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August 2010 - May 2016
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This study examines the antecedents of supply chain project success. We first propose and test a model that describes the role of relationship-level factors (trust and asymmetric dependence) and project-level factors (between-firm communication and within-firm commitment) in determining supply chain project success. We find that project-level facto...
Research on general market entry usually focuses on large enterprises. Often, however, small entrants can alter the competitive dynamics of an industry. This volume brings together the most prominent thought leaders and the best research on the asymmetric entrant-incumbent dynamics. The ideas presented offer a more nuanced perspective on how, when,...
Social capital refers to the nature of ties within a social unit, as well as the unit's external relationships. We draw from organizational sociology and political science, and also build upon existing insights in school board research, to offer an approach that address the effects of bonding (internal ties) and bridging (external ties) by board me...
Business life has always featured the unpredictable, the surprising, and the unexpected. But in today's hyperconnected world, complexity is the norm. Systems that used to be separate are now intertwined and interdependent, and knowing the starting conditions is no guide to predicting outcomes; too many continuously changing interactive elements are...
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The field of Organizational Behavior owes some of its major theoretical challenges to the legacy of dichotomies handed down from the social sciences (micro-macro, agency-structure, subjective-objective, etc.). These are manifested in our field as fundamental problem areas regarding ontology and epistemology. In this paper, we explore one s...
Background:
Process flow describes the efficiency and consistency with which a process functions. Disruptions in surgical flow have been shown to be associated with an increase in error. Despite this, little experience exists in using surgical flow analysis to guide quality improvement (QI).
Study design:
In a 900-bed teaching hospital with an a...
This paper applies the strategic action field perspective (Fligstein, 2013; Fligstein and McAdam, 2012) in exploring the dynamics of competition in the American Film Industry. The paper specifically focuses on the period prior to the establishment of the major Hollywood studios as the dominant players in the 1930s, and explores their role as challe...
School boards have received little attention in sociology of education. Drawing on organizational sociology, a model of school board social capital is proposed that treats brokerage (external ties) and closure (internal ties) as the key dimensions of board functioning. The model brings together insights from limited research on school boards concer...
Dichotomies abound in conceptualizing complex phenomena such as globalization. Drawing on complexity theory and convergent patterns in other disciplines, we argue for abandonment of misleading dichotomies in favor of sustained dialectic. The dialectic view suggests limitations in often-used constructs in organization theory, such as fitness and det...
