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作者：Ketokivi, Mikko; Mantere, Saku
作者单位：IE University; University of Lausanne; Hanken School of Economics
摘要：Incompleteness of inductive reasoning presents an enduring dilemma for organizational researchers. We examine two practical reasoning strategies-idealization and contextualization-that can be used at the pinnacle of this dilemma: when theoretical conclusions are drawn from empirical data. Understanding the two strategies can lead to more effective argumentation and evaluation. Appreciating the methodological incompleteness of both strategies, in turn, helps us distinguish between the methodolo...
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作者：Ansari, Shahzad M.; Fiss, Peer C.; Zajac, Edward J.
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of Southern California; Northwestern University
摘要：We extend research on the diffusion of corporate practices by providing a framework for studying practice variation during diffusion processes. Specifically, we theorize about how population-level mechanisms of diffusion link with organization-level mechanisms of implementation that lead to the adaptation of practices. We also identify technical, cultural, and political elements of fit (or misfit) between diffusing practices and adopters and analyze how the process of attaining fit across thes...
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作者：Dane, Erik
作者单位：Rice University
摘要：Research suggests that as one acquires domain expertise, one loses flexibility with regard to problem solving, adaptation, and creative idea generation. Here. I reconsider this trade-off between expertise and flexibility by examining the concept of cognitive entrenchment-a high level of stability in one's domain schemas. Proposing that cognitive entrenchment varies not only with expertise but also with one's task environment and attentional focus. I contend that the inflexibility-related limit...
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作者：Pache, Anne-Claire; Santos, Filipe
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：Organizations are increasingly subject to conflicting demands imposed by their institutional environments. This makes compliance impossible to achieve, because satisfying some demands requires defying others. Prior work simply suggests that organizations develop strategic responses in such situations. Our key contribution is to provide a more precise model of organizational responses that takes into account intraorganizational political processes. As a result, we identify situations in which c...
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作者：Mainemelis, Charalampos
摘要：What happens when an employee generates a new idea and wants to further explore it but is instructed by a manager to stop working on it? Among the various possibilities, the employee could choose to violate the manager's order and pursue the new idea illegitimately. I describe this action as creative deviance and, drawing on the creativity literature and deviance literature, propose a theory about its organizational conditions and implications.
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作者：Lan, Luh Luh; Heracleous, Loizos
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Warwick
摘要：We draw from legal theory to offer a fundamental rethinking of agency theory along three key dimensions: redefining the principal from shareholders to the corporation, redefining the status of the board from shareholders' agents to autonomous fiduciaries, and redefining the role of the board from monitors to mediating hierarchs. These dimensions contrast with classic agency theory, offering novel conceptions that can inform further theorization and empirical research in corporate governance.
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作者：Skilton, Paul F.; Dooley, Kevin J.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Building on research that suggests a negative relationship between repeat collaboration and team creativity, we propose that team mental models developed in earlier projects are likely to interfere with the processes that constitute creative abrasion: idea generation, disclosure/advocacy, and convergence. Suppression of these processes leads to less creative outcomes. We conclude by proposing that these negative effects can be mitigated by process and project charter interventions and by outsi...
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作者：Ibarra, Herminia; Barbulescu, Roxana
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; McGill University
摘要：Self-narratives-stories that make a point about the narrator-help people revise and reconstruct identities during work role transitions. We propose a process model in which people draw on narrative repertoires to engage in narrative identity work in role-related interactions. Using feedback from their interactions. they revise both the stories and repertoires. Successful completion of the transition is facilitated by enduring and coherent repertoire changes to express the new role identity.
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作者：McCarthy, Ian P.; Lawrence, Thomas B.; Wixted, Brian; Gordon, Brian R.
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Simon Fraser University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：Environmental velocity has emerged as an important concept but remains theoretically underdeveloped, particularly with respect to its multidimensionality. In response, we develop a framework that examines the variations in velocity across multiple dimensions of the environment (homology) and the causal linkages between those velocities (coupling). We then propose four velocity regimes based on different patterns of homology and coupling and argue that the conditions of each regime have importa...
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作者：Cooper, Danielle; Thatcher, Sherry M. B.
作者单位：University of North Texas System; University of North Texas Denton; University of Louisville
摘要：We develop an integrative framework that sheds light on managing multiple targets of employee identifications-specifically, coworker, workgroup, and organizational identifications. Drawing from cross-cultural and gender studies, we distinguish between individual tendencies (self-concept orientations) and self-definitions with specific relationships or groups (identifications). We explicate the role of individualist, relationist, and collectivist self-concept orientations, as well as identifica...
