{"title":"Competence Attrition: A linguistic theory of the effects of external competence acquisition for organizations","authors":"S. Guercini, C. Lechner","doi":"10.1177/26317877231180890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231180890","url":null,"abstract":"What happens to old competences in organizations when new competences are acquired? In this paper, we propose a competence attrition theory to explain the effects of acquiring new competences on previously acquired ones. While the presumed positive role of available competences for the acquisition of new competences has been the subject of extensive research, the potentially negative effect of the acquisition of external competences on the availability and use of existing competences has not been sufficiently theorized. We aim to do so by extending existing learning and absorptive capacity theories with insights from linguistics on competence attrition. Specifically, informed by parallel patterns in language acquisition and attrition, we develop a set of focused propositions on competence acquisition and attrition in organizations. We end the paper by discussing the implications of our theorizing for existing theory and research.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79429698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Resources of Institutional Entrepreneurs in Different Structural Settings","authors":"Deborah Jackwerth-Rice, Jens Koehrsen, J. Mattes","doi":"10.1177/26317877231180630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231180630","url":null,"abstract":"As agents of strategic institutional change, institutional entrepreneurs (IEs) draw resources from their structural environment to alter the structural context in which they are embedded. In this article, we explore which resources IEs mobilize in different structural settings. We distinguish between (positional or free) field resources and personal resources, all of which may be material, cultural, social, symbolic or political in kind. Our review of leading case studies of institutional entrepreneurship shows that centrally positioned IEs draw primarily on organizational positional resources. By contrast, peripherally positioned IEs rely mainly on the skilful mobilization of free resources as well as on the personal resources of individuals. Also the field’s degree of institutionalization has an impact on IEs’ resources: in emerging fields where field positions and field boundaries are not yet defined, resources must be imported from mature fields. Furthermore, although resource-poor peripheral IEs may set off institution-building processes in emerging fields, they are usually superseded by central organizational actors during later stages of institution-building.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87257827","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Martin Friesl, Christoph Brielmaier, Leonhard Dobusch
{"title":"Taking Individual Choices Seriously: A process perspective of self-selection in strategy work","authors":"Martin Friesl, Christoph Brielmaier, Leonhard Dobusch","doi":"10.1177/26317877231183986","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231183986","url":null,"abstract":"An increasing body of work investigates the participation of a diverse set of actors in strategy making. We argue that extant research tends to gloss over a fundamental condition underpinning such participation: while participation may reflect a hierarchical mandate, insofar as it relates to the actual involvement of employees, it is the result of a process of self-selection. From this perspective, forms of participative strategizing are neither fully the outcome of deliberate top-down choice, nor do they form a random pattern that is subject to the whims of individual employees. Such forms of strategizing are rather, as we argue in this paper, based on an endogenous logic of whether and how an individual self-selects, and in turn involves her/himself in the process, or not. To conceptualize the broader phenomenon of strategy participation, we draw on practice theory to conceptualize how individuals knowingly choose to involve themselves in strategizing events and we develop in turn a process model of self-selection as an ongoing social accomplishment. This model elaborates different patterns of participation in strategy making (stabilizing and shifting trajectories) with variable emergent outcomes. We end the paper by discussing the implications of our theorizing for ongoing research on open and participatory strategizing, and for the body of work on strategy as practice.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74248791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize: A goals-based approach to studying social movements in markets","authors":"Jocelyn M. Leitzinger, Daniel Waeger","doi":"10.1177/26317877231179232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231179232","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research on social movements and markets has thus far paid only scant attention to movement goals. In the few instances that goals are considered, the focus is on how goals provide a shared purpose to movement participants, and not on their substantive nature or ‘content’. In contrast, our review of the movements and markets literature suggests that the substantive nature of movement goals is critical because it provides a more comprehensive understanding of different market-based movements and their interactions with market actors – ultimately impacting the consequences for movements and their targets. We develop a social movement typology using a goals-based perspective to distinguish between three types of movement: alteration movements, whose goal is to alter or change the practices of markets or their actors; creation movements whose goal is to create new market categories as a means of addressing their grievances; and elimination movements whose goal is to eradicate or remove products, industries, or markets altogether. We propose that the relationship between these types of movement and market actors goes through a four-stage life cycle – emergence, action, interaction and settlement – and that initial variation in movement goals shapes differences in the movement–market relationship at each stage of this life cycle.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"79 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75147928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"280 characters to the White House: predicting 2020 U.S. presidential elections from twitter data.","authors":"Rodrigue Rizk, Dominick Rizk, Frederic Rizk, Sonya Hsu","doi":"10.1007/s10588-023-09376-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10588-023-09376-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This nation-shaping election of 2020 plays a vital role in shaping the future of the U.S. and the entire world. With the growing importance of social media, the public uses them to express their thoughts and communicate with others. Social media have been used for political campaigns and election activities, especially Twitter. The researchers intend to predict presidential election results by analyzing the public stance toward the candidates using Twitter data. Previous researchers have not succeeded in finding a model that simulates well the U.S. presidential election system. This manuscript proposes an efficient model that predicts the 2020 U.S. presidential election from geo-located tweets by leveraging the sentiment analysis potential, multinomial naive Bayes classifier, and machine learning. An extensive study is performed for all 50 states to predict the 2020 U.S. presidential election results led by the state-based public stance for electoral votes. The general public stance is also predicted for popular votes. The true public stance is preserved by eliminating all outliers and removing suspicious tweets generated by bots and agents recruited for manipulating the election. The pre-election and post-election public stances are also studied with their time and space variations. The influencers' effect on the public stance was discussed. Network analysis and community detection techniques were performed to detect any hidden patterns. An algorithm-defined stance meter decision rule was introduced to predict Joe Biden as the President-elect. The model's effectiveness in predicting the election results for each state was validated by the comparison of the predicted results with the actual election results. With a percentage of 89.9%, the proposed model showed that Joe Biden dominated the electoral college and became the winner of the U.S. presidential election in 2020.</p>","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":" ","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10042672/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9716198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leslie A. Laam, George A. Godlewski, Wayne A. Psek
{"title":"A description and mathematization of an adaptation-based culture mechanism","authors":"Leslie A. Laam, George A. Godlewski, Wayne A. Psek","doi":"10.1007/s10588-023-09374-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-023-09374-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"29 1","pages":"363 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45122602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bianica Pires, Joshua Goldstein, E. Molfino, K. Ziemer, M. Orr, José Jiménez
{"title":"Knowledge sharing in a dynamic, multi-level organization: an agent-based modeling approach","authors":"Bianica Pires, Joshua Goldstein, E. Molfino, K. Ziemer, M. Orr, José Jiménez","doi":"10.1007/s10588-023-09373-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-023-09373-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46112924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H Van Dyke Parunak, Jason Greanya, Peggy McCarthy, Jonathan A Morell, Srikanth Nadella, Laura Sappelsa
{"title":"SCAMP's stigmergic model of social conflict.","authors":"H Van Dyke Parunak, Jason Greanya, Peggy McCarthy, Jonathan A Morell, Srikanth Nadella, Laura Sappelsa","doi":"10.1007/s10588-021-09347-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-021-09347-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SCAMP (Social Causality using Agents with Multiple Perspectives) is one of four social simulators that generated socially realistic data for the Ground Truth program. Unlike the other three simulators, it is based on a computational principle, stigmergy, inspired by social insects. Using this approach, we modeled conflict in a nation-state inspired by the ongoing scenario in Syria. This paper summarizes stigmergy and describes the Conflict World we built in SCAMP.</p>","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"29 1","pages":"118-155"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8594321/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9185775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why Do We Desire and Fear Care: Toward developing a holistic political approach","authors":"M. Fotaki","doi":"10.1177/26317877231159683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231159683","url":null,"abstract":"Care is a human need and capacity without which we cannot survive and flourish. However, care is often underpaid and considered an excessive burden in the economy despite being socially valued. Philosophical and political perspectives on vulnerability are essential for understanding the continuous undermining of care in organizations and society. This article draws on the feminist psychoanalytic idea of embodied vulnerability, defined as our intrinsic dependence on others, to explain the ambivalence surrounding care in contemporary societies and organizations. The argument I develop in this paper is that this dependency is erroneously associated with a weakness we must avoid or ignore. Neoliberal ideology – a dominant influence permeating public life – casts such interdependency as a moral failure and juxtaposes it with the fantasy of the rational individual, who is disembodied and free of any social obligations. In the paper, I challenge this view and argue for a deeper social and political conceptualization of care as an alternative basis for understanding the constitution of organizations and society. I draw on psychoanalytic insights as a footing for this conceptualization and elaborate on how it allows us to reframe care not only as residing in the fabric of relations underpinning organizations and society but as in an existential sense giving life to them. As I conclude in the paper, such an expanded and holistic view of care might help us address our societies’ profound challenges.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74800336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sophie Bacq, Madeline Toubiana, Trish Ruebottom, Jarrod Ormiston, Ifeoma Ajunwa
{"title":"Entrepreneurship Out of Shame: Entrepreneurial Pathways at the Intersection of Necessity, Emancipation, and Social Change","authors":"Sophie Bacq, Madeline Toubiana, Trish Ruebottom, Jarrod Ormiston, Ifeoma Ajunwa","doi":"10.1177/26317877231153185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/26317877231153185","url":null,"abstract":"Shame has been identified as a debilitating emotion that impedes entrepreneurial action. Yet, there are many examples of people who experience shame and go on to create entrepreneurial ventures. How then is entrepreneurship possible in the face of such shame? To address this question, we develop a theoretical process model that highlights the connection between individual and collective experiences of shame and elaborates when and how such experiences may lead to entrepreneurship. We suggest that third-person experiences of shame can transform first-person experiences and trigger identification with a community of similarly stigmatized others. We argue that the distinct narratives provided by these communities can reduce or enhance entrepreneurial self-efficacy, and therefore lead to different entrepreneurial pathways: some individuals may create ventures out of necessity, while others will create ventures that act as shame-free havens for themselves and others, and become a source of emancipation and social change. By outlining distinct entrepreneurial pathways out of shame, we extend current research at the intersection of entrepreneurship, necessity, emancipation, and social change.","PeriodicalId":50648,"journal":{"name":"Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78087043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}