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作者：Kasbekar, Chirag
作者单位：Australian National University
摘要：In the wake of exogenous institutional change, organizational populations often experience a legitimacy shock. As a new institutional logic becomes dominant, old symbols and practices are delegitimated and new ones legitimated. Old symbols and practices persist into the postshock period, however, forming an ecology of diverse cohorts and audience schemas, some divergent and others convergent with the new institutional logic. Because new organizations look to their rivals for knowledge of how t...
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作者：Kwon, Winston; Clarke, Ian; Vaara, Eero; Mackay, Rowan; Wodak, Ruth
作者单位：University of Edinburgh; University of Oxford; Lancaster University
摘要：Irony is an effective means of dealing with controversy in organizations, but there is a paucity of knowledge of the various ways in which irony helps managers to do so without necessarily 'solving' those issues. By drawing on discursive incongruity theory, we examine the use of irony when managers are confronted with controversial issues in a multinational company. As a result, we identify and elaborate on four distinctively different pathways of how irony helps participants to move on: 'acqu...
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作者：Giarratana, Marco S.; Santalo, Juan
作者单位：IE University
摘要：Transaction costs strongly influence diversification dynamics, as predicted by resource theory. A mainstream view links the profitability of diversification with the existence of transaction costs that prevent a firm from trading in fungible, scale-free resources. This study applies a neo-Penrosian perspective to transaction costs, with the notion that diversification may be driven by the redeployment of non-scale-free resources. An empirical analysis, using tax changes in the drink sector as ...
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作者：Claes, Kim; Vissa, Balagopal
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); INSEAD Business School
摘要：We ask how social similarity between start-up founders and venture capitalists (VCs) influences VCs' pricing decisions and returns on investments. We conceptualize how regional and caste similarity, two salient aspects of social similarity in India, affect two distinct aspects of deal pricing: premoney valuation and investors' downside risk protection in the Indian venture capital market. We theorize that VCs reflect the benefits and costs of social similarity by setting higher premoney valuat...
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作者：Sorsa, Virpi; Vaara, Eero
作者单位：Hanken School of Economics; University of Oxford
摘要：This study examines how pluralistic organizations confronting fundamental differences in values can proceed with strategic change. By drawing on a longitudinal case analysis of strategic change in a Nordic city organization, we show how the proponents and challengers play a rhetorical game in which they simultaneously promote their own value-based interests and ideas and seek ways to enable change. In particular, we identify a pattern in which the discussion moved from initial contestation thr...
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作者：Younkin, Peter; Kashkooli, Keyvan
作者单位：University of Oregon; Santa Clara University
摘要：New entrants in established markets face competing recommendations over whether it is better to establish their legitimacy by conforming to type or to differentiate themselves from incumbents by proposing novel contributions. This dilemma is particularly acute in cultural markets in which demand for novelty and attention to legitimacy are both high. We draw upon research in organizational theory and entrepreneurship to hypothesize the effects of pursuing narrow or broad appeals on the performa...
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作者：Gray, Steven M.; Knight, Andrew P.; Baer, Markus
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：We develop and test a theoretical model that explains how collective psychological ownership-shared feelings of joint possession over something-emerges within new creative teams that were launched to advance one person's (i.e., a creative lead's) preconceived idea. Our model proposes that such teams face a unique challenge-an initial asymmetry in feelings of psychological ownership for the idea between the creative lead who conceived the idea and new team members who are beginning to work on t...
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作者：Young-Hyman, Trevor; Kleinbaum, Adam M.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; Dartmouth College
摘要：Novel external partnerships are valuable but risky, and scholars have examined the organization- and individual-level determinants of firms' decisions to pursue these new relationships. Yet, in organizations performing complex and knowledge-intensive work, decisions about interorganizational relationships are often made within teams. We characterize these decisions as a two-stage process in which a team member proposes a partner and other team members respond, supporting or challenging the pro...
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作者：Csaszar, Felipe A.; Ostler, James
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A long-standing question in the organizations literature is whether firms are better off by using simple or complex representations of their task environment. We address this question by developing a formal model of how firm performance depends on the process by which firms learn and use representations. Building on ideas from cognitive science, our model conceptualizes this process in terms of how firms construct a representation of the environment and then use that representation when making...
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作者：Ganz, Scott C.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Early-stage experiments are central to the design-thinking approach to organizational innovation, and they are also a core practice in evidence-based management. Organizations use experiments to test new strategies in a low-stakes setting before escalating their commitment to a new initiative. Yet organizations also use experiments to evaluate managers who will implement these strategies in a high-stakes setting. I develop a formal model to demonstrate that these two types of evaluations are f...
