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作者：Granqvist, Nina; Grodal, Stine; Woolley, Jennifer L.
作者单位：Aalto University; Boston University; Santa Clara University
摘要：Executives use market labels to position their firms within market categories. Yet this activity has been given scarce attention in the extant literature that widely assumes that market labels are simple, prescribed classification brackets that accurately represent firms' characteristics. By examining how and why executives use the nanotechnology label, we uncover three strategies: claiming, disassociating, and hedging. Comparing these strategies to firms' technological capabilities, we find t...
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作者：Zhou, Yue Maggie
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper studies the impact of task complexity and decomposability on the degree of organizational divisionalization and hierarchy within firms. Drawing upon the team theory and modularity literature, it argues that the degree of divisionalization is predicated not only on the extent of interdependence (complexity) among tasks but also on the extent to which those interdependent relationships are decomposable. As such, the feasibility and benefits of modularization in organizational design m...
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作者：David, Robert J.; Sine, Wesley D.; Haveman, Heather A.
作者单位：McGill University; Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We draw on the early history of the management consulting field to build theory about how institutional entrepreneurs legitimate new kinds of organizations in emerging fields. We study the professional form of management consulting organization, which came to dominate other alternatives. Pioneers of this organizational form seized opportunities arising from broad institutional change to discredit the status quo and legitimate their model of how to advise organizations on strategic and operatio...
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作者：Luo, Xiaowei Rose; Chung, Chi-Nien
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; National University of Singapore
摘要：Despite increased attention given to family firms in the theory of organization and management, the value of family governance in emerging markets is not clearly understood. We draw insights from agency and institutional economics perspectives to address the debate on whether family governance fills or abuses the void left by weaker market and legal institutions. We propose a dual focus on the pattern of family control and weak institutions to reconcile these opposed assessments. We analyze ho...
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作者：Wilson, Jeanne; Crisp, C. Brad; Mortensen, Mark
作者单位：William & Mary; Abilene Christian University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This Perspectives article seeks to redirect research on distributed (also referred to as virtual) groups, a well-established organizational phenomenon in which group members are separated by one or more forms of distance (e.g., geographic or temporal). Such distances directly affect individual behavior and shape other features of the context that alter group processes (e.g., by forcing groups to adopt new communication tools). Prior research has examined isolated effects of various dimensions ...
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作者：Neeley, Tsedal B.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed fluency-an achieved status marker-was associated with di...
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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：Wang, Xiaoqing; Butler, Brian S.; Ren, Yuqing
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The dominant narrative of the Internet has been one of unconstrained growth, abundance, and plenitude. It is in this context that new forms of organizing, such as online groups, have emerged. However, the same factors that underlie the utopian narrative of Internet life also give rise to numerous online groups, many of which fail to attract participants or to provide significant value. This suggests that despite the potential transformative nature of modern information technology, issues of sc...
