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作者：Dobrev, SD; Kim, TY; Carroll, GR
作者单位：University of Chicago; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Stanford University
摘要：We examine how experiential learning affects organizational change and its consequences on firm mortality. We develop hypotheses about the interactions of experiences with a specific type of organizational change on the one hand, and environmental stability, organizational size, and organizational niche width on the other hand. Our findings draw from analysis of the U.S. automobile industry between 1885 and 1981 and support the general prediction that process effects of change in the organizat...
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作者：Knott, AM; Bryce, DJ; Posen, HE
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Brigham Young University
摘要：The resource-based view holds that firms can earn supranormal returns if and only if they have superior resources and those resources are protected by some form of isolating mechanism preventing their diffusion throughout industry. One isolating mechanism that has been proposed for intangible assets is their accumulation process. The hypothesis is that intangible assets are inherently inimitable because would-be imitators need to replicate the entire accumulation path to achieve the same resou...
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作者：Hinds, PJ; Bailey, DE
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：The bulk of our understanding of teams is based on traditional teams in which all members are collocated and communicate face to face. However, geographically distributed teams, whose members are not collocated and must often communicate via technology, are growing in prevalence. Studies from the field are beginning to suggest that geographically distributed teams operate differently and experience different outcomes than traditional teams. For example, empirical studies suggest that distribut...
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作者：Hannan, MT; Pólos, L; Carroll, GR
作者单位：Stanford University; Eotvos Lorand University; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要：This article develops a formal theory of the structural aspects of organizational change. It concentrates on changes in an organization's architecture, depicted as a code system. It models the common process whereby an initial architectural change prompts other changes in the organization, generating a cascade of changes that represents the full reorganization. The main argument ties centrality of the organizational unit initiating a change to the total time that the organization spends reorga...
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作者：Martin, X; Salomon, R
作者单位：New York University; Tilburg University; University of Southern California
摘要：This paper examines the impact of knowledge tacitness on a firm's propensity to establish plants in foreign rather than domestic locations. Our predictions build on knowledge-based, internalization, and evolutionary theories of foreign direct investment. We argue that the tacitness of technology has an inverted-U effect on the propensity to undertake foreign investment. We also expect that as a firm learns about a technology, it will become more likely to make foreign investments. We examine t...
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作者：McEvily, B; Perrone, V; Zaheer, A
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Bocconi University; Bocconi University
摘要：Although research on trust in an organizational context has advanced considerably in recent years, the literature has yet to produce a set of generalizable propositions that inform our understanding of the organization and coordination of work. We propose that conceptualizing trust as an organizing principle is a powerful way of integrating the diverse trust literature and distilling generalizable implications for how trust affects organizing. We develop the notion of trust as an organizing pr...
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作者：Parboteeah, KP; Cullen, JB
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; Washington State University
摘要：In spite of the popularity of institutional explanations of organizational form, most international management research uses dimensions of national culture to explain cross-national differences in individual work centrality. In this study, we show that social institutions explain variance in work centrality in addition to Hofstede's (2001) dimensions of national culture. Using individual-level data from 30,270 interview respondents from the World Value Survey and institutional data for their 2...
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作者：Bechky, BA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This paper suggests that knowledge is shared in organizations through the transformation of occupational communities' situated understandings of their work. In this paper, I link the misunderstandings between engineers, technicians, and assemblers on a production floor to their work contexts, and demonstrate how members of these communities overcome such problems by cocreating common ground that transforms their understanding of the product and the production process. In particular, I find tha...
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作者：Contu, A; Willmott, H
作者单位：Lancaster University; University of Cambridge
摘要：This paper critically addresses the coherence, reception, and dissemination of situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger 1991). Situated learning theory commends a conceptualization of the process of learning that, in offering an alternative to cognitive theories, departs radically from the received body of knowledge on learning in organizations. The paper shows how elements of situated learning theory have been selectively adopted to fertilize or extend the established terrain of organization...
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作者：Lee, GK; Cole, RE
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Doshisha University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We propose a new model of knowledge creation in purposeful, loosely coordinated, distributed systems, as an alternative to a firm-based one. Specifically, using the case of the Linux kernel development project, we build a model of community-based, evolutionary knowledge creation to study how thousands of talented volunteers, dispersed across organizational and geographical boundaries, collaborate via the Internet to produce a knowledge-intensive, innovative product of high quality. By comparin...
