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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...
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作者：Katila, Riitta; Rosenberger, Jeff D.; Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.
作者单位：Stanford University; Stanford University
摘要：This paper focuses on the tension that firms face between the need for resources from partners and the potentially damaging misappropriation of their own resources by corporate sharks. Taking an entrepreneurial lens, we study this tension at tie formation in corporate investment relationships in five U. S. technology-based industries over a 25-year period. Central to our study is the sharks dilemma: when do entrepreneurs choose partners with high potential for misappropriation over less risky ...
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作者：Yayavaram, Sai; Ahuja, Gautam
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We use patent data from the worldwide semiconductor industry from 1984 to 1994 to study the effect of the structure of organizational knowledge bases, or the patterns of coupling between their elements of technical knowledge, on the usefulness of inventions and knowledge-base malleability. We argue that organizational variations in coupling patterns between knowledge elements can be reflected in a spectrum of knowledge-base structures-varying from fully decomposable (the knowledge base is comp...
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作者：Simons, Tal; Roberts, Peter W.
作者单位：Tilburg University; Emory University
摘要：This paper presents a theory of how new organizational forms penetrate local populations. We theorize that founders with pre-founding industry experience in nonlocal populations are more likely to adopt locally novel forms. Pre-founding experience within local and non-local industry populations should also allow organizations to reach larger size and produce superior quality products, both of which contribute to the persistence of the novel organizational form. We evaluate these predictions in...
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作者：Sauder, Michael
作者单位：University of Iowa
摘要：This article analyzes a process by which established organizational fields change through the incorporation of new field-level actors. Drawing on 137 in-depth interviews with U. S. law school administrators and faculty, the paper demonstrates how the U. S. News & World Report rankings of law schools gained a foothold in the field of legal education, how the dynamics of the field helped entrench the field position of USN and its rankings despite spirited opposition from key actors, and how thes...
