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作者：von Nordenflycht, Andrew
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：Although existing literature assumes that the human capital intensity of professional services leads to small and flimsy firms, several professional services feature large, long-lived firms. To develop insights about firm size and industry structure in human capital intensive industries, I analyze the structure and evolution of the advertising industry. Drawing on a range of quantitative and qualitative evidence, I develop two hypotheses regarding the industry's structure and consolidation: (1...
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作者：Baum, Joel A. C.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：It is customary among contemporary organization theorists to equate North American and European scholarship with objectivist and subjectivist metatheoretical positions (respectively), treat these positions as mutually exclusive alternatives, and debate which is best suited to understanding organizational phenomena. Fueled by this dispute, questions of bias and fears of colonization are readily apparent in academic reviews of three recent handbooks of organizations. Caught in the current of the...
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作者：Negro, Giacomo; Hannan, Michael T.; Rao, Hayagreeva
作者单位：Emory University; Stanford University
摘要：When two groups of market actors differ in how to interpret a common label, each can make claims over the label. One categorical interpretation and the group that supports it risk disappearance if the rival interpretation gains ground. We argue that when members of the endangered category become partial defectors that span categories, their history presents challenges to the identity of nondefectors that will inhibit further change. Our empirical analysis of traditionalism and modernism in the...
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作者：Yeung, Andy C. L.; Lo, Chris K. Y.; Cheng, T. C. E.
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：Although institutional theorists maintain that the widespread diffusion of ISO 9000 is the result of institutional forces, they have neglected the potential gains to top management in the perpetuation of the standard. Based on a long-horizon event study with control firms to detect long-term abnormal financial gains, we investigate the impact of ISO 9000 adoption on CEO compensation in the U. S. manufacturing industry from 1994 to 2006. We find that the CEOs' total cash compensation was positi...
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作者：Zilber, Tammar B.
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：In this paper I uncover the routine, ongoing practices that sustain institutional multiplicity. Drawing on a comparative study of the two high-tech conferences held in Israel in 2002, I examine how diverse institutions are discursively handled in field-configuring events. Institutional multiplicity was expressed at this site through two identity discourses, one that situated the industry within a national context and another that oriented it toward the global markets. In addition, the conferen...
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作者：Levin, Daniel Z.; Walter, Jorge; Murnighan, J. Keith
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; George Washington University; Northwestern University
摘要：The social networks literature suggests that ties must be maintained to retain value. In contrast, we show that reconnecting dormant ties-former ties, now out of touch-can be extremely useful. Our research prompted Executive MBA students to consult their dormant contacts about an important work project; outcomes compared favorably to those of their current ties. In addition, reconnecting previously strong ties led to all of the four benefits that are usually associated with either weak ties (e...
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作者：Connelly, Brian L.; Johnson, Jonathan L.; Tihanyi, Laszlo; Ellstrand, Alan E.
作者单位：Auburn University System; Auburn University; University of Arkansas System; University of Arkansas Fayetteville; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
摘要：This study explores the competing influences of different types of board interlocks on diffusion of a strategic initiative among a population of firms. We examine a broad social network of interlocking directors in U. S. firms over a period of 17 years and consider the likelihood that these firms will adopt a strategy of expansion into China. Results show that ties to adopters that unsuccessfully implement this strategy have a nearly equal and opposing effect on the likelihood of adoption as d...
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作者：Jonsson, Stefan; Buhr, Helena
作者单位：Uppsala University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Our paper examines how field structures moderate the effect of the business press on organizational outcomes. Prior research suggests that the business press shapes organizational outcomes, but the question of how these effects depend on organizations' positions in a field has attracted limited attention. We address this theoretical limitation in an analysis of how mutual funds in Sweden were affected by periods when the business press increased its negative coverage of mutual fund fees. First...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：Northwestern University
摘要：This paper has three goals. The first is to understand why members of one organizational department are blind to the reasons why members of another department do not share their ideas for a new technology-what I call a technology concept. The second is to understand what consequences this innovation blindness has for the development of technology concepts across organizational and occupational boundaries. The third is to uncover strategies organizations might use to successfully develop a new ...
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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：In this introductory paper, I discuss the goals and motivations for the special issue New Perspectives in Organization Science, which coincides with the 20th anniversary of the journal Organization Science. Senior editors of Organization Science provide their perspectives on topics that are important to the field. The papers identify current themes and suggest directions for future research that are likely to be fruitful. We hope that the issue facilitates the accumulation of knowledge and the...
