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作者：Shapira, Zur
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Is the field of management's devotion to theory too much of a good thing? [Hambrick, D. C. 2007. The field of management's devotion to theory: Too much of a good thing? Acad. Management J. 50(6) 1346-1352]. In his paper, Hambrick criticizes the practice employed by many journals in the management field that requires that papers submitted for publication make a strong theoretical contribution. I argue that part of the problem is caused by the misunderstanding and misuse of the term theory. To c...
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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：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...
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作者：Woolley, Anita Williams; Fuchs, Erica
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Whereas some suggest that consensus is the desirable end goal in fields of science, this paper suggests that the existing literature on collective intelligence offers key alternative insights into the evolution of knowledge in scientific communities. Drawing on the papers in this special issue, we find that the papers fall across a spectrum of convergent, divergent, and reflective activities. In addition, we find there to be a set of ongoing theoretical tensions common across the papers. We su...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Miron-Spektor, Ella
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; Bar Ilan University
摘要：Organizational learning has been an important topic for the journal Organization Science and for the field. We provide a theoretical framework for analyzing organizational learning. According to the framework, organizational experience interacts with the context to create knowledge. The context is conceived as having both a latent component and an active component through which learning occurs. We also discuss current and emerging research themes related to components of our framework. Promisi...
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作者：Burton, Richard M.; Obel, Borge
作者单位：Duke University; Aarhus University
摘要：In this essay, we examine what-is, what-might-be, and what-should-be computational models where the purpose is to explore new concepts, ideas, boundaries, and limitations going beyond what we know at the moment. Computational models complement well with other approaches: ethnographies, field studies, human subject lab studies, and surveys in novel triangulations. Triangulation of two or more complementary approaches permits us to broaden and deepen our understanding and insights.
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作者：Sorensen, Jesper B.; Fassiotto, Magali A.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Most entrepreneurs emanate from established organizations, yet systematic theorizing about the ways in which organizations shape the entrepreneurial process has only recently begun to emerge. We provide a framework for organizing this emerging literature. We focus on four different metaphors in the literature for how organizations matter in the entrepreneurial process and suggest promising avenues for future research.
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作者：Faraj, Samer; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：McGill University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Aalto University; University of Southern California
摘要：Online communities (OCs) are a virtual organizational form in which knowledge collaboration can occur in unparalleled scale and scope, in ways not heretofore theorized. For example, collaboration can occur among people not known to each other, who share different interests and without dialogue. An exploration of this organizational form can fundamentally change how we theorize about knowledge collaboration among members of organizations. We argue that a fundamental characteristic of OCs that a...
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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：In this introductory paper, I discuss the goals and motivations for the special issue New Perspectives in Organization Science, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the journal Organization Science. Senior editors of Organization Science provide their perspectives on topics that are important to the field. The papers identify current themes and suggest directions for future research that are likely to be fruitful. We hope that the issue facilitates the accumulation of knowledge and the...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：There is a consensus among strategy scholars that heterogeneous firm capabilities are at the root of firms' competitive advantages. Organizational economics does not address such capabilities directly, and some have suggested that it therefore offers little insight into them. In this essay, I argue that organizational economics can shed light on how firm capabilities are developed and sustained.
