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作者：Bailey, Diane E.; Barley, Stephen R.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Stanford University
摘要：Although organizational theorists have long argued that environments shape organizational structures, they have paid little attention to the processes by which the shaping occurs. This paper examines these processes by showing how environments shape teaching and learning activities, which in turn shape structure. Observational field data from structural engineering groups in three firms and hardware engineering groups in three firms revealed that the two occupations exhibited different pattern...
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作者：Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle; Miller, Danny; 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; Mays Business School
摘要：Two contradictory perspectives of family business conduct and performance are prominent in the literature. The stewardship perspective argues that family business owners and managers will act as farsighted stewards of their companies, investing generously in the business to enhance value for all stakeholders. By contrast, the agency and behavioral agency perspectives maintain that major family owners, in catering to family self-interest, will underinvest in the firm, avoid risk, and extract re...
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作者：Fang, Eric (Er)
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：In emerging economies, firms use strategic alliances to access and learn from partners' knowledge and thus enhance their innovativeness, especially when the partners have complementary knowledge sets. However, differences in cultural and business practices, as well as a lack of trust between local and foreign firms, make it more difficult for both partners to absorb and integrate their complementary knowledge bases. In emerging economies, strategic alliances often are associated with weak lega...
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作者：Ashforth, Blake E.; Rogers, Kristie M.; Corley, Kevin G.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：Most research on organization-based identities focuses on a single level of analysis, typically the individual, group, or organization. As a spur to more cross-level identity research, we offer speculative discussions on two issues concerning nested identities. First, regarding the processes through which identities become linked across levels, we explore how identities at one level of analysis enable and constrain identities at other levels. We argue that, for a collective identity, intrasubj...
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作者：v. Werder, Axel
作者单位：Technical University of Berlin
摘要：Corporate governance has become one of the most prominent topics for management scholars, top executives, and regulators alike over the last couple of decades. Originally a domain of economics and finance (as well as law), the theme has spread to other areas such as strategic management and organization theory in recent years. This paper will first give a brief overview on major developments in the field of corporate governance. These developments encompass, on the one hand, the extension of t...
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作者：Zhu, David H.; Westphal, James D.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We consider how a social psychological bias referred to as pluralistic ignorance occurs among security analysts and how this bias may lead to behavioral conformity and isomorphism in analysts' reactions to the adoption of a particular organizational policy, namely, stock repurchase plans. Our theory suggests why (1) there may be a systematic tendency for analysts to underestimate the extent to which other analysts share their reservations about repurchase plans (i.e., reservations about whethe...
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作者：Northcraft, Gregory B.; Tenbrunsel, Ann E.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Notre Dame
摘要：Academic journal reviewing is a form of collective action that creates a public good, and as such, it represents a social dilemma with cooperation being essential to the reviewing process. Cooperation in this social dilemma is a function of the perceived costs and benefits to the potential reviewer. However, those perceived costs and benefits are personally perceived and in turn may be influenced by the frame reviewers bring to the decision to review. Frames may differ in the extent to which t...
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作者：Cabantous, Laure; Gond, Jean-Pascal
作者单位：University of Nottingham; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：Organizational theorists built their knowledge of decision making through a progressive critique of rational choice theory. Their positioning towards rationality, however, is at odds with the observation of rationality persistence in organizational life. This paper addresses this paradox. It proposes a new perspective on rationality that allows the theorizing of the production of rational decisions by organizations. To account for rationality's eternel retour, we approach rational decision mak...
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作者：Waguespack, David M.; Sorenson, Olav
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Yale University
摘要：Categorization processes are generally treated as consistent mappings of the underlying characteristics that they group. Yet, in many cases, the identities of actors influence these processes. When identity matters, high-status actors often obtain more favorable classifications. We examine these processes in the context of the Motion Picture Association of America's parental guidance classifications of movies (G, PG, R, NC-17). We find that, conditional on a given level of content, films distr...
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作者：Dougherty, Deborah; Dunne, Danielle D.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY
摘要：For many sectors like health care, financial services, or renewable energy, new products and services are generated by an ecology of business firms, nonprofit foundations, public institutions, and other agents. Knowledge to innovate is dispersed across ecologies, so no single firm or small group of firms can innovate alone. Moreover, many new products and services in ecologies such as health care or energy are complex or comprise many parts with unknown interactions. New products, knowledge, b...
