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作者：Rawley, Evan; Simcoe, Timothy S.
作者单位：Columbia University; Boston University
摘要：We develop a simple model that links the adoption of a productivity-enhancing technology to increased vertical integration and a less skilled workforce. We test the model's key prediction using novel microdata on vehicle ownership patterns from the Economic Census during a period when computerized dispatching systems were first adopted by taxicab firms. Controlling for time-invariant firm-specific effects, firms increase the proportion of taxicabs under fleet ownership by 12% when they adopt n...
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作者：Benner, Mary J.; Ranganathan, Ram
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：An important outcome of technological change is industry convergence, as a new technology spurs competition between established firms from different industries. We study the reactions of securities analysts, as important sources of institutional pressures for firms, to the similar product/market strategies undertaken by firms from different prior industries responding to industry convergence. Our empirical setting is the convergence between the wireline telecommunications and cable television ...
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作者：Brickson, Shelley L.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital
摘要：Organizational identification links together organizational and member identity, yet we currently lack theory explicating the role of organizational and member identity variations in members' evaluations of organizations as identification targets. In this theoretical paper, I outline a model of organizational identification that aims to do three things account for the role of identity in the identification process, integrate and extend disparate approaches to organizational identification, and...
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作者：Sgourev, Stoyan V.
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：In structural analyses of innovation, one substantive question looms large: What makes radical innovation possible if peripheral actors are more likely to originate radical ideas but are poorly positioned to promote them? An inductive study of the rise of Cubism, a revolutionary paradigm that overthrew classic principles of representation in art, results in a model where not only the periphery moves toward the core through collective action, as typically asserted, but the core also moves towar...
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作者：Rosette, Ashleigh Shelby; Carton, Andrew M.; Bowes-Sperry, Lynn; Hewlin, Patricia Faison
作者单位：Duke University; University of London; London Business School; Western New England University; McGill University
摘要：Racial slurs are prevalent in organizations; however, the social context in which racial slurs are exchanged remains poorly understood. To address this limitation, we integrate three intergroup theories (social dominance, gendered prejudice, and social identity) and complement the traditional emphasis on aggressors and targets with an emphasis on observers. In three studies, we test two primary expectations: (1) when racial slurs are exchanged, whites will act in a manner more consistent with ...
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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Joseph, John
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Duke University
摘要：In this study, we examine how business units of multidivisional (M-form) firms adapt their activities in response to poor performance at the corporate and business unit levels. By linking performance feedback theory with theories of attention and M-form organizations, we show that corporate structure influences the relationship between performance below aspirations and business unit adaptation. Because corporate structure vertically differentiates performance goals and problemistic search, sol...
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作者：Diekmann, Kristina A.; Walker, Sheli D. Sillito; Galinsky, Adam D.; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; Brigham Young University; Northwestern University; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Five studies explore observers' condemnation of passive victims. Studies 1 and 2 examine the role of-observers' behavioral forecasts in condemning passive victims of sexual harassment. Observers generally predicted that they would engage in greater confrontation than victims typically do. More importantly, the more confrontation participants predicted they would engage in, the more they condemned the passive victim, and the less willing they were to recommend the victim for a job and to work w...
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作者：Metiu, Anca; Rothbard, Nancy P.
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Based on a comparative field study of two software development projects, we use ethnographic methods of observation and interview to examine the question of how interdependent individuals develop and maintain mutual focus of attention on a shared task, which we define as the group engagement process. Drawing on Randall Collins' interaction ritual theory, we identify how mutual focus of attention develops through the presence of a task bubble that focuses attention by creating barriers to outsi...
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作者：Heaphy, Emily D.
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：This study reveals the institutional work required to maintain taken-for-granted beliefs about roles in the face of everyday breaches of role expectations. Through a comparative qualitative study of hospital-employed patient advocates in teaching and Veterans Health Administration hospitals, I demonstrate that patient advocates repair breaches in the taken-for-granted beliefs about the patient, family, and staff roles in hospitals. My research shows that patient advocates skillfully used rules...
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作者：Drori, Israel; Wrzesniewski, Amy; Ellis, Shmuel
作者单位：College of Management Academic Studies; Yale University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：This research investigates how boundaries are utilized during the postmerger integration process to influence the postmerger identity of the firm. We suggest that the boundaries that define the structures, practices, and values of firms prior to a merger become reinforced, contested, or revised in the integration process, thus shaping the firm identity that emerges. In a field study of a series of four sequential mergers, we find that the boundary negotiation process acts as an engine for iden...
