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作者:Near, Janet P.
作者单位:Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
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作者:Turner, Marlene E.
作者单位:California State University System; San Jose State University
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作者:Shipilov, Andrew V.; Li, Stan Xiao
作者单位:INSEAD Business School; York University - Canada
摘要:Analyses of investment banks acting as advisers for merger and acquisition transactions in the United Kingdom during 1992-2001 are used to examine the relationship between structural holes in a firm's network and its performance. We argue that the firms need two types of information-about new business opportunities and partners' cooperativeness-to pursue, respectively, two types of performance goals: status accumulation and market performance. Open networks facilitate access to information abo...
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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:Kalev, Alexandra; Shenhav, Yehouda; De Vries, David
作者单位:University of Arizona; Tel Aviv University
摘要:This study examines the autonomous goals of state actors and their administrative and cultural capacities to pursue them. Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data from Palestine/Israel during the years 1940-1960, we study the diffusion of joint productivity councils that use scientific management principles (scientific JPCs). We assess explanations for the diffusion of managerial models offered by theories of state autonomy, efficiency, labor control, and professionalization. We demonstrate...
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作者:Cattani, Gino; Ferriani, Simone; Negro, Giacomo; Perretti, Fabrizio
作者单位:New York University; University of Bologna; Durham University
摘要:Recent research emphasizes that legitimacy depends on consensus among agents (audiences) about the features and activities of organizations (candidates) that become taken-for-granted elements in a social domain. This study examines how consensus is affected by the structure of interaction in the network connecting social audiences to candidate organizations. It analyzes how audience members reach, reinforce, and preserve consensus about candidates' features and behavior, affecting a crucial or...