Organization Science articles from September 1999

Organization Science archives from September 1999

Prolegomena on Coevolution: A Framework for Research on Strategy and New Organizational Forms.
September 1, 1999... Introduction Does intentionality matter? How does it matter? These questions have occupied center stage in research on adaptation and selection and in practitioner-oriented writings since the dawn of modern theorizing and research on...

Coevolution of New Organizational Forms.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization-environment coevolution that generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm-level exploration and exploitation adaptations to...

Coevolution of Firm Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Environment: Organizational Forms and Combinative Capabilities.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper advances the understanding of absorptive capacity for assimilating new knowledge as a mediating variable of organization adaptation. Many scholars suggest a firm's absorptive capacity plays a key role in the process of...

Where Do New Organizational Forms Come From? Management Logics as a Source of Coevolution.
September 1, 1999... Abstract Many scholars have described organization form as a management tool in the alignment of organization and environment. As the environment of many companies becomes more chaotic, the exploration of organization forms characterized...

Change and Complementarities in the New Competitive Landscape: A European Panel Study, 1992-1996.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper addresses three weaknesses in the literature on new organizational forms: the limited mapping of the extent of contemporary organizational change; confusion about how contemporary changes link together; and the lack of...

The Temporal Development of Strategy: Patterns in the U.K. Insurance Industry.
September 1, 1999... Abstract Much writing in the field of strategic management remains an exercise in comparative statics. Cross-sectional research designs are combined with the static metaphors of contingency thinking to analyse the fit between the...

The Coevolution of New Organizational Forms in the Fashion Industry: A Historical and Comparative Study of France, Italy, and the United States.
September 1, 1999... Abstract In many industries, the contemporary context of acute environmental dislocation shows the limits of traditional organizational recipes. In direct response to environmental challenges, companies are experimenting with new...

The Coevolution of Network Alliances: A Longitudinal Analysis of an International Professional Service Network.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper examines a single longitudinal case study of a professional service network in the public accounting industry, a network intentionally created and formally organized to pursue residual referral revenue for the member...

Impact of CEO Succession in Japanese Companies: A Coevolutionary Perspective.
September 1, 1999... Abstract In this paper, we set out to investigate whether strategic leadership matters at a moment in the life cycle of the firm when a change is made in the top leadership. By far, most of the conceptual and empirical literature on the...

Argumentation Rationality of Management Decisions.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This article is concerned with the assessment of the substantiation of management decisions in practice. The necessity for this undertaking derives from the fact that to be successful, management must choose the right extent of...

Prolegomena on coevolution: a framework for research on strategy and new organizational forms.
September 1, 1999... Introduction Does intentionality matter? How does it matter? These questions have occupied center stage in research on adaptation and selection and in practitioner-oriented writings since the dawn of modern theorizing and research on...

Coevolution of firm absorptive capacity and knowledge environment: organizational forms and combinative capabilities.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper advances the understanding of absorptive capacity for assimilating new knowledge as a mediating variable of organization adaptation. Many scholars suggest a firm's absorptive capacity plays a key role in the process of...

The coevolution of new organizational forms.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper outlines an alternative theory of organization--environment coevolution that generalizes a model of organization adaptation first proposed by March (1991), linking firm-level exploration and exploitation adaptations to...

Where do new organizational forms come from? Management logics as a source of coevolution.
September 1, 1999... Abstract Many scholars have described organization form as a management tool in the alignment of organization and environment. As the environment of many companies becomes more chaotic, the exploration of organization forms characterized...

Change and complementarities in the new competitive landscape: a European panel study, 1992-1996.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper addresses three weaknesses in the literature on new organizational forms: the limited mapping of the extent of contemporary organizational change; confusion about how contemporary changes link together; and the lack of...

The temporal development of strategy: patterns in the U.K. insurance industry.
September 1, 1999... Abstract Much writing in the field of strategic management remains an exercise in comparative statics. Cross-sectional research designs are combined with the static metaphors of contingency thinking to analyse the fit between the...

The coevolution of new organizational forms in the fashion industry: a historical and comparative study of France, Italy, and the United States.
September 1, 1999... Abstract In many industries, the contemporary context of acute environmental dislocation shows the limits of traditional organizational recipes. In direct response to environmental challenges, companies are experimenting with new...

The coevolution of network alliances: a longitudinal analysis of an international professional service network.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This paper examines a single longitudinal case study of a professional service network in the public accounting industry, a network intentionally created and formally organized to pursue residual referral revenue for the member...

Impact of CEO succession in Japanese companies: a coevolutionary perspective.
September 1, 1999... Abstract In this paper, we set out to investigate whether strategic leadership matters at a moment in the life cycle of the firm when a change is made in the top leadership. By far, most of the conceptual and empirical literature on the...

Argumentation rationality of management decisions.
September 1, 1999... Abstract This article is concerned with the assessment of the substantiation of management decisions in practice. The necessity for this undertaking derives from the fact that to be successful, management must choose the right extent of...