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作者：Berchicci, Luca; Dutt, Nilanjana; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Bocconi University; University of Toronto
摘要：Unlike problems requiring new-to-the-world solutions that combine knowledge from multiple sources, operational problems can often be solved by repurposing existing knowledge from other contexts into new-to-the-firm solutions. Firms that seek new-to-the-firm solutions to operational problems face a cost-benefit tradeoff when deciding how many knowledge sources to use. With less need for knowledge recombination than for new-to-the-world solutions, greater knowledge breadth incurs greater screeni...
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作者：Moore, Curt B.; Payne, G. Tyge; Filatotchev, Igor; Zajac, Edward J.
作者单位：Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of London; King's College London; Vienna University of Economics & Business; Northwestern University
摘要：Although researchers have devoted considerable attention to assessing how organizations benefit from ascriptions of high status, relatively little research has analyzed the financial costs that organizations may incur in actively managing such ascriptions. in this study, we analyze how and why organizations may pay a relatively steep economic price for the attainment and/or maintenance of social status. Specifically, we advance an original theoretical perspective, which suggests that firms eng...
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作者：Huising, Ruthanne
作者单位：emlyon business school
摘要：This paper examines how employees become simultaneously empowered and alienated by detailed, holistic knowledge of the actual operations of their organization, drawing on an inductive analysis of the experiences of employees working on organizational change teams. As employees build and scrutinize process maps of their organization, they develop a new comprehension of the structure and operation of their organization. What they had perceived as purposively designed, relatively stable, and larg...
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作者：Arjalies, Diane-Laure; Durand, Rodolphe
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris
摘要：Product categories are more than classification devices that organize markets; when reflecting market actors' purposes, they are also judgment devices. Taking stock of the literature on product categories and drawing on the distinction between the faculties of knowing and judging, we elaborate a framework that accounts for how and why market actors include or exclude normative attributes in a product category definition. Based on a field study of the development of socially responsible investm...
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作者：Oborn, Eivor; Barrett, Michael; Orlikowski, Wanda; Kim, Anna
作者单位：University of Warwick; University of Cambridge; Stockholm School of Economics; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); McGill University
摘要：This paper examines how and why innovations are reshaped as they become implemented and used in locales that are distant and distinct from those where the innovation was initially developed. Drawing on an in-depth field study of the innovation process that produced a mobile money system for Kenya, we contribute an understanding of the particular dynamics that arise when an innovation trajectory interacts with local trajectories that constitute the local conditions and practices of specific pla...
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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：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：Devarakonda, Shivaram, V; Reuer, Jeffrey J.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：We study minority equity partnerships and the representation of investing firms on the boards of directors of their partners. In such alliances, an investor firm owns a minority position in the investee partner and may or may not secure a board seat. Prior alliance governance research has largely focused on the choice between equity and nonequity forms of alliances, and it has paid little attention to the particular administrative features of these organizational forms, notably their governing...
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作者：Gubler, Timothy
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside
摘要：While social capital has been found to play an important role in economic transactions when information is incomplete, it remains unclear how it interacts with human capital in transaction performance. This paper explores the complementarity between social affiliations and human capital in transaction performance, and how affiliations influence the match between qualified professionals and consumers. I argue that human capital is important to professional performance, but that social affiliati...
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作者：Starr, Evan; Frake, Justin; Agarwal, Rajshree
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Covenants not to compete are often included in employment agreements between firms and employees, justified by each party's voluntary freedom to contract. However, noncompetes may also generate externalities for all individuals in the market, including those who have not signed such agreements. We theorize that enforceable noncompetes increase frictions in the labor market by increasing uncertainty and recruitment costs and by curtailing entrepreneurship. We find that in state-industry combina...
