Organization Science articles from May 2005

Organization Science archives from May 2005

Improvisation and innovative performance in teams.
May 1, 2005... This paper builds on the principles and insights from improvisational theater to unpack the nature of collective improvisation and to consider what it takes to do it well and to innovate. Furthermore, we discuss the role of training in...

Antecedents and performance implications of contracting for knowledge workers: evidence from information technology services.
May 1, 2005... This paper develops a theory that predicts why firms organize their knowledge workers as employees versus independent contractors and predicts the performance implications of this choice. It then empirically examines this organizational...

Managing multiple roles: work-family policies and individuals' desires for segmentation.
May 1, 2005... As workers strive to manage multiple roles such as work and family, research has begun to focus on how people manage the boundary between work and nonwork roles. This paper contributes to emerging work on boundary theory by examining the extent...

Pay disparities within top management groups: evidence of harmful effects on performance of high-technology firms.
May 1, 2005... This study examines the interactive effect of technological intensiveness and top management group (TMG) pay disparity on firm performance. Drawing on two literatures--task interdependence and group rewards--we argue that: (a) technological...

With a little help from my friends (and substitutes): social referents and influence in psychological contract fulfillment.
May 1, 2005... This study investigated employees' choice of social referents and the impact of social influence on their beliefs of psychological contract fulfillment. Using data from a field study conducted with 99 employees in a research organization, we...

Understanding conflict in geographically distributed teams: the moderating effects of shared identity, shared context, and spontaneous communication.
May 1, 2005... Geographically distributed teams are increasingly prevalent in the workplace, and research on distributed teams is ever more available. Despite this increased attention, we still know surprisingly little about how the dynamics of distributed...

Reconceptualizing and managing reputation risk in the knowledge economy: toward reputable action.
May 1, 2005... Globalizing knowledge economies foster conditions that intensify the role and value of organizational reputation risk. In an enterprise-focused era, reputation is a key strategic construct that can act as a boundary object linking communities...