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作者：Liu, Min; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：Durham University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：This paper contributes to the sociology of markets literature by arguing that collective identities sustain the market success of peripheral producers during the process of resource partitioning. Two conditions underlie the positive returns obtained by peripheral producers from their identity claims. First, the demise of near-center producers crystallizes the difference among classes of organizations which benefits the market success of peripheral producers. Second, individual peripheral produ...
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作者：Rhee, Mooweon; Kim, Tohyun
作者单位：Yonsei University; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
摘要：This study warns organizations against falling into an early success trap. The timing of initial success may lead organizations to divergent evolutionary paths as their experience at early ages has a greater consequence for their evolution than does their experience at later ages. In particular, we propose that early initial success can be more detrimental to an organization's performance and survivability than later initial success because exploratory competence takes a long time to develop. ...
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作者：Zhou, Yue Maggie
作者单位：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：This paper examines how multinational corporations (MNCs) selectively assign supervisory responsibilities to units in countries with varying levels of institutional quality. Arbitraging across institutional contexts is an important function of MNCs, but it also creates coordination challenges. The choice of organization structure, such as the differential assignment of supervisory responsibilities, is an important tool for managing these coordination challenges. Using data on the business acti...
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作者：Rogan, Michelle; Greve, Henrich R.
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research on resource dependence typically takes a static view in which actions and outcomes are determined structurally, but not as responses to the actions of the counterparty in an exchange relation. By contrast, this study addresses a question of power dynamics by examining whether mergers of organizations trigger responses from their common exchange partners. We predict that common exchange partners respond by withdrawing from the relationship and that their responses vary with the availab...
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作者：Almeida, Paul; Phene, Anupama; Li, Sali
作者单位：Georgetown University; George Washington University; University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
摘要：This paper investigates the knowledge influences of the ethnic community on the quality of innovations of Indian immigrant inventors in the U.S. semiconductor industry. Membership in the Indian ethnic community enables inventors to source knowledge from, and to collaborate with, others in the community. By analyzing patent data, we find that the utility of ethnic knowledge and collaborators depends on the level of inventor embeddedness in the community. Most inventors benefit by sourcing knowl...
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作者：Knight, Andrew P.
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：The purpose of this paper is to advance the team dynamics and group development literatures by developing and testing a theoretical model of how affect shapes transitions in teams over time. Integrating the group transitions literature with theory and research on the mood-as-input theory, I propose that shared team mood influences the extent to which team members seek out and experiment with alternative ways of completing their work at different points in a team's life. In the first half of th...
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作者：Bakker, Rene M.; Knoben, Joris
作者单位：Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Radboud University Nijmegen
摘要：A salient but rarely explicitly studied characteristic of interfirm relationships is that they can intentionally be formed for finite periods of time. What determines firms' intertemporal choices between different alliance time horizons? Shadow of the future theorists suggest that when an alliance has an explicitly set short-term time frame, there is an increased risk that partners may behave opportunistically. This does not readily explain the high incidence of time-bound alliances being form...
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作者：Lo, Jade Yu-Chieh; Kennedy, Mark Thomas
作者单位：Drexel University; Imperial College London
摘要：Studies show that blending multiple categories rather than fitting one category cleanly undermines the appeal of market offerings, but in science and technology, blending multiple categories has been a formula for creating important new categories like nanotechnology. What enables such blends to earn approval and become recognized as new categories? We argue that reactions to category blending are affected by both micro and macro factors. Specifically, blend reactions are affected at the micro...
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作者：Edelman, Benjamin; Larkin, Ian
作者单位：Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：We examine how unfavorable social comparisons differentially spur employees of varying hierarchical levels to engage in deception. Drawing on literatures in social psychology and workplace self-esteem, we theorize that negative comparisons cause senior employees to seek to improve reported relative performance measures via deception. In a first study, we use deceptive self-downloads on the Social Science Research Network, the leading working paper repository in the social sciences, to show tha...
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作者：Schilpzand, Pauline; Hekman, David R.; Mitchell, Terence R.
作者单位：Oregon State University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; University of Washington; University of Washington Seattle
摘要：As a result of recent preventable corporate failures (e.g., Enron, WorldCom, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae), there is a growing desire to understand what might motivate employees to courageously detect and deflect organizational problems before they harm the entire organization. Based on 94 interviews we conducted with a wide variety of employees who witnessed or undertook courageous actions, we inductively developed a model using employees' accounts of the unfolding sequence of events. We learn...
