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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Plambeck, Nils; Weber, Klaus
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Northwestern University
摘要：We examine how executives' ambivalent evaluation of a strategic issue relates to organizational actions taken in response. Ambivalence occurs when a decision maker evaluates an issue as simultaneously positive and negative, a state that has received scant attention in organizational research. We integrate findings in social psychology with the behavioral theory of the firm to suggest how executives' ambivalence prompts wider and more vigorous search for action responses and enables broader par...
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作者：Phillips, Damon J.; Kim, Young-Kyu
作者单位：University of Chicago
摘要：This paper theoretically and empirically engages the relationship between organizational identity and deception using the market for early jazz recordings as a setting. In this setting, pseudonyms (where a recording is reissued under a fictitious name) were used deceptively as a way to preserve a firm's identity while selling pro. table but identity-threatening products to the mass market. Firms founded in the Victorian Era actively sought alignment with the cultural elite and used pseudonyms ...
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作者：Dokko, Gina; Wilk, Steffanie L.; Rothbard, Nancy P.
作者单位：New York University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：As individuals change jobs more frequently, it is increasingly important to understand what they carry from their prior work experience that affects their performance in a new organizational context. So far, explanations about the imperfect portability of experience have primarily been about firm specificity of knowledge and skill. We draw on psychological theory to propose additional sociocognitive factors that interfere with the transfer of knowledge and skill acquired from prior related wor...
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作者：Mahoney, Joseph T.; McGahan, Anita M.; Pitelis, Christos N.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Toronto; Harvard University; University of Cambridge
摘要：The predominant focus in research on organizations is on private or public institutions without consistent consideration of their interdependencies. The emphasis in scholarship on private or public interests has strengthened as disciplinary and professional knowledge has deepened: Management scholars, for example, tend to consider the corporation as the unit of analysis, whereas scholars of public policy often analyze governmental, multilateral, community, and nonprofit organizations. This art...
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作者：Christianson, Marlys K.; Farkas, Maria T.; Sutcliffe, Kathleen M.; Weick, Karl E.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：The collapse of the roof of the Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum Roundhouse onto its collections during a snowstorm in 2003 provides a starting point for our exploration of the link between learning and rare events. The collapse occurred as the museum was preparing for another rare event: the Fair of the Iron Horse, an event planned to celebrate the 175th anniversary of American railroading. Our analysis of these rare events, grounded in data collected through interviews and archival mat...
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作者：Dowell, Glen; Killaly, Brad
作者单位：Cornell University; Emory University
摘要：We consider the role that resource variation plays in affecting a firm's market entry decision. Resource variation, represented by amplitude, frequency, and unpredictability of change in market demand, has been shown to affect organizations' decisions and life chances, but there is little evidence of the effect of variation on entry decisions. We hypothesize that resource variation in a market reduces entry but that not all firms are equally deterred by variation. In particular, firm experienc...
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作者：Kim, Hann Earl; Pennings, Johannes M.
作者单位：KDI School of Public Policy & Management; University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper presents a study of successive new product introductions in the mature tennis racket industry. The inquiry examines novel design's important role in strategic renewal, under the assumption that innovation includes not only the development, production, and launch of new products, but also communication between firms and market. We explore this industry's transformation through the strategic actions of innovative firms and subsequent competitive contagion. A tennis racket innovation t...
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作者：Andriopoulos, Constantine; Lewis, Marianne W.
作者单位：Brunel University; University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati
摘要：Achieving exploitation and exploration enables success, even survival, but raises challenging tensions. Ambidextrous organizations excel at exploiting existing products to enable incremental innovation and at exploring new opportunities to foster more radical innovation, yet related research is limited. Largely conceptual, anecdotal, or single case studies offer architectural or contextual approaches. Architectural ambidexterity proposes dual structures and strategies to differentiate efforts,...
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作者：Taylor, Alva; Helfat, Constance E.
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：Technological innovation sometimes requires industry incumbents to shift to a completely new core technology. To successfully navigate a technological transition,firms often face the ambidextrous challenge of exploiting existing complementary assets to support the new exploratory core technology. We argue that an industry incumbent attempting to make a transition to a new technology requires linkages between organizational units responsible for developing the new technology and units in charge...
