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作者:Ketokivi, M; Castañer, X
作者单位:Aalto University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要:While alleviating the adverse effects of employees' pursuit of their subgroups' goals over organizational goals is important, finding ways to avoid them may be even more important. In this paper, we investigate whether strategic planning can be used to reduce organizational members position bias, or the extent to which they direct their attention toward the immediate goals and priorities attached to their position. We examine the hypothesis that involving employees in the strategic planning pr...
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作者:Stevenson, WB
作者单位:Boston College
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作者:Graebner, ME; Eisenhardt, KM
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要:In contrast to the prior acquisitions literature, which has emphasized the buyer's perspective, we examine the seller's perspective. This has important implications for understanding both the acquisition process and, more broadly, corporate governance in successful firms. Using a multiple-case, inductive study of 12 technology-based ventures, we find that acquisition occurs when sellers are pushed toward acquisition by difficult, albeit natural strategic hurdles, such as a chief executive sear...
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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...