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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:Zhu, David H.; Westphal, James D.
作者单位:Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:We consider how a social psychological bias referred to as pluralistic ignorance occurs among security analysts and how this bias may lead to behavioral conformity and isomorphism in analysts' reactions to the adoption of a particular organizational policy, namely, stock repurchase plans. Our theory suggests why (1) there may be a systematic tendency for analysts to underestimate the extent to which other analysts share their reservations about repurchase plans (i.e., reservations about whethe...
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作者:Danneels, Erwin; Sethi, Rajesh
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Central Florida; Clarkson University
摘要:This study identifies two organizational factors that foster explorative products, willingness to cannibalize and future-oriented market scanning, and examines whether the relationships of these factors with exploration are contingent on environmental turbulence in customer, competitor, and technological sectors. The study analyzes data from 145 U.S. public manufacturing firms to examine the relationship between the two organizational factors and the degree to which the firms pursue explorativ...
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作者:Foss, Nicolai J.; Laursen, Keld; Pedersen, Torben
作者单位:Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Copenhagen Business School
摘要:The notion that firms can improve their innovativeness by tapping users and customers for knowledge has become prominent in innovation studies. Similar arguments have been made in the marketing literature. We argue that neither literatures take sufficient account of firm organization. Specifically, firms that attempt to leverage user and customer knowledge in the context of innovation must design an internal organization appropriate to support it. This can be achieved in particular through the...
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作者:Schwab, Andreas; Abrahamson, Eric; Starbuck, William H.; Fidler, Fiona
作者单位:Iowa State University; Columbia University; University of Oregon; La Trobe University
摘要:Null-hypothesis significance tests (NHSTs) have received much criticism, especially during the last two decades. Yet many behavioral and social scientists are unaware that NHSTs have drawn increasing criticism, so this essay summarizes key criticisms. The essay also recommends alternative ways of assessing research findings. Although these recommendations are not complex, they do involve ways of thinking that many behavioral and social scientists find novel. Instead of making NHSTs, researcher...
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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: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:Pirson, Michael; Malhotra, Deepak
作者单位:Fordham University; Harvard University
摘要:Prior research on organizational trust has not rigorously examined the context specificity of trust nor distinguished between the potentially varying dimensions along which different stakeholders base their trust. As a result, dominant conceptualizations of organizational trust are overly generalized. Building on existing research on organizational trust and stakeholder theory, we introduce a more nuanced perspective on the nature of organizational trust. We develop a framework that distinguis...
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作者:Reagans, Ray
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:Models of network formation emphasize the importance of social similarity and propinquity in producing strong interpersonal connections. The positive effect each factor can have on tie strength has been documented across a number of studies, and yet we know surprisingly very little about how the two factors combine to produce strong ties. Being in close proximity could either amplify or dampen the positive effect that social similarity can have on tie strength. Data on tie strength among teach...