Bob Sutton warned Mark Zbaracki that industry experience wouldn't help him in academia. But watching ceremonial conformity inside IBM convinced Zbaracki that institutional ...
Tag: organizational change
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Bodrožić & Adler (2018). The Evolution of Management Models: A Neo-Schumpeterian Theory
Zlatko Bodrozic and Paul Adler liken studying today's organizations to watching only the last scene of a movie, and they build a neo-Schumpeterian ...
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Vuori & Huy (2016). Distributed Attention and Shared Emotions in the Innovation Process: How Nokia Lost the Smartphone Battle
Managers at Nokia worked as filters, not daring to deliver bad news upward. Timo Vuori and Quy Huy describe how fear crept from ...
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Briscoe & Tsai (2011). Overcoming Relational Inertia: How Organizational Members Respond to Acquisition Events in a Law Firm
Forrest Briscoe and Wenpin Tsai set out to use a law firm merger as a natural experiment on networks. Their diagrams ended up ...
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Zietsma & Lawrence (2010). Institutional Work in the Transformation of an Organizational Field: The Interplay of Boundary Work and Practice Work
The path was anything but linear: Charlene Zietsma and Thomas Lawrence recount how two conference papers merged, got bounced from an AMJ special ...
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Xu, Lu, & Gu (2014). Organizational Forms and Multi-population Dynamics: Economic Transition in China
Dean Xu had long dreamed of explaining China's economic transition through organization theory. With Jane Lu and Qian Gu, he traces how a ...
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Clark, Gioia, Ketchen, and Thomas (2010) Transitional Identity as a Facilitator of Organizational Identity Change during a Merger
Shawn Clark, Dennis Gioia, David Ketchen, and James Thomas discuss transitional identity, the interim sense of what merging organizations are becoming, and why ...