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作者：VICTOR, B; STEPHENS, C
作者单位：Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
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作者：HARRIS, SG
摘要：Organizational culture encompasses both individual and group-level phenomena. However, to date, the individual-level dynamics of organizational culture have remained relatively neglected. This paper addresses this neglect by focusing on culture's manifestation in individuals' sensemaking structures and processes. Building off the social cognition literature, I propose that organizational culture's influence on individual sensemaking is revealed in the operation of a patterned system of organiz...
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作者：SKOLDBERG, K
摘要：Several institutional theorists have noted the existence of inconsistencies and decouplings in organizations, depending on conflicting signals from the milieu. Others have pointed out the pressure for homogeneity in organizational fields. These positions may seem contradictory, yet the present article gives support to both of them. The empirical basis is a series of case studies of change in Swedish local authorities. Faced with conflicting signals from the outside, and lacking an internal, do...
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作者：KIESER, A
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作者：PRIEM, RL
摘要：Contingency theory suggests that a match among business-level strategy, organizational structure, and the competitive enviromment is necessary for high performance. This research asks whether manufacturing firm chief executives judge as ''good'' those strategy-structure-environment matches recommended by contingency theory. Knowledge of executive judgment is particulary important for two reasons. First, judgment-defined as an individual's understanding of relationships among objects-governs th...
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作者：HELFAT, CE
摘要：Much corporate research and development (R&D) has characteristics that tie it strongly to the firm in which it takes place, and which may make the process of undertaking R&D or the outcome of the R&D difficult for other firms to duplicate perfectly. That is, the R&D is firm-specific. This is particularly true for more highly applied R&D, which tends to involve incremental technological change and often entails alterations and enhancements to existing firm assets, production processes, and prod...
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作者：MINER, JB; CRANE, DP; VANDENBERG, RJ
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：Organization theory has been preoccupied for many years with the bureaucratic form. Insufficient attention has been given to alternative designs, including, in particular, professional organizations of various types. This article considers these professional organizations at length within the context of professional role motivation theory. It also considers the concept of fit or congruence as it enters into professional role motivation theory and into organization theory generally, Considerabl...
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作者：VOYER, JJ
摘要：This study tried to understand how the members of an organization interpreted, in their enacted cognitive schema, the events and processes they enacted during their formation of a new strategy. Participant observation, qualitative interviewing, and cognitive mapping identified many important organizational processes. Among these were pervasive coercive organizational politics, which was retained as an interesting element of the organization's rich cognitive schema. Organization members interpr...
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作者：FARJOUN, M
摘要：This paper is concerned with revealing and explaining patterns in the ways firms diversify into new products and industries. Shifting the focus from the observable similarity of products provided by the firm, to the less observable underlying resources required in different industries, can be a useful and interesting way of looking at patterns of diversification. The theory outlined in the paper suggests that firms diversify within groups of industries that are related to one another in the ty...
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作者：GIOIA, DA; THOMAS, JB; CLARK, SM; CHITTIPEDDI, K
作者单位：Bryant University
摘要：This study investigated the uses of sensemaking, influence, and symbolism in launching a strategic change effort at a university. It employed an ethnographic/interpretive approach in examining the ways that symbols, metaphors, and various subtle influence processes were used to lend meaning to concepts and possible courses of action by a task force instrumental to the strategic change process. Two distinct researcher perspectives were used: an ''insider'' perspective employing several informan...
