Organization Science articles from September 2000

Organization Science archives from September 2000

Bridging space over time: global virtual team dynamics and effectiveness.
September 1, 2000... Virtual teams comprise an important structural component of many organizations and are particularly important in globally dispersed enterprises. This article reports an intensive study of three global virtual teams within a single organization....

Race-related differences in promotions and support: underlying effects of human and social capital.
September 1, 2000... Abstract This study examined two alternative explanations for disparity in reported work-related experiences and outcomes between black and white managers: treatment discrimination because of race, and differences in human and social...

Is organization theory obvious to practitioners? A test of one established theory.
September 1, 2000... Abstract Critics have argued that organization theories which "work" are obvious to practitioners; that is, the theories simply confirm relationships that are already well understood by experienced managers. In our study, four types of...

Perceived victimization in the workplace: the role of situational factors and victim characteristics.
September 1, 2000... Violence in the workplace, both physical and emotional, has become an increasingly serious component of organizational life. Most research on this subject examines the perpetrators of violence. In contrast, this study focuses on the victims'...

Motivation, knowledge transfer, and organizational forms.
September 1, 2000... The importance of knowledge for gaining competitive advantage is widely accepted. The authors distinguish between explicit and tacit forms of knowledge and argue that different kinds of motivation (extrinsic and intrinsic) are crucial for...

Relationality in organizational research: exploring the space between.
September 1, 2000... Abstract Relationships and interactions should be an important focus of attention in organizational scholarship. In contrast to traditional research approaches that focus on independent, discrete entities, methodologies oriented to...

Extending the Cyert-March duopoly model: organizational and economic insights.
September 1, 2000... Cyert and March's A Behavioral Theory of the Firm is a fundamental and classic book; it was an early integration of organization theory and economics of duopoly. Further, it introduced computational, or simulation, modeling as a means to...