Organization Science articles from March 2005

Organization Science archives from March 2005

Speed and search: designing organizations for turbulence and complexity.
March 1, 2005... We use an innovative technique to examine an enduring but recently neglected question: How do environmental turbulence and complexity affect the appropriate formal design of organizations? We construct an agent-based simulation in which...

New venture evolution and managerial capabilities.
March 1, 2005... This study examines factors influencing changes in the top management of start-up firms. Whereas a significant amount of research has examined top management transitions in established firms, we know much less about the factors influencing the...

Blind ambition? The effects of social networks and institutional sex composition on the job search outcomes of elite coeducational and women's college graduates.
March 1, 2005... In this paper, I develop a perspective on women's career attainment focused on how employers' salary offers may be constructed based on their assumptions regarding women's access to comparative salary information. Therefore, although the use of...

Structural and epistemic parameters in communities of practice.
March 1, 2005... If communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991) are best understood as fluid social relations, enacted among a self-selected group of participants, then are they best left alone, free from "interference" by organizational managers and...

A model of organizational integration, implementation effort, and performance.
March 1, 2005... The notion of integration is central to the understanding of organizations in general as well as of contemporary phenomena such as e-commerce, virtual organizations, virtual teams, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation. Yet, the...

How much better are the most-prestigious journals? The statistics of academic publication.(PERSPECTIVE)
March 1, 2005... Articles in high-prestige journals receive more citations and more applause than articles in less-prestigious journals, but how much more do these articles contribute to knowledge? This article uses a statistical theory of review processes...