Management Theses and Dissertations

Russo, Michael Earle, Andrew 2013-10-10T23:18:36Z 2013-10-10T23:18:36Z 2013-10-10 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13413 This dissertation seeks to relieve theoretical tension between organizational ambidexterity and network perspectives by developing a contingent model of firm-level exploration and exploitation. The central proposition of this model is firms need to both effectively explore and exploit to succeed but that inter-organizational network features supporting one of these activities are detrimental to the other. This model indicates firms can resolve this apparent paradox by configuring their networks contingent on the particular goals of these networks. In the context of technology commercialization, I hypothesize firms should benefit by configuring their inter-organizational networks to gather novel information when seeking to discover new technologies but gather redundant information when seeking to bring these new discoveries to market. I test these hypotheses with a unique panel data set of firms active in publishing, patenting, and commercializing technologies in the field of green chemistry. My empirical results largely support these hypothesized relationships. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Business Strategy Innovation Networks Organizational Ambidexterity Technology Commercialization Explore with Strangers, Exploit with Friends: Organizational Ambidexterity and Networks in Successful Technology Commercialization Electronic Thesis or Dissertation Ph.D. doctoral Department of Management University of Oregon

Schlossberg, Marc Khut, Rithy 2013-07-11T19:58:23Z 2013-07-11T19:58:23Z 2013-07-11 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12961 One of the top bicycling cities in the United States, Portland, Oregon has used a mixture of bicycle infrastructure to create a cohesive network for bicyclists. Building on their success, in 2010 Portland set forth on an ambitious path to envision their bicycle network in 2030. The primary goal of this plan is to attract the “Interested but Concerned” demographic of bicyclists through an increase of their bicycle boulevard network from 30 miles to 286 miles. However, there has been no direct link between bicycle boulevards and bicycle rates. Therefore, this study analyzes the influence of bicycle boulevards on bicycle-to-work rates using U.S. Census data with Geographic Information Systems data in concert with both ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions and a fixed effects (FE) regression. The OLS and FE models both indicate that there is a statistically significant relationship between bicycle boulevards and bicycle-to-work rates. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Bicycle boulevards Bicycle facilities Bicycling Portland Oregon Transportation planning Bicycle Boulevards: Statistical Analysis of the Presence of Bicycle Boulevards and Their Influence on Bicycle-to-Work Rates in Portland, Oregon Electronic Thesis or Dissertation M.C.R.P. masters Department of Planning, Public Policy and Management University of Oregon

Howard-Grenville, Jennifer Irwin, Jennifer Irwin, Jennifer 2012-10-26T04:00:47Z 2012-10-26T04:00:47Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/12392 Institutions are generally assumed to be stable, but recent research has focused on how that stability may be overturned to create institutional change. The assumption of stability has led to a lack of research on the flip side of change, maintenance, even though we cannot fully understand change without understanding the forces change agents work against. By examining more than a century of American public library discourse, I develop the construct of core ideas and a model of the maintenance of these institutions. Core ideas are those institutionalized ideas at the heart of a field that act as touchstones of a field's work and identity. Like other institutions, core ideas may be both added to and subtracted from a field and require maintenance through reinforcement and reinterpretation to endure. The model of maintenance of core ideas shows how core ideas are maintained in the face of social and technological change through use, as actors draw on core ideas to justify or deny accounts of practice, which reinforces, reinterprets, or undermines existing or proposed core ideas. In developing a model of maintenance I also examine how core ideas illuminate the internal workings of institutional logics and explore how the multivocality of core ideas allows and even supports multiple logics within a field. en_US University of Oregon All Rights Reserved. Institutional Change Institutional Maintenance Institutional Theory Public Libraries The More Things Change, the More Things Stay the Same: Institutional Maintenance in the Face of Social and Technological Change in American Public Libraries, 1876-2006 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation