Organization Science articles from January 2004

Organization Science archives from January 2004

Welcome to the new editorial team at Organization Science.
January 1, 2004... Professor Linda Argote of Carnegie Mellon University has been named the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Science, effective January 1, 2004. Until further notice, all new submissions should be sent to Professor Argote at CMU. See the below...

From the editor.
January 1, 2004... This editorial describes the objectives of Organization Science and the kind of manuscripts that we hope to attract to the journal. Previous Editors-in-Chief are acknowledged and thanked for the excellent jobs they have done and for the superb...

Knowledge networks as channels and conduits: the effects of spillovers in the Boston biotechnology community.
January 1, 2004... We contend that two important, nonrelational, features of formal interorganizational networks--geographic propinquity and organizational form--fundamentally alter the flow of information through a network. Within regional economies, contractual...

Organizing new product development projects in strategic alliances.
January 1, 2004... We utilize research on alliance governance structures and on new product development to study how partners working under an existing alliance governance structure will organize a new product development project. Initially, we consider a...

Interteam Coordination, Project Commitment, and Teamwork in multiteam R & D projects: a longitudinal study.
January 1, 2004... Organizations increasingly set up multiteam projects for the development of highly complex products. While team research has emphasized the importance of team-internal processes for smaller scale projects, we know little about collaborative...

On the dialectics of strategic alliances.
January 1, 2004... Using Van de Ven and Poole's (1995) extensive assessment of process theories as an intellectual scaffold, we review theoretical contributions to our understanding of alliance dynamics and process. It appears that of four generic theoretical...

Experiential learning processes of exploitation and exploration within and between organizations: an empirical study of product development.
January 1, 2004... This article examines a fundamental characteristic of modern organizations: the dynamics of exploitation and exploration in intra- and interorganizational learning processes. Exploitation is about creating reliability in experience, and thrives...

How organizations change: the role of institutional support mechanisms in the incorporation of higher education visibility strategies, 1874-1995.(Organization Science)
January 1, 2004... This paper develops the argument that institutional mechanisms support changes in organizational strategies in ways that contrast with the standard interpretation of institutional "iron cages" that pressure organizations to conform. We specify...

On the relationship between organizational complexity and organizational structuration.
January 1, 2004... This article represents a contribution to the conceptualization of organizational complexity. The first part of the article relates the concept of complexity to the production tasks of the organization by deriving measures of the complexity of...

Putting rumors to rest: the impact, quality, and speed of journal special issues.(Perspective)
January 1, 2004... Over the past 15 years many questions have been raised about the role and value of special issue papers in our major double-blind reviewed management journals. This may partially be because the publication rate of special issues has been...

Creating and disseminating knowledge among organizational scholars: the role of special issues.
January 1, 2004... Special issues of scholarly journals have become more common during the last decade of management research. We review this trend and assess the effectiveness of special issues for knowledge dissemination. Methods include interviews with journal...