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作者：Gibbons, Robert; Henderson, Rebecca
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); Harvard University
摘要：A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to diffuse more rapidly-particularly in situations in which competitors apparently have strong incentives to adopt them and a well-developed understanding of how they work remains incomplete. In this paper we suggest that competitively significant capabilities often rest on managerial practices that in turn rely on relational contracts (i.e., ...
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作者：Yoo, Youngjin; Boland, Richard J., Jr.; Lyytinen, Kalle; Majchrzak, Ann
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Temple University; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University; University of Southern California
摘要：Our era is one of increasingly pervasive digital technologies, which penetrate deeply into the very core of the products,, services, and operations of many organizations and radically change the nature of product and service innovations. The fundamental properties of digital technology are reprogrammability and data homogenization. Together, they provide an environment of open and flexible affordances that are used in creating innovations characterized by convergence and generativity. An analy...
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作者：Dougherty, Deborah; Dunne, Danielle D.
作者单位：Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick; Rutgers University Newark; Fordham University
摘要：Drug discovery is a complex innovation process in which scientists need to make sense of ambiguous findings and grapple with numerous unpredictable interdependencies over many years of product development. Digitalization has combined with expanding science to address this complexity, creating new ways to measure, analyze, and model chemical compounds, diseases, and human biology. We interviewed 85 scientists and managers working on drug discovery to understand how they deal with complexity. We...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas S.; Felin, Teppo; Foss, Nicolai; Zenger, Todd
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Brigham Young University; Copenhagen Business School; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH)
摘要：For decades, the literatures on firm capabilities and organizational economics have been at odds with each other, specifically relative to explaining organizational boundaries and heterogeneity. We briefly trace the history of the relationship between the capabilities literature and organizational economics, and we point to the dominance of a capabilities first logic in this relationship. We argue that capabilities considerations are inherently intertwined with questions about organizational b...
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作者：Garicano, Luis; Wu, Yanhui
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of Southern California
摘要：This paper attempts to bridge a gap between organizational economics and strategy research through an analysis of knowledge and communication in organizations. We argue that organizations emerge to achieve the intensive use of the knowledge that is acquired to perform specific tasks and to integrate dispersed knowledge that is embodied in different human minds. The attributes of the tasks undertaken determine the optimal acquisition and distribution of knowledge. Depending on the codifiability...
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作者：Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado
作者单位：Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna; University of Teramo
摘要：In this paper we present a model of the interplay among learning, managerial intervention, and the allocation of decision rights in the context of a generalized agency problem. Within this context, actors face not only conflicting interests but also diverging cognitive visions of the right course of action. We assume that a principal may obtain the implementation of desired organizational policies by means of appropriate design of the allocation of decisions or by means of costly intervention ...
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作者：Lo, Desmond (Ho-Fu); Frias, Kellilynn M.; Ghosh, Mrinal
作者单位：Santa Clara University; Texas Tech University System; Texas Tech University; University of Arizona
摘要：In this paper, we propose an approach to show how the capability-based perspective of the resource-based view of the firm can be integrated with the comparative-governance approach of transaction cost economics to shed light on governance issues in interfirm relationships. We argue that transacting parties create value not only through the employment of partner-specific investment and coordination activities but also through the employment of heterogeneous, firm-specific resources that each fi...
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作者：Bailey, Diane E.; Leonardi, Paul M.; Barley, Stephen R.
作者单位：University of Texas System; University of Texas Austin; Northwestern University; Stanford University
摘要：Although organizational scholars have begun to study virtual work, they have yet to fully grapple with its diversity. We draw on semiotics to distinguish among three types of virtual work (virtual teams, remote control, and simulations) based on what it is that a technology makes virtual and whether work is done with or on, through, or within representations. Of the three types, simulations have been least studied, yet they have the greatest potential to change work's historically tight coupli...
