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Egalitarianism, Cultural Distance, and Foreign Direct Investment: A New Approach 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
This study addresses an apparent impasse in the research on organizations’ responses to cultural distance. We posit that cross-country differences in egalitarianism—a cultural orientation manifested i...
Persistence of Integration in the Face of Specialization: How Firms Navigated the Winds of Disintegration and Shaped the Architecture of the Semicondu... 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Although the stylized model of industry evolution suggests that firms transform from vertical integration to specialization over time, many industries still exhibit a continued persistence of integrat...
Why Put All Your Eggs in One Basket? A Competition-Based View of How Technological Uncertainty Affects a Firm's Technological Specialization 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Conventional wisdom suggests that when a firm faces technological uncertainty, it responds by becoming less technologically specialized so as to remain adaptable to subsequent resolution of this uncer...
Dancing with the Enemy? Relational Hazards and the Contingent Value of Repeat Exchanges in M&A Markets 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
I examine the problem of relational hazards between repeat exchange partners and the contingent roles of trade uncertainty and future exchange prospects in moderating the potentially conflicting effec...
Getting Ahead or Getting Along? The Two-Facet Conceptualization of Conscientiousness and Leadership Emergence 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
We propose a theoretical process model of the social construction of leadership that sheds light on the relationship between conscientiousness and leadership emergence. The socioanalytic theory of per...
PERSPECTIVE--Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in th...
Temporal Work in Strategy Making 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
This paper reports on a field study of strategy making in one organization facing an industry crisis. In a comparison of five strategy projects, we observed that organizational participants struggled ...
Explaining Variation in Organizational Identity Categorization 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
In explaining why constituent groups often vary in their perceptions of the most salient aspects of an organization’s identity, existing research has drawn, almost exclusively, on social identity rese...
Constructing a Climate Change Logic: An Institutional Perspective on the "Tragedy of the Commons" 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Despite increasing interest in transnational fields, transnational commons have received little attention. In contrast to economic models of commons, which argue that commons occur naturally and are p...
Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic Similarity Among Professionals 23 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
We investigate the role of workgroup gender and race composition on the career mobility of professionals in "up-or-out" organizations. We develop a nuanced perspective on the potential career mobility...
