...
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作者：Petriglieri, Gianpiero; Ashford, Susan J.; Wrzesniewski, Amy
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Yale University
摘要：Building on an inductive, qualitative study of independent workers-people not affiliated with an organization or established profession-this paper develops a theory about the management of precarious and personalized work identities. We find that in the absence of organizational or professional membership, workers experience stark emotional tensions encompassing both the anxiety and fulfillment of working in precarious and personal conditions. Lacking the holding environment provided by an org...
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作者：Keller, J. R.
作者单位：Cornell University
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作者：Hernandez, Exequiel; Shaver, J. Myles
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Acquisitions can dramatically reshape interorganizational networks by combining previously separate nodes and allowing the acquirer to inherit the target's ties, potentially creating network synergy. Network synergy is the extent to which combining an acquirer's and a target's networks through node collapse results in a more favorable structural position for the combined firm as the acquirer gains control of the target's existing ties. We hypothesize that the likelihood of selecting a target i...
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作者：Sorenson, Olav
作者单位：Yale University
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作者：Sandhu, Sukhbir; Kulik, Carol T.
作者单位：University of South Australia; University of South Australia
摘要：As new roles emerge in organizations, it becomes critical to understand how organizational structure can impede or enable the managerial discretion available to role incumbents. We leverage the rich context provided by the emergent role of sustainability managers to examine the interplay between the top-down forces of structure and the bottom-up influences of managerial discretion in shaping new organizational roles over time. We analyzed qualitative data collected from in-depth interviews wit...
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作者：Pratt, Michael G.; Lepisto, Douglas A.; Dane, Erik
作者单位：Boston College; Western Michigan University; Rice University
摘要：Some occupations and organizations rely heavily on trust, as their members' roles involve risk and are interdependent. Trust can emerge from two sources: knowledge or evidence that is meaningful in that context, which has been studied extensively in the literature on trust, and faith, which has not. Through a multi-phase, largely inductive study of firefighters in the United States, we explore processes that facilitate and maintain leaps of faith. These processes are critical to trust under hi...
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作者：Haveman, Heather
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者：Kellogg, Katherine C.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This two-year ethnographic study of the primary care departments in two U.S. hospitals examines how managers can bring about micro-level institutional change in professional practice even when such change challenges professionals' specialized expertise, autonomy, individual responsibility, and engagement in complex work, which previous research has shown to create difficulties. In this study, managers in both hospitals attempted to implement the same patient-centered medical home (PCMH) reform...
