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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

provide reason to dismiss them as the wanderings of a restless mind. We propose that it is precisely the lack of control over and access to the process by which spontaneous thoughts come to mind that leads them to be perceived to reveal special self-insight. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategies and Tactics in NGO-Government Relations: Insights from Slum Housing in Mumbai

By: Ramya Ramanath and Alnoor Ebrahim
Relationships between nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and government agencies have been variously described in the nonprofit literature as cooperative, complementary, adversarial, confrontational, or even co-optive. But how do NGO-government relationships emerge... View Details
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Housing; Corporate Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Nonprofit Organizations; Change Management; Business Strategy; Growth and Development; Non-Governmental Organizations; Accommodations Industry; Mumbai
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Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System.

By: Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Adam Balila
Roles provide a key coordination mechanism in peer-production. Whereas one stream in the literature has focused on the structural responsibilities associated with roles, the another has stressed the emergent nature of work. To date, these streams have proceeded largely... View Details
Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Work; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing
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  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

  Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

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Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that have come to light in the last decade-rigging LIBOR, misselling payment protection insurance,... View Details
  • December 2010
  • Article

Acquisitions as Exaptation: The Legacy of Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang
This study focuses on the imprinting of institutional environments, particularly how founding institutions impact intra-organizational capabilities and how such imprints may have different external manifestations in subsequent historical eras. We introduce the concept... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Commercial Banking; Organizations; Theory; Policy; Government and Politics; Management Practices and Processes; Strategy; Competency and Skills; United States
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  • 30 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 30

this book can help you change your life. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/what-you-re-really-meant-to-do-a-road-map-for-reaching-your-unique-potential/an/11370E-KND-ENG 2006 Management Science Overcoming Resistance to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Gender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn
We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates negotiate with the employers. At Level 2, candidates negotiate with domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Jobs and Positions; Game Theory; Gender
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  • 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007

  Working PapersCoupled Search Processes: Why Is It So Difficult to Find that Organizational Design Matters? Authors:Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin Abstract Organizational design affects performance via... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

As HBS professor Laura Morgan Roberts sees it, if you aren't managing your own professional image, others are. "People are constantly observing your behavior and forming theories about your competence, character, and commitment,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

is the engine of organizational learning," says Edmondson. From Theory To Practice In the book, Edmondson makes the case for managers to shift from holding a static view of teamwork to this dynamic one.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and practice and that suggest new directions for future research. 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

centered on proving masculinity—in which such displays and interactions were absent. We use this case to develop theory about how organizational features, such as work practices and norms, can disrupt... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

estimates of corruption and study its relationship with organizational ownership. Book: http://www.cmi.no/research/project/?1473=the-international-handbook-on-the-economics-of Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity

Keywords: by Eric J. Van den Steen
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

Education, 2005, pp. 75-91. Michael C. Jensen and William H. Meckling, A Theory of the Firm: Governance, Residual Claims and Organizational Forms, Journal of Financial Economics, Vol. 3, No. 4, 1976. View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Feb 2020
  • Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

says Beer, the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. “So there’s this organizational silence, where no one feels comfortable speaking truth to power.” Avoiding a cynical organization This silence is not only a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 27 Apr 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

including Rivkin, who had spent their academic careers studying organizational design and organizational identity. A comprehensive study of the FBI’s transformation resulted in the paper "Does 'What We Do'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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