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作者:Elsbach, Kimberly D.; Hargadon, Andrew B.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要:We propose that organizations use a new framework of workday design to enhance the creativity of today's chronically overworked professionals. Although insights from creativity research have been integrated into models of work design to increase the stimulants of creativity (e.g., intrinsic motivation), this has not led to work design models that have effectively reduced the obstacles to creativity (e.g., workload pressures). As a consequence, creative output among professionals in high-worklo...
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作者:Levinthal, Daniel; Rerup, Claus
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要:An important new stream of organizational research has emerged in recent years that draws on the notion of mindfulness. At the same time, there is a long-standing body of work in the organizations literature that emphasizes the role of routine-driven, or less-mindful, behavior. We attempt to connect these two seemingly disparate literatures arguing that, at a performative level, important elements of less-mindful processes are necessary elements underlying mindfulness. In particular, we note t...
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作者:Garud, R; Kurnaraswamy, A; Sambamurthy, V
作者单位:Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Singapore Management University; Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要:We explore how organizations may be designed to transform themselves even as they continue to perform seamlessly on a day-to-day basis. Our inquiry frame recognizes that organizational designs comprise several elements-people, technologies, processes, and governance. Our study of an exemplary organization, Infosys Technologies, yields two insights. At Infosys, each design element is seeded with generative properties. As these design elements interact, reinforcing and balancing one another, an ...
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作者:Jacobides, MG; Billinger, S
作者单位:University of London; London Business School
摘要:The concept of vertical architecture defines the scope of a firm and the extent to which it is open to final and intermediate markets, it describes the configurations of transactional choices along a firm's value chain. A firm can make or buy inputs, and transfer outputs downstream or sell them. Permeable vertical architectures are partly integrated and partly open to the markets along a firm's value chain. Increased pen-neability enables more effective use of resources and capacities, better ...
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作者:Madsen, P; Desai, V; Roberts, K
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:Often, researchers study organizations in which design is largely in place and the design process is shrouded in the distant past. However, the design process can have dramatic implications for how organizations function. This paper reports a specific attempt to design one organizational subunit, a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), to function under difficult circumstances. The founders aimed to create a highly reliable and safe unit, but implementing their vision required continuous effor...
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作者:Paruchuri, Srikanth; Nerkar, Atul; Hambrick, Donald C.
作者单位:State University System of Florida; University of Florida; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:Acquisition integration is a pivotal factor in determining whether the objectives of an acquisition are achieved. In this paper, we hypothesize that the productivity of corporate scientists of acquired companies is generally impaired by integration, but that some scientists experience more disruption than others. In particular, acquisition integration will be most disruptive, leading to the most severe productivity drops, for those inventors who have lost the most social status and centrality ...
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作者:Ouchi, WG
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要:School districts have made several attempts at decentralizing. However, decentralization in school districts can mean so many different things that the term has nearly lost its meaning. This paper reports a study of three large urban school districts that, over almost 30 years, adopted nearly identical approaches to decentralizing, granting control to principals and expanding freedom of choice for families. In all three cases, the goal of improving student achievement was achieved, although wi...
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作者:Voss, Zannie Giraud; Cable, Daniel M.; Voss, Glenn B.
作者单位:Duke University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; North Carolina State University
摘要:This study examines how the organizational success of 113 nonprofit professional theatres was affected when two top leaders responsible for different parts of the organization held divergent views about organizational identity. Focusing on five values that differentiate theatres, we find that leaders' disagreement about organizational identity was related to lower ticket revenues and lower net income, and that organizational performance was lowest when disagreement about identity was extreme. ...
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作者:Chang, Sea-Jin; Chung, Chi-Nien; Mahmood, Ishtiaq P.
作者单位:Korea University; National University of Singapore; National University of Singapore
摘要:Using a comparative institutional perspective, we explore whether business groups' roles in facilitating affiliate firms' innovation varies by country and time period. We compare the innovativeness of firms affiliated with business groups to that of independent firms in two emerging economies: South Korea and Taiwan. On average, business group affiliates outperform independent firms in South Korea, but not in Taiwan, and in the early 1990s, but not in the late 1990s. The existence of alternati...
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作者:Cho, Theresa S.; Hambrick, Donald C.
作者单位:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:We integrate the upper-echelons perspective with the attention-based view of the firm by examining the role of attentional orientation of top management teams (TMTs). In the context of airline deregulation, we find that deregulation caused a shift in managerial attention, but that this shift in attention was the greatest for firms that changed the composition and compensation of their TMTs in ways that favored the deregulated regime. We also find that attention partially mediated the relations...