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作者：Valentine, Melissa A.; Edmondson, Amy C.
作者单位：Stanford University; Harvard University
摘要：This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We extend this research by introducing key tenets from team effectiveness research to theorize when role-based coordination might be more or less effective. We develop these ideas in a multimethod study of a hospital emergency department...
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作者：Vandaie, Ramin; Zaheer, Akbar
作者单位：State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Interfirm alliances have long been identified as channels for learning and acquiring partners' knowledge and capability. In this study, we offer a new perspective on the influence of alliance partners on a focal firm's capability by focusing on link alliances that are motivated by the prospect of exploiting complementarities rather than acquiring partners' capabilities. Specifically, we consider the case of alliances between resource-rich and resource-poor firms and examine the capability deve...
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作者：Cobb, J. Adam
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Since the early 1980s, employment in the United States has undergone significant transformation as the large corporations that once safeguarded employees with stable jobs and rewards for loyalty have replaced these employment relationships with ones based on cost containment and flexibility. One important consequence of these developments is that firms have abdicated their role as a critical risk bearer in society. Although evidence suggests that firms have increasingly shifted market risks on...
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作者：Casciaro, Tiziana; Barsade, Sigal G.; Edmondson, Amy C.; Gibson, Cristina B.; Krackhardt, David; Labianca, Giuseppe (Joe)
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University; University of Western Australia; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Kentucky
摘要：Although multiple disciplines have been applied to the study of organizations, organizational research is rarely interdisciplinary in the sense of two or more disciplines being linked in the joint analysis of organizational phenomena. The articles in this special issue illustrate the kinds of insights that can be gained by moving from a purely disciplinary perspective on organizational behavior to an interdisciplinary perspective that considers network phenomena and psychological phenomena as ...
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作者：Schilling, Melissa A.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：In the early to mid-1990s, technology alliances suddenly surged to unprecedented levels-roughly 300% growth per year from 1990 to 1995-and then declined just as precipitously. This massive increase in alliance activity caused the crystallization of a giant component in the global technology network that connected a large portion of the world's firms, government labs, universities, and other organizations. However, when alliance activity declined, the component disintegrated. What caused this s...
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作者：Slawinski, Natalie; Bansal, Pratima
作者单位：Memorial University Newfoundland; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This inductive study of five firms in Alberta's oil sands examines how organizations attend to the intertemporal tensions between the short term and long term that are inherent in business sustainability. Grounding our insights in organizational responses to the climate change issue, we find that firms that juxtapose the short term and long term also confront the tension between business and society. These firms are, therefore, more likely to recognize the complexity of climate change and the ...
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作者：Lee, Jongkuk; Hoetker, Glenn; Qualls, William
作者单位：Ewha Womans University; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Prior work has mapped the transaction at the heart of an alliance to the risks of opportunism inherent in that alliance and, ultimately, to how the alliance is structured and governed. We extend this approach by noting that the parties in an alliance do not necessarily perceive the same hazards as predominant and thus may have different preferences for how the alliance is structured. Nevertheless, it is in each party's best interest to find a structure that protects its interests, while also a...
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作者：Furr, Nathan R.; Snow, Daniel C.
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：During technological discontinuities, incumbents frequently develop hybrids of competing technical generations. Although some prior work implies that such intergenerational hybrids may be the result of organizational dysfunction, we propose that in some cases hybrids may be sophisticated learning tools that shape organizational adaptation to a technological discontinuity. In this paper, we suggest two mechanisms through which intergenerational hybrids may affect organizational adaptation: spil...
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作者：Williams, Michele; Polman, Evan
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This paper investigates how professional workers' willingness to act with interpersonal sensitivity is influenced by the gender and power of their interaction partners. We call into question the idea that mixed-gender interactions involve more interpersonal sensitivity than all-male interactions primarily because women demonstrate more interpersonal sensitivity than do men. Rather, we argue that the social category women can evoke more sensitive behavior from others such that men as well as wo...
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作者：DeRue, D. Scott; Nahrgang, Jennifer D.; Ashford, Susan J.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We develop and test a multilevel theory explaining how patterns of interpersonal perceptions explain the emergence of informal leadership structures in groups. At the group level, we hypothesize that the network pattern of competence and warmth perceptions among group members determines the amount of leadership exhibited (leadership structure density) and the degree to which the emergent leadership structure is centralized or shared (leadership structure centralization). We then identify two i...
