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作者：Hargadon, Andrew B.; Bechky, Beth A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This paper introduces a model of collective creativity that explains how the locus of creative problem solving shifts, at times, from the individual to the interactions of a collective. The model is grounded in observations, inter-views, informal conversations, and archival data gathered in intensive field studies of work in professional service firms. The evidence suggests that although some creative solutions can be seen as the products of individual insight, others should be regarded as the...
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作者：Walsh, James P.; Meyer, Alan D.; Schoonhoven, Claudia Bird
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Oregon; University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：We believe that the field of organization theory is adrift. In sailing jargon, we are in irons - stalled and making little headway toward understanding organizations and their place in our lives. We first attempt to diagnose our maladies and then, in this light, offer three broad research questions that just might reinvigorate our work: First, how can we understand today's changing organizations? Second, how can we live in these organizations? And third, how can we best live with them? We clos...
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作者：Srinivasan, Raji; Brush, Thomas H.
作者单位：University of South Dakota; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：The paper examines the significance of enforceability and adaptability in governing vertical alliances and their performance ramifications for suppliers. Literature on supplier relations suggests that suppliers are skeptical of close ties with their buyers (Helper 1991, Helper and Sako 1995). Such skepticism persists in spite of the fact that buyers are writing longer (enforceable) contracts with fewer suppliers. In this context, the paper develops a transaction cost economics (TCE)-based mode...
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作者：Metiu, Anca
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：An ethnographic study of a team of software developers working on a new product across two groups-located on the West Coast of the United States and in Bangalore, India-is used to analyze status dynamics in distributed groups. Whereas existing literature has emphasized the importance of communication, task design, and incentives for cooperation, this paper shows how status differentials and geographic distance reinforce each other to affect the work processes and collaboration in distributed t...
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作者：Wezel, Filippo Carlo; Cattani, Gino; Pennings, Johannes M.
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Tilburg University; New York University; University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University
摘要：This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm's higher-order routines, we investigate the conditions under which interfirm mobility triggers transfer of routines across organizational boundaries. We examine membership lists pertinent to the Dutch accounting industry to study key member exits and firm dissolutions over the period 1880-1986. We explo...
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作者：Yakubovich, Valery; Lup, Daniela
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Chicago
摘要：Although the existing theory predicts that a referral's chances of being hired increase with the job performance of the referrer, no empirical evidence is available to support this claim. To address this discrepancy, we decompose the recruitment process into objective selection, subjective selection, and self-selection and theorize that the likelihood of passing a particular recruitment stage increases with the performance of the referrer under objective selection and self-selection, but remai...
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作者：Kreiner, Glen E.; Ashforth, Blake E.; Sluss, David M.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：Ashforth and Kreiner (1999) documented how workers in so-called dirty work occupations were able to overcome threats to their social identities by engaging in the cognitive tactics of ideology manipulation and social weighting. This paper expands Ashforth and Kreiner's work in three ways. First, we move beyond an exclusive focus on intense dirty work occupations by mapping the broader landscape of stigmatized work. Second, we examine how system justification theory and social identity theory-t...
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作者：Leana, Carrie R.; Pil, Frits K.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh
摘要：In this paper we examine social capital and its relationship with performance at the organizational level. We predict that both internal and external social capital will have a positive effect on organizational performance. We test our hypotheses in 88 urban public schools where we collected data from principals, teachers, parents, and students. Results indicate that both internal social capital (relations among teachers) and external social capital (relations between the principal and externa...
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作者：Bechky, BA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Temporary organizations are known to provide flexibility for industries that rely on them, but we know little about their implications for how work is accomplished and coordinated. In this paper, I propose that common portrayals of temporary organizations as ephemeral and unstable are inaccurate: Temporary organizations are in fact organized around structured role systems whose nuances are negotiated in situ. This paper analyzes one type of temporary organization, film projects, exploring the ...
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作者：Birkinshaw, J; Lingblad, M
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Singapore Management University
摘要：We develop a theoretical framework for a specific form of intrafirm competition, namely the extent of overlap between the charters of two or more units in a single organization. This phenomenon is commonly seen in large organizations, e.g., cases of two business units producing competing products, or two product development groups trying to solve the same technological problem, but the existing academic literature provides little insight into the forms intrafirm competition takes, or the condi...
