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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：Solinger, Omar N.; van Olffen, Woody; Roe, Robert A.; Hofmans, Joeri
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Erasmus University Rotterdam - Excl Erasmus MC; Erasmus University Rotterdam; Maastricht University; Vrije Universiteit Brussel
摘要：How does the bond between the newcomer and the organization develop over time? Process research on temporal patterns of newcomer's early commitment formation has been very scarce because theory and appropriate longitudinal research designs in this area are lacking. From extant research we extract three process-theoretical accounts regarding how the newcomer adjustment process evolves over time: (1) Learning to Love; (2) Honeymoon Hangover; and (3) High Match, Moderate Match, or Low Match. From...
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作者：Kumar, M. V. Shyam
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
摘要：I develop the thesis that in related diversified firms, the core business (in my analysis, the largest business) may provide benefits such as scope economies to a related segment, but it may also exert power and constrain the segment to act in its interests in various internal and external transactions. This enables the core business to shift productivity gains toward itself from the segment, which could lead to various inefficiencies within the related diversified firm. Using input/output flo...
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作者：Posen, Hart E.; Chen, John S.
作者单位：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：Entrants are often viewed as suffering from a liability of newness-at founding, they rarely possess the knowledge and capabilities necessary to compete and survive. They can overcome this liability by learning vicariously from the knowledge of incumbent firms. But how can entrants learn from external knowledge when they lack the prior related knowledge that forms the basis of absorptive capacity? We theorize that the process of internal experiential learning facilitates learning from external ...
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作者：Gaba, Vibha; Terlaak, Ann
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
摘要：This study examines the effects of different uncertainty types on interorganizational imitation in firm exit decisions. We draw on herding models to conceptualize exit decisions as being based on a firm's private information, which the firm updates with information inferred from observing the actions of others. We posit that different types of uncertainty differentially affect this observational learning process; in particular, we propose that certain uncertainty types attenuate (rather than f...
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作者：Sgourev, Stoyan V.
作者单位：ESSEC Business School
摘要：In structural analyses of innovation, one substantive question looms large: What makes radical innovation possible if peripheral actors are more likely to originate radical ideas but are poorly positioned to promote them? An inductive study of the rise of Cubism, a revolutionary paradigm that overthrew classic principles of representation in art, results in a model where not only the periphery moves toward the core through collective action, as typically asserted, but the core also moves towar...
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作者：Drori, Israel; Wrzesniewski, Amy; Ellis, Shmuel
作者单位：College of Management Academic Studies; Yale University; Tel Aviv University
摘要：This research investigates how boundaries are utilized during the postmerger integration process to influence the postmerger identity of the firm. We suggest that the boundaries that define the structures, practices, and values of firms prior to a merger become reinforced, contested, or revised in the integration process, thus shaping the firm identity that emerges. In a field study of a series of four sequential mergers, we find that the boundary negotiation process acts as an engine for iden...
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作者：Chakrabarti, Abhirup; Mitchell, Will
作者单位：McGill University; University of Toronto; Duke University
摘要：Valuable resources often exist at distant points from a firm's current locations, with the result that strategic decisions such as growth have a spatial dimension in which firms seek information and choose between geographically distributed alternatives. Studies show that geographic proximity facilitates the flow of resources, but there is limited understanding of factors that exacerbate or ease the impact of geographic distance when firms seek new resources. This paper argues that the difficu...
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作者：Chen, Zhijun; Takeuchi, Riki; Shum, Cass
作者单位：Shanghai University of Finance & Economics; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要：A critical omission in the coworker influence literature is how a coworker influences a closely related (focal) employee's job performance behaviors and whether this influence is contingent on that coworker's own behaviors. By integrating social information processing and social cognitive theories with social exchange and role theories, we hypothesize that there are, at least, three distinct types of coworker dyadic influence. Accordingly, we developed and tested a moderated mediation model to...
