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作者：HESTERLY, WS; ZENGER, TR
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
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作者：LUDWIG, DC
摘要：This study examines the ten U.S. provinces of the largest religious order of Catholic priests and brothers, the Jesuits, and explores the structural/organizational adaptations which these ten provinces employed to accommodate dramatic reductions in membership. The organizational placement of roughly 11,000 individual members of these provinces is traced between the years 1965 and 1979. The research indicates that, by increasing interorganizational cooperation and exchange of information and by...
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作者：GOLDENBIDDLE, K; LOCKE, K
作者单位：William & Mary
摘要：This paper examines how written research accounts based on ethnography appeal to readers to find them convincing. In particular, it highlights the role of rhetoric in the readers' interaction with and interpretation of the accounts. Extending relevant work in the literatures of organization studies, anthropology and literary criticism, the paper develops three dimensions-authenticity, plausibility and criticality-central to the process of convincing. Further, through the analysis of a sample o...
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作者：KAPLAN, MR; HARRISON, JR
摘要：Boards of directors have been substantially affected by recent changes in their legal environment. The most profound change has been in the area of director liability. New legislation and regulations and a series of court decisions increased the extent to which directors are held accountable for their actions and those of their organizations. These changes resulted in increased liability exposure for directors and a crisis in director liability insurance. Corporations have successfully develop...
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作者：MARCOULIDES, GA; HECK, RH
作者单位：California State University System; California State University Fullerton; University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa
摘要：The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to propose and test a model concerning how an organization's culture affects organizational performance; and second, to demonstrate the application of LISREL modeling methodology to estimate and test this model. Organizational culture is hypothesized to consist of three interrelated dimensions: a sociocultural system of the perceived functioning of the organization's strategies and practices, an organizational value system, and the collective beli...
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作者：FREEMAN, SJ; CAMERON, KS
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Organizational downsizing is becoming pervasive as a characteristic of modem organizations, yet little scholarly literature has addressed the processes and outcomes associated with this phenomenon at the organizational level. Downsizing has often mistakenly been confused operationally with concepts such as decline, layoffs, or nonadaptability, indicating that the definition of the concept remains imprecise. This paper offers a straightforward, operational definition of downsizing. Then the lit...
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作者：NORD, WR; CONNELL, AF
摘要：This paper attempts to facilitate conversation among organization scientists by advancing a philosophical perspective (agnosticism) that has been ignored in the recent subjective-objective debate. As agnostics, we suggest that the controversy may not be resolvable and that organization science can carry on in the absence of such resolution. We propose a series of concepts to guide the ''post-debate'' field, emphasizing that mutual striving for a ''sense of accurate reception'' (SOAR) can provi...
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作者：DAFT, RL; LEWIN, AY
作者单位：Duke University
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作者：HENNART, JF
摘要：Why are firms sometimes more efficient than markets at organizing transactions? Why are most transactions arrayed neither at the pure ''market'' nor at the pure ''hierarchy'' end of the continuum, but rather in the ''swollen middle,'' incorporating features of both ''market'' and ''hierarchy''? Why don't firms make greater use of price incentives? This paper addresses these three questions by developing a model of the choice of institution. One key building block is the distinction between org...
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作者：ZALD, MN
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Recent critiques of social science have emphasized their ties to the concerns of academic disciplines usually labelled as humanities. Building on this literature, this paper argues that organizational studies must be reconfigured as science and humanities. Substantive examples are drawn from the links of organizational theory to history, the use of semiotics, rhetorical analysis and narrative approaches to policy choices. Reconfiguring the field also has implications for applied work leading t...
