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作者:Lashley, Kisha; Pollock, Timothy G.
作者单位:University of Virginia; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville; University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
摘要:When a new industry category is predicated on a product or activity subject to core stigma-meaning its very nature is stigmatized-the actors trying to establish it may struggle to gain the resources they need to survive and grow. To explain the process of reducing an industry category's stigma, we take an inductive approach to understanding how actors in the U.S. medical cannabis industry collectively attempted to create and disseminate a moral public image based on healing and patients' right...
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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:McDonald, Rory; Higgins, Matt
作者单位:Harvard University
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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:Corritore, Matthew; Goldberg, Amir; Srivastava, Sameer B.
作者单位:McGill University; Stanford University; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要:How does cultural heterogeneity in an organization relate to its underlying capacity for execution and innovation? Cultural diversity is commonly thought to present a tradeoff between task coordination and creative problem solving, with diversity arising primarily through cultural differences between individuals. In contrast, we propose that diversity can also exist within persons when individuals hold multiple cultural beliefs about the organization. We refer to these different forms as inter...
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作者:Barley, Stephen R.
作者单位:University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
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作者:Weick, Karl E.
作者单位:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
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作者:Li, Jian Bai; Piezunka, Henning
作者单位:National University of Singapore; INSEAD Business School
摘要:Actors in a multiplex relationship-one crossing multiple domains-can struggle to transition into new roles in one domain without disrupting existing interactions and the role hierarchy in another. Via an inductive study of intergenerational leadership successions in seven Chinese family firms, we examine how actors can complete such a single-domain role transition. We find that a succession between the founder/father and the successor/son is successful when the mother (i.e., the founder's wife...
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作者:Gupta, Abhinav; Briscoe, Forrest
作者单位:University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要:This paper argues that organizations tend to be more open or closed as a function of their members' political ideologies and that this variation can help explain firms' responses to social activism. Integrating research on social activism with political psychology, we propose that when firms experience activists' protests, a liberal-leaning firm will be more likely to concede to activists' demands than its conservative-leaning counterpart, because its decision makers will more readily accept t...
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作者:Galperin, Roman, V; Hahl, Oliver; Sterling, Adina D.; Guo, Jerry
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University; Carnegie Mellon University; Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要:We examine how signals of a candidate's capability affect perceptions of that person's commitment to an employer. In four experimental studies that use hiring managers as subjects, we test and show that managers perceive highly capable candidates to have lower commitment to the organization than less capable but adequate candidates and, as a result, penalize high-capability candidates in the hiring process. Our results show that managers have concerns about a high-capability candidate's future...