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An examination of the reliability and validity of the Aiken and Hage scales of centralization, formalization and task routineness / BEBR No. 387
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The article was published on 1977-03-17 and is currently open access. It has received 211 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Reliability (statistics) & Task (project management).read more
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The resource-based view within the conversation of strategic management
TL;DR: The resource-based approach as discussed by the authors is an emerging framework that has stimulated discussion between scholars from three research perspectives: traditional strategy insights concerning a firm's distinctive competencies and heterogeneous capabilities.
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Exploratory Innovation, Exploitative Innovation, and Performance: Effects of Organizational Antecedents and Environmental Moderators
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how environmental aspects (i.e., dynamism and competitiveness) moderate the effectiveness of exploratory and exploitative innovation and found that exploratory innovation is more effective in dynamic environments whereas exploiting competitive environments is more beneficial to a unit's financial performance.
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Managing Potential and Realized Absorptive Capacity: How Do Organizational Antecedents Matter?
Justin J. P. Jansen,Frans van den Bosch,Frans van den Bosch,Henk W. Volberda,Henk W. Volberda +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how organizational antecedents affect potential and realized absorptive capacity and find that organizational mechanisms associated with coordination capabilities (i.e., cross-functional interfaces, participation in decision-making, and job rotation) primarily enhance a unit's potential absorptive capacities.
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Emerging Issues in Corporate Entrepreneurship
Gregory G. Dess,R. Duane Ireland,Shaker A. Zahra,Steven W. Floyd,Jay J. Janney,Peter J. Lane +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify four major issues scholars can pursue to further their understanding about corporate entrepreneurship and identify key research opportunities relevant to CE in an international context, including the role of leadership and social exchange in the CE process, and a reassessment of the outcomes in CE research.
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Output Sector Munificence Effects on the Internal Political Economy of Marketing Channels
F. Robert Dwyer,Sejo Oh +1 more
TL;DR: Using a resource dependence perspective, the authors in this paper hypothesize that a marketing channel will thrive only to the extent it can secure critical resources from the environment, which is not the case for all marketing channels.
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Organizational interdependence and intra-organizational structure.
Michael Aiken,Jerald Hage +1 more
TL;DR: The relationship between organizational interdependence was investigated specifically the number of joint programs and internal organizational behavior for health and welfare organizations, which found organizations with many joint programs were more complex and innovative organizations.
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Routine Technology, Social Structure, and Organization Goals
Jerald Hage,Michael Aiken +1 more
TL;DR: This paper investigated the relationship between organizational technology, specifically the degree of routineness of work, and the social structure and goals of health and welfare organizations, and found that organizations with more routine work are more centralized, more formalized, and less professionally trained staffs, but no relationship with stratification.