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作者：Lee, Brandon H.; Hiatt, Shon R.; Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Southern California; University of Alberta; National Research Council Canada
摘要：Although existing research has demonstrated the importance of attaining legitimacy for new market categories, few scholars have considered the trade-offs associated with such actions. Using the U.S. organic food product category as a context, we explore how one standards-based certification organization-the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)-sought to balance efforts to legitimate a nascent market category with retaining a shared, distinctive identity among its members. Our findings s...
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作者：Tzabbar, Daniel; Margolis, Jaclyn
作者单位：Drexel University; Pepperdine University
摘要：Using a unique longitudinal study of U.S. biotechnology ventures, we advance extant research by showing that a founding team's educational heterogeneity and prior founding experience have a positive and significant effect on the likelihood of a firm's creating breakthrough innovation. However, we demonstrate that these relationships depend on the firm's stage of life and decision-making structure as reflected in its founder-CEO duality. Specifically, we show that the positive effect of a found...
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作者：Gary, Michael Shayne; Yang, Miles M.; Yetton, Philip W.; Sterman, John D.
作者单位：University of New South Wales Sydney; Curtin University; Deakin University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Many academics, consultants, and managers advocate stretch goals to attain superior organizational performance. However, existing theory speculates that, although stretch goals may benefit some organizations, they are not a rule for riches for all organizations. To address this speculation, we use two experimental studies to explore the effects on the mean, median, variance, and skewness of performance of stretch compared with moderate goals. Participants were assigned moderate or stretch goal...
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作者：Dattee, Brice; Barlow, James
作者单位：emlyon business school; Imperial College London
摘要：We use the case of a whole-system change program in a national healthcare system to empirically examine the multilevel dynamics underlying organizational adaptation. Our analysis demonstrates how the cognitive distance between agents' causal representations affects opportunities to cooperate in hierarchical systems. Using complexity theory, we identify a scale-invariant causal pathway that can be applied recursively across many organizational levels. At each level, three coupled feedback loops...
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作者：Obloj, Tomasz; Zenger, Todd
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：We investigate the mechanisms that shape social comparison in organizations and generate social comparison costs. In particular, we focus on heterogeneity in the strength and type of incentives and argue that, from an efficient design perspective, such variance in rewards is a double-edged sword. While the sorting and incentive effects that result may increase productivity, the social comparison processes that arise may dampen it. We posit that the mechanisms underlying these behavioral costs ...
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作者：Aoki, Katsuki; Wilhelm, Miriam
作者单位：Meiji University; University of Groningen
摘要：Most ambidexterity theories deal with managing exploration-exploitation trade-offs among business units within firms or between alliance partners, but these theories remain yet to be extended to the buyer-supplier relationship level. Through an in-depth case study of the Toyota Motor Corporation, we illustrate how buying firms can simultaneously achieve short-term and long-term benefits with their long-standing suppliers. Taking two inherently different activities as a starting point-mass prod...
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作者：Jancsary, Dennis; Meyer, Renate E.; Hoellerer, Markus A.; Barberio, Vitaliano
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; Copenhagen Business School; University of New South Wales Sydney
摘要：In this article, we develop a structural model for studying how constellations of multiple institutional logics are instantiated at the organizational level. Conceptually, we complement an institutional logics perspective with structural interactionism and network theory and model a constellation as a nexus of organizational role identities and counterroles. The structure of such a nexus reveals degrees of differentiation and interconnectedness between logics as well as distinct interfaces. We...
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作者：Bonet, Rocio; Salvador, Fabrizio
作者单位：IE University
摘要：Distributedwork is ubiquitous in modern organizations, as are situations where managers and workers interact remotely. Past research postulates the existence of costs of manager-worker separation, but empirical evidence is scant and inconclusive. Building on the literature on manager-worker separation and distributed work we claim that the effect of manager-worker separation on worker performance varies depending on three factors: task complexity, collocation of the worker with experienced pee...
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作者：Choudhury, Prithwiraj
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Prior research has established a relation between intrafirm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas that occurs because of intrafirm mobility. But a second mechanism may also be atwork: intrafirm mobility might help distant employees secure access to resources for their innovative projects. Using unique data on travel, employme...
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作者：Oliveira, Nuno; Lumineau, Fabrice
作者单位：Tilburg University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This study examines how the joint use of integrators and contracts either enables or hampers coordination and, in turn, the performance of interorganizational project networks. Using extensive qualitative analyses and sociometric techniques, we investigated coordination among organizations during seven small-and medium-sized building projects. Our longitudinal study reveals how integrators develop connecting functions that, together with contracts' steering functions, largely drive coordinatio...
