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作者：Cohen, Susan K.; Hsu, Sean T.; Dahlin, Kristina B.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); University of Pittsburgh; California State University System; California State University Fullerton; University of London; King's College London
摘要：The academic literature on technology battles has grown rapidly since the 1970s, tracking the ever-expanding role of information and communication technologies in our daily lives. An intriguing thread in this literature pertains to the influence of social networks on standards setting processes. While scholars acknowledge networks' importance, their relevance to sponsors' efforts to diffuse their technologies and establish them as de facto standards have been neglected. We theorize that sponso...
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作者：Tschang, F. Ted; Ertug, Gokhan
作者单位：Singapore Management University
摘要：The relationship between firm age and innovation has been an enduring topic of interest. We contribute to this research by studying how the effect of firm age on the quality of explorative and exploitative innovations is affected by the firm-specific and industry tenure of the talent resources ( employees) that the firm utilizes. We start with the baseline predictions that firm age is related to the development of better exploitative innovations and worse explorative innovations. However, the ...
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作者：Asmussen, Christian Geisler; Larsen, Marcus M.; Pedersen, Torben
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Bocconi University
摘要：Offshoring offers managers the promise of substantial economic benefits, but also comes with the risk of increased complexity and coordination challenges. We argue that offshoring firms must accumulate architectural knowledge to keep the cost of coordination of the geographically separated activities at bay. Based on a simulation model that examines the performance implications of firms' learning strategies when offshoring, we show that such knowledge accumulation can be achieved through eithe...
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作者：Hahl, Oliver
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
摘要：This paper addresses why customers at times prefer traditional practices deemed more authentic to a domain, particularly where these practices had previously been discarded as inferior. I argue that customer demand for authenticity can be triggered when extrinsic rewards (i.e., fame or money) increase in prominence in a market, causing audiences to doubt the motives of the market's producers. I examine this dynamic in the context of Major League Baseball, where appreciation for traditional sta...
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作者：Glaser, Vern L.; Fiss, Peer C.; Kennedy, Mark Thomas
作者单位：University of Alberta; University of Southern California; Imperial College London
摘要：Analogies to financial markets have proven powerful in establishing novel or potentially controversial business concepts, even in contexts that deviate significantly from financial markets. This phenomenon challenges theory that suggests analogies work best when elements from a source and target domain map closely to each other. To develop a theory that explains how organizations make initially imperfect analogies work, we use a case study of online advertising exchanges, a market-inspired mod...
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作者：Burbano, Vanessa C.
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：This paper examines the effects of employer social responsibility on the wages workers demand through randomized field experiments in two online labor marketplaces. Workers were recruited for short-term jobs and I manipulated whether or not they received information about the employer's social responsibility. I then observed the payment workers were willing to accept for the job. In the first experiment, information about the employer's social responsibility marginally reduced prospective work...
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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：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：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...
