Tal SimonsErasmus University Rotterdam | EUR · Rotterdam School of Management (RSM)
Tal Simons
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Considering recent theoretical discussions about the concept of moral legitimacy, this study advances our understanding of its performance consequences. Specifically, it uncovers the mediating role of moral legitimacy in the relationship between regulations and industry performance. Our analysis of the U.S. state-level data on regulations in a cont...
The literature on authenticity of cultural production has systematically examined the perceived authenticity of both the producer and the cultural product, but not of the creative process. This study aims to address this lacuna, adopting Carroll and Wheaton’s typology of type and moral authenticity to examine how contemporary dance choreographers c...
This paper highlights that the strategic use of design, a competitive pattern typically associated with creative industries, those creating and trading meanings, also characterizes industries that produce functional or utilitarian goods not typically considered creative. The paper explores the origins of this phenomenon in the context of three indu...
We explore the simultaneous influence of activist organizations and corporations on institutional change. Focusing on protests, campaign contributions, and lobbyists as the strategies used by activist organizations and corporations to influence institutional change, we study the dynamics between movements and counter-movements and their influence o...
This study highlights the importance of communities in explaining organizational resistance to institutional pressures. Examining the active resistance of small bars to smoking regulations in 427 Dutch municipalities (communities), we argue that the likelihood of organizational resistance to institutional pressure from a powerful actor is affected...
This study explores the simultaneous influence that social movement organizations (SMOs) and corporations have on institutional change. By studying the enactment of comprehensive smoking bans by US states between 2000 and 2012, the effect of protests and lobbying by SMOs and corporations on the enactment of tobacco control regulations is explored....
This study investigates the relationship among institutional pressures, legitimacy, and performance. Specifically, it studies how tobacco control regulations impact tobacco companies’ legitimacy, and how does that in turn affect tobacco companies’ performance. Using data from the US tobacco industry between 1994 and 2010 yielded three major finding...
With growing interest in the penalties associated with straddling market categories, it is important to develop a stock of evidence about the relative importance of consideration and valuation penalties in different empirical settings. In this chapter, we isolate the possible adverse implications for currently kosher Israeli wine producers that wer...
This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations. We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in non-local populations are more likely to adopt locally novel forms. Pre-founding experience within local and non-local industry populations should also allow organizations to reach larger size...
The twin expectations of local imprinting and of organizational form inertia (Stinchcombe, 1965) make it difficult to see how we ever observe form changes within local populations of organizations. In this paper, we present a theory of new form invasion that features both local and non-local pre-founding industry experience as drivers of both organ...
Research on recruiting has generally considered the effects of recruiting source on employee tenure or performance, and has argued that formal employment ads are inferior to informal sources, notably employee referrals. We test two dimensions for evaluating the effects of recruiting sources on the recruiting process—cost per new hire and yield rati...
This paper analyzes the founding rates of two types of Jewish agricultural cooperatives, the moshav and the kibbutz, to show how political ideology intersects with resource requirements to produce competition and mutualism between organizations. These two populations, which share ideology and a resource base, competed with each other. They both enj...
The kibbutz, once lauded as an exemplar of the Utopian organization, has been criticized recently as yet another illustration that socialist arrangements are inferior to capitalist ones. In this paper, we test a number of explanations of what happened to the kibbutz, using an analysis of the founding rate of the kibbutz population. We find support...
Groups of organizations are pervasive, although there is little systematic knowledge about how they affect their members. We examine one dimension of the operation of organization groups, the transfer of experience. Our core argument is that organization groups may create benefits for their members, but problems for those outside the group. Within...
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The kibbutz is the equivalent of a laboratory for organization science. Its scope of activities, which includes agricultural and industrial production, the socialization and education of children, management of communal consumption, and national defense, is broader than any other organization. It therefore demonstrates the potential to extend organ...
We investigate the effect of community-wide political and ideological interests on the failure rate of Israeli workers' cooperatives. Political order may be provided by the state or through membership in a federation. Independently, both conditions should reduce organizational failure, but when they coexist, the influence of the state should domina...
Embedded ties between organizations facilitate vicarious learning by increasing the opportunity and motivation to share experience, and the capacity to communicate its meaning. They also form the basis of a moral economy within groups of tied organizations, where concrete resources are exchanged for compliance with other group interests. Our analys...
In this paper, we examine how conflicting ideologies affect organizational practice. We theorize that the basic relationship between ideology and organization is moderated by social pressures and economic incentives that result from differences between the organization and its environment on issues of ideology. Using data from Israeli kibbutzim for...
Using data collected from a sample of 50 academic departments over the years 1977-88, the authors test several hypotheses about the effects of departmental gender composition on faculty turnover. They find that as the proportion of women in a department grew, turnover among women also increased, confirming the prediction that increases in the relat...
[discusses] intergroup dynamics that occur within larger organizational units / question of interest is how changes in the relative sizes of subgroups affect the relationships between the subgroups / social contact theories predict that relationships should improve as a minority subgroup increases in size, but competition theories predict the oppos...
Working at home is often claimed to adversely affect employees' career progress, presumably because supervisors are inclined to negatively evaluate the performance of employees whose activities are not available to frequent observation. However, such claims are usually based on studies of supervisors' attitudes, not on direct evidence of the achiev...
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Using institutional theory, social movement theory, and economic sociology we examine the dynamics of the actors’ struggles over the framing of the issues and their respective evolving strategies to advance their interests and protect their turf, as well as the struggle’s ensuing social, organizational and economic implications. Tobacco industry context.
Uncovering processes of identity emergence, change and maintenance at multiple levels of analysis – individual, organization, field, and national, as exemplified in a creative sector organization (contemporary dance company).
