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作者：Sonenshein, Scott; Dutton, Jane E.; Grant, Adam M.; Spreitzer, Gretchen M.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Rice University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We develop theory about how growing at work is an interpretive accomplishment in which individuals sense that they are making progressive self-change. Through a study of how employees interpret themselves as growing at three organizations; we develop a theoretical account of how employees draw from contextual and personal resources to interpret their growing in ways that embed their idiosyncratic experiences within an organization. The data suggest that employees develop three different types ...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Spencer, Jennifer W.; Teegen, Hildy J.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; George Washington University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：We suggest that firms' national institutional environments alter the logic of alliance partner selection and associated knowledge acquisition. We posit that cross-national variations in corporatist institutional structures (which reflect differences in underlying cooperative norms) influence the relative importance that firms place on a prospective partner's social value (evidenced from the partner's connectedness with members of its industry) and technological value (reflected in the technolo...
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作者：Kleinbaum, Adam M.; Stuart, Toby E.; Tushman, Michael L.
作者单位：Dartmouth College; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Harvard University
摘要：Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective opportunities for interaction, but how these two mechanisms interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their interaction partners within business units, job functions, offices, and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to...
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作者：Bednar, Michael K.; Boivie, Steven; Prince, Nicholas R.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Arizona
摘要：In this paper we introduce a new antecedent to the strategic change literature by examining the effect of media coverage on the extent of strategic change. Specifically, we examine how negative media coverage may prompt firms to make changes to their resource allocations and then explore how the makeup of the board and firm performance can moderate this relationship. We develop a theoretical framework to explain why media coverage may affect strategic change and then test our theory with a lon...
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作者：Brenner, Barbara; Ambos, Bjoern
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of St Gallen
摘要：The control and coordination of a network of geographically and culturally dispersed subsidiaries is one of the most prominent challenges in international management. However, many empirical findings on the effectiveness of various control mechanisms and combinations thereof are still counterintuitive. This study uses longitudinal case studies and cross-sectional interview data to extend control theory by examining why, how, and in what sequence large multinational firms (MNCs) implement contr...
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作者：Miller, C. Chet; Washburn, Nathan T.; Glick, William H.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Rice University
摘要：Firm performance is one of the most prominent concepts in organizational research. Despite its importance, and despite the many developmental critiques that have appeared over the years, performance continues to be a difficult concept to apply in a scientifically rigorous way. After surfacing three potentially viable approaches for conceptualizing performance, we find that most studies are internally inconsistent in their use of these approaches, a situation that creates substantial difficulty...
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作者：Hausknecht, John P.; Holwerda, Jacob A.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：In theory, employee turnover has important consequences for groups, work units, and organizations. However, past research has not revealed consistent empirical support for a relationship between aggregate levels of turnover and performance outcomes. In this paper, we present a novel conceptualization of turnover to explain when, why, and how it affects important outcomes. We suggest that greater attention to five characteristics-leaver proficiencies, time dispersion, positional distribution, r...
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作者：Miller, Danny; Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle; Lester, Richard H.
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：A fundamental schism divides the family firm and strategy literatures, on the one hand, and the institutional literature, on the other, regarding both the situational prevalence and the utility of conforming behavior. The first two schools, respectively, view strategic differentiation as especially common among family firms and an important source of competitive advantage. By contrast, the reasoning of institutionalists would suggest that family firms will be subject to unusually powerful moti...
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作者：Dumas, Tracy L.; Phillips, Katherine W.; Rothbard, Nancy P.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Using survey data from two distinct samples, we found that reported integration behaviors (e.g., attending company parties, discussing nonwork matters with colleagues) were associated with closer relationships among coworkers but that this effect was qualified by an interaction effect. Racial dissimilarity moderated the relationship between integration and closeness such that integration was positively associated with relationship closeness for those who were demographically similar to their c...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Theories of entrepreneurship have 'proposed that entrepreneurs are shaped by contextual influences. This paper examines the social transmission of entrepreneurial behavior across university peers. I propose that peers acquainted at a university increase the probability of an entrepreneurial entry by transmitting information about new opportunities and by reducing the uncertainty associated with entrepreneurship. Based on' unique data on hedge fund foundings between 1979 and 2006, this study do...
