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作者：Pontikes, Elizabeth G.
摘要：This paper questions findings indicating that when organizations are hard to classify they will suffer in terms of external evaluations. Here, I suggest this depends on the audience evaluating the organization. Audiences that are market-takers consume or evaluate goods and use market labels to find and assess organizations; for them, ambiguous labels make organizations unclear and therefore less appealing. Market-makers are interested in redefining the market structure, and as a result, this t...
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作者：Smith, Edward Bishop
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This study calls into question the completeness of the argument that economic actors who fail to conform to certain identity-based logics-such as the categorical structure of markets-garner less attention and perform poorly, beginning with the observation that some nonconforming actors seem to elicit considerable attention and thrive. By reconceptualizing organizational identity as not just a signal of organizational legitimacy but also a lens used by evaluating audiences to make sense of emer...
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作者：Lingo, Elizabeth Long; O'Mahony, Siobhan
作者单位：Vanderbilt University; Boston University
摘要：This study examined how brokers on creative projects integrate the ideas of others. We use the term nexus work to refer to brokerage requiring synthesis or integration, rather than just communication or transference of ideas. With an ethnographic investigation of 23 independent music producers in the Nashville country music industry, we examined how producers in the brokerage role fostered the integration of others' contributions throughout four phases of the creative process. We discovered th...
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作者：Zelner, Bennet A.; Henisz, Witold J.; Holburn, Guy L. F.
作者单位：Duke University; University of Pennsylvania; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：We develop theory about the effect of domestic and global institutional forces across countries and over time, following a national government's adoption of a globally diffusing policy, on retrenchment-the degree to which a government reinstates the objectives of a policy's predecessor without repealing the new policy to balance conflicting institutional forces. World political culture legitimates and supports the new policy, while the policy's domestic opponents seek to mobilize opposition to...
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作者：Dobrev, Stanislav D.; Kim, Tai-Young
作者单位：University of Chicago; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
摘要：We develop a framework for defining the boundaries of within-population market segments, differentiated based on type and level of resources. Using this framework we propose a theory of the moves between market segments of all firms in an organizational population across its evolution. Focusing on commensalistic interdependence within a segment, we adapt density dependence theory to predict that processes of mutualism and competition operate concurrently, even across high counts of density, an...
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作者：Darr, Asaf
作者单位：University of Haifa
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作者：Barnett, WP; McKendrick, DG
作者单位：Stanford University; Durham University
摘要：In this paper, we question the idea that large organizations have advantages that make them particularly potent rivals. We argue that the ability of large organizations to ameliorate competitive constraints insulates them from an important source of organizational development and protects them from being selected out if unfit. Consequently, we predict that although large organizations are likely to do well in technology contests, they also are likely to become weak competitors over time compar...
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作者：McKendrick, DG; Jaffee, J; Carroll, GR; Khessina, OM
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Southern California; Stanford University; Georgetown University
摘要：This article develops and tests theory on when and where a new organizational form will emerge. Recent theory holds that as the number of organizations using a particular external identity code first increases beyond a critical minimal level, the code becomes an organizational form. Going beyond this formulation, we theorize about how an external identity code is established. We argue that when the identities of individual organizations are perceptually focused, they will more readily cohere i...
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作者：Wharton, AS
作者单位：Washington State University
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作者：Gibson, CB; Zellmer-Bruhn, ME
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper develops a conceptual framework to explain different understandings the concept of teamwork across national and organizational cultures. Five different metaphors for teamwork (military, sports, community, family, and associates) were derived from the language team members used during interviews in four different geographic locations of six multinational corporations. Results indicated that use of the teamwork metaphors varies across countries and organizations, after controlling for...
