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作者：Negro, Giacomo; Leung, Ming D.
作者单位：Emory University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Literature to date has demonstrated that producers and products spanning multiple categories have inferior market performance. However, two related but distinct explanations exist as to the source of such a discount. One explanation suggests that actual skills are degraded when producers attempt to engage across diverse categories. Another explanation involves perceptual fit to category representations held by an audience as the cause. These two explanations tend to be confounded in archival s...
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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Terlaak, Ann
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This study examines the effects of different uncertainty types on interorganizational imitation in firm exit decisions. We draw on herding models to conceptualize exit decisions as being based on a firm's private information, which the firm updates with information inferred from observing the actions of others. We posit that different types of uncertainty differentially affect this observational learning process; in particular, we propose that certain uncertainty types attenuate (rather than f...
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作者：Anteby, Michel
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression telling our own stories is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement in a field. (By personal involvement in a field, I mean a scholar's engagement in a set of mental activities that connect her to a field.) The assumption is that personal involvement is antithetical to maintaining professional dis...
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作者：Chan-Serafin, Suzanne; Brief, Arthur P.; George, Jennifer M.
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Rice University
摘要：Religion is becoming increasingly salient in and around, but not confined to, the American workplace. The rise of openly faith-based organizations and discourse surrounding the role and importance of spirituality are just a couple of the indicators that religion, in its various guises, is playing a role in organizational life. With few exceptions, however, scholarly research has sidestepped the issue of religion, and, perhaps unwittingly, discourse surrounding spirituality seems to imply that ...
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作者：Cohen, Lisa E.
作者单位：McGill University
摘要：How are tasks bundled into and across jobs within organizations? In this paper, I develop a model of this process of job design by drawing on a multisite qualitative study of task allocation following the installation of a DNA sequencer. The model that emerges is one of the assembly of tasks through multiple subassembly processes with multiple assemblers. Four activities produced requirements and requests for job designs and propositions about how to meet these: actively searching, passively r...
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作者：Sonenshein, Scott; Dutton, Jane E.; Grant, Adam M.; Spreitzer, Gretchen M.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Rice University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We develop theory about how growing at work is an interpretive accomplishment in which individuals sense that they are making progressive self-change. Through a study of how employees interpret themselves as growing at three organizations; we develop a theoretical account of how employees draw from contextual and personal resources to interpret their growing in ways that embed their idiosyncratic experiences within an organization. The data suggest that employees develop three different types ...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Spencer, Jennifer W.; Teegen, Hildy J.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; George Washington University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：We suggest that firms' national institutional environments alter the logic of alliance partner selection and associated knowledge acquisition. We posit that cross-national variations in corporatist institutional structures (which reflect differences in underlying cooperative norms) influence the relative importance that firms place on a prospective partner's social value (evidenced from the partner's connectedness with members of its industry) and technological value (reflected in the technolo...
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作者：Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Stuart, Toby E.; Tushman, Michael L.
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University
摘要：Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners within business units, job functions, offices, and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to...
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作者：Bednar, Michael K.; Boivie, Steven; Prince, Nicholas R.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Arizona
摘要：In this paper we introduce a new antecedent to the strategic change literature by examining the effect of media coverage on the extent of strategic change. Specifically, we examine how negative media coverage may prompt firms to make changes to their resource allocations and then explore how the makeup of the board and firm performance can moderate this relationship. We develop a theoretical framework to explain why media coverage may affect strategic change and then test our theory with a lon...
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作者：Brenner, Barbara; Ambos, Bjoern
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of St Gallen
摘要：The control and coordination of a network of geographically and culturally dispersed subsidiaries is one of the most prominent challenges in international management. However, many empirical findings on the effectiveness of various control mechanisms and combinations thereof are still counterintuitive. This study uses longitudinal case studies and cross-sectional interview data to extend control theory by examining why, how, and in what sequence large multinational firms (MNCs) implement contr...
