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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：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：Frost, PJ
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作者：Alvarado, F
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作者：Dyer, JH
摘要：This paper examines exchange governance issues in the U.S. and Japanese automobile industries using a transactions cost framework. Empirical results are partially consistent with transactions cost theory, but may also require a rethinking of transactions cost logic under conditions of high uncertainty.
