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作者:Smith, KG
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作者:Kilduff, M; Mehra, A
摘要:Drawing selectively from the often countervailing currents of postmodernism, we argue for an epistemology that combines a:skepticism toward metanarrative with a commitment to rigorous standards of enquiry in pursuit of radical challenges to accepted knowledge. We discuss five problematics concerned with normal science, truth, representation, style, and generalizability, and we provide examples of postmodern approaches to classic data sets, local knowledge, eclectic sources, and the counterintu...
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作者:Pearce, RJ
摘要:The author posits that the joint venture ((JV) form of governance imposes a greater burden of bargaining and political influence costs than is present in ct hierarchy. The iv's incremental costs derive from shared sovereignty and incomplete contracting. The magnitude of those costs is related to parental differences, factionalism, and task interdependence in the top management team (TMT), and dynamism in the task environment. The costs are argued to undermine the quality of TMT decision making...
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作者:Mahoney, TA
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作者:Kirkman, BL; Shapiro, DI
作者单位:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要:As ct result of both global competition and company downsizing, multinational firms increasingly are using self-managing work teams (SMWTs) in their foreign affiliates. in this article we identify several cultural values that likely will affect whether employees within those facilities will resist the self-management-relatad and team-related aspects of SMWTs. Further, we argue that the success of SMWTs is related to the extent to which organizations effectively manage culture-based resistance ...
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作者:Roberts, PW; Greenwood, R
作者单位:University of Alberta
摘要:Transaction cost and institutional theories are integrated in order to enhance understanding of the process by which entities adopt new organizational designs. By grafting cognitive and institutional constraints into the comparative-efficiency framework favored by transaction cost theorists, theorists using the constrained-efficiency framework demonstrate both how efficiency-seeking organizations may be biased in fervor of current designs and those that are legitimated within their institution...
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作者:Ryland, E
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作者:Roberts, PW; Greenwood, R
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作者:Fischer, F
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作者:Inkpen, AC; Beamish, PW
作者单位:Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要:Although the high rate of instability of international joint ventures (IJVs) hers been well documented, the underlying reasons for the instability need clarification. In this article, we develop ct theoretical framework for instability of IJVs grounded in a bargaining power and dependence perspective. Instability is defined as a major change in partner relationship status that is unplanned and premature from one or both partners' perspectives. The core argument is that the instability of IJVs ...