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How Change Recipients Become Rivals: Legitimacy Dynamics and ‘Cooptive Rejection’ in Organizational Change

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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, Alexis Laszczuk, Ann Langley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does formal complexity reflect cognitive complexity? Investigating aspects of the Chomsky Hierarchy in an artificial language learning study. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2015
Öttl B, Jäger G, Kaup B.
europepmc   +1 more source

The More, the Merrier? Membership Expansion and Incumbents' Boundary Work Divergence in the Platformization of Belgian Philanthropy

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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, Elodie Dessy, Danielle Logue   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Computability, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and an inherent limit on the predictability of evolution. [PDF]

J R Soc Interface, 2012
Day T.
europepmc   +1 more source

Bridging Moral Aspirations and the Mundane Reality: A Grounded Study of the Process of Radical Purpose Adaptation in a Business School

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract In previous research, scholars have often highlighted the important role of leaders in defending and protecting a historical organizational purpose. However, adopting such a ‘backward‐looking’ perspective, researchers have devoted much less attention to understanding how an organizational purpose can be deliberately changed and leveraged to ...
Luca Manelli, Carlotta Benedetti, Josip Kotlar, Federico Frattini   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implicit learning of recursive context-free grammars. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2012
Rohrmeier M, Fu Q, Dienes Z.
europepmc   +1 more source

Middle Managers’ Regulation of the Emotions of Others in Strategy Implementation: A Process Perspective

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops a process model of how middle managers regulate the negative emotions of their team members to support strategy implementation. Based on a 9‐month ethnographic study in a public broadcasting company, we examine how managers navigate emotionally charged resistance to top‐down strategic themes during meetings.
Henrika Franck, Philip Gylfe, Timo Vuori, Eero Vaara   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of probabilities.

J Math Psychol, 2017
Vitányi PM, Chater N.
europepmc   +1 more source

Breaking Barriers: Scaffolding Social‐Symbolic Work for Women’s Economic Empowerment

Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source