Organization Science articles from November 2004

Organization Science archives from November 2004

A knowledge-based theory of the firm--the problem-solving perspective.
November 1, 2004... In this paper we develop a knowledge-based theory of the firm. While existing knowledge-based theory focuses on the efficiency of hierarchy in economizing on knowledge exchange, we develop a theory of the firm that focuses on the efficiency of...

Transactive memory systems in organizations: matching tasks, expertise, and people.
November 1, 2004... Transactive memory is the shared division of cognitive labor with respect to the encoding, storage, retrieval, and communication of information from different knowledge domains, which often develops in groups and can lead to greater efficiency...

Distal and local group learning: performance trade-offs and tensions.
November 1, 2004... There is increasing recognition that group members learn not only within the group (i.e., local learning), but also externally (i.e., distal learning), and these two group learning processes may facilitate group performance in different ways....

Culture and CEO compensation.
November 1, 2004... The theory and research on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation tends to be dominated by assumptions and values reflective of those dominant in the national culture of the United States, where most of this work is done. This suggests that...

Emotion as a connection of physical artifacts and organizations.
November 1, 2004... This paper documents emotion as integral to stakeholders' sense making of a key organizational artifact, demonstrating that emotion toward artifacts blends into emotion toward the organization. Multiple stakeholders were interviewed about an...

Crisis and competition in expert organizational decision making: credit-rating agencies and their response to turbulence in emerging economies.
November 1, 2004... Firms often delegate elements of strategic decisions to outside experts who promise objective assessments, which are especially valuable in unstable environments. However experts themselves may be prone to skewed decision making as the...

Unanimity rule and organizational decision making: a simulation model.
November 1, 2004... Unanimity rule is an important benchmark for evaluating outcomes of decisions in the social sciences. However, organizational researchers tend to ignore unanimous decision making, for example, because unanimity may be difficult to realize in...

Fairness and transaction costs: the contribution of organizational justice theory to an integrative model of economic organization.
November 1, 2004... In this article, we begin to integrate two fields that have, until now, remained largely independent of one another: organizational justice and transaction-cost economics. Transaction costs consist of search, bargaining, monitoring,...