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作者：Bird, Miriam; Zellweger, Thomas
作者单位：University of St Gallen; Stockholm School of Economics; University of St Gallen
摘要：Integrating relational embeddedness arguments with Penrosean growth theory, we compare the growth of firms run by spousal entrepreneurs with firms run by sibling entrepreneurs. We theorize that trust, identification, and mutual obligations-the three facets of relational embeddedness-are more pronounced in spousal teams than in sibling teams, which provides spousal teams with advantages over sibling teams in generating firm growth. Probing a sample of all private firms in Sweden over a three-ye...
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作者：Levinthal, Daniel A.; Workiewicz, Maciej
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; ESSEC Business School
摘要：Organizations, as is true with social systems more generally, tend to be nearly, not fully, decomposable. However, analyses of nearly decomposable systems have tended to be at a single level of analysis and have generally neglected the vertical element of nearly decomposable systems. Critical to the notion of nearly decomposable systems is the property that the details of a particular subproblem may be encapsulated and captured by more aggregate parameters and that those subproblems interact i...
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作者：Mortensen, Mark; Haas, Martine R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Teams have long been defined by boundedness-a clear distinction between members and nonmembers. Yet as we argue in this perspective paper, the distinction between members and nonmembers is often blurred in today's teams, as a result of trends toward increasing team fluidity, overlap, and dispersion. These trends offer potential organizational benefits, but the resulting boundary blurring can undermine team effectiveness. Moreover, boundary blurring calls into question many of the basic assumpt...
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作者：Lanahan, Lauren; Armanios, Daniel
作者单位：University of Oregon; Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：An implicit assumption in institutional theory is that more certifications improve a venture's likelihood for success. However, under certain conditions, we argue more certifications may be detrimental to the venture's performance. We advance this notion by examining both who is doing the certification and, in turn, what information is revealed to others through the certification. Our study advances two new constructs based on varying instances of follow-on certification: certification broaden...
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作者：Leonardi, Paul M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara
摘要：This study explores whether employees who have access to social media are more likely than employees who do not to develop shared cognition-similar perceptions of what and whom coworkers know. It also uncovers the behaviors associated with social media that allow employees to develop such shared cognition about their co-workers' knowledge and social structures. I conducted a multimethodological, longitudinal field study of the use of one type of social media-a social networking site-by employe...
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作者：Rietveld, Joost; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; New York University
摘要：While two-sided platforms (e.g., video game consoles) depend on complements (e.g., games) for their success, the success of complements is also influenced by platform-level dynamics. Research suggests that greater platform adoption benefits complements by providing more potential users, but this assumes that platform adopters are homogeneous. We build on extensive research exploring the heterogeneity between early and late platform adopters to identify counterintuitive dynamics for complements...
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作者：Steigenberger, Norbert; Wilhelm, Hendrik
作者单位：Jonkoping University; University of Cologne
摘要：Firms often need to acquire external financial resources to maintain and develop their business. To attract these resources, firms employ various substantive and rhetorical signals, such as publishing press releases, showcasing prototypes of new products, and hiring renowned managers. However, despite the relevance of signals, we still know little about how they interact-whether they strengthen, weaken, or neutralize one another-in attracting resources. Traditional signaling theory downplays t...
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作者：Luger, Johannes; Raisch, Sebastian; Schimmer, Markus
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Geneva; University of St Gallen
摘要：We study the evolution of firms' exploration-exploitation allocations and their long-term performance outcomes. Extending current ambidexterity theory, we suggest that not only firms pursuing one-sided exploration or exploitation orientations show self-reinforcing tendencies but also ambidextrous firms adopting balanced exploration-exploitation orientations. Integrating formal modeling arguments, we further propose that reinforcing ambidexterity can be good or bad for firms' long-term performa...
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作者：Mazmanian, Melissa; Beckman, Christine M.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
摘要：Numbers such as output controls drive action in organizations, yet we know little about how key numbers are created and take on authority. Using qualitative data from multiple properties managed by a hotel management firm, we find that individuals develop and then become committed to achieving budget goals through a ritual of quantification. The budget numbers serve as output controls for the properties and employees. We find that the strength of the budget number as an undisputed future proje...
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作者：Keum, Dongil D.; Eggers, J. P.
作者单位：Columbia University; New York University
摘要：This study explores the determinants of organizational aspirations, proposing that aspirations play dual roles that create important tension for managers. On one hand, aspirations serve an evaluative role as a benchmark for assessing performance. On the other, they have an allocative role in influencing the acquisition of limited resources. Our theory suggests that managers strategically adapt organizational aspirations to balance the tension between the two concerns. They set more aggressive ...
