Organization Science articles from September 2004

Organization Science archives from September 2004

Organizational emergence: the origin and transformation of Branson, Missouri's musical theaters.
September 1, 2004... We draw on complexity theory to explain the emergence of a new organizational collective, and we provide a much-needed empirical test of the theory at the collective level of analysis. Taking a case study approach, we use four dynamics of...

Contextualizing patterns of work group interaction: toward a nested theory of structuration.
September 1, 2004... The focus of this article is the patterns of interaction that arise within work groups, and how organizational and institutional factors play a role in shaping these patterns. Based on an ethnographic study of groups across three national...

Firm- and country-level trade-offs and contingencies in the evaluation of foreign investment: the semiconductor industry, 1994-2002.
September 1, 2004... This paper examines the joint impact of firm- and country-level factors on the international plant location decisions of semiconductor firms from 1994-2002. We find that these factors interact to influence the location decisions of firms...

Transferring, translating, and transforming: an integrative framework for managing knowledge across boundaries.
September 1, 2004... The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired. Innovation is a useful context because it allows us to explore the negative consequences of the path-dependent nature of knowledge. A framework is...

A test of the individual action model for organizational information commons.
September 1, 2004... This research elaborated and empirically tested the individual action component of the collective action model as applied to individual contributions to organizational information commons. The model extended prior theory and research by making...

The coevolution of trust, control, and learning in joint ventures.
September 1, 2004... This article examines the evolution of trust, control, and learning in a joint venture relationship. Using a coevolutionary approach, we develop a framework that shows how initial joint venture conditions give way to evolved conditions as joint...

When and how trustworthiness matters: knowledge transfer and the moderating effect of causal ambiguity.
September 1, 2004... The recognition that better use of existing internal knowledge could enhance survival chances of organizations has spawned substantial interest in the transferability of routinized, experiential learning to additional settings within the...