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作者：de Rond, M; Bouchikhi, H
作者单位：University of Cambridge; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Using Van de Ven and Poole's (1995) extensive assessment of process theories as an intellectual scaffold, we review theoretical contributions to our understanding of alliance dynamics and process. It appears that of four generic theoretical engines, only three-life cycle, teleology, and evolution-are reasonably well covered in this literature. Process studies informed by a dialectical theory, however, appear to be markedly absent. We explore the characteristics and contributions of a dialectic...
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作者：Inkpen, AC; Currall, SC
作者单位：Rice University
摘要：This article examines the evolution of trust, Control, and learning in a joint venture relationship. Using a coevolutionary approach, we develop a framework that shows how initial joint venture conditions give way to evolved conditions as joint venture partners develop an understanding of each other and adjust the collaborative process. We explore the relationship between trust and control in joint ventures and identify how these two critical concepts impact joint venture processes. We argue t...
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作者：Hui, C; Lee, C; Rousseau, DM
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Northeastern University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：his study investigates the contribution of organizational support and personal relations in accounting for Chinese workers' affective commitment to the organization for which they work and their organizational citizenship behavior. In a sample of 605 matched cases of employees and their immediate supervisors from a large, reformed state-owned firm, organizational support was found to relate to affective commitment more strongly than to organizational citizenship behavior. Personal relations, h...
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作者：Chiles, TH; Meyer, AD; Hench, TJ
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; University of Oregon; University of Wisconsin System
摘要：We draw on complexity theory to explain the emergence of a new organizational collective, and we provide a much needed empirical test of the theory at the collective level of analysis. Taking a case study approach, we use four dynamics of emergence posited by complexity theory's dissipative structures model-fluctuation, positive feedback, stabilization. and recombination-to explain how a collective of live musical performance theaters in Branson, Missouri, came into being and periodically tran...
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作者：Tsui, AS; Schoonhoven, CB; Meyer, MW; Lau, CM; Milkovich, GT
作者单位：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; Peking University; University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Pennsylvania; Chinese University of Hong Kong; Cornell University
摘要：Twenty-five years of economic reform has propelled China to the center of the world's economic stage. Based on current trends, in the foreseeable future China is likely to become the largest economy in the world. China's dramatic growth may be envied by other developing economies, but for management scholars it presents an exciting intellectual puzzle. In this paper we describe the empirical context of China today, review contemporary research on Chinese management and organizations, and descr...
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作者：Mayer, KJ; Argyres, NS
作者单位：University of Southern California; Boston University
摘要：Organizational forms involving more detailed contracts than are found in traditional spot market exchanges appear to be increasingly prevalent. There has been relatively little analysis, however, of the extent to which firms learn how to use contracts to manage their interfirm relationships over time. In this paper, we conduct a detailed case study of a time series of 11 contracts concluded during 1989-1997 between the same two partners, both of whom participate in the personal computer indust...
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作者：Beckman, CM; Haunschild, PR; Phillips, DJ
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Chicago
摘要：In this study, we address the topic of interorganizational network change by exploring factors that affect the choice of alliance and interlock partners. While many studies have been devoted to investigating various factors driving network partner choice, there is also an interesting and unexplored tension in this body of work. On the one hand, much work emphasizes change in social structure-showing that firms expand networks by forming new relationships with new partners. At the same time, ot...
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作者：Rafaeli, A; Vilnai-Yavetz, I
作者单位：Technion Israel Institute of Technology
摘要：This paper documents emotion as integral to stakeholders' sense making of a key organizational artifact, demonstrating that emotion toward artifacts blends into emotion toward the organization. Multiple stakeholders were interviewed about an artifact of a large public transportation organization. Sense making of the artifact is shown to involve emotion in interpretations that consider three dimensions of the artifact-instrumentality, aesthetics, and symbolism. Instrumentality relates to the ta...
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作者：Carlile, PR
作者单位：Boston University
摘要：The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired. Innovation is a useful context because it allows us to explore the negative consequences of the path-dependent nature of knowledge. A framework is developed that describes three progressively complex boundaries-syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic-and three progressively complex processes-transfer, translation, and transformation. The framework is used to specify the practical and political mismatche...
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作者：He, ZL; Wong, PK
作者单位：University of Otago; National University of Singapore
摘要：While exploration and exploitation represent two fundamentally different approaches to organizational learning, recent literature has increasingly indicated the need for firms to achieve a balance between the two. This balanced view is embedded in the concept of ambidextrous organizations. However, there is little direct evidence of the positive effect of ambidexterity on firm performance. This paper seeks to test the ambidexterity hypothesis by examining how exploration and exploitation can j...
