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作者：Lawrence, Megan
作者单位：Vanderbilt University
摘要：In aiming to understand why teams differ in their ability to adapt to new contexts, I explore the extent to which prior experience with a previous practice impacts the ability to properly execute a new organizational practice. I generate predictions by integrating the organizational learning and path dependency literatures. To test my predictions, I use internal data from 294 stores of a large retail chain that implemented a new restocking process in its stores. Initial findings show that, on ...
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作者：Waisberg, Isaac; Nelson, Andrew
作者单位：Tel Aviv University; University of Oregon
摘要：A large literature addresses the practices and challenges surrounding knowledge reuse within organizations. Yet organizations frequently attempt to reuse knowledge from outside their boundaries, which may be even more challenging. The practice is so prevalent that an entire industry-the consulting industry-has developed to support it. Unfortunately, we understand little about how knowledge embedded in one organization is used to intervene in another and about what challenges follow from the at...
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作者：Mellewigt, Thomas; Hoetker, Glenn; Luetkewitte, Martina
作者单位：Free University of Berlin; University of Melbourne
摘要：Past research on how opportunism in buyer-supplier relationships can be mitigated remains incomplete and often contradictory. Applying recent advances in qualitative comparative analysis to a sample of 137 buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that there are multiple equifinal pathways to high and low opportunism. In general, our study shows that it is easier to avoid high opportunism than to consistently achieve low opportunism. On this basis, we offer new in...
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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：George Washington University
摘要：Although extant literature has long argued that firm embeddedness within knowledge networks increases innovation, we know much less about how interactions across multiple knowledge networks jointly influence learning and innovation outcomes within firms. This paper contributes to our understanding of global innovation in multinational corporations (MNCs) by exploring how competing tensions across parent, host-country, and third-country knowledge networks in terms of knowledge domain diversity ...
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作者：Bikard, Michael
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Inventors cannot exploit new scientific discoveries if they do not pay attention to them. However, allocating attention to science is difficult because the scientific literature is complex, vast, fast-changing, and often unreliable. Inventors are therefore likely to rely on informational cues when screening new publications. I posit that inventors pay significantly less attention to discoveries made in academia than to those made in industry because they believe that the work of academic scien...
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作者：Botelho, Tristan L.
作者单位：Yale University
摘要：Although knowledge sharing among competitors is seemingly counterintuitive, scholars have found that competitors share knowledge under certain conditions: among actors who have a preexisting relationship and who expect direct reciprocity. However, there are examples of knowledge sharing among competitors that cannot fully be explained using these relational mechanisms. In this study, I propose that in markets where competitors are a set of key stakeholders, knowledge sharing is a strategic res...
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作者：Behfar, Kristin; Okhuysen, Gerardo A.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine
摘要：We propose a more explicit role for abductive reasoning, or the development of initial explanation, in hypothetico-deductive (H-D) inquiry. We begin by describing the roots of abduction in pragmatism and its role in exploration and discovery. Recognizing that pragmatism treats abductive reasoning as inevitable, we argue that it can also be a deliberate form of reasoning in scientific inquiry, articulating the unique place it can have in hypothetico-deductive theorizing. We explain the opportun...
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作者：Liu, Haibo; Mihm, Juergen; Sosa, Manuel E.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Riverside; INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Creative stars make disproportionately influential contributions to their fields. Yet we know little about how an innovator's creative performance is affected by collaborating with stars. This paper studies the creative aspects of interpersonal collaboration from a distinct perspective: the quality of the collaborator. Both star and nonstar collaborators provide different benefits to a focal innovator. The innovator benefits from collaborating with nonstars because they may provide access to d...
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作者：Ertug, Gokhan; Gargiulo, Martin; Galunic, Charles; Zou, Tengjian
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Singapore Management University; INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：We study the relationship between choice homophily in instrumental relationships and individual performance in knowledge-intensive organizations. Although homophily should make it easier for people to get access to some colleagues, it may also lead to neglecting relationships with other colleagues, reducing the diversity of information people access through their network. Using data on instrumental ties between bonus-eligible employees in the equity sales and trading division of a global inves...
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作者：Furlotti, Marco; Soda, Giuseppe
作者单位：Nottingham Trent University; University of Nottingham; Bocconi University
摘要：Most existing theories of relationship formation imply that organizations establish ties to procure complementary resources, and that doing so adroitly generates relational rents. Although this entails a responsibility for organizations to recognize and harness complementarity, most theories struggle with ambiguity around the concept of resource complementarity, neglect its power implications, and rely on rules of thumb that assign no role to managers' intentions. To explain the formation of t...
