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作者:Rahmandad, Hazhir; Vakili, Keyvan
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of London; London Business School
摘要:Prior studies of academic science have largely focused on researchers in life sciences or engineering. However, while academic researchers often work under similar institutions, norms, and incentives, they vary greatly in how they organize their research efforts across different scientific domains. This heterogeneity, in turn, has important implications for innovation policy, the relationship between industry and academia, the scientific labor market, and the perceived deficit in the relevance...
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作者:Demetry, Daphne
作者单位:McGill University
摘要:With perceptions of authenticity offering contemporary organizations a key competitive advantage in the marketplace, a growing body of research has investigated authenticity work: the diverse ways in which organizational actors fabricate authenticity claims for their audience members. However, claiming authenticity is a challenging and problematic task, because organizations must weigh how much authenticity they can safely project without incurring backfire. This is further complicated by cons...
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作者:Cristea, Ioana C.; Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要:Research shows that displaying face time-being observed by others at work-leads to many positive outcomes for employees. Drawing on this prior work, we argue that face time helps employees to receive better work and leads to career advancement because it is a strong signal of their commitment to their job, their team, and their organization. But when employees are geographically distributed from managers who control the assignment of work, they are often unable to display face time. To compens...
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作者:Gartenberg, Claudine; Prat, Andrea; Serafeim, George
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; Columbia University; Harvard University
摘要:We construct a measure of corporate purpose within a sample of U.S. companies based on approximately 500,000 survey responses of worker perceptions about their employers. We find that this measure of purpose is not related to financial performance. However, high-purpose firms come in two forms: firms characterized by high camaraderie between workers and firms characterized by high clarity from management. We document that firms exhibiting both high purpose and clarity have systematically highe...