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作者：King, Brayden G.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：This paper uses a theory of social movement outcomes, the political mediation model, to explain why certain corporations targeted by boycotts are more likely to concede to boycotters' demands. Hypotheses developed from this model predict that boycotts threaten tangible and intangible resources held by corporate targets, that these threats are transmitted indirectly through media coverage of the boycotts, that past declines in sales or reputation create opportunities for a movement to have infl...
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作者：Abrahamson, Eric; Eisenman, Micki
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); Columbia University; Columbia University
摘要：In this theory development case study, we focus on the relations across recurrent waves in the amount and kind of language promoting and diffusing, and then demoting and rejecting, management techniques-techniques for transforming the input of organizational labor into organizational outputs. We suggest that rather than manifesting themselves as independent, transitory, and un-cumulative fads, the language of repeated waves cumulates into what we call management fashion trends. These trends ar...
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作者：Briscoe, Forrest; Safford, Sean
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Chicago
摘要：This paper seeks to understand how contentious practices spread from initial targets of activism to become accepted by organizations in the mainstream. Using a dataset on the diffusion of domestic partner benefits in the Fortune 500 from 1990 to 2005, we show that widespread adoption among mainstream firms was triggered by the prior adoptions of companies known to resist activism. We also find that employee activist groups within firms played a different role depending on the company's orienta...
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作者：Casciaro, Tiziana; Lobo, Miguel Sousa
作者单位：University of Toronto; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper examines the role of a person's generalized positive or negative feelings toward someone (interpersonal affect) in task-related networks in organizations. We theorize that negative interpersonal affect renders task competence virtually irrelevant in a person's choice of a partner for task interactions but that positive interpersonal affect increases a person's reliance on competence as a criterion for choosing task partners, facilitating access to organizational resources relevant t...
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作者：Katila, Riitta; Rosenberger, Jeff D.; Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
摘要：This paper focuses on the tension that firms face between the need for resources from partners and the potentially damaging misappropriation of their own resources by corporate sharks. Taking an entrepreneurial lens, we study this tension at tie formation in corporate investment relationships in five U. S. technology-based industries over a 25-year period. Central to our study is the sharks dilemma: when do entrepreneurs choose partners with high potential for misappropriation over less risky ...
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作者：Yayavaram, Sai; Ahuja, Gautam
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We use patent data from the worldwide semiconductor industry from 1984 to 1994 to study the effect of the structure of organizational knowledge bases, or the patterns of coupling between their elements of technical knowledge, on the usefulness of inventions and knowledge-base malleability. We argue that organizational variations in coupling patterns between knowledge elements can be reflected in a spectrum of knowledge-base structures-varying from fully decomposable (the knowledge base is comp...
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作者：Westphal, James D.; Bednar, Michael K.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：A large-scale survey of U. S. top executives and fund managers is used to examine how executives may use interpersonal influence behavior to prevent powerful institutional investors from using their coercive power to force changes in corporate governance and strategy. We theorize that high levels of institutional ownership may prompt CEOs to engage in interpersonal influence behavior in the form of ingratiation and persuasion directed at institutional fund managers, which deters them from usin...
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作者：Weber, Klaus; Heinze, Kathryn L.; DeSoucey, Michaela
作者单位：Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要：This study illuminates how new markets emerge and how social movements can effect cultural change through market creation. We suggest that social movements can fuel solutions to three challenges in creating new market segments: entrepreneurial production, the creation of collective producer identities, and the establishment of regular exchange between producers and consumers. We use qualitative data on the grassroots coalition movement that has spurred a market for grass-fed meat and dairy pro...
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作者：Zald, Mayer N.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Simons, Tal; Roberts, Peter W.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Emory University
摘要：This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations. We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in nonlocal populations are more likely to adopt locally novel forms. Pre-founding experience within local and non-local industry populations should also allow organizations to reach larger size and produce superior quality products, both of which contribute to the persistence of the novel organizational form. We evaluate these predictions in...
