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作者：Behfar, Kristin; Okhuysen, Gerardo A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：We propose a more explicit role for abductive reasoning, or the development of initial explanation, in hypothetico-deductive (H-D) inquiry. We begin by describing the roots of abduction in pragmatism and its role in exploration and discovery. Recognizing that pragmatism treats abductive reasoning as inevitable, we argue that it can also be a deliberate form of reasoning in scientific inquiry, articulating the unique place it can have in hypothetico-deductive theorizing. We explain the opportun...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Aven, Brandy L.; Kush, Jonathan
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Massachusetts System; University Massachusetts Dartmouth
摘要：We theorize that the effect of membership turnover on group processes and performance depends on a group's communication network. We describe two mechanisms through which communication networks affect group performance: (1) the number of direct communication paths and (2) the clarity of the coordination logic. These mechanisms map onto two network dimensions: density, which affects a group's behavior through the number of available communication paths, and centralization, which affects a group...
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作者：Anteby, Michel; Chan, Curtis K.
作者单位：Boston University; Boston College
摘要：In the past few decades, the growth of surveillance has become a fixture of organizational life. Past scholarship has largely explained this growth as the result of traditional managerial demands for added control over workers, coupled with newly available cheap technology (such as closed-circuit televisions and body-worn cameras). We draw on the workplace resistance literature to complement these views by suggesting that workers can also drive such growth. More specifically, we show that work...
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作者：Bird, Miriam; Zellweger, Thomas
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Stockholm School of Economics; University of St Gallen
摘要：Integrating relational embeddedness arguments with Penrosean growth theory, we compare the growth of firms run by spousal entrepreneurs with firms run by sibling entrepreneurs. We theorize that trust, identification, and mutual obligations-the three facets of relational embeddedness-are more pronounced in spousal teams than in sibling teams, which provides spousal teams with advantages over sibling teams in generating firm growth. Probing a sample of all private firms in Sweden over a three-ye...
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作者：Levinthal, Daniel A.; Workiewicz, Maciej
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Organizations, as is true with social systems more generally, tend to be nearly, not fully, decomposable. However, analyses of nearly decomposable systems have tended to be at a single level of analysis and have generally neglected the vertical element of nearly decomposable systems. Critical to the notion of nearly decomposable systems is the property that the details of a particular subproblem may be encapsulated and captured by more aggregate parameters and that those subproblems interact i...
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作者：Mortensen, Mark; Haas, Martine R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Teams have long been defined by boundedness-a clear distinction between members and nonmembers. Yet as we argue in this perspective paper, the distinction between members and nonmembers is often blurred in today's teams, as a result of trends toward increasing team fluidity, overlap, and dispersion. These trends offer potential organizational benefits, but the resulting boundary blurring can undermine team effectiveness. Moreover, boundary blurring calls into question many of the basic assumpt...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; New York University
摘要：While two-sided platforms (e.g., video game consoles) depend on complements (e.g., games) for their success, the success of complements is also influenced by platform-level dynamics. Research suggests that greater platform adoption benefits complements by providing more potential users, but this assumes that platform adopters are homogeneous. We build on extensive research exploring the heterogeneity between early and late platform adopters to identify counterintuitive dynamics for complements...
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作者：Hunt, Richard A.; Hayward, Mathew L. A.
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University; Monash University
摘要：At small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), cash-strapped employees frequently request loans from employers because they cannot obtain money on reasonable terms elsewhere for exigent needs. In turn, employers decide whether to lend the money through formal (i.e., written, contractual) loans or more informal off-the-book (OTB) loans. Our exploration of this understudied source of credit unearths important questions about the reasons employers lend money to employees, the manner in which they ...
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作者：Maslach, David; Branzei, Oana; Rerup, Claus; Zbaracki, Mark J.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida State University; Western University (University of Western Ontario); Frankfurt School Finance & Management
摘要：Firms increasingly have access to information about the failure events of other firms through public repositories. We study one such repository that accumulates reports of adverse events in the medical device industry. We provide qualitative evidence that shows how firms select a sample of adverse events and then engage in inferential learning. We show that firms use the reports of others to extract new valid knowledge from the adverse events in other firms. We use quantitative evidence to exp...
