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Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind
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In this article, the differences in the way strategists and their followers think are discussed, and practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups are proposed, with a focus on how to find common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems.Abstract:
Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand cooperation for the solution of these problems. This book helps to understand the differences in the way strategists and their followers think, offering practical solutions for those in business to help solve conflict between different groups.read more
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1 Constitutional Amendments: “Materializing” Organizational Communication
TL;DR: The communication-as-constitutive principle of organizational communication has been studied in management studies as discussed by the authors, which highlights how communication generates defining realities of organizational life, such as culture, power, networks, and the structure-agency relation.
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Exploratory and Exploitative Learning in New Product Development: A Social Capital Perspective on New Technology Ventures in China
TL;DR: In this paper, the structural, relational, and cognitive dimensions of social capital have been examined for exploratory and exploitative learning in new product development in new ventures in China, and the relationship between the interaction of the two types of learning and new product performance was examined.
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Review: a cognitive-affective model of organizational communication for designing IT
TL;DR: An integrated model of how people communicate is developed that provides a balance between relationship and action, between cognition and affect, and between message and medium, and reflects a more realistic picture of communication behavior in organizations.
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Cosmopolitanism, Consumer Ethnocentrism, and Materialism: An Eight-Country Study of Antecedents and Outcomes
TL;DR: This paper examined similarities and differences with respect to the nature of three consumer attitudinal dispositions: cosmopolitanism, consumer ethnocentrism, and materialism, using survey data drawn from consumers in eight countries and structural equation modeling techniques.
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Modeling how to grow: an inductive examination of humble leader behaviors, contingencies, and outcomes
Bradley P. Owens,David R. Hekman +1 more
TL;DR: A growing number of leadership writers argue leader humility is important to organizational effectiveness as mentioned in this paper, but little is known about the construct, why some leaders behave more humbly than others, and why they are more successful than others.