... as inauthentic) and to show how this is the second side of a coin, where the first side is the very advantage that first movers experience in their avoidance of the first valuation risk. In particular, we argue and show experimentally (in an analysis of a new organizational form in the healthcare industry...

... interest in alternative organizational forms ( Chen, 2009 ; Davis, 2016 ; Rodgers, Petersen, & Sanderson, 2016 ). Much theoretical leverage remains to be gained, however, from the study of atypically and oppositionally structured organizational forms such as democratically governed enterprises, where...

...: codifying, crafting, conforming, and configuring, and categorizes them along internal versus external as well as forming versus transforming dimensions. Digital technology liability of novelty organizational form organizational hybridity religion social entrepreneurship Introduction Hybrid...

...Abstract Drawing on a case study of the adoption of an American organizational form – the “Academic Health Science Centre” (or “AHSC”) – in English healthcare, the authors develop a model of the “translation work” required to translate an organizational form from one organizational field...

...Abstract A collaborative community is an organizational form that is increasingly being used in knowledge-intensive industries to accelerate innovation via collaboration. This study examines key design issues faced by a bilateral broker collaborative community at the point of its formation: (1...

... ours).⁴ However, these criteria do not provide any ready identity template and do not provide clear criteria for success. While the category of charter schools was created by law in 1992, the identity of the new organizational form was far from settled. In this environment, with unclear...

...Abstract We show how organizational forms shape job structures, specifically the variety and types of jobs employees hold, extending previous research on job structures in four ways. First, the social codes associated with wineries’ generalist and specialist forms constrain the number of jobs...

... organizational form comparative organizations bureaucracy beliefs Tracey’s (2012) analysis of 85 papers that involve religion, published in 21 different management journals (with only 29 published in the “top” Financial Times journals) shows that very few of them are concerned with organizational...