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作者：Bergh, DD; Lawless, MW
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Duke University
摘要：The authors test whether acquisitions and divestitures are related to environmental uncertainty and diversification strategy. Drawing from transaction cost economics, they predicted that increases in environmental uncertainty would reduce a company's ability to manage its subsidiaries efficiently and would lead to divestiture. Conversely, they predicted that decreases in environmental uncertainty would enable a company to manage its subsidiaries more efficiently and would lead to acquisition. ...
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作者：Peterson, MF
作者单位：State University System of Florida; Florida Atlantic University
摘要：Analyses of the events that occur in the context of organization process are rapidly advancing. Scholars holding otherwise disparate views share the sense that social actors, including organizations, attend to, interpret, and act upon events. Analyses of events are converging from two theoretical and methodological starting points. Analyses that emphasize human subjectivity and contextual specificity are seeking increased cross-situational learning. Nomothetic analyses are building on their st...
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作者：Barr, PS
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia State University
摘要：This paper argues that a key component in a firm's strategic response to unfamiliar environmental events is the interpretations managers develop about the event itself and about key dimensions of their strategy. Using historical data from the pharmaceutical industry, the revealed interpretations of top management from six firms over a ten-year period are analyzed and are compared to the timing and content of the changes in strategy each firm undertook following a significant change in regulati...
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作者：Kusunoki, K; Nonaka, I; Nagata, A
作者单位：Hitotsubashi University
摘要：Using a large-scale data set on product development organizations of Japanese manufacturing firms, this paper explores the effects of organizational capabilities on product development performance. We present a conceptual framework assuming that organizational capabilities consist of multilayered knowledge. Based on the idea, we classify organizational capabilities into local, architectural, and process capabilities along two dimensions: modularity and designability. The empirical analysis dem...
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作者：Crossan, MM
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：It has often been proposed, or assumed, that improvisation is a useful metaphor to provide insight into managing and organizing. However, improvisation is more than a metaphor. It is an orientation and a technique to enhance the strategic renewal of an organization. The bridge between theory and practice is made through exercises used to develop the capacity to improvise, borrowed from theatre improvisation. This paper describes a typical improvisation workshop in developing six key areas that...
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作者：Brown, CV; Magill, SL
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Indianapolis; IU Kelley School of Business; University of Louisville
摘要：Most of today's organizations are struggling with the task of devising appropriate designs to enable the successful pursuit of their strategies, given their competencies, within their particular environmental context. This manuscript provides an elegant set of arguments which should enrich the thinking of both scholars and executives regarding the decision to centralize or decentralize decision responsibilities for a set of organizational activities. While these arguments are couched in terms ...
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作者：Bethel, JE; Liebeskind, JP
作者单位：Babson College; University of Southern California
摘要：The existing literature on the relationship between strategy and structure tends to ignore the legal dimension of the organization of diversified firms. Yet, there is considerable variation in the legal organization of diversified firms; while some of these firms are organized as simple corporations, many are organized as corporate groups in which certain lines of business are organized as separate, subsidiary firms. In this paper we argue that this variation in legal organization is observed ...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Hennart, JF; Kim, DJ; Zeng, M
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Yonsei University
摘要：A number of well-known studies report that between one-third and two-thirds of international joint ventures eventually break up. While many generalizations, explanations, and prescriptions have been based on these statistics, their meaning is unclear. First, all foreign affiliates are subject to normal business risk, and to the risk that they will be divested by parents for strategic or financial reasons. Are these risks higher for joint ventures than for wholly-owned subsidiaries? Second, joi...
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作者：Monge, PR; Fulk, J; Kalman, ME; Flanagin, AJ; Parnassa, C; Rumsey, S
作者单位：University of Southern California; Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific; University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：This article presents a public goods-based theory that describes the process of producing multifirm, alliance-based, interorganizational communication and information public goods. These goods offer participants in alliances collective benefits that are (a) nonexcludable, in that they are available to all alliance partners whether or not they have contributed, and (b) jointly supplied, in that partners' uses of the good are noncompeting. Two generic types of goods produced are connectivity, th...
