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作者：Boss, Viktoria; Dahlander, Linus; Ihl, Christoph; Jayaraman, Rajshri
作者单位：Hamburg University of Technology; European School of Management & Technology; University of Toronto
摘要：Scholars have suggested that autonomy can lead to better entrepreneurial team performance. Yet, there are different types of autonomy, and they come at a cost. We shed light on whether two fundamental organizational design choices-granting teams autonomy to (1) choose project ideas to work on and (2) choose team members to work with- affect performance. We run a field experiment involving 939 students in a lean startup entrepreneurship course over 11 weeks. The aim is to disentangle the separa...
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作者：Boudreau, Kevin J.; Kaushik, Nilam
作者单位：Northeastern University; National Bureau of Economic Research; Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
摘要：Prior research, primarily based on laboratory experiments, suggests that females might be more averse to competition than are males; females might, instead, be more inclined toward collaboration. Were these findings to generalize to working-age men and women across the workforce, there could be profound implications for organizational design and personnel management. We report on a field experiment in which 97,678 adults from a wide range of fields of training and career stages were invited to...
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作者：van den Broek, Tijs; Langley, David J.; Ehrenhard, Michel L.; Groen, Aard
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; University of Groningen; Netherlands Organization Applied Science Research; University of Twente; University of Groningen
摘要：Legitimacy theory describes how individuals evaluate an organization's behavior, form propriety evaluations, and subsequently decide whether to publicly express their legitimacy judgments. These individual judgments are influenced by sources of collective validity, for example, from recognized authority or from peer endorsement. Whereas most research on this topic has focused on the effects of authority, we study the influence of peer endorsement on the public expression of legitimacy judgment...
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作者：Di Stefano, Giada; Micheli, Maria Rita
作者单位：Bocconi University; IESEG School of Management
摘要：Prior work has maintained that organizations benefit from managing the transfer of proprietary knowledge. Transfer is often advantageous within organizational boundaries but may be harmful across them, because it might erode competitive advantage. Hence, we ask: How can organizations affect the direction in which knowledge flows? We examine the role of organizational climate as a governing mechanism for knowledge transfer. Our empirical strategy consists of a mixed-methods approach leveraging ...
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作者：Rahmandad, Hazhir; Gary, Michael Shayne
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：With so many possible choices, why do managers adopt the strategies they do? We identify delays between adopting a strategy and observing the full implications of that choice as a critical factor influencing strategic choices. Using a simulation of a service firm, we conduct two behavioral experiments to investigate how delays interact with outcome uncertainty to shape learning, strategy adaptation, and performance outcomes. Two mechanisms emerge from how different subject groups perceive, rea...
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作者：Pamphile, Vontrese Deeds; Ruttan, Rachel Lise
作者单位：George Washington University; University of Toronto
摘要：A growing body of research documents that audiences reward organizations perceived to be authentic with positive evaluations. In the current work, we adopt a mixed-methods approach-using data collected from Glassdoor.com and two experiments-to establish that perceptions of authenticity are elicited by perceived congruence between an organization's stated values (Le., the values it claims to hold) and its lived values (i.e., values members perceive as embodied by the organization), which in tur...
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作者：Levine, Sheen S.; Schilke, Oliver; Kacperczyk, Olenka; Zucker, Lynne G.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Columbia University; University of Arizona; University of London; London Business School; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Experiments have long played a crucial role in various scientific disciplines and have been gaining ground in organization theory, where they add unique value by establishing causality and uncovering theoretical mechanisms. This essay provides an overview of the merits and procedures of the experimental methodology, with an emphasis on its application to organization theory. Drawing on the historical roots of experiments and their impact across science, we argue the method holds immense potent...
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作者：Raveendran, Marlo; Srikanth, Kannan; Ungureanu, Tiberiu; Zheng, George L.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
摘要：Employees in organizations are frequently subject to performance goals such as sales or publication targets. However, often employees do not know what actions will allow them to meet these goals. To perform such tasks effectively, employees need to explore to quickly learn from experience which among the available alternatives offers the higher reward potential, so that they can concentrate subsequent efforts on exploiting it. Prior work models such explore-exploit problems as an adaptive lear...
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作者：Bergenholtz, Carsten; Vuculescu, Oana; Amidi, Ali
作者单位：Aarhus University; Aarhus University
摘要：Problem-solving in complex environments requires a cognitively demanding search for task solutions. Managing this search process presents a major challenge in organizations. We contribute to the literature on this topic by providing new evidence on the cognitive antecedents that shape how individuals search when engaged in complex problem-solving tasks. We present results from three laboratory studies, wherein 335 individuals solved a complex task. In doing so, they generated behavioral data c...
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作者：Gorbatai, Andreea; Younkin, Peter; Burtch, Gordon
作者单位：Vlerick Business School; University of Oregon; Boston University
摘要：To what extent are individual or organizational biases affected by racially salient events? We propose that acts of discrimination and the individual biases that undergird them are sensitive to high-salience events and will oscillate with the salience of the focal attribute. In short, that the propensity to discriminate reflects both individual and environmental differences, and therefore a given person may become more prone to discriminate in the aftermath of a high-salience event. We test ou...
