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作者：Whitford, Josh; Zirpoli, Francesco
作者单位：Columbia University; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia
摘要：This article uses a longitudinal qualitative analysis of key transitions in the relationship between Fiat Group Automobiles and a major supplier to integrate a pragmatist model of action into the contemporary practice approach to the study of organizations. It builds on an affinity between pragmatist and practice approaches that has been widely recognized but has not yet been fully developed with reference to an empirical case. It argues that an analytic reliance on a pragmatist conception of ...
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作者：Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; New York University
摘要：A change in U.S. patent law in the early 1980s increased the value of patents, particularly for firms in the electronics and semiconductors industry, yet many of the industry's leading firms did not embrace patenting after the change. We show through an in-depth study of International Business Machines (IBM), the world's largest patentee, that the company's practices during much of the 1980s discouraged patenting. IBM adopted pro-patent management practices in 1989 after the installation of a ...
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作者：Cirillo, Bruno; Brusoni, Stefano; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：SKEMA Business School; Universite Cote d'Azur; Universite de Lille; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Bocconi University
摘要：This article focuses on corporate spinouts as a strategy that can rejuvenate the inventive efforts of inventors with a long tenure in the same company. We rely on an unbalanced panel of 5,604 inventor-year observations to study a matched sample of 431 inventors employed by the Xerox Corporation and find evidence in support of three predictions. First, inventors who join a spinout increase the extent of exploration in their inventive activities. Second, they decrease the extent to which they re...
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作者：[Anonymous]
摘要：The institutional environment is complex. This complexity is characterized by forces that ebb and flow in wavelike patterns as societal expectations evolve, with attention coalescing around specific events and then dissipating. Some of these critical events are broad and affect many firms, whereas others are narrow and affect individual firms. In either case, when they occur, these events elevate organizational susceptibility to societal demands but encourage different kinds of behavior in res...
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作者：Bercovitz, Janet E. L.; Tyler, Beverly B.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; North Carolina State University
摘要：In this exploratory study of university-industry sponsored research agreements, we investigate how organizational roles direct the relational learning of contracting personnel, which subsequently influences contract evolution. Integrating theory with comments from field interviews, we posit that as scientists gain contracting experience with an exchange partner their focus of attention on knowledge creation supports the establishment of a relationship based on technical competence, behavioral ...
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作者：Moliterno, Thomas P.; Beck, Nikolaus; Beckman, Christine M.; Meyer, Mark
作者单位：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：P erformance comparisons-specifically, performance relative to aspirations-are central to the behavioral theory of the firm. Firms evaluate their performance in relation to their own prior performance (historical comparison) and the performance of other organizations (social comparison) and base subsequent organizational change on this performance feedback. Of the two, social performance comparison has received relatively little theoretical or empirical development. This paper seeks to fill th...
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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Vanneste, Bart S.; Frank, Douglas H.
作者单位：University of London; University College London; Allegheny College; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Two types of contractual solutions have been proposed for resolving incentive conflicts in vertical relationships: formal and relational (i.e., enforceable or not by third parties). Much is known about the optimal structure of formal contracts, but relatively little is known about the structure of relational contracts. We study a core feature of the latter: the conditions leading to continuation of the relationship, whose prospect gives relational contracts their force. We build a formal model...
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作者：Lewin, Arie Y.
作者单位：Duke University
摘要：This year marks the 25th anniversary of Organization Science. To celebrate this milestone, I invited the past editors-in-chief to write a short essay reflecting on their experiences as editor of the journal. Arie Lewin founded the journal in 1990 and served as editor-in-chief until 1998, when Kaye Schoonhoven stepped into the role. In Kaye's essay, she offers an insider's perspective about how the journal grew during and evolved after Arie's leadership. Linda Argote took over in 2004 and succe...
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作者：Pacheco, Desiree F.; York, Jeffrey G.; Hargrave, Timothy J.
作者单位：Portland State University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Seattle University; Simon Fraser University
摘要：This study of the U.S. wind energy industry extends theory on the process of industry emergence by developing and testing a coevolutionary model of the relationship between social movement organizations (SMOs), institutions, and industries. Building on research that suggests that SMOs can influence institutions and the path of emerging industries, we show that the growth of an industry can also influence the diversity of social movements by motivating the participation of specialist SMOs. Thes...
