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作者:JACOBSON, R
摘要:Although traditional industrial organization continues to serve as one of the conceptual foundations for strategic thinking and research. many of its premises have come under widespread criticism. Industrial organization largely ignores, despite their importance, change, uncertainty, and disequilibrium in the business environment. Because these fundamental characteristics are cornerstones of the Austrian School of Economics, this doctrine offers unique strategic perspectives. The Austrian emph...
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作者:JACOBS, DC
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作者:GINSBERG, A
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作者:BROCKNER, J
摘要:Escalating commitment (or escalation) refers to the tendency for decision makers to persist with failing courses of action. The present article first reviews evidence suggesting that escalation is determined, at least in part, by decision makers' unwillingness to admit that their prior allocation of resources to the chosen course of action was in vain (the self-justification explanation). A distinction is drawn in the second part of the article between alternative (to self-justification) expla...
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作者:JACQUES, R
摘要:Discussion of what constitutes good scholarly critique in organizational studies usually emphasizes procedural issues. The values guiding critique are seldom discussed. This article characterizes current critical practices as an ethic of judgment and draws from feminist theory to suggest the possibility of critique informed by an ethic of care. The purpose of this comparison is to draw attention to the important role the values that structure critique play in the development of organization th...
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作者:ROMANELLI, E
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作者:ALVESSON, M; WILLMOTT, H
作者单位:University of Manchester
摘要:The article reconceptualizes the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies and develops an approach that (a) takes into account recent criticism of its totalizing tendencies raised by poststructuralists and (b) makes it more sensitive to the particularities of-and thereby more relevant for-management studies. The first part of the article reviews and discusses tendencies in critical theory toward negativism, essentialism, and intellectualism. The second part reformulates t...
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作者:GRAY, B
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作者:GIST, ME; MITCHELL, TR
摘要:The construct of self-efficacy has received increasing empirical attention in the organizational behavior literature. People who think they can perform well on a task do better than those who think they will fail. Differences in self-efficacy are associated with bona fide differences in skill level; however, efficacy perceptions also may be influenced by differences in personality, motivation, and the task itself. This article reviews theoretically the antecedent processes and information cues...
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作者:STONE, MM