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作者:Still, Mary C.; Strang, David
作者单位:George Washington University; Cornell University
摘要:We advance theories of the diffusion of innovations by examining the structure of emulation that emerged in one bank's benchmarking program. Prestigious firms and firms linked to the bank through executive migration were disproportionately likely to be recruited as benchmarking partners and, once visited, to be highly influential. Firms tied to the bank by board interlocks and geographic proximity were neither overrepresented nor influential. The bank also paid modest attention to other financ...
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作者:Zald, Mayer N.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Simons, Tal; Roberts, Peter W.
作者单位:Tilburg University; Emory University
摘要:This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations. We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in nonlocal populations are more likely to adopt locally novel forms. Pre-founding experience within local and non-local industry populations should also allow organizations to reach larger size and produce superior quality products, both of which contribute to the persistence of the novel organizational form. We evaluate these predictions in...
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作者:Kalev, Alexandra; Shenhav, Yehouda; De Vries, David
作者单位:University of Arizona; Tel Aviv University
摘要:This study examines the autonomous goals of state actors and their administrative and cultural capacities to pursue them. Analyzing qualitative and quantitative data from Palestine/Israel during the years 1940-1960, we study the diffusion of joint productivity councils that use scientific management principles (scientific JPCs). We assess explanations for the diffusion of managerial models offered by theories of state autonomy, efficiency, labor control, and professionalization. We demonstrate...
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作者:Michel, A. Alexandra
摘要:This paper examines newcomers' cognitive change processes in two investment banks during their socialization. A two-year ethnographic study examines how the two banks managed the duration of junior bankers' cognitive uncertainty differently, which resulted in distinct forms of individual cognitive change and cognition at the organizational level. Red Bank reduced cognitive uncertainty such that bankers experienced it as transient. It conveyed abstract concepts so that bankers could solve probl...
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作者:Ansell, Christopher
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
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作者:Fleming, Lee; Mingo, Santiago; Chen, David
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:Analyzing data on utility patents from 1975 to 2002 in the careers of 35,400 collaborative inventors, this study examines the influence of brokered versus cohesive collaborative social structures on an individual's creativity. We test the hypothesis that brokerage-direct ties to collaborators who themselves do not have direct ties to each other-leads to greater collaborative creativity. We then test interaction hypotheses on the marginal benefits of cohesion, when collaborators have independen...
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作者:Carpenter, Mason A.
作者单位:University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
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作者:Sparrowe, RT; Liden, RC
作者单位:Washington University (WUSTL); University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要:We develop and test a model of the relational antecedents of members' influence in organizations that is based on an integration of leader-member exchange (LMX) and social network perspectives on individuals in organizations. We focus on how the relationships between LMX and members' centrality in the advice network and influence depend on two factors: the extent to which members share ties with their leaders in the organization's trust network, which we define as sponsorship, and the centrali...
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作者:Phillips, DJ
作者单位:University of Chicago
摘要:Using a study on foundings of Silicon Valley law firms, I propose and test an organizational theory on the genealogical persistence of gender inequality that emphasizes the routines (or blueprints) and experiences that founders transfer from their parent firms to their new firms. This transfer links the parent firm's gender hierarchy to women's advancement opportunities in the new firm. Founders from parent firms that historically had women in leadership positions, such that female leadership ...