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作者：Cardinal, Laura B.; Turner, Scott F.; Fern, Michael J.; Burton, Richard M.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Duke University
摘要：This study examines how designing for product development influences project performance in distinct technological environments. Drawing on a series of computational experiments and paired-case comparisons of six product development projects, we specifically examine how new product development performance is affected by project design and the technological environment. By triangulating across the computational experiments and case studies, we find the existence of performance trade-offs in pro...
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作者：Dahlander, Linus; O'Mahony, Siobhan
作者单位：Stanford University; Boston University
摘要：Project forms of organizing are theorized to rely upon horizontal as opposed to vertical lines of authority, but few have examined how this shift affects progression-how people advance in an organization. We argue that progression without hierarchy unfolds when people assume lateral authority over project tasks without managing people. With a longitudinal study of a mature, collectively managed open source software project, we predict the individual behaviors that enable progression to lateral...
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作者：Kaplan, Sarah
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：PowerPoint has come to dominate organizational life in general and strategy making in particular. The technology is lauded by its proponents as a powerful tool for communication and excoriated by its critics as dangerously simplifying. This study takes a deeper look into how PowerPoint is mobilized in strategy making through an ethnographic study inside one organization. It treats PowerPoint as a technology embedded in the discursive practices of strategic knowledge production and suggests tha...
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作者：Vaara, Eero; Tienari, Janne
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school; Aalto University
摘要：Although extant research has highlighted the role of discourse in the cultural construction of organizations, there is a need to elucidate the use of narratives as central discursive resources in unfolding organizational change. Hence, the objective of this article is to develop a new kind of antenarrative approach for the cultural analysis of organizational change. We use merging multinational corporations (MNCs) as a case in point. Our empirical analysis focuses on a revelatory case: the fin...
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作者：Gaimon, Cheryl; Oezkan, Guelru F.; Napoleon, Karen
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Clemson University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Although managers invest in new technology to improve performance, often the benefits sought are elusive while the costs incurred far exceed expectations. The literature offers insights to help explain this phenomenon. Evidence suggests that, while carefully considering the purchase cost, managers often underestimate the costs and planning necessary for proper implementation. Consequently, short-term problems arise and long-term benefits are not realized. A model is introduced that integrates ...
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作者：Bechky, Beth A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：In this essay I argue that organizational theorizing would benefit from incorporating a richer understanding of work and occupations. To demonstrate how, I turn to recent literature analyzing inhabited institutions, occupations as institutions, and occupations as negotiated orders. I explore the theoretical and methodological implications of these approaches to show how they challenge some of our more abstract images of organizations. They do so by grounding their theoretical frameworks in wor...
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作者：Westphal, James D.; Deephouse, David L.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Alberta
摘要：In this study we consider how and when interpersonal relations between chief executive officers (CEOs) and journalists can influence the content of journalists' reporting about corporate leaders and their firms. Specifically, we draw from the social psychological literature on interpersonal influence and social exchange to suggest (i) how the disclosure of relatively low corporate earnings may prompt the CEO to engage in ingratiatory behavior toward journalists, and (ii) how such behavior may ...
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作者：Maurer, Cara C.; Bansal, Pratima; Crossan, Mary M.
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：The resource-based view (RBV) has historically privileged the firm's internal resources and capabilities, often at the exclusion of its institutional context. In this paper, we introduce a culturally informed RBV that explains how cultural elements in the firm's institutional context shape the economic value associated with a firm's strategy. We posit that a firm's institutional context may create or destroy economic value. If the strategy inadvertently becomes associated with a social issue, ...
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作者：Woolley, Anita Williams
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Organizations increasingly rely on teams to formulate plans and respond in critical situations. However, current models of team process are insensitive to the effects of team strategic orientation. This paper expands existing work on team process and strategic orientation to introduce and explicate the constructs of offensive and defensive strategic orientations in teams. It takes advantage of a rare opportunity to observe eight counterterrorism teams in the intelligence community that explici...
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作者：Borgatti, Stephen P.; Halgin, Daniel S.
作者单位：University of Kentucky
摘要：Research on social networks has grown considerably in the last decade. However, there is a certain amount of confusion about network theory-for example, what it is, what is distinctive about it, and how to generate new theory. This paper attempts to remedy the situation by clarifying the fundamental concepts of the field (such as the network) and characterizing how network reasoning works. We start by considering the definition of network, noting some confusion caused by two different perspect...
