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作者：Kapoor, Rahul; Agarwal, Shiva
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：We study the phenomenon of business ecosystems in which platform firms orchestrate the functioning of ecosystems by providing platforms and setting the rules for participation by complementor firms. We develop a theoretical framework to explain how the structural and evolutionary features of the ecosystem may shape the extent to which participating complementor firms can sustain their superior performance. The structural feature, which we refer to as ecosystem complexity, is a function of the ...
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作者：Laursen, Keld; Moreira, Solon; Reichstein, Toke; Leone, Maria Isabella
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Copenhagen Business School; Luiss Guido Carli University
摘要：Technology licensing agreements potentially can create future appropriability problems. Drawing on the appropriability literature, we argue that the inclusion of a grantback clause in technology licensing agreements is an attempt to balance the gains from and protection of the focal firms' technologies. We hypothesize that the closer the licensed technology is to the licensor's core patented technologies, the more likely the licensing agreement will include a grant-back clause, while the close...
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Devarakonda, Ramakrishna
作者单位：University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Chinese University of Hong Kong
摘要：This paper extends information economics to the literature on alliance partner selection by demonstrating how venture capitalists (VCs) can facilitate research and development (R&D) collaborations. We investigate a new role for VCs-information intermediation-that can enable R&D partnerships between entrepreneurial ventures that lack knowledge of each other's technological resources. In contrast to the more diffuse signaling benefits entrepreneurial ventures obtain by affiliating with prominent...
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作者：Brown, Jill A.; Anderson, Anne; Salas, Jesus M.; Ward, Andrew J.
作者单位：Bentley University; Lehigh University
摘要：Governance scholars debate the value of directors as an effective governance mechanism. We suggest that this value varies with director tenure. We study both how shareholder assessments of the value of individual directors vary with director tenure and whether director tenure actually makes a practical difference to governance effectiveness. Using data from abnormal stock price reactions to the sudden deaths of 274 outside directors, and integrating executive cognition and social capital persp...
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作者：Kang, Jingoo; Kim, Andy Y. Han
作者单位：Nanyang Technological University; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
摘要：Why do chief executive officers (CEOs) seek media appearances and what benefit do they gain from it? Using a sample of 2,666 U. S. firms from 1997 to 2009, we found that a CEO's appearance in CNBC interviews and major news articles has a positive relationship with his or her compensation in the following year, after controlling for firm performance and other confounding factors. We further found that the positive relationship is weaker when the CEO is with a large company and is stronger when ...
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作者：Ramarajan, Lakshmi; Berger, Ida E.; Greenspan, Itay
作者单位：Harvard University; Toronto Metropolitan University; Hebrew University of Jerusalem
摘要：This paper introduces a configurational approach to the study of multiple identities. Specifically, it examines how prosocial identity combines with collective and individualistic identities in conflicting and enhancing ways to affect prosocial behavior in organizational settings. We examine an unexplored intuition in the multiple identities literature that when all identities are enhancing (a mutual enhancement configuration), it will be best for prosocial outcomes. Our results show, however-...
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作者：Cobb, J. Adam; Lin, Ken-Hou
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin
摘要：Wage inequality in the United States has risen dramatically over the past few decades, prompting scholars to develop a number of theoretical accounts for the upward trend. This study argues that large firms have been a prominent labor-market institution that mitigates inequality. By compensating their low-and middle-wage employees with a greater premium than their higher-wage counterparts, large U.S. firms reduced overall wage dispersion. Yet, broader changes to employment relations associated...
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作者：Singh, Kulwant; Mahmood, Ishtiaq P.; Natarajan, Siddharth
作者单位：National University of Singapore
摘要：We conceptualize capital markets in terms of resource access and governance, and argue that more developed capital markets facilitate firm restructuring through more effective provision of capital and governance of transactions. We then develop a contingency model that specifies that the effects of capital market development on restructuring vary by (1) types of restructuring, (2) the nature of the economic environments, and (3) firms' access to resources. We evaluate a broad range of restruct...
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作者：Chai, Sen
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：Why do researchers on the verge of breakthrough sometimes miss the discovery? While extensive literatures have modeled the course of successful discovery and pinpointed factors associated with groundbreaking discoveries, I focus on understanding why near misses occur by interviewing scientists who were very close to discovering the ribonucleic acid (RNA) interference breakthrough in biology but ultimately missed out. I identify three mechanisms rooted in paradigmatic rigidity that led to the s...
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作者：Lee, Brandon H.; Hiatt, Shon R.; Lounsbury, Michael
作者单位：University of Melbourne; University of Southern California; University of Alberta; National Research Council Canada
摘要：Although existing research has demonstrated the importance of attaining legitimacy for new market categories, few scholars have considered the trade-offs associated with such actions. Using the U.S. organic food product category as a context, we explore how one standards-based certification organization-the California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF)-sought to balance efforts to legitimate a nascent market category with retaining a shared, distinctive identity among its members. Our findings s...
