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Social Theory and Social Structure
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Living With Multiple Paradigms the Case of Paradigm Interplay in Organizational Culture Studies
TL;DR: In this article, a new strategy for multiparadigm research that promotes interplay between paradigms is presented, using organizational culture studies as an example of how interplay affects multi-paradigm relations.
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Vulnerability and resilience: Coalescing or paralleling approaches for sustainability science?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors briefly review the emergence of sustainability science and the three foundational pivots relevant to vulnerability and resilience, and highlight the distinctions and similarities between the two research themes as practiced within sustainability science, especially in regard to the attention given to the three pivots.
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11 Evidence in Management and Organizational Science: Assembling the Field’s Full Weight of Scientific Knowledge Through Syntheses
TL;DR: Research synthesis as mentioned in this paper is the systematic accumulation, analysis and reflective interpretation of the full body of relevant empirical evidence related to a question, which is the critical first step in effective use of scientific evidence.
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A Battle of Wills: Self-Verification Versus Behavioral Confirmation
William B. Swann,Robin J. Ely +1 more
TL;DR: The research reported here sought to reconcile competing viewpoints by considering the certainty of perceivers' expectancies and targets' self-conceptions, and found that self-verification always occurred when targets were certain of their self- Conceptions.
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Goal Ambiguity and Organizational Performance in U.S. Federal Agencies
Young Han Chun,Hal G. Rainey +1 more
TL;DR: Chun et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between goal ambiguity and organizational performance and found that goal ambiguity is correlated with organizational characteristics such as organizational age, financial publicness (proportion of funding from government allocations), and regulatory status.