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Abstract Our study challenges a commonly held assumption in the legitimacy and organizational change literatures: that the legitimacy of a change project is closely tied to, and dependent upon, the legitimacy of the change agent promoting it. Drawing on an in‐depth, three‐and‐a‐half‐year qualitative study of a major transformation within a French ...
Alaric Bourgoin +2 more
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Abstract When actors emerge on the periphery of a field, incumbents either engage in protective boundary work to enforce the field's membership criteria, or opt for membership expansion by adapting these criteria to accommodate peripheral actors. Less explored is the divergence configuration where a minority of incumbents pursue expansion whereas the ...
Benjamin Huybrechts +2 more
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Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social‐Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment
Abstract This study advances the understanding of Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) in non‐Western contexts by theorizing how social‐symbolic work facilitates empowerment despite entrenched institutional and cultural constraints. Drawing on a qualitative study into the establishment of Kuwait’s first women’s business incubator, we explore how female ...
Mohsen Abumuamar, Juliane Reinecke
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Abstract This conceptual article argues that the mutual relevance of grand challenges and organization and management studies is best approached phenomenologically. Rather than constituting objects to be theorized or denoting special empirical contexts, grand challenges structure researchers’ attention and shape their interpretations of the processes ...
Alfredo Grattarola +2 more
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Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes. [PDF]
Reiss D +5 more
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Abstract Whereas extant studies have mostly treated multi‐stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) as instruments of private authority that interact with public governance in various spheres, this study offers an alternative view of MSIs as important regulatory intermediaries, specifically in times of regulatory flux.
Leona A. Henry +4 more
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Residual Asymmetry Modeling and Joint Time-Frequency Estimation for High-Dynamic Two-Way Microwave Links. [PDF]
Hao Z, Wu H.
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ABSTRACT Objective The current longitudinal study tested whether different expressions of narcissism prospectively predict increased desires for status, perceptions of having attained status, and assertiveness—relative to desires for inclusion, perceptions of being included, and affiliativeness—and vice versa.
Christian H. Jordan, Nikhila Mahadevan
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ABSTRACT This article develops an evolutionary model that synthesizes emergent and deliberate innovation processes to explain how organizational adaptability is constituted. Existing research on “emergent” innovation processes tends to view these as diametrically opposed to “deliberate” action, applying each attribute with little nuance and relying on ...
Jochen Koch +4 more
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Social capital and obesity: a longitudinal study among older adults after relocation for poverty alleviation in China. [PDF]
Yao D, Yang L, Cao X, Li H, Yu Q.
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