Organization Science articles from January 2006

Organization Science archives from January 2006

From the editor.(Editorial)
January 1, 2006... Greetings! The past year has been very productive for Organization Science and the coming year promises to be even more so. With this first issue of 2006, Organization Science has a new cover. The process began with INFORMS staff asking me what...

Gaffers, gofers, and grips: role-based coordination in temporary organizations.
January 1, 2006... Temporary organizations are known to provide flexibility for industries that rely on them, but we know little about their implications for how work is accomplished and coordinated. In this paper, I propose that common portrayals of temporary...

Life in the trading zone: structuring coordination across boundaries in postbureaucratic organizations.
January 1, 2006... In our study of an interactive marketing organization, we examine how members of different communities perform boundary-spanning coordination work in conditions of high speed, uncertainty, and rapid change. We find that members engage in a...

Why do users contribute to firm-hosted user communities? The case of computer-controlled music instruments.
January 1, 2006... Studies of the sources of innovations have recognized that many innovations are developed by users. However, the fact that firms employ communities of users to strengthen their innovation process has not yet received much attention. In online...

The social network ties of group leaders: implications for group performance and leader reputation.
January 1, 2006... This paper uses data from the sales division of a financial services firm to investigate how a leader's centrality in external and internal social networks is related to the objective performance of the leader's group, and to the leader's...

Organizational reference groups: a missing perspective on social context.
January 1, 2006... This paper introduces and empirically explores the concept of an organizational reference group: the set of people an individual perceives as belonging to his or her work environment that defines the social world of work in which he or she...

The liability of good reputation: a study of product recalls in the U.S. automobile industry.
January 1, 2006... In this paper, we explore opposing theoretical claims about how organizational reputation affects market reactions to product defects. On the one hand, good reputation could be a disadvantage because expectations about product quality are more...

Turnover events, vicarious information, and the reduced likelihood of outlet-level exit among small multiunit organizations.
January 1, 2006... A key question for organizational learning research is to identify opportunities and constraints for firms to gain useful information from the activities and performance of other firms. We argue that market-level turnover events generate and...

Organizational becoming as dialogic imagination of practice: the case of the Indomitable Gauls.
January 1, 2006... This paper explores the relationship between authoring of identities and organizational development through a case study of the 18-year history of a professional service firm. Drawing from process theory, narrative psychology, and practice...

Change in the presence of residual fit: can competing frames coexist?
January 1, 2006... Opportunities associated with discontinuous change typically do not trigger organizational response until the opportunity is perceived as a threat. However, threat perception can then trigger a response that accentuates organizational rigidity....