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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.; Neeley, Tsedal B.; Gerber, Elizabeth M.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Harvard University; Northwestern University
摘要：Several recent studies have found that managers engage in redundant communication; that is, they send the same message to the same recipient sequentially through two or more unique media. Given how busy most managers are, and how much information their subordinates receive on a daily basis, this practice seems, initially, quite puzzling. We conducted an ethnographic investigation to examine the nature of events that compelled managers to engage in redundant communication. Our study of the comm...
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作者：Shimizu, Katsuhiko (Katsu)
作者单位：Keio University
摘要：Although research on corporate entrepreneurship (CE) has attracted increasing attention, risks of CE are not well examined. In this paper, we examine direct and indirect agency risks associated with providing middle and operational managers with autonomy in the hopes of encouraging CE. The key ideas behind our discussion involve two dilemmas of CE. (1) To solve the risk-averseness Problem of middle and operational managers and unleash their entrepreneurial ideas, top management needs to encour...
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作者：Winter, Sidney G.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This article comments on the behavioral theory of strategy advanced in Gavetti [Gavetti, G. 2012. Toward a behavioral theory of strategy. Organ. Sci. 23(1) 267-285]. His proposal offers valuable insights into the cognitive aspects of strategy when leaders are trying for big wins. It provides less guidance for understanding the actual achievement of success, partly because it underestimates the role of serendipity and of contextual factors illuminated by prior strategy research.
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作者：Smith, Edward Bishop; Menon, Tanya; Thompson, Leigh
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：We develop a dynamic cognitive model of network activation and show that people at different status levels spontaneously activate, or call to mind, different subsections of their networks when faced with job threat. Using a multimethod approach (General Social Survey data and a laboratory experiment), we find that, under conditions of job threat, people with low status exhibit a winnowing response (i.e., activating smaller and tighter subsections of their networks), whereas people with high st...
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作者：Chen, Guoli; Hambrick, Donald C.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Countering the widely held view that chief executive officer (CEO) succession is generally beneficial in turnaround situations, we adopt an executive fit/refit logic, proposing that the implications of CEO replacement depend integrally on the incumbent's degree of misfit and the successor's degree of fit to the contextual conditions at hand. Drawing from prior turnaround research, we identify several prominent forms of CEO fit/misfit that are especially germane to troubled firms. In testing ou...
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作者：Lamin, Anna; Zaheer, Srilata
作者单位：Northeastern University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：We assess the effect of firm strategies to defend legitimacy on two different stakeholder groups the public (Main Street) and the investment community (Wall Street). We identify four types of firm strategies in response to challenges to their legitimacy denial, defiance, decoupling, and accommodation drawing from theory and from case studies of international outsourcing. We then develop and test hypotheses on the effectiveness of these strategies in defending legitimacy across these two stakeh...
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作者：Adler, Paul S.
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Reports of the demise of the bureaucratic form of organization are greatly exaggerated, and debates about bureaucracy's functions and effects therefore persist. For many years, a broad current of organizational scholarship has taken inspiration from Max Weber's image of bureaucracy as an iron cage and has seen bureaucracy as profoundly ambivalent-imposing alienation as the price of efficiency. Following a path originally sketched by Alvin Gouldner [Gouldner, A. W. 1954. Patterns of Industrial ...
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作者：Rahmandad, Hazhir
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
摘要：How should managers prioritize among production, product development, branding, internationalization, and other capabilities and resources? This question is central to the resource-based view, and the answer depends not only on the direct returns on investment in each capability but also on the trade-offs in using those returns for future growth or survival in a competitive market. Through simulation experiments, this study examines firm-level capability development trade-offs in the context o...
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作者：Ye, Guangliang; Priem, Richard L.; Alshwer, Abdullah A.
作者单位：Renmin University of China; Sun Yat Sen University; Texas Christian University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：We explore the overlooked issue of how certain strategic-level, interindustry diversification options might increase consumer utility. Discussions of inter-industry diversification typically focus on producer synergies obtainable from economies of scope or from skill transfer across business units. Discussions of intra-industry product diversification-generally, the province of marketing typically focus on synergies obtainable from product bundling, which lowers producer costs or provides conv...
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作者：Brandenburger, Adam; Vinokurova, Natalya
作者单位：New York University
