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作者：Henderson, AD; Stern, I
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：To understand the effects of selection on firm-level learning, this study synthesizes two contrasting views of evolution. Internal selection theorists view managers in multiproduct firms as the primary agents of evolutionary change because they decide whether individual products and technologies are retained or eliminated. In contrast, external selection theorists contend that the environment drives evolution because it determines whether entire firms live or die. Though these theories differ,...
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作者：Ryan, A
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作者：Ericksen, J; Dyer, L
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：This study examines if high- and low-performing project teams differ with respect to how they are mobilized and launched and the effects of their mobilization and launch activities and outputs on subsequent team progress an performance. Comparisons of three high- and three low-performing teams drawn from five major corporations showed that the high performers mobilized relatively quickly, used comprehensive rather than limited mobilization strategies, and conducted participatory rather than pr...
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作者：Ethiraj, SK; Levinthal, D
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We employ a computational model of organizational adaptation to answer three research questions: (1) How does the architecture or structure of complexity affect the design feasibility and usefulness of boundedly rational efforts? (2) Do efforts to adapt organizational forms complicate or complement the effectiveness of first-order change efforts? and (3) To what extent does the rate of environmental change nullify the usefulness of design efforts? We employ a computational model of organizatio...
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作者：Evans, JA; Barley, SR
作者单位：University of Chicago; Tel Aviv University; Stanford University
摘要：This paper uses data from career histories of technical contractors to explore how they experience, interpret, and allocate their time and whether they take advantage of the temporal flexibility purportedly offered by contract work in the market. Technical contractors offer a unique opportunity for examining assumptions about organizations, work, and time because they are itinerant professionals who operate outside any single organizational context. We find that contractors do perceive themsel...
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作者：Schneper, WD; Guillén, MF
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We examine the role of three types of stakeholders in the uneven adoption of an organizational practice in different countries, arguing that organizational practices achieve widespread use only when they are consistent with the interests of the most powerful social actors as enshrined in legal rights. Building on a stakeholder-power approach to corporate governance, we examine whether the interests of shareholders, workers, and banks are consistent with the practice of hostile takeovers. Regre...
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作者：Reagans, R; Zuckerman, E; McEvily, B
作者单位：Columbia University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We compare two alternative approaches for evaluating the potential of a work group or team: one that focuses on team members' demographic characteristics and one that focuses on the members' social networks. Given that people's network contacts often share their demographic attributes (i.e., the network is homophilous), the two approaches seem equivalent, and the first seems preferable because it is easier to implement. In this paper, we demonstrate several important limits to this rationale. ...
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作者：Barnett, WP; McKendrick, DG
作者单位：Stanford University; Durham University
摘要：In this paper, we question the idea that large organizations have advantages that make them particularly potent rivals. We argue that the ability of large organizations to ameliorate competitive constraints insulates them from an important source of organizational development and protects them from being selected out if unfit. Consequently, we predict that although large organizations are likely to do well in technology contests, they also are likely to become weak competitors over time compar...
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作者：Fiss, PC; Zajac, EJ
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; Northwestern University
摘要：This study offers a sociopolitical perspective on the international spread of corporate governance models. We unpack the heterogeneity of interests and preferences across and within types of shareholders and senior managers over time in an analysis of the adoption of a shareholder value orientation among contemporary German firms. Using extensive data on more than 100 of the largest publicly traded German companies from 1990 to 2000, we find that the influence of major shareholder. groups (e.g...
