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作者：Barney, JB
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作者：Conner, KR; Prahalad, CK
摘要：This paper develops a resource-based--knowledge-based-theory of the firm. Its thesis is that the organizational mode through which individuals cooperate affects the knowledge they apply to business activity. We focus on the polar cases of organization within a firm as compared to market contracting. There will be a difference in the knowledge that is brought to bear, and hence in joint productivity, under the two options. Thus, as compared to opportunism-based, transaction-cost theory, we adva...
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作者：Child, J; Yuan, L
摘要：This shift from a command to market economy is never simple. This article provides a theoretically rigorous, yet institutionally rich look inside this change process, by examining investment decisions in China.
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作者：Richardson, J
摘要：Fashion apparel is a highly competitive business where product life is short and differentiation advantages are built on brand image and product styling that can be quickly imitated. Over the past two decades, competition on price and quality has intensified as low cost global manufacturing became available to even small competitors. Recently, competition has shifted to the arena of timing and know-how where vertically integrated firms gained the lead in implementing a set of process innovatio...
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作者：Frost, PJ
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作者：Kim, DJ; Kogut, B
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：As the invention of fundamental new sciences spawns subsequent research, discovery, and commercialization, core technologies branch into new applications and markets. Some of them evolve over time into many derived technologies, whereas others are essentially ''dead ends.'' The pattern of evolution and branching is called a ''technological trajectory.'' An intriguing question is whether some firms can ride the trajectory by developing proprietary experience in a ''platform technology.'' Becaus...
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作者：Kirsch, LJ
摘要：This manuscript provides needed clarification of a number of key constructs in the area of managerial control, a much discussed but inadequately studied phenomenon within the organization sciences. Further, the carefully designed field study provides clear evidence of the importance of both behavioral and self control in the management of complex organizational tasks.
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作者：Liebeskind, JP; Oliver, AL; Zucker, L; Brewer, M
作者单位：Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：We examine how two highly successful new biotechnology firms (NBFs) source their most critical input-scientific knowledge. We find that scientists at the two NBFs enter into large numbers of collaborative research efforts with scientists at other organizations, especially universities. Formal market contracts are rarely used to govern these exchanges of scientific knowledge. bur findings suggest that the use of boundary-spanning social networks by the two NBFs increases both their learning and...
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作者：Ciborra, CU
摘要：The global technology strategy of Olivetti, a leading European computer firm, is analyzed over the last decade in order to illustrate how high-tech firms undergo transformations which not only tend to destroy their best core competencies, but also affect their very business identity. Task uncertainty is so pronounced that conventional ways of looking at the organizational structures and processes, such as the transaction costs approach or the strategy-structure link, need to be amended in favo...
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作者：Buenger, V; Daft, RL; Conlon, EJ; Austin, J
作者单位：University of Notre Dame; United States Department of Defense; United States Air Force; United States Air Force Academy
摘要：Managers recognize that they must satisfy a variety of demands, some contradictory. The authors investigated this circumstance using Quinn and Rohrbaugh's competing values model. They report the findings of a study that identified and measured the four competing values (internal process value, rational goal value, human relations value, and open system value) across organizations and investigated whether contextual and structural variables were systematically associated with those value sets. ...
