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作者：Lavie, Dovev; Rosenkopf, Lori
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Do firms balance exploration and exploitation in their alliance formation decisions and, if so, why and how? We argue that absorptive capacity and organizational inertia impose conflicting pressures for exploration and exploitation with respect to the value chain function of alliances, the attributes of partners, and partners' network positions. Although path dependencies reinforce either exploration or exploitation within each of these domains, we find that firms balance their tendencies to e...
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作者：Polzer, Jeffrey T.; Crisp, C. Brad; Jarvenpaa, Sirkka L.; Kim, Jerry W.
作者单位：Harvard University; Abilene Christian University; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Columbia University
摘要：We theorize that in geographically dispersed teams, members' geographic locations are likely to activate faultlines (hypothetical dividing lines that split a group into subgroups) that impair team functioning. In a study of 45 teams comprised of graduate students from 14 schools in ten countries, we found that geographic faultlines heightened conflict and reduced trust. These faultlines were stronger when a team was divided into two equally sized subgroups of colocated members and when these s...
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作者：Taylor, Alva; Greve, Henrich R.
作者单位：Dartmouth College; BI Norwegian Business School
摘要：This study focuses on effects of knowledge and experience on both mean and variance measures of individual and team innovations. We propose that multiple knowledge domains produce novel combinations that increase the variance of product performance and that extensive experience produces outputs with high average performance. We analyzed innovations in the comic book industry, finding that innovations with extreme success and failure were affected by factors similar to those affecting high-perf...
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作者：Wadhwa, Anu; Kotha, Suresh
作者单位：Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Investment in entrepreneurial ventures has gained recent popularity as a means for established firms to learn about new technologies and markets. However, the link between such corporate venture capital (CVC) investments and innovation outcomes has not been examined in detail. Using panel data from corporate investors in telecommunications equipment manufacturing, we investigated the conditions under which CVC investments affect knowledge creation for corporate investors. We found that, when i...
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作者：Ployhart, Robert E.; Weekley, Jeff A.; Baughman, Kathryn
作者单位：University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia; George Mason University
摘要：Integrating multilevel theory and the attraction-selection-attrition model, we conceptualized personality homogeneity as human capital emergence containing both composition (aggregate mean) and compilation (aggregate standard deviation) components. Sampling service employees, jobs, and organizations, we analyzed relationships across levels using random coefficient modeling. Individual-, job-, and organization-level mean personality were related to job satisfaction and performance. job- and org...
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作者：Siggelkow, Nicolaj; Rivkin, Jan W.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University
摘要：An enduring belief is that unleashing low-level members of an organization to explore extensively will broaden the exploration conducted by the entire organization. Using an agent-based simulation model, we show that in multilevel organizations, increased exploration at lower levels can backfire, reducing overall exploration and diminishing performance in environments that require broad search. This result arises when interdependencies cut across the domains of low-level managers. With no cros...
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作者：Suddaby, Roy
作者单位：University of Alberta
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作者：Miller, Kent D.; Zhao, Meng; Calantone, Roger J.
作者单位：Michigan State University; Michigan State University's Broad College of Business
摘要：In his classic article on exploration and exploitation, March (1991) presented an agent-based model simulating learning within an organization. His model includes mutual learning between individuals and an organizational code. We extend March's model by (1) allowing for direct interpersonal learning, (2) locating individuals in a space, which makes the distinction between local and distant search relevant, and (3) recognizing that knowledge has a tacit dimension that cannot be transmitted thro...
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作者：Gupta, Anil K.; Smith, Ken G.; Shalley, Christina E.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：Exploration and exploitation have emerged as the twin concepts underpinning organizational adaptation research, yet some central issues related to them remain ambiguous. We address four related questions here: What do exploration and exploitation mean? Are they two ends of a continuum or orthogonal to each other? How should organizations achieve balance between exploration and exploitation-via ambidexterity or punctuated equilibrium? Finally, must all organizations strive for a balance, or is ...
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作者：Perretti, Fabrizio; Negro, Giacomo
摘要：Informal and formal mechanisms affect choices between exploitation and exploration in team design. We argue that the status differentiation of team members and differences in organizational structure limit exploration in the form of introducing newcomers to teams and creating new combinations of team members. High- and low-status team members and one- and three-layer organizational structures were expected to be positively related to exploration, and middle-status team members and two-layer st...
