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作者：Liu, Christopher C.; Srivastava, Sameer B.; Stuart, Toby E.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper extends niche theory to develop an intraorganizational conceptualization of the niche that is grounded in the activities of organizational members. We construe niches as positions in a mapping of individuals to formal and informal activities within organizations. We posit that positional characteristics in this activity-based system are critical determinants of members' access to information and relationships-two of the vital resources for advancement in organizations. Because activ...
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作者：Joseph, John; Klingebiel, Ronald; Wilson, Alex James
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Frankfurt School Finance & Management; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This study examines the effects of organizational structure and performance feedback on termination decisions-in particular, product phaseout. Using quarterly product-level data on the major mobile handset manufacturers for the period 2004-2009, we analyze how product-level feedback affects product phaseout and how these decisions are conditioned by organizational structure-the extent to which decision making is centralized. We argue that such structure affects termination in two ways: directl...
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作者：Tschang, F. Ted; Ertug, Gokhan
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：The relationship between firm age and innovation has been an enduring topic of interest. We contribute to this research by studying how the effect of firm age on the quality of explorative and exploitative innovations is affected by the firm-specific and industry tenure of the talent resources ( employees) that the firm utilizes. We start with the baseline predictions that firm age is related to the development of better exploitative innovations and worse explorative innovations. However, the ...
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作者：Carton, Andrew M.; Tewfik, Basima A.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Members of work groups are highly interdependent and often share incompatible values, objectives, and opinions. As a result, conflict frequently arises. Given the profound impact of conflict on group effectiveness, scholars have sought to identify strategies that can mitigate its downsides and leverage its upsides. Yet research on conflict management strategies has accumulated inconsistent results. In this Perspectives piece, we argue that these inconsistent findings can be resolved if scholar...
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作者：Yi, Sangyoon; Knudsen, Thorbjorn; Becker, Markus C.
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Southern Denmark
摘要：Traditionally, routines have been perceived as a primary source of inertia, which slows down organizational change and hinders organizational adaptation. Advancing prior research on routine dynamics, this study examines how inertia in routines influences the process of organizational adaptation, both in the absence and presence of endogenous change of routines. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our analysis suggests an overlooked mechanism by which routine-level inertia may help, rather than hi...
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作者：Kahl, Steven J.; King, Brayden G.; Liegel, Greg
作者单位：Dartmouth College; Northwestern University
摘要：This paper examines how occupational groups survive the introduction of a new technology and associated jurisdictional changes. We draw on a comparative historical analysis of two occupational associations'-systems men and production planners-efforts to frame their evolving tasks and relate to other occupations after the introduction of the computer into U.S. business in the early 1950s. We observe that systems men followed the path traditionally advocated in the occupations and professions li...
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作者：Zhang, Jianjun; Marquis, Christopher; Qiao, Kunyuan
作者单位：Peking University; Cornell University; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Do political connections buffer firms from or bind firms to the government? To examine this theoretical puzzle, we distinguish two types of managerial political connections, ascribed and achieved, and theorize that these different types of ties either buffer firms from or bind firms to government demands. Furthermore, we propose that these effects are contingent on both industrial and regional institutional conditions. We test our framework with a unique panel data set of privately controlled ...
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作者：Asmussen, Christian Geisler; Larsen, Marcus M.; Pedersen, Torben
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Bocconi University
摘要：Offshoring offers managers the promise of substantial economic benefits, but also comes with the risk of increased complexity and coordination challenges. We argue that offshoring firms must accumulate architectural knowledge to keep the cost of coordination of the geographically separated activities at bay. Based on a simulation model that examines the performance implications of firms' learning strategies when offshoring, we show that such knowledge accumulation can be achieved through eithe...
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作者：Canales, Rodrigo
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：This in-depth, comparative case study of the creation of the small and medium enterprise credit market in Mexico explores the work of actors to craft new organizational practices, as well as the symbols that sustain institutionalization efforts. The study demonstrates that, to craft new institutional practices, individual actors engage in two distinct layers of institutional work. One entails purposefully visible, staged, scripted, and carefully documented work to suspend existing institutions...
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作者：Sele, Kathrin; Grand, Simon
作者单位：Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); CNRS - Institute for Humanities & Social Sciences (INSHS); Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; University of St Gallen
摘要：Building on an in-depth ethnographic study at a renowned research laboratory, we show how the interactions of organizational routines can be more or less generative by tracing and analyzing how human and nonhuman actors (actants) connect routines. Adopting a performative perspective, we compare the connecting of such actants and study how they are engaged in routine performances. We relate observed differences in the generativity of routine interactions to whether actants become mediators or i...
