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作者：Schulz, M
作者单位：University of British Columbia
摘要：To understand what determines knowledge flows into organizational subunits, the study reported here examines the relevance of the knowledge to the operations performed at the receiving subunit. This study analyzes inflows of knowledge from peers and supervising units into subunits of multinational corporations. It examines factors that affect the relevance of extra-unit knowledge to receiving subunits and explores empirically how these factors affect knowledge flows. The results show that know...
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作者：Madsen, TL; Mosakowski, E; Zaheer, S
作者单位：Santa Clara University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Firms often bring in personnel from rivals to gain tacit knowledge and skills. Personnel new to a firm may broaden the firm's knowledge stock, but may not disrupt the firm's ways of organizing. Instead, personnel inflows may contribute to the retention of a firm's traditional ways of organizing. This study tracks the flow of personnel within and across organizational boundaries (intrafirm and interfirm flows) and geographic boundaries (local and cross-border flows) for multiunit banks operatin...
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作者：Boiral, O
作者单位：Laval University
摘要：Adopted by an increasing number of organizations around the world, the ISO 9000 standards have become a growing concern for more and more managers who are often compelled to adopt this system without really knowing its requirements and implications for employees. Though the effects of this standard on quality management and on performance improvement have been widely debated, there is little knowledge of how the managers and employees who are asked to implement and maintain it perceive the ISO...
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作者：Nasrallah, W; Levitt, R; Glynn, P
作者单位：American University of Beirut; Stanford University
摘要：We present a mathematical model that predicts and explains the circumstances under which a management-defined communication structure can add value to an organization. This model provides a game-theoretical basis for contingent organizational design by relating empirical observations of real organizations to the solution of a rational choice model based on game theory. We constructed a multiple-player, noncooperative game in which players have full knowledge of, and universal communication acc...
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作者：Siggelkow, N; Levinthal, DA
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：To create a competitive advantage, firms need to find activity configurations that are not only internally consistent, but also appropriate given the firm's current environment. This challenge is particularly acute after firms have experienced an environmental change that has shifted the existing competitive landscape and created new, high-performing sets of activity choices. How should firms organize to explore and search such an altered performance landscape? While it has been noted that ada...
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作者：Gibson, DE
作者单位：Fairfield University
摘要：While previous literature tends to focus on role models as significant other people, particularly in one's early life, this study finds that individuals tend to construe their role models as a selection process of attributes from others throughout their career. I discovered that individuals primarily construe their role models along positive/negative, global/specific, close/distant, and hierarchically superior/peer-subordinate dimensions, and that across the career span, the tendency to observ...
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作者：Huff, L; Kelley, L
作者单位：Brigham Young University; Brigham Young University - Hawaii; University of Hawaii System
摘要：Competitiveness in global industries increasingly requires the ability to develop trusting relationships. This requires organizations, and the individuals they are comprised of, to be both trustworthy and trusting. An important question is whether societal culture influences the tendency of individuals and organizations to trust. Based largely on Yamagishi's (1994, 1998a, b) theories explaining trust, commitment, and in-group bias in collectivist cultures, this study examines potential differe...
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作者：McEvily, B; Perrone, V; Zaheer, A
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Bocconi University
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作者：Romme, AGL
作者单位：Tilburg University
摘要：Mainstream organizational research is based on science and the humanities. Science helps us to understand organized systems, from an outsider position, as empirical objects. The humanities contribute to understanding, and critically reflecting on, the human experience of actors inside organized practices. This paper argues that, in view of the persistent relevance gap between theory and practice, organization studies should be broadened to include design as one of its primary modes of engaging...
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作者：von Hippel, E; von Krogh, G
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of St Gallen
摘要：Currently, two models of innovation are prevalent in organization science. The private investment model assumes returns to the innovator result from private goods and efficient regimes of intellectual property protection. The collective action model assumes that under conditions of market failure, innovators collaborate in order to produce a public good. The phenomenon of open source software development shows that users program to solve their own as well as shared technical problems, and free...
