Organization Science articles from July 1999

Organization Science archives from July 1999

Bridging Epistemologies: The Generative Dance Between Organizational Knowledge and Organizational Knowing.
July 1, 1999... It's funny what's happened to this word knowing . . . The actual act of apprehending, of making sense, of putting together, from what you have, the significance of where you are- this [now] oddly lacks any really reliable, commonly used verb in...

The Global Configuration of a Speculative Trading Operation: An Empirical Study of Foreign Exchange Trading.
July 1, 1999... This paper is a wonderful example of how the worlds of practice and theory commingle. We have been reading about worldwide currency crises for the past few years. We have also been reading about how the emergence of new organizational forms...

The Effects of Coupling IT and Work Process Strategies in Redesign Projects.
July 1, 1999... Abstract Organizational adaptation to competition often means inventing or adopting a process innovation and the daunting challenge of implementing it. Increasingly, process innovations rely on the capabilities embedded in an...

Strategic Flexibility in Information Technology Alliances: The Influence of Transaction Cost Economics and Social Exchange Theory.
July 1, 1999... In the literature on strategic alliances, trust is often positioned as the magic ingredient in alliance success. Typically, trust is treated in the literature as a residual term in the statistical models, neither operationalized nor measured....

Buyer-Supplier Relations in Industrial Markets: When Do Buyers Risk Making Idiosyncratic Investments?
July 1, 1999... Firms' options for the future are shaped by their previous specialized investments. Bensaou and Anderson give us new insights into an important antecedent: conditions that lead firms initially to make such investments. Relations between actions...

On the Edge: Heeding the Warnings of Unusual Events.
July 1, 1999... This paper's unique contribution lies in its integration of organizational learning concepts and the resource-based view of the firm. Through extensive analysis of two nuclear power facilities over several years, the authors discovered that the...

Telecommuting: Justice and Control in the Virtual Organization.
July 1, 1999... It is a seldom-examined truism that alterations in technology spur changes in both material and ideal spheres. This paper is the first that melds the material and ideal to empirically examine how telecommuting -a technologically driven...

Erratum: Organizational Culture as a Complex System: Balance and Information in Models of Influence and Selection.
July 1, 1999... The formatting of several of the equations appearing in this article made them difficult to interpret (Organization Science, Volume 10, Number 3, pp. 253- 277). Following are reformatted versions of Equations (5), (6), and (8). Equation (5),...

Bridging epistemologies: the generative dance between organizational knowledge and organizational knowing.
July 1, 1999... It' s funny what's happened to this word knowing... The actual act of apprehending, of making sense, of putting together, from what you have, the significance of where you are--this [now] oddly lacks any really reliable, commonly used verb in...

The global configuration of a speculative trading operation: an empirical study of foreign exchange trading.
July 1, 1999... This paper is a wonderful example of how the worlds of practice and theory commingle. We have been reading about worldwide currency crises for the past few years. We have also been reading about how the emergence of new organizational forms...

The effects of coupling IT and work process strategies in redesign projects.
July 1, 1999... Abstract Organizational adaptation to competition often means inventing or adopting a process innovation and the daunting challenge of implementing it. Increasingly, process innovations rely on the capabilities embedded in an...

Strategic flexibility in information technology alliances: the influence of transaction cost economics and social exchange theory.
July 1, 1999... In the literature on strategic alliances, trust is often positioned as the magic ingredient in alliance success. Typically, trust is treated in the literature as a residual term in the statistical models, neither operationalized nor measured....

Buyer-supplier relations in industrial markets: when do buyers risk making idiosyncratic investments?
July 1, 1999... Firms' options for the future are shaped by their previous specialized investments. Bensaou and Anderson give us new insights into an important antecedent: conditions that lead firms initially to make such investments. Relations between actions...

On the edge: heeding the warnings of unusual events.
July 1, 1999... This paper's unique contribution lies in its integration of organizational learning concepts and the resource-based view of the firm. Through extensive analysis of two nuclear power facilities over several years, the authors discovered that the...

Telecommuting: justice and control in the virtual organization.
July 1, 1999... It is a seldom-examined truism that alterations in technology spur changes in both material and ideal spheres. This paper is the first that melds the material and ideal to empirically examine how telecommuting--a technologically driven...

Erratum: organizational culture as a complex system; balance and information in models of influence and selection.
July 1, 1999... The formatting of several of the equations appearing in this article made them difficult to interpret (Organization Science, Volume 10, Number 3, pp. 253-277). Following are reformatted versions of Equations (5), (6), and (8). Equation...