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作者：Nambisan, Satish; Baron, Robert A.
作者单位：Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Oklahoma State University System; Oklahoma State University - Stillwater
摘要：In recent years, many companies have established virtual customer environments (VCEs) that offer facilities ranging from online discussion forums to virtual product design centers to partner with their customers in product development and product support activities. In this study, we focus on one form of VCE, online customer forums, and propose that the relevance of four distinct theoretical perspectives-social capital theory, social exchange theory, involvement, and social identity theory-to ...
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作者：Chung, Chris Changwha; Beamish, Paul W.
作者单位：Korea University; Western University (University of Western Ontario); University Western Ontario Hospital
摘要：This article examines how multiple ownership changes unfold in international equity joint venture (IEJV) evolution and how such repeated changes impact short-term performance and long-term survival. By theorizing a new concept-the trap of continual change-in the IEJV context, we challenge the adaptive viewpoint assumed in alliance dynamics research. We propose that partners sometimes respond to an initial dissatisfaction with the venture result with a dysfunctional repetition of rearranging th...
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作者：Argyres, Nicholas; Bigelow, Lyda
作者单位：Washington University (WUSTL); Utah System of Higher Education; University of Utah
摘要：Although vertical integration choices have been found to significantly affect firm performance, there has been little empirical study of how such choices are affected by the stage of industry evolution in which firms find themselves. We empirically investigate two possible impacts of increasing modularity on a firm's vertical integration choices. First, we hypothesize that increasing modularity is associated with vertical deintegration because of the high-level standardization of components th...
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作者：Kane, Aimee A.
作者单位：New York University
摘要：This study presents a conceptual model of when and how knowledge demonstrability and superordinate social identity impact the likelihood that organizations capitalize on their knowledge resources. To test the model, an experimental methodology was used in which a member transfers from one group to another, transmitting knowledge in the form of a production routine. As predicted, work groups unlocked the knowledge transfer potential arising from personnel movement more often when they shared a ...
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作者：Eisenhardt, Kathleen M.; Furr, Nathan R.; Bingham, Christopher B.
作者单位：Stanford University; Brigham Young University; University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
摘要：Our purpose is to clarify the microfoundations of performance in dynamic environments. A key premise is that the microfoundational link from organization, strategy, and dynamic capabilities to performance centers on how leaders manage the fundamental tension between efficiency and flexibility. We develop several insights. First, regarding structure, we highlight that organizations often drift toward efficiency, and so balancing efficiency and flexibility comes, counterintuitively, through unba...
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作者：Sauer, Stephen J.; Thomas-Hunt, Melissa C.; Morris, Patrick A.
作者单位：Clarkson University; University of Virginia
摘要：In this paper we report the results of two experimental studies designed to test how demographic characteristics affect outsiders' assessments of a firm's top managers. We draw on theories of evaluation and status characteristics to examine the interactive effects of managers' racial characteristics and educational prestige on external perceptions. In the first study, we find that top executives' educational background and race affected analysts' valuation of a firm's stock. Outside analysts m...
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作者：Gibson, Donald E.; Lawrence, Barbara S.
作者单位：Fairfield University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
摘要：This study examines how women's and men's career referents-the people they see as having similar careers-affect career expectations. We raise two questions. First, what is the relative effect of the gender composition and comparison level of career referents on such expectations? Second, what happens to career expectations when women and men identify career referents at the same comparison level? Current research suggests that women have lower career expectations than men because they compare ...
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作者：Pennings, Johannes M.; Wezel, Filippo Carlo
作者单位：University of Pennsylvania; Tilburg University; Universita della Svizzera Italiana
摘要：Change in firm governance is often associated with inbound and outbound movements of key decision makers. This research extends that observation by treating mobility as a trigger of demographic change in management teams that, in turn, influences organizational survival. Mobility occasions transformations in demographic profiles both within a firm and among firms sharing a competitive arena. In the former case, shifts in diversity may alter the quasi-resolution of conflict achieved by the firm...
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作者：Khaire, Mukti
作者单位：Harvard University
摘要：Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely because of their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited financial resources. I explore the effect of two specific non financial, social resources legitimacy and status-on new venture growth. I propose that new firms can acquire legitimacy by mimicking the structures and ceremonial act...
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作者：Vaaler, Paul M.; McNamara, Gerry
作者单位：University of Minnesota System; University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Michigan State University
摘要：A substantial body of research in management and related public policy fields concludes that recent decades saw greater dynamic competition throughout technology-intensive (TI) industries, with widespread steady increase in TI industry and business performance instability as key implications. We set this conclusion within a broader framework of purportedly increasing dynamic competition among TI industry businesses, and then test for evidence of its performance implications in a large sample o...
