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作者：Benner, MJ
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University
摘要：This research explores the impact of process management activities on technological innovation. Drawing on research in organizational evolution and learning, we suggest that as these practices reduce variance in organzational routines and influence the selection of innovations, they enhance incremental innovation at the expense of exploratory innovation. We tested our hypotheses in a 20-year longitudinal study of patenting activity and ISO 9000 quality program certifications in the paint and p...
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作者：Haunschild, PR; Sullivan, BN
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要：Using data on accidents and incidents experienced by U.S. commercial airlines from 1983 to 1997, we investigated variation in firm learning by examining whether firms learn more from errors with heterogeneous or homogeneous causes. We measured learning by a reduction in airline accident and incident rates, while controlling for other factors related to accidents and incidents. Our results show that heterogeneity is generally better for learning, as prior heterogeneity in the causes of errors d...
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作者：Bigley, GA; Wiersema, M
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：This paper integrates corporate governance research on the consequences of executive power and the upper echelons literature on top managers cognitive orientation to develop a framework in which the characteristics of the chief executive officer (CEO) predict corporate strategic refocusing. With data from a sample of large and diversified firms, we examine the extent to which newly appointed CEOs' strategic orientation determines whether they use their power to maintain the status quo or refoc...
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作者：Kramer, RM
作者单位：Stanford University
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作者：Barsade, SG
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：Group emotional contagion, the transfer of moods among people in a group, and its influence on work group dynamics was examined in a laboratory study of managerial decision making using multiple, convergent measures of mood, individual attitudes, behavior, and group-level dynamics. Using a 2 x 2 experimental design, with a trained confederate enacting mood conditions, the predicted effect of emotional contagion was found among group members, using both outside coders' ratings of participants' ...
