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作者：Baum, Joel A. C.; McEvily, Bill; Rowley, Tim J.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：We examine the extent to which performance effects of firms' network positions vary with the ages of the ties comprising those positions. Our analysis of Canadian investment banks' underwriting syndicate ties indicates that the performance benefits of closure ties increase with age, whereas benefits of bridging ties decrease with age. We also find that benefits yielded by hybrid network positions, combining elements of both closure and bridging, are greatest when old closure ties are combined ...
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作者：Turner, Scott F.; Rindova, Violina
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This study examines how participants in routines view and balance pressures for consistency in the face of ongoing change. We address this question through a qualitative case-based inquiry into, the ostensive aspects of the core operational routine in six waste management organizations. We find that organizational members simultaneously establish and maintain two ostensive patterns one of targeted consistency and another of flexibility in internal coordination-by leveraging artifacts and conne...
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作者：Jones, Candace; Maoret, Massimo; Massa, Felipe G.; Svejenova, Silviya
作者单位：Boston College; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要：Most category studies have focused on established categories with discrete boundaries. These studies not only beg the question of how a de novo category arises, but also upon what institutional material actors draw to create a de novo category. We examine the formation and theorization of the de novo category modern architecture between 1870 and 1975. Our study shows that the process of new category formation was driven by groups of architects with distinct clientele associated with institutio...
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作者：Lo, Desmond (Ho-Fu); Frias, Kellilynn M.; Ghosh, Mrinal
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of Arizona
摘要：In this paper, we propose an approach to show how the capability-based perspective of the resource-based view of the firm can be integrated with the comparative-governance approach of transaction cost economics to shed light on governance issues in interfirm relationships. We argue that transacting parties create value not only through the employment of partner-specific investment and coordination activities but also through the employment of heterogeneous, firm-specific resources that each fi...
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作者：Withers, Michael C.; Corley, Kevin G.; Hillman, Amy J.
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Directors may play their most important role during organizational crisis; however, extant research suggests that they are often more willing to exit than remain on the board of a firm facing a crisis. We develop theory regarding directors' voluntary exit by integrating insights from identity theories with the organizational crises literature. Specifically, we model how directors' individual, relational, and collective identities work sometimes in concert and other times in opposition to each ...
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作者：Bothner, Matthew S.; Kim, Young-Kyu; Smith, Edward Bishop
作者单位：European School of Management & Technology; Korea University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Two competing predictions about the effect of status on performance appear in the organizational theory and sociological literatures. On one hand, various researchers have asserted that status improves performance. This line of work emphasizes tangible and intangible resources that accrue to occupants of high-status positions and therefore pictures status as an asset. On the other hand, a second stream of research argues that status instead diminishes performance. This alternative line of work...
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作者：Li, Dan; Eden, Lorraine; Hitt, Michael A.; Ireland, R. Duane; Garrett, Robert P.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School; Oregon State University
摘要：In research and development (R&D) alliances, the partner firms must balance the tension between knowledge sharing knowledge leakages because knowledge sharing, designed to support the alliance's technology development goals, can often lead to unintended and potentially damaging knowledge leakages. Governance structure is a well-understood knowledge protection strategy designed to reduce knowledge leakage concerns and thereby encourage desired knowledge transfers in two-party R&D alliances. Whe...
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作者：Fiol, C. Marlene; Romanelli, Elaine
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Denver; Georgetown University
摘要：The evolution of new organizational forms has attracted growing theoretical and empirical attention, but little research has considered the microsocial processes that promote the emergence of groups of quasi-similar organizations that sometimes evolve into new organizational forms. Drawing from social psychological and sociological theories of identity formation, we explain processes of individual identification and collective identity development that precede and promote the formation of simi...
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作者：Duguid, Michelle M.; Loyd, Denise Lewin; Tolbert, Pamela S.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Cornell University
摘要：It is a popular assumption that women and racial minorities who are numeric minorities in high-prestige work groups will advocate for a demographically similar other as a potential work group peer. However, these individuals may face special challenges in fulfilling this role. We discuss how three factors-the general social status associated with a specific demographic characteristic, the demographic composition of the work group, and the differential prestige accorded within organizations to ...
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作者：Cornelissen, Joep P.
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
摘要：In this paper, I elaborate a theoretical model of how individuals come to make or create sense through their language while being accountable to others. Using accounts of corporate communication professionals who made sense of anomalous circumstances, I analyze how they used metaphorical words and expressions to organize their accounts and to negotiate between their own individual commitments and perceived social expectations. Based on the analysis, I induce that professionals (a) use individu...
