Organization Science articles from January 1999

Organization Science archives from January 1999

Integrating strategic, organizational, and human resource perspectives on mergers and acquisitions: a case survey of synergy realization.
January 1, 1999... This paper is exciting because it synthesizes several theoretical perspectives into an integrative model and addresses a very significant topic--mergers and acquisitions--with a sharp eye towards clear managerial relevance and with innovative...

Institutional sources of boundary-spanning structures: the establishment of investor relations departments in the Fortune 500 industrials.
January 1, 1999... Investor relations departments are diffusing rapidly among U.S. firms, and these new boundary-spanning units are likely to affect corporate governance and management. This article suggests that antimanagement resolutions, monitoring by...

Flexibility versus efficiency? A case study of model changeovers in the Toyota Production System.
January 1, 1999... This is a careful and insightful case study of how the Toyota Production System manages the paradox of efficiency and flexibility, which arises periodically in connection with model changeovers. The authors detail the functioning of four...

A conceptual framework for analyzing why organizations downsize.
January 1, 1999... What are we to make of the corporate penchant for downsizing during periods of rising profits? Are the firms doing this adapting to a global economy, cashing out social capital, or just sporting a faddish managerial "innovation"? This paper...

Explicit and implicit structuring of genres in electronic communication: reinforcement and change of social interaction.
January 1, 1999... Abstract In a study of how an R&D group in a Japanese firm adopted and used a new electronic medium, we identified two contrasting patterns of use: the use of community-wide communication types, or genres, deliberately shaped by the action...

Information privacy concerns, procedural fairness, and impersonal trust: an empirical investigation.
January 1, 1999... Abstract This research addresses the tensions that arise between the collection and use of personal information that people provide in the course of most consumer transactions, and privacy. In today's electronic world, the competitive...

Flexibility versus efficiency? A case study of model changeovers in the Toyota Production system.
January 1, 1999... This is a careful and insightful case study of how the Toyota Production System manages the paradox of efficiency and flexibility, which arises periodically in connection with model changeovers. The authors detail the functioning of four...