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作者：Godart, Frederic C.; Galunic, Charles
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：When organizations strategically adopt cultural elements-such as a name, a color, or a style-to create their products, they make crucial choices that position them in markets vis-` a-vis competitors, audiences, and other stakeholders. However, although it is well understood how one specific cultural element gets adopted by actors and diffuses, it is not yet clear how elements fare when considered within an industry choice-set of elements. Their popularity depends on idiosyncratic features (suc...
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作者：Zhang, Letian
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Although it is well known that team performance influences strategic decision making, little is known about its impact on ascriptive inequality. This study proposes a performance effect on racial bias: higher team performance reduces managers' performance pressure and therefore, leads to more managerial bias in the subsequent decisions. I find strong evidence for this proposition using a fine-grained data set from the National Basketball Association. In this highly competitive industry, team p...
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作者：Zunino, Diego; Suarez, Fernando F.; Grodal, Stine
作者单位：SKEMA Business School; Universite Cote d'Azur; Northeastern University; Boston University
摘要：The literature on technology management has increasingly focused on the sociocognitive elements of the industry life cycle. One of these elements, category labels (words, in most cases) and its role in shaping market understandings, has recently become of interest to scholars. As industries evolve, stakeholders generate a plethora of category labels. However, we know relatively little about why some category labels are used repeatedly, whereas others are abandoned. Drawing on semantic networks...
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作者：Anderson, David; Bjarnadottir, Margret, V; Derso, Cristian L.; Ross, David Gaddls
作者单位：Villanova University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; State University System of Florida; University of Florida
摘要：We present a theory of how a rational, profit-maximizing firm would respond to pressure for gender pay equity by strategically distributing raises to reduce the pay gap between its female and male employees at minimum cost. Using formal analysis and pay data from a real employer, we show that (1) employees in low-paying jobs and whose pay-related observables are similar to those of men at the firm are most likely to get raises; (2) counterintuitively, some men may get raises, and giving raises...
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作者：Knott, Anne Marie; Turner, Scott F.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：A fundamental question in corporate strategy is how headquarters in multibusiness firms can create value above and beyond the burden of its own overhead. The leading theories from Chandler and Williamson hold that this is possible through resource allocation across businesses. Yet, there are multibusiness firms for whom reallocation opportunities are limited-e.g., chains. Accordingly, we propose, model, and test an alternative theory, one in which headquarters facilitates market-like dynamics ...
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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：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...
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作者：Adner, Ron; Feiler, Daniel
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：We explore how decision makers perceive and assess the level of risk in interdependent settings. In a series of five experiments, we examine how individuals set expectations for their own project investments when their success is contingent on the success of multiple, independent partners. We find that individuals are subjectively more confident and optimistic in an interdependent venture when its chances of success are presented as separate probabilities for each component and that this optim...
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作者：Greenwood, Brad N.; Agarwal, Ritu; Agarwal, Rajshree; Gopal, Anandasivam
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：New information pertinent to organizational decision making, even when publicly available, may not diffuse rapidly in the form of adoption and transformation of organizational practices. In this study, we examine how different markers of expertise, each representative of human capital at both individual and organizational levels, moderates the speed of response to new information. We do so in the context of medical device utilization, viz. stents, for the treatment of stable coronary arterial ...
