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作者：Chung, Chi-Nien; Luo, Xiaowei
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This study examines the interaction between change-minded human agents and environmental and organizational contingencies to understand contested change in highly institutionalized practices. We propose a theory of how individuals, including those who are structurally highly embedded, can become change agents when confronted with amplified institutional contradictions. Using the empirical example of family presence in the leadership of Taiwanese business groups, we argue that despite the struc...
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作者：Guthrie, James P.; Datta, Deepak K.
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：Workforce downsizing through employee layoffs has become commonplace in American businesses over the last 20 years. While these initiatives are typically undertaken in the quest for improved firm performance and competitiveness, empirical research to date has been equivocal in supporting the efficacy of these initiatives. In addition, extant research has not thoroughly examined factors or conditions that may influence or moderate the performance impact of workforce downsizing. In this paper, w...
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作者：Hillman, Amy J.; Nicholson, Gavin; Shropshire, Christine
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Scholars and practitioners are interested in board effectiveness, yet we know relatively little about directors' engagement in the boardroom. We integrate identity theory and social identity theory research with literature on board monitoring and resource provision to model how directors' multiple identities affect their behavior. We propose that directors' strength of identification with multiple identities affects the extent to which they engage in monitoring and resource provision. We discu...
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作者：Mantere, Saku; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Aalto University; emlyon business school
摘要：We still know little of why strategy processes often involve participation problems. In this paper, we argue that this crucial issue is linked to fundamental assumptions about the nature of strategy work. Hence, we need to examine how strategy processes are typically made sense of and what roles are assigned to specific organizational members. For this purpose, we adopt a critical discursive perspective that allows us to discover how specific conceptions of strategy work are reproduced and leg...
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作者：Stahl, Guenter K.; Voigt, Andreas
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of London; London Business School
摘要：A substantive body of theory and research on the role of culture in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) suggests that cultural differences can create major obstacles to achieving integration benefits. However, the opposite view-that differences in culture between merging firms can be a source of value creation and learning-has also been advanced and empirically supported. In an attempt to reconcile these conflicting perspectives and findings, we present a model that synthesizes our current understa...
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作者：Ton, Zeynep; Huckman, Robert S.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：We examine the impact of employee turnover on operating performance in settings that require high levels of knowledge exploitation. Using 48 months of turnover data from U.S. stores of a major retail chain, we find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with decreased performance, as measured by profit margin and customer service. The effect of turnover on performance, however, is mitigated by the nature of management at the store level. The particular aspect of management on which ...
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作者：Rafaeli, Anat; Sagy, Yael; Derfler-Rozin, Rellie
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology; University of London; London Business School
摘要：In four studies we examine the relationship between the presence of an organizational logo and initial compliance with a request made by a stranger and document higher compliance rates in the presence than in the absence of the logo. Study 1 verified this relationship in the field, and Study 2 replicated the field findings in a lab setting. Study 2 also confirmed trust as a mediator and risk as a moderator of this relationship, showing that trust and greater compliance are produced by the pres...
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作者：Perez-Nordtvedt, Liliana; Payne, G. Tyge; Short, Jeremy C.; Kedia, Ben L.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of Memphis
摘要：Entrainment refers to the synchronization of the tempo and/or phase of two or more activities within a system. This article utilizes entrainment theory to develop a conceptual model and related propositions describing and explaining the relationship between temporal fit, misfit, and performance at the organizational level of analysis. Essential to the development of our model is the concept of organization-environment (O-E) temporal fit, which is a state of synchronization or alignment of orga...
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作者：Chattopadhyay, Prithviraj; George, Elizabeth; Shulman, Arthur D.
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Griffith University
摘要：Data from 101 Australian research scientists were used to examine the relationship between sex dissimilarity and work group identification, and task and emotional conflict. Based on social identity and self-categorization theories, these relationships were argued to vary between men and women, and between colocated and distributive work groups. Women reported lower levels of work group identification and higher levels of task and emotional conflict in conjunction with higher levels of sex diss...
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作者：Overby, Eric
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：In our increasingly virtual society, more and more processes that have traditionally been conducted via physical mechanisms are being conducted virtually. This phenomenon of process virtualization is happening in many contexts, including formal education ( via distance learning), shopping ( via electronic commerce), and friendship development ( via social networking sites and virtual worlds). However, some processes are more amenable to virtualization than others. For example, distance learnin...
