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Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio))

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Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio) (Classe)

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Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective (Contributo in volume (capitolo o saggio)) (literal)

Anno

2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)

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10.1007/978-1-4471-4878-4 (literal)

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Francesco Zirpoli, Luisa Errichiello and Josh Whitford; (2013)
Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective
Springer London, London (Regno Unito) in Behavioral issues in Operations Management: New trends in design, management, and methodologies, 2013
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Francesco Zirpoli, Luisa Errichiello and Josh Whitford; (literal)

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199 (literal)

Pagina fine

219 (literal)

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Behavioral issues in Operations Management: New trends in design, management, and methodologies (literal)

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20 (literal)

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Department of Management, University Ca' Foscari of Venice; Institute for Service Industry Research (IRAT), The National Research Council of Italy (CNR); Department of Sociology, Columbia University (literal)

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Behavioral Decision-Making and Network Dynamics: A Political Perspective (literal)

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978-1-4471-4877-7 (literal)

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Ilaria Giannoccaro (literal)

Abstract

The blurring of organizational boundaries and the adoption of networks as a prominent form of governance have largely contributed to reinforcing interdependence between internal and external organizational networks as well as between formal and informal ties. This chapter tries to broaden existing theoretical models in order to explain the behavioral decision-making process of the firm and how it is shaped by the complex and interactive dynamics of these networks. The theoretical perspective employed in the chapter suggests that a firm's behavior is influenced by organizational politics. Although this actually does not constitute a fresh perspective within organizational and management studies, in this chapter it is revamped and widened in light of the mentioned changes within and across firms' organizational boundaries. The starting point of our discussion is March's seminal work (March, 1962) and his model of \"the business firm as a political coalition\". Subsequently, drawing also on later organizational politics literature we show the limits and opportunities of adopting such an imagery not only for the traditional business firm but also for the contemporary network organization: through it we can improve our understanding of how organizational boundaries are defined today, why company leaders choose the strategies they choose, and how and why those strategies are (or are not) implemented. In order to explain patterns of organizational behavior in a world of blurred-but existent firm boundaries we finally draw on a more recent sociological literature on social movements that also highlights for \"patterns of mobilization distinct from both lines of formal authority and the personal ties of informal organization\" (Clemens, 2005). Indeed, such a literature recognized the central role of networks, their evolutionary dynamics, and interactions between the internal and the external and between the formal and the informal. (literal)

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