Most theorizing on the relationship between corporate social/environmental
performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP) assumes that the
current evidence is too fractured or too variable to draw any generalizable
conclusions. With this integrative, quantitative study, we intend to show that
the mainstream claim that we have little generalizable knowledge about CSP and
CFP is built o... hiện toàn bộ
Deinstitutionalization refers here to the erosion or discontinuity of an
institution alized organizational activity or practice. This paper identifies a
set of organiza tional and environmental factors that are hypothesized to
determine the likelihood that institutionalized organizational behaviours will
be vulnerable to erosion or rejection over time. Contrary to the emphasis in
institutional the... hiện toàn bộ
There is current interest in the competitive advantage that knowledge may
provide for organizations and in the significance of knowledge workers, organ
izational competencies and knowledge-intensive firms. Yet the concept of
knowledge is complex and its relevance to organization theory has been insuf
ficiently developed. The paper offers a review and critique of current
approaches, and outlines an... hiện toàn bộ
Organizational learning is currently the focus of considerable attention, and it
is addressed by a broad range of literatures. Organization theory, industrial
econ omics, economic history, and business, management and innovation studies
all approach the question of how organizations learn. A number of branches of
psychology are also revealing on the issue. This paper assesses these various
literat... hiện toàn bộ
We investigated an organizational field where competing institutional logics
existed for a lengthy period of time. We identified four mechanisms for managing
the rivalry of competing logics that facilitated and strengthened the separate
identities of key actors, thus providing a way for competing logics to co-exist
and separately guide the behaviour of different actors. We contribute to the
instit... hiện toàn bộ
This paper presents a model of project capability-building consisting of two
interacting levels of learning. First, it describes the bottom-up, ‘project-led’
phases of learning that occur when a firm moves into a new technology/market
base: an exploratory ‘vanguard project’ phase; a ‘project-to-project’ phase to
capture lessons learned; and a ‘project-to-organization’ phase when an
organization in... hiện toàn bộ
Given the recent accumulation of research on inter-organizational relations and
networks and the current fragmentation of the field, it is time to take stock
and explore the achievements of, and future challenges for, this field of study.
On the basis of a network analysis of the 158 articles on inter-organizational
relations and networks that were published in four leading journals from 1980 to
1... hiện toàn bộ
Porter's (1980) three generic strategies have received a great deal of attention
recently in the literature on strategic management. In this, the first of two
papers, we employ methods of taxonomy on the PIMS data base of consumer durable
business units to determine whether Porter's differentiation, cost leadership
and focus types occur with any degree of regularity. Then, in a sequel paper to
app... hiện toàn bộ
While most literature promotes a positive impact of social capital on various
organizational performance outcomes, empirical results on the social
capital—organizational performance link are not conclusive. We propose that one
reason for the discordant findings is that research has largely not accounted
for the mediating process steps that translate social capital into
organizational performance o... hiện toàn bộ