Organization Science articles from July 2002

Organization Science archives from July 2002

Red Light, Green Light: making sense of the organizational context for issue selling.
July 1, 2002... Abstract This paper analyzes the contextual cues female managers attend to when considering raising gender-equity issues at work. Study 1 provides a qualitative look at the range of cues indicating context favorability, including...

Integrating knowledge in groups: how formal interventions enable flexibility.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Recent perspectives have focused on the role of the firm in the generation and use of knowledge. These perspectives suggest that, while knowledge is "owned" at the individual level, the integration of this knowledge to a...

Disentangling the theories of firm boundaries: a path model and empirical test.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Theories on the motivation underlying firm boundaries have recently sparked renewed debate. What best explains whether a firm relies on market control or hierarchical control to secure required resources? How do the...

Exchanging preliminary information in concurrent engineering: alternative coordination strategies.
July 1, 2002... Abstract Successful application of concurrent development processes (concurrent engineering) requires tight coordination. To speed development, tasks often proceed in parallel by relying on preliminary information from other tasks,...

Acquiring new technologies and capabilities: a grounded model of acquisition implementation.
July 1, 2002... Abstract In this study, we explore seven in-depth cases of high-technology acquisitions and develop an empirically grounded model of technology and capability transfer during acquisition implementation. We assess how the nature of the...

A pragmatic view of knowledge and boundaries: boundary objects in new product development *.
July 1, 2002... Abstract This study explores the premise that knowledge in new product development proves both a barrier to and a source of innovation. To understand the problematic nature of knowledge and the boundaries that result, an ethnographic study...