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作者：Ferraro, Fabrizio; Pfeffer, Jeffrey; Sutton, Robert I.
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Stanford University; Stanford University
摘要：Theories matter because they affect behavior and can, under certain circumstances, become self-fulfilling. For a theory to become self-fulfilling, people must be aware of the theory and have the ability to make choices according to its dictates, social and physical arrangements are altered on the basis of the theory's prescriptions, and the proponents have the power to implement social arrangements consistent with the theory. Economics and other social science theories often fulfill these cond...
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作者：Madsen, Peter M.
作者单位：Brigham Young University
摘要：The stated purpose of the investigations that invariably follow industrial, transportation, and mining disasters is to learn from those tragedies to prevent future tragedies. But does prior experience with disaster make organizations more capable of preventing future disasters? Do organizations learn from disasters experienced by other organizations? Do organizations learn differently from rare disasters than they do from common minor accidents? In its present state, the organizational safety ...
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作者：Shaver, J. Myles; Mezias, John M.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Miami
摘要：The difficulties of managing and coordinating operations as firms expand are expected to increase disproportionately with firm size. If firms face such diseconomies of managing, then acquisitions should make the combined entity more difficult to manage than the two entities operating independently. To document the existence of diseconomies of managing in acquisitions, we examine the change in civil lawsuit judgments involving acquired firms pre- and postacquisition. Civil lawsuit judgments can...
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作者：Argote, Linda
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：Organizational scholars have recently argued that economic theories and assumptions have adversely shaped management practice and human behavior, not only leading to the incorporation of trust-eroding market mechanisms into organizations, but also unnecessarily creating self-interested behavior. A number of highly influential papers have argued that the self-fulfilling nature of (even false) theories provides the underlying mechanism through which economics has adversely shaped not just social...
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作者：Sanchez-Burks, Jeffrey; Huy, Quy Nguyen
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper introduces emotional aperture, defined as the ability to recognize the composition of diverse emotions in a collective (e. g., group or business unit). We develop the thesis that a leader's ability to respond effectively to patterns of shared emotions that arise during strategic change and other emotionally turbulent organizational processes depends on the leader's ability to use emotional aperture. Additionally, we describe key cultural, psychological, and contextual enablers and i...
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作者：Keil, Thomas; McGrath, Rita Gunther; Tukiainen, Taina
作者单位：Aalto University; Columbia University
摘要：Our longitudinal study of the entire population of internal corporate ventures within a large European electronics manufacturer finds that the conventional focus in the corporate venturing literature to evaluate ventures based on business growth and financial performance may be misguided. Instead, we found that ventures are temporary conduits for capability development and play a primary role in launching the founding stage of new capability life cycles. Ventures' main contribution was often t...
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作者：Chittoor, Raveendra; Sarkar, M. B.; Ray, Sougata; Aulakh, Preet S.
作者单位：Indian Institute of Management (IIM System); Indian Institute of Management Calcutta; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; Grenoble Ecole Management; York University - Canada
摘要：This article investigates how Indian pharmaceutical firms, facing discontinuous institutional changes in their domestic environment due to economic liberalization and intellectual property reforms, have undertaken organizational transformation. Internationalization of resources and product markets constitutes an important component of organizational transformation for local firms in emerging economies. Using longitudinal data on 206 Indian pharmaceutical firms from 1995-2004, we find that firm...
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作者：Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai J.
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：We argue that Ferraro, Pfeffer, and Sutton build on a scientifically problematic conception of the relationship between theory and social reality. Specifically, the performativity perspective that they build on makes tenuous assumptions about the role that theories, whether true or not, play in strongly constructing social reality, but the perspective fundamentally ignores central matters related to human nature and the boundaries of possibility. We argue for a more realistic approach to theor...
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作者：Woolley, Anita Williams
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：Knowledge work frequently involves both the redefinition of desired outcomes and the specification of task processes. The relative emphasis that teams place on these issues early in work can lead members to become outcome focused or process focused, with consequences for performance. This paper develops and explores a theory of how outcome focus and process focus develop in teams and the implications of each for team adaptation and performance. Outcome and process focus were both observed and ...
