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作者：Thomas, Robyn; Sargent, Leisa D.; Hardy, Cynthia
作者单位：Cardiff University; University of Melbourne
摘要：Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an organizational becoming perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the microcontext of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural, and ongoing; it occurs in everyday interactions as actors engage in the process of establishing new meanings for organizational activities. We adopt this approach to...
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作者：Pentland, Brian T.; Hrem, Thorvald; Hillison, Derek
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business; BI Norwegian Business School; State University System of Florida; Florida State University
摘要：This paper uses data on invoice processing in four organizations to distinguish empirically between two competing theories of organizational routines. One theory predicts that routines should generate patterns of action that are few in number and stable over time, and that atypical patterns of action are driven primarily by exceptional inputs. The competing theory predicts the opposite. By modeling the routines as networks of action and using a first-order Markov model to test for stationarity...
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作者：Sorensen, Jesper B.; Fassiotto, Magali A.
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Most entrepreneurs emanate from established organizations, yet systematic theorizing about the ways in which organizations shape the entrepreneurial process has only recently begun to emerge. We provide a framework for organizing this emerging literature. We focus on four different metaphors in the literature for how organizations matter in the entrepreneurial process and suggest promising avenues for future research.
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作者：Blader, Steven L.; Chen, Ya-Ru
作者单位：New York University; Cornell University
摘要：How do individuals with higher status react to their encounters with lower-status counterparts? Four studies explore this issue, focusing on higher-status parties' concerns with the outcome favorability and procedural fairness of those encounters. Across a wide range of contexts and bases of status, Study 1 found an interaction effect in which outcome favorability had a stronger relationship with higher-status parties' reactions when procedural fairness was high rather than low, in sharp contr...
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作者：Harrison, Spencer H.; Corley, Kevin G.
作者单位：Boston College; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：In this inductive study, we explore the dynamics between Alpinista (a pseudonym), a company that designs and manufactures rock climbing and skiing gear, and the broader cultures within which the company is embedded. Our data pushed us toward the notion of culture as toolkit, a perspective that focuses on culture as a set of means or resources used to solve problems. By applying this perspective, we realized that Alpinista's cultural toolkit and the cultural register of the sports (the sum of t...
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作者：Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Xueguang
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; Stanford University
摘要：This study develops a theoretical model on the role of multidimensional status and status inconsistency in market evaluation processes. A product or an organization may acquire multiple status indicators in association with a multitude of market institutions. We argue that when status indicators are consistently positive, each exerts a greater positive effect on the valuation of a product or an organization; conversely, inconsistency among multiple indicators undermines the status claim. We te...
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作者：Faraj, Samer; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：McGill University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Aalto University; University of Southern California
摘要：Online communities (OCs) are a virtual organizational form in which knowledge collaboration can occur in unparalleled scale and scope, in ways not heretofore theorized. For example, collaboration can occur among people not known to each other, who share different interests and without dialogue. An exploration of this organizational form can fundamentally change how we theorize about knowledge collaboration among members of organizations. We argue that a fundamental characteristic of OCs that a...
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作者：Moore, James H.; Kraatz, Matthew S.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This paper explores how governance form affects the organizational capacity for adaptation. We make a general case about the importance of governance in adaptation, and we identify three mechanisms through which governance form may affect organizations' ability to manage the competency and failure traps that often frustrate the process. We look for evidence of these mechanisms through a study of the U. S. Savings and Loan (S&L) industry in the 1980s. This is an apt context because S&Ls were co...
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作者：Nembhard, Ingrid M.; Tucker, Anita L.
作者单位：Yale University; Yale University; Harvard University
摘要：Dynamic service settings-characterized by workers who interact with customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)-play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous learning via cumulative experience as a strategy for performance improvement. Whether induced learning through the use of deliberate learning activities provides additional performance benefits has ...
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作者：Leiponen, Aija; Helfat, Constance E.
作者单位：Imperial College London; Dartmouth College
摘要：When firms seek to innovate, they must decide where to locate their innovation activity. This location choice requires firms to make a simultaneous choice about the organizational structure of innovation activity: almost by definition, multiple locations per firm imply some degree of decentralization. We compare predictions of the knowledge-based view with the predictions of organizational economics regarding the location and decentralization of R&D. Using firm-level data on R&D locations in F...
