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作者：von Hippel, Eric; von Krogh, Georg
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich
摘要：Problem-solving research and formal problem-solving practice begin with the assumption that a problem has been identified or formulated for solving. The problem-solving process then involves a search for a satisfactory or optimal solution to that problem. In contrast, we propose that, in informal problem solving, a need and a solution are often discovered together and tested for viability as a need-solution pair.'' For example, one may serendipitously discover a new solution and assess it to b...
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作者：Yang, Kuo-Pin; Schwarz, Gavin M.
作者单位：National Dong Hwa University; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：A central premise of business groups is that controlling shareholders seize disproportionate control in excess of their ownership as a means of becoming and remaining competitive. We reexamine this axiom by exploring the relationship between excess control rights and performance outcomes in business groups. Using a sample of 106 Taiwanese business groups, we confirm that the effects of excess control in business groups are double edged, such that group-level excess control exhibits an inverted...
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作者：Felin, Teppo; Zenger, Todd R.
作者单位：University of Oxford; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：In this paper we develop the outlines of a theory for the firm-a theory that guides a firm's path to value creation, in response to the critique by von Hippel and von Krogh [von Hippel E, von Krogh G (2016) Identifying viable need-solution pairs: Problem solving without problem formulation. Organ. Sci. 27:207-221; henceforth Hippel-Krogh] of the problem-solving perspective as a theory of value creation. Hippel-Krogh argue (a) that problems and solutions cannot always be separated because they ...
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作者：Kozhikode, Rajiv Krishnan
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：Organizations in democratic societies often encounter detrimental public policies that are later reversed through rather predictable political cycles. The standard organizational responses to detrimental public policies examined in the literature include exiting the market altogether, attempting to change the public policy through various political strategies, or passively complying with the policy. However, these responses might not be suitable when a detrimental policy is likely to be revers...
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作者：Lom, Stacy E.
作者单位：University of Central Arkansas
摘要：In this article, I examine the effects of tight coupling on organizational activities through a case study of the judging changes in figure skating following the 2002 Olympic judging scandal, which have transformed skating. In keeping with research that has called for a more complete understanding of the relationship between organizational structures and daily activities, I argue that institutional theory has treated coupling too broadly and that we need a better understanding of what tight co...
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作者：Quintane, Eric; Carnabuci, Gianluca
作者单位：Universidad de los Andes (Colombia); European School of Management & Technology
摘要：Organizational network research has demonstrated that multiple benefits accrue to people occupying brokerage positions. However, the extant literature offers scant evidence of the process postulated to drive such benefits ( information brokerage) and therefore leaves unaddressed the question of how brokers broker. We address this gap by examining the information-brokerage interactions in which actors engage. We argue that the information-brokerage strategies of brokers differ in three critical...
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作者：Bertels, Stephanie; Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Pek, Simon
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; University of Cambridge
摘要：We explore how organizational culture shapes an organization's integration and enactment of an external routine that is not a cultural fit. Attending to employees' use of culture as a repertoire of strategies of action, we found that the use of familiar cultural strategies of action shaped the routine's artifacts and expectations even before it was performed, a process we call cultural molding. Subsequently, employees drew differently on cultural strategies of action as they performed the rout...
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作者：Dittrich, Katharina; Guerard, Stephane; Seidl, David
作者单位：University of Zurich; University of Lausanne
摘要：In this paper, we examine the role of reflective talk in how routines change. We argue that talk enables routine participants to collectively reflect on the routine and work out new ways of enacting it. Drawing on a year-long ethnographic study of a start-up company in the pharmaceutical industry, we show that talk supports the enactment of collective reflection by enabling the participants to (1) name and situate the issue to be discussed with regard to the performative and ostensive aspects ...
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作者：Kremser, Waldemar; Schreyoegg, Georg
作者单位：Free University of Berlin
摘要：This paper explores interrelationships between organizational routines and their effect on routine dynamics. We introduce a more aggregate perspective on routines, the cluster level, and develop a theoretical framework that helps understanding the dynamics of routine clusters. The framework combines thoughts on the division of labor, modularity, and the consequences of complementarities. It explains why single routines are grouped into clusters and how complementarities between the specialized...
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作者：Burbano, Vanessa C.
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This paper examines the effects of employer social responsibility on the wages workers demand through randomized field experiments in two online labor marketplaces. Workers were recruited for short-term jobs and I manipulated whether or not they received information about the employer's social responsibility. I then observed the payment workers were willing to accept for the job. In the first experiment, information about the employer's social responsibility marginally reduced prospective work...
