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作者：Sorensen, JB
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Prevailing research claims that strong corporate cultures improve firm performance by facilitating internal behavioral consistency. This paper addresses an unexamined implication of this argument by analyzing the effect of strong corporate cultures on the variability of firm performance. This relationship depends on how strong cultures affect organizational learning in response to internal and external change. I hypothesize that strong-culture firms excel at incremental change but encounter di...
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作者：Bigley, GA; Wiersema, M
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：This paper integrates corporate governance research on the consequences of executive power and the upper echelons literature on top managers cognitive orientation to develop a framework in which the characteristics of the chief executive officer (CEO) predict corporate strategic refocusing. With data from a sample of large and diversified firms, we examine the extent to which newly appointed CEOs' strategic orientation determines whether they use their power to maintain the status quo or refoc...
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作者：Huy, QN
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Based on a three-year inductive field study of an attempt at radical change in a large firm, I show how middle managers displayed two seemingly opposing emotion-management patterns that facilitated beneficial adaptation for their work groups: (1) emotionally committing to personally championed change projects and (2) attending to recipients' emotions. Low emotional commitment to change led to organizational inertia, whereas high commitment to change with little attending to recipients' emotion...
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作者：Jermier, JM
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
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作者：Wharton, AS
作者单位：Washington State University
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作者：Rudolph, JW; Repenning, NP
作者单位：Boston College; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：This article examines the role that the quantity of non-novel events plays in precipitating disaster through the development of a formal (mathematical) system-dynamics model. Building on existing case studies of disaster, we develop a general theory of how an organizational system responds to an on-going stream of non-novel interruptions to existing plans and procedures. We show how an overaccumulation of interruptions can shift an organizational system from a resilient, self-regulating regime...
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作者：Wharton, AS
作者单位：Washington State University
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作者：Guler, I; Guillén, MF; MacPherson, JM
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：We use panel data on ISO 9000 quality certification in 85 countries between 1993 and 1998 to better understand, the cross-national diffusion of an organizational practice. Following neoinstitutional theory, we focus on the coercive, normative, and mimetic effects that result from the exposure of firms in a given country to a powerful source of critical resources, a common pool of relevant technical knowledge, and the experiences of firms located in other countries. We use social network theory...
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作者：Wharton, AS
作者单位：Washington State University
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作者：Kramer, RM
作者单位：Stanford University
