Organization Science articles from November 2006

Organization Science archives from November 2006

The role of private decentralized institutions in sustaining industry self-regulation.
November 1, 2006... An emerging body of institutional scholarship emphasizes the role played by private decentralized institutions in facilitating collective action among organizations. However, these institutions often suffer from free riding and opportunism....

Competitive implications of interfirm mobility.
November 1, 2006... This paper examines the competitive consequences of interfirm mobility. Because the loss of key members (defined as top decision makers) to competing firms may amount to a replication of a firm's higher-order routines, we investigate the...

Stages of the recruitment process and the referrer's performance effect.
November 1, 2006... Although the existing theory predicts that a referral's chances of being hired increase with the job performance of the referrer, no empirical evidence is available to support this claim. To address this discrepancy, we decompose the...

The antecedents and performance implications of cooperative exchange norms.
November 1, 2006... Our study investigates the antecedents and performance implications of cooperative exchange norms. We argue that, in early relationships, the level of expected cooperative norms in an exchange is the result of a calculative process facilitated...

Organizational identity and firm performance: what happens when leaders disagree about "who we are?".
November 1, 2006... This study examines how the organizational success of 113 nonprofit professional theatres was affected when two top leaders responsible for different parts of the organization held divergent views about organizational identity. Focusing on five...

Examining configurations and firm performance in a suboptimal equifinality context.
November 1, 2006... Gresov and Drazin's (1997) suggestions regarding the study of equifinality are used to investigate the organizational configurations that exists within a suboptimal equifinality context. A suboptimal equifinality situation exists when...