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作者：Jarvenpaa, SL; Leidner, DE
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper explores the challenges of creating and maintaining trust in a global virtual team whose members transcend time, space, and culture. The challenges are highlighted by integrating recent literature on work teams, computer-mediated communication groups, cross-cultural communication, and interpersonal and organizational trust. To explore these challenges empirically, we report on a series of descriptive case studies on global virtual teams whose members were separated by location and c...
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作者：Anderson, P; Meyer, A; Eisenhardt, K; Carley, K; Pettigrew, A
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of Oregon; Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University; University of Warwick
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作者：McKelvey, B
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Can firms and coevolutionary groups suffer from too much interdependent complexity? Is complexity theory an alternative explanation to competitive selection for the emergent order apparent in coevolutionary industry groups? The biologist Stewart Kauffman suggests a theory of complexity catastrophe offering universal principles explaining phenomena normally attributed to Darwinian natural selection theory. Kauffman's complexity theory seems to apply equally well to firms in coevolutionary pocke...
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作者：Yates, J; Orlikowski, WJ; Okamura, K
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Panasonic
摘要：In a study of how an R&D group in a Japanese firm adopted and used a new electronic medium, we identified two contrasting patterns of use: the use of community-wide communication types, or genres, deliberately shaped by the action of a small, sanctioned group of mediators; and the use of local genres tacitly shaped by members within their own research teams. We suggest that these patterns reflect the more general processes of explicit and implicit structuring, resulting in both the reinforceme...
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作者：Frank, KA; Fahrbach, K
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作者：Cohen, M
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者：Young-Ybarra, C; Wiersema, M
作者单位：Chapman University System; Chapman University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：Utilizing a model drawn from both transaction cost economics and social exchange theory, we analyze determinants of strategic flexibility in a sample of strategic alliances involved in joint development agreements or joint research pacts. Findings indicate that, in general, determinants suggested by transaction cost economics provided flexibility in modification and inflexibility in exit. From social exchange theory, trust was found to be positively related to both types of flexibility while a...
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作者：Anderson, P
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：Complex organizations exhibit surprising, nonlinear behavior. Although organization scientists have studied complex organizations for many years, a developing set of conceptual and computational tools makes possible new approaches to modeling nonlinear interactions within and between organizations. Complex adaptive system models represent a genuinely new way of simplifying the complex. They are characterized by four key elements: agents with schemata, self-organizing networks sustained by impo...
