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作者：Stephens, CU
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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作者：Sabherwal, R; Hirschheim, R; Goles, T
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Saint Louis; University of Houston System; University of Houston
摘要：Although there is much emphasis on the importance of achieving alignment, or synergy, between information systems and the organization as a whole, there is relatively little close study of how alignment is actually achieved. In three case studies, Saberwal, Hirschheim and Goles describe the evolution of information systems alignment with organization strategy and structure. Their analysis highlights the value of the punctuated equilibrium model and shows how various theories of organization de...
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作者：Kieser, A
作者单位：University of Mannheim
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作者：Heckscher, C
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
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作者：Salk, JE; Shenkar, O
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：International joint venture (IJV) research largely omits social and cognitive processes and, hence, overlooks their potentially important implications. This paper presents a four-year longitudinal investigation into the social identification and social enactment processes in a British-Italian, shared management joint venture. Using social identification and social enactment theories as conceptual anchors, the study reveals that national social identities were the dominant sense-making vehicle ...
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作者：Shane, S
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Despite a long tradition of research on organizational mortality, organizational theorists have not examined the effect of incentive contracting on firm survival. This paper fills this gap by examining the effect of incentive contracting on the survival of U.S. business format franchise systems over the period 1984-1996. The paper finds empirical support for several hypotheses derived from efficient contracting theory. In general, large firms that adopt policies which screen agents, signal qua...
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作者：Adler, PS
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper advances the discussion by distinguishing three ideal-typical forms of organization and their corresponding coordination mechanisms: market/price, hierarchy/authority, and community/trust. Differ ent institutions combine the three forms/mechanisms in different proportions. Economic and organizational theory have shown t...
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作者：Brown, JS; Duguid, P
作者单位：Xerox
摘要：While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge, which at times is described as sticky'' and at other times leaky. This paper is written on the premise that there is more: than a problem with metaphors at issue here, and more than accounts of different types of knowledge (such as ''tacit'' and ''explicit'') can readily explain. Rather, these contrary descriptions o...
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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...
