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作者：Criscuolo, Paola; Salter, Ammon; Ter Wal, Anne L. J.
作者单位：Imperial College London; University of Bath
摘要：To develop innovations in large, mature organizations, individuals often have to resort to underground, bootleg research and development (R&D) activities that have no formal organizational support. In doing so, these individuals attempt to achieve greater autonomy over the direction of their R&D efforts and to escape the constraints of organizational accountability. Drawing on theories of proactive creativity and innovation, we argue that these underground R&D efforts help individuals to devel...
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作者：Soleimani, Abrahim; Schneper, William D.; Newburry, William
作者单位：Eastern Washington University; Franklin & Marshall College; State University System of Florida; Florida International University
摘要：Corporate reputation has roots in national beliefs about the role of the business corporation in society; these beliefs are constructed in accordance with the preferences of powerful stakeholders. Building on a stakeholder-power approach to corporate governance, we investigate whether differences in the legal rights and protections of shareholders, creditors, and workers across countries affect the general public's reputation assessments of business corporations. Using a sample of 593 of the l...
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作者：Bermiss, Y. Sekou; Zajac, Edward J.; King, Brayden G.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Northwestern University
摘要：This paper analyzes the antecedents of corporate reputation as a dynamic commensuration process in which management fashions influence audiences as they attempt to quantify corporate reputation. Using the context of Fortune reputation rankings over multiple decades, we find evidence consistent with our hypotheses that when asked to quantify corporate reputation, audiences rely heavily on traditional as well as emerging nontraditional measures of financial performance as they become more fashio...
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作者：Whitford, Josh; Zirpoli, Francesco
作者单位：Columbia University; Universita Ca Foscari Venezia
摘要：This article uses a longitudinal qualitative analysis of key transitions in the relationship between Fiat Group Automobiles and a major supplier to integrate a pragmatist model of action into the contemporary practice approach to the study of organizations. It builds on an affinity between pragmatist and practice approaches that has been widely recognized but has not yet been fully developed with reference to an empirical case. It argues that an analytic reliance on a pragmatist conception of ...
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作者：Messersmith, Jake G.; Lee, Jeong-Yeon; Guthrie, James P.; Ji, Yong-Yeon
作者单位：University of Nebraska System; University Nebraska Kearney; University of Kansas; University System of Maryland; Towson University
摘要：In a departure from the historical focus on individual-level turnover, scholars have recently examined turnover at the collective level. Building on this work, we invoke human and social capital arguments and analyze the implications of varying rates of top management team (TMT) turnover for firm performance. Our principal finding is that TMT departures have deleterious effects on subsequent firm performance, though we find evidence to suggest that this effect is nonlinear. Results also sugges...
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作者：Marquis, Christopher; Qian, Cuili
作者单位：Harvard University; City University of Hong Kong
摘要：This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals on appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how different types of dependency on the government lead firms to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports and (b) how the risk of governmental monitoring affects the extent to which CSR reports are symbolic or substantive. First,...
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作者：Bhaskarabhatla, Ajay; Hegde, Deepak
作者单位：Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; New York University
摘要：A change in U.S. patent law in the early 1980s increased the value of patents, particularly for firms in the electronics and semiconductors industry, yet many of the industry's leading firms did not embrace patenting after the change. We show through an in-depth study of International Business Machines (IBM), the world's largest patentee, that the company's practices during much of the 1980s discouraged patenting. IBM adopted pro-patent management practices in 1989 after the installation of a ...
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作者：Cirillo, Bruno; Brusoni, Stefano; Valentini, Giovanni
作者单位：SKEMA Business School; Universite Cote d'Azur; Universite de Lille; Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain; ETH Zurich; Bocconi University
摘要：This article focuses on corporate spinouts as a strategy that can rejuvenate the inventive efforts of inventors with a long tenure in the same company. We rely on an unbalanced panel of 5,604 inventor-year observations to study a matched sample of 431 inventors employed by the Xerox Corporation and find evidence in support of three predictions. First, inventors who join a spinout increase the extent of exploration in their inventive activities. Second, they decrease the extent to which they re...
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作者：Michel, Alexandra
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Iintroduce an ontological perspective, which examines the mutual constitution of persons and organizations, to explain continuous versus episodic organizational change. Informed by a cognitive tradition, prior research on organizational change examines individuals' epistemology, such as knowledge and skills, and their interaction with organizations. From this perspective, organizations change either continuously or episodically because of the conscious cognitive concepts that decision makers u...
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作者：[Anonymous]
摘要：The institutional environment is complex. This complexity is characterized by forces that ebb and flow in wavelike patterns as societal expectations evolve, with attention coalescing around specific events and then dissipating. Some of these critical events are broad and affect many firms, whereas others are narrow and affect individual firms. In either case, when they occur, these events elevate organizational susceptibility to societal demands but encourage different kinds of behavior in res...
