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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; Bocconi University
摘要：Although research on trust in an organizational context has advanced considerably in recent years, the literature has yet to produce a set of generalizable propositions that inform our understanding of the organization and coordination of work. We propose that conceptualizing trust as an organizing principle is a powerful way of integrating the diverse trust literature and distilling generalizable implications for how trust affects organizing. We develop the notion of trust as an organizing pr...
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作者：Parboteeah, KP; Cullen, JB
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; Washington State University
摘要：In spite of the popularity of institutional explanations of organizational form, most international management research uses dimensions of national culture to explain cross-national differences in individual work centrality. In this study, we show that social institutions explain variance in work centrality in addition to Hofstede's (2001) dimensions of national culture. Using individual-level data from 30,270 interview respondents from the World Value Survey and institutional data for their 2...
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作者：Bechky, BA
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：This paper suggests that knowledge is shared in organizations through the transformation of occupational communities' situated understandings of their work. In this paper, I link the misunderstandings between engineers, technicians, and assemblers on a production floor to their work contexts, and demonstrate how members of these communities overcome such problems by cocreating common ground that transforms their understanding of the product and the production process. In particular, I find tha...
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作者：Contu, A; Willmott, H
作者单位：Lancaster University; University of Cambridge
摘要：This paper critically addresses the coherence, reception, and dissemination of situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger 1991). Situated learning theory commends a conceptualization of the process of learning that, in offering an alternative to cognitive theories, departs radically from the received body of knowledge on learning in organizations. The paper shows how elements of situated learning theory have been selectively adopted to fertilize or extend the established terrain of organization...
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作者：Lee, GK; Cole, RE
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; Doshisha University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We propose a new model of knowledge creation in purposeful, loosely coordinated, distributed systems, as an alternative to a firm-based one. Specifically, using the case of the Linux kernel development project, we build a model of community-based, evolutionary knowledge creation to study how thousands of talented volunteers, dispersed across organizational and geographical boundaries, collaborate via the Internet to produce a knowledge-intensive, innovative product of high quality. By comparin...
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作者：Bansal, P
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：In this research, we traced the development of natural environmental issues in two organizations in real time over the period of a year. Participant observations, discussions with organizational members, and corporate documents yielded insights used to develop a model describing issue flows in both organizations. With this model, we identified the factors that influenced the scope, scale, and speed of organizational response to issues. Our methods provided insights into why issues generated or...
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作者：Thornhill, S; Amit, R
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Systematic differences in the determinants of firm failure between firms that fail early in their life and those that fail after having successfully negotiated the early liabilities of newness and adolescence are identified. Analysis of data from 339 Canadian corporate bankruptcies suggests that failure among younger firms may be attributable to deficiencies in managerial knowledge and financial management abilities. Failure among older firms, on the other hand, may be attributable to an inabi...
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作者：Child, J; Möllering, G
作者单位：University of Birmingham; Free University of Berlin
摘要：This paper contributes to the conceptual and empirical understanding of organizational trust. It confirms the importance of contextual confidence in institutions for building trust. Moreover, it extends models of trust production to include the effects of purposive action by the truster over and above the contextual prediction of trust emphasized in previous research. Accordingly, active trust development is conceptualized as a strategy to strengthen the basis for trust. Empirical evidence is ...
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作者：Pitsis, TS; Clegg, SR; Marosszeky, M; Rura-Polley, T
作者单位：University of Technology Sydney; University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Technology Sydney
摘要：In this paper we investigate a uniquely complex organizational context-that of the fast-tracked large-scale project management of a significant piece of Sydney 2000 Olympic infrastructure, which we researched in terms of its management through the future perfect. In a grounded analysis we resolved to track how the future perfect developed in the life of one large, complex project whose uniqueness meant that it was unable to be strategically planned in advance. We tracked the use of what we ter...
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作者：Perrone, V; Zaheer, A; McEvily, B
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We present a view of trust in boundary spanners as explained by the extent of role autonomy, a multidimensional concept that reflects the discretion that agents have in interpreting and enacting their roles. We argue that, in a buyer-supplier context, purchasing managers will be trusted to a greater extent by supplier representatives when they are free from constraints that limit their ability to interpret their boundary-spanning roles. We conceptualize and measure three key components of role...
