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作者：DESANCTIS, G; POOLE, MS
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The past decade has brought advanced information technologies, which include electronic messaging systems, executive information systems, collaborative systems, group decision support systems, and other technologies that use sophisticated information management to enable multiparty participation in organization activities. Developers and users of these systems hold high hopes for their potential to change organizations for the better, but actual changes often do not occur, or occur inconsisten...
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作者：GREENWOOD, R; HININGS, CR; BROWN, J
摘要：The prevailing theory of mergers is that firms emphasize considerations of ''strategic fit'' in discussions prior to merger activity, and neglect considerations of ''organizational fit''. The result is that immediately following a merger dysfunctional organizational behaviours occur. The number of empirical studies of mergers, however, is relatively modest and there are few case studies of the merger process. The present paper studies the merger involving two large accounting firms, over a per...
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作者：DAY, DL
摘要：This study investigates the types of championing processes that explain the innovativeness of 136 internal corporate ventures. Current theory suggests that bottom-up champions create the most innovative ventures. In contrast, this paper argues that both bottom-up and top-down champions are suitable for developing innovative ventures. Using a broadly based sample of Fortune 1000 firms, the study supports both bottom-up and top-down processes including a special dual-role principal champion, who...
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作者：DOUGHERTY, D; HELLER, T
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper reports on a theory building effort to understand the persistent difficulties with successful product innovation in large, established firms. Drawing on an institutional approach, we suggest that the constituent activities of effective product innovation either violate established practice or fall into a vacuum where no shared understandings exist to make them meaningful. Product innovation, therefore, is illegitimate. This means that to enhance their innovative abilities, managers ...
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作者：GRIFFITH, TL; NORTHCRAFT, GB
作者单位：University of Arizona
摘要：Electronic communication media usually differ from nonelectronic communication media on a variety of communication features. However, research designs typically do not allow for the most revealing examination of communication feature effects. This paper proposes a methodological framework for conceptualizing and operationalizing electronic communication research, and presents an illustrative study based on the framework. The methodological framework distinguishes among communication media, cha...
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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：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：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：COMER, DR
摘要：Workplace drug testing, particularly urinalysis, has proliferated in the last few years. Despite widespread support for biological testing, research suggests that not all drug use diminishes performance and that testing may fail to deter the most potentially harmful substance abuse. There is no solid empirical evidence that drug testing is associated with enhanced organizational productivity and safety, and findings that persons who fail drug tests are inferior workers may be rooted in ethnic ...
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作者：CAVANAUGH, JM; PRASAD, P
作者单位：University of Calgary
