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作者：Dobrajska, Magdalena; Billinger, Stephan; Karim, Samina
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of Southern Denmark; Boston University
摘要：We investigate trade-offs associated with delegating authority over multiple interrelated decisions in a complex task structure. The empirical setting is a business process of a global Fortune 50 firm. The firm decentralized its organization and redefined decision authority across organizational hierarchies between 2008 and 2011. We employ regression analysis of microlevel data on the allocation of decision authority between formal and real authority, and further on the organization design of ...
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作者：Piazza, Alessandro; Perretti, Fabrizio
作者单位：Columbia University; Bocconi University
摘要：How do organizations react to stakeholder disapproval of a category to which they belong? In this paper, we draw on the categorization, stigma, and identity literatures in building a theory to predict whether firms that are involved in stigmatized activities will choose to reduce or terminate their involvement in them, as opposed to resorting to less drastic measures such as defensive practice adoption or impression management techniques. Conceptualizing groups of organizations involved in suc...
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作者：Yang, Jing Yu; Li, Jiatao; Delios, Andrew
作者单位：University of Sydney; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; National University of Singapore
摘要：We examine the conditions that can facilitate or hinder the effectiveness with which a new entrant learns from the failures of prior entrants by analyzing the experiences of 822 Japanese subsidiaries in China founded between 1979 and 2000. Our conceptual arguments and empirical findings demonstrate that learning from the failure experiences of prior entrants increases a new entrant's survival chances when entering China. Further, we find that the value of this learning is less effective when t...
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作者：Choi, Seong-Jin; Jia, Nan; Lu, Jiangyong
作者单位：Hanyang University; University of Southern California; Peking University
摘要：This paper investigates how the structure of political institutions influences the effectiveness of corporate political lobbying by shaping the veto points and entry points that lobbying firms encounter and require, respectively, when attempting to influence public policies; in so doing, this study deepens our understanding of the strategic implications of institutional environments. Using large-sample and cross-country firm-level data, we find that the influence of firms' lobbying activities ...
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作者：Marino, Alessandro; Aversa, Paolo; Mesquita, Luiz; Anand, Jaideep
作者单位：Luiss Guido Carli University; City St Georges, University of London; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：Until recently, scholars have customarily lumped multiple dimensions of environmental change into single constructs, and usually ascertained that the more the context changes, the more value firms derive from higher levels of exploration. In sync with more recent studies focusing on specific dimensions of change, in this paper we borrow theoretical elements from systems theory to examine the possibility that the reward to developing innovative product components may itself be eroded by implici...
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作者：Evans, Joel M.; Hendron, Michael G.; Oldroyd, James B.
作者单位：Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); Brigham Young University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University
摘要：This paper investigates knowledge hoarding, defined as an individual's deliberate and strategic concealment of information, and perceived hoarding, defined as coworkers' beliefs that an individual is engaged in hoarding. We hypothesize that knowledge hoarding increases an individual's job performance by enhancing bargaining power and influence, whereas perceived hoarding decreases the individual's job performance because coworkers withdraw social support. We further suggest that knowledge hoar...
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作者：Farjoun, Moshe; Ansell, Christopher; Boin, Arjen
作者单位：York University - Canada; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
摘要：Organizational scholars have shown a growing interest in drawing on the philosophy of Pragmatism to address contemporary problems and theoretical questions. We elucidate Pragmatism's core ideas and show their uniqueness and relevance to the field. We present Pragmatism as a problem-solving philosophy that builds on a rich and behaviorally plausible model of human nature, views reality in terms of processes and relations, and highlights the interplay of meaning and action. We demonstrate how Pr...
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作者：Karim, Samina; Kaul, Aseem
作者单位：Boston University; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper examines how structural recombination of business units within a firm impacts subsequent firm innovation. We argue that structural recombination is both a means for firms to unlock the potential for intraorganizational knowledge recombination and a source of disruption to the firm's existing knowledge resources, so that the overall effect of structural recombination on innovation will depend on the balance between these two effects. Structural recombination will have a positive effe...
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作者：Smith, Edward Bishop; Hou, Yuan
作者单位：Northwestern University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Although diversity provides teams with a variety of advantages, the diversity-performance connection is not always positive. This paper identifies three performance issues that naturally result from diversity and suggests a potential solution for each of them. First, the positive effects associated with diversity often decay over time, in part because heterogeneous people may homogenize with repeated exposure. Second, diverse groups are fragile and experience higher turnover than nondiverse gr...
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作者：Rubineau, Brian; Fernandez, Roberto M.
作者单位：McGill University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Current scholarship commonly posits that network recruitment contributes to job sex segregation and that the segregated nature of personal contact networks explains this effect. A variety of empirical findings inconsistent with this explanation demonstrate its inadequacy. Building on Kanter's observation that recruitment processes often resemble homosocial reproduction [Kanter RM (1977) Men and Women of the Corporation (Basic Books, New York)], we develop a population dynamics model of network...
