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- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design...
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- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
Forming A Research Partnership Teresa Amabile discussed a comprehensive field study in which her research team collected confidential, personal work diaries from 238 white-collar employees at seven disparate companies. The key finding:...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
sample of 1,083 acquisitions of venture capital-backed private companies from 1976 and 2001, we find strong evidence that venture capital firms can form a bridge between acquiring firms and target firms that reduces asymmetric information...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights:...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to make decisions in the field...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Commons: Lessons from Teachers' Participation in the Design of New Schools By: Gil, Nuno A., and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We argue that a design commons can be an advantageous organizational form under...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
this information would help managers better understand their big-picture role and perhaps lead to more ethical conduct in business. Manda Salls: What did you learn from your look at organizational research, and how has this research...
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by Manda Salls
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
for organizational forms beyond the executive team. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982531 Causes and Consequences of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts Authors:Healy, Paul M., and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary systems that...
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by Harvard Management Update
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
delivery had almost entirely been overlooked. Before being able to generate revenue through the call center, institutions have to fully understand and be able to implement superior customer service." "Each service interaction View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
percent of board members are women. They teamed with Fletcher, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in organizational behavior, to answer questions on gender, competition, and cooperation that have not been addressed in previous research: Do...
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by Kim Girard
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
creativity is absolutely essential for current business success. I define creativity as producing novel, workable ideas and solutions to problems; innovation is implementing those ideas within an organizational context. You need novel and...
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Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
American managerial capitalism, the Japanese cultural heritage fostered a form of management Chandler called "group capitalism." As many observers have noted, the homogeneity of Japanese society, its isolationism during the...
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- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
partners. We introduce the managed ecosystem governance form in which a central organization engages external communities and also manages these communities by maintaining some degree of control over their activities. This model is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
(equipment or software, for example), and using these forms of capital more efficiently. Government spending for many public goods, such as education and infrastructure, contributes directly to one or more of them, whereas spending on...
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Sean Silverthorne