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作者：Beckman, Christine M.; Burton, M. Diane
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：We contrast life-cycle and path-dependent views of entrepreneurial firms by examining the evolution of top management teams. We show how initial conditions constrain subsequent outcomes by demonstrating that the founding team's prior functional experiences and initial organizational functional structures predict subsequent top manager backgrounds and later functional structures. We find that narrowly experienced teams have trouble adding functional expertise not already embodied in the team. W...
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作者：Kaplan, Sarah
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：I develop a model of framing contests to elucidate how cognitive frames influence organizational strategy making. By using ethnographic techniques to study the day-to-day practices of strategy making in one firm, I examine the ways actors attempted to transform their own cognitive frames of a situation into predominant frames through a series of interactions. Frames are the means by which managers make sense of ambiguous information from their environments. Actors each had cognitive frames abo...
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作者：Wang, Sijun; He, Yuanjie
作者单位：California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona; California State University System; California State Polytechnic University Pomona
摘要：In today's ever-changing, competitive business environment, nondedicated cross-functional teams have become an important organizational work unit. This paper studies how the firm should optimally compensate such teams. Most previous studies on team compensation deal with dedicated work groups, where team members essentially allocate all their time and effort to team work. Little research has addressed issues related to compensating nondedicated teams, where team members perform tasks assigned ...
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作者：Aguilera, Ruth V.; Filatotchev, Igor; Gospel, Howard; Jackson, Gregory
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; City St Georges, University of London; University of London; King's College London
摘要：This paper develops an organizational approach to corporate governance and assesses the effectiveness of corporate governance and implications for policy. Most corporate governance research focuses on a universal link between corporate governance practices (e. g., board structure, shareholder activism) and performance outcomes, but neglects how interdependencies between the organization and diverse environments lead to variations in the effectiveness of different governance practices. In contr...
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作者：Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Southern California
摘要：Current social cognition models of knowledge coordination based on transactive memory systems (TMS) theory have not generally considered conditions in which goals among partners are incongruent, and that those with specialized knowledge will not necessarily act to share their knowledge. As expected from previous literature, when facing a problem requiring inputs from others, an individual will draw on her personal or ego-centered network using the knowledge of her network's TMS; however, we th...
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作者：Sluss, David M.; Ashforth, Blake E.
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Separate research literatures focus on the individual's identification with relationships, groups, organizations, and other workplace targets. We propose that identification with one referent may converge with or extend to another, thus suggesting the potential for more parsimonious perspectives on identification. We illustrate this argument by examining how the subordinate's identification with the subordinate-manager role relationship (relational identification) (RI) may converge with the su...
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作者：Pfarrer, Michael D.; Smith, Ken G.; Bartol, Kathryn M.; Khanin, Dmitry M.; Zhang, Xiaomeng
作者单位：University of Denver; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; California State University System; California State University Fullerton; American University
摘要：We investigate the effects of social and regulatory forces on a firm's decision to disclose past wrongdoing by voluntarily restating its earnings. With an eight-year sample of more than 2,500 public firms, including 170 voluntary restaters, we find that firms are more likely to voluntarily restate their earnings in response to informal social pressures from other firms in their industry and less likely to do so in response to formal regulatory sanctions. We also show that the impact of these f...
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作者：Quinn, Ryan W.; Worline, Monica C.
作者单位：University of Virginia; Emory University
摘要：On September 11, 2001, the passengers and crew members aboard Flight 93 responded to the hijacking of their airplane by organizing a counterattack against the hijackers. The airplane crashed into an unpopulated field, causing no damage to human lives or national landmarks beyond the lives of those aboard the airplane. We draw on this story of courageous collective action to explore the question of what makes this kind of action possible. We propose that to take courageous collective action, pe...
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作者：Cattani, Gino; Ferriani, Simone
作者单位：New York University; University of Bologna
摘要：The paper advances a relational perspective to studying creativity at the individual level. Building on social network theory and techniques, we examine the role of social networks in shaping individuals' ability to generate a creative outcome. More specifically, we argue that individuals who occupy an intermediate position between the core and the periphery of their social system are in a favorable position to achieve creative results. In addition, the benefits accrued through an individual's...
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作者：Anteby, Michel
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Research has long shown that organizations shape members' identities. However, the possibility that these identities might also be desired and that members might benefit from this process has only recently been explored. In a qualitative study of a French aeronautic plant, I demonstrate how an implicitly negotiated leniency between management and workers around the use of company materials and tools, on company time, to produce artifacts for personal use, enhances workers' identities. This len...
