Organization Science articles from March 2007

Organization Science archives from March 2007

Brokerage, boundary spanning, and leadership in open innovation communities.
March 1, 2007... What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must first make strong technical contributions. Beyond...

Business model design and the performance of entrepreneurial firms.
March 1, 2007... We focus on the design of an organization's set of boundary-spanning transactions--business model design--and ask how business model design affects the performance of entrepreneurial firms. By extending and integrating theoretical perspectives...

Fairness from the top: perceived procedural justice and collaborative problem solving in new product development.
March 1, 2007... The literature on new product development has examined several important determinants of collaboration among project members. However, we are not aware of any study that links top management decisions with project members' collaborative...

When is a new thing a good thing? Technological change, product form design, and perceptions of value for product innovations.
March 1, 2007... Innovation researchers recognize that the uncertainty with regard to the value-creating potential of product innovations increases with their technological novelty, and have argued that the usefulness and value of novel products are socially...

Incremental organizational learning from multilevel information sources: evidence for cross-level interactions.
March 1, 2007... The availability of both direct performance feedback at the organization level and vicarious information at the industry level raises the question of their relative impact, as well as potential multilevel interactions. Prior research suggests...

Leveraging knowledge across geographic boundaries.
March 1, 2007... This paper examines knowledge flows within and across geographic boundaries of clusters and nations in the biotechnology industry. We hypothesize that these flows are characterized by various factors relating to the knowledge itself and by firm...

The contingent impact of contextualization on computer-mediated collaboration.
March 1, 2007... Computer-mediated collaboration, a rapidly expanding form of work, introduces unique opportunities but problems as well. One of these problems is the higher risk of misunderstandings. Current communication theories suggest that misunderstanding...

Continuous learning: the influence of national institutional logics on training attitudes.
March 1, 2007... This research attempts to understand and test a core assumption in neoinstitutional theory, i.e., that institutional logics shape individual attitudes and preferences, by studying cross-national differences in people's attitudes toward the...

From iron cage to iron shield? How bureaucracy enables temporal flexibility for professional service workers.
March 1, 2007... This paper develops a model of how organizations influence the temporal flexibility of professional service workers. The model starts by identifying a key source of temporal inflexibility for these workers: an inability to hand clients off...

Organizational character: on the regeneration of Camp Poplar Grove.
March 1, 2007... We analyze organizational regeneration using case materials from a study of a children's summer camp. Each year members of various types of seasonal organizations, such as summer camps and ski areas, come together to bring these organizations...