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作者：Mcdonnell, Mary-Hunter; Odziemkowska, Kate; Pontikes, Elizabeth
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Rice University; University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要：Social movement organizations (SMOs) are increasingly using collaborative tactics to engage firms. Implications of this are not well understood by researchers. This study investigates one risk that looms over such collaborations: if the corporate partner is later implicated in an industry scandal. Ideas are investigated in the context of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. First, we find that industry scandals differentially affect contentious and collaborative SMOs' ability to mobilize resources...
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作者：Amore, Mario Daniele; Garofalo, Orsola; Martin-Sanchez, Victor
作者单位：Bocconi University; Copenhagen Business School; University of London; King's College London
摘要：Extant research shows that entrepreneurs are typically overly optimistic about their ventures' prospects and that such optimism hampers performance. We analyze how dispositional optimism affects the adjustments to entrepreneurs' expectations after they receive negative feedback on their task performance. We then explore the relationship between optimism and the effectiveness of innovation. Exploiting unique firm-level data and a laboratory experiment involving 205 entrepreneurs, we find that d...
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作者：Augustine, Grace
作者单位：City St Georges, University of London
摘要：External actors often advocate for organizations to address a wide range of societal concerns, such as diversity, equality, and sustainability, and organizations have frequently responded by establishing new positions to oversee these demands. However, calls to address social problems can be broad and unrelated to an organization's primary objectives, so the external mandates that underpin these new positions do not easily translate to clear task jurisdictions inside organizations. Furthermore...
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作者：Conti, Annamaria; Roche, Maria P.
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Harvard University
摘要：We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals' decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals' opportunity costs of starting new ventures, the resulting composition of the entrepreneurial pool, and start-up performance outcomes. Using a rich data set of start-up founders in the biotechnology and medical device sectors, we find that an increase in the une...
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作者：Mawdsley, John K.; Somaya, Deepak
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：The current paper complements and extends traditional Penrosean theories of firm growth by examining how a (supplier) firm's relational embeddedness with its portfolio of existing buyers affects its business growth. Our theorizing rests on the foundation that a firm's business growth stems from its breadth (or volume) of opportunities for creating added value with buyers, which more fully realizes the Penrosean vision that firm growth can be explained by a dynamic interaction between productiv...
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Sakhartov, Arkadiy, V
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：This study develops a theory of due diligence in corporate acquisitions. Using a formal model, the study situates due diligence in the context of economies of scope, which are often sought by acquiring organizations that have incomplete information about such economies. Relatedness, the key determinant of economies of scope, and ambiguity, the key determinant of incomplete information, are used to derive the optimal due diligence effort and the returns to an acquiring organization that result ...
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作者：Denrell, Jerker; Liu, Chengwei
作者单位：University of Warwick
摘要：When does market success indicate superior merit? We show that when consumer choices between products with equal prices depend on quality but also on past popularity, more popular products are not necessarily of higher quality. Rather, a medium level of popularity may be associated with lower quality than lower levels of popularity. Using a formal model, we show that this kind of nonmonotonic association occurs when reinforcing processes are strong. More generally, a dip can occur when outcome...
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作者：Keeves, Gareth D.; Westphal, James D.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Davis; Rice University; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This paper explores how social psychological biases impede the social exchange relations of executives who ascend to high-status corporate leadership positions. We theorize that a combination of self-serving attribution biases among executives who gain status and egocentric biases of their prior benefactors cause a systematic difference in perceptions about the relative importance of that help to the beneficiary's success. This leads to the perception among prior benefactors that the high-stat...
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作者：Criscuolo, Paola; Dahlander, Linus; Grohsjean, Thorsten; Salter, Ammon
作者单位：Imperial College London; European School of Management & Technology; Bocconi University; University of Bath
摘要：We examine how groups fall prey to the sequence effect when they make choices based on informed assessments of complex situations, for example, when evaluating research and development (R&D) projects. The core argument is that the temporal sequence of selection matters because projects that appear in a sequence following a funded project are themselves less likely to receive funding. Building on the idea that selecting R&D projects is a demanding process that drains participants' mental and em...
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作者：Polidoro, Francisco, Jr.; Yang, Wei
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; George Mason University
摘要：Existing literature shows that corporate investment relationships play an important role in the development of startups. Although startups are relevant sources of innovations, especially those that radically depart from existing technologies, they often have limited access to resources. Corporate investment relationships are relevant to startups because they help them access resources of their corporate partners, especially those that are necessary for innovations to eventually achieve commerc...
