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Motivation through the Design of Work: Test of a Theory. Organizational Behavior and Human Performance,

by ] Richard Hackman , Grec R Oldham , 1976
"... A model is proposed that specifies the conditions under which individuals will become internally motivated to perform effectively on their jobs. The model focuses on the interaction among three classes of variables: (a) the psychological states of employees that must be present for internally motiv ..."
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increasingly prominent as a strategy for attempting to improve simultaneously the productivity and the quality of the work experience of employees in contemporary organizations. Although the benefits of work redesign (or "job enrichment" or "job enlargement") are widely touted

Illusion and well-being: A social psychological perspective on mental health.

by Shelley E Taylor , Jonathon D Brown , Nancy Cantor , Edward Emery , Susan Fiske , Tony Green-Wald , Connie Hammen , Darrin Lehman , Chuck Mcclintock , Dick Nisbett , Lee Ross , Bill Swann , Joanne - Psychological Bulletin, , 1988
"... Many prominent theorists have argued that accurate perceptions of the self, the world, and the future are essential for mental health. Yet considerable research evidence suggests that overly positive selfevaluations, exaggerated perceptions of control or mastery, and unrealistic optimism are charac ..."
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both the social world and cognitive-processing mechanisms impose niters on incoming information that distort it in a positive direction; negative information may be isolated and represented in as unthreatening a manner as possible. These positive illusions may be especially useful when an individual

Designing and Managing Value Co-Creation in KIBS Engagements

by Lysanne Lessard
"... Knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) such as IT development, IT outsourcing, and re-search and development (R&D) services have become a key component of most industrialized economies; they have been identified as an important source of employment growth in many countries and help improve ..."
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the key characteristics and types of KIBS. However, although some empirical studies have investigated KIBS at the level of management – for example, how to manage customers ’ co-production processes – there has not been much research on how to successfully establish and manage engagements among KIBS

A design theory for systems that support emergent knowledge processes

by M. Lynne Markus, Ann Majchrzak, Les Gasser , 2000
"... This paper presents a design theory for systems to support what we call “emergent knowledge processes.” Emergent knowledge processes are business processes that involve intellectual activities, expert knowledge, and diverse people in unstructured and unpredictable combinations. Examples of emergent ..."
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IT support for the characteristics. Then, drawing on a case study of a successful system development effort for the process of organization design, we discuss the principles of good IS product design and development for emergent knowledge processes. These principles are quite different from those commonly

From a firm-based to a community-based model of knowledge creation: The case of the Linux kernel development

by Gwendolyn K. Lee, Robert E. Cole - Organization Science
"... We propose a new model of knowledge creation in purposeful, loosely-coordinated, distributed systems, as an alternative to a firm-based one. Specifically, using the case of Linux kernel development project, we build a model of community-based, evolutionary knowledge creation to study how thousands o ..."
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We propose a new model of knowledge creation in purposeful, loosely-coordinated, distributed systems, as an alternative to a firm-based one. Specifically, using the case of Linux kernel development project, we build a model of community-based, evolutionary knowledge creation to study how thousands

Community, Joining, and Specialization in Open Source Software Innovation: A Case Study

by Georg von Krogh, Sebastian Spaeth, Karim R. Lakhani , 2003
"... This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software innovation process by focussing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized and anonymous peer-to-peer electronic file sharing network. We are particularly interested in the strategies and processes by ..."
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This paper develops an inductive theory of the open source software innovation process by focussing on the creation of Freenet, a project aimed at developing a decentralized and anonymous peer-to-peer electronic file sharing network. We are particularly interested in the strategies and processes

Technology Adaptation: The Case Of A Computer-Supported Inter-Organizational Virtual Team

by Ann Majchrzak, Ronald E. Rice, Arvind Malhotra, Nelson King, Sulin Ba , 2000
"... The adaptation process for new technology is not yet well understood. This study analyzes how an inter-organizational virtual team, tasked with creating a highly innovative product over a 10 month period, adapted the use of a collaborative technology and successfully achieved its challenging objecti ..."
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The adaptation process for new technology is not yet well understood. This study analyzes how an inter-organizational virtual team, tasked with creating a highly innovative product over a 10 month period, adapted the use of a collaborative technology and successfully achieved its challenging

Capabilities, Cognition and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging

by Mary Tripsas, Giovanni Gavetti - FORTHCOMING IN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL , 2000
"... There is empirical evidence that established firms often have difficulty adapting to radical technological change. Although prior work in the evolutionary tradition emphasizes the inertial forces associated with the local nature of learning processes, little theoretical attention has been devoted ..."
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’ understanding of the world and the accumulation of organizational capabilities. The Polaroid story clearly illustrates the importance of managerial cognitive representations in directing search processes in a new learning environment, the evolutionary trajectory of organizational capabilities, and ultimately

Learning to Implement Enterprise Systems: An Exploratory Study of the Dialectics of Change

by Daniel Robey, Jeanne W. Ross, Marie-claude Boudreau , 2000
"... This paper reports on a comparative case study of 13 industrial firms that had implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Firms were compared based on their dialectical learning process. All firms had to overcome knowledge barriers of two types: those associated with the configuration ..."
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This paper reports on a comparative case study of 13 industrial firms that had implemented an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Firms were compared based on their dialectical learning process. All firms had to overcome knowledge barriers of two types: those associated

Behavioral theories and the neurophysiology of reward,

by Wolfram Schultz - Annu. Rev. Psychol. , 2006
"... ■ Abstract The functions of rewards are based primarily on their effects on behavior and are less directly governed by the physics and chemistry of input events as in sensory systems. Therefore, the investigation of neural mechanisms underlying reward functions requires behavioral theories that can ..."
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that can conceptualize the different effects of rewards on behavior. The scientific investigation of behavioral processes by animal learning theory and economic utility theory has produced a theoretical framework that can help to elucidate the neural correlates for reward functions in learning, goal
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