CROSSING THE ORGANIZATIONAL SPECIES BARRIER: HOW VENTURE CAPITAL PRACTICES INFILTRATED THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gaba, Vibha; Meyer, Alan D.
• 署名单位: University of Oregon
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-4273
• 发表日期: 2008
• 页码: 976-998
• 关键词: research-and-development; diffusion; networks; FIRMS; Isomorphism; spillovers; governance; strategies; INNOVATION; adoption

摘要

We examine the contagion processes whereby practices originating in one organizational population spread into and diffuse within a second. We theorize that endemic innovations native to one population spread to other populations through two distinct forms of contagion. We test this argument by observing information technology firms' adoption of corporate venture capital programs. Results suggest that geographic proximity triggers cross-population contagion, that within-population contagion arises from different causal mechanisms, and that firms maintaining close cross-population ties pay less attention to the actions taken and outcomes experienced by other firms within their own industry.