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作者:VanMaanen, J
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作者:HINDS, P; KIESLER, S
摘要:Recent popular and theoretical literature emphasizes the significance of communication technology for collaboration and information sharing across organizational boundaries. We hypothesize that due to the collaborative nature of their work and the way they are organized in work groups, technical employees, as compared with administrative employees, will communicate laterally, and will use the telephone and email for this purpose. We studied technical and administrative employees in seven depar...
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作者:MARTIN, J
作者单位:Stanford University
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作者:Hurst, DK
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作者:Leidner, DE; Elam, JJ
作者单位:State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要:Managerial decision making is regarded as among the most important functions of senior managers. The presence of easily accessible, reliable information contributes to effective decision making. Sources of information may be oral, written, or computer-based. The computer-based information sources remain the least studied in the context of executive decision making because executives have tended to use other managers and their own intuition as their primary information sources. Recently though,...
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作者:THIETART, RA; FORGUES, B
作者单位:ESSEC Business School; Universite PSL; Universite Paris-Dauphine
摘要:Many authors have stressed the existence of continuous processes of convergence and divergence, stability and instability, evolution and revolution in every organization. This article argues that these processes are embedded in organizational characteristics and in the way organizations are managed. Organizations are presented as nonlinear dynamic systems subject to forces of stability and forces of instability which push them toward chaos. When in a chaotic domain, organizations are likely to...
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作者:McCaffrey, DP; Faerman, SR; Hart, DW
摘要:One can identify compelling reasons for private and public organizations to embrace participative systems. Scholars and organizational consultants maintain that organizations need such systems to prosper in an increasingly competitive and turbulent world, and that such changes are now taking place. Yet, participative techniques have diffused minimally. Why is there such a discrepancy between the endorsements and adoption of participative methods, despite the strong arguments for them and their...
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作者:FROST, PJ
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作者:Power, MD
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作者:WALSH, JP
摘要:This cogent review of the managerial and organizational cognition literatures nicely '' pulls together'' the important ideas and developments in one of the more promising and exciting fields of inquiry in the organizational sciences. While the author's insightful treatment of this eclectic topic is impressive in itself, even more remarkable is the fact that the manuscript's light yet still scholarly style keeps the reader from being overwhelmed by its length and depth of coverage.