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作者：Markham, SK
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：Individuals in general management, marketing, production, and customer service undertake corporate political roles of championing and antagonism in support of or opposition to research and development (R&D) projects. R&D personnel see these champions acting politically because they favor projects that align more closely with the firm's business interests than with its specific technologies. Champions find resources and protect their projects from termination; however, they are equally likely t...
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作者：Kochan, TA; Rubinstein, SA
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：The idea that the firm should be accountable not only to shareholders but also to a broader set of stakeholders is in the air. But what would such a firm look like? This study dissects one organization that has some of the markings of a stakeholder organization, with a particularly innovative approach to employees as stakeholders. The dissection reveals some of the promise and the pitfalls of the underlying model.
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作者：Feldman, MS
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：In this paper I claim that organizational routines have a great potential for change even though they are often perceived, even defined, as unchanging. I present descriptions of routines that change as participants respond to outcomes of previous iterations of a routine. Based on the changes in these routines I propose a performative model of organizational routines. This model suggests that there is an internal dynamic to routines that can promote continuous change. The internal dynamic is ba...
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作者：Weiss, RM
作者单位：University of Delaware
摘要：Postmodernism, an intellectual movement that originated in the humanities, has received considerable attention in the organization theory literature. Because many scholars remain uncertain as to just what this controversial perspective is, the present article offers a straightforward explanation of postmodernism's basic themes. Additionally, the author attempts to provide some balance to the overwhelmingly sympathetic presentations of postmodernism in the organization theory literature by offe...
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作者：Das, TK; Teng, BS
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); George Washington University
摘要：The instabilities of strategic alliances have been examined in the literature through a number of theoretical approaches. Alliance instabilities refer to major changes or dissolutions of alliances that are unplanned from the perspective of one or more partners. Although the literature identifies certain characteristics of strategic alliances that may lead to their unplanned dissolution, the extent of our understanding of this subject appears to be fragmented and incomplete. In this article we ...
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作者：Milberg, SJ; Smith, HJ; Burke, SJ
作者单位：Georgetown University; Wake Forest University; University of Sydney
摘要：The 1990s have seen a resurgence of interest in information privacy. Public opinion surveys show that many citizens are becoming greatly concerned about threats to their information privacy, with levels of such concern reaching all-time highs. Perhaps as a response to the growing concerns of citizens, the media are devoting more attention to privacy issues, and governmental regulation of the corporate privacy environment is increasing in many countries. Almost all developed countries have grap...
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作者：Victor, B; Boynton, A; Stephens-Jahng, T
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; International Institute for Management Development (IMD)
摘要：In this research, we address the question: Why do many total quality management implementations fail? We develop a theoretical model in which the total quality management role for line employees results in a dual work design that requires both standardized production and continuous improvement. We propose that workers effectively integrate both types of work by switching, defined as shifting between standardized production and continuous work while on the job in response to situational cues. A...
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作者：James, EH
作者单位：Emory University
摘要：This study examined two alternative explanations for disparity in reported work-related experiences and outcomes between black and white managers: treatment discrimination because of race, and differences in human and social capital. Education and training, representing human capital, and racial similarity of network ties and proportion of strong ties, representing social capital, were used to predict whether human and social capital would mediate the relationship between race and the work-rel...
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作者：Levin, DZ
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark
摘要：Whereas most prior research on the learning curve has focused on improvements in efficiency, this paper deals with the impact of learning on product quality. The key data are measures of automobile reliability published in Consumer Reports. Analysis yields three findings: (I) Quality improves over the production life of a car model with the same kind of regularity as an efficiency learning curve. Thus, there is a quality learning curve. (2) Unlike in the efficiency domain, however, learning in...
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作者：Gargiulo, M; Benassi, M
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Trento
摘要：This paper explores the tension between two opposite views on how networks create social capital. Network closure (Coleman 1988) stresses the role of cohesive ties in fostering a normative environment that facilitates cooperation. Structural hole theory (Burt 1992) sees cohesive ties as a source of rigidity that hinders the coordination of complex organizational tasks. The two theories lead to opposite predictions on how the structure of an actor's network may affect his ability to adapt that ...
