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作者：Cotton, Richard D.; Shen, Yan; Livne-Tarandach, Reut
作者单位：University of North Carolina; Appalachian State University; Boston University; Boston College
摘要：We explore the structure and content of developmental networks depicted in 62 National Baseball Hall of Fame induction speeches to identify which developers and what support mattered most to inductees' career achievement. Our analysis illustrates two new support subfunctions (freedom and opportunity for skill development and inspiration and motivation) and shows that first-ballot inductees had larger, more diverse developmental networks featuring greater multiplexity and more single-function t...
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作者：Polidoro, Francisco, Jr.; Ahuja, Gautam; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Duke University
摘要：The embeddedness of interfirm relationships in a social structure can engender order in new tie formation, but competitive incentives may undermine the order that firms seek to achieve and lead to tie dissolution. We examine how relational embeddedness (history of interactions), positional embeddedness (network centrality), and structural embeddedness (common partners) influence tie stability, focusing on unplanned joint venture dissolution. Prior work suggests that relational embeddedness fac...
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作者：Vissa, Balagopal
摘要：This study advances understanding of network dynamics by applying matching theory to examine entrepreneurs' intentions to add new ties to their personal networks. I propose that task complementarity and social similarity are important matching criteria that influence entrepreneurs' interpersonal tie formation intentions and test whether good matches increase the likelihood of the initiation of economic exchange ties. A novel research design using data from the business cards of new people met ...
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作者：He, Jinyu; Huang, Zhi
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：We consider boards as human groups in the uppermost echelon of corporations and examine how an informal hierarchy that tacitly forms among a firm's directors affects firm financial performance. This informal hierarchy is based on directors' deference for one another. We argue that the clarity of the informal hierarchy can help coordinate boardroom interactions and thereby improve the likelihood of the board's contributing productively to the firm's performance. We further identify a set of int...
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作者：Weber, Libby; Mayer, Kyle J.; Macher, Jeffrey T.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Southern California; Georgetown University
摘要：We augment transaction cost economics with social cognitive psychology to show that contract framing is an important element in minimizing issues in focal exchanges and managing buyer-supplier relationships. We find that exchange partners use promotion-framed extendibility clauses to address contract duration in the presence of greater physical distance, measurement difficulty, prior relationships in other businesses, and reusable technology. Our results suggest that contracts not only protect...
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作者：Colquitt, Jason A.; George, Gerard
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia; Imperial College London
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作者：Grant, Adam M.; Gino, Francesca; Hofmann, David A.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more effectively under extraverted leadership? Drawing on dominance complementarity theory, we propose that although extraverted leadership enhances group performance when employees are passive, this effect reverses when employees are proactive, because extraverted leaders are less receptive to proactivity. In Study 1, pizza stores with leaders rated high (low) in extraversion achieved higher profits when emplo...
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作者：Grant, Adam M.; Berry, James W.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Although many scholars believe that intrinsic motivation fuels creativity, research has returned equivocal results. Drawing on motivated information processing theory, we propose that the relationship between intrinsic motivation and creativity is enhanced by other-focused psychological processes. Perspective taking, as generated by prosocial motivation, encourages employees to develop ideas that are useful as well as novel. In three studies, using both field and lab data, we found that prosoc...
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作者：Whiteman, Gail; Cooper, William H.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Queens University - Canada
摘要：Karl Weick's classic study of sensemaking showed that there is much to be learned from a wildland fire. In this tradition, we present an ethnographic tale from the subarctic to introduce the concept of ecological sensemaking-the process used to make sense of material landscapes and ecological processes. We then reanalyze data from the Mann Gulch fire and conclude that ecological sensemaking and ecological materiality were underappreciated dimensions of this historic tragedy. Comparisons of inc...
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作者：King, Eden B.; Dawson, Jeremy F.; West, Michael A.; Gilrane, Veronica L.; Peddie, Chad I.; Bastin, Lucy
作者单位：George Mason University; University of Sheffield; Lancaster University; George Mason University; Aston University
摘要：Integrating sociological and psychological perspectives, this research considers the value of organizational ethnic diversity as a function of community diversity. Employee and patient surveys, census data, and performance indexes relevant to 142 hospitals in the United Kingdom suggest that intraorganizational ethnic diversity is associated with reduced civility toward patients. However, the degree to which organizational demography was representative of community demography was positively rel...
