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作者：Payne, G. Tyge
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University
摘要：Gresov and Drazin's (1997) suggestions regarding the study of equifinality are used to investigate the organizational configurations that exists within a suboptimal equifinality context. A suboptimal equifinality situation exists when organizations must satisfy multiple and conflicting functional demands with a restricted set of design options; these restrictions force all organizations to operate suboptimally. Gresov and Drazin (1997) speculate that in such a situation legitimacy claims are m...
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作者：Bercovitz, Janet; Jap, Sandy D.; Nickerson, Jack A.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Emory University; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：Our study investigates the antecedents and performance implications of cooperative exchange norms. We argue that, in early relationships, the level of expected cooperative norms in an exchange is the result of a calculative process facilitated by transaction attributes: joint transaction-specific investments and observability. The greater the level of these two exchange attributes, the greater the level of cooperative exchange norms, all else being equal. We further argue that the realized lev...
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作者：Lenox, Michael J.
作者单位：Duke University
摘要：An emerging body of institutional scholarship emphasizes the role played by private decentralized institutions in facilitating colletctive action among organizations. However, these institutions often suffer from free riding and opportunism. This may lead firms to exit the institution and eventually cause its collapse. In this paper, we explore how private decentralized institutions may be sustained despite these problems. We focus on one form of private decentralized institution-trade associa...
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作者：Voss, Zannie Giraud; Cable, Daniel M.; Voss, Glenn B.
作者单位：Duke University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University
摘要：This study examines how the organizational success of 113 nonprofit professional theatres was affected when two top leaders responsible for different parts of the organization held divergent views about organizational identity. Focusing on five values that differentiate theatres, we find that leaders' disagreement about organizational identity was related to lower ticket revenues and lower net income, and that organizational performance was lowest when disagreement about identity was extreme. ...
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作者：Wezel, Filippo Carlo; Cattani, Gino; Pennings, Johannes M.
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Tilburg University; New York University; University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm's higher-order routines, we investigate the conditions under which interfirm mobility triggers transfer of routines across organizational boundaries. We examine membership lists pertinent to the Dutch accounting industry to study key member exits and firm dissolutions over the period 1880-1986. We explo...
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作者：Yakubovich, Valery; Lup, Daniela
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Chicago
摘要：Although the existing theory predicts that a referral's chances of being hired increase with the job performance of the referrer, no empirical evidence is available to support this claim. To address this discrepancy, we decompose the recruitment process into objective selection, subjective selection, and self-selection and theorize that the likelihood of passing a particular recruitment stage increases with the performance of the referrer under objective selection and self-selection, but remai...
