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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：Ghosh, Anindya; Martin, Xavier; Pennings, Johannes M.; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：University of Navarra; IESE Business School; Tilburg University; University of Pennsylvania; Universita della Svizzera Italiana; emlyon business school
摘要：Organizations create high-impact inventions when they combine disparate strands of technology in their corporate research and development. We theorize that when undertaking complex inventive search characterized by high breadth, i.e., drawing on multiple diverse technology components, an organization's propensity toward high-impact inventions depends on its stock of experience with recombining such components and on the focus of its inventive search. Building on learning transfer theory, we ar...
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作者：Ioannou, Ioannis
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：Spinouts-entrepreneurial ventures founded by ex-employees of incumbent firms within the same industry-have emerged in numerous industries. Some existing literature argues that they typically have a negative association with their parents' performance because of the loss of human capital, the disruption of organizational routines, and subsequent adverse competitive effects. More recent work, however, suggests that such negative effects may have been overstated and argues that there are conditio...
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作者：Kovacs, Balazs; Carroll, Glenn R.; Lehman, David W.
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Stanford University; University of Virginia
摘要：W e present two studies that together test a fundamental yet rarely examined assumption underlying the contemporary appeal of authenticity-namely, that consumers assign higher value ratings to organizations regarded as authentic. Study 1 conducts content analysis of unsolicited online restaurant reviews entered voluntarily by consumers in three major U. S. metropolitan areas from October 2004 to October 2011; the data contain information from 1,271,796 reviews written by 252,359 unique reviewe...
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作者：Crilly, Donal; Sloan, Pamela
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal
摘要：Existing explanations of corporate attention to stakeholders overlook how organizations distribute the attention of their members. Combining interview and survey data at two levels of analysis, we show that executives' assumptions about how best to configure their organizations have important implications for how their firms attend to stakeholders. We identify two types of organizational architecture: guided autonomy and cascaded control. The former enables specialized attention at the level o...
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作者：Bridwell-Mitchell, E. N.; Lant, Theresa K.
作者单位：Harvard University; Pace University
摘要：This research examines the role of agency and choice in how individuals use social networks. Prior research has addressed how individual characteristics such as status and the ability to accurately perceive network ties influence individuals' social choices in a given situation. In contrast, we examine how individuals' interpretation of the issues in a situation affects their social choices and access to social capital. How individuals interpret issues influences which contacts they consider m...
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作者：Triana, Maria del Carmen; Miller, Toyah L.; Trzebiatowski, Tiffany M.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Indiana University System; IU Kelley School of Business; Indiana University Bloomington
摘要：Diverse boards have been seen as providing impetus for initiating change. However, diversity may introduce conflict and impede decision making, which could hinder the ability of the firm to make strategic change, especially in times when firm performance is low. Integrating threat-rigidity theory and team diversity research, we examine how board gender diversity, firm performance, and the power of women directors interact to influence the amount of strategic change. Results support a three-way...
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作者：Lomi, Alessandro; Lusher, Dean; Pattison, Philippa E.; Robins, Garry
作者单位：Universita della Svizzera Italiana; Swinburne University of Technology; University of Melbourne; University of Melbourne
摘要：Organizations contain multiple social foci-settings for interaction providing members with occasions for structuring their social relations. In this paper we examine how identification with particular social foci within organizations influences the propensity of advice-seeking ties to crosscut the boundaries of organizational subunits. We propose and test a theory of relationship formation based on the strength of organizational members' identification with social foci. We expect that advice r...
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作者：Ross, David Gaddis
作者单位：Columbia University
摘要：Should responsibility for strategic planning and execution be assigned to the same manager? Should a firm have a chief operating officer with responsibilities distinct from those of the chief executive officer? How does the division of labor affect managerial opportunism? This paper uses a formal agency-theoretic model to address these questions and present a new theory of the division of managerial labor. Building on Penrose's typology [Penrose E (2009) The Theory of the Growth of the Firm, 4...
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作者：Jain, Amit; Kogut, Bruce
作者单位：National University of Singapore; Columbia University
摘要：Many organizational theories are not sanguine over the chances of organizations to adapt and evolve, even if they should learn from the past through memory. Innovative search in the adaptive biology tradition leads quickly to dead ends. However, memory is useful for rendering innovative search more efficient. The concept from evolutionary biology of neutrality and drift along neutral pathways introduces the possibility that organizations are robust to local innovations and therefore potential ...
