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作者：Chuang, You-Ta; Church, Robin; Ophir, Ron
作者单位：York University - Canada; Toronto Metropolitan University
摘要：We draw upon institutional theory to investigate the interactive influences of institutional mechanisms coercive, mimetic, and normative-on the diffusion of a controversial and socially stigmatized practice, same-sex partner health benefits, in Fortune 500 corporations between 1990 and 2003. Given the social stigma associated with domestic partnerships of lesbians and gay men during the period of the study, the provision of these benefits was highly controversial and induced intense contestati...
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作者：Coen, Corinne A.; Maritan, Catherine A.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Syracuse University
摘要：In this research, we examine the dynamic capability of resource allocation to invest in operational capabilities. Using a computer simulation, we model a process of firms competing in factor markets for opportunities to invest in existing capabilities and acquire new ones. Based on the simulation results, we derive a set of propositions about the conditions under which there are and are not performance benefits from possessing a superior ability to search for new capabilities. Because the defi...
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作者：Barley, Stephen R.; Meyerson, Debra E.; Grodal, Stine
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University; Boston University
摘要：The increasing volume of e-mail and other technologically enabled communications are widely regarded as a growing source of stress in people's lives. Yet research also suggests that new media afford people additional flexibility and control by enabling them to communicate from anywhere at any time. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative data, this paper builds theory that unravels this apparent contradiction. As the literature would predict, we found that the more time people spen...
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作者：Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz); Phillips, Nelson
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Imperial College London
摘要：While scholars have provided increasingly well-developed theoretical frameworks for understanding the role of institutional entrepreneurs and other purposeful actors in bringing about change in organizational fields, much less attention has been paid to the role of unorganized, nonstrategic actors in catalyzing change. In particular, the role of consumers remains largely uninvestigated. In this article, we draw on a case of the introduction of text messaging in the United Kingdom to explore th...
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作者：Shapira, Zur
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Unlike most of the social sciences, the field of strategy originated in the United States and arrived in Europe later. Did this trajectory lead to an Atlantic divide in strategy research? Does such a divide exist? The papers that follow debate the issue and the effects that such a potential divide may have on the growth of the field.
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作者：Ocasio, William
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：Organizational theory and research has increased attention to the determinants and consequences of attention in organizations. Attention is not, however, a unitary concept but is used differently in various metatheories: the behavioral theory of the firm, managerial cognition, issue selling, attention-based view, and ecology. At the level of the brain, neuroscientists have identified three varieties of attention: selective attention, executive attention, and vigilance. Attention is shaped by b...
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作者：Howard-Grenville, Jennifer; Golden-Biddle, Karen; Irwin, Jennifer; Mao, Jina
作者单位：University of Oregon; Boston University
摘要：This paper offers a revised understanding of intentional cultural change. In contrast to prevailing accounts, we suggest that such change can take place in the absence of initiating jolts, may be infused in everyday organizational life, and led by insiders who need not hold hierarchical power. Drawing on data from field studies and in-depth interviews, we develop a model of cultural change in which everyday occurrences such as meetings or workshops are constructed symbolically as liminal pheno...
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作者：Bailey, Diane E.; Barley, Stephen R.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要：Although organizational theorists have long argued that environments shape organizational structures, they have paid little attention to the processes by which the shaping occurs. This paper examines these processes by showing how environments shape teaching and learning activities, which in turn shape structure. Observational field data from structural engineering groups in three firms and hardware engineering groups in three firms revealed that the two occupations exhibited different pattern...
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作者：Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle; Miller, Danny; Lester, Richard H.
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：Two contradictory perspectives of family business conduct and performance are prominent in the literature. The stewardship perspective argues that family business owners and managers will act as farsighted stewards of their companies, investing generously in the business to enhance value for all stakeholders. By contrast, the agency and behavioral agency perspectives maintain that major family owners, in catering to family self-interest, will underinvest in the firm, avoid risk, and extract re...
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作者：Fang, Eric (Er)
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：In emerging economies, firms use strategic alliances to access and learn from partners' knowledge and thus enhance their innovativeness, especially when the partners have complementary knowledge sets. However, differences in cultural and business practices, as well as a lack of trust between local and foreign firms, make it more difficult for both partners to absorb and integrate their complementary knowledge bases. In emerging economies, strategic alliances often are associated with weak lega...
