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作者：Mayer, KJ; Argyres, NS
作者单位：University of Southern California; Boston University
摘要：Organizational forms involving more detailed contracts than are found in traditional spot market exchanges appear to be increasingly prevalent. There has been relatively little analysis, however, of the extent to which firms learn how to use contracts to manage their interfirm relationships over time. In this paper, we conduct a detailed case study of a time series of 11 contracts concluded during 1989-1997 between the same two partners, both of whom participate in the personal computer indust...
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作者：Beckman, CM; Haunschild, PR; Phillips, DJ
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Chicago
摘要：In this study, we address the topic of interorganizational network change by exploring factors that affect the choice of alliance and interlock partners. While many studies have been devoted to investigating various factors driving network partner choice, there is also an interesting and unexplored tension in this body of work. On the one hand, much work emphasizes change in social structure-showing that firms expand networks by forming new relationships with new partners. At the same time, ot...
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作者：Rafaeli, A; Vilnai-Yavetz, I
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper documents emotion as integral to stakeholders' sense making of a key organizational artifact, demonstrating that emotion toward artifacts blends into emotion toward the organization. Multiple stakeholders were interviewed about an artifact of a large public transportation organization. Sense making of the artifact is shown to involve emotion in interpretations that consider three dimensions of the artifact-instrumentality, aesthetics, and symbolism. Instrumentality relates to the ta...
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作者：Carlile, PR
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired. Innovation is a useful context because it allows us to explore the negative consequences of the path-dependent nature of knowledge. A framework is developed that describes three progressively complex boundaries-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-and three progressively complex processes-transfer, translation, and transformation. The framework is used to specify the practical and political mismatche...
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作者：He, ZL; Wong, PK
作者单位：University of Otago; National University of Singapore
摘要：While exploration and exploitation represent two fundamentally different approaches to organizational learning, recent literature has increasingly indicated the need for firms to achieve a balance between the two. This balanced view is embedded in the concept of ambidextrous organizations. However, there is little direct evidence of the positive effect of ambidexterity on firm performance. This paper seeks to test the ambidexterity hypothesis by examining how exploration and exploitation can j...
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作者：Kock, N
作者单位：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M International University
摘要：This article reviews theories of organizational communication with a special emphasis on theories that have been used to explain computer-mediated communication phenomena. Among the theories reviewed, two-social presence and media richness-are identified as problematic and as posing obstacles to future theoretical development. While shortcomings of these theories have been identified in the past, some of these theories' predictions have been supported by empirical evidence. It is argued that t...
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作者：Washington, M; Ventresca, MJ
作者单位：Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：T his paper develops the argument that institutional mechanisms support changes in organizational strategies in ways that contrast with the standard interpretation of institutional iron cages that pressure organizations to conform. We specify three institutional process mechanisms that support organizational change-dominant logic-consistent activity, external charters, and peer emulation-and we test these claims with longitudinal data on the emerging strategies in early U.S. intercollegiate at...
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作者：Batjargal, B; Liu, MN
作者单位：Harvard University; Peking University; Renmin University of China
摘要：This article examines the effect of entrepreneurs' social capital on investment decisions of venture capitalists. The empirical data is composed of 158 venture capital decisions in the People's Republic of China. We found that entrepreneurs' social capital has significant effects on investment selection decisions of venture capitalists in interaction with growth potential and technology/products of the venture. We also found that strong ties between entrepreneurs and venture capitalists have s...
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作者：Lee, F; Edmondson, AC; Thomke, S; Worline, M
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Harvard University; Emory University
摘要：This paper examines how the inconsistency of organizational conditions affects people's willingness to engage in experimentation, a behavior integral to innovation. Because failures are inevitable in the experimentation process, we argue that conditions giving rise to psychological safety reduce fear of failure and promote experimentation. Based on this reasoning, we suggest that inconsistent organizational conditions-when some support experimentation and others do not-inhibit experimentation ...
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作者：Hoegl, M; Weinkauf, K; Gemuenden, HG
作者单位：Bocconi University; Technical University of Berlin
摘要：Organizations increasingly set up multiteam projects for the development of highly complex products. While team research has emphasized the importance of team-internal processes for smaller scale projects, we know little about collaborative processes (especially between teams) in such large-scale projects. This study utilizes a multi-informant longitudinal research design on a product development project (39 teams, 36 months) in the European automotive industry investigating collaboration betw...
