'The Nature of Resources: Their Malleability, and the Means by Which They are Put into Service'

Autor: Scott Sonenshein, Christian Mealey
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Academy of Management Proceedings. 2014:10934
ISSN: 2151-6561
0065-0668
DOI: 10.5465/ambpp.2014.10934symposium
Popis: Resources play a prominent role in organizational studies, spanning psychological resources that influence important individual- and group-level processes such as motivation and decision making to firm resources that influence firm– and industry-level concepts such as strategy and competitive behavior. While scholars have historically theorized resources as fixed entities, researchers have recently recognized that resources are malleable, shapeable by actors inside organizations. This gets manifested in a wide range of topics such as entrepreneurial bricolage, creativity and culture. Further, without directly addressing the malleability of the resource itself, scholars have increasingly been seeking to answer questions for how heterogeneity of organizational resource bundles emerges, and in what ways resource bundles are created and then transformed into capabilities. Our overarching objective of the proposed session is to bring a diverse group of scholars together who are nonetheless united in their trea...
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