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作者：Murray, Fiona; O'Mahony, Siobhan
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Organizational theorists have built a deep understanding of the conditions affecting knowledge sharing. However, for innovation to occur, knowledge must not just be shared, but also reused, recombined, and accumulated. Such accumulation is not inherent to the innovation process but can be either supported or limited by the context in which it occurs. We propose a framework arguing that three conditions shape this context: disclosure, access, and rewards. We show how these conditions operate at...
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作者：Pentland, Brian T.; Feldman, Martha S.
作者单位：Michigan State University; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：T his paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of technology in use. The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and forms. The narrative network draws on concepts from structuration theory, actor network theory (ANT), a...
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作者：Baum, Joel A. C.; Dahlin, Kristina B.
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：We link two influential organizational learning models-performance feedback and experiential learning-to advance hypotheses that help explain how organizations' learning from their own and others' experience is conditioned by their aspiration-performance feedback. Our focus is on learning from failure; this kind of learning is essential to organizational learning and adaptation, and a necessary complement to studies of learning from success. Our analysis of U.S. Class I freight railroads' acci...
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作者：Nadkarni, Sucheta; Narayanan, V. K.
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University of Nebraska Lincoln; Drexel University
摘要：We argue that the collective assumptions of firms drive their actions and practices, and create the conditions of industry velocity. In our view, cognitive construction by firms is the primary driver of industry velocity. This is in contrast to the contingency views common in the literature, which hold that industry velocity plays a role by constraining and shaping firm strategies. Specifically, we suggest that firms develop unique assumptions, social networks, and feedback mechanisms; that th...
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作者：Moore, Don A.; Oesch, John M.; Zietsma, Charlene
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Toronto; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This paper documents egocentric biases in market-entry decisions. We demonstrate self-focused explanations for entry decisions made by three groups of participants: actual entrepreneurs (founders), working professionals who considered starting their own firms but did not (nonfounders), and participants in a market-entry experiment. Potential entrants based their decision to enter primarily on evaluations of their own competence (or incompetence) and paid relatively little attention to the stre...
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作者：Park, Kyung Min
作者单位：Yonsei University
摘要：This paper investigates drivers of convergence and divergence in strategic positioning in terms of resource-allocation decisions. The study, based on the behavioral theory of the firm, suggests two unexplored kinked-curve relationships between performance gaps and strategic convergence-divergence. First, the study suggests a negative relationship between a focal firm's performance relative to aspiration levels and strategic convergence-divergence, where the slope is steeper when performance is...
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作者：Blader, Steven L.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：This paper presents the results of two studies that examine the impact of both social psychological and economic concerns on organizational members' decisions to support or oppose union formation. The studies test the predictions that procedural justice judgments and social identification-two social psychological factors that shape the nature of how people relate to their organizations-have a significant influence on people's support for union certification and on the votes they cast in a unio...
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作者：Gavetti, Giovanni; Rivkin, Jan W.
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：We develop a perspective on how managers search for a strategy. In the spirit of Cyert and March (1963), we aim for a perspective that reflects the reality of managerial behavior, that respects both the reasoning power of managers and the bounds on their rationality, and that permits organizations to change but within realistic limits. Our perspective employs the variable time to frame the question of strategy's origins in a distinctive way. Over time, the cognitive and physical elements that ...
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作者：Yoo, YJ; Boland, RJ Jr; Lyytinen, K
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要：Organization design in its verb form is explored through a study of the design practices of a major contemporary architect, Frank O. Gehry, and his firm, Gehry Partners, LLP. Through four case studies, we explore how the organization design of his architectural projects is an outcome of Gehry Partner's design gestalt. We argue that this design gestalt is a primary source of their organization designing and is composed of an architectural vision, the tight coupling of multiple representation te...
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作者：Rhee, M; Haunschild, PR
作者单位：University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：In this paper, we explore opposing theoretical claims about how organizational reputation affects market reactions to product defects. On the one hand, good reputation could be a disadvantage because expectations about product quality are more likely to be violated by defects in highly reputed products. On the other hand, a good reputation could be an advantage because of strong inertial effects on reputation orderings. We empirically test these competing hypotheses using data on product recal...
