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    HR managers as toxin handlers: The buffering effect of formalizing toxin handling responsibilities (vol 48, pg 695, 2009)
    Kulik, CT ; Cregan, C ; Metz, I ; Brown, M (JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2009-01-01)
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    A study on work-family conflict: The role of exchange relationships and gender
    Kailasapathy, P ; Metz, I ; Kraimer, M (Academy of Management, 2008)
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    Creating and fulfilling psychological contracts: The role of manager personality and organisational context
    Metz, I ; Kulik, CT ; Cregan, C ; Brown, M (Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, 2009)
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    Factors Influencing Perceptions of Psychic Distance
    Dow, D (Academy of International Business (AIB), 2009)
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    Do Workgroup Faultlines Help or Hurt? A Moderated Model of Faultlines, Team Identification, and Group Performance
    Bezrukova, K ; Jehn, KA ; Zanutto, EL ; Thatcher, SMB (INFORMS, 2009-01-01)
    In this study we examine a moderated model of group faultlines, team identification, and group performance outcomes. We extend research on faultlines by showing how different faultline bases (social category and information-based faultlines) may have differential effects on the performance of groups. In addition to faultline strength (the extent of demographic alignment across members within a group), we examine the distance between faultline-based subgroups (e.g., two members of age 20 are closer in age to two members of an opposing subgroup of age 25 than of two members of age 50). We test our model using an archival field methodology and multiple-source data (qualitative and quantitative) from 76 workgroups in a Fortune 500 information-processing company. Our results revealed that groups with social category faultlines had low team discretionary awards. Faultline distance further exacerbated the negative effects of strength in groups with social category faultlines and produced similarly negative effects in groups with information-based faultlines. Team identification served as a moderator enhancing performance of groups with information-based faultlines.
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    Writing differently
    Grey, C ; Sinclair, A (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2006-05)
    Here are some stories about writing critically. We have written them to beguile you and make you laugh. But we also want to provoke you to think about how and why you write. Interspersed are short, unashamedly idiosyncratic statements about what we think is wrong with much of the writing that goes on in the field, and why we think writing matters. We want to discourage pompous, impenetrable writing; writing that seems driven by desires to demonstrate one's cleverness, or to accrue publications as ends in themselves.
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    A Dearth of Exit Strategies
    Gans, J (SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW ASSOC, MIT SLOAN SCHOOL MANAGEMENT, 2009-03-01)
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    Brokers and competitive advantage
    Ryall, MD ; Sorenson, O (INFORMS, 2007-04)
    The broker profits by intermediating between two (or more) parties. Using a biform game, we examine whether such a position can confer a competitive advantage, as well as whether any such advantage could persist if actors formed relations strategically. Our analysis reveals that, if one considers exogenous the relations between actors, brokers can enjoy an advantage but only if (1) they do not face substitutes either for the connections they offer or the value they can create, (2) they intermediate more than two parties, and (3) interdependence does not lock them into a particular pattern of exchange. If, on the other hand, one allows actors to form relations on the basis of their expectations of the future value of those relations, then profitable positions of intermediation only arise under strict assumptions of unilateral action. We discuss the implications of our analysis for firm strategy and empirical research.
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