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作者：Cohen, Michael D.
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：A Behavioral Theory of the Firm by Cyert and March (1963) can be interpreted as a culmination of new intellectual directions in the study of organization that began with Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior (1947). This essay shows how Simon broke with major pre-World War II intellectual traditions and thereby laid the groundwork on which A Behavioral Theory depends. It also suggests the contemporary potential of returning to themes that were set aside by Simon, but were key for prewar prag...
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作者：Quigley, Narda R.; Tesluk, Paul E.; Locke, Edwin A.; Bartol, Kathryn M.
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This study draws on three different, yet complementary, theories of motivation, which we combine in an interactive manner, to explain the mechanisms that underlie the exchange between knowledge providers and recipients and ultimately impact performance. More specifically, we use incentive, goal-setting-social cognitive, and social motivation theories to examine knowledge sharing within dyads and its influence on individual performance. One hundred and twenty participants functioning as interde...
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作者：Alvesson, Mats; Karreman, Dan
作者单位：Lund University
摘要：This paper addresses human resources management (HRM) systems and practices in a large multinational management consultancy firm. The firm invests considerable resources in HRM, and is frequently praised by employees for its accomplishments in hiring, developing, and promotion. However, this general faith in HRM does not align particularly well with employees' experiences and perceptions of the specific HRM practices in the firm. The paper critically interprets the meaning and the functions of...
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作者：Gittelman, Michelle
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：The spatial clustering of innovation has been associated with localized knowledge flows among small, knowledge-intensive firms, but knowledge flows may extend beyond regional boundaries through the participation of firm employees in broader knowledge-based communities. This paper analyzes biotechnology firms jointly engaged in technological innovation and open scientific research and proposes that the geography of their collaborations should reflect the distinctive social logics of these activ...
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作者：Millward, Lynne J.; Haslam, S. Alexander; Postmes, Tom
作者单位：University of Surrey; University of Exeter
摘要：A study of employees in the finance industry tested the propositions (a) that work team identity is more salient than organizational identity when desks are assigned, whereas organizational identity is more salient when they are not; and (b) that this is partly because physical arrangements have a significant bearing on the way in which employees engage with the organization as well as who they are most likely to engage with (i.e., impacting on the type and focus of organizational participatio...
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作者：Boh, Wai Fong; Ren, Yuqing; Kiesler, Sara; Bussjaeger, Robert
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Carnegie Mellon University; American Institutes for Research
摘要：The knowledge-based view of the firm has led to greater theoretical interest in how organizations integrate knowledge resources embedded in their employees' expertise. We examine the knowledge-integration problem in geographically dispersed professional organizations in which experts work in project teams. From consideration of coordination costs and local ties, we argue that (1) the organization will develop specialized expertise within local sites, (2) managers avoid crossing geographic boun...
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作者：Sahaym, Arvin; Steensma, H. Kevin; Schilling, Melissa A.
作者单位：Washington State University; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Grenoble Ecole Management; New York University
摘要：Information technology (IT) enhances coordination both within the firm and between the firm and its external partners. Consequently, IT investment can promote both loosely and tightly coupled organizational forms. Indeed, in some industries, widespread investment in IT is associated with high levels of disaggregation. In other industries, this is not the case. We argue that the specific influence of IT on firm boundaries depends on the broader industrial context. We investigate conditions wher...
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作者：Rindova, Violina P.; Petkova, Antoaneta P.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; California State University System; San Francisco State University
摘要：Innovation researchers recognize that the uncertainty with regard to the value-creating potential of product innovations increases with their technological novelty, and have argued that the usefulness and value of novel products are socially constructed. Despite this recognition, researchers have not explored how the outer form in which a technological innovation is embodied influences the processes through which the innovation's value is constructed and perceived. In this paper we argue that ...
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作者：Schwab, Andreas
作者单位：Louisiana State University System; Louisiana State University
摘要：T he availability of both direct performance feedback at the organization level and vicarious information at the industry level raises the question of their relative impact, as well as potential multilevel interactions. Prior research suggests that an organization's own experience after adopting an innovative managerial practice tends to replace information collected by observing other organizations that implement the practice. The findings in this study show, however, that both organization-l...
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作者：Zammuto, Raymond F.; Griffith, Terri L.; Majchrzak, Ann; Dougherty, Deborah J.; Faraj, Samer
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Santa Clara University; University of Southern California; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; McGill University
摘要：Technology has been an important theme in the study of organizational form and function since the 1950s. However, organization science's interest in this relationship has declined significantly over the past 30 years, a period during which information technologies have become pervasive in organizations and brought about significant changes in them. Organizing no longer needs to take place around hierarchy and the collection, storage, and distribution of information as was the case with command...
