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作者:Adler, PS; Kwon, SW
作者单位:University of Southern California
摘要:A growing number of sociologists, political scientists, economists. and organizational theorists have invoked the concept of social capital in the search for answers to a broadening range of questions being confronted in their own fields. Seeking to clarify the concept and help assess its utility for organizational theory, we synthesize the theoretical research undertaken in these various disciplines and develop a common conceptual framework that identifies the sources, benefits, risks, and co...
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作者:Newton, TJ
作者单位:University of Exeter
摘要:This article provides a critique of current work on the greening of organizations, especially work based on ecocentric argument. I question the meaning of nature and use studies of the sociology of order and networks to debate the assumptions of current green discourse and its normative rationales. I advance an interdependency network perspective, applying it to the greening of organizations, green technologies, and issues of globalization, and I argue that this perspective offers an alternati...
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作者:Aguilera, RV
作者单位:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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作者:Kenis, P; Knoke, D
作者单位:Tilburg University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要:We investigate the impact of communication in field-level networks on rates of formation of interorganizational collaborative ties, such as strategic alliances and joint ventures. After developing the concept of an organizational field network (field-net), we derive a set of testable propositions and corollaries that relate field-net properties, such as density, reciprocity, centralization, multiplexity, and hierarchy, to subsequent nonlinear changes in interorganizational tie-formation rates....
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作者:McGaughey, SL
作者单位:University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要:The rise of the knowledge economy brings to the foreground questions of how firms might best capture the value of their intellectual assets. In this article I introduce the notion of strategic interventions in intellectual asset flows designed to influence the level and composition of intellectual asset scarcity, with implications for firm performance. I also present propositions that explain and predict how contingencies at differing levels of analysis influence the choice of strategic interv...
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作者:Seo, MG; Creed, WED
作者单位:Boston College
摘要:We use a dialectical perspective to provide a unique framework for understanding institutional change that more fully captures its totalistic, historical, and dynamic nature, as well as fundamentally resolves a theoretical dilemma of institutional theory: the relative swing between agency and embeddedness. In this framework institutional change is understood as an outcome of the dynamic interactions between two institutional by-products: institutional contradictions and human praxis. In partic...
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作者:Bhagat, RS; Kedia, BL; Harveston, PD; Triandis, HC
作者单位:University of Memphis; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要:Little is known about the effectiveness of cross-border transfer of organizational knowledge involving dissimilar cultural contexts. We propose a theoretical framework for understanding the significance of four transacting cultural patterns, defined in terms of the dimensions of individualism-collectivism and verticalness-horizontalness, for their potential in moderating the effectiveness of cross-border transfer of organizational knowledge. Drawing foundational support for this new framework ...
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作者:van de Ven, AH
作者单位:University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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作者:Oswick, C; Keenoy, T; Grant, D
作者单位:University of London; University of Sydney
摘要:This note concerns the creative potential of tropes in the process of analogical reasoning. We first suggest that metaphors (including metonymy and synecdoche) operate within the cognitive comfort zone of similarity. Thus, analogically, they are best seen as a means of elaborating and explicating existing knowledge. Second, we make the case for greater analytical attention to be paid to the so-called lesser tropes of anomaly, paradox, and irony, which are based on dissimilarity. These operate ...
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作者:Mainemelis, C
作者单位:University of London; London Business School