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A Thin Spot 1
(Blackwell Publishing Inc, 2009-12)
A “thin spot” in thinking about business endangers our human being. This article traces a change in business thinking over the last generations to note how, under the spell of the scientific method and the thrall to ...
Celebrating Organization Theory: The After‐Party
(Harvard University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Organization and management theory as a field faces criticisms from several scholars that it has an unhealthy obsession with ‘theory’, while at the same time seeing very little cumulative theoretical progress. Some have ...
To stay or to go: voluntary survivor turnover following an organizational downsizing
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-09)
This paper examines the relationship between survivor reactions to a downsizing and retention subsequent to a downsizing. We hypothesize that survivors who experience the downsizing as distributively, procedurally, and ...
Reading the wind: how middle managers assess the context for selling issues to top managers
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 1997-05)
Issue selling is an important mechanism for creating change initiatives in organizations. This paper presents two studies that examine what middle managers think about as they decide whether or not to sell strategic issues ...
The rise of human service chains: antecedents to acquisitions and their effects on the quality of care in US nursing homes
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2002-06)
This paper studies acquisitions of nursing home facilities by chains. We first test alternative ‘cream-skimming’ and ‘turn-around’ arguments concerning nursing home acquisitions. We then consider post-acquisition changes ...
Too much of a good thing: Curvilinear effect of positive affect on proactive behaviors
(SageWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-05)
Counting Groves-Ledyard equilibria via degree theory
(Elsevier, 1983-10)
We study the Groves-Ledyard mechanism for determining optimal amounts of public goods in economies whose agents have the most general class of preferences for which a Pareto amount of public goods can be computed independently ...
Cognitive impairment in heart failure: towards a consensus on screening
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014-03)
Essentialism, Culture, and Beliefs About Gender Among the Aravanis of Tamil Nadu, India
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 2003-11)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender beliefs of the Aravanis, a transgender community in Tamil Nadu. Gender transgression and gender transformation (attempts to change gender) tasks were used to examine ...
The Problem of Experience in the Study of Organizations
(Sage Publications, 1993)
This paper deals with the fact that we cannot experience large organizations directly, in the same way as we can experience individuals or small groups, and that this non-experientiability has certain implications for our ...