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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：In this paper, I examine how lower-cost production and new market opportunities influence the divestment decisions of firms. I argue that lower-cost production and new market opportunities in foreign markets can provide a better use of existing firm resources and posit that these opportunities are likely to influence firm divestment of home-country operations. The empirical results from a panel of 190 U. S. firms over a 20-year period (1981-2000) show that lower-cost production and new market ...
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作者：Bidwell, Matthew
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper explores how the structure of decision making affects the way that firms manage their boundaries. Achieving transaction alignment requires firms to balance multiple goals. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, I note that firms often assign different goals to different organizational units. As a consequence, simple problems about whether to make or buy can be affected by multiple decisions taken by multiple, locally rational units. I use a case study of the management of IT ...
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作者：Nambisan, Satish; Baron, Robert A.
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：In recent years, many companies have established virtual customer environments (VCEs) that offer facilities ranging from online discussion forums to virtual product design centers to partner with their customers in product development and product support activities. In this study, we focus on one form of VCE, online customer forums, and propose that the relevance of four distinct theoretical perspectives-social capital theory, social exchange theory, involvement, and social identity theory-to ...
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作者：Pennings, Johannes M.; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：Change in firm governance is often associated with inbound and outbound movements of key decision makers. This research extends that observation by treating mobility as a trigger of demographic change in management teams that, in turn, influences organizational survival. Mobility occasions transformations in demographic profiles both within a firm and among firms sharing a competitive arena. In the former case, shifts in diversity may alter the quasi-resolution of conflict achieved by the firm...
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作者：Mutch, Alistair
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Nottingham Trent University
摘要：This article relates Archer's morphogenetic approach, derived from the philosophical tradition of critical realism, to the use of information and communication technology in organizations. Three gains are seen to accrue from this approach: greater clarity about the material properties of technology, links to broader structural conditions arising from the conceptualization of the relationship between agency and structure, and the potential to explore the importance of reflexivity in contemporar...
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作者：Gambardella, Alfonso; Giarratana, Marco S.
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：This paper expands the organization theory and evidence on regional industrial agglomerations. We define regional economic activities according to the attributes of the organizations that populate a region and investigate how organizational characteristics influence macro-outcomes at a regional economic level. We focus on two dimensions emerging from two widely known organizational forms: the managerial corporation and the knowledge cluster with a marked orientation toward interfirm knowledge ...
