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作者：Baum, J. Robert; Bird, Barbara J.
作者单位：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park; American University
摘要：We develop a model of successful intelligence in entrepreneurship. The model was tested through interviews with 22 printing industry CEOs and responses from 143 founders of early-stage, high-growth printing and graphics businesses. Successful intelligence combined with entrepreneurial self-efficacy to predict swift action and multiple improvement actions (repeated goal-driven changes). Swift action and multiple improvement actions predicted higher subsequent venture growth across four years. T...
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作者：Argote, Linda; Kukawa, Jennifer
作者单位：Carnegie Mellon University
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作者：Dekker, Henri C.; Van den Abbeele, Alexandra
作者单位：Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; KU Leuven
摘要：Partner search processes and prior exchange experiences constitute important organizational learning processes that provide firms with valuable partner information, which may enhance their ability to design control structures for new interfirm transactions. By increasing trust and by providing first-hand partner information, prior experiences may, however, also reduce the need for control and for new information during the search process. An analysis of 287 transactions between buyers and supp...
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作者：Hsieh, Chihmao; Lazzarini, Sergio Giovanetti; Nickerson, Jackson A.; Laurini, Marcio
作者单位：University of Missouri System; Missouri University of Science & Technology; Washington University (WUSTL)
摘要：A firm often must ensure that products or services it produces match customer expectations. We define variability as any deviation in a production process yielding products or services whose attributes differ from the firm's stated target specifications. Firms pursuing products marked by low variability are more subject to maladaptation costs if production processes are not adjusted to avoid nonconformities. Furthermore, such adjustments often require idiosyncratic investments (e. g., dedicate...
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作者：Vissa, Balagopal; Greve, Henrich R.; Chen, Wei-Ru
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian. firms affiliated with business groups and unaffiliated. firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated. firms, business group-affiliated (BG-affiliated) firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration levels and more likely to respond to low performance in the market domain...
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作者：Parker, Simon C.; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen
作者单位：Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital; University of Antwerp
摘要：This paper develops a framework for estimating multidimensional fit. In the context of contingency thinking and the resource-based view of the firm, there is a clear need for quantitative approaches that integrate fit-as-deviation, fit-as-moderation, and fit-as-system perspectives, implying that the impact on organizational performance of series of bivariate (mis) fits and bundles of multiple (mis) fits are estimated in an integrated fashion. Our approach offers opportunities to do precisely t...
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作者：Lichtenthaler, Ulrich; Ernst, Holger; Hoegl, Martin
作者单位：WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management
摘要：Employee attitudes with regard to the usefulness of external knowledge may influence a firm's extent of inter-organizational knowledge transactions. Prior research has focused on not-invented-here (NIH) tendencies, which refer to negative attitudes in organizations toward the acquisition of knowledge from external sources. In this research, we develop the concept of not-sold-here (NSH) tendencies, which result from protective attitudes in firms toward the external exploitation of knowledge, fo...
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作者：Benner, Mary J.
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：A large body of research has explored the factors that impede established firms' responses to radical technological changes. While it is widely acknowledged that managers face pressures from financial markets to choose strategies that maximize shareholder value, little work in the technological change literature has considered the possible influences of public equity markets and the securities analysts who mediate them on incumbent firms challenged with technological change. In this paper, I b...
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作者：O'Leary, Michael Boyer; Mortensen, Mark
作者单位：Georgetown University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
摘要：Research regarding geographically dispersed teams (GDTs) is increasingly common and has yielded many insights regarding the effects of spatio-temporal and socio-demographic factors on GDT functioning and performance. Largely missing, however, is research on the effects of the basic geographic configuration of GDTs. In this study, we explore the impact of GDT configuration (i.e., the relative number of team members at different sites, independent of the characteristics of those members or the s...
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作者：Berk, Ales; Kase, Robert
作者单位：University of Ljubljana
摘要：This paper refers to the conceptualizations of strategic flexibility, real options, and human resource (HR) options to build a model for valuing future-oriented and organizational. flexibility-enhancing aspects of training. By adopting an indirect approach to measuring HR options by valuing particular investment projects in which human capital is involved, we satisfy the conditions for applying the Black-Scholes option valuation model and avoid the problematic measurement of the stand-alone va...
