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作者：Rhee, M; Haunschild, PR
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：In this paper, we explore opposing theoretical claims about how organizational reputation affects market reactions to product defects. On the one hand, good reputation could be a disadvantage because expectations about product quality are more likely to be violated by defects in highly reputed products. On the other hand, a good reputation could be an advantage because of strong inertial effects on reputation orderings. We empirically test these competing hypotheses using data on product recal...
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作者：Argote, L
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Kalnins, A; Swaminathan, A; Mitchell, W
作者单位：Cornell University; University of California System; University of California Davis; Duke University
摘要：A key question for organizational learning research is to identify opportunities and constraints for firms to gain useful information from the activities and performance of other firms. We argue that market-level turnover events generate and release vicarious information that small multiunit organizations can use to enhance their likelihood of survival. We focus on two specific turnover events, ownership transfers and contemporaneous exit-entry pairs (cases in which both Outlet entry and outle...
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作者：Lawrence, BS
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This paper introduces and empirically explores the concept of an organizational reference group: the set of people an individual perceives as belonging to his or her work environment that defines the social world of work in which he or she engages. The concept is proposed to fill a gap in studies of social context. Scholars tend only to infer, not identify, the people an individual is aware of at work. This surmise creates no problem in groups or small organizations where everyone knows everyo...
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作者：Kellogg, KC; Orlikowski, WJ; Yates, JA
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：In our study of an interactive marketing organization, we examine how members of different communities perform boundary-spanning coordination work in conditions of high speed, uncertainty, and rapid change. We find that members engage in a number of cross-boundary coordination practices that make their work visible and legible to each other, and that enable ongoing revision and alignment. Drawing on the notion of a trading zone, we suggest that by engaging in these practices, members enact a c...
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作者：Carlsen, A
作者单位：SINTEF
摘要：T his paper explores the relationship between authoring of identities and organizational development through a case study of the 18-year history of a professional service firm. Drawing from process theory, narrative psychology, and practice approaches to identity, I outline a perspective on organizational becoming as dialogic imagination of practice. Conceived as such, authoring takes place as a continuous stream of suggestions of what practice is, has been, and could be, simultaneously addres...
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作者：Gilbert, CG
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Opportunities associated with discontinuous change typically do not trigger organizational response until the opportunity is perceived as a threat. However, threat perception can then trigger a response that accentuates organizational rigidity. This cognitive paradox is explored using a multilevel, longitudinal case study of a newspaper organization's response to digital publishing. The results suggest that the competing frames of threat and opportunity can coexist within the firm when it crea...
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作者：Jeppesen, LB; Frederiksen, L
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Studies of the sources of innovations have recognized that many innovations are developed by users. However, the fact that firms employ communities of users to strengthen their innovation process has not yet received much attention. In online firm-hosted user communities, users freely reveal innovations to a firm's product platform, which can put the firm in a favorable position (a) because these new product features become available to all users through sharing on a user-to-user basis, or (b)...
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作者：Mehra, A; Dixon, AL; Brass, DJ; Robertson, B
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; University of Kentucky
摘要：T his paper uses data from the sales division of a financial services firm to investigate how a leader's centrality in external and internal social networks is related to the objective performance of the leader's group, and to the leader's personal reputation for leadership among subordinates, peers, and supervisors. External social network ties were based on the friendship ties among all 88 of the division's sales group leaders and the 10 high-ranking supervisors to whom they reported. Intern...
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作者：Bechky, BA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Temporary organizations are known to provide flexibility for industries that rely on them, but we know little about their implications for how work is accomplished and coordinated. In this paper, I propose that common portrayals of temporary organizations as ephemeral and unstable are inaccurate: Temporary organizations are in fact organized around structured role systems whose nuances are negotiated in situ. This paper analyzes one type of temporary organization, film projects, exploring the ...
