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作者:Jelinek, M
作者单位:William & Mary
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作者:Suddaby, R; Greenwood, R
作者单位:University of Alberta
摘要:This paper describes the role of rhetoric in legitimating profound institutional change. In 1997, a Big Five accounting firm purchased a law firm, triggering a jurisdictional struggle within accounting and law over a new organizational form, multidisciplinary patnerships. We analyze the discursive struggle that ensued between proponents and opponents of the new organizational form. We observe that such rhetorical strategies contain two elements. First are institutional vocabularies, or the use...
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作者:Mehra, A
作者单位:University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
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作者:Mezias, SJ; Boyle, E
作者单位:New York University; National University of Singapore
摘要:This study of the emergence of the film industry in the U.S. between 1893 and 1920 contributes to the growing literature linking legal environments and population dynamics. This was an era characterized by a shift to active anti-trust policy, which manifested itself in legal action to disband a trust that had dominated the industry, the Motion Pictures Patents Corporation (MPPC). We use archival data to show that mortality was reduced by trust membership and increased with the market share of ...
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作者:Castilla, EJ
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
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作者:George, E; Chattopadhyay, P
摘要:We examine the organizational identification of contract workers who are associated with two organizations, their primary employer and their client. We conducted a study of contract workers in the information technology industry to address three questions: (1) What are the antecedents of contract workers identification with the work organizations with which they are associated? (2) Do these antecedents differentially predict identification with each of the target organizations? and (3) What is...
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作者:Obstfeld, D
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要:This study examines the microprocesses in the social networks of those involved in organizational innovation and their strategic behavioral orientation toward connecting people in their social network by either introducing disconnected individuals or facilitating new coordination between connected individuals. This tertius iungens (or third who joins) strategic orientation, contrasts with the tertius gaudens orientation emphasized in structural holes theory, which concerns the advantage of a b...