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作者：Cameron, Lindsey D.; Rahman, Hatim
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University
摘要：Existing literature examines control and resistance in the context of service organizations that rely on both managers and customers to control workers during the execution of work. Digital platform companies, however, eschew managers in favor of algorithmically mediated customer control-that is, customers rate workers, and algorithms tally and track these ratings to control workers' future platform-based opportunities. How has this shift in the distribution of control among platforms, custome...
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作者：Audia, Pino G.; Rousseau, Horacio E.; Brion, Sebastien
作者单位：Dartmouth College; State University System of Florida; Florida State University; University of Navarra; IESE Business School
摘要：Research shows that reference group selection underpins critical organizational processes, but less is known about publicly disclosed choices of reference groups, such as those for the evaluation of firm performance. Because audiences, such as investors and analysts, prefer reference groups created by independent entities they can trust, they disapprove of choices of custom peer groups created by reporting firms. Nevertheless, firms frequently choose reference groups that do not conform to aud...
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作者：Eklund, John; Kapoor, Rahul
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：An important problem for many firms is sustaining their rate of innovation by launching new products on an ongoing basis. Accordingly, firms need to replenish their innovation pipelines with new inventions as existing inventions are weeded out or reach fruition. The replenishment can be done through internally generated inventions or through externally sourced inventions via licensing, alliance, or acquisition modes. Drawing on incentives- and knowledge-based views of the firm, we consider the...
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作者：Castilla, Emilio J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Universities and colleges often engage in initiatives aimed at enrolling students from diverse demographic groups. Although substantial research has explored the impact of such diversity initiatives, less understood is the extent to which certain application strategies may continue to favor historically privileged groups, especially white men, as they seek admission to selective programs. With this study, I begin to address this gap by investigating the gender and racial implications of applic...
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作者：Smirnova, Inna; Reitzig, Markus; Sorenson, Olav
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Vienna; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We argue that the actions for which actors receive recognition vary as they move up the hierarchy. When actors first enter a community, the community rewards them for their easier-to-evaluate contributions to the community. Eventually, however, as these actors rise in status, further increases in stature come increasingly from engaging in actions that aremore difficult to evaluate or even impossible to judge. These dynamics produce a positive feedback loop, in which those who have already been...
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作者：Howell, Travis; Bingham, Christopher; Hendricks, Bradley
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Research and practice suggest that cofounded ventures outperformsolo-founded ventures. Yet, little work has explored the conditions under which solo founding might be preferable to cofounding. Combining an inductive case-oriented analysis with a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 70 new entrepreneurial ventures, we examine why and how solo founders can be as successful as their peers in cofounded ventures. We find that successful solo founders strategically use a set of cocreators rather than...
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作者：Burbano, Vanessa C.; Chiles, Bennett
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Employee misconduct is costly to organizations and has the potential to be even more common in gig and remote work contexts, in which workers are physically distant fromtheir employers. There is, thus, a need for scholars to better understand what employers can do to mitigate misconduct in these nontraditional work environments, particularly as the prevalence of such work environments is increasing. We combine an agency perspective with a behavioral relationship-based perspective to consider t...
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作者：Zavyalova, Anastasiya; Bundy, Jonathan; Humphrey, Stephen E.
作者单位：Rice University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：An ongoing discussion in organizational studies has focused on the path-dependent nature of organizational reputation. To date, however, there has been little explanation about when and why some constituents' reputation judgments remain stable, whereas others are more prone to change. We contribute to this research by developing a relational theory of reputational stability and change. Our fundamental argument is that differences in constituent-organization relationships, as well as in the rep...
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作者：Slavova, Mira; Metiu, Anca
作者单位：University of Warwick; ESSEC Business School
摘要：We advance understandings of knowledge transfer by showing the central role of symbolic action, taking the form of ritual, in contexts characterized by worldview differences. Using qualitative data from interactions between farming communities in rural Ghana and agriculture development specialists, we examine how rituals do relational work that enables informational work. We find that rituals (i.e., visits, value affirmations, gift-giving, prayer, performing, storytelling) do so by means of th...
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作者：Lanahan, Lauren; Armanios, Daniel Erian; Joshi, Amol M.
作者单位：University of Oregon; Carnegie Mellon University; Wake Forest University
摘要：Prevailing theory argues that more certifications increase performance. However, emerging empirical evidence implies that obtaining more certifications may actually decrease performance. How do we reconcile this tension? Practically speaking, why would ventures seek additional certifications in light of these recently identified risks? To address this gap between existing theory and recent empirics, we look more closely at ventures' activities and performance outcomes after they receive their ...
