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作者:Purvis, RL; Sambamurthy, V; Zmud, RW
作者单位:Clemson University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要:The ability to integrate dispersed pockets of expertise and institute an organizational repository of knowledge is considered to be vital for sustained effectiveness in contemporary business environments. Information technologies provide cost-effective functionalities for building knowledge platforms through systematic acquisition, storage, and dissemination of organizational knowledge. However, in order to gain the value-adding potential of organizational knowledge, it is not sufficient to si...
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作者:Schulze, WS; Lubatkin, MH; Dino, RN; Buchholtz, AK
作者单位:University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Connecticut; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要:The authors have conducted the kind of research here that we all reach for but too often fail to grasp. I That is, this study of the governance of family firms is theoretically rich and practically relevant. Our colleagues have pressed the limits of agency theory to explore the control of owners' opportunistic behavior, behavior that interestingly just might be rooted in an altruistic impulse. They have done this by empirically examining privately-held, family-managed firms. While such firms e...
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作者:Winter, SG; Szulanski, G
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:Replication, a familiar phenomenon sometimes referred to as the McDonalds approach, entails the creation and operation of a large number of similar outlets that deliver a product or perform a service. Companies pursuing this strategy are now active in over 60 industries. Although replicators; are becoming one of the dominant organizational forms of our time, they have been neglected by scholars interested in organizations. As a result of this neglect, replication is typically conceptualized as...
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作者:Denrell, J; March, JG
作者单位:Stockholm School of Economics; Stanford University
摘要:Individuals and social systems are often portrayed as risk averse and resistant to change. Such propensities are characteristically attributed to individual, organizational, and cultural traits such as risk aversion, uncertainty-avoidance, discounting, and an unwillingness to change. This paper explores an alternative interpretation of such phenomena. We show how the reproduction of successful actions inherent in adaptive processes, such as learning and competitive selection and reproduction, ...
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作者:Kogut, B; Kunreuther, H
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
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作者:McKendrick, DG; Carroll, GR
作者单位:University of California System; University of California San Diego; Stanford University
摘要:This article asks a basic question of organizational evolution: When and where will a new organizational form emerge? Using a definition of organizational forms as external identity codes, we focus on two answers drawn from contemporary organization theory. The first holds that formal institutions such as industry associations and standard-setting bodies will result in a taken-for-granted organizational form. The second answer contends that increasing organizational density (number of organiza...