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作者：Denis, Jean-Louis; Dompierre, Genevieve; Langley, Ann; Rouleau, Linda
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：This paper examines an organizational pathology that we label escalating indecision-where people find themselves I driven to invest time and energy in activities and decision processes aimed at resolving an issue of common concern, but where closure appears elusive. The phenomenon is illustrated through a case history in which a strategic orientation decision involving the configuration of a group of large teaching hospitals was continually made, unmade, and remade, producing little concrete s...
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作者：Thomas, Robyn; Sargent, Leisa D.; Hardy, Cynthia
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Melbourne
摘要：Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an organizational becoming perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the microcontext of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural, and ongoing; it occurs in everyday interactions as actors engage in the process of establishing new meanings for organizational activities. We adopt this approach to...
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作者：von Nordenflycht, Andrew
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：Although existing literature assumes that the human capital intensity of professional services leads to small and flimsy firms, several professional services feature large, long-lived firms. To develop insights about firm size and industry structure in human capital intensive industries, I analyze the structure and evolution of the advertising industry. Drawing on a range of quantitative and qualitative evidence, I develop two hypotheses regarding the industry's structure and consolidation: (1...
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作者：Martin, Jeffrey A.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：This grounded theory-building multiple-case study examines the executive leadership group that comprises the general manager (GM) that heads each of the firm's business units in a multibusiness organization. Because each GM exercises control and authority over their business unit's resources, they operate at the nexus of firm-level strategy and strategy implementation through the development of business-unit-level strategy and tactics. Moreover, they play an essential role in adapting the orga...
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作者：Tracey, Paul; Phillips, Nelson; Jarvis, Owen
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Imperial College London
摘要：The question of how new organizational forms are created remains an unsolved problem in new institutional theory. We argue that one important way that new organizational forms emerge is through a process of bridging institutional entrepreneurship, which involves an institutional entrepreneur combining aspects of established institutional logics to create a new type of organization underpinned by anew, hybrid logic. Building on an in-depth case study of a social enterprise in the United Kingdom...
