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作者：Carnabuci, Gianluca; Operti, Elisa; Kovacs, Balazs
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; ESSEC Business School; Yale University
摘要：Extant organizational literature argues that straddling institutionalized categories begets an illegitimacy discount, leading organizations to reproduce established categorical boundaries. If gaining legitimacy requires compliance with this categorical imperative, why do we frequently observe categorical straddling even in uncontested and fully institutionalized categorical structures? To address this question, we propose that de novo (i.e., newly founded) and de alio (i.e., diversifying) orga...
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作者：Brown, Jill A.; Gianiodis, Peter T.; Santoro, Michael D.
作者单位：Bentley University; Clemson University; Lehigh University
摘要：Organizational change is facilitated by both internal and external factors, yet little is known about how they might be linked. Through a case study of one hospital's change from a nonprofit to a nonprofit/for-profit organizational structure, we find that human capital bargaining power is a key mechanism that integrates internal and external drivers of change. However, a paradox surfaces whereby the strength of the bargaining power can force structural changes that may be counterproductive. Ou...
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作者：Reid, Erin
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：This paper examines how people navigate organizational pressures to embrace a professional identity that-like the ideal worker image-centers on devotion to work. My field study of a consulting firm demonstrated that although some people easily embrace this expected identity, for others, it conflicts with their experienced professional identity. I found that people cope with this conflict by straying from the expected identity while passing as having embraced it or revealing their deviance. Ana...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Spencer, Jennifer W.; Teegen, Hildy J.
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作者：Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Jordan, Alexander H.; Audia, Pino G.
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：Social structure matters in organizational life, but our understanding of the origins of social network structure remains limited. In this paper, we observe that the literature on individual differences and social networks focuses almost exclusively on ego's views of herself and of her network. Our approach complements this egocentric perspective with a more altercentric view, in which others' perceptions of and reactions to ego's personality and relational behavior shape the structure of ego'...
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作者：Rider, Christopher I.; Negro, Giacomo
作者单位：Georgetown University; Emory University
摘要：We examine variation in intraprofessional status changes for employees displaced by organizational failure. We propose that failure-related reductions in bargaining power are moderated by individual status characteristics that influence potential employers' evaluations of job candidates and, therefore, individuals' status loss risks. Treating a prominent law firm's failure as a quasi-experiment, we test our arguments by analyzing 224 firm partners' transitions to subsequent employers. Most par...
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作者：Castellaneta, Francesco; Zollo, Maurizio
作者单位：Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Bocconi University
摘要：Drawing on the attention-based view of the firm and the experiential learning literature, this paper develops and tests a theory on how firms learn to cope with the strains of activity load. We first empirically test the impact of activity load on the performance of a focal activity. We then study how this relationship is moderated by four dimensions of experiential learning: stock, homogeneity, pacing, and past success. We test our hypotheses on a proprietary database of 6,913 investments by ...
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作者：Levinthal, Daniel A.; Marino, Alessandro
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：When considering the adaptive dynamics of organizations, it is important to account for the full set of adaptive mechanisms, including not only the possibility of learning and adaptation of a given behavior but also the internal selection over some population of routines and behaviors. In developing such a conceptual framework, it is necessary to distinguish between the underlying stable roots of behavior and the possibly adaptive expression of those underlying templates. Selection occurs over...
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作者：Gambardella, Alfonso; Ganco, Martin; Honore, Florence
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Prior studies have shown that the acquisition of relevant knowledge by employees in existing firms is associated with the creation of new firms through employee entrepreneurship. Some researchers propose that the transition to entrepreneurship may be explained by established firms undervaluing knowledge created by employees, whereas other scholars maintain that firm strategies may lead to the underutilization of knowledge. We ask the question of which of these drivers is more pronounced as an ...
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作者：Ghosh, Anindya; Rosenkopf, Lori
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Whereas network ideas and approaches have become prominent in both the managerial and sociological literatures, we contend that the increasing emphasis on network structures and their evolution has distracted us from the important issue of whether and when networks actually work in the ways that our theories assume. In particular, we explore the well-established assumption that knowledge flows over network paths, with special attention to the role of friction when the supposed information tran...
