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作者：Sherer, PD; Rogovsky, N; Wright, N
作者单位：University of Oregon; Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University - Hawaii
摘要：Agency theorists argue that organizations typically get little value from using employees and that they should instead use nonemployees operating fully as residual claimants. Yet, even in a context where those theorists would predict virtually no employees-taxicab organizations-they are common. What drives the use of employment relationships in these organizations? The authors show how employment relationships are linked to firm capabilities and strategic opportunities in a sample of taxicab o...
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作者：Elsbach, KD; Sutton, RI; Principe, KE
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Stanford University; Emory University
摘要：Existing theory and research on organizational impression management focuses on how spokespersons use remedial tactics, following image-threatening events, to put their organization in the best possible light. By contrast, little theory or research has considered how organizations use impression management tactics to avert undesirable responses to upcoming events. This paper uses a qualitative and inductive study of billing procedures at three large hospitals to develop theory about how organi...
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作者：Lewin, AY
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作者：Meyerson, DE
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This article is written in the spirit of resistance, as a challenge and alternative to what are accepted as neutral, unbiased conceptualizations of stress and burnout within traditional and popular discourse. Findings reported in a previous study suggest that the ways we conceptualize and experience stress and burnout are not inherently neutral, but are shaped by culture and a particular set of dominant themes prevalent in organizational and professional discourse. This article exposes the pro...
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作者：Bergh, DD; Lawless, MW
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Duke University
摘要：The authors test whether acquisitions and divestitures are related to environmental uncertainty and diversification strategy. Drawing from transaction cost economics, they predicted that increases in environmental uncertainty would reduce a company's ability to manage its subsidiaries efficiently and would lead to divestiture. Conversely, they predicted that decreases in environmental uncertainty would enable a company to manage its subsidiaries more efficiently and would lead to acquisition. ...
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作者：Peterson, MF
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：Analyses of the events that occur in the context of organization process are rapidly advancing. Scholars holding otherwise disparate views share the sense that social actors, including organizations, attend to, interpret, and act upon events. Analyses of events are converging from two theoretical and methodological starting points. Analyses that emphasize human subjectivity and contextual specificity are seeking increased cross-situational learning. Nomothetic analyses are building on their st...
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作者：Bethel, JE; Liebeskind, JP
作者单位：Babson College; University of Southern California
摘要：The existing literature on the relationship between strategy and structure tends to ignore the legal dimension of the organization of diversified firms. Yet, there is considerable variation in the legal organization of diversified firms; while some of these firms are organized as simple corporations, many are organized as corporate groups in which certain lines of business are organized as separate, subsidiary firms. In this paper we argue that this variation in legal organization is observed ...
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作者：Numagami, T
作者单位：Hitotsubashi University
摘要：The author questions the possibility of establishing invariant laws for social phenomena and presents an argument for the case study method. Despite the many-alleged advantages of the case study method, its validity remains in doubt. Various concepts and techniques have been developed to make the method rigorous enough to meet the stringent criteria of nomothetical social science, but it often fails to meet two of them: (1) reliability and replicability, and (2) external validity. Those two cr...
