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作者：Marquis, Christopher; Bird, Yanhua
作者单位：Cornell University; Harvard University
摘要：Recognizing the need to better understand institutional change processes in authoritarian states, which play an increasingly prominent role in the world economy, we examine the efficacy of civic activism aimed at spurring governmental action concerning the environmental performance of firms in China. We highlight the paradox of responsive authoritarianism on display in China: to avoid needing to rule by coercion alone, the government seeks citizens' feedback and tolerates pressures for change,...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Aven, Brandy L.; Kush, Jonathan
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University; University of Massachusetts System; University Massachusetts Dartmouth
摘要：We theorize that the effect of membership turnover on group processes and performance depends on a group's communication network. We describe two mechanisms through which communication networks affect group performance: (1) the number of direct communication paths and (2) the clarity of the coordination logic. These mechanisms map onto two network dimensions: density, which affects a group's behavior through the number of available communication paths, and centralization, which affects a group...
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作者：Devarakonda, Shivaram V.; McCann, Brian T.; Reuer, Jeffrey J.
作者单位：Chinese University of Hong Kong; Vanderbilt University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：We examine the impact of geographic location of alliance activities on the design of safeguards in contracts governing research and development (R&D) partnerships. Joining research on agglomeration and alliance governance, we argue that the Marshallian agglomerative forces at work in a given location produce governance-related externalities that extend beyond productivity-related externalities considered in previous research. We investigate how location characteristics linked to Marshallian fo...
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作者：Vergne, J. P.; Wernicke, Georg; Brenner, Steffen
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); Western University (University of Western Ontario); Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC) Paris; Copenhagen Business School; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：We draw on the signaling and infomediary literature to examine how media evaluations of CEO overcompensation (a negative cue associated with selfishness and greed) are affected by the presence of corporate philanthropy (a positive cue associated with altruism and generosity). In line with our theory on signal incongruence, we find that firms engaged in philanthropy receive more media disapproval when they overcompensate their CEO, but they are also more likely to decrease CEO overcompensation ...
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作者：James, Barclay E.; Vaaler, Paul M.
作者单位：Universidad San Francisco de Quito; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Research in management and related fields largely assumes that host-country state (state) ownership in investment projects raises risk for private coinvestors. We question that assumption in theorizing that minority state ownership may actually decrease investment risk in host countries where policy stability is low. Noncontrolling but still substantial state ownership signals to private coinvestors that states will maintain initial investment project terms yet limit interference in project ma...
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作者：Kluppel, Leonardo M.; Pierce, Lamar; Snyder, Jason A.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：We argue that organizations have deep roots in traumatic societal shocks that long preceded their founding. Drawing from the strategic management and social science literatures, we explain how traumatic shocks, such as conflict, disease, and natural disaster, can alter the institutional and cultural paths that determine future business environments. Historical shocks can help clarify the origin of cultural and institutional differences and help provide causal inference about why these differen...
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作者：Wry, Tyler; Zhao, Eric Yanfei
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Indiana University System; Indiana University Bloomington; IU Kelley School of Business
摘要：A key insight from research on hybrid organizing is that the joint pursuit of competing goals exposes an enterprise to potentially problematic tensions and trade-offs. Yet while studies have examined the former, the actual trade-offs that these organizations face-and how these might vary among enterprises and contexts-has been largely overlooked. Focusing on social enterprise, we address these gaps by (1) developing a framework that can be used to predict the compatibility of social outreach a...
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作者：Anteby, Michel; Chan, Curtis K.
作者单位：Boston University; Boston College
摘要：In the past few decades, the growth of surveillance has become a fixture of organizational life. Past scholarship has largely explained this growth as the result of traditional managerial demands for added control over workers, coupled with newly available cheap technology (such as closed-circuit televisions and body-worn cameras). We draw on the workplace resistance literature to complement these views by suggesting that workers can also drive such growth. More specifically, we show that work...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra; Balachandran, Chanchal
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Linkoping University
摘要：Using employer-employee matched data from Sweden between 2001 and 2008, we test hypotheses designed to assess the contingent nature of the relationship between wage dispersion and cross-firm mobility. Whereas past research has mostly established that dispersed wages increase interfirm mobility, we investigate the conditions under which pay variance might have the opposite effect, serving to retain workers. We propose that the effect of wage dispersion is contingent on organizational rank and t...
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作者：Zhao, Eric Yanfei; Ishihara, Masakazu; Jennings, P. Devereaux; Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington; New York University; University of Alberta
摘要：In this paper, we develop an exemplar-based model of the emergence and evolution of proto-categories-new groupings of products that are only weakly entrenched but have the potential to become widely institutionalized-and examine how different positioning strategies of new entrants vis-a-vis the exemplar of a proto-category affect entrant performance. Empirically, we study the U.S. console video game industry where proto-categories frequently emerge and evolve around exemplary hit games. Analyz...
