Organizations enter alliances with each other to access critical re-sources, but they rely on
information from the network of prior alli-ances to determine with whom to cooperate. These …

This paper addresses the performance consequences of firm‐level strategic similarity. Past
research observed that firms face pressures to be different and to be the same. By …

Arguing that knowledge in the social sciences is socially constructed through the selective
interpretation of major works, we examine the fate of a classic article in organizational …

Opinion leaders are more precisely opinion brokers who carry information across the social
boundaries between groups. They are not people at the top of things so much as people at …

The authors analyze the coercive and mimetic conditions leading to the establishment of
investor relations departments among Fortune 500 industrial firms during the 1984–1994 …

Why does a denomination prohibiting women clergy support parishes run by women? Why
does a denomination opt to ordain women when there are few women seeking to join that …

Although downsizing has become an integral part of organizational life in the US, there is
little serious theoretical or empirical work on this issue. Nearly all of the completed work …

A company often must manage its reputation with multiple stakeholders in different ways.
This paper develops an interdisciplinary model for reputation management based on a …

This thesis reports on a study of closure of nonprofit organizations in the Minneapolis-St.
Paul metropolitan area from 1980 to 1994. The theoretical literature focusing on the …

Adopting a network perspective, we demonstrate that two different, yet complementary,
forces influence the formation of trade and investment policy. One the one hand, nations that …