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作者:Fragale, Alison R.; Sumanth, John J.; Tiedens, Larissa Z.; Northcraft, Gregory B.
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Southern Methodist University; Stanford University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要:Using archival data on a year of e-mail exchanges at a division of Enron (Study 1) and a field study of management professionals (Study 2), we explore how the relative hierarchical rank of a message sender and a message recipient affects expressions of verbal deference in organizational e-mail communication. Verbal deference refers to linguistic markers that convey a willingness to yield to another's preferences or opinions as a sign of respect or reverence. Although prior research has focused...
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作者:Levine, Sheen S.
作者单位:Columbia University
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作者:Kacperczyk, Aleksandra J.
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:This study revisits the well-established notion that large and mature organizations stifle an employee's ability and motivation to become an entrepreneur. Using unique data on U.S. mutual funds founded between 1979 and 2005, I examine whether large and mature firms, which are typically associated with lower individual rates of entrepreneurship, are also associated with lower individual rates of intrapreneurship. The findings show that, though employees in large and mature organizations are les...
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作者:Walsh, James P.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Rider, Christopher I.
作者单位:Emory University
摘要:This paper investigates how organizations' reliance on employees' prior educational and employment affiliations for both employment relationships and inter-organizational relationships contributes to inertia in organizational networks. Analyses of data from U.S. venture capital and private equity firms support the theory I develop. First, increasing differences in educational prestige decrease both interpersonal co-employment rates and interorganizational co-investment rates. Second, two indiv...
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作者:Khaire, Mukti
作者单位:Harvard University
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作者:Kleinbaum, Adam M.
作者单位:Dartmouth College; Dartmouth College
摘要:To extend research on the effects of networks for career outcomes, this paper examines how career processes shape network structure. I hypothesize that brokerage results from two distinct mechanisms: links with former co-workers and with friends of friends accumulated as careers unfold. Furthermore, I hypothesize that organizational misfits-people who followed career trajectories that are atypical in their organization-will have access to more valuable brokerage opportunities than those whose ...