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作者：Locke, K
摘要：This article integrates a diverse set of ideas to provide a new perspective on emotional displays as part of organizational behavior. Data are gathered on the micro interaction processes and emotions displayed during professional medical service encounters. A model for the types of emotions displayed and how they are managed is presented.
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作者：Miner, AS; Mezias, SJ
作者单位：New York University
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作者：Aupperle, KE
摘要：This paper examines an ancient historical event that has profound implications regarding the role of organizational culture in facilitating spontaneous organizational reconfiguration. Xenophon's Anabasis documents the successful retreat of a Greek army trapped in Persia in a setting that is comparable to the hypercompetition of today. Spontaneous reconfiguration is seen here to be a vital survival element in hypercompetitive environments, past and present. As a result, a historical case is use...
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作者：Ilinitch, AY; DAveni, RA; Lewin, AY
作者单位：Dartmouth College; Duke University
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作者：Nault, BR; Vandenbosch, MB
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Recent discussions of management practices among successful high-technology companies suggest that one key strategy for success is to ''eat your own lunch before someone else does.'' The implication is that in intensely competitive, or hypercompetitive, markets, firms with a leading position should aggressively cannibalize their own current advantages with next-generation advantages before competitors step in to steal the market. Given the pace of technological and other types of change, such ...
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作者：Young, G; Smith, KG; Grimm, CM
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Drawing on the Austrian school of economics and the structure-conduct-performance (s-c-p) paradigm of industrial organization, the authors present and test a dynamic model of competitive activity and performance. They examine the model in two stages. First, they explore the influence of industry-level and firm-level cooperative mechanisms on firm-level competitive activity. Second, they examine the effect of firm- and industry-level competitive activity on firm performance. The authors use the...
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作者：Kogut, B; Zander, U
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics
摘要：Firms are organizations that represent social knowledge of coordination and learning. But why should their boundaries demarcate quantitative shifts in the knowledge and capability of their members? Should not knowledge reside also in a network of interacting firms? This line of questioning presents the challenge to state an alternative view to the ''theory of the firm,'' a theory that has moved from Cease's early treatment of what firms do to a concern with ownership, incentives, and self-inte...
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作者：Cheng, YT; VandeVen, AH
摘要：This paper reports the first empirical findings demonstrating the presence of chaotic processes in innovation process. The paper provides an empirical basis for distinguishing between orderly periodic stages in the innovation process, random sequences and chaotic patterns. The finding that the initial innovation development process exhibits chaotic patterns will have very important implications for theories of organization learning and for the structuring of ''exploration'' processes in organi...
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作者：Constant, D; Sproull, L; Kiesler, S
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：People use weak ties-relationships with acquaintances or strangers-to seek help unavailable from friends or colleagues. Yet in the absence of personal relationships or the expectation of direct reciprocity, help from weak ties might not be forthcoming or could be of low quality. We examined the practice of distant employees (strangers) exchanging technical advice through a large organizational computer network. A survey of advice seekers and those who replied was conducted to test hypotheses a...
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作者：Eisenhardt, KM; Schoonhoven, CB
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：Why do firms form strategic alliances? The traditional theoretical answer has been transaction cost explanations. Yet, these explanations which center on transaction characteristics, static efficiency, and routine situations do not capture the strategic and social factors which propel many firms into alliance formation. In this study, however, we combine these alternative social and strategic explanations for alliance formation. Consistent with these explanations, we find that alliances form w...
