Organization Science articles from January 2005

Organization Science archives from January 2005

From the editor.
January 1, 2005... This editorial describes major developments at Organization Science in 2004. An outgoing senior editor is acknowledged, and incoming senior editors and members of the editorial review board are introduced. The new online submission and review...

Enacting integrated information technology: a human agency perspective.
January 1, 2005... Recent perspectives on organizational change have emphasized human agency, more than technology or structure, to explain empirical outcomes resulting from the use of information technologies in organizations. Yet, newer technologies such as...

Identification in face-to-face, hybrid, and pure virtual teams: untangling the contradictions.
January 1, 2005... Identification is a person's sense of belonging with a social category. Identification in virtual organizational teams is thought to be especially desirable because it provides the glue that can promote group cohesion despite the relative lack...

The negotiation dance: time, culture, and behavioral sequences in negotiation.
January 1, 2005... We propose a normative model of transactional negotiation in which cooperative and competitive behaviors wax and wane across four stages: relational positioning, identifying the problem, generating solutions, and reaching agreement. Based on a...

Technological discontinuities and complementary assets: a longitudinal study of industry and firm performance.
January 1, 2005... We suggest that the type of complementary assets (generic versus specialized) needed to commercialize a new technology is critical in determining the industry- and firm-level performance implications of a competence-destroying technological...

Should I keep a secret? The effects of trade secret protection procedures on employees' obligations to protect trade secrets.
January 1, 2005... Organizations' trade secrets (which can be chemical formulae, recipes, customer files, machinery designs, or many other types of information) are often valuable, enduring sources of competitive advantage. In this study, the influence of...

Notes on the evolution of a research community: organization studies in Anglophone North America, 1945-2000.(PERSPECTIVE)
January 1, 2005... Since the Second World War, the field of organizations studies has grown substantially in the number of researchers, number of publications, and amount of research produced. It has moved from being a combination of established disciplines to...