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作者：Ahmadjian, CL; Lincoln, JR
作者单位：Columbia University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：The keiretsu structuring of assembler-supplier relations historically enabled Japanese auto assemblers to remain lean and flexible while enjoying a level of control over supply akin to that of vertical integration. Yet currently there is much talk of breakdowns in keiretsu networks. This paper examines some recent developments in Japanese parts-supply keiretsu. We argue that keiretsu relationships are drifting from hybrid or network (i.e., keiretsu) governance modes toward the extremes of arms...
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作者：Barnett, WP; Freeman, J
作者单位：Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：When organizations make important changes, such as introducing products based on new technologies, they may gain strategic advantages but they also experience disruptions. We argue that these disruptions are especially strong when organizations introduce multiple products simultaneously, leading to a temporary increase in the hazard of organizational failure. To test this hypothesis, we study the effects of new product introduction on the survival of U.S. semiconductor manufacturers. We find t...
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作者：Shane, S
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Despite a long tradition of research on organizational mortality, organizational theorists have not examined the effect of incentive contracting on firm survival. This paper fills this gap by examining the effect of incentive contracting on the survival of U.S. business format franchise systems over the period 1984-1996. The paper finds empirical support for several hypotheses derived from efficient contracting theory. In general, large firms that adopt policies which screen agents, signal qua...
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作者：Schoonhoven, CB
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作者：Adler, PS
作者单位：University of Southern California
摘要：Recent conceptualizations of trends in the structure of U.S. industry have focused on the relative importance of markets, hierarchies, and hybrid intermediate forms. This paper advances the discussion by distinguishing three ideal-typical forms of organization and their corresponding coordination mechanisms: market/price, hierarchy/authority, and community/trust. Differ ent institutions combine the three forms/mechanisms in different proportions. Economic and organizational theory have shown t...
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作者：Brown, JS; Duguid, P
作者单位：Xerox
摘要：While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge, which at times is described as sticky'' and at other times leaky. This paper is written on the premise that there is more: than a problem with metaphors at issue here, and more than accounts of different types of knowledge (such as ''tacit'' and ''explicit'') can readily explain. Rather, these contrary descriptions o...
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作者：Thomas, JB; Sussman, SW; Henderson, JC
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; Boston University
摘要：Strategic learning aims to generate learning in support of future strategic initiatives that will, in turn, foster knowledge asymmetries that can lead to differences in organizational performance. From a case study of a unique organization whose purpose is to facilitate strategic knowledge distillation, it was found that this process is characterized by targeted information gathering that relies on diverse experts for interpretation as well as validation. It also embodies the organizational ca...
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作者：Haveman, HA; Russo, MV; Meyer, AD
作者单位：Columbia University; University of Oregon
摘要：A central debate in organizational theory concerns how organizations evolve. There are two diametrically opposing viewpoints. Adaptation theories predict that change occurs as fluid organizations adjust to meet shifting environmental demands, while selection theories predict that change occurs through the differential selection and replacement of inert organizations as environmental demands vary over time. Our paper bridges these polar opposites by using a punctuated equilibrium framework to e...
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作者：Purvis, RL; Sambamurthy, V; Zmud, RW
作者单位：Clemson University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Oklahoma System; University of Oklahoma - Norman
摘要：The ability to integrate dispersed pockets of expertise and institute an organizational repository of knowledge is considered to be vital for sustained effectiveness in contemporary business environments. Information technologies provide cost-effective functionalities for building knowledge platforms through systematic acquisition, storage, and dissemination of organizational knowledge. However, in order to gain the value-adding potential of organizational knowledge, it is not sufficient to si...
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作者：Schulze, WS; Lubatkin, MH; Dino, RN; Buchholtz, AK
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Connecticut; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：The authors have conducted the kind of research here that we all reach for but too often fail to grasp. I That is, this study of the governance of family firms is theoretically rich and practically relevant. Our colleagues have pressed the limits of agency theory to explore the control of owners' opportunistic behavior, behavior that interestingly just might be rooted in an altruistic impulse. They have done this by empirically examining privately-held, family-managed firms. While such firms e...
