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作者：Zuzul, Tiona; Tripsas, Mary
作者单位：University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Boston College
摘要：Through an inductive, comparative study of four early entrants in the nascent air taxi market, we examine why start-ups, generally characterized as flexible, malleable entities, might instead exhibit inertial behavior. While two of the firms engaged in ongoing experimentation and adaptation, two firms actively reinforced their original venture concepts, even in the face of environmental shifts and declining firm performance. Comparisons of the firms revealed the importance of founders' identit...
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作者：Inoue, Carlos
作者单位：University of Toronto
摘要：This study develops a dynamic perspective on how elected state officials' political incentives shape the behavior and performance of organizations, particularly state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Drawing on theoretical views about the relationship between politicians and firms, I argue that state officials seeking votes manipulate SOEs to boost employment before elections. As a result, SOEs exhibit both higher employment levels and lower financial performance in election years. The positive relat...
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作者：McDonald, Rory; Higgins, Matt
作者单位：Harvard University
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作者：Ter Wal, Anne L. J.; Criscuolo, Paola; McEvily, Bill; Salter, Ammon J.
作者单位：Imperial College London; Imperial College London; University of Toronto; University of Bath
摘要：Organizations typically employ a division of labor between specialist creator roles and generalist business roles in a bid to orchestrate innovation. We seek to determine the extent to which individuals dividing the work across roles can also benefit from dividing their network. We argue that collaborating individuals benefit from connecting to the same groups but different individuals within those groups-an approach we label dual networking-rather than from a pure divide-and-conquer approach....
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作者：Gonsalves, Leroy
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Despite the great potential for flexible work policies to increase worker temporal flexibility-the extent to which workers control when and where their work tasks are completed-organizational scholars have found that employees rarely use them for fear of career penalties. This study sheds light on this flexibility paradox by drawing attention to the overlooked yet crucial role of physical space. Using 14 months of field research during an office redesign at a large professional sales organizat...
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作者：Marquis, Christopher; Qiao, Kunyuan
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作者：McDonald, Rory M.; Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Harvard University; Stanford University
摘要：Prior research has advanced several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in a nascent financial-technology market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how entrepreneurs effectively design business models: parallel play. Similar to parallel play by preschoolers, entrepreneurs engaged in parallel play interweave action, cognition, and timing to accelerate learning a...
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作者：Michel, Alexandra
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
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作者：Huang, Xu; Chen, Louis; Xu, Erica; Lu, Feifei; Tam, Ka-Chai
作者单位：Hong Kong Baptist University; National Taiwan University; Shanghai University; University of Technology Sydney; Hong Kong Baptist University
摘要：During family firm succession, parent-incumbents are often caught up in a paradox of both empowering and dominating their child-successors. To understand this recurring phenomenon, we draw from socioemotional wealth literature and a philosophical account of the power-transfer paradox in ancient patriarchal monarchies to hypothesize that parent-incumbents tend to exert generational coercive control when their child-successors are seen as very unwilling and incapable or very willing and capable ...
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作者：Marquis, Christopher; Qiao, Kunyuan
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：We theorize how an ideological imprint-ideology formed through past events-serves as an information filter that persistently affects individuals' decision making and how subsequent behaviors of the imprinter-the entity that established the imprint-may alter it. We test our model with a longitudinal dataset of Chinese private entrepreneurs from 1993 to 2012, investigating the influence of a founder's communist ideological imprint, which characterizes foreign capitalism as evil, and subsequent d...
