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作者：Kapoor, Rahul; Adner, Ron
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Dartmouth College
摘要：Product innovation often hinges on technological changes in underlying components and architectures, requiring extensive coordination between upstream component development tasks and downstream product development tasks. We explore how differences in the ways in which firms are organized with respect to components affect their ability to manage technological change. We consider how firms are organized in terms of both division of labor and division of knowledge. We categorize product innovatio...
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作者：Qian, Lihong; Agarwal, Ragshree; Hoetker, Glenn
作者单位：Portland State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We integrate insights from organizational capabilities, organizational economics, and industry evolution to examine industry entrants' boundary choices about value chain activities and test hypotheses in 1978-2009 data from a sample of U.S. bioethanol producers. We find support for our predictions that transaction hazards, decomposed as either enduring or transient over the stages of industry evolution, are positively associated with the choice to internalize value chain activities. Pre-entry ...
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作者：Ethiraj, Sendil K.; Garg, Pranav
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This study uses data from the National Basketball Association to explore organizational mechanisms that affect the division of firm surplus in human-capital-intensive activity. It builds on the idea that reciprocal interdependence among team members creates the potential for complementarity. Complementarity, in turn, translates into higher firm surplus. The division of this surplus is subject to bargaining between the firm owner and labor. We argue that when complementarity increases, the firm...
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作者：Gulati, Ranjay; Sytch, Maxim; Tatarynowicz, Adam
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper explores the interplay between social structure and economic action by examining some of the evolutionary dynamics of an emergent network that coalesces into a small-world system. The study highlights the small-world system's evolutionary dynamics at both the macro level of the network and the micro level of an individual actor. This dual analytical lens helps establish that, in competitive and information-intensive settings, a small-world system could be a highly dynamic structure ...
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作者：Adler, Paul S.
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Reports of the demise of the bureaucratic form of organization are greatly exaggerated, and debates about bureaucracy's functions and effects therefore persist. For many years, a broad current of organizational scholarship has taken inspiration from Max Weber's image of bureaucracy as an iron cage and has seen bureaucracy as profoundly ambivalent-imposing alienation as the price of efficiency. Following a path originally sketched by Alvin Gouldner [Gouldner, A. W. 1954. Patterns of Industrial ...
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作者：Volberda, Henk W.; van der Weerdt, Niels; Verwaal, Ernst; Stienstra, Marten; Verdu, Antonio J.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Queens University Belfast; Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
摘要：In this paper, we attempt to reconcile contingency and institutional fit approaches concerning the organization-environment relationship. Whereas prior scholarly research has examined both theories and compared their impacts on organizational fit and performance, we lay the groundwork for a metafit approach by investigating how contingency and institutional fit interact to influence firm performance. We test our theoretical framework using a data set of 3,259 respondents from 1,904 companies, ...
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作者：Boudreau, Kevin J.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：In this paper, I study the effect of adding large numbers of producers of application software programs (apps) to leading handheld computer platforms, from 1999 to 2004. To isolate causal effects, I exploit changes in the software labor market. Consistent with past theory, I find a tight link between the number of producers on platform and the number of software varieties that were generated. The patterns indicate the link is closely related to the diversity and distinct specializations of pro...
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作者：Butler, John C.; Grahovac, Jovan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：We use computer simulation to study how different allocations of decision rights give rise to different organizational abilities to maintain and act upon accurate maps of a changing environment. We compare the performance of three archetypal organizational forms as we vary the dynamism and complexity of the environment and the rates at which individuals can observe the environment and imitate each other. We find that teams in which actions are based on plurality votes excel when the task is re...
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作者：Ahuja, Gautam; Soda, Giuseppe; Zaheer, Akbar
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作者：Van de Ven, Andrew H.; Leung, Ricky; Bechara, John P.; Sun, Kangyong
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; Washington University (WUSTL); Hitotsubashi University
摘要：This paper develops and tests a multilevel organizational contingency theory for designing headquarters-subsidiary relations. We use frontier analysis to overcome problems that have hampered advancements in organizational contingency theory in general and headquarters-subsidiary relationships in particular. Based on a longitudinal study of a large medical group practice of 32 local community clinics, we compute the relative distance of clinics from a best-performance frontier, determine what p...
