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作者：Bansal, P
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：In this research, we traced the development of natural environmental issues in two organizations in real time over the period of a year. Participant observations, discussions with organizational members, and corporate documents yielded insights used to develop a model describing issue flows in both organizations. With this model, we identified the factors that influenced the scope, scale, and speed of organizational response to issues. Our methods provided insights into why issues generated or...
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作者：Thornhill, S; Amit, R
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Systematic differences in the determinants of firm failure between firms that fail early in their life and those that fail after having successfully negotiated the early liabilities of newness and adolescence are identified. Analysis of data from 339 Canadian corporate bankruptcies suggests that failure among younger firms may be attributable to deficiencies in managerial knowledge and financial management abilities. Failure among older firms, on the other hand, may be attributable to an inabi...
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作者：Child, J; Möllering, G
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Free University of Berlin
摘要：This paper contributes to the conceptual and empirical understanding of organizational trust. It confirms the importance of contextual confidence in institutions for building trust. Moreover, it extends models of trust production to include the effects of purposive action by the truster over and above the contextual prediction of trust emphasized in previous research. Accordingly, active trust development is conceptualized as a strategy to strengthen the basis for trust. Empirical evidence is ...
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作者：Pitsis, TS; Clegg, SR; Marosszeky, M; Rura-Polley, T
作者单位：University of Technology Sydney; University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：In this paper we investigate a uniquely complex organizational context-that of the fast-tracked large-scale project management of a significant piece of Sydney 2000 Olympic infrastructure, which we researched in terms of its management through the future perfect. In a grounded analysis we resolved to track how the future perfect developed in the life of one large, complex project whose uniqueness meant that it was unable to be strategically planned in advance. We tracked the use of what we ter...
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作者：Perrone, V; Zaheer, A; McEvily, B
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We present a view of trust in boundary spanners as explained by the extent of role autonomy, a multidimensional concept that reflects the discretion that agents have in interpreting and enacting their roles. We argue that, in a buyer-supplier context, purchasing managers will be trusted to a greater extent by supplier representatives when they are free from constraints that limit their ability to interpret their boundary-spanning roles. We conceptualize and measure three key components of role...
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作者：Mollica, KA; Gray, B; Treviño, LK
作者单位：Wake Forest University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：This study examined the formation and persistence of homophilous, or same-race, friendship ties among racial minorities and whites in a newcomer setting. Homophilous ties provide valuable sources of mutual support but may limit racial minorities' access to. resources and information in organizations. Study participants were first-year MBA students who entered a program at the same time. We measured network ties at two times: six weeks after the beginning of the students' first semester in the ...
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作者：Denrell, J
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Organizations learn from other organizations. However, the observations available to them are typically a biased sample. The organizations that can be observed at any point in time are the survivors of a selective process that has eliminated a large fraction of the underlying population. In addition, there is a strong tendency to focus on successful organizations in books and the business press. As a result, the available sample of organizations usually undersamples failure. This paper shows t...
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作者：Roberts, PW; Amit, R
作者单位：Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This study examines the adoption of new products and processes in the Australian retail banking industry over the 1981 to 1995 period. Our analysis demonstrates that the vast majority of observed innovative activity was based on ideas sourced from outside the focal firm, and that innovations diffused very quickly across competing banks. As such, there were no periods during which any bank had proprietary possession of a major product or process innovation. We therefore ask how the banks' innov...
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作者：Carl, CF; Denison, DR
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：This paper examines the link between organizational culture and effectiveness for foreign-owned firms operating in Russia. Beginning with a model of organizational culture developed in the United States, the paper presents a multimethod analysis of culture and effectiveness in a transition economy. We argue that effectiveness in Russia relies more on adaptability and flexibility than it does in the United States. Furthermore, the legacy of the Communist era forces firms in Russia to deal with ...
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作者：Pentland, BT
作者单位：Michigan State University
摘要：This paper introduces the concept of sequential variety as a way to measure variability in the sequence of steps used to perform a work process. There is reason to expect that such variability may influence a range of outcomes, such as flexibility and quality. Two alternative ways to operationalize sequential variety are demonstrated and compared to traditional measures of task variety in four task units. The findings provide empirical support for treating sequential variety as a distinct cons...
