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作者:Neeley, Tsedal B.; Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位:Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要:Research Summary: Despite the recognition that knowledge sharing among employees is necessary to enact knowledge strategy, little is known about how to enable such sharing. Recent research suggests that social media may promote knowledge sharing because they allow social lubrication and the formation of trust. Our longitudinal and comparative analysis of social media usage at two large firms indicates that users who participate in nonwork interactions on social media catalyze a cycle of curios...
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作者:Vuori, Natalia; Vuori, Timo O.; Huy, Quy N.
作者单位:Aalto University; Aalto University; INSEAD Business School
摘要:Research Summary: We conducted a real-time field study of a post-acquisition integration process. We identified two practices that contributed to integration failure. First, the practice of masking negative emotions caused members of both firms to perceive that the partner firm's members were satisfied with the integration process, even though they were not. These false perceptions of satisfaction resulted in minimal corrective actions, the escalation of the situation, and ultimately, integrat...
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作者:Jarzabkowski, Paula; Bednarek, Rebecca
作者单位:City St Georges, University of London; University of London; Birkbeck University London
摘要:Research Summary: This article brings together the competitive dynamics and strategy-as-practice literatures to investigate relational competition. Drawing on a global ethnography of the reinsurance market, we develop the concept of micro-competitions, which are the focus of competitors' everyday competitive practices. We find variation in relational or rivalrous competition by individual competitors across the phases of a micro-competition, between competitors within a micro-competition, and ...
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作者:Seidl, David; Werle, Felix
作者单位:University of Zurich
摘要:Research Summary: When faced with complex strategic problems that exceed their individual sensemaking capacities, organizations often engage in inter-organizational collaboration. This enables them to pool the participants' different perspectives and to grasp the problem at hand more comprehensively. Drawing on data collected from two longitudinal case studies, we examine how those who participate in inter-organizational sensemaking processes are selected and how the particular selection of pa...