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作者：Lewin, AY
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作者：Westley, F; Vredenburg, H
作者单位：University of Calgary
摘要：Using grounded theory development research methods, the authors examine collaborative processes in the global biodiversity preservation domain. The processes examined are those initiated and convened by a subgroup of the Swiss-based International Union for the Conservation of Nature known as the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group of the Species Survival Commission. The global collaborative initiatives of the group suggest that extant theory on collaboration may not adequately explain colla...
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作者：Mosakowski, E
摘要：Causal ambiguity has been a concept in the strategic management and organization theory literatures for some time. However, the full implications of this concept have remained largely undeveloped. This paper takes the concept of causal ambiguity seriously and attempts to evaluate its theoretical and empirical implications.
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作者：McKelvey, B
摘要：Positing that organizational phenomena result from both individual human intentionality and natural causes independent of individuals' intended behavior, the need for a quasi-natural organization science is identified. The paradigm war is defined in terms of positivism and postpositivism, with the suggestion that a more relevant epistemology might be scientific realism. The current unconstructive paradigm proliferation is seen as resulting from an underlying cause, idiosyncratic organizational...
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作者：Kunreuther, H; Bowman, EH
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：The authors develop a dynamic model of organization decision making that is motivated by the decision-making process at a multinational chemical firm, given the pseudonym Chemco, that they visited shortly after the Union Carbide explosion in Bhopal, India, and again six years later. Two major decisions were taken by Chemco that could be attributed in large part to the Bhopal disaster: the divestiture of one of its plants and the sale of a business. An analysis of those actions by Chemco unders...
