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作者：Berry, Heather
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：In this paper, I examine how lower-cost production and new market opportunities influence the divestment decisions of firms. I argue that lower-cost production and new market opportunities in foreign markets can provide a better use of existing firm resources and posit that these opportunities are likely to influence firm divestment of home-country operations. The empirical results from a panel of 190 U. S. firms over a 20-year period (1981-2000) show that lower-cost production and new market ...
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作者：King, Brayden G.; Felin, Teppo; Whetten, David A.
作者单位：Northwestern University; Brigham Young University
摘要：Organization theory is a theory without a protagonist. Organizations are typically portrayed in organizational scholarship as aggregations of individuals, as instantiations of the environment, as nodes in a social network, as members of a population, or as a bundle of organizing processes. This paper hopes to highlight the need for understanding, explicating, and researching the enduring, noun-like qualities of the organization. We situate the organization in a broader social landscape by exam...
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作者：Schreyoegg, Georg; Sydow, Joerg
作者单位：Free University of Berlin
摘要：An important new stream of thought stressing the importance of organizational fluidity has emerged in recent years. It represents a reaction to the increasing complexity and environmental turbulence that organizations have to master. The solutions proposed are highly flexible and fluid organizational forms, based on relentlessly changing templates, quick improvisation, and ad hoc responses. This approach is in sharp contrast to other recent organizational research that emphasizes identity, pat...
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作者：Zollo, Maurizio; Reuer, Jeffrey J.
作者单位：Bocconi University; Purdue University System; Purdue University
摘要：This study develops and tests a theory of experience spillovers across corporate development activities. In particular, we investigate the impact of prior alliance experience on the performance implications of corporate acquisitions. We start with the simple suggestion that such experience spillovers will depend on the similarity among the managerial processes characterizing these activities. The empirical evidence confirms that the more the focal acquisition is managed in ways that are typica...
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作者：Bresman, Henrik
作者单位：INSEAD Business School
摘要：T his paper reports on a study of external team learning activities and their performance effects. It proposes and tests a model that consists of two sets of external learning activities: those that allow a team to learn from external experienced others about its task ( vicarious learning activities) and those that allow a team to learn from external sources about its context ( contextual learning activities). Qualitative data from six teams in one pharmaceutical firm are used to develop measu...
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作者：Reuer, Jeffrey J.; Tong, Tony W.
作者单位：Purdue University System; Purdue University; University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
摘要：Firms often use alliances to access external resources and explore new market or technological opportunities, yet they also can face obstacles to discovering these opportunities in the first place. In this paper, we examine how firms can overcome these obstacles and form equity alliances with newly public companies to obtain valuable growth opportunities. Specifically, we build on real options theory and develop the argument that the visibility of firms having an initial public offering (IPO) ...
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作者：Ambos, Tina C.; Birkinshaw, Julian
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business; University of London; London Business School
摘要：This paper presents a process study on the evolution of new ventures. We adopt the theoretical lens of archetypes, which allows us to take a holistic perspective on new venture evolution and to provide rich insights into the interdependencies between the multiple contributory factors that shape the evolutionary process. Our analysis identifies three distinct venture archetypes, which typically emphasize one focal area of a business, and it sheds light on the sequencing of these archetypes. We ...
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作者：Csaszar, Felipe A.; Siggelkow, Nicolaj
作者单位：INSEAD Business School; University of Pennsylvania
摘要：It is a common and frequently implicit assumption in the literature on knowledge transfer and organizational learning that imitating practices from high-performing firms has a positive impact on the imitating firm. Although a large body of research has identified obstacles to successful imitation, not much is known about what breadth of imitation is most effective. In this paper, we use a simulation model to explore how context and firm similarity, interdependence among practices, context and ...
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作者：Bendersky, Corinne; McGinn, Kathleen L.
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; Harvard University
摘要：Phenomenological assumptions-assumptions about the fundamental qualities of the phenomenon being studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs-affect the dissemination of knowledge from sub. fields to the broader. field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which micro-processes are viewed as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological assumptions linking micro-proces...
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作者：Bidwell, Matthew
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania
摘要：This paper explores how the structure of decision making affects the way that firms manage their boundaries. Achieving transaction alignment requires firms to balance multiple goals. Drawing on the behavioral theory of the firm, I note that firms often assign different goals to different organizational units. As a consequence, simple problems about whether to make or buy can be affected by multiple decisions taken by multiple, locally rational units. I use a case study of the management of IT ...
