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作者：ANCONA, DG; CALDWELL, DF
作者单位：Santa Clara University
摘要：This article focuses on the activities teams use to manage their organizational environment beyond their teams. We used semistructured interviews with 38 new-product team managers in high-technology companies, log data from two of these teams, and questionnaires completed by members of a different set of 45 new-product teams to generate and test hypotheses about teams' external activities. Results indicate that teams engage in vertical communications aimed at molding the views of top managemen...
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作者：DAVIS, GF; STOUT, SK
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：This paper describes how takeovers are accomplished and why they are not readily accommodated by existing organizational theories. We examined the factors that made organizations vulnerable to takeovers during the 1980s, using event-history techniques on time-series data covering all takeover bids for Fortune 500 firms between January 1980 and December 1990. The paper shows that greater organizational slack, age, and having a finance chief executive officer increased the risk of takeover; fami...
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作者：TSUI, AS; EGAN, TD; OREILLY, CA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We used self-categorization theory-which proposes that people may use social characteristics such as age, race, or organizational membership to define psychological groups and to promote a positive self-identity-to develop and test hypotheses about the effects of demographic diversity in organizations on an individual's psychological and behavioral attachment to the organization. Individual-level commitment, attendance behavior, and tenure intentions were examined as a function of the individu...
