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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：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：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：Evans, Joel M.; Hendron, Michael G.; Oldroyd, James B.
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This paper investigates knowledge hoarding, defined as an individual's deliberate and strategic concealment of information, and perceived hoarding, defined as coworkers' beliefs that an individual is engaged in hoarding. We hypothesize that knowledge hoarding increases an individual's job performance by enhancing bargaining power and influence, whereas perceived hoarding decreases the individual's job performance because coworkers withdraw social support. We further suggest that knowledge hoar...
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作者：Karim, Samina; Kaul, Aseem
作者单位：Boston University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper examines how structural recombination of business units within a firm impacts subsequent firm innovation. We argue that structural recombination is both a means for firms to unlock the potential for intraorganizational knowledge recombination and a source of disruption to the firm's existing knowledge resources, so that the overall effect of structural recombination on innovation will depend on the balance between these two effects. Structural recombination will have a positive effe...
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作者：Casciaro, Tiziana; Lobo, Miguel Sousa
作者单位：University of Toronto; INSEAD Business School
摘要：To better understand the role of affect in organizational task-related networks, we developed a theory of affective primacy that identifies cognitive and motivational mechanisms through which the affective value of a social relationship (a feeling of positive affect from interactions with a colleague) operates as an antecedent of perceived instrumental value (a subjective evaluation of a relationship's contribution to accomplishing assigned tasks). We tested this theory with full-network data ...
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作者：Tortoriello, Marco; McEvily, Bill; Krackhardt, David
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; University of Toronto; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Whereas recent research on organizational innovation suggests that there is an ecology of roles supporting the innovation process, the majority of network research has concentrated on the role of inventors. In this paper, we contribute to research on organizational innovation by studying the social structural conditions conducive to individuals supporting, facilitating, and promoting the innovativeness of their colleagues-a role we refer to as catalysts of innovation. We consider an individual...
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作者：Negro, Giacomo; Hannan, Michael T.; Fassiotto, Magali
作者单位：Emory University; Stanford University
摘要：We propose that category membership can operate as a collective market signal for quality when low-quality producers face higher costs of gaining membership. The strength of membership as a collective signal increases with the sharpness of the category boundary, that is, contrast. Our empirical study focuses on biodynamic and organic viticulture in Alsace.
