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作者：Harter, DE; Slaughter, SA
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This study draws upon theories of task interdependence and organizational inertia to analyze the effect of quality improvement on infrastructure activity costs in software development. Although increasing evidence indicates that quality improvement reduces software development costs, the impact on infrastructure activities is not known. Infrastructure activities include services like computer operations, data integration, and configuration management that support software development. Because ...
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作者：Kim, PH
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：The study presented in this paper examines how beliefs about coworkers affect group discussion and performance. Two beliefs are considered: (1) Perceptions of coworker task competence, and (2) achievement motivation. This study investigates whether these perceptions can actually hinder group discussion and performance, and considers the contexts in which these detrimental effects are more or less likely to arise. Results indicate that although perceptions of higher achievement motivation in co...
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作者：Rosenkopf, L; Almeida, P
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Georgetown University
摘要：Recent research suggests that, due to organizational and relational constraints, firms are limited contextually-both geographically and technologically-in their search for new knowledge. But distant contexts may offer ideas and insights that can be extremely useful to innovation through knowledge recombination. So how can firms reach beyond their existing contexts in their search for new knowledge? In this paper, we suggest that two mechanisms-alliances and the mobility of inventors-can serve ...
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作者：Leech, D
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：Voting power indices enable the analysis of the distribution of power in a legislature or voting body in which different members have different numbers of votes. Although this approach to the measurement of power has been known for a long time, its application to large games has been limited by the difficulty of computing these indices. This paper presents a new method for computing power indices that combines exact methods with an approximate method due to Owen. This method is of most utility...
