Friends or Strangers? Firm-Specific Uncertainty, Market Uncertainty, and Network Partner SelectionOrganization Science - Tập 15 Số 3 - Trang 259-275 - 2004
Christine M. Beckman, Pamela R. Haunschild, Damon J. Phillips
In this study, we address the topic of interorganizational network change by
exploring factors that affect the choice of alliance and interlock partners.
While many studies have been devoted to investigating various factors driving
network partner choice, there is also an interesting and unexplored tension in
this body of work. On the one hand, much work emphasizes change in social
structure—showi... hiện toàn bộ
Ambidexterity in Technology Sourcing: The Moderating Role of Absorptive CapacityOrganization Science - Tập 20 Số 4 - Trang 759-780 - 2009
Frank T. Rothaermel, Maria Tereza Alexandre
A firm's organizational and technological boundaries are two important
demarcation lines when sourcing for technology. Based on this theoretical lens,
four possible combinations of exploration and exploitation emerge. Applying an
ambidexterity perspective to a firm's technology sourcing strategy, we
hypothesize that a curvilinear relationship exists between a firm's technology
sourcing mix and its... hiện toàn bộ
Corporate Championing and Antagonism as Forms of Political Behavior: An R&D PerspectiveOrganization Science - Tập 11 Số 4 - Trang 429-447 - 2000
Stephen K. Markham
Individuals in general management, marketing, production, and customer service
undertake corporate political roles of championing and antagonism in support of
or opposition to research and development (R&D) projects. R&D personnel see
these champions acting politically because they favor projects that align more
closely with the firm's business interests than with its specific technologies.
Champi... hiện toàn bộ
The Kindness of Strangers: The Usefulness of Electronic Weak Ties for Technical AdviceOrganization Science - Tập 7 Số 2 - Trang 119-135 - 1996
David Constant, Lee Sproull, Sara Kiesler
People use weak ties—relationships with acquaintances or strangers—to seek help
unavailable from friends or colleagues. Yet in the absence of personal
relationships or the expectation of direct reciprocity, help from weak ties
might not be forthcoming or could be of low quality. We examined the practice of
distant employees (strangers) exchanging technical advice through a large
organizational com... hiện toàn bộ
Quản trị Hệ sinh thái Công nghệ Dịch bởi AI Organization Science - Tập 25 Số 4 - Trang 1195-1215 - 2014
Jonathan Wareham, Paul Fox, Josep Lluís Cano Giner
Chiến lược nền tảng công nghệ cung cấp một cách tiếp cận mới để điều phối một
danh mục phong phú các sự đóng góp của nhiều tác nhân độc lập, những người tạo
thành một hệ sinh thái các đối tác bổ sung đa dạng xung quanh một lõi nền tảng
ổn định. Hình thức tổ chức này đã được sử dụng thành công trong các lĩnh vực như
smartphone, trò chơi, phần mềm thương mại và công nghiệp. Các hệ sinh thái công
ngh... hiện toàn bộ
Framing Contests: Strategy Making Under UncertaintyOrganization Science - Tập 19 Số 5 - Trang 729-752 - 2008
Sarah Kaplan
I develop a model of framing contests to elucidate how cognitive frames
influence organizational strategy making. By using ethnographic techniques to
study the day-to-day practices of strategy making in one firm, I examine the
ways actors attempted to transform their own cognitive frames of a situation
into predominant frames through a series of interactions. Frames are the means
by which managers... hiện toàn bộ
Strategy Making Under Causal Ambiguity: Conceptual Issues and Empirical EvidenceOrganization Science - Tập 8 Số 4 - Trang 414-442 - 1997
Elaine Mosakowski
This paper examines how a decision maker's inability to discern the causal
structure that leads to his firm's success or failure (i.e., causal ambiguity)
shifts attention away from making the so-called “right” decision toward managing
the strategy-making process. For this process, I advocate a calculative
experimentation approach that lies somewhere between truly random
trial-and-error behavior an... hiện toàn bộ
The Inherent Limits of Organizational Structure and the Unfulfilled Role of Hierarchy: Lessons from a Near-WarOrganization Science - Tập 18 Số 3 - Trang 455-477 - 2007
Michael G. Jacobides
This paper examines how Greece nearly went to war with Turkey in 1996 over the
uninhabited islets of Imia, to the detriment of the Greek decision makers
involved. This escalation was driven by fragmented, piecemeal reactions
resulting from the organizational structure of the Greek administration, which
shaped identities, defined repertoires of action, sustained routines, and
filtered and interpret... hiện toàn bộ
Perspective—Neo-Carnegie: The Carnegie School’s Past, Present, and Reconstructing for the FutureOrganization Science - Tập 18 Số 3 - Trang 523-536 - 2007
Giovanni Gavetti, Daniel A. Levinthal, William Ocasio
Cyert and March’s (1963) A Behavioral Theory of the Firm and the broader
Carnegie School form critical theoretical underpinnings for modern organization
studies. Despite its impact, however, we suggest that researchers who rely on
the Carnegie School have progressively lost touch with its defining commitment
to a decision-centered view of organizations. Decision making has given way to
learning, r... hiện toàn bộ
When Truces Collapse: A Longitudinal Study of Price-Adjustment RoutinesOrganization Science - Tập 21 Số 5 - Trang 955-972 - 2010
Mark Zbaracki, Mark Bergen
We analyze the microfoundations of the routine in a study of price-adjustment
processes at a manufacturing firm. Existing theory says that truces balance
cognitive and motivational differences across functions, but there is scant
evidence on how truces work. We show both stability and change in routines. For
minor price adjustments, routines incorporate truces in stable but separate
market interpr... hiện toàn bộ