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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Joseph, John
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Duke University
摘要：In this study, we examine how business units of multidivisional (M-form) firms adapt their activities in response to poor performance at the corporate and business unit levels. By linking performance feedback theory with theories of attention and M-form organizations, we show that corporate structure influences the relationship between performance below aspirations and business unit adaptation. Because corporate structure vertically differentiates performance goals and problemistic search, sol...
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作者：Diekmann, Kristina A.; Walker, Sheli D. Sillito; Galinsky, Adam D.; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Brigham Young University; Northwestern University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Five studies explore observers' condemnation of passive victims. Studies 1 and 2 examine the role of-observers' behavioral forecasts in condemning passive victims of sexual harassment. Observers generally predicted that they would engage in greater confrontation than victims typically do. More importantly, the more confrontation participants predicted they would engage in, the more they condemned the passive victim, and the less willing they were to recommend the victim for a job and to work w...
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作者：Metiu, Anca; Rothbard, Nancy P.
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Based on a comparative field study of two software development projects, we use ethnographic methods of observation and interview to examine the question of how interdependent individuals develop and maintain mutual focus of attention on a shared task, which we define as the group engagement process. Drawing on Randall Collins' interaction ritual theory, we identify how mutual focus of attention develops through the presence of a task bubble that focuses attention by creating barriers to outsi...
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作者：Heaphy, Emily D.
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：This study reveals the institutional work required to maintain taken-for-granted beliefs about roles in the face of everyday breaches of role expectations. Through a comparative qualitative study of hospital-employed patient advocates in teaching and Veterans Health Administration hospitals, I demonstrate that patient advocates repair breaches in the taken-for-granted beliefs about the patient, family, and staff roles in hospitals. My research shows that patient advocates skillfully used rules...
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作者：Drori, Israel; Wrzesniewski, Amy; Ellis, Shmuel
作者单位：College of Management Academic Studies; Yale University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：This research investigates how boundaries are utilized during the postmerger integration process to influence the postmerger identity of the firm. We suggest that the boundaries that define the structures, practices, and values of firms prior to a merger become reinforced, contested, or revised in the integration process, thus shaping the firm identity that emerges. In a field study of a series of four sequential mergers, we find that the boundary negotiation process acts as an engine for iden...
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作者：van Essen, Marc; van Oosterhout, J. (Hans); Heugens, Pursey P. M. A. R.
作者单位：Utrecht University; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam
摘要：We provide an analysis of the costs and benefits of blockholding in Europe, where it is a dominant, but certainly not universal, corporate governance strategy for shareholders of publicly listed firms. We find that the effectiveness of blockholding is conditioned by the specific labor institutions that distinguish European countries from the rest of the world, and that these institutional effects involve both competition and cooperation between blockholders and collective labor interests. We a...
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作者：Marquis, Christopher; Davis, Gerald F.; Glynn, Mary Ann
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Boston College
摘要：We examine the link between corporations and community by showing how corporate density interacts with the local social and cultural infrastructure to affect the growth and decline of the number of local nonprofits between 1987 and 2002. We focus on two subpopulations of nonprofits in 100 American cities: (1) elite-oriented cultural and educational institutions and (2) social welfare-oriented organizations. We find that corporate density enhances the growth of both types of nonprofits, as does...
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作者：Chakrabarti, Abhirup; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：McGill University; University of Toronto; Duke University
摘要：Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm's current locations, with the result that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact of geographic distance when firms seek new resources. This paper argues that the difficu...
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作者：Chen, Zhijun; Takeuchi, Riki; Shum, Cass
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：A critical omission in the coworker influence literature is how a coworker influences a closely related (focal) employee's job performance behaviors and whether this influence is contingent on that coworker's own behaviors. By integrating social information processing and social cognitive theories with social exchange and role theories, we hypothesize that there are, at least, three distinct types of coworker dyadic influence. Accordingly, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model to...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Based on institutional theory, I extend research on the regulative role of national government in society and suggest that government exerts important influences on firms' actions through the diffusion of norms. I suggest that the Norwegian government, by instituting an ethical council that publicly censors and certifies the cross-border investments of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund Government Pension Fund Global, contributes to the professionalization of responsible investment principles...
