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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：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：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：Chen, John S.; Croson, David C.; Elfenbein, Daniel W.; Posen, Hart E.
作者单位：State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Michigan State University; Washington University (WUSTL); University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：Empirical evidence suggests that entrepreneurs make mistakes: too many enter markets and, once there, persist too long. Although scholars have largely settled on behavioral bias as the cause, we suggest that this consensus is premature. These mistakes may also arise from a process in which entrepreneurs continually learn about their prospects and make entry and exit decisions based on what they have learned. We develop a computational model of this process that connects pre- and post-entry lea...
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作者：Arts, Sam; Fleming, Lee
作者单位：KU Leuven; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
摘要：Does a person become more or less creative when exploring a new field? Exploring new fields exposes a person to new knowledge that might increase the novelty of inventive output; at the same time, exploration means a lack of prior expertise and a learning challenge that might harm the value of that output. Using new combinations as a measure of novelty and citations as a measure of value, we demonstrate correlations between exploring new fields and increased novelty-but decreased value-in an i...
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作者：Ferraro, Fabrizio; Beunzab, Daniel
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Copenhagen Business School
摘要：Despite growing empirical evidence on the effectiveness of dialogue between activists and corporations in stakeholder engagement, scholars have not fully accounted for the mechanisms that explain its success. We address this gap by leveraging Habermas's theory of communicative action. In our longitudinal qualitative study, we explore the dialogue on climate change between the Interfaith Centre for Corporate Responsibility, a coalition of faith-based investors, Ford, and General Motors. We find...
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作者：Agrawal, Ajay; Catalini, Christian; Goldfarb, Avi; Luo, Hong
作者单位：University of Toronto; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); University of Toronto; Harvard University
摘要：The relationship between slack resources and innovation is complex, with the literature linking slack to both breakthrough innovations and resource misallocation. We reconcile these conflicting views by focusing on a novel mechanism: the role slack time plays in the endogenous allocation of time and effort to innovative projects. We develop a theoretical model that distinguishes between periods of high- (work weeks) versus low( break weeks) opportunity costs of time. Low-opportunity cost time ...
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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：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 ...
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作者：Liang, Hao; Marquis, Christopher; Renneboog, Luc; Sun, Sunny Li
作者单位：Singapore Management University; Singapore Management University; Cornell University; Tilburg University; University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Lowell
摘要：We examine how international variation in corporate future-oriented behavior, such as corporate social responsibility and research and development investment, could partially stem from characteristics of the languages spoken at firms. We develop a future-time framing perspective rooted in the literatures on organizational categorization and framing. Our theory and hypotheses focus on how companies with working languages that obligatorily separate the future tense and the present tense engage l...
