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作者：Rahman, Hatim A.; Valentine, Melissa A.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Stanford University
摘要：`This paper develops a new understanding about how client managers-those using platform labor markets to hire and manage workers-attempt to maintain control when managing skilled contractors. We conducted an inductive field study analyzing interactions between client managers and contractors in software development gigs mediated by a platform labor market. The platform provided multiple tools client managers could use for control, including in response to unexpected events. We found that, when...
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作者：Odziemkowska, Kate; Henisz, Witold J.
作者单位：Rice University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We analyze the relationship between the actions and interactions of secondary stakeholders with an interest in corporate social performance (CSP) and variation in firm-level CSP across countries. Our work represents a significant theoretical shift in research exploring comparative CSP, which, to date, has focused on cross-national variation in institutions. We propose that stakeholders can also drive cross-country heterogeneity in CSP by influencing the salience of the issues for which they ad...
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作者：Mitra, Arjun; Post, Corinne; Sauerwald, Steve
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Los Angeles; Lehigh University; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Given the growing corporate social responsibility (CSR) pressures to increase board gender diversity and the scrutiny afforded to firms that fail to appoint female directors, one may expect shareholders to vote with greater support for women (than for men) nominated to boards. However, diversity management research suggests that pressures to improve female representation in organizations and in leadership roles may also backfire. We propose a threat-contingency model of shareholder dissent aga...
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作者：Thatchenkery, Sruthi; Katila, Riitta
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Stanford University
摘要：How a firm views its competitors affects its performance. We extend the networks literature to examine how a firm's positioning in competition networks-networks of perceived competitive relations between firms-relates to a significant organizational outcome, namely, product innovation. We find that when firms position themselves in ways that allow them to see differently than rivals, new product ideas emerge. Simply put, firms with an unusual view of competition are more innovative. We situate...
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作者：Kim, Kyoung Yong; Patel, Pankaj C.
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong; Villanova University
摘要：Many studies have examined the relationship between employee ownership and firm productivity. However, research is lacking on how this relationship is strengthened or weakened by environmental characteristics. This is a critical oversight in the employee ownership literature because industry characteristics can significantly influence employees' expected gains from their firm ownership. Thus, based on agency theory and expectancy theory, we develop a multilevel contingency model of employee ow...
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作者：Pachidi, Stella; Berends, Hans; Faraj, Samer; Huysman, Marleen
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; McGill University
摘要：When actors deem technological change undesirable, they may act symbolically by pretending to comply while avoiding real change. In our study of the introduction of an algorithmic technology in a sales organization, we found that such symbolic conformity led unintendedly to the full implementation of the suggested technological change. To explain this surprising outcome, we advance a regime-of-knowing lens that helps to analyze deep challenges happening under the surface during the process of ...
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作者：Nicolini, Davide; Korica, Maja
作者单位：University of Warwick; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：In this paper, we investigate the attentional engagement of chief executive officers (CEOs) of large healthcare organizations in England. We study attention ethnographically as something managers do-at different times, in context, and in relation to others. We find that CEOs match the challenges of volume, fragmentation, and variety of attentional demands with a bundle of practices to activate attention, regulate the quantity and quality of information, stay focused over time, and prioritize a...
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作者：Shrestha, Yash Raj; He, Vivianna Fang; Puranam, Phanish; von Krogh, Georg
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Across many fields of social science, machine learning (ML) algorithms are rapidly advancing research as tools to support traditional hypothesis testing research (e.g., through data reduction and automation of data coding or for improving matching on observable features of a phenomenon or constructing instrumental variables). In this paper, we argue that researchers are yet to recognize the value of ML techniques for theory building from data. This may be in part because of scholars' inherent ...
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作者：Cao, Jiyin; Smith, Edward Bishop
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; Stony Brook University; Northwestern University
摘要：Previous research has demonstrated that the size and reach of people's social networks tend to be positively related to their social status. Although several explanations help to account for this relationship-for example, higher-status people may be part of multiple social circles and therefore have more social contacts with whom to affiliate-we present a novel argument involving people's beliefs about the relationship between status and quality, what we call status-quality coupling. Across se...
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作者：Alexy, Oliver; Poetz, Katharina; Puranam, Phanish; Reitzig, Markus
作者单位：Technical University of Munich; INSEAD Business School; University of Vienna
摘要：How organization designs evolve between adaptation to changing conditions and the pressures toward persistence of the designs adopted at founding remains an understudied phenomenon. To fill this lacuna, we conducted a longitudinal, multicase study of eight young ventures. We find that, in these ventures, specific organization design solutions changed frequently, triggered by various internal and external developments, although the changes were typically incremental and myopic. However, the mor...
