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作者：Kim, DJ; Kogut, B
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：As the invention of fundamental new sciences spawns subsequent research, discovery, and commercialization, core technologies branch into new applications and markets. Some of them evolve over time into many derived technologies, whereas others are essentially ''dead ends.'' The pattern of evolution and branching is called a ''technological trajectory.'' An intriguing question is whether some firms can ride the trajectory by developing proprietary experience in a ''platform technology.'' Becaus...
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作者：Kirsch, LJ
摘要：This manuscript provides needed clarification of a number of key constructs in the area of managerial control, a much discussed but inadequately studied phenomenon within the organization sciences. Further, the carefully designed field study provides clear evidence of the importance of both behavioral and self control in the management of complex organizational tasks.
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作者：Liebeskind, JP; Oliver, AL; Zucker, L; Brewer, M
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input-scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal market contracts are rarely used to govern these exchanges of scientific knowledge. bur findings suggest that the use of boundary-spanning social networks by the two NBFs increases both their learning and...
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作者：Ciborra, CU
摘要：The global technology strategy of Olivetti, a leading European computer firm, is analyzed over the last decade in order to illustrate how high-tech firms undergo transformations which not only tend to destroy their best core competencies, but also affect their very business identity. Task uncertainty is so pronounced that conventional ways of looking at the organizational structures and processes, such as the transaction costs approach or the strategy-structure link, need to be amended in favo...
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作者：Buenger, V; Daft, RL; Conlon, EJ; Austin, J
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; United States Department of Defense; United States Air Force; United States Air Force Academy
摘要：Managers recognize that they must satisfy a variety of demands, some contradictory. The authors investigated this circumstance using Quinn and Rohrbaugh's competing values model. They report the findings of a study that identified and measured the four competing values (internal process value, rational goal value, human relations value, and open system value) across organizations and investigated whether contextual and structural variables were systematically associated with those value sets. ...
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作者：Wiseman, RM; Bromiley, P
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Scholars who study organizational decline have argued that declining organizations reduce or eliminate their riskier activities such as innovation. Further, they cite reduced risk-taking as a primary contributor to further decline. Scholars with an interest in risk per se come to the opposite conclusion: low performing firms often take more risks than other firms and such risks reduce subsequent performance. This study attempts to resolve these conflicting views by examining the risk of firms ...
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作者：Deetz, S
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作者：Pelled, LH
摘要：This paper presents one of the few but growing number of models that open up the black box frequently proposed by organizational demography theories. Pelled examines the processes by which work group diversity predicts individual and group outcomes. The model is particularly interesting because in contrast to typical demographic models that only distinguish more from less diversity, it suggests that turnover and cognitive task performance (the outcomes) are conditional on both the types of div...
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作者：Taylor, MS; Audia, G; Gupta, AK
作者单位：Bocconi University
摘要：Using the psychological contract literature as a framework, we examined upwardly mobile managers' reactions to lengthening job tenure brought about by slower organizational growth and greater competition among peers. We hypothesized that managers tend to view lengthening job tenure as a violation of the relational employment contract held with their corporate employers and, therefore, experience decreased organizational commitment, and an increased probability of turnover. We also examined thr...
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作者：Smith, AD; Zeithaml, C
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：How does an organization functioning in a regulated, monopoly environment transform itself to prepare for hypercompetitive conditions? Two of the regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) found one answer to that question: create self-contained areas of chaotic activities with the potential to spawn new managerial capabilities and flexibility. After divestiture from AT & T, the RBOCs maintained their local telephone service monopolies, but they all became involved in numerous unregulated activ...
