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作者：Furman, Jeffrey L.; Teodoridis, Florenta
作者单位：Boston University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Southern California
摘要：Y We examine how the introduction of a technology that automates research tasks influences the rate and type of researchers' knowledge production. To do this, we leverage the unanticipated arrival of an automating motion-sensing research technology that occurred as a consequence of the introduction and subsequent hacking of the Microsoft Kinect system. To estimate whether this technology induces changes in the type of knowledge produced, we employ novel measures based on machine learning (topi...
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作者：Eggers, J. P.; Grajek, Michal; Kretschmer, Tobias
作者单位：New York University; European School of Management & Technology; University of Munich
摘要：We offer theory and evidence about how the fit between firm experience (supply side) and consumer preferences (demand side) affects postentry performance into a new technology. Specifically, we explore different types of preentry experience (technological and market experience) and use different aspects of postentry performance to draw inferences about consumer heterogeneity. Preentry technological experience (same product and different consumers) helps firms attract a larger share of intensiv...
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作者：Li, Huisi (Jessica); Hausknecht, John P.; Dragoni, Lisa
作者单位：Cornell University; Cornell University; Wake Forest University
摘要：Leader exits at the work-unit level are prevalent, yet little attention has been devoted to understanding the impact of leader succession on employee turnover. In this paper, we draw from uncertainty-management theory to specify and test conditions under which leader exits are followed by increases (or decreases) in the turnover rates of remaining members. We theorize that leader exits disrupt the status quo and heighten remaining members' feelings of uncertainty and propose that characteristi...
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作者：Galperin, Roman, V
作者单位：Johns Hopkins University
摘要：Innovative technology may reduce organizations' reliance on professionals in the performance of expert tasks, weakening professions' control over work. However, professions resist and challenge such innovation, framing it as unsafe and immoral. This paper theorizes a process by which innovative nonprofessional firms overcome the resistance, enter professionalized markets, and weaken professional control over work. It analyzes the rise of a new organizational form-retail health clinics-that dep...
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作者：Gutierrez, Cedric; Astebro, Thomas; Obloj, Tomasz
作者单位：Bocconi University; Bocconi University; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：We study the behavioral drivers of market entry. An experiment allows us to disentangle the impact on entry across different types of markets of two key behavioral mechanisms: overconfidence and attitude toward ambiguity. We theorize and show that the causal effect of overconfidence on entry is limited to skill-based markets and does not appear in those that are chance based. Moreover, we also find that, independent of confidence levels, individuals exhibit ambiguity-seeking behavior when the ...
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作者：Cappellaro, Giulia; Tracey, Paul; Greenwood, Royston
作者单位：Bocconi University; University of Cambridge; University of Melbourne; University of Alberta; University of Edinburgh
摘要：We study the introduction of the private logic into a mature Italian hospital that was governed previously as a hybrid of professional and public logics. Intriguingly, the reconstituted hospital was for several years widely praised for its strong clinical and financial performance, but quickly and with little warning, it became riven by political differences that led to its demise. Through our case analysis, we develop a multilevel model that reveals the destabilizing process that can unfold w...
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作者：Zhang, Letian
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：This study examines data from 35 countries and 24 industries to understand the relationship between gender diversity and firm performance. Previous studies report conflicting evidence: some find that gender-diverse firms experience more positive performance, and others find the opposite. However, most research to date has focused on a single country or industry and has not accounted for possible variation across social contexts. This paper advances an institutional framework and predicts that ...
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作者：Chari, Mukund; Steensma, H. Kevin; Connaughton, Charles
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：Client capture is the process by which professionals become so dependent on certain clients that their professional judgment is compromised. We explore whether there are systematic differences across professionals in their likelihood of improperly biasing their judgment in the interests of clients on whom they highly depend. To do so, we examine the disclosure of prior art by patent lawyers when representing client patent applications submitted to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). ...
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作者：Martignoni, Dirk; Keil, Thomas; Lang, Markus
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; University of Zurich; University of Zurich
摘要：Organizations are often conceptualized as systems of interdependent choices that exhibit a core-periphery structure. Research is inconclusive, however, regarding whether organizations should focus their search efforts on their core or peripheral choices. In this paper, we seek to reconcile contradictory arguments and suggest that the efficacy of a search focus depends on the time horizon, environmental change, and how the core and periphery interact. In so doing, we demonstrate that the direct...
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作者：Knott, Anne Marie; Vieregger, Carl
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Drake University
摘要：There is a prevailing view in both the academic literature and the popular press that firms need to behave more entrepreneurially. This view is reinforced by a stylized fact in the innovation literature that research and development (R&D) productivity decreases with size. A second stylized fact in the innovation literature is that R&D investment increases with size. Taken together, these stylized facts create a puzzle of seemingly irrational behavior by large firms-they are increasing spending...
