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作者:Hinds, PJ; Mortensen, M
作者单位:Stanford University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:Geographically distributed teams are increasingly prevalent in the workplace, and research on distributed teams is ever more available. Despite this increased attention, we still know surprisingly little about how the dynamics of distributed teams differ from those of their collocated counterparts and how existing models of teams apply to this new form of work. For example, although it has been argued that distributed as compared with collocated teams have more severe conflicts that fester lon...
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作者:Vera, D; Crossan, M
作者单位:University of Houston System; University of Houston; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要:This paper builds on the principles and insights from improvisational theater to unpack the nature of collective improvisation and to consider what it takes to do it well and to innovate. Furthermore, we discuss the role of training in enhancing the incidence and effectiveness of improvisation. We propose that two common misconceptions about improvisation have hindered managers' understanding of how to develop the improvisational skill. First, the spontaneous facet of improvisation tends to be...
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作者:Mayer, KJ; Nickerson, JA
作者单位:University of Southern California; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要:This paper develops a theory that predicts why firms organize their knowledge workers as employees versus independent contractors and predicts the performance implications of this choice. It then empirically examines this organizational choice-which our theory predicts will be driven by contracting difficulties arising from expropriation concerns, measurement costs, and interdependence-and its implications for profitability for 190 information technology service projects. Using a two-stage swi...
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作者:Ho, VT; Levesque, LL
作者单位:Nanyang Technological University; Suffolk University
摘要:This study investigated employees' choice of social referents and the impact of social influence on their beliefs of psychological contract fulfillment. Using data from a field study conducted with 99 employees in a research organization, we found that one's referent choice varied with the domain of promise evaluated. When evaluating the organization's fulfillment of organization-wide promises, employees' referents were primarily coworkers with whom they had close direct ties, namely, friends ...
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作者:Rothbard, NP; Phillips, KW; Dumas, TL
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; Northwestern University; George Washington University
摘要:As workers strive to manage multiple roles such as work and family, research has begun to focus on how people manage the boundary between work and nonwork roles. This paper contributes to emerging work on boundary theory by examining the extent to which individuals desire to integrate or segment their work and nonwork lives. This desire is conceptualized and measured on a continuum ranging from segmentation (i.e., separation) to integration (i.e., blurring) of work and nonwork roles. We examin...
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作者:Siegel, PA; Hambrick, DC
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:This study examines the interactive effect of technological intensiveness and top management group (TMG) pay disparity on firm performance. Drawing on two literatures-task interdependence and group rewards-we argue that: (a) technological intensiveness imposes a considerable requirement for multiway information processing and collaboration among senior executives of a firm, and (b) collaboration is diminished when large pay disparities exist. Hence, TMG pay disparity should be more detrimental...
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作者:Scott, SV; Walsham, G
作者单位:University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Cambridge
摘要:Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk. In an enterprise-focused era, reputation is a key strategic construct that can act as a boundary object linking communities within and between organizations. Yet approaches to its management tend to be reactive and remain under the hold of industrial society principles. Definitions of reputation risk in the existing literature and the business community have a tendency to be s...