-
作者：Sharma, A
摘要：In this article I examine those business exchanges in which firms hire professional service organizations and give them limited decision-making authority to perform knowledge-intensive tasks. I frame such exchanges within agency theory perspective and invoke the extant literature on professions to delineate several attributes that make principal-professional exchanges intrinsically distinct from others, such as owner-manager agency. in doing so. I question and complement some key assumptions i...
-
作者：Brown, AD
摘要：The theory of narcissism can be employed usefully to analyze the dynamics of group and organizational behavior. Just as individuals seek to regulate their self-esteem through such ego-defense mechanisms as denial, rationalization, attributional egotism, sense of entitlement, and ego aggrandizement. which ameliorate anxiety. so too do groups and organizations. An understanding of the behaviors by which groups and organizations regulate self-esteem is important, because it sheds light on the dyn...
-
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 ...
