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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：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：Beane, Matt; Orlikowski, Wanda J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：What difference does robotic telepresence make to the coordination of complex, dynamic, and distributed knowledge work? We explored this question in a post-surgical intensive care unit where medical workers struggled to coordinate their work in the face of different assessments of their extremely sick patients. Our in-depth field study examined night rounds, a central routine for coordinating work in this unit that was performed remotely through different technologies. We found that night roun...
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作者：Bode, Christiane; Singh, Jasjit; Rogan, Michelle
作者单位：Bocconi University; INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Firms are increasingly launching initiatives with explicit social mandates. The business case for these often relies on one critical aspect of human capital management: employee retention. Although prior empirical studies have demonstrated a link between corporate social initiatives and intermediate employee-related outcomes such as motivation and identification with the firm, their relationship with final retention outcomes has not been investigated. Our study fills this gap. Using individual...
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作者：Hasan, Sharique; Ferguson, John-Paul; Koning, Rembrand
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Prior work has considered the properties of individual jobs that make them more or less likely to survive in organizations. Yet little research examines how a job's position within a larger job structure affects its life chances and thus the evolution of the larger job structure over time. In this article, we explore the impact of technical interdependence on the dynamics of job structures. We argue that jobs that are more enmeshed in a job structure through these interdependencies are more li...
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作者：Huang, Zhi; Washington, Marvin
作者单位：University of Kentucky; University of Alberta
摘要：Much of organizational status research has been conducted at the micro level by examining the effect of individual status positions. To answer calls for more status research at the macro level, this study extends psychological research on assimilation and contrast effects to examine how status inequality as a distributional property influences product choices in markets. In the context of U.S. college bowls (a specific type of organization within U.S. collegiate athletics), this study analyzes...
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作者：Hwang, Elina H.; Singh, Param Vir; Argote, Linda
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Many organizations have launched online knowledge-exchanging communities to promote knowledge sharing among their employees. We empirically examine the dynamics of knowledge sharing in an organization-hosted knowledge forum. Although previous researchers have suggested that geographic and social boundaries disappear online, we hypothesize that they remain because participants prefer to share knowledge with others who share similar attributes, as a result of the challenges involved in knowledge...
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作者：Hiatt, Shon R.; Grandy, Jake B.; Lee, Brandon H.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Melbourne
摘要：We explore how activists' public and private politics elicit different organizational responses. Using data on U.S. petroleum companies from 1982 to 2010, we investigate how climate change activists serving as witnesses at congressional hearings and engaging in firm protests influenced firms' internal and external responses. We find that public politics induced internally focused practice adoption, whereas private politics induced externally focused framing activities. We also find that privat...
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作者：Natividad, Gabriel; Sorenson, Olav
作者单位：Universidad de Piura; Yale University
摘要：Do unexpected events experienced by one line of business adversely affect other lines of business in diversified firms? We use fine-grained data on the film industry in the United States to show that such contagion frequently occurs when a distributor opens a film in theaters and concurrently releases an older title to home video: Being exposed to a competitive threat-a period of unexpected volatility-in the theatrical market at the time of a film opening leads the distributor to suffer a loss...
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作者：Bidwell, Matthew; Mollick, Ethan
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Employees can build their careers either by moving into a new job within their current organization or else by moving to a different organization. We use matching perspectives on job mobility to develop predictions about the different roles that those internal and external moves will play within careers. Using data on the careers of master of business administration alumni, we show how internal and external mobility are associated with very different rewards: upward progression into a job with...
