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作者：Miller, Douglas J.; Fern, Michael J.; Cardinal, Laura B.
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; University of Victoria; University of Victoria; Tulane University
摘要：We propose that searching for and transferring knowledge across divisions in a diversified firm can cultivate innovation. Using a sample of 211,636 patents from 1,644 companies during the period 1985-96, we find that the use of interdivisional knowledge positively affects the impact of an invention on subsequent technological developments. Furthermore, the positive effect of the use of interdivisional knowledge on the impact of an invention is stronger than the effect of using knowledge from w...
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作者：Shapiro, Debra L.; Kirkman, Bradley L.; Courtney, Hugh G.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
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作者：Westphal, James D.; Stern, Ithai
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Northwestern University
摘要：This study examined influences on the likelihood that directors of U.S. corporations will receive additional board appointments. We tested hypotheses with original survey data from 760 outside directors at large and medium-sized U.S. firms. Supplementary analyses assessed post-Enron era generalizability. Directors increased their chances of board appointments via provision of advice and information to CEOs and ingratiatory behavior toward peer directors. Ethnic minorities and women were reward...
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作者：Cadsby, C. Bram; Song, Fei; Tapon, Francis
作者单位：University of Guelph
摘要：Agency theory highlights losses in productivity that may occur when the interests of owners and employees are imperfectly aligned. Pay for performance has been proposed as a solution to this problem. Using a real-effort laboratory experiment with salient incentives, we compared pay-for-performance and fixed-salary compensation. The former achieved significantly higher firm productivity through both sorting and incentive effects. In particular, more productive employees selected pay for perform...
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作者：Lam, Wing; Huang, Xu; Snape, Ed
作者单位：Hong Kong Polytechnic University
摘要：We investigated how supervisors' interpretations of what motivates their subordinates' feedback-seeking behavior were related to both the quality of leader-member exchange and subordinates' work performance. Using a sample of 499 supervisor-subordinate dyads collected in China in two studies, we found that subordinates' feedback seeking was positively related to the quality of leader-member exchange and objective work performance only when supervisors interpreted the feedback-seeking behavior ...
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作者：Sampson, Rachelle C.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：In this paper, I examine the impact of partner technological diversity and alliance organizational form on firm innovative performance. Using a sample of 463 R&D alliances in the telecommunications equipment industry, I find that alliances contribute far more to firm innovation when technological diversity is moderate, rather than low or high. Although this relationship holds irrespective of alliance organization, I find that hierarchical organization, such as an equity joint venture, improves...
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作者：Anand, N.; Gardner, Heidi K.; Morris, Tim
作者单位：Imperial College London; University of London; London Business School; University of Oxford
摘要：How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management consulting firms. Our qualitative analysis identified four critical generative elements: socialized agency, differentiated expertise, defensible turf, and organizational support. We demonstrate that these elements must be combined i...
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作者：Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：University of Alberta
摘要：This article examines practice diffusion in an environment where competing logics exist, specifically investigating how trustee and performance logics that were rooted in different locations (Boston and New York) led to variation in how mutual funds established contracts with independent professional money management firms. This focus on competing logics redirects institutional research away from isomorphism and the segregation of institutional and technical forces and toward an appreciation o...
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作者：Hoetker, Glenn; Agarwal, Rajshree
作者单位：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：There is little understanding of whether a firm's innovative knowledge dies with it or if instead significant diffusion of knowledge occurs even after a firm exits an industry. Theoretical predictions about the differing effects of firm exit on private and public knowledge and implications for interfirm knowledge transfer are forwarded. We investigated main and moderating effects of a firm's exit from the disk drive industry on knowledge diffusion to other firms, finding evidence that the abil...
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作者：Von Nordenflycht, Andrew
作者单位：Simon Fraser University
摘要：Does public ownership create negative consequences for professional service firms by reducing employee incentives? This question was addressed with a panel of advertising agencies. Public ownership was associated with inferior performance for small agencies but not for large agencies, and there was no association between ownership and agency creativity, indicating that public ownership did not preclude agencies from competing with strategies requiring highly skilled professionals. The results ...
