Organization Science articles from May 2003

Organization Science archives from May 2003

Vicarious learning, undersampling of failure, and the myths of management.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Organizations learn from other organizations. However, the observations available to them are typically a biased sample. The organizations that can be observed at any point in time are the survivors of a selective process that has...

Getting off to a good start: the effects of upper echelon affiliations on underwriter prestige.
May 1, 2003... Abstract The initial public offering (IPO) is one of the most critical events in the lifetime of a young firm. Prior research has shown that firms tend to have successful IPOs if they go public with the endorsement of a prestigious lead...

Shifting gears, shifting niches: organizational inertia and change in the evolution of the U.S. automobile industry, 1885--1981.
May 1, 2003... Abstract We examine how experiential learning affects organizational change and its consequences on firm mortality. We develop hypotheses about the interactions of experiences with a specific type of organizational change on the one hand,...

Re-embedding situatedness: the importance of power relations in learning theory.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper critically addresses the coherence, reception, and dissemination of "situated learning theory" (Lave and Wenger 1991). Situated learning theory commends a conceptualization of the process of learning that, in offering...

Tacitness, learning, and international expansion: a study of foreign direct investment in a knowledge-intensive industry.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper examines the impact of knowledge tacitness on a firm's propensity to establish plants in foreign rather than domestic locations. Our predictions build on knowledge-based, internalization, and evolutionary theories of...

Sharing meaning across occupational communities: the transformation of understanding on a production floor.
May 1, 2003... Abstract This paper suggests that knowledge is shared in organizations through the transformation of occupational communities' Situated understandings of their work. In this paper, I link the misunderstandings between engineers,...

Selective intervention and internal hybrids: interpreting and learning from the rise and decline of the Oticon spaghetti organization.
May 1, 2003... Abstract Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper argues that such "internal hybrids," particularly in...