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Measures of Perrow's Work Unit Technology: An Empirical Assessment and a New Scale
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In this article, the authors evaluated six instruments previously used to assess Perrow's dimensions of work unit technology and found convergent validity across measures of the analyzability and exceptions.Abstract:
Six instruments previously used to assess Perrow's dimensions of work unit technology are evaluated. The findings suggest convergent validity across measures of the analyzability and exceptions dim...read more
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Reconceptualizing Organizational Routines as a Source of Flexibility and Change
TL;DR: The authors argue that the relationship between ostensive and performative aspects of routines creates an on-going opportunity for variation, selection, and retention of new practices and patterns of action within routines and allows routines to generate a wide range of outcomes, from apparent stability to apparent stability.
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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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Managing potential and realized absorptive capacity: how do organizational antecedents matter?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how organizational antecedents affect potential and realized absorptive capacity and find that organizational mechanisms associated with coordination capabilities (cross-functional interfaces, participation in decision making, and job rotation) primarily enhance a unit's potential absorptive capacities.
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“Combining qualitative and quantitative methods information systems research: a case study
Bonnie Kaplan,Dennis Duchon +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report how quantitative and qualitative methods were combined in a longitudinal multidisciplinary study of interrelationships between perceptions of work and a computer information system, and the importance of process measures when evaluating the information systems, rather than unidirectional assessment of computer system impacts on users or of users characteristics on computer system implementation.
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Fit, Equifinality, and Organizational Effectiveness: A Test of Two Configurational Theories
TL;DR: In this paper, a set of configurational fit models that are congruent with alternative assumptions of equifinality were developed and tested empirically, and the results do not support Mintzberg's theory that organizations will be more effective to the extent that they resemble his five ideal types.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify the characteristics of the environment that contribute to decision unit members experiencing uncertainty in decision making and find that individuals in decision units with dynamic-complex environments experience the greatest amount of uncertainty.
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