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作者：Hallen, Benjamin L.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：This paper examines the mechanisms by which new organizations establish their initial network positions, or sets of network ties from which their future tie networks evolve. I develop hypotheses from two competing logics, one based on the effects of previously developed network ties and the human capital of a new organization's founders and the other based on the effects of a new organization's early accomplishments. I test these logics in a study of 92 Internet security ventures forming ties ...
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作者：Ruef, Martin
作者单位：Princeton University
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作者：King, Marissa D.; Haveman, Heather A.
作者单位：Columbia University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：We analyze how communications networks and social institutions influenced the growth of the antislavery movement in the U. S. from 1790 to 1840. Communications networks fueled by print media transmitted news about the movement to the public and so helped mobilize a broad base of support. Among social institutions, churches were especially supportive because their emphasis on morality and community was conducive to antislavery activism. Our analysis focuses on the founding of antislavery societ...
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作者：Near, Janet P.
作者单位：Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
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作者：Katila, Riitta; Chen, Eric L.
作者单位：Stanford University; Halozyme
摘要：This paper investigates the effects on product innovation of firms' search to innovate, taking into account how a firm's search relates to that of its competitors. Drawing on organizational learning theory, we hypothesize that search timing relative to competitors matters and test two seemingly contradictory views: that competitors take away the exclusivity of search and therefore suppress innovation or, in contrast, sharpen and validate the focal firm's search and thus promote innovation. Our...
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作者：Turner, Marlene E.
作者单位：California State University System; San Jose State University
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作者：Shipilov, Andrew V.; Li, Stan Xiao
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; York University - Canada
摘要：Analyses of investment banks acting as advisers for merger and acquisition transactions in the United Kingdom during 1992-2001 are used to examine the relationship between structural holes in a firm's network and its performance. We argue that the firms need two types of information-about new business opportunities and partners' cooperativeness-to pursue, respectively, two types of performance goals: status accumulation and market performance. Open networks facilitate access to information abo...
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作者：de Luque, Mary Sully; Washburn, Nathan T.; Waldman, David A.
作者单位：Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Downtown Phoenix
摘要：The purpose of the current study was to examine the indirect effects of executives' stakeholder and economic values on firm performance through their followers' perceptions of leadership and followers' extra effort. Analyses of data collected from separate surveys of chief executive officers (CEOs) and two subsets of followers in 520 firms in 17 countries show that CEOs' emphasis on economic values is associated with followers' perceptions of autocratic leadership, whereas CEOs' emphasis on st...
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作者：O'Mahony, Siobhan; Bechky, Beth A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Our research examines how parties challenging established social systems collaborate with defenders of those systems to achieve mutual goals. With field interviews and observations from four community projects in the open-source movement, we examine how these projects collaborated with firms defending proprietary approaches to software development. Drawing on social movement and organizational theory, we explain how challenging parties not only mobilize to achieve their goals but how they are ...
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作者：Sorenson, Olav; Stuart, Toby E.
作者单位：University of Toronto; Harvard University
摘要：Most existing theories of relationship formation imply that actors form highly cohesive ties that aggregate into homogenous clusters, but actual networks also include many distant ties between parties that vary on one or more social dimensions. To explain the formation of distant ties, we propose a theory of relationship formation based on the characteristics of settings, or the places and times in which actors meet. We posit that organizations form relations with distant partners when they pa...
