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作者：Mosakowski, E; Zaheer, S
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper proposes a theory of firm boundaries based on foreknowledge development and exploitation in speculative or informed trading. Foreign exchange trading provides this study's empirical context. From research on information economics, we suggest optimal speculative trading operations are multiunit and globally dispersed. Alternatively, transaction cost economics suggests atomistic actors prevail in the market for fungible commodities like currencies. We also develop competing hypotheses...
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作者：Cook, SDN; Brown, JS
作者单位：California State University System; San Jose State University; Xerox
摘要：Much current work on organizational knowledge, intellectual capital, knowledge-creating organizations, knowledge work, and the like rests on a single, traditional understanding of the nature of knowledge. We call this understanding the epistemology of possession, since it treats knowledge as something people possess. Yet, this epistemology cannot account for the knowing found in individual and group practice. Knowing as action calls for an epistemology of practice. Moreover, the epistemology o...
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作者：Kurland, NB; Egan, TD
作者单位：University of Southern California; Pepperdine University
摘要：The adoption of telecommuting raises concerns for both managers and employees: Remote supervision presents monitoring challenges, while physical isolation may impede the employee' s opportunity for, and involvement in, determining valued organizational outcomes (organizational justice). This study of 191 employees examined the relationships among telecommuting, organizational monitoring strategies, and organizational justice perceptions. Results suggest that monitoring strategies were more str...
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作者：Marcus, AA; Nichols, ML
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：When organizations pay inadequate attention to unusual events, the possibility of breaching a safety barrier increases. With hindsight it often appears that full advantage is not taken of what is known. Part of the reason organizations neglect apparent warnings is because of limited resources and the way resources an allocated. Drawing on concepts from the resource-based view (RBV) of the firm, this paper examines situations where resource availability and use can compromise safety by initiati...
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作者：Bensaou, M; Anderson, E
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：It is well established that the existence of investments specific to a relationship influences the choice of governance structure, including the use of contractual safeguards. What is less well understood are the circumstances leading to the creation of those specific assets to begin with. This paper explores the industrial buyer's motives to put itself at risk by making investments, tangible and intangible, which cannot be readily redeployed from one supplier to another. Using original data f...
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作者：Mitchell, VL; Zmud, RW
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：Organizational adaptation to competition often means inventing or adopting a process innovation and the daunting challenge of implementing it. Increasingly, process innovations rely on the capabilities embedded in an organization's IT infrastructure. Successfully implementing an IT-enabled process innovation depends largely on how a project's IT and work process designs fit and evolve with this IT infrastructure. However, little empirical research guides the formulation of IT and work process ...
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作者：Frank, KA; Fahrbach, K
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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...
