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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：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：Miner, Anne S.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This paper describes an evolutionary, model of organizational change through the selective retention of Jobs This type of change can operate in addition to top-down planned organizational change, providing another engine of organizational transformation over time All evolutionary change processes require that there he a system for replicating activities over line, a source of variation in activities, and mechanisms which permit some activities to persent while others do not In this model, form...
