Learning by association? Interorganizational networks and adaptation to environmental change

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One unifying theme which has run through the numerous, different, published literature on organizational adaptation and is the effort to determine the prime factors that encourage, hinder or otherwise influence organizations' attempts to transform themselves to survive in response to the changing environment. Yet there continues to be a substantial lack of understanding of this subject. Little has been written about the role that interorganizational social networks play in adaptation.

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Organizational Change As Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures In The Context Of Information Technology Implementation

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Social structure is constituted by human agency and itself is the medium of the constitution so that discourse is both the communicative action and the deeper level of discursive structure. This understanding would have helped explain why brokers and underwriters resisted introduction of the electronic placement system by the London Insurance Market even when told it was aimed at regaining profitability by reducing costs and enhance global competitiveness.

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Strategic human resource practices, top management team social networks, and firm performance: The role of human resource practices in creating organizational competitive advantage

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A study is conducted to examine the relationships between a set of network-building human resources (HR) practices, aspects of the external and internal social networks of top management teams, and firm performance. The results from a field study with 73 high-technology firms showed that the relationships between the HR practices and firm performance were mediated through their top managersE social network.

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