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作者：Barley, William C.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Representations, such as graphs and images, have been shown to help facilitate communication and coordination across knowledge boundaries. Many studies examine representations' effects during and after interaction, characterizing them as tools that help communicate local understandings with individuals who have differing knowledge. This study explores whether the anticipation of building representations to communicate across knowledge boundaries significantly shapes a community's work. To expl...
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作者：de Figueiredo, Rui J. P., Jr.; Rawley, Evan; Rider, Christopher I.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Columbia University; Georgetown University
摘要：We present a general framework for understanding why firms are slow to make major strategic changes in a wide range of empirical settings. We then apply this framework to investigate, more specifically, the relationship between firm age and scope in hedge funds. Our empirical analyses demonstrate that younger hedge funds outperform older hedge funds both before and after the launch of a new fund. Based on our framework, these results suggest that age-based rigidity in hedge funds is more attri...
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作者：Lee, Jeong-Yeon; Bachrach, Daniel G.; Rousseau, Denise M.
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Alabama System; University of Alabama Tuscaloosa; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：A field study of 615 managers in 11 Korean manufacturing firms extends theory regarding labor contracting to the study of idiosyncratic deals (i-deals). Despite i-deals' potential to benefit both employees and employers, economic theory asserts that employers attempt to reduce individual contracting by use of internal labor markets (ILMs). This study identifies limits to that assertion by identifying conditions under which i-deals are sought, despite employee participation in ILMs. Furthermore...
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作者：Sterling, Adina D.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：This paper investigates the impact of individuals' social ties at organizational entry on the formation of intraorganizational networks. When individuals enter organizations with one or more preentry relationships in place, I argue they form more extensive networks post entry than their untied counterparts. However, it is also suggested that under some conditions-i.e., when quality is more certain-the relationship between pre- and postentry social structure is contingent on individuals' qualit...
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作者：Tzabbar, Daniel; Vestal, Alex
作者单位：Drexel University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Wilmington
摘要：The access to the diverse information that teams gain through the geographic dispersion of their members is argued to increase the likelihood that they will produce more novel innovations. Although valuable, such dispersion also increases communication and coordination costs, making it difficult to utilize this information in developing new knowledge. To resolve this theoretical dilemma, we investigate the conditions that alter the effect of team members' geographic dispersion on innovative no...
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作者：Bowers, Anne
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：Although audience perception is critical to the theory that classification affects rewards, such as ratings or sales, tests of the classification-rewards link occur without directly measuring audience perception. As a result, although a great deal is known about the mean level of rewards as a function of classification, little is known about the individual evaluations that underlie them and that contribute to the variance. I advance a process-based explanation for evaluative outcomes. Individu...
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作者：Le Mens, Gael; Hannan, Michael T.; Polos, Laszlo
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Stanford University; Durham University
摘要：Various patterns of age dependence in hazards of organizational failure have been documented: liabilities of newness, adolescence, and obsolescence. Prior efforts at providing a unified theory that can accommodate these patterns as special cases have not dealt properly with obsolescence. We tackle this problem by proposing a new model that builds on the most recent unification attempt while integrating the core intuition behind obsolescence: organizations have trouble adapting to drifting envi...
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作者：Liu, Min; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：Durham University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：This paper contributes to the sociology of markets literature by arguing that collective identities sustain the market success of peripheral producers during the process of resource partitioning. Two conditions underlie the positive returns obtained by peripheral producers from their identity claims. First, the demise of near-center producers crystallizes the difference among classes of organizations which benefits the market success of peripheral producers. Second, individual peripheral produ...
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作者：Patriotta, Gerardo; Gruber, Daniel A.
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Northwestern University
摘要：Navigating transitions between planned and unexpected events is a familiar challenge for organizations, and yet little is known about the sensemaking processes by which organizational members coordinate action to fit unexpected events within temporally defined plans and schedules. Drawing on an ethnographic study conducted at a local U.S. television station (codenamed Local TV), we elaborate on how workers in the news department plan their stories on a daily basis and adjust their plans when n...
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作者：Le Mens, Gael; Hannan, Michael T.; Polos, Laszlo
作者单位：Pompeu Fabra University; Stanford University; Durham University
摘要：This paper proposes a distance-based characterization of age-related structural inertia as an increasing constraint on the speed of change as organizations age. Our framework regards organizations as points in multidimensional metric spaces of architectures. Organizational change means movement in this space. The speed of change is the ratio of the distance between positions in a space and the time it took for the organization to make the move. We illustrate how our distance-based approach can...
