東華大學圖書館 |

語系: 繁體中文

說明(常見問題)

回圖書館首頁

手機版館藏查詢

登入

回首頁

切換: 標籤 | MARC模式 | ISBD

Implications of the individual for o...

Powell, Benjamin Caldwell.

FindBook

Google Book

Amazon

博客來

Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes./
作者:	Powell, Benjamin Caldwell.
面頁冊數:	134 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2169.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-06A.
標題:	Business Administration, Management. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3095930

Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes.
Powell, Benjamin Caldwell.

Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes. - 134 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2169.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

The three essays in this dissertation develop a common but implicit theme—that organizations' reliance on the knowledge and actions of individuals affects organizational processes. The cognitive and physical capabilities of individuals have not changed significantly over the past centuries, but those of organizations have. The enhanced capabilities of organizations are not based on corresponding enhancements in the capabilities of individuals but on better ways of exploiting these capabilities. However, organizations' dependence on individuals imposes limits on organizational capabilities. The essays in this dissertation explore these limits and their implications for organization theory. In the first essay we examine limits on organizations' ability to change, i.e. structural inertia. Using the concept of interdependence from structural contingency theory to complement evolutionary theory, we suggest an architecture for individuals' actions. We then employ this architecture and evolutionary theory in identifying conditions affecting inertia, i.e. decomposability, fungibility, munificence, and specificity. The second and third essays focus on a specific type of organizational process—venture creation. By examining the metaphors employed in the names of Internet incubators, the second essay attempts to access entrepreneurs' mental models of venture creation and to relate these mental models to environmental conditions. In the third essay we assert that new ventures face a fundamental dilemma—Winter's dilemma—in managing their subjective organizational knowledge. Knowledge-rich inducements support competitive imitation, but knowledge-poor inducements fail to induce the contributions needed from potential investors, employees, customers, and suppliers. We investigate an emerging means for addressing Winter's dilemma—technological articulation via the World Wide Web—and evaluate the impact of this semantic bridge on new ventures' survival odds. As mankind continues to press the frontier of organizational capabilities, the relatively stagnant capabilities of individuals and the limits they impose will become increasingly salient. These essays represent a very small step toward understanding the implications of the individual for organization theory.Subjects--Topical Terms:

626628
Business Administration, Management.

Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes.
LDR:03248nmm 2200265 4500 001 1859529
005 20041020143630.5
008 130614s2003 eng d
035 $a (UnM)AAI3095930
035 $a AAI3095930
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 1 $a Powell, Benjamin Caldwell. $3 1947186
245 1 0 $a Implications of the individual for organization theory: Three essays on subjectivity, interdependence, and organizational processes.
300 $a 134 p.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-06, Section: A, page: 2169.
500 $a Adviser: Johannes M. Pennings.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
520 $a The three essays in this dissertation develop a common but implicit theme—that organizations' reliance on the knowledge and actions of individuals affects organizational processes. The cognitive and physical capabilities of individuals have not changed significantly over the past centuries, but those of organizations have. The enhanced capabilities of organizations are not based on corresponding enhancements in the capabilities of individuals but on better ways of exploiting these capabilities. However, organizations' dependence on individuals imposes limits on organizational capabilities. The essays in this dissertation explore these limits and their implications for organization theory. In the first essay we examine limits on organizations' ability to change, i.e. structural inertia. Using the concept of interdependence from structural contingency theory to complement evolutionary theory, we suggest an architecture for individuals' actions. We then employ this architecture and evolutionary theory in identifying conditions affecting inertia, i.e. decomposability, fungibility, munificence, and specificity. The second and third essays focus on a specific type of organizational process—venture creation. By examining the metaphors employed in the names of Internet incubators, the second essay attempts to access entrepreneurs' mental models of venture creation and to relate these mental models to environmental conditions. In the third essay we assert that new ventures face a fundamental dilemma—Winter's dilemma—in managing their subjective organizational knowledge. Knowledge-rich inducements support competitive imitation, but knowledge-poor inducements fail to induce the contributions needed from potential investors, employees, customers, and suppliers. We investigate an emerging means for addressing Winter's dilemma—technological articulation via the World Wide Web—and evaluate the impact of this semantic bridge on new ventures' survival odds. As mankind continues to press the frontier of organizational capabilities, the relatively stagnant capabilities of individuals and the limits they impose will become increasingly salient. These essays represent a very small step toward understanding the implications of the individual for organization theory.
590 $a School code: 0175.
650 4 $a Business Administration, Management. $3 626628
650 4 $a Sociology, Theory and Methods. $3 626625
690 $a 0454
690 $a 0344
710 2 0 $a University of Pennsylvania. $3 1017401
773 0 $t Dissertation Abstracts International $g 64-06A.
790 1 0 $a Pennings, Johannes M., $e advisor
790 $a 0175
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2003
856 4 0 $u http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3095930