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作者：Dacin, Tina; Weber, Klaus
作者单位：Queens University - Canada; Northwestern University
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作者：Sine, Wesley D.; David, Robert J.; Mitsuhashi, Hitoshi
作者单位：Cornell University; McGill University; University of Tsukuba
摘要：In this paper, we study the transition from planned venture to operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector. Planned ventures face tremendous obstacles in assembling the resources necessary to begin operations; we hypothesize and show that formal certification from authorized actors increases the likelihood of making this transition. Moreover, we find that the effects of certification are contingent on the legitimacy of the sector as a whole: Certifications have a stronger eff...
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作者：Boland, Richard J., Jr.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Yoo, Youngjin
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Changes in the technologies of representation in a heterogeneous, distributed sociotechnical system, such as a large construction project, can instigate a complex pattern of innovations in technologies, practices, structures, and strategies. We studied the adoption of digital three-dimensional (3-D) representations in the building projects of the architect Frank O. Gehry, and observed that multiple, heterogeneous firms in those projects produced diverse innovations, each of which created a wak...
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作者：Espinosa, J. Alberto; Slaughter, Sandra A.; Kraut, Robert E.; Herbsleb, James D.
作者单位：American University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：While prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has different types of complexity. In this paper, we theorize how task and team familiarity interact with task and team coordination complexity to influence team performance. We posit that task familiarity is more beneficial with more complex tasks (i.e., tasks that are larger or with more complex structures) and tha...
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作者：Chang, Myong-Hun; Harrington, Joseph E., Jr.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Cleveland State University; Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Scientific progress is driven by innovation-which serves to produce a diversity of ideas-and imitation through a social network-which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this process, in which the agents in the population are heterogeneous in their abilities to innovate and imitate. The model incorporates three primary forces: the discovery of new ideas, the observation and adoption of these ideas, and the endogenous development of net...
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作者：Howard-Grenville, Jennifer A.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：This paper considers how issue sellers advance new issues within an organization over time, and how they gain competence at doing so. Using ethnographic, archival, and interview data spanning a six-year period, it describes the moves made by members of a high-tech manufacturer to introduce environmental considerations into the design of new manufacturing processes. A significant shift occurred in the pattern of moves used over time, and explanations for the shift are found in two accompanying ...
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作者：Madsen, Tammy L.; Walker, Gordon
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Southern Methodist University
摘要：This paper examines how two general cohorts of firms, entrants and incumbents, differ in their competitive intensity following price and entry deregulation in the trucking industry from 1980 to 1993. The results demonstrate that the competitive strength associated with entrants' experience is reduced as they grow. However, organizational size dampens the positive effect of competitive experience on the exit rate more slowly for incumbents that were large at deregulation than it does for entran...
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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...
