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作者：Kaul, Aseem
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：This paper examines organizational boundary choice from an entrepreneurial perspective. Entrepreneurs create new profit opportunities by recombining existing assets into novel combinations based on their subjective judgment under conditions of uncertainty. In doing so, they become vulnerable to ex post appropriation by owners of uniquely complementary assets, especially where ex ante uncertainty translates into ex post causal ambiguity. Firms are a means by which entrepreneurs overcome this pr...
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作者：Stadler, Christian; Helfat, Constance E.; Verona, Gianmario
作者单位：University of Warwick; Dartmouth College; Bocconi University
摘要：This study analyzes dynamic capabilities that support activities directed toward accessing resources and further developing resources to make them commercially usable. We develop theory and empirically investigate the impact of dynamic capabilities on the amount and success of these activities and whether the impact of dynamic capabilities differs between the two types of activities. Using unique data from the upstream oil industry, we develop an objective measure of dynamic capability that is...
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作者：Stan, Mihaela; Vermeulen, Freek
作者单位：University of London; University College London; University of London; London Business School
摘要：We analyze longitudinal data on British fertility clinics to examine the impact of selection at the gate, i.e., the attempts of organizations to improve the success rate of their output by selecting promising cases as input. In contrast to what might be expected, we argue that more stringent input selection is likely to lead to lower overt performance compared with those firms that admit difficult cases, because the latter develop steeper learning curves. That is, difficult cases enable greate...
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作者：Baumann, Oliver; Siggelkow, Nicolaj
作者单位：University of Southern Denmark; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Organizations are frequently faced with high levels of complexity. While the importance of search for dealing with complex systems is widely acknowledged, how organizations should structure their search processes remains largely unexplored. This paper starts to address basic questions: How much of the entire system, and thus complexity, should be taken into consideration at any given time during a search process? Should a problem solver pursue an integrated search and be concerned with the who...
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作者：Davis, Lee N.; Davis, Jerome D.; Hoisl, Karin
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Dalhousie University; University of Munich
摘要：This paper studies the contextual factors that influence whether invention occurs during work time or leisure time. Leisure time invention, a potentially important but thus far largely unexplored source of employee creativity, refers to invention where the main underlying idea occurs while the employee is away from the workplace. We build on existing theory in the fields of organizational creativity and knowledge recombination, especially work relating context to creativity. The paper's main t...
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作者：Ansari, Shahzad (Shaz); Wijen, Frank; Gray, Barbara
作者单位：University of Cambridge; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Despite increasing interest in transnational fields, transnational commons have received little attention. In contrast to economic models of commons, which argue that commons occur naturally and are prone to collective inaction and tragedy, we introduce a social constructionist account of commons. Specifically, we show that actor-level frame changes can eventually lead to the emergence of an overarching, hybrid commons logic at the field level. These frame shifts enable actors with different l...
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作者：Alvarez, Sharon A.; Barney, Jay B.; Anderson, Philip
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; INSEAD Business School
摘要：Research on opportunities has received significant attention in entrepreneurship in the last decade. However, recently the focus has shifted from opportunities themselves to the processes that form and exploit them. This paper traces the history of opportunity origins and draws upon the implications of opportunity types to suggest associated entrepreneurial processes. This paper then suggests future research and applications based on processes used to form and exploit opportunities.
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作者：Schultz, Majken; Hernes, Tor
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; University of South-Eastern Norway
摘要：We offer as our main theoretical contribution a conceptual framework for how the past is evoked in present identity reconstruction and the ways in which the past influences the articulation of claims for future identity. We introduce the notion of textual, material, and oral memory forms as the means by which organizational actors evoke the past. The conceptual framework is applied in a study of two occasions of identity reconstruction in the LEGO Group, which revealed differences in ways that...
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作者：Natividad, Gabriel
作者单位：New York University
摘要：Organizations that enjoy some slack are believed to make good use of it in their strategic decisions. Using panel data on firms in the U.S. film distrihution industry between 1985 and 2007, this article examines how financial slack affects the volume of new product introductions, the competitive strategies for those releases, and their economic performance. Unexpectedly successful sleeper films are exploited as a source of exogenous financial slack in the econometric analysis. The results sugg...
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作者：Clark, Jonathan R.; Huckman, Robert S.; Staats, Bradley R.
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park; Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：The ongoing fragmentation of work. has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased outsourcing. Though the consolidation of volume may lead to productivity improvement, little is known about how this shift toward outsourcing influences learning by providers of outsourced services. When producing output, the content of the k...
