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作者：DeCelles, Katherine A.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Taxman, Faye S.
作者单位：University of Toronto; State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Buffalo, SUNY; George Mason University
摘要：Although most research on cynicism toward change (CTC) has been conceptualized at the individual level, we propose that CTC is better conceptualized as a multilevel phenomenon, acting as both an employee attitude and an organizational climate. We conducted a multilevel investigation of CTC in a field sample of 687 correctional officers in the 14 prisons in a state penal system. Consistent with our hypotheses, both employee CTC and CTC climate uniquely predicted negative employee attitudes and ...
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作者：Greve, Henrich R.; Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi; Baum, Joel A. C.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Keio University; University of Toronto
摘要：Departing from prior work that demonstrates the stickiness and stability of alliance networks resulting from embeddedness, we extend matching theory to study firms' withdrawal from alliances. Viewing alliance withdrawal as a result of firms' pursuit of more promising alternative partners (outside options) rather than failures in collaboration, we predict that a firm is more likely to withdraw from an alliance when there is a higher density of outside options that have better match quality than...
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作者：Loch, Christoph H.; Sengupta, Kishore; Ahmad, M. Ghufran
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Lahore University of Management Sciences
摘要：Routines are repetitive patterns of activity within a group, action patterns that help the group to solve problems and organize its way of functioning. Routines address issues of problem solving as well as issues of internal integration, such as regulating group identity, status distribution, and relationships. This study uses an experiment with three-person groups to examine how routines evolve in the interaction of problem-solving and internal integration dynamics. In line with previous work...
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作者：Moeen, Mahka; Somaya, Deepak; Mahoney, Joseph T.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：In the extant vertical integration literature, the question of how a firm's portfolio of outsourced work is managed across suppliers has been relatively understudied. We seek to advance this area of research by examining factors that influence how concentrated the firm's outsourcing is among its set of suppliers. Using data on the outsourcing of patent legal services, we find empirical evidence that outsourced knowledge-based service work is concentrated in the hands of fewer suppliers when (1...
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作者：Klingebiel, Ronald; De Meyer, Arnoud
作者单位：University of Warwick; Singapore Management University
摘要：This qualitative study analyzes the decision-making process involved in adapting preconceived courses of action during the implementation of a strategic initiative. We observe that the type of decision-making process hinges on the nature of managers' emerging awareness of future events. When managers become aware of new uncertainty, the process involves selectiveness, deliberateness, and diligence. By contrast, when managers become aware of new certainty, the process conforms to the problem-so...
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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Extant literature on divestment has repeatedly found that firms are likely to divest their poorly performing operations. In this paper, I consider how product market relatedness and geographic market differences in growth, policy stability, and exchange rate volatility can moderate the negative relationship between performance and divestment. Results from a comprehensive panel of U.S. multinational corporations (MNCs) reveal that conventional arguments about poor performance hold for both rela...
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作者：Gruber, Marc; MacMillan, Ian C.; Thompson, James D.
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The choice of the firm's market environment is one of the fundamental decisions of firm founders. We study the pre-entry generation of founders' market choice sets by investigating their search for market opportunities in which the firm's technological resources, as embodied in a product or service, can be commercialized. Analyzing data collected through personal interviews with founders of 496 technology ventures, we find that founding teams with more diverse industry experience and more dive...
