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Robert Dewar
Researcher at Northwestern University
Publications - 22
Citations - 4160
Robert Dewar is an academic researcher from Northwestern University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Organizational effectiveness & Organization development. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 20 publications receiving 4040 citations.
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The Adoption of Radical and Incremental Innovations: An Empirical Analysis
Robert Dewar,Jane E. Dutton +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically tested whether different models are needed to predict the adoption of technical process innovations that contain a high degree of new knowledge radical innovations and a low degree of incremental innovations.
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Elite Values Versus Organizational Structure in Predicting Innovation
Jerald Hage,Robert Dewar +1 more
TL;DR: Hage and Dewar as discussed by the authors compared the predictive power of the concept of elite values with leader values, member values, and the three structural variables of complexity, centralization, and formalization.
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Universalistic and Contingency Predictions of Employee Satisfaction and Conflict.
Robert Dewar,James Werbel +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a study of the relationship between consumer reporting agencies and consumer reporting, which is supported by grants from the Marketing Science Institute of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Northwestern University Research Committee.
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An examination of the reliability and validity of the Aiken and Hage scales of centralization, formalization, and task routineness
TL;DR: This article examines the reliability and validity of six scales developed by Aiken, Hage, and Hall to operationalize technology, centralization, and formalization and finds the indicators of centralization and job specificity to be both reliable and valid.
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Size, technology, complexity, and structural differentiation: toward a theoretical synthesis.
Robert Dewar,Jerald Hage +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested and found that the most important determinant of differentiation in the division of labor is the scope of an organization's task, a technological dimension, and not organizational size.