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- April 2013
- Article
Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation
By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters)...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Power and Influence;
Health Industry;
United Kingdom
Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation." Management Science 59, no. 4 (April 2013): 819–836.
- April 3, 2024
- Article
How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars
By: Stuti Agarwal, Julian De Freitas and Carey K. Morewedge
Research involving multiple experiments found that consumers have biased views of their driving abilities relative to those of other drivers and automated vehicles. These findings have implications for the adoption of partly or fully automated vehicles, which one day...
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Keywords:
Technology Adoption;
Consumer Behavior;
Government Legislation;
Prejudice and Bias;
Auto Industry;
Technology Industry
Agarwal, Stuti, Julian De Freitas, and Carey K. Morewedge. "How Automakers Can Address Resistance to Self-Driving Cars." Harvard Business Review (website) (April 3, 2024).
- January 1976
- Background Note
Managing Change, Part I: The Problem of Resistance
By: John P. Kotter and Jay W. Lorsch
Keywords:
Change Management
Kotter, John P., and Jay W. Lorsch. "Managing Change, Part I: The Problem of Resistance." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-102, January 1976.
- 30 Mar 2010
- News
MBA Career Services Resist Tide Of Budget Cuts
- October 2009 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm? (TN)
By: Diego A. Comin
Teaching Note for [709021].
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Keywords:
Spain
- 2019
- Article
Gene Drives as a Response to Infection and Resistance
By: Tuna Cem Hayirli and Peter F. Martelli
Hayirli, Tuna Cem, and Peter F. Martelli. "Gene Drives as a Response to Infection and Resistance." Infection and Drug Resistance 12 (2019): 229–234.
- 31 Aug 2022
- News
Why Do People Resist New Technology Like Electric Vehicles?
- July 22, 2014
- Blog Post
What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve." Giving Thoughts (Conference Board blog) (July 22, 2014).
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
What Impact? Resist Taking Credit for Results You Can't Achieve
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
Seven Ways Parents Can Help Kids Persist at Tasks They Resist
- 1989
- Article
Quantum Tunneling and Low-voltage Resistance in Small Superconducting Tunnel Junctions
By: M. Iansiti, A. T. Johnson, C. J. Lobb and M. Tinkham
Iansiti, M., A. T. Johnson, C. J. Lobb, and M. Tinkham. "Quantum Tunneling and Low-voltage Resistance in Small Superconducting Tunnel Junctions." Physical Review, B, Condensed Matter B40, no. 11370 (1989).
- December 2012
- Article
Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending
By: Jill Avery
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. Consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's...
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Keywords:
Brands;
Brand Building;
Brand Equity;
Brand Management;
Brand Positioning;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Marketing;
Consumer Behavior;
Gender;
Identity;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Auto Industry;
Consumer Products Industry
Avery, Jill. "Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending." International Journal of Research in Marketing 29, no. 4 (December 2012): 322–336. (Article was awarded the Marketing Science Institute's Best Paper Award.)
- July 2011
- Article
Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior
By: F. Gino, M. Schweitzer, N. Mead and D. Ariely
Gino, F., M. Schweitzer, N. Mead, and D. Ariely. "Unable to Resist Temptation: How Self-control Depletion Promotes Unethical Behavior." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 115, no. 2 (July 2011): 191–203.
Defending the Markers of Masculinity: Consumer Resistance to Brand Gender-Bending
I study the Porsche Cayenne SUV launch to ethnographically analyze how men consuming a gendered brand respond to perceived brand gender contamination. The consumers' communal gender work in a Porsche brand community is analyzed to uncover brand gender contamination's...
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- May 2007
- Article
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to...
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Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 2 (May 2007): 266–298.
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance
By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Behavior;
Stocks;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Policy;
Investment;
Financial Institutions;
Equity;
Corporate Finance
Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
- July 1997
- Case
Technology Crisis and the Future of Agribusiness: Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Animals
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot
Goldberg, Ray A., and Juan Enriquez-Cabot. "Technology Crisis and the Future of Agribusiness: Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Animals." Harvard Business School Case 598-024, July 1997.