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作者：Koppman, Sharon; Mattarelli, Elisa; Gupta, Amar
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Irvine; Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Organizations increasingly rely on teams that span national and organizational boundaries, yet team members in emerging countries and vendor firms are not treated as professional peers by their Western and client-based peers. To understand how they respond to this identity threat, we integrate two literatures that suggest two possible answers: an organizational response, based on the critical literature on top-down identity regulation, and an individual response, based on the positive literatu...
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作者：Khessina, Olga M.; Reis, Samira
作者单位：Cornell University; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
摘要：The market fate of a product ultimately determines the success or failure of a firm. A name is a central feature of any product, yet how names affect product market longevity is not well understood. In this paper we develop a theory in which a new product's name affects the product's categorization by audiences and, as a result, impacts its survival chances on the market. We predict that the similarity of the new product's name to names of other products in the industry affects its survival pr...
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作者：Montauti, Martina; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：IE University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; emlyon business school
摘要：In this paper, we conceptualize categories as regions of a cognitive map that structure the market and guide the investment decisions of potential entrants-i.e., of new and established organizations. We advance that, as a category appears altered via incumbents' acts of recombination, potential entrants face market-specific uncertainty and are discouraged to invest in that category. These negative effects of recombination on market entries are, however, mitigated at increasing values of catego...
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作者：Adams, Pamela; Fontana, Roberto; Malerba, Franco
作者单位：Franklin University Switzerland; Bocconi University; University of Pavia; Bocconi University
摘要：Recent scholarship on entrepreneurship suggests that the pre-entry know-how of start-ups, embodied in their founders, affects not only entry, but also performance. Although prior work focuses on new entrants from the focal industry (i.e., employee spinouts) and academic organizations (i.e., university spinoffs), this study identifies and examines a hybrid category of start-ups from downstream user-industries, which we call user-industry spinouts. We draw from the literature on evolutionary the...
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作者：Eesley, Charles
作者单位：Stanford University
摘要：Prior research often focuses on how many entrepreneurial firms are created, rather than on institutions that encourage specific types of firms or entrepreneurs. This paper identifies institutional changes that reduce barriers to growth as an important factor influencing the propensity of individuals to start a business. The findings suggest that the impact of lower barriers to growth is shaped by the extent of the reduction in barriers to growth and the level of human capital of the individual...
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作者：Stenard, Briana Sell; Sauermann, Henry
作者单位：Mercer University; University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：A growing body of research explores how employees' organizational context shapes their entrepreneurial activity. We add to this work by examining how educational mismatch-when a job does not utilize the skills an employee has acquired during education-relates to subsequent transitions into entrepreneurship. While prior research has focused on mismatch due to labor market frictions, workers may also enter mismatches for other reasons, such as family obligations or a change in career interests. ...
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作者：Tracey, Paul
作者单位：University of Cambridge
摘要：I examine the microlevel processes involved when members of an organization seek to persuade others to internalize a new institutional logic. To do so I conduct a qualitative study of the Alpha course, an evangelizing movement designed to convert agnostics to a particular-and contested-interpretation of Christianity. My analysis suggests that the process of persuading actors to adopt a new logic entails four distinct kinds of microinstitutional work and illustrates the dynamics underpinning ea...
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作者：Cohendet, Patrick S.; Simon, Laurent O.
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：This study examines how an organization can redefine its core process when faced with a major crisis of creative efficiency. We analyze the case of the experimentation of the Always Playable project at Ubisoft Montreal, a leading video game development studio, where a crisis of creativity triggered an active reconfiguration of routines and their artifacts. To address this crisis, the organization attempted to restore a balance between efficiency and flexibility by modifying the generative rela...
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作者：Park, Haemin Dennis; Tzabbar, Daniel
作者单位：Drexel University
摘要：We explore how the mutual dependence between venture capitalists (VCs) and venture CEOs affects the innovation novelty of new ventures at different stages of their lives. Based on a sample of 482 U.S. biotech companies, we find that VCs encourage their investees to pursue risky and novel innovations in the early stage of a new venture, but discourage them from doing so in the late stage of the venture. Furthermore, structurally powerful CEOs, who are in a position to take greater risks, intens...
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作者：Tsai, Ming-Hong; Bendersky, Corinne
作者单位：Singapore Management University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：Group members often over-weigh shared information and under-value unique information during discussions to the detriment of decision quality. Fortunately, perceiving other group members as receptive to dissenting opinions may enhance information sharing. We distinguish between two ways of expressing opinion-differences about tasks-debates and disagreements-that we predict are perceived by others as conveying varying degrees of receptivity to dissenting opinions. In four studies with mixed meth...
