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作者：Polley, D
摘要：Nonlinear dynamics provides two metaphors for organizational dynamics, bifurcation, and mathematical chaos. These metaphors make possible distinct observations about turbulent organizational processes that have previously been described as ''chaotic.'' Careful distinction between the metaphors affords additional insight into organizational processes and can aid theory development. The metaphors are integrated into organizational process research through application to two current process theor...
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作者：Golden-Biddle, K; Rao, H
作者单位：University of Alberta; Emory University
摘要：This paper takes a fresh look at organizational governance. Using qualitative methods and an interpretive perspective, the authors provide a thick description of the interplay between a large nonprofit organization's board of directors and top managers. Their account highlights the role of organizational dramaturgy and identity in shaping directors' behaviors.
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作者：Nault, BR
摘要：Information technology (IT) enables a new refinement of the horizontal network organization. We show that IT can be applied to a hybrid form of market and hierarchy, franchising, and demonstrate how the resulting horizontal network organization can be an improved organization form. Specifically, we use IT-enabled ''ownership of customers'' to refine the horizontal network organization and show how that refinement can alleviate the problem of franchise underinvestment in traditional franchising...
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作者：Tyre, MJ; vonHippel, E
摘要：This paper explores the nature of adaptive learning around new technology in organizations. To understand this issue, we examine the process of problem solving involving new production equipment during early factory use. We find that adaptation is a situated process, in that different organizational settings (1) contain different kinds of clues about the underlying issues, (2) offer different resources for generating and analyzing information, and (3) evoke different assumptions on the part of...
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作者：Zenger, TR; Hesterly, WS
作者单位：Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：A vast array of organizational innovations and changes are transforming US corporations. Large firms have dramatically downsized, refocused, and vertically disaggregated. They increasingly obtain goods and services, pursue complex development efforts, and exploit horizontal synergies without the aid of formal hierarchy. Large firms are also internally disaggregating into smaller, more autonomous units that are treated much like external subcontractors. The authors argue that these organization...
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作者：Jones, TM; Ryan, LV
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：This paper makes two important contributions. It is an example of MESO theory development which bridges subfields of organization theory with research on individual ethical behavior, and it presents a compelling theoretical framework for the idea that the design of the organization can have profound implications for the moral and ethical behavior of organization members.
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作者：Collins, D
摘要：During the heady revolutionary days of the 1960s, Slater and Bennis (1964) declared the inevitability of democracy at the workplace. Twenty-five years later, in a retrospection of that article, the authors claimed that they were right (Slater and Bennis 1990). Unfortunately, the data do not support their claim (Lawler et al. 1992). Nonetheless, workplace democracy is inevitable. This article argues in favor of the inevitability of participatory management, one form of workplace democracy, on t...
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作者：Ashforth, BE; Humphrey, RH
作者单位：Virginia Commonwealth University
摘要：Drawing on categorization theory, semiotics, and labeling theory, we argue that categories and labels are widely utilized by individuals in organizational settings to help structure and simplify the social environment, primarily for reasons of understanding, consensus, and control. Based largely on such situational criteria as role and rank, people are sorted into various categories and are perceived and treated as exemplars or prototypes of the category. The labels attached to these categorie...
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作者：Crowston, K
摘要：Design of new organizational forms can begin with an analysis of existing organizational processes and identification of ways to change these process arrangements. Kevin Crowston applies coordination theory to show how task processes can be decomposed, documented, and altered to create new forms of organizing work. Crowston's research demonstrates the potential of coordination theory in the study of new organizational forms and process redesign.
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作者：Walker, G; Kogut, B; Shan, WJ
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper is of interest because of its comparison of social capital theory and structural hole theory in explaining network formation. The paper demonstrates, in the case of biotechnology start-ups, that network formation and industry growth are significantly influenced by the development and nurturing of social capital. The paper raises several important implications: structural hole theory may apply more to networks of market transactions than to networks of cooperative relationships, and ...
