Organization Science articles from July 2007

Organization Science archives from July 2007

Putting employees in their place: the impact of hot desking on organizational and team identification.
July 1, 2007... A study of employees in the finance industry tested the propositions (a) that work team identity is more salient than organizational identity when desks are assigned, whereas organizational identity is more salient when they are not; and (b)...

Developing issue-selling effectiveness over time: issue selling as resourcing.(Report)
July 1, 2007... This paper considers how issue sellers advance new issues within an organization over time, and how they gain competence at doing so. Using ethnographic, archival, and interview data spanning a six-year period, it describes the moves made by...

From plan to plant: effects of certification on operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector.
July 1, 2007... In this paper, we study the transition from planned venture to operational start-up in the emergent independent power sector. Planned ventures face tremendous obstacles in assembling the resources necessary to begin operations; we hypothesize...

Expertise and collaboration in the geographically dispersed organization.(expertise management)
July 1, 2007... The knowledge-based view of the firm has led to greater theoretical interest in how organizations integrate knowledge resources embedded in their employees' expertise. We examine the knowledge-integration problem in geographically dispersed...

Familiarity, complexity, and team performance in geographically distributed software development.(task familiarity)
July 1, 2007... While prior research has found that familiarity is beneficial to team performance, it is not clear whether different kinds of familiarity are more or less beneficial when the work has different types of complexity. In this paper, we theorize...

Wakes of innovation in project networks: the case of digital 3-D representations in architecture, engineering, and construction.(Report)
July 1, 2007... Changes in the technologies of representation in a heterogeneous, distributed sociotechnical system, such as a large construction project, can instigate a complex pattern of innovations in technologies, practices, structures, and strategies. We...

Innovators, imitators, and the evolving architecture of problem-solving networks.(agent-based model)
July 1, 2007... Scientific progress is driven by innovation--which serves to produce a diversity of ideas--and imitation through a social network--which serves to diffuse these ideas. In this paper, we develop an agent-based computational model of this...

Incumbent and entrant rivalry in a deregulated industry.(Report)
July 1, 2007... This paper examines how two general cohorts of firms, entrants and incumbents, differ in their competitive intensity following price and entry deregulation in the trucking industry from 1980 to 1993. The results demonstrate that the competitive...

The evolution ofstrat collective egy frames in high- and low-velocity industries.(Report)
July 1, 2007... We argue that the collective assumptions of firms drive their actions and practices, and create the conditions of industry velocity. In our view, cognitive construction by firms is the primary driver of industry velocity. This is in contrast to...

Unraveling HRM: identity, ceremony, and control in a management consulting firm.(human resources management )
July 1, 2007... This paper addresses human resources management (HRM) systems and practices in a large multinational management consultancy firm. The firm invests considerable resources in HRM, and is frequently praised by employees for its accomplishments in...

Does geography matter for science-based firms? Epistemic communities and the geography of research and patenting in biotechnology.(biotechnology industries)(Report)
July 1, 2007... The spatial clustering of innovation has been associated with localized knowledge flows among small, knowledge-intensive firms, but knowledge flows may extend beyond regional boundaries through the participation of firm employees in broader...