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作者:Rank, Olaf N.; Robins, Garry L.; Pattison, Philippa E.
作者单位:University of Gottingen; University of Melbourne
摘要:In this study we examine the structural logic underlying complex intraorganizational networks. Drawing on different propositions about structural regularities in networks and using a comparative case study, we empirically investigate the structural logic of collaborative networks for the strategic decision process in two German corporations. In both organizations, data were gathered on cooperative relationships between all managers belonging to the top two management levels. We model structura...
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作者:Nam, Inwoo; Gruca, Thomas S.; Tracy, Roger
作者单位:Chung Ang University; University of Iowa; University of Iowa
摘要:The supply side of many professional service markets consists of two different pools of providers: generalists and specialists. Specialists usually gain access to new clients through referrals from generalists. To ensure a continuing stream of engagements, specialists often form referral alliances with multiple generalists. Engaging the right generalist partners and allocating resources to the resulting referral relationships are among the most important challenges facing these specialist firm...
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作者:Vaara, Eero; Monin, Philippe
作者单位:Hanken School of Economics; emlyon business school; emlyon business school
摘要:This paper challenges the predominant view that legitimation is merely a specific phase in merger or acquisition processes. We argue that a better understanding of postmerger organizational dynamics calls for conceptualization of discursive legitimation as an inherent part of unfolding merger processes. In particular, we focus on the recursive relationship between legitimation and organizational action. We have two objectives: to outline a theoretical model that helps one to understand the dyn...
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作者:Castel, Patrick; Friedberg, Erhard
作者单位:Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
摘要:A good deal of strategic choice has been given back to organizations, which have become actors of their ( only partial) compliance with institutional demands that they in turn contribute to shaping. The reported case of the successful modernization of the French cancer centers and their reinstatement as the leaders in their field contributes to a better understanding of the role of leadership in institutional change because it demonstrates a positional approach to institutional leadership. Can...
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作者:Nigam, Amit; Ocasio, William
作者单位:New York University; Northwestern University
摘要:We explore attention to Clinton's health care reform proposal, ongoing debates, and its political demise to develop theory that explains how events create opportunities for cognitive realignment and transformation in institutional logics. Our case analysis illustrates how a bottom-up process of environmental sensemaking led to the emergence and adoption of a logic of managed care, which provided new organizing principles in the hospitals' organizational field. In addition to theorization, high...
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作者:Bunderson, J. Stuart; Boumgarden, Peter
作者单位:Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要:This paper considers the effect of team structure on a team's engagement in learning and continuous improvement. We begin by noting the uncertain conceptual status of the structure concept in the small groups literature and propose a conceptualization of team structure that is grounded in the long tradition of work on formal structure in the sociology and organization theory literatures. We then consider the thesis that, at least in self-managed teams dealing with stable tasks, greater team st...
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作者:van Knippenberg, Daan; Kooij-de Bode, Hanneke J. M.; van Ginkel, Wendy P.
作者单位:Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC
摘要:Extending the growing interest in affect in work groups, we propose that groups with distributed information make higher quality decisions when they are in a negative rather than a positive mood, but that these effects are moderated by group members' trait negative affect. In support of this hypothesis, an experiment (N = 175 groups) showed that positive mood led to lower quality decisions than did negative or neutral moods when group members were low in trait negative affect, whereas such moo...
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作者:Baum, J. Robert; Bird, Barbara J.
作者单位:University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University
摘要:We develop a model of successful intelligence in entrepreneurship. The model was tested through interviews with 22 printing industry CEOs and responses from 143 founders of early-stage, high-growth printing and graphics businesses. Successful intelligence combined with entrepreneurial self-efficacy to predict swift action and multiple improvement actions (repeated goal-driven changes). Swift action and multiple improvement actions predicted higher subsequent venture growth across four years. T...
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作者:Argote, Linda; Kukawa, Jennifer
作者单位:Carnegie Mellon University
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作者:Dekker, Henri C.; Van den Abbeele, Alexandra
作者单位:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; KU Leuven
摘要:Partner search processes and prior exchange experiences constitute important organizational learning processes that provide firms with valuable partner information, which may enhance their ability to design control structures for new interfirm transactions. By increasing trust and by providing first-hand partner information, prior experiences may, however, also reduce the need for control and for new information during the search process. An analysis of 287 transactions between buyers and supp...