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- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
managing the political conflict and the informational and procedural shortcomings that accrue to organizational differentiation. Finally, we show that the creation of an independent group responsible for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
every quarter. The creation of these clusters creates proximity as profit centers perform complementary activities, making it more beneficial for them to coordinate. Our findings suggest that self-centered choices by profit centers are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
regular basis? And on top of sharing good practices, could it be extended to include the creation of new solutions and processes? Would this require more formalization of processes and more tracking of results? The case illustrates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
knowledge and value creation are distributed across many actors. We propose a theory of IP modularity based on value maximization net of transaction and agency costs. We then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
practice area creation is a critical imperative for professional services firms. Using theories of organizational territoriality and corporate charters, we conceptualize... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
Executive Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
we find support for most of our hypotheses. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how team organization, organizational knowledge resources, and within-team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems. Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
difficult decisions regarding risk-taking incentives, leverage, and vesting since the goal of equity plans is to motivate long-run value creation in a cost-effective way. “The problem with equity-based pay is generally not that it fails... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
medical knowledge changes constantly, and hospital care units must learn if they are to provide high quality care. To develop a model of how improvement project teams promote essential organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
Healthcare, and Leadership. "The Initiative designation is meant to acknowledge a new phase of activity: one that we hope will engage the faculty, students, staff, and alumni in enhancing and extending both knowledge View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The alignment strategy must be... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
negatively related to project quality, and concentration is even more harmful for project quality for geographically dispersed teams. Our findings offer insight for theory and practice into how View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
and quasi-formal structures. This leads us to expect to find a higher proportion of homophilous interactions within these organizational structures than across their boundaries. We test our theory in an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
into asset prices. Position and Emotion: The Significance of Georg Simmel's Structural Theories for Leadership and Organizational Behavior Authors: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Rakesh Khurana Publication: In The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
science, they are direct participants in the creation of science. They straddle two worlds with very different expectations, time horizons, risks, and norms. New management skills, new organizational forms,... View Details
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
faced little consumer demand for natural products, and little consumer knowledge of what they entailed. The creation of new categories involved three overlapping waves of entrepreneurship. The first involved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
process of inferential learning. Drawing on the notions of knowledge reliability (the creation of shared meanings) and validity (understandings of cause and effect), we explore how organizations learn... View Details