We investigate the impact of work group cooperative climate on affective commitment and turnover intentions of professional employees, in interaction with climate strength (referring to the level of agreement among group members on what constitute important norms, values and goals within the...

Organizational demographers found that people who are demographically different from their colleagues, are most likely to leave. To explain this fact, demography and network ties are generally treated as equivalent. Critics claim that the use of demographics as a substitute for network ties is...

Dit is een bijzonder onderzoekmemorandum: niet vanwege de inhoud, hoewel die ongetwijfeld controversieel zal blijken te zijn, maar omdat het een memorandum is dat het eerste produkt is van een nieuw instituut. Eind 1996 is in Maastricht het Netherlands Institute of Business Organization and...

This paper merges two theoretical perspectives in a mathematical game model: industrial organization on the one hand, which basically is the economic theory of market competition and firm strategies, and organizational ecology on the other, which is a major sociological tradition that studies...

This paper develops and tests a model explaining diversity within top executive management teams from the perspective of selective turnover. We draw on two theoretical perspectives to describe the pull toward team homogenization (low diversity) and the push toward team heterogenization (high...

The industrial organization of transactions has changed dramatically during the past decade (Thompson and Wright, 1988). Several scholars have discussed and documented the phenomenon of what has been called `the shrinking organization'' (Ford and Farmer, 1986; Lichtenberg, 1992). The apparent...

Het voorwerp van onderzoek van de wiskundige theorie van niet-lineaire dynamica - bekend geworden onder de naam chaostheorie - is het modelleren en begrijpen van turbulentie. De vaststelling dat het economische leven alsmaar dynamischer en onzekerder wordt, heeft vele economen doen grijpen naar...