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作者:Wharton, AS
作者单位:Washington State University
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作者:Spicer, A
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Riverside
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作者:Provan, KG
作者单位:University of Arizona
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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: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: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. ...