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作者：Winter, SG; Szulanski, G
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Replication, a familiar phenomenon sometimes referred to as the McDonalds approach, entails the creation and operation of a large number of similar outlets that deliver a product or perform a service. Companies pursuing this strategy are now active in over 60 industries. Although replicators; are becoming one of the dominant organizational forms of our time, they have been neglected by scholars interested in organizations. As a result of this neglect, replication is typically conceptualized as...
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作者：Denrell, J; March, JG
作者单位：Stockholm School of Economics; Stanford University
摘要：Individuals and social systems are often portrayed as risk averse and resistant to change. Such propensities are characteristically attributed to individual, organizational, and cultural traits such as risk aversion, uncertainty-avoidance, discounting, and an unwillingness to change. This paper explores an alternative interpretation of such phenomena. We show how the reproduction of successful actions inherent in adaptive processes, such as learning and competitive selection and reproduction, ...
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作者：Kogut, B; Kunreuther, H
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
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作者：McKendrick, DG; Carroll, GR
作者单位：University of California System; University of California San Diego; Stanford University
摘要：This article asks a basic question of organizational evolution: When and where will a new organizational form emerge? Using a definition of organizational forms as external identity codes, we focus on two answers drawn from contemporary organization theory. The first holds that formal institutions such as industry associations and standard-setting bodies will result in a taken-for-granted organizational form. The second answer contends that increasing organizational density (number of organiza...
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作者：Markham, SK
作者单位：North Carolina State University
摘要：Individuals in general management, marketing, production, and customer service undertake corporate political roles of championing and antagonism in support of or opposition to research and development (R&D) projects. R&D personnel see these champions acting politically because they favor projects that align more closely with the firm's business interests than with its specific technologies. Champions find resources and protect their projects from termination; however, they are equally likely t...
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作者：Kochan, TA; Rubinstein, SA
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要：The idea that the firm should be accountable not only to shareholders but also to a broader set of stakeholders is in the air. But what would such a firm look like? This study dissects one organization that has some of the markings of a stakeholder organization, with a particularly innovative approach to employees as stakeholders. The dissection reveals some of the promise and the pitfalls of the underlying model.
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作者：Feldman, MS
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：In this paper I claim that organizational routines have a great potential for change even though they are often perceived, even defined, as unchanging. I present descriptions of routines that change as participants respond to outcomes of previous iterations of a routine. Based on the changes in these routines I propose a performative model of organizational routines. This model suggests that there is an internal dynamic to routines that can promote continuous change. The internal dynamic is ba...
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作者：Weiss, RM
作者单位：University of Delaware
摘要：Postmodernism, an intellectual movement that originated in the humanities, has received considerable attention in the organization theory literature. Because many scholars remain uncertain as to just what this controversial perspective is, the present article offers a straightforward explanation of postmodernism's basic themes. Additionally, the author attempts to provide some balance to the overwhelmingly sympathetic presentations of postmodernism in the organization theory literature by offe...
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作者：Das, TK; Teng, BS
作者单位：City University of New York (CUNY) System; Baruch College (CUNY); George Washington University
摘要：The instabilities of strategic alliances have been examined in the literature through a number of theoretical approaches. Alliance instabilities refer to major changes or dissolutions of alliances that are unplanned from the perspective of one or more partners. Although the literature identifies certain characteristics of strategic alliances that may lead to their unplanned dissolution, the extent of our understanding of this subject appears to be fragmented and incomplete. In this article we ...
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作者：Milberg, SJ; Smith, HJ; Burke, SJ
作者单位：Georgetown University; Wake Forest University; University of Sydney
摘要：The 1990s have seen a resurgence of interest in information privacy. Public opinion surveys show that many citizens are becoming greatly concerned about threats to their information privacy, with levels of such concern reaching all-time highs. Perhaps as a response to the growing concerns of citizens, the media are devoting more attention to privacy issues, and governmental regulation of the corporate privacy environment is increasing in many countries. Almost all developed countries have grap...
