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作者：Autio, Erkko; Dahlander, Linus; Frederiksen, Lars
作者单位：Imperial College London; Aarhus University
摘要：We study how an individual's exposure to external information regulates the evaluation of entrepreneurial opportunities and entrepreneurial action. Combining data from interviews, a survey, and a comprehensive web log of an online user community spanning eight years, we find that technical information shaped opportunity evaluation and that social information about user needs drove individuals to entrepreneurial action. Our empirical findings suggest that reducing demand uncertainty is a centra...
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作者：Patel, Pankaj C.; Messersmith, Jake G.; Lepak, David P.
作者单位：Ball State University; University of Nebraska System; University Nebraska Kearney
摘要：This study explores central questions related to the connections between a firm's human resources (HR) system and its ability to exhibit organizational ambidexterity. We build from existing work on the behavioral view of ambidexterity to assess the extent to which the utilization of certain HR practices may be linked to a context marked by discipline, stretch, trust, and support. We further argue that these disparate practices may be combined into a single high-performance work system (HPWS), ...
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作者：Mazmanian, Melissa
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：A three-year qualitative study of the use of mobile e-mail devices in a footwear manufacturer focused on the experience of two occupational functions. Evidence suggests that congruent frames of heterogeneous communication practices enabled one group to develop communication norms that circumvented the trap of constant connectivity, while assumptions of homogeneous communication practices in the other group led to expanded accessibility and erosion of personal time. This study examines how such...
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作者：Acharya, Abhijith G.; Pollock, Timothy G.
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：This study explores how CEOs' and outside directors' desires for the benefits of signaling and homophily intertwine with their concerns over maintaining power and preserving local status hierarchies to affect the likelihood a firm recruits prestigious outside directors to its board. Using pooled cross-sectional data on the five years following the initial public offerings (IPOs) of 210 firms that went public between 2001 and 2004, we found that prestigious CEOs and directors viewed the recruit...
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作者：Shepherd, Dean A.; Patzelt, Holger; Baron, Robert A.
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; Technical University of Munich; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：Some managers and entrepreneurs decide to act in ways that result in harm to the natural environment, despite the fact that such actions violate their own values. Building on moral self-regulation theory (Bandura, 1991), we propose that entrepreneurs' assessments of the attractiveness of opportunities that harm the natural environment depend on the simultaneous impact of values and personal agency. By cognitively disengaging their pro-environmental values, decision makers (i.e., entrepreneurs)...
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作者：Lamin, Anna
作者单位：Northeastern University
摘要：Although business groups benefit firms when markets fail, does group affiliation continue to be an advantage for firms in deregulated, globally competitive industries? I argue that affiliation allows firms to tap into the knowledge and connections of sister affiliates. This enables them to attract clients from more industries and foreign markets than can unaffiliated firms, and to attain higher international sales. Using data from the Indian software industry, I find support for these hypothes...
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作者：Kownatzki, Maximilian; Walter, Jorge; Floyd, Steven W.; Lechner, Christoph
作者单位：George Washington University; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst; University of St Gallen
摘要：Decision speed has long been recognized as a critical determinant of firm performance, particularly in dynamic environments. Extending prior studies, which have largely focused on firm-level decision speed in small- and medium-sized organizations, this study explores how control mechanisms set by corporate headquarters in multibusiness firms influence decision speed at the strategic business unit (SBU) level. Using a multimethod approach, we first inductively derive six types of corporate cont...
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作者：Rodell, Jessica B.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：Volunteering is prevalent and on the rise in the United States, but little research has examined the connection between individuals' volunteering and their jobs. In the absence of that research, it remains unclear whether employees volunteer to build on meaningful work experiences or to compensate for the lack of them. Similarly, it remains unclear whether volunteering is beneficial to jobs in some way or if it is a distraction, akin to moonlighting. In this research, several theoretical persp...
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作者：Martin, Scott L.; Liao, Hui; Campbell, Elizabeth M.
作者单位：Zayed University
摘要：Using a field experiment in the United Arab Emirates, we compared the impacts of directive and empowering leadership on customer-rated core task proficiency and proactive behaviors. Results of tests for main effects demonstrated that both directive and empowering leadership increased work unit core task proficiency, but only empowering leadership increased proactive behaviors. Examination of boundary conditions revealed that directive leadership enhanced proactive behaviors for work units that...
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作者：Ding, Waverly W.; Murray, Fiona; Stuart, Toby E.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：This article examines the gender difference in the likelihood that male and female academic scientists will join corporate scientific advisory boards (SABs). We assess (i) demand-side theories that relate the gap in scientists' rate of joining SABs to the opportunity structure of SAB invitations, and (ii) supply-side explanations that attribute that gap to scientists' preferences for work of this type. We statistically examine the demand- and supply-side perspectives in a national sample of 6,...
