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Designing the Knowledge Enterprise: Beyond Programs and Tools

S. Mohrman, D. Finegold, and J. Klein find that how effectively firms generate, leverage, and apply knowledge is a function of four work behaviors: focusing on system performance rather than on narrow technical outcomes; following systematic processes; sharing knowledge, and trying new approaches.

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Complex Collaborations in the New Global Economy

Susan G. Cohen and Don Mankin state that traditional forms of collaboration — between individuals and within teams — are not sufficient for competing effectively in the new, demanding global business environment.

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Meeting the Performance Challenge: Calculating ROI for Virtual Teams

A. Levenson and S. Cohen explain that virtual teams are all the rage these days. The reasons for their prevalence are well known. But when does it make sense to operate virtually versus face-to-face (FTF)?

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Designing Work for Knowledge-Based Competition

Susan Mohrman proposes a framework for the design of work in the knowledge enterprise-firms that compete based on their knowledge leadership and knowledge management capabilities.

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Seven Challenges to Virtual Team Performance: Lessons from Sabre, Inc.

Bradley L. Kirkman, Benson Rosen, Cristina B. Gibson, Paul E. Tesluk, and Simon O. McPherson share that advances in communications and information technology create new opportunities for organizations to build and manage virtual teams.

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Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective

Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective

The purpose of Multinational Work Teams: A New Perspective by P. Christopher Earley and Cristina B. Gibson is to extend and consolidate the evolving literature on multinational teams by developing comprehensive theory that incorporates a dynamic, multilevel view of such items. This book will be of interest to scholars in management, organizational behavior, psychology, executive leadership, and human resource management.

The Organizational Level of Analysis: Consulting to the Implementation of New Organizational Designs

Sue Mohrman discusses how during a two-year period, a European electronics firm, Global Solutions, acquired four foreign subsidiaries to bolster its strategy of becoming a global leader selling systems to large global customers.

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Accelerating Organizational Transition

Accelerating Organizational Transition

Why do some organizations make required changes and achieve new levels of performance successfully, while other units in the same organization seemingly stumble and never achieve new levels of performance? This two-part video produced by Susan A. Mohrman & Serge Lashutka, 2001 reveals how viewing organizational change as a learning process that can be accelerated is the difference.

The Economic Approach to Personnel Research

M. Gibbs and A. Levenson explain that the economic approach to personnel and organizations has grown greatly in scope and importance over the last decade or two.

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