Publications

Article

Organization Design and Effectiveness over the Innovation Life Cycle

By: George Westerman, F. Warren McFarlan and Marco Iansiti

Keywords: Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Innovation and Invention

March–April 2013
Article

Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization

01 Aug 2007
Conference Presentation

On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the 21st Century

By: Shon R. Hiatt and Pamela Tolbert

Keywords: Organizations

October 2007
Teaching Note

Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A) & (B) (TN)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Teaching Note to 707519 and 707402. View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Consumer Products Industry

Article

Speed and Search: Designing Organizations for Turbulence and Complexity

By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Design; Organizations

Article

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organization Design

By: Michael Tushman and D. Nadler

Keywords: Organizations; Design; Integration

1993
Chapter

Framework for Design of the Emerging Global Organization Structure

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Richard Nolan

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Framework

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

and leading others. This is a fundamental concept discussed in Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO), one of the MBA Program's most popular electives. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2007
Book

Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization

By: William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Cases; Law; Organizational Structure

Article

Untapped Potential in the Study of Negotiation and Gender Inequality in Organizations

By: Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn

Negotiation is a process that creates, reinforces, and reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from... View Details

Keywords: Gender; Body of Literature; Negotiation Process; Organizational Culture; Research; Behavior; Equality and Inequality

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01 Dec 2015
News

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

2012
Book

The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations

By: Josh Lerner

Innovation is a much-used buzzword these days, but when it comes to creating and implementing a new idea, many companies miss the mark—plans backfire, consumer preferences shift, or tried-and-true practices fail to work in a new context. So is innovation just a... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Structure; Microeconomics

(with A. Binns, B. Harreld, and C. O’Reilly), 2014, Sloan Management Review, 55, 21-24

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Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations

In this compelling look at charismatic leaders and their leadership styles, Abraham Zaleznik asserts that leaders are either... View Details

2002
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Organizational Technology: Technological Change, Ambidextrous Organizations and Organizational Evolution

By: M. Tushman and W. Smith

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation

Article

Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations

By: David S. Scharfstein and Patrick Bolton

Keywords: Finance; Business Ventures; Theory; Organizations

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2011
Article

The Dynamics of Warmth and Competence Judgments, and Their Outcomes in Organizations

By: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Peter Glick and Anna Beninger

Two traits-warmth and competence-govern social judgments of individuals and groups, and these judgments shape people's emotions and behaviors. This paper describes the causes and consequences of warmth and competence judgments; how, when, and why they determine... View Details

Keywords: Judgments; Organizations; Emotions; Behavior; Selection and Staffing; Performance Evaluation; Resource Allocation; Valuation; Competency and Skills; Information; Research

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2024
Working Paper

Navigating Software Vulnerabilities: Eighteen Years of Evidence from Medium and Large U.S. Organizations

By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein

How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure versions, and what determines the variance in the installation distribution? Using the largest dataset ever assembled on user updates, tracking server... View Details

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Consumer Behavior