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作者：FREEMAN, SJ; CAMERON, KS
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Organizational downsizing is becoming pervasive as a characteristic of modem organizations, yet little scholarly literature has addressed the processes and outcomes associated with this phenomenon at the organizational level. Downsizing has often mistakenly been confused operationally with concepts such as decline, layoffs, or nonadaptability, indicating that the definition of the concept remains imprecise. This paper offers a straightforward, operational definition of downsizing. Then the lit...
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作者：NORD, WR; CONNELL, AF
摘要：This paper attempts to facilitate conversation among organization scientists by advancing a philosophical perspective (agnosticism) that has been ignored in the recent subjective-objective debate. As agnostics, we suggest that the controversy may not be resolvable and that organization science can carry on in the absence of such resolution. We propose a series of concepts to guide the ''post-debate'' field, emphasizing that mutual striving for a ''sense of accurate reception'' (SOAR) can provi...
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作者：DAFT, RL; LEWIN, AY
作者单位：Duke University
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作者：HENNART, JF
摘要：Why are firms sometimes more efficient than markets at organizing transactions? Why are most transactions arrayed neither at the pure ''market'' nor at the pure ''hierarchy'' end of the continuum, but rather in the ''swollen middle,'' incorporating features of both ''market'' and ''hierarchy''? Why don't firms make greater use of price incentives? This paper addresses these three questions by developing a model of the choice of institution. One key building block is the distinction between org...
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作者：ZALD, MN
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Recent critiques of social science have emphasized their ties to the concerns of academic disciplines usually labelled as humanities. Building on this literature, this paper argues that organizational studies must be reconfigured as science and humanities. Substantive examples are drawn from the links of organizational theory to history, the use of semiotics, rhetorical analysis and narrative approaches to policy choices. Reconfiguring the field also has implications for applied work leading t...
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作者：GRESOV, C; HAVEMAN, HA; OLIVA, TA
作者单位：Duke University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University
摘要：Organizational design research has largely ignored the effects of inertia on competitive resPonse, despite the centrality of the concept in theories of organizational evolution. In evolutionary research, inertia is frequently invoked as an explanation for why organizations delay or completely fail to respond to changes in competitive pressure. Inertia is thus seen as a primary antecedent of strategic consequences such as impaired performance and organizational mortality. Such explanations, how...
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作者：WEISS, SE
摘要：International negotiations between organizations project a complexity that makes them a challenge to describe, explain and improve. Their many elements and dynamics challenge especially those researchers and practitioners who seek a comprehensive yet essential understanding of these negotiations. Toward that end, this article develops a new analytic perspective that focuses on three key facets of negotiation-parties' Relationships, parties' Behaviors, and influencing Conditions (RBC)-and their...
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作者：SCHICK, AG; PONEMON, LA
作者单位：Babson College
摘要：This paper builds upon the work of researchers who have examined the effects of decline on an organization's exchange partners. Its purpose is to examine the relationship between auditors' perceptions of oganizational decline and audit firms' specification of clients' audit risk. Based on relevant organizational decline and accounting literatures, we propose that perceptions of greater decline are associated with higher firm assigned audit risk. We also propose that larger, public and longer-t...
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作者：PARKHE, A
摘要：The dramatic growth of global strategic alliances between firms is fundamentally reshaping the nature of international business. Indeed, interfirm cooperation has become a crucial component of the pursuit of global competitive advantage. Yet such alliances are enormously complex to manage successfully, in part because of the opportunity and incentive to cheat, and profit at the partner's expense, that is an inescapable part of these relationships. Consequently, strategic alliances are frequent...
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作者：DAVENI, RA; KESNER, IF
作者单位：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：In this paper we explore the following research question: When faced with a tender offer, why do some firms resist and others cooperate? In the past, researchers have suggested that the manner in which firms respond to takeover attempts may be, in part, a function of managers' personal motivations. We contribute to this line of research by questioning whether other factors might be involved. Specifically, we examine whether cooperation may be a function of the friendliness of the bidding compa...
