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作者:Chang-Zunino, Mia; Grodal, Stine
作者单位:heSam Universite; ESCP Business School; Northeastern University; heSam Universite; ESCP Business School
摘要:Category emergence has been a central question in organization theory. Yet, we still do not understand what drives category persistence and updating during emergence as new information arises. We investigate this question through a rich set of oral histories and archival materials on the emergence of the category AIDS from 1978 to 1985. We show that the initial proto-category's features and causal theories cohered with its stigmatized moral meanings. Over time, anomalies challenging these feat...
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作者:Cattani, Gino
作者单位:New York University
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作者:Valadao, Rodrigo
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作者:Carlos, W. Chad; St Clair, Isaac; Pardo-Guerra, Juan Pablo
作者单位:Brigham Young University
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作者:Krabbe, Anders Dahl; Grodal, Stine
作者单位:University of London; King's College London; Northeastern University
摘要:Most literature on aesthetic innovation has focused on single producers who use radical aesthetic innovation to differentiate their products. However, a few scholars, as well as anecdotal evidence, suggest that when gazed at from the category level, aesthetic innovation usually occurs as incremental variations of a dominant aesthetic. Extant theory fails to account for why we see cycles of shift and stability in the dominant aesthetic of a category. In this study, we identify the mechanisms th...
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作者:Grandy, Jake B.
作者单位:University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville
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作者:Abolafia, Mitchel Y.
作者单位:State University of New York (SUNY) System; University at Albany, SUNY
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作者:Mannucci, Pier Vittorio; Orazi, Davide C.; de Valck, Kristine
作者单位:University of London; London Business School; Monash University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要:The growing relevance of improvisation for successful organizing calls for a better understanding of how individuals develop improvisation skills. While research has investigated the role of training and simulations, little is known about how individuals develop improvisation skills when formal training is not an option and how individual-level factors shape development trajectories. We explore these issues in a longitudinal qualitative analysis of live action role-playing. Our findings reveal...
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作者:Soderstrom, Sara B.; Weber, Klaus
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要:We advance interactionist perspectives on how organizational structures emerge in new issue domains. Our study is grounded in field data collected over 18 months at a large biomedical company that sought to become more sustainable. Over that period, some sustainability-related issues became firmly embedded in formal structures and procedures, while others faltered. We identify the quality of situational interactions among organizational members as the engine behind the structuring of organizat...
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作者:Raffaelli, Ryan
作者单位:Harvard University
摘要:This article uses a study of the Swiss mechanical watch industry to build theory about how a legacy technology, instead of being supplanted by a new dominant design as current theory would predict, is able to reemerge and achieve new market growth. The introduction of the battery-powered quartz watch in the 1970s made mechanical watches largely obsolete, but by 2008 the Swiss mechanical watchmaking industry had rematerialized to become the world's leading exporter (in monetary value) of watche...