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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: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...
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作者:Huber, George P.; Miller, C. Chet; Glick, William H.
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Baylor University
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作者:Lawrence, Barbara S.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:Individual attainment within organizational careers, or career mobility, has been explained by individual attributes and by demographic processes These seemingly unrelated views can be reconciled by suggesting that employees develop a shared perception of their organization's career hierarchy, and that this shared perception produces systematic managerial selection preferences that influence individual attainment A study that examines the first part of this process is presented The results, ba...
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作者:Daft, Richard L.; Lewin, Arie Y.
作者单位:Vanderbilt University; Duke University
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作者:Hirsch, Paul M.; Friedman, Ray; Koza, Mitchell P.
作者单位:Northwestern University; Harvard University; INSEAD Business School
摘要:While the formulation or strategy side of business policy has always drawn appropriately from economic theory, we caution that, taken to its logical extreme, economic theory ignores the importance of implementation, implies lack of choice in organization decision-making, and makes the organization a nonentity. In tins paper, we outline the fundamental differences between behavioral and economic approaches to business policy These differences are highlighted by an illustration of their divergen...