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作者：Suddaby, Roy; Hardy, Cynthia; Huy, Quy Nguyen
作者单位：University of Alberta; University of Melbourne
摘要：We summarize the manifest and latent content of the articles that make up the Special Topic Forum on Theory Development. Rather than offering new theories, however, most of the articles offer a series of critical accounts of current organizational theory and a range of novel ideas about the process of theory construction. We conclude by speculating about the institutional barriers to new theory creation and how those barriers might be changed.
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作者：Corley, Kevin G.; Gioia, Dennis A.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We distill existing literature on theoretical contribution into two dimensions, originality (incremental or revelatory) and utility (scientific or practical). We argue for a revision in the way scholars approach the utility dimension by calling for a view of theorizing that would enable theories with more scope (both scientific and practical utility). We also argue for an orientation toward prescience as a way of achieving scope and fulfilling our scholarly role of facilitating organizational ...
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作者：Weber, Libby; Mayer, Kyle J.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Southern California
摘要：How a contract influences the exchange and ongoing relationship between parties is an unresolved issue. While some suggest contracts negatively or positively influence the exchange and relationship, we argue that the contract frame determines its impact. Using regulatory focus and expectancy violation theories, we argue that promotion- and prevention-framed contracts induce different emotions, behaviors, and expectations, leading to different exchange outcomes and relationships, depending on t...
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作者：Okhuysen, Gerardo; Bonardi, Jean-Philippe
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作者：Shipp, Abbie J.; Jansen, Karen J.
作者单位：University of Virginia; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：We expand the largely contemporaneous fit literature with a model that explains how individuals craft and recraft stories of fit in medias res in the middle of things. These fit narratives, composed of retrospected, current, and anticipated fit and woven together by a theme, help individuals make sense of their fit experiences and relate to outcomes through temporal influence and temporal comparison processes. Our model both extends and reinterprets our understanding of fit over time.
