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作者:Henderson, AD; Stern, I
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要:To understand the effects of selection on firm-level learning, this study synthesizes two contrasting views of evolution. Internal selection theorists view managers in multiproduct firms as the primary agents of evolutionary change because they decide whether individual products and technologies are retained or eliminated. In contrast, external selection theorists contend that the environment drives evolution because it determines whether entire firms live or die. Though these theories differ,...
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作者:Sorensen, JB
作者单位:Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要:Prevailing research claims that strong corporate cultures improve firm performance by facilitating internal behavioral consistency. This paper addresses an unexamined implication of this argument by analyzing the effect of strong corporate cultures on the variability of firm performance. This relationship depends on how strong cultures affect organizational learning in response to internal and external change. I hypothesize that strong-culture firms excel at incremental change but encounter di...
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作者:Jermier, JM
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of South Florida
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作者:Geletkanycz, MA; Hambrick, DC
作者单位:Boston College; Columbia University
摘要:We examine the extent to which executives' boundary spanning relations inside and outside their industry affect organizational strategy and performance. We posit that the informational and social influences of external ties will be reflected in the degree to which the organization's strategy conforms to or deviates from the central tendencies of its industry and that the alignment of executives' external ties with the firm's strategy will be beneficial to firm performance. Using a multiyear sa...
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作者:Simons, T; Ingram, P
作者单位:Tel Aviv University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要:In this paper, we examine how conflicting ideologies affect organizational practice. We theorize that the basic relationship between ideology and organization is moderated by social pressures and economic incentives that result from differences between the organization and its environment on issues of ideology. Using data from Israeli kibbutzim for 1951-1965, we examine how the ideology of a set of socialist organizations affects the practices they employ and how the influence of socialist ide...
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作者:LAMBERT, RA; LARCKER, DF; WEIGELT, K
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:To improve understanding and design of organizational incentives, we used confidential compensation data obtained for four distinct organizational levels (ranging from plant manager to corporate chief executive officer) to evaluate the ability of tournament, managerial power, and agency theories to explain these observed compensation data. Our results suggest that organizational incentives are most appropriately characterized by a combination of these models, rather than being completely descr...
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作者:COHEN, WM; LEVINTHAL, DA
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
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作者:OREILLY, CA; MAIN, BG; CRYSTAL, GS
作者单位:University of St Andrews
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作者:BARNEY, JB
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作者:TOLBERT, PS
作者单位:Cornell University