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作者：Austin, Robert D.; Devin, Lee; Sullivan, Erin E.
作者单位：Copenhagen Business School; Swarthmore College; Harvard University; Harvard Medical School
摘要：Historical accounts of human achievement suggest that accidents can play an important role in innovation. In this paper, we seek to contribute to an understanding of how digital systems might support valuable unpredictability in innovation processes by examining how innovators who obtain value from accidents integrate unpredictability into their work. We describe an inductive, grounded theory project, based on 20 case studies, that looks into the conditions under which people who make things k...
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作者：Mayer, Kyle J.; Somaya, Deepak; Williamson, Ian O.
作者单位：University of Southern California; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：Whereas; capability differences are known to impact governance decisions, what drives heterogeneity in firm capabilities? We propose that capability differences may arise from governance choices related to the focal activity and study how firms accumulate capabilities in the firm-specific, industry-specific, and occupational human capital necessary to perform knowledge work. We theorize that prior outsourcing decisions influence the development of firm- and industry-specific human capital and ...
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作者：Barrett, Michael; Oborn, Eivor; Orlikowski, Wanda J.; Yates, JoAnne
作者单位：University of Cambridge; University of London; Royal Holloway University London; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Robotics is a rapidly expanding area of digital innovation with important implications for organizational practice in multioccupational settings. This paper explores the influence of robotic innovations on the boundary dynamics of three different occupational groups pharmacists, technicians, and assistants working in a hospital pharmacy. We extend Pickering's tuning approach [Pickering, A. 1995. The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency, and Science. University of Chicago Press, Chicago] to examine...
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作者：Fabrizio, Kira R.
作者单位：Duke University
摘要：This paper integrates transaction cost economics with the resource-based view of the firm and new institutional economics to examine how firms' capabilities and institutional environments influence governance decisions. We demonstrate that the impact of firm capabilities on governance choice varies with the level of transaction costs, which is itself a function of the institutional environment. Based on panel data for 240 investor-owned utility companies in 1990-2007, we find that firms with s...
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作者：Jacobides, Michael G.; Winter, Sidney G.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper examines conceptual issues and reviews empirical results bearing on the relationship between research approaches emphasizing organizational capabilities and those based in transaction cost economics (TCE)-or in organizational economics more generally. Following a review of conceptual fundamentals-what capability is and why organizations differ in capability-it assesses recent progress toward an integration of the capabilities and transaction cost approaches, primarily in the context...
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作者：Lee, Jaegul; Berente, Nicholas
作者单位：Wayne State University; University System of Georgia; University of Georgia
摘要：In this study of the U.S. automobile industry, we highlight the way the division of innovative labor across firms in the supply chain can be influenced by a particular form of digital innovation known as digital control systems. Digital control systems are becoming ubiquitous in complex products, and these digital innovations integrate other components across a product structure and introduce a level of indeterminacy and unpredictability in the organization of the interfirm division of innovat...
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作者：Kapoor, Rahul; Adner, Ron
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Dartmouth College
摘要：Product innovation often hinges on technological changes in underlying components and architectures, requiring extensive coordination between upstream component development tasks and downstream product development tasks. We explore how differences in the ways in which firms are organized with respect to components affect their ability to manage technological change. We consider how firms are organized in terms of both division of labor and division of knowledge. We categorize product innovatio...
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作者：Qian, Lihong; Agarwal, Ragshree; Hoetker, Glenn
作者单位：Portland State University; University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
摘要：We integrate insights from organizational capabilities, organizational economics, and industry evolution to examine industry entrants' boundary choices about value chain activities and test hypotheses in 1978-2009 data from a sample of U.S. bioethanol producers. We find support for our predictions that transaction hazards, decomposed as either enduring or transient over the stages of industry evolution, are positively associated with the choice to internalize value chain activities. Pre-entry ...
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作者：Boudreau, Kevin J.
作者单位：University of London; London Business School
摘要：In this paper, I study the effect of adding large numbers of producers of application software programs (apps) to leading handheld computer platforms, from 1999 to 2004. To isolate causal effects, I exploit changes in the software labor market. Consistent with past theory, I find a tight link between the number of producers on platform and the number of software varieties that were generated. The patterns indicate the link is closely related to the diversity and distinct specializations of pro...
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作者：Butler, John C.; Grahovac, Jovan
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要：We use computer simulation to study how different allocations of decision rights give rise to different organizational abilities to maintain and act upon accurate maps of a changing environment. We compare the performance of three archetypal organizational forms as we vary the dynamism and complexity of the environment and the rates at which individuals can observe the environment and imitate each other. We find that teams in which actions are based on plurality votes excel when the task is re...
