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作者：Stewart, Alex
作者单位：Brock University
摘要：Melanesian Bigmanship (a mentocratic, enacted career of political-economic leadership) is recounted as an anthropological metaphor for entrepreneurship. This library tale has two purposes The first is a demonstration of conceptual use, of ethnographies for developing grounded theory Propositions are generated on entrepreneurial orientations and opportunity structures Opportunities are seen to arise in the creation of linkages between spheres of exchange, or fields in which an object exchanges ...
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作者：McPhee, Robert D.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
摘要：In dealing with a large set of longitudinal case studies, researchers often assume that they can and should seek a single set of variables and explanatory theory to deal similarly with all the cases. This paper describes three approaches to the problems of cross-case integration and comparison. It also describes a set of comparative methods that can be used to diagnose case-study data-sets, to see which integrative approach is best.
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作者：Finholt, Tom; Sproull, Lee S.
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This paper considers how computer-based communication technology, specifically electronic group mail, might affect group behavior in organizations. It proposes a framework for analyzing groups formed by electronic distribution lists. It describes the scope and nature of electronic group mail in one organization, illustrates how members of electronic distribution lists can exhibit fundamental group processes, and compares behavior in different kinds of electronic groups It suggests that the ele...
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作者：Martin, Joanne
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：This paper begins with a story told by a corporation president to illustrate what his organization was doing to help women employees balance the demands of work and home. The paper deconstructs and reconstructs this story text from a feminist perspective, examining what it says, what it does not say, and what it might have said. This analysis reveals how organizational efforts to help women have suppressed gender conflict and reified false dichotomies between public and private realms of endea...
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作者：D'Aveni, Richard A.
作者单位：Dartmouth College; Dartmouth College
摘要：This paper extends earlier work on an alternative new of bankruptcy suggesting that bankruptcy occurs when creditors withdraw then support from a firm's top management team It further proposes that support for the top team depends upon the team's prestige Five characteristics measuring the relative status of top teams were tested for their association with bankruptcy Three of the characteristics focused on items commonly associated with membership in economic elites elite educational backgroun...
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作者：Roberts, Karlene H.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This paper is concerned with defining organizational processes necessary to operate safely technologically complex organizations that can do great physical harm to themselves and their surrounding environments. The paper first argues that existing organizational research is little help in understanding organizational processes in such organizations It then identities nuclear powered aircraft earners as examples of potentially hazardous organizations with histories of excellent operations The p...
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作者：Ashforth, Blake E.; Gibbs, Barrie W.
作者单位：Concordia University - Canada; Simon Fraser University
摘要：Organizations require legitimacy to attract constituents' support Legitimacy, however, is always problematic Thus, organizations frequently pursue legitimacy through a variety of substantive and symbolic practices But legitimacy is a social Judgment that is ultimately accorded the organization by its constituents Organizations that pursue this judgment run the risk of protesting too much of being perceived as precistly the opposite, manipulative and illegitimate Such organizations include (1) ...
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作者：Pettigrew, Andrew M.
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：This paper reveals the author's theory of method for conducting longitudinal field research on change. The paper also discusses a range of practical problems in carrying out time-series research in organisational settings. The practical problems include dealing with time in longitudinal research; issues of site selection, choices about data collection and degrees of involvement the importance of clarifying research outputs. audience and presentation; and finally handling problems of complexity...
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作者：Leonard-Barton, Dorothy
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This paper describes a case study methodology that combines a real-time longitudinal (three-year) study with nine retrospective case studies about the same phenomenon. These two kinds of case studies offer opportunities for complementary and synergistic data gathering and analysis. That is, specific strengths in each method compensate for some particular weakness in the other. For instance, the retrospective studies offer the opportunity to identify patterns indicative of dynamic processes and...
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作者：Ulrich, Dave; Mckelvey, Bill
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This study empirically tests the existence of populations. It reports a general organizational classification for both the United States and Japanese electronics industries. It tests for and identifies populations within a family of electronics industries and demonstrates the relevance of a general organizational classification for explaining how different natural selection processes affect different populations. Data include 669 US and 144 Japanese electronics firms The results suggest that c...
