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作者：Phillips, Katherine W.; Rothbard, Nancy P.; Dumas, Tracy L.
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：People who are demographically different from one another face a fundamental challenge in developing high-quality relationships in organizations. We build theory about how the status differences that often accompany demographic characteristics can hinder this development through their influence on disclosure of personal information. We theorize about the construct of status distance and how. ironically, disclosure of personal information may increase status distance instead of bringing individ...
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作者：Grant, Adam M.; Wade-Benzoni, Kimberly A.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Duke University
摘要：Although death awareness is pervasive in organizations and can have powerful effects on employees' experiences and behaviors, scholars have paid little attention to it. We develop a theoretical model of the nature, antecedents, and consequences of death awareness at work. We differentiate death anxiety and reflection as distinct states that strengthen self-protective versus prosocial motivations, examine how mortality cues and aging processes trigger these states, and explore their impact on w...
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作者：Sydow, Joerg; Schreyoegg, Georg; Koch, Jochen
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder
摘要：To enable a better understanding of the underlying logic of path dependence, we set forth a theoretical framework explaining how organizations become path dependent. At its core are the dynamics of self-reinforcing mechanisms, which are likely to lead an organization into a lock-in. By drawing on studies of technological paths, we conceptualize the emergent process of path dependence along three distinct stages. We also use the model to explore breakouts from organizational path dependence and...
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作者：Zyphur, Michael J.
作者单位：University of Melbourne
摘要：Analytic techniques have associated mindsets that can determine the way scholars conceptualize their objects of study. I propose that switching these analytical mindsets can lead to new theoretical insights. Using two examples, I show how switching analytical mindsets allows for divergent, creative thinking that can help researchers generate new theoretical foci. I conclude by discussing the importance of attending to methodology when engaging in the process of theory construction.
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作者：Rudolph, Jenny W.; Morrison, J. Bradley; Carroll, John S.
作者单位：Harvard University; Harvard University; Harvard University Medical Affiliates; Massachusetts General Hospital; Brandeis University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We offer a theory of action-oriented problem solving that links interpretation and choice, processes usually separated in the sensemaking literature and decision-making literature. Through an iterative, simulation-based process we developed a formal model. Three insights emerged: (1) action-oriented problem solving includes acting. interpreting, and cultivating diagnoses; (2) feedback among these processes opens and closes windows of adaptive problem solving; and (3) reinforcing feedback and c...
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作者：Bell, Simon J.; Tracey, Paul; Heide, Jan B.
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Cambridge; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：We introduce a model of interorganizational governance within regional clusters. Drawing on the new institutional economics literature, we show how firms' governance designs are shaped by the relationship between transaction-level characteristics and the cluster macroculture. We then consider how subsequent transaction-level governance designs are affected by path dependencies from past governance choices. Finally, we suggest that intertransactional path dependencies exhibit directional asymme...
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作者：Lehman, David W.; Ramanujam, Rangaraj
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Vanderbilt University
摘要：Organizational rule violations are more likely when performance falls below aspiration levels. We propose that such violations are systematically selective and that this selectivity emerges during the problemistic search for solutions to the performance shortfall. During this search, contextual conditions (structural secrecy and coupling between violations and outcomes) and characteristics of rules (enforceability, procedural emphasis, and connectedness) direct attention and shape risk percept...
