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作者：Dharwadkar, Ravi; Goranova, Maria; Brandes, Pamela; Khan, Raihan
作者单位：Syracuse University; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Milwaukee; State University of New York (SUNY) System; State University of New York (SUNY) - Oswego
摘要：Corporate governance research indicates that large owners provide effective monitoring. In this article, we expand firm-level notions of monitoring to include large institutional owners' investment portfolios and suggest that portfolio characteristics affect owners' motivation and capacity to monitor, which compromises the positive effects of monitoring at the firm level. Specifically, using data from 533 large firms over a 10-year period, we find that increases in the size of portfolio holdin...
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作者：Wasserman, Noam
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：The strategy-structure-performance (SSP) paradigm has developed a central role within strategy research. However, recent critiques of the paradigm have called for research that uses more appropriate measures of strategy and structure, inductive methods that enable richer exploration of the paradigm, and extension of the paradigm to the expert-focused organizations that have grown in importance since the paradigm was first developed. This paper answers this call by integrating inductive methods...
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作者：Bercovitz, Janet; Feldman, Maryann
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780 faculty members, examining their backgrounds and work environments, and following their engagement with academic entrepreneurship. We find that individual adoption of the new initiative may be either substantive or symbolic. Our results suggest that...
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作者：Chung, Chi-Nien; Luo, Xiaowei
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This study examines the interaction between change-minded human agents and environmental and organizational contingencies to understand contested change in highly institutionalized practices. We propose a theory of how individuals, including those who are structurally highly embedded, can become change agents when confronted with amplified institutional contradictions. Using the empirical example of family presence in the leadership of Taiwanese business groups, we argue that despite the struc...
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作者：Guthrie, James P.; Datta, Deepak K.
作者单位：University of Kansas; University of Texas System; University of Texas Arlington
摘要：Workforce downsizing through employee layoffs has become commonplace in American businesses over the last 20 years. While these initiatives are typically undertaken in the quest for improved firm performance and competitiveness, empirical research to date has been equivocal in supporting the efficacy of these initiatives. In addition, extant research has not thoroughly examined factors or conditions that may influence or moderate the performance impact of workforce downsizing. In this paper, w...
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作者：Hillman, Amy J.; Nicholson, Gavin; Shropshire, Christine
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Queensland University of Technology (QUT); University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Scholars and practitioners are interested in board effectiveness, yet we know relatively little about directors' engagement in the boardroom. We integrate identity theory and social identity theory research with literature on board monitoring and resource provision to model how directors' multiple identities affect their behavior. We propose that directors' strength of identification with multiple identities affects the extent to which they engage in monitoring and resource provision. We discu...
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作者：Mantere, Saku; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Aalto University; emlyon business school
摘要：We still know little of why strategy processes often involve participation problems. In this paper, we argue that this crucial issue is linked to fundamental assumptions about the nature of strategy work. Hence, we need to examine how strategy processes are typically made sense of and what roles are assigned to specific organizational members. For this purpose, we adopt a critical discursive perspective that allows us to discover how specific conceptions of strategy work are reproduced and leg...
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作者：Stahl, Guenter K.; Voigt, Andreas
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of London; London Business School
摘要：A substantive body of theory and research on the role of culture in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) suggests that cultural differences can create major obstacles to achieving integration benefits. However, the opposite view-that differences in culture between merging firms can be a source of value creation and learning-has also been advanced and empirically supported. In an attempt to reconcile these conflicting perspectives and findings, we present a model that synthesizes our current understa...
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作者：Ton, Zeynep; Huckman, Robert S.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：We examine the impact of employee turnover on operating performance in settings that require high levels of knowledge exploitation. Using 48 months of turnover data from U.S. stores of a major retail chain, we find that, on average, employee turnover is associated with decreased performance, as measured by profit margin and customer service. The effect of turnover on performance, however, is mitigated by the nature of management at the store level. The particular aspect of management on which ...
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作者：Rafaeli, Anat; Sagy, Yael; Derfler-Rozin, Rellie
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology; University of London; London Business School
摘要：In four studies we examine the relationship between the presence of an organizational logo and initial compliance with a request made by a stranger and document higher compliance rates in the presence than in the absence of the logo. Study 1 verified this relationship in the field, and Study 2 replicated the field findings in a lab setting. Study 2 also confirmed trust as a mediator and risk as a moderator of this relationship, showing that trust and greater compliance are produced by the pres...
