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作者：Miller, C. Chet; Washburn, Nathan T.; Glick, William H.
作者单位：University of Houston System; University of Houston; Rice University
摘要：Firm performance is one of the most prominent concepts in organizational research. Despite its importance, and despite the many developmental critiques that have appeared over the years, performance continues to be a difficult concept to apply in a scientifically rigorous way. After surfacing three potentially viable approaches for conceptualizing performance, we find that most studies are internally inconsistent in their use of these approaches, a situation that creates substantial difficulty...
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作者：Hausknecht, John P.; Holwerda, Jacob A.
作者单位：Cornell University
摘要：In theory, employee turnover has important consequences for groups, work units, and organizations. However, past research has not revealed consistent empirical support for a relationship between aggregate levels of turnover and performance outcomes. In this paper, we present a novel conceptualization of turnover to explain when, why, and how it affects important outcomes. We suggest that greater attention to five characteristics-leaver proficiencies, time dispersion, positional distribution, r...
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作者：Miller, Danny; Le Breton-Miller, Isabelle; Lester, Richard H.
作者单位：Universite de Montreal; HEC Montreal; University of Alberta; Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
摘要：A fundamental schism divides the family firm and strategy literatures, on the one hand, and the institutional literature, on the other, regarding both the situational prevalence and the utility of conforming behavior. The first two schools, respectively, view strategic differentiation as especially common among family firms and an important source of competitive advantage. By contrast, the reasoning of institutionalists would suggest that family firms will be subject to unusually powerful moti...
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作者：Dumas, Tracy L.; Phillips, Katherine W.; Rothbard, Nancy P.
作者单位：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; Columbia University; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Using survey data from two distinct samples, we found that reported integration behaviors (e.g., attending company parties, discussing nonwork matters with colleagues) were associated with closer relationships among coworkers but that this effect was qualified by an interaction effect. Racial dissimilarity moderated the relationship between integration and closeness such that integration was positively associated with relationship closeness for those who were demographically similar to their c...
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作者：Kacperczyk, Aleksandra J.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Theories of entrepreneurship have 'proposed that entrepreneurs are shaped by contextual influences. This paper examines the social transmission of entrepreneurial behavior across university peers. I propose that peers acquainted at a university increase the probability of an entrepreneurial entry by transmitting information about new opportunities and by reducing the uncertainty associated with entrepreneurship. Based on' unique data on hedge fund foundings between 1979 and 2006, this study do...
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作者：Vasudeva, Gurneeta; Zaheer, Akbar; Hernandez, Exequiel
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：plentiful research suggests that embeddedness in alliance networks influences firms' innovativeness. This research, however, has mostly overlooked the fact that interorganizational ties are themselves embedded within larger institutional contexts that can shape the effects of networks on organizational outcomes. We address this gap in the literature by arguing that national institutions affect the extent to which specific network positions, such as brokerage, influence innovation. We explore t...
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作者：Wang, Xiaoqing; Butler, Brian S.; Ren, Yuqing
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：The dominant narrative of the Internet has been one of unconstrained growth, abundance, and plenitude. It is in this context that new forms of organizing, such as online groups, have emerged. However, the same factors that underlie the utopian narrative of Internet life also give rise to numerous online groups, many of which fail to attract participants or to provide significant value. This suggests that despite the potential transformative nature of modern information technology, issues of sc...
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作者：Kapoor, Rahul
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：Although the stylized model of industry evolution suggests that firms transform from vertical integration to specialization over time, many industries still exhibit a continued persistence of integrated firms. In exploring this puzzle, I draw on detailed firm-level data from the semiconductor industry to analyze how integrated incumbents, beyond shifting to the specialized mode, reconfigured in the face of industry's vertical disintegration so as to coexist with the specialized firms. I propos...
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作者：Lee, Jeongsik Jay
作者单位：University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
摘要：I examine the problem of relational hazards between repeat exchange partners and the contingent roles of trade uncertainty and future exchange prospects in moderating the potentially conflicting effects of past exchanges on these hazards, thereby facilitating or restraining the formation of relational embeddedness. On the data of advisory relationships in U. S. mergers and acquisitions from 1981 to 2004, I find that firms that repeatedly hire the same investment banks as financial advisors ten...
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作者：Puay Khoon Toh; Kim, Taekyu
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities
摘要：Conventional wisdom suggests that when a firm faces technological uncertainty, it responds by becoming less technologically specialized so as to remain adaptable to subsequent resolution of this uncertainty. We adopt a competition-based view of technological uncertainty to identify an opposite effect in competitive settings: the firm may instead become more specialized when faced with greater technological uncertainty so as to focus on advancing its technologies against competition and influen...
