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作者：HAVEMAN, HA
摘要：This paper examines the relationship between organizational size and change. If organizational size indicates political insulation and degree of bureaucratization, then large organizations will change less than small organizations. If organizational size is related to the possession of slack resources, differentiated and decentralized structures, and market power, however, then large organizations will be more fluid than small organizations. I tested these hypotheses by modelling rates of chan...
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作者：HAVEMAN, HA
摘要：This paper combines organizational ecology and neoinstitutional theory to explain the process of diversification, specifically, how the structure of markets affects rates of market entry. I extend the density-dependence model of competition and legitimation, which has been used to study organizational founding and failure, to the process of organizational change through entry into new markets. I argue that the number of organizations operating in a particular market will have an inverted-U-sha...
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作者：HAUNSCHILD, PR
摘要：In this study, i examine direct evidence for the influence of interorganizational imitation on a voluntary, substantive strategic action that affects the economic core of the firm: corporate acquisitions. I argue that firm managers are exposed to the acquisition activities of other firms when they sit on those firms' boards. The acquisition activities of the firms they are tied to serve as models to be imitated. Hypotheses are developed and tested on 1981-1990 acquisition data for a sample of ...
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作者：WEICK, KE; ROBERTS, KH
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The concept of collective mind is developed to explain organizational performance in situations requiring nearly continuous operational reliability. Collective mind is conceptualized as a pattern of heedful interrelations of actions in a social system. Actors in the system construct their actions (contributions), understanding that the system consists of connected actions by themselves and others (representation), and interrelate their actions within the system (subordination). Ongoing variati...
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作者：IBARRA, H; ANDREWS, SB
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper explores the hypothesis that network interaction patterns affect employee perceptions through two conceptually and empirically distinguishable mechanisms: localized social influence based on network proximity and systemic power based on network centrality. The study explores the relative contributions of individual attributes, formal organizational positions, network centrality, and network proximity in explaining individual variation in perceptions of work-related conditions in an ...
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作者：GARGIULO, M
摘要：This paper proposes an alternative to resource-dependence approaches to strategic behavior, which predict that actors seek direct cooptive relations to alleviate constraint. I propose that an actor can gain leverage on a limiting party by building a cooptive relation with a player that may control this party's behavior, thus using two-step leverage. Data on dependence relations, political alliances, and confidential discussion networks among decision makers in a cooperative agribusiness furnis...
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作者：LAMBERT, RA; LARCKER, DF; WEIGELT, K
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：To improve understanding and design of organizational incentives, we used confidential compensation data obtained for four distinct organizational levels (ranging from plant manager to corporate chief executive officer) to evaluate the ability of tournament, managerial power, and agency theories to explain these observed compensation data. Our results suggest that organizational incentives are most appropriately characterized by a combination of these models, rather than being completely descr...
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作者：PALMER, DA; JENNINGS, PD; ZHOU, XG
作者单位：University of British Columbia; Cornell University
摘要：This paper presents a refined test of the institutional, political, and economic accounts of adoption of the multidivisional form (MDF) among large U.S. industrial corporations in the 1960s, most notably by elaborating the institutional account. Results suggest that institutional processes, including coercive and normative dynamics, substantially underpinned the MDF's diffusion during the 1960s. Firms producing in industries that shunned the MDF earlier in this century were slow to adopt this ...
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作者：ALEXANDER, JA; FENNELL, ML; HALPERN, MT
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This study tested whether leadership instability-a systemic pattern of frequent succession in the top management position of an organization-was associated with sociopolitical structures that define the relationship between the board and chief executive officer (CEO), controlling for temporal patterns of the organizational life-cycle stage. In organizations that are not profit maximizing and subject to considerable uncertainty, such governance properties were hypothesized to affect leadership ...
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作者：ANDREWS, AO
