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作者：Polley, D
摘要：Nonlinear dynamics provides two metaphors for organizational dynamics, bifurcation, and mathematical chaos. These metaphors make possible distinct observations about turbulent organizational processes that have previously been described as ''chaotic.'' Careful distinction between the metaphors affords additional insight into organizational processes and can aid theory development. The metaphors are integrated into organizational process research through application to two current process theor...
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作者：Collins, D
摘要：During the heady revolutionary days of the 1960s, Slater and Bennis (1964) declared the inevitability of democracy at the workplace. Twenty-five years later, in a retrospection of that article, the authors claimed that they were right (Slater and Bennis 1990). Unfortunately, the data do not support their claim (Lawler et al. 1992). Nonetheless, workplace democracy is inevitable. This article argues in favor of the inevitability of participatory management, one form of workplace democracy, on t...
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作者：Makhija, MV; Ganesh, U
摘要：The model developed draws on resource-based, information-processing, and organizational learning theories to show how JV control processes affect the dynamics of interpartner learning. According to the model, firms forming learning-related JVs match with partners in line with their differences in capability and other requirements; the result is referred to as the asymmetry-need configuration. A satisfactory post-negotiation match implies a balance in perceived bargaining power, enabling both p...
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作者：Swanson, EB; Ramiller, NC
摘要：We offer a revised institutional view of how new technology for information systems (IS) comes to be applied and diffused among organizations. Previous research argues that early adoption of a technological innovation is based on local, rational organizational choice, while later adoption is institutionalized and taken for granted. We suggest that institutional processes are engaged from the beginning. Specifically, a diverse interorganizational community creates and employs an organizing visi...
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作者：Holland, CP; Lockett, AG
作者单位：University of Leeds
摘要：The impact of interorganizational systems (IOSs) on the structure of market networks is analyzed from a management perspective. A research framework is applied to various organizational settings, yielding a range of mixed mode forms in which elements of both market and hierarchy are evident. These forms are more complex than the simple network or hybrid structures postulated in the management and information systems literature. The framework represents a departure from electronic markets theor...
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作者：Koput, KW
摘要：The dynamics of innovative search are investigated. A formal learning model is explicated to understand (1) how attention is allocated and (2) how attention and ideas are related during an active search. A particular chaotic regime of the model is shown to have dynamics similar to an actual search process. This motivates an agenda for research along three primary directions: refinements to the model, extensions that link the model to actions and decisions, and surroundings required to embed su...
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作者：Cool, KO; Dierickx, I; Szulanski, G
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Although diffusion processes take place in a variety of social systems, they have rarely been studied within the context of an organization. Yet when the intraorganizational part of the diffusion of an innovation is gradual or differs among organizations, the overall diffusion of that innovation is affected. The authors explore the applicability of the traditional diffusion perspective in an intraorganizational context. They compare the explanatory power of factors emphasized by the traditiona...
