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作者：Dutta, Sunasir; Armanios, Daniel Erian; Desai, Jaison D.
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Oxford
摘要：Various strands of work have explored how spatial proximity helps (metaphorically) bridge barriers to resource mobilization and foster knowledge transfer. However, much of that work takes spatial connectedness as a given. We argue that spatial connectedness is a distinct construct that affects the extent to which spaces are not just proximate but are actually able to link people, ideas, resources, and knowledge together. We explore one such source of connectedness-physical (not metaphorical) b...
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作者：Kwon, Jung H.; Park, Haemin Dennis; Deng, Shu
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas
摘要：Drawing on the Coase theorem, we consider a firm's decision to transfer patent ownership to another firm in the markets for innovation. We deem that the proximity of a patent's technology structure to that of a firm's patent portfolio will generally result in greater marginal productivity of the patent, leading to enhanced prospects for the firm's economic return. We thus predict that firms are more likely to trade patents when the technology structure of a patent is closer to the technology s...
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作者：Karunakaran, Arvind
作者单位：McGill University
摘要：Interorganizational trust plays an important role in facilitating business relationships, especially for the organizational adoption of new services. Prior research suggests that interorganizational trust develops when the trustor has adequate confidence in the reliability of the trustee's services. Nevertheless, reliability breakdowns are also an inevitable part of service provisioning. Such breakdowns are especially prominent and visible in the context of platform-based services. Yet platfor...
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作者：V. Patil, Shefali; Bernstein, Ethan S.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Harvard University
摘要：Despite organizational psychologists' long-standing caution against monitoring (citing its reduction in employee autonomy and thus effectiveness), many organizations continue to use it, often with no detriment to performance and with strong support, not protest, from employees. We argue that a critical step to resolving this anomaly is revisiting researchers' fundamental assumptions about access to gathered data. Whereas previous research assumes that access resides nearly exclusively with sup...
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作者：Eberhart, Robert N.; Armanios, Daniel Erian
作者单位：Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：We explore a key tension between certification and entrepreneurial entry. On the one hand, more stringent certifications may provide greater legitimacy. On the other hand, market entry may be facilitated by easing such standards. To reconcile this tension, we examine discontinued certifications. We draw on research into how new ventures use certifications to gain legitimacy, along with quantitative data from new venture credit records. We show that after a certification is discontinued, new ve...
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作者：Creary, Stephanie J.; Locke, Karen
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Past research often relegates the management of the ideal worker's overworking body to the nonwork environment. Reflecting a segmentation approach to managing the boundary between work and nonwork, the nonwork setting is treated as a context for recuperation. Yet, segmentation may, ironically, support the ideal worker image and reinforce the persistence of overwork. Drawing on two-year-long ethnographic studies of yoga teacher training, this paper considers how individuals shift how they manag...
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作者：Carnahan, Seth; Rabier, MaryJane; Uribe, Jose
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Washington University (WUSTL); University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We hypothesize that employee mobility between organizations will be lower when the organizations' managers share affiliation ties. We test this idea by examining interorganizational employee mobility between large corporate law practices. We find that a practice area is less likely to hire attorneys from a rival practice area when the leaders of the two practice areas attended the same law school at the same time, our proxy for the presence of an affiliation tie. The negative relationship is s...
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作者：Magelssen, Catherine; Rich, Beverly; Mayer, Kyle
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah; University of Southern California
摘要：A central theoretical premise is that firms internalize transactions that are not suited for formal contracting. Yet, there is growing evidence that firms rely on formal contracts to govern some of their transactions within the firm. This paper discusses why firms use formal contracts between units within the firm and develops propositions for when formal contracts arise. Internalization does not eliminate transactional problems, and informal agreements for transactions between units often suf...
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作者：To, Christopher; Yan, Thomas Taiyi; Sherf, Elad N.
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of London; University College London; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Hierarchies emerge as collectives attempt to organize themselves toward successful performance. Consequently, research has focused on how team hierarchies affect performance. We extend existing models of the hierarchy-performance relationship by adopting an alternative: Performance is not only an output of hierarchy but also a critical input, as teams' hierarchical differentiation may vary based on whether they are succeeding. Integrating research on exploitation and exploration with work on g...
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作者：Feldman, Emilie R.; V. Sakhartov, Arkadiy
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：What should the managers of a multibusiness firm do when their company's resources are not used profitably? Research on redeployment proposes that managers should withdraw those resources from the business where they are underutilized and switch them to a business where they can be used more profitably, whereas the literature on divestiture advocates that managers should divest the business containing those resources. In this study, we investigate the factors that lead managers to choose resou...
