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作者：Ghoshal, S; Moran, P
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Transaction cost economics (TCE), and more specifically the version of TCE that hers been developed by Oliver Williamson (1975, 1985, 1993b), has become an increasingly important anchor for the analysis of a wide range of strategic and organizational issues of considerable importance to firms. As argued by some of its key proponents. the theory aims not only to explain but also to influence practice (Masten, 1993). In this article. we argue that prescriptions drawn from this theory are likely ...
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作者：Fiol, CM
摘要：Organizations, like sponges, must have the capacity to absorb inputs in order to generate outputs, Researchers have developed theories of organizational absorptive capacity; researchers have also developed models of the effective generation of new products. The challenge lies in integrating the two research streams.
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作者：McKinley, W
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作者：Barry, B; Bateman, TS
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Social trap theory is the basis for an analysis of how management initiatives influence diversity-related outcomes within work organizations. Social traps are situations where decision problems involve conflicts between individual or near-term outcomes and collective or long-term consequences. The management of diversity is conceptualized in terms of the social traps created by workplace diversity issues. A social trap model is proposed that (a) identifies the defining attributes of social tra...
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作者：Clegg, S
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作者：Chiles, TH; McMackin, JF
摘要：Transaction cost economics (TCE) relies on three behavioral assumptions in predicting how firms choose governance structures-bounded rationality. opportunism. and risk neutrality. We explore the implications of the neglected behavioral assumption of risk neutrality. offer am integrative appraisal of the three behavioral assumptions using trust as or unifying perspective. and explicate subjective costs and risks. We illustrate the relative ease with which previous empirical shortcomings can be ...
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作者：Gunz, HP; Jalland, RM
摘要：This article examines the link between managers' careers and the strategic behavior of the companies they manage. We argue that despite the theoretical and practical importance of this topic for the strategic management of organizations, the results of research to date have been contradictory and conf using, partly because of two substantial gaps in the underpinning theory. Implicit theories about the impact of work history on managerial characteristics ore not made explicit. and a conceptual ...
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作者：Bird, A
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作者：Palmer, I; Dunford, R
作者单位：Victoria University Wellington
摘要：Diverse and often unacknowledged assumptions underlie the use of metaphors in the organizational change literature. This diversity is symptomatic of broader ontological and epistemological conflicts within organization theory. To gain a critical awareness of the assumptions underlying their use of metaphors. organizational analysts can use a reflexive approach. This approach entails addressing four issues: representation. enunciation. separation. and routinization. The organizational change li...
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作者：Greenwood, R; Hinings, CR
摘要：The complexity of political regulatory, and technological changes confronting most organizations has made radical organizational change and adaptation a: central research issue. This article sets out a framework for understanding organizational changes from the perspective of neo-institutional theory. The principal theoretical issue addressed in the article is the interaction of organizational context and organizational action. The article examines the processes by which individual organizatio...
