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作者：Lind, Mary R.; Zmud, Robert W.
作者单位：University of North Carolina; North Carolina A&T State University; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：The objective of this research was to determine if a convergence in understanding between providers and users of a technology would result in greater innovativeness regarding that technology. Two mechanisms were proposed for achieving greater convergence: (1) more frequent communication and (2) the use of richer communication channels. Here, convergence represents the degree of mutual understanding between the technology providers and the other business personnel about the firm's business acti...
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作者：Trice, Harrison M.; Beyer, Janice M.
作者单位：Cornell University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Although there is general recognition that leadership is important for organizational cultures, the issue of how leadership affects culture has received only scattered attention. Existing analyses have tended to focus on how leaders create or change cultures, ignoring the role that leadership plays in maintaining cultures. This paper focuses on how cultural leadership that innovates, by either creating or changing organizational cultures, is likely to differ from that which maintains organizat...
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作者：Meyer, Alan D.
作者单位：University of Oregon
摘要：This paper urges organizational researchers to collect data from subjects in the form of pictures, diagrams, computer graphics, and other visual representations. Drawing on theoretical and empirical work in cognitive psychology, neurophysiology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence, it presents a rationale for collecting visual data, provides examples, and suggests research questions and settings where visual data may be preferable to verbal data.
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作者：Jermier, John M.; Slocum, John W., Jr.; Fry, Louis W.; Gaines, Jeannie
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of South Florida; Southern Methodist University; State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
摘要：The primary purpose of this study was to compare and contrast an organization's official culture and its subcultures. The proposition that soft bureaucracies project a rigid exterior appearance, symbolizing what key stakeholders expect, while masking a loosely-coupled set of interior practices, guided this analysis of a police organization. The official culture (crime-fighting command bureaucracy) was examined as an arbitrary set of symbols and meaning structures arranged according to top mana...
