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作者：Cennamo, Carmelo; Santalo, Juan
作者单位：Bocconi University; IE University
摘要：Platform-based technology ecosystems are new forms of organizing independent actors' innovations around a stable product system. This collective organization is proving superior to traditional, vertically integrated systems in many sectors because of greater generativity-the ecosystem's capacity to foster complementary innovation from autonomous, heterogeneous firms-which extends the usage scope and value of the platform to users. However, greater generativity can also lead to greater variance...
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作者：Kolympiris, Christos; Hoenen, Sebastian; Klein, Peter G.
作者单位：University of Warwick; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Baylor University
摘要：We study knowledge flows between organizations through secondments, shortterm employee assignments at an organization different from the home institution. Secondments allow the sending organization to capture knowledge and network resources from the receiving organization without an organization-level contract, alliance, or colocation, a process we term learning by seconding. We focus on the National Science Foundation (NSF) rotation program, under which the NSF employs academics, called rotat...
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作者：Anderson, Tracy; Bidwell, Matthew
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We explore the role that contracting plays within the careers of managerial workers. Contracting distances workers from organizational coordination and politics, aspects of organizational life that are often central to the managerial role. Nonetheless, managerial workers make up a substantial proportion of the contracting workforce. Qualitative interviews with managerial contractors indicate that the tension between the natures of contracting and managerial work means that managerial contracto...
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作者：Bowers, Anne; Prato, Matteo
作者单位：University of Toronto; Universitat Ramon Llull; Escuela Superior de Administracion y Direccion de Empresas (ESADE)
摘要：Most explanations of status dynamics rely on market actor behavior or affiliation to other actors as the primary drivers of change. Yet status is increasingly mediated by third-party intermediaries, which impart status through their ordering of actors. Prior literature suggests that these rankers can affect status orders via changes in the underlying ranking methodology but offers little insight as to whether such changes reflect existing field beliefs or are self-interested. We advance a theo...
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作者：Furr, Nathan R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：Although prior literature argues that product adaption is critical to survival in new or dynamic industries, we have very limited information about the antecedents to product adaptation. This paper focuses on start-up top management teams (TMTs) and explores the impact of different types of preentry experience-preentry experience breadth, depth, and type (entrepreneurial and business experience)-on the likelihood that start-ups adapt their products. The hypotheses are tested among the populati...
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作者：Rockart, Scott F.; Wilson, Kristin
作者单位：Duke University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Organizations face a key challenge in dynamic environments: the contexts in which experience is gained will not always match the contexts in which experience will be applied. This challenge has been investigated largely in terms of progressive environmental change, which increasingly invalidates learning from prior experience. A great deal of environmental dynamism, however, involves cycling through a limited set of environmental conditions that appear and then give way to other conditions, on...
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作者：Conti, Raffaele; Gambardella, Alfonso; Novelll, Elena
作者单位：Universidade Catolica Portuguesa; Bocconi University; University of London; City St Georges, University of London
摘要：This paper studies the relationship between two decisions shaping the organizational configuration of a firm: whether to make the upstream resources more general and deployable to more markets (versus keeping them tailored to a few markets) and whether to trade with downstream firms as an upstream supplier of intermediate products and services (versus directly entering downstream markets). Although the literature has looked at these two decisions separately, we argue that they depend on each o...
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作者：Cha, Sandra E.; Roberts, Laura Morgan
作者单位：Brandeis University; Georgetown University
摘要：Research on the business case for diversity suggests that organizations may gain important advantages by employing individuals from minority identity groups-those that are historically underrepresented and lower status-such as distinctive perspectives and greater access to minority customers and constituents. Organizations' ability to capitalize on the promises of diversity ultimately depends on minority employees' willingness and ability to draw on their distinctive strengths at work. However...
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作者：DesJardine, Mark; Bansal, Pratima
作者单位：Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Western University (University of Western Ontario)
摘要：Researchers have endeavored to explain the causes of short organizational time horizons because of the organizational and societal costs of corporate short-termism. These explanations, however, tend to confound cognitive with behavioral explanations, which masks the importance of cognitive biases. We address this oversight by situating our work in prospect theory and organizational search, which underscores the importance of external evaluations on organizational time horizons and the asymmetr...
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作者：Vashevko, Anthony
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：Where does innovation come from? This research models producer incentives to innovate with a focus on the role of audiences in constructing quality thresholds within markets. Market audiences create mechanisms for identifying the highest-quality producers in a market. I highlight a key distinction between fixed quality thresholds (such as accreditations) and quality thresholds that respond to producer quality (such as rankings or best-of-breed awards). Producers evaluate how the inherently ris...
