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作者：Abrahamson, E; Fairchild, G
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This theory-development case study of the quality circle management fashion focuses on three features of management-knowledge entrepreneurs' discourse promoting or discrediting such fashions: its lifecycle, forces triggering stages in its lifecycle, and the type of collective learning it fostered. Results suggest, first, that variability in when different types of knowledge entrepreneurs begin, continue, and stop promoting fashions explains variability in their lifecycles; second, that histori...
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作者：Pelled, LH; Eisenhardt, KM; Xin, KR
作者单位：University of Southern California; Stanford University
摘要：In this paper we present an integrative model of the relationships among diversity, conflict, and performance, and we test that model with a sample of 45 teams. Findings show that diversity shapes conflict and that conflict, in turn, shapes performance, but these linkages have subtleties. Functional background diversity drives task conflict, but multiple types of diversity drive emotional conflict. Race and tenure diversity are positively associated with emotional conflict, while age diversity...
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作者：Zbaracki, MJ
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This article induces a model of the evolving rhetoric and reality of total quality management (TQM) in five organizations to show how institutional forces can distort the technical reality of TQM. Using interviews, organizational documents, and observation, I follow the social construction of TQM in these organizations to trace the relationship between the technical practices and rhetoric of TQM. The model shows that managers consume a rhetoric of success about TOM, use that rhetoric to develo...
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作者：Ezzamel, M; Willmott, H
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Manchester
摘要：This paper examines the role of accounting calculations in the process of reorganizing the manufacturing capabilities of a vertically integrated global retailing company. In contrast to mainstream analyses that emphasize the novelty and mutual benefits of teamwork, we show how its introduction to replace line work extended rather than supplanted traditional, hierarchical systems of management control. Management's intention was to engender a self-managing means of continuous improvement of wor...
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作者：Adler, PS; Borys, B
摘要：This article proposes a conceptualization of workflow formalization that helps reconcile the contrasting assessments of;bureaucracy as alienating to employees or as enabling them to perform their tasks better. Interpreting formalization as an organizational technology, we ruse recent research on the design of equipment technology to identify two types of formalization-enabling and coercive. Whether the impact of formalization on employees' attitudes is positive or negative is, we argue, a func...
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作者：Shenhav, Y
摘要：This paper traces the genesis of the systems paradigm in the study of organizations in the United States back to nineteenth-century engineering practices. The empirical analyses for the period 1879-1932 are based on primary data collected from three journals in which the study of organizations was first codified and crystallized: the Engineering Magazine, the American Machinist, and the ASME Transactions. The evolution of the systems paradigm was found to be a product of at least three forces ...
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作者：HAUNSCHILD, PR
摘要：This study investigates the effects of interorganizational relationships on the decision of how much to pay when acquiring another company (acquisition premiums). I argue that firm managers will look to both their interlock partners and professional firms when deciding how much to pay. Drawing on diverse literatures on the effects of uncertainty on interorganizational relationships, I further argue that the impact of interlocks and professional firms on the premium decision will be stronger wh...
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作者：BEATTY, RP; ZAJAC, EJ
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：We argue in this study that a resolution of the ambiguity and conflict surrounding executive compensation and corporate control practices requires a more unified perspective on top management compensation, ownership, and corporate governance. Drawing from agency and organizational research, the study develops and tests a contingency perspective on how organizations seek to ensure appropriate managerial behavior through a balancing of trade-offs between incentive, monitoring, and risk-bearing a...
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作者：BARLEY, SR; MEYER, GW; GASH, DC
作者单位：Bucknell University; Michigan State University
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作者：KOSNIK, RD
