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作者:Lawrence, Megan
作者单位:Vanderbilt University
摘要:In aiming to understand why teams differ in their ability to adapt to new contexts, I explore the extent to which prior experience with a previous practice impacts the ability to properly execute a new organizational practice. I generate predictions by integrating the organizational learning and path dependency literatures. To test my predictions, I use internal data from 294 stores of a large retail chain that implemented a new restocking process in its stores. Initial findings show that, on ...
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作者:Waisberg, Isaac; Nelson, Andrew
作者单位:Tel Aviv University; University of Oregon
摘要:A large literature addresses the practices and challenges surrounding knowledge reuse within organizations. Yet organizations frequently attempt to reuse knowledge from outside their boundaries, which may be even more challenging. The practice is so prevalent that an entire industry-the consulting industry-has developed to support it. Unfortunately, we understand little about how knowledge embedded in one organization is used to intervene in another and about what challenges follow from the at...
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作者:Pitesa, Marko; Goh, Zen; Thau, Stefan
作者单位:Singapore Management University; Monash University; INSEAD Business School
摘要:This paper explains and tests empirically why people employed in product promotion are less willing to trust others. Product promotion is a prototypical setting in which employees are mandated to express attitudes that are often not fully sincere. On the basis of social projection theory, we predicted that organizational agents mandated to express insincere attitudes project their self-perceived dishonesty onto others and thus become more distrustful. An initial large-scale, multi-country fiel...
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作者:Knoben, Joris; Oerlemans, Leon A. G.; Krijkamp, Annefleur R.; Provan, Keith G.
作者单位:Radboud University Nijmegen; Tilburg University; Tilburg University; University of Pretoria; University of Arizona
摘要:A growing body of network studies argues that firms purposefully act based on the network structure and their relative position in it. In this paper, we assess the validity of one of the core assumptions underpinning these arguments: that managers have accurate information about the structure of the network in which their organizations are embedded. We extend theory on interorganizational networks by developing novel hypotheses regarding the antecedents of differences in this network informati...
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作者:Meuris, Jirs; Leana, Carrie
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要:Personal finances are becoming an increasingly prominent source of distress for a substantial proportion of the population in many developed economies. In this paper, we examine the organizational consequences of this trend by proposing that financial precarity can undermine a person's ability to perform at work. Across two studies, we demonstrate that people who are worried about their financial situation have less cognitive capacity available to them, which subsequently spills over into thei...
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作者:Wry, Tyler; Zhao, Eric Yanfei
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要:A key insight from research on hybrid organizing is that the joint pursuit of competing goals exposes an enterprise to potentially problematic tensions and trade-offs. Yet while studies have examined the former, the actual trade-offs that these organizations face-and how these might vary among enterprises and contexts-has been largely overlooked. Focusing on social enterprise, we address these gaps by (1) developing a framework that can be used to predict the compatibility of social outreach a...
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作者:Steigenberger, Norbert; Wilhelm, Hendrik
作者单位:Jonkoping University; University of Cologne
摘要:Firms often need to acquire external financial resources to maintain and develop their business. To attract these resources, firms employ various substantive and rhetorical signals, such as publishing press releases, showcasing prototypes of new products, and hiring renowned managers. However, despite the relevance of signals, we still know little about how they interact-whether they strengthen, weaken, or neutralize one another-in attracting resources. Traditional signaling theory downplays t...
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作者:Luger, Johannes; Raisch, Sebastian; Schimmer, Markus
作者单位:Copenhagen Business School; University of Geneva; University of St Gallen
摘要:We study the evolution of firms' exploration-exploitation allocations and their long-term performance outcomes. Extending current ambidexterity theory, we suggest that not only firms pursuing one-sided exploration or exploitation orientations show self-reinforcing tendencies but also ambidextrous firms adopting balanced exploration-exploitation orientations. Integrating formal modeling arguments, we further propose that reinforcing ambidexterity can be good or bad for firms' long-term performa...
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作者:Mazmanian, Melissa; Beckman, Christine M.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Irvine; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要:Numbers such as output controls drive action in organizations, yet we know little about how key numbers are created and take on authority. Using qualitative data from multiple properties managed by a hotel management firm, we find that individuals develop and then become committed to achieving budget goals through a ritual of quantification. The budget numbers serve as output controls for the properties and employees. We find that the strength of the budget number as an undisputed future proje...
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作者:Leroy, Sophie; Glomb, Theresa M.
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Bothell; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:This paper explores the attention regulation challenges brought by interruptions. In contrast to much of the research on interruptions that looks at the effects on the interrupted task, this paper examines the difficulty of focusing attention and performing well on interrupting tasks. Integrating research on attention residue, time pressure, and implementation intention, we predict that when people anticipate resuming their interrupted work under time pressure, they will find it difficult to s...