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作者：Hargadon, A; Sutton, RI
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We blend network and organizational memory perspectives in a model of technology brokering that explains how an organization develops innovative products, The model is grounded in observations, interviews, informal conversations, and archived data gathered during an ethnography of IDEO, a product design firm, This firm exploits its network position, working for clients in at least 40 industries, to gain knowledge of existing technological solutions in various industries. It acts as a technolog...
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作者：Haunschild, PR; Miner, AS
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Drawing on neoinstitutional and learning theories, we distinguish three distinct modes of selective interorganizational imitation: frequency imitation (copying very common practices), trait imitation (copying practices of other organizations with certain features), and outcome imitation (imitation based on a practice's apparent impact on others). We investigate whether these imitation modes occur independently and are affected by outcome salience and contextual uncertainty in the context of an...
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作者：Gimeno, J; Folta, TB; Cooper, AC; Woo, CY
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; University of Kentucky; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：The model developed here explains why some firms survive while other firms with equal economic performance do not. We argue that organizational survival is not strictly a function of economic performance but also depends on a firm's own threshold of performance. We apply this threshold model to the study of new venture survival, in which the threshold is determined by the entrepreneur's human capital characteristics, such as alternative employment opportunities, psychic income from entrepreneu...
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作者：Geletkanycz, MA; Hambrick, DC
作者单位：Boston College; Columbia University
摘要：We examine the extent to which executives' boundary spanning relations inside and outside their industry affect organizational strategy and performance. We posit that the informational and social influences of external ties will be reflected in the degree to which the organization's strategy conforms to or deviates from the central tendencies of its industry and that the alignment of executives' external ties with the firm's strategy will be beneficial to firm performance. Using a multiyear sa...
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作者：Simons, T; Ingram, P
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：In this paper, we examine how conflicting ideologies affect organizational practice. We theorize that the basic relationship between ideology and organization is moderated by social pressures and economic incentives that result from differences between the organization and its environment on issues of ideology. Using data from Israeli kibbutzim for 1951-1965, we examine how the ideology of a set of socialist organizations affects the practices they employ and how the influence of socialist ide...
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作者：Hayward, MLA; Hambrick, DC
摘要：This study examines the role of a chief executive officer's hubris, or exaggerated self-confidence, in explaining the large size of some premiums paid for acquisitions. In a sample of 106 large acquisitions, we found that four indicators of CEO hubris are highly associated with the size of premiums paid: the acquiring company's recent performance, recent media praise for the CEO, a measure of the CEO's self-importance, and a composite factor of these three variables. The relationship between C...
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作者：Jehn, KA
摘要：This paper presents a multifaceted qualitative Investigation of everyday conflict in six organizational work teams. Repeated interviews and on-site observations provide data on participants' perceptions, behaviors, and their own analyses of their conflicts, resulting in a generalized conflict model. Model evaluation indicates that relationship conflict is detrimental to performance and satisfaction; process conflict is also detrimental to performance; and task conflict's effects on performance...
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作者：Barnett, WP
摘要：This paper examines the question of whether the strongest organizations survive, distinguishing between two aspects of organizational strength, An organization can be strong, as measured by its survival chances, Or an organization can be ecologically strong, as measured by its competitive effects on the birth and survival of other organizations. I develop a model that empirically distinguishes these effects and discuss how these strengths are likely to develop as organizations age and grow. I ...
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作者：Uzzi, B
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：The purpose of this work is to develop a systematic understanding of embeddedness and organization networks. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted at 23 entrepreneurial firms, I identify the components of embedded relationships and explicate the devices by which embeddedness shapes organizational and economic outcomes. The findings suggest that embeddedness is a logic of exchange that promotes economies of time, integrative agreements, Pareto improvements in allocative efficiency, and co...
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作者：Farh, JL; Earley, PC; Lin, SC
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; National Cheng Kung University
摘要：To understand variations in citizenship behavior within a culture, we examine the relationship between citizenship behaviors and organizational justice in two studies in a Chinese context, using two cultural characteristics (traditionality and modernity) and one individual (gender) characteristic. In Study 1, we develop an indigenous measure of organizational citizenship behavior and explore the similarities and differences of this measure with its Western counterpart. In Study 2, we use this ...
