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作者：Shi, Wei; DesJardine, Mark R.
作者单位：University of Miami; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：We investigate how CEOs' implicit motives can shape firms' competitive intensity in response to external threats. We examine this phenomenon in the context of short seller activism, which occurs when an activist short seller publicly denounces a firm to drive down its stock price. Implicit motives are motivational dispositions that operate outside of an individual's conscious awareness. We find that CEOs' implicit needs for achievement and power are associated with a decrease in competitive in...
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作者：Abraham, Mabel; Burbano, Vanessa
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：The extent to which men and women sort into different jobs and organizations- namely, gender differences in supply-side labor market processes-is a key determinant of workplace gender composition. This study draws on theories of congruence to uncover a unique organization-level driver of gender differences in job seekers' behavior. We first argue and show that congruence between leadership gender and organizational claims is a key mechanism that drives job seekers' interest. Specifically, many...
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作者：Ouyang, Bo; Tang, Yi; Wang, Chong; Zhou, Jian
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; University of Hawaii System; University of Hawaii Manoa
摘要：The extant research has often examined the work-related experiences of corporate executives, but their off-the-job activities could be just as insightful. This study employs a novel proxy for the risky hobbies of chief executive officers (CEOs)-CEOs' hobby of piloting a private aircraft-and investigates its effect on credit stakeholders' evaluation of the firms led by the CEOs as reflected in bank loan contracting. Using a longitudinal data set on CEOs of large United States-listed firms acros...
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作者：Marx, Matt
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：I contribute to the literature on institutions, gender, and entrepreneurship by showing that macrolevel institutional policies that do not explicitly target women nonetheless discourage them from leveraging prior professional experience-their own and that of others-in founding new ventures. Most ventures fail, but chances of success are greater if founders can bring to bear their professional expertise. However, employee non-compete agreements enjoin workers from leaving their employer to foun...
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作者：Kim, Minjae; DellaPosta, Daniel
作者单位：Rice University; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：We clarify conditions under which two seemingly contradictory yet widely observed tendencies occur in cultural markets where amateur connoisseurs evaluate products-reinforcement of previous consensus and contradiction of that same consensus. We start fromprior work's insight that achieving distinction requires that evaluators display tastes demonstrating higher skills of discernment and standards that are acknowledged as legitimate by others. Based on this, we argue that evaluators reinforce p...
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作者：Ahmadi, Saeedeh; Jansen, Justin J. P.; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：University of Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; New York University
摘要：This study explores heterogeneity in the efficacy of stretch goals for engaging employees in innovation, as stretch goals may both boost norm-breaking creativity and hamper fruitful ideation by overwhelming employees. Through a multilevel perspective, we demonstrate that stretch goals motivate more capable employees (successful, experienced, senior) to submit useful innovative ideas by combining the motivation of stretch goals with these employees' ability to discern fruitful from futile ideas...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Olenka; Younkin, Peter
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of Oregon
摘要：There is both widespread interest in encouraging entrepreneurship and universal recognition that the vast majority of these founders will fail, which raises an important unanswered question: What happens to ex-founders when they apply for jobs? Whereas existing research has identified many factors that facilitate movement out of an established organization and into entrepreneurship, far less attention has been devoted to understanding what transpires during the return journey-most notably, how...
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作者：Lupu, Ioana; Rokka, Joonas
作者单位：ESSEC Business School; emlyon business school
摘要：This study extends prior research seeking to understand the reproduction and persistence of excessive busyness in professional settings by addressing the relationship between organizational controls and temporal experiences. Drawing on 146 interviews and more than 300 weekly diaries in two professional service firms, we develop a framework centered on the emerging concept of optimal busyness, an attractive, short-lived temporal experience that people try to reproduce/prolong because it makes t...
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作者：Fremeth, Adam R.; Holburn, Guy L. F.; Piazza, Alessandro
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Rice University
摘要：We examine how social activism-in the form of public protests against contentious business practices-can spill over into the regulatory domain, extending beyond activists' articulated goals to affect firms' regulatory outcomes in areas that are not directly targeted. We argue that firms are likely to experience broader regulatory repercussions after activist protests because public contention invites greater scrutiny of firm behavior by industry regulators, increasing the likelihood that insta...
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作者：Ng, Weiyi; Sherman, Eliot L.
作者单位：National University of Singapore; University of London; London Business School
摘要：Recent scholarship has established several ways in which external hiring-versus filling a role with a comparable internal candidate-is detrimental to firms. Yet, organizational learning theory suggests that external hires benefit firms: by importing knowledge that is unavailable or obscured to insiders and applying it toward experimentation and risky recombination. Accordingly and consistent with studies of learning by hiring and innovation, we predict that external hires are at greater risk o...
