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• Technology brokering and innovation in a product development firm AI翻译
  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...
• Survival of the fittest? Entrepreneurial human capital and the persistence of underperforming firms AI翻译
  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...
• The external ties of top executives: Implications for strategic choice and performance AI翻译
  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...
• Organization and ideology: Kibbutzim and hired labor, 1951-1965 AI翻译
  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...